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"How is it going to help me?" locals ask.
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In, you know, several years.
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They involve too much standing up, and often too many dollars. No more, please.
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Northside act Sean Bones stars as a hipster in Jamaica.
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It's a summer piano revolution!
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If the opening-weekend gross was $5 million, and Jesse's ticket was $12.50...
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After a critically acclaimed extended run in Dumbo last year, the stage-to-screen-and-back adaptation will be back this fall.
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Hipster rap's posterboy got a lot done over the weekend, some good some bad.
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The Guardian's crazy new app lets you follow World Cup matches with social media.
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You've never seen a soup-strainer quite like this one.
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Brooklyn [hearts] football.
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An ode to Le Monde 's football blog.
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Sadly but truly, all the good DIY enterprises have a shelf-life.
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It's apparently completely impossible to look good while ingesting food.
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It's weird, but not super weird, which is really weird. Nice, though.
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In which another Voice of Her/Our Generation jostles for position...
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Get hooked on Hemingway!
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This probably has something to do with why Twitter keeps crashing.
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Some day, in the fairly near future, no one will understand the words "print redesign."
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A strange child-safety oversight, coming from the country that gave the world the 13-month paternity leave and the Volvo.
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New blog captures magical American rituals like doing keg-stands with your dad.
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Modern technique in a contemporary landscape at Dance Theater Workshop this weekend.
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Multiple members of the Portland Police and Clackamas County Sherrif's department helped build the case.
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Oh look, one of the most critically drooled over bands in the history of ever is playing at Northside. You should probably buy a ticket.
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Tonight's rep film pick is a reflective self-portraint, one of Godard’s most emotionally affecting and personal works.
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Today in "Kids Today!"
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Not handy in that, you know, you can actually touch it with your hands, but handy as in useful.
by Sarah Shanfield
Tags: Music
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All is not lost if your ladyfriend doesn't like soccer...
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A post-9/11 art world comedy from "Sundance's most fascinating filmmaker."
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Sly street art or guerrilla Twitter campaign?
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Wow. A bunch of Germans having fun on a Sunday night!
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The Queens, BPL and NYPL are facing vicious service cuts.
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Finally check off the "Film Editor Mark Asch" box on your L Magazine Editor Bingo card.
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This should be an interesting test of the claim that affordable and accessible technology would break the new media art field wide open.
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You like dancing around and singing with your old man, right?
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Thrill! to 80s graffiti uncovered at McCarren Park Pool.
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Saintly pelican-shampooers and rock-scrubbers may be martyred for years to come.
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Career apologist for corporate greed gets his own single-serving website.
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Yup, no shock here... A few weeks after the Paris Review gets a blog, Electric Literature is on the iPad.
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A 127-year-old artifact goes missing.
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But BK tables like Lomzynianka are so much worse than Casa Mono or Kitchen.
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In this weekend's rep film pick, Barbara Stanwyck makes the best of the Great Depression.
Northside Festival News
Oh look, one of the most critically drooled over bands in the history of ever is playing at Northside. You should probably buy a ticket.
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Seriously, what is about the professorial Swede that makes people want to throw money at him?
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Police are at a loss; thank god for blog-commenters!
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Everything is terrible and evil is winning.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Media , Fox News , Sun News , Quebecor , Canada , blame American , Toronto Sun , NY Post , terrible things , my early sexual awakenings , jingois , fascism , Video
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Because everybody likes icebergs.
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Poor, poor Robert Green (but were England really that bad?)
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The L presents a city symphony, choreography by Jerome Robbins.
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And as far as we know, not a single bottle or chair was thrown.
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There is so much news about this year's crop of 8 NYC Bands You Need to Hear today. This makes us feel good.
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Talking with Wayne Koestenbaum about Mademoiselle , which screens tonight at IFC Center.
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If you love books, and you love doing it, have I got the event for you.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Books , Literary Matchmaking , Word , nerds , dating , love , lust , sex , mixers , The Diamond , "Oh I love Italo Svevo , let's make out!"
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, two franchises went boldly where more than a few had gone before.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Film , Music , TV , Star Wars , Star Trek , Tik Tok , Ke$ha , Parodies , Supercuts , Music Videos , Internet , Mashups , Video
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Web designer Haroon Baig is chipping away at your productivity, one web-based gizmo at a time.
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Tonight's rep film pick is a quintessential noir, the circumstances of its production mirroring its philosophy.
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Breaking news in the world of 17th century Italian art history!
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This environmental disaster has gotten so bad it's gone digital.
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God, we were so scared he was going to fall off that bike. Don't worry, though, he doesn't.
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Abolish the New York State Senate.
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Freeing up a couple hours of queue-curatorship that you can spend watching Valley Girl .
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Sutton and Stewart get off on going green in Toy Story 3 .
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Akzidenz Grotesk is so Brooklyn!
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What? Haha, no of course I don't really care about this! (Yes I do.)
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Turns out watching them perform to an empty room is exactly as exciting as it sounds.
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It's really hot out, so you should drink cold gin in a bookstore as we entertain you.
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Watching the World Cup with the host nation's fans, and many many camera crews.
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As long as they play 106.7 Lite fm featuring Delilah After Dark, I promise to make the switch from Met Foods on Fulton.
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As it turns out, I like watching soccer enough that I don't need booze to enjoy it.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , World Cup , USA , England , Robert Green , yobs , yanks , Carino , Williamsburg , fans , hooligans , bars , soccer , football , Steven Gerrard , Clint Dempsey , Emile Heskey
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About a decade late, but the beat is epic (and the verses are meh).
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Jenny being Jenny Lewis, of course.
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The Williamsburg hardware store is turning into an art gallery again this summer, and they're kicking things off with a big opening day party.
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Meet the new laptop battery capital of the world.
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Typewriters sound so much nicer than keyboards, especially as beatboxed by the human sound effects machine.
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This ain't no, party, this ain't no disco, this is Todd Solondz just cold bein' misanthropic.
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Remember them? They might secretly be working on your 2010 summer anthem right now.
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BREAKING: Long, popular books to become loud, bad movies.
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New York's best indie hip-hop producer (right?!) keeps going far out with his latest.
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"Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)." Pretty much just a regular Shakira video. But with soccer clips.
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You won't do that, though.
Northside Festival News
Individual tickets for all Northside FilmFest films are now on sale
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Not quite a quarter of the way through this weekend's Le Mans 24-Hour the Koons Kart pulled into the pit for good.
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Announcing convenient trolley service!
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Love's got the world in motion, you guys.
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The video, of course, is of them playing "The Funeral" because "The Funeral" is really awesome.
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Jeez, next think you know, we're gonna find out there's a new Neutral Milk Hotel record coming out.
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I feel very, very lucky. Sir.
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You know what? EMILE HESKEY IS A FRENCH-SOUNDING NAME!!1!
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This new school MC with old school skills might be your next purebred rap star.
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News you can use, people.
Northside Festival News
The L presents Jerome Robbins in McCarren Park Pool.
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In which General McChrystal ensures that Gaga's backside isn't the only ass on the cover of the Rolling Stone .
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It's not that we don't want to read long things on the internet...
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Crazy but true: We decided to redesign the magazine for the same time as Northside. CRAZY.
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Tonight's rep film pick features Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser talking 'bout food.
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The first unofficial proposal for the Deitch Mural space's post-Deitch life demands more 80s.
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One of the best rap songs ever just got better, somehow.
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Lots of pretty lights for a pretty song.
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The Portuguese Nobel laureate has passed away.
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If only Dennis Hopper had lived to see this day.
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On the office iTunes right now, Morrissey is singing "I don't care I don't care I don't care," no joke.
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We've been listening to "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" a lot today.
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Featuring A-Team and Karate Kid remakes, plus the future director of Bone Bone Bone: The Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Story .
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Get ready, face of music, you're about to change.
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This is why no one likes us, maybe?
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The study on alligators in the sewer remains ongoing.
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yes i said yes i will i'll have another beer
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Go to hell, hair gel for babies.
Northside Festival News
One of aproximately 300 reasons for you to join us at Northside, and that's not even counting all the free/heavily discounted booze.
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The eligibility age went from 16 to 15. There, there's your news.
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Mullet+politeness=Canadian hockey player crime wave in Bay Ridge.
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New site provides plastic horn noise to accompany your browsing.
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New York hates its own history.
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A very promising young playwright's latest work, Five Genocides , runs through Saturday. Don't miss it.
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Oh Michael Wolff, you really are a dink.
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Our favorite little local 'zine has its own answer to Literary Upstart.
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She also still has a page of her autograph album reserved for Ronald Reagan.
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US Out of the Oil Industry's Pants!
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Delicious local beers and rooftop farms? We're moving to Red Hook.
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Thank you, internet.
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If this competition were a formal dance, Switzerland would be stealing Spain's date.
by Derek Keogh
Tags: News , world cup , argentina , south korea , mexico , uruguay , america , germany , serbia , ghana , france , spain , switzerland , north korea , brazil , portugal , tour-de-force metaphor
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It's like going straight from Christmas to summer holidays!
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$10 is a small price to pay for a $2.75 Sixpoint.
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Albany-based Jed Davis really misses Dumbo, just listen to his hearbreaking new song.
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An understandable outlet for impotent biker road rage, but also a very, very bad idea.
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This is not a question, mind you, but a very confusing statement of fact.
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One of aproximately 300 reasons for you to join us at Northside, and that's not even counting all the free/heavily discounted booze.
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At the end of the long arm of the law, there's a fist!
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Derek Keogh talks first round match ups and offers his take on the best looking players...
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Get a free membership and a chance to be William Burroughs with our first New Museum raffle.
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After plans to remove every all-white bike memorials, now only the ugly one will disappear.
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The best rajas tacos I have ever had.
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Broadway's big night out heaped prizes on a non-musical non-revival. Weird!
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By next year, tiny fraction of Bloomberg's energy needs will be supplied by sun.
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Dr. Ian Malcolm on heroic couple's waterfowl rescue: "Life always finds a way."
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Dude should get a room with Trent and just never, ever speak to anyone else again.
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Watch Platini's penalty kick in a parking lot.
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Romans go home!
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Just because you beat us with your cool, refreshing tap water, doesn't mean you're better than us.
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The folks on Starr Street don't appreciate living in the middle of a free-range graffiti chicken farm.
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Or, The Wet Look: An Ontological Examination.
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Who the hell shoots a goose with an arrow? If that's a Canada Goose, someone's in for a beating.
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You'd be surprised how many people are dancing alone to "Pony" on the internet.
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Wish you could do something about the oil spill? The president knows how you feel.
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Well, this doesn't feel very good at all, now does it?
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Through this weekend, an experimental filmmaker will try to transcend your default state of mind.
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The pianos are coming on Monday, with many kinks already worked out.
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Hooboy, a funtime reading party! You betcha.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Books , Ben Greenman , What He's Poised To Do , Greenlight Bookstore , Bulldog Gin , readings , parties , drunkeness , gin , I love gin , me , Jonny Diamond
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Staggering home drunk is so much better when you don't have to cross a river.
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When the ghost bikes are gone, what new thing will they think of to memorialize dead cyclists?
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Back in Brooklyn, where we belong.
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Sutton and Stewart are too sensitive to climb into The A-Team ’s adolescent boys’ club tree-fort mentality.
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A conspiracy is brewing in Dixie.
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Stephen Vitiello's A Bell for Every Minute will keep the tourists moving with a New York bell for every minute.
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Whenever anything gets good in this town, the city steps in to wreck it.
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The obnoxious art superstar wants to show his collection in Hyde Park, but only charge admission for his freakiest piece.
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It's not even noon, and already you are full of hate.
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Find out just how many peaceful sea turtles are floating upside down in sludge.
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This is our least favorite thing for people to do.
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The plans look pretty, though they reflect the constant struggle that is contemporary New York.
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Where have all the good guys gone?
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Done and done.
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But where did he get those lasers? Hot laser details inside!
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If Pixar made every movie, the world would be a much happier, more boring place, like in that Talking Heads song.
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Local skaters use their skateboards to become rich.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Maloof Brothers , skating , skaters , Maloof Money Cup , local skaters , Zoo York , skate parks , Corona Park , Flushing Meadows , Slideshow
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An overrated orange squad gets a freebie, and Italy's gradual warming begins.
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A hand-sewn puppet couple takes a scary ride through cardboard landscapes.
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Fluffy gets a touch up, the oil gets sucked up.
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And you should buy it, and go to see him and Jonny Diamond read next Monday.
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See you on the Cha-Cha's roof, maybe.
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And a badge discount! But you have to read. Sorry.
by Sarah Shanfield
Tags: Music
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We heard t was like an episode of a Canadian teen drama up in that piece.
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So shocking, etc.
Album Reviews
Rap's newest superstar claims he's not ready for fame, which seems plausible in light of this sleepy debut.
Album Reviews
Blitzen Trapper's Destroyer of the Void is a very good record. It just isn't the record you want it to be. Or the record it should be.
Album Reviews
Ariel Pink's has been charged with inspiring one of the more dreadful indie rock trends in recent memory. But he's also made one of the best records in recent memory.
Features
All the outdoor shows you have to see (and maybe a couple you don't...)
Features
Apps offer a new frontier in distribution—Apple willing.
Film Reviews
BAMcinemaFEST picks out the best local color from the domestic festival circuit.
Film Reviews
Sundance Prize-winner Winter's Bone gets down and dirty with the squirrel-skinning set.
Film Reviews
Film Forum revives the underseen noir classic Nightfall .
Film Reviews
The past sells—just ask the number one and number two movie in America for the weekend of June 11-13, 2010.
Film Reviews
Then-and-Now docs Stonewall Uprising and 8: The Mormon Proposition demonstrate two eras in the ongoing gay civil rights movement.
Film Reviews
A revival of Le Amiche presages a brilliant career.
Film Reviews
Mumblecore goes mainstream in Cyrus , a quirkily realistic comedy-of-the-absurd.
Film Reviews
Bloody The Killer Inside Me is another Michael Winterbottom movie more interesting in theory than in practice.
Film Reviews
That'd be the sumptuous throwback melodrama I Am Love .
Features
Talking with I Am Love director Luca Guadagnino about melodrama, muses, feminism, and... well.
Tips for Tips
Yeah, sorry, we're going to have to self-promote here and say "going to SummerScreen" is our favorite free summer activity.
Restaurant Reviews
If you're gonna make buns in New York, you gotta take on the King, David Chang.
Bar Reviews
Sail on up to the Commodore and get yourself an umbrella drink.
Theater Reviews
With their latest, Amerissiah , the emerging downtown company tries to figure out what our generation's theater should look like.
Theater Reviews
In The Metal Children , an almost perfect cast makes excuses for a misanthropic artist.
It's not easy to spend so much time with a jerk.
Has the video game finally found its Klosterman-level critic?
The L Magazine Online Questionnaire for Writer Types
This installment of The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types talks about poetry and meaningfulness.
Through channels undisclosed for safety's sake, L Mag operatives have obtained passages deleted at the last minute from Christopher Hitchens's memoirs...
Fare is Fair
Our favorite song is "Don't Stop Believing," by Journey. Thanks for asking.
Fashionville
Basically, a cross between Gilligan, Daisy Duke, and Rhoda.
The Conscientious Objector
How to save billions of gallons of water in your very own home.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
The inside scoop on, well, you know.
Art Fag City
Do what you like, like what you do... And don't give up.
