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Yeah, we're showing The Feast of Stephen .
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But for street art locavores, the choice is clear.
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Can words be NSFW?
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This helpful how-to will get your watermelon-carving skills up to snuff just in time for July 4.
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If it's good enough for Prince, it's good enough for me.
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Come out early tomorrow night to kick off our free outdoor film series.
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Why write songs when you can just crowd-source them from tweeting celebs?
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Sutton and Stewart grope for a way out of Eclipse 's dark ages mentality.
by Benjamin Sutton and Henry Stewart
Tags: Film , Blockbluster , Twilight , The Twilight Saga: Eclipse , Edward Cullen , Robert Pattinson , Vampires , Werewolves , Twin Peaks , Stephanie Meyer , Tweens
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Or, why you shouldn't throw bottles at cop cars.
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The most refreshing (and hottest) thing you'll see on this hot, hot afternoon.
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Yup, they just keep coming, the Canadians.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Canada Day , Canadians , hockey , free agency , The Log Driver's Waltz , Kate and Anna McGarrigle , Toronto Maple Leafs , nostalgia , exile , to really appreciate where you come from you have to leave , Video
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Big deal? Not really. It happened, though, so you have no choice but to care at least a little.
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Join us next Thursday night as our judges pronounce the new champion of Brooklyn's literary underclass.
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Christ, if they avoid Germany in the next round, they could make the semifinals.
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Are you ready for old white dudes asking self-important questions?!?
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Graffiti vandalism has given way to straight up demolition at the OBEY mural.
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The Most Important News of the Day.
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Celebrate the 4th (and 5th) of July with Jimmy Stewart going west.
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Dear Beloved Freelancers: Please don't have me thrown in jail.
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"'Red' Head" is pretty weak from the editors who brought you "Headless Body in Topless Bar."
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Another easy way to stay hydrated without buying bottled water, yay!
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Indie video game designers: so nerdy, so hot right now.
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A shot-for-shot remake, with a few key tweaks.
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Hizzoner's city budget cuts vital services but doesn't raise taxes on the wealthy: he says they'll leave (when they already shelter their money offshore, like he does).
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Eight objects for eight subway douchebags.
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When glossy-mag celebrity profiles reveal heretofore unimagined facets of cinema history.
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But don't try to rewrite the plot in any way, or you will die!
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It's just that their bad decisions bring about the collapse of the world financial decision.
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When 21-year-old millionaires are told they are "great men," pretty soon they'll start to believe it.
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Things like this never happen to Bloomingdales.
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An entire nation sighs with relief as England knock out Slovenia.
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Bijijoo has a lifetime supply of presidential ham.
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The ex-pat photographer takes on the exiled Black Panther in an Independence Day repertory special.
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Tristan Perich makes some really complex (and elegantly packaged) music with simple electronics.
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Anybody could be a Russian spy. How well do you really know your neighbor?
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This is what happens when un-recycled paper falls into the wrong hands.
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No fifth-set tiebreakers at Wimbledon, remember?
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The Modern's exhibition of modern kitchen design from its collection will be lacking these landmark designs.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Frank Gehry , Ron Arad , Zaha Hadid , Philippe Starck , Lino Sabattini , nyc museums , nyc art , Design , Kitchen design , Listicle
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See the Strokes drummer gaze into his girlfriend's eyes in Elle Magazine.
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The Phil Hartman-voiced host of every Simpsons show-within-the-show has a really extensive filmography.
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The pill is preventive medicine, right? Right?
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Sutton and Stewart throw up Grown Ups ' grade-F American beef.
by Benjamin Sutton and Henry Stewart
Tags: Film , Adam Sandler , Kevin James , David Spade , Rob Schneider , Chris Rock , Salma Hayek , Grown Ups , Canada , Middle-class guilt , Obesity , Blockbluster
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A conversation with the programmers of BAM's radical new rep series.
by Cullen Gallagher
Tags: Film , Contraband Cinema , Red Channels , Brecht Forum , BAM , Matt Peterson , Kazembe Balagun , Political Cinema , Black Panthers , Newsreel Collective , Weather Underground , Salo
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Dogs: shitty factcheckers.
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"Well, it's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish highlands."
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I am desperate for your company.
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Have you ever noticed how much 4s look like As? God, they totally do, don't they?
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The subway compass is the best type of citizen-spearheaded urban improvement.
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Paul the octopus totally called Germany's big win against England.
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German sportscars weren't enough; now CT Scanners come emblazoned with Koons-brand Pop art.
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Or, who to blame for those shapely potholes filled with broken glass.
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As long as Cap'n Jazz is really playing, I'm fine with it.
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That title, a generous description of the new superstar MC, is also a pretty accurate evaluation of the doc itself (it's kinda good).
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Fewer than before, but still.
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We can haz soverntee?
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Shocking, really.
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Run for cover: Contemporary art star battle brewing between two of Paris's most trafficked tourist sites.
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Hey, everyone, it would be awesome if you'd stop saying the internet is over. Thanks.
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Not sure what to do at the Northside Festival? You could follow around The L's Jeff Klingman.
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It's the hot new mocking grimace, and everyone is doing it.
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This week in the denial of death!
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Take that you grease-spewing, suburbs-fueling, minimum wage-paying, union-breaking fast food monster!
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Why is my public radio telling me all about some new thing to buy?
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Media , iPhones , WNYC , Brian Lehrer , infomercials , products , ads , commercials , product placement , consumerism , the hysterical substitution of technology for meaning
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Like the Gulf, the internet is un-navigable when full of oil.
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Sir Lucious Left Foot loves PBR.
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And the internet, as a result, is set to lose its collective shit.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music
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Somewhere, hopefully, a very wealthy art collector is planning a Koons vs. Hirst race.
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Everybody loves a corporate bully, right?
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"Show us your tits," just lost all its poetic resonance.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , topless , topless beaches , Asbury Park , New Jersey , Jersey , Jersey Shore , top-free , boobs , breasts , bad ideas
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Sure, complaints frequently involve iPhones and Twilight , but most are serious and sad.
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For skaters in food costumes, also.
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The long delayed album is streaming at MySpace.
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Reasonably new Tumblr SlushPile Hell compiles pitches for books you'll never read.
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Ready for some knowing jokes at the expense of several nations' shattered hopes?
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A shocking, shocking! New York cover story reveals that parents are often stressed out and unhappy.
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Lay out your blanket in McCarren Park now to ensure the best possible view!
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Today in rep film, an underscreened indie barnburner about identity and performance.
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How does a Republican choose between the gun lobby and law enforcement? He doesn't.
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There was crowd surfing, for reals.
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If God wanted to silence him you'd think He would have gotten to it sooner?
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Life after crime-fighting is hard.
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England my England, why do you suck? Innit.
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You know that idea for a new Tumblr you just had? Yeah, imagine doing that for 41 years.
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Not only are we happy with the redesign, we're happy it's over.
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So much better than the ones promising me extra girth.
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There should be more alliances between art and athletics. (Go orange!)
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(Nothing, really. They usually just storm off.)
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Check out the results from their Best Music of 2010 (So Far) poll.
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It involves lots and lots of handheld fans.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music , Northside Festival , Ernest Jenning , Wavves , My Teenage Stride , Au Revoir Simone , Ear Farm , Shark? , Sean Bones , Takka Takka , La Strada , Charles Burst
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In suburban Westchester, neighbor spies on YOU!
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So much floating waterfront real estate to create...
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Dealing with Knight and Day - and Grown-Ups -related disappointment.
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In which I break a personal rule and talk about the weather.
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But their shock value overwhelms the subtleties of inference and metaphor.
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South Korea? Mexico? USA? It could happen...
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In this week's NuMu giveaway, we encourage you to get drunk and hallucinate.
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Not a single person threw a bottle at them. Weird.
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There's no escaping the Black Eyed Pea.
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Two down, two to go.
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Watch three of hip-hop's best, brightest and youngest make magic.
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Party with art stars, visit their studios, be awesome (thanks to The L and NuMu).
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Who cares what anybody thinks as along as the Saudis think we're "sexy"?
Northside Festival News
We're only a day away
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Tells Colbert: "What you're doing now is what I did in Chicago 40 years ago." Ouch.
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But don't worry, New York, we're still on.
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Yes, most likely very probably, it is. We'll find out for sure on Saturday evening.
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Your neighbor is almost certainly an undercover Russkie.
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Now is this any way to treat a legend?
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Muji vs. Ikea, in a battle for the ages.
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And that would be: Incapable of thinking or moving, disgustingly warm, and very prone to hallucinations.
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Today In Ways I Hope Are Not the Way I Die: Man dies during Eclipse screening.
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The yellow and blue giant doesn't want the DoT messing with precious automobile access.
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And that might actually be a small step forward.
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It's looking like False Priest is going to be sort of a big deal, isn't it?
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One of our favorite Williamsburg galleries just turned 10; these are our favorite pieces from their anniversary show.
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Today in things that make me feel old.
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Tonight's (non-Northside) rep film pick is a loving spoof of 50s B movies.
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Still, like, decades away, New York's cross-town basketball rivalry gets underway.
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Our longest-serving senator, whose strange biography and distinguished career stretched across the American century.
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Support your local independent filmmakers.
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This was more or less inevitable, really.
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Warning: the following post contains a graphic image of piano devastation not recommended for piano lovers or urban optimists.
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Tonight's (non-Northside) film pick is quite probably an absolutely unique blip in film history.
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Save money, save the planet, make a friend.
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The Canadian band is in town for some shows opening up for Pasison Pit this week.
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How many bathrooms do you have?
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Say it ain't so. But, you know, in a way that doesn't undermines decades of feminist progress...
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Tonight's rep film pick is Chantal Akerman's postmillennial take on temporal, sensual, sexual drift.
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No human participants reported so far.
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After pelicans and sea turtles, BP is coming for your children!
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The BK MC and Cincinnati DJ fight oil drums with snare drums.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , Talib Kweli , Hi-Tek , Reflection Eternal , Revolutions Per Minute , BP , Oil Spill , Rap , Hip-hop , Ballad of the Black Gold , Video
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How your badge can improve your viewing experience (hit: drink specials).
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A brief consideration of sponsored events and editorial integrity.
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Perhaps he'll just wind up throwing bottles at things.
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If England and America win, they continue. If they lose, they're out of the World Cup.
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Poetry and American public life, together at last again.
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Holzer contributes free, truism-adorned t-shirts to massive group exhibition in Johannesburg.
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But could it be a noun...?
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Our forefathers bled so that someday Robert Pattinson could drink that blood, while sparkling.
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Free summer movies in Williamsburg, for the fifth year in a row!
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Otherwise you might miss half the art when you visit, 'cause it's all hidden behind shovels and such.
Summer Screen News
Lay out your blanket in McCarren Park now to ensure the best possible view!
Album Reviews
Brooklyn band Minks release the "Funeral Song" 7" and we wonder, briefly, if it signals a shift in the sound of local indie rock. It probably does not
Album Reviews
One must question the value of their artistic output when Ke$ha does the same thing, only better.
Album Reviews
Introducing a new band called Devo, featuring the guy from all those soundtracks... wait, what?
Album Reviews
The Wailing Wall's Low Hanging Fruit is one of the most delightful surprises of the year so far. Do not miss.
Album Reviews
The new Stars album, The Five Ghosts , is an enjoyable, if slightly uneven addition to their already impressive catalog.
Album Reviews
On the subtle differences between Brooklyn's most recent crop of keyboard-based bands.
Features
Titus Andronicus speaks about their excellent recent album, The Monitor , and about the struggle to define oneself positively. Also about Lady Gaga.
Features
We're not proud of it, but we can't know every single band in the world. Fortunately, all of our showcase presenters combined can come pretty close.
Features
Don't take our word for it. We are super biased.
Features
The much beloved talent booker for Union Hall and The Bell House was fired earlier this month. He talked to us about what went down, as well as what's next.
Film Reviews
Film Forum revives the hard-earned transcendent noirs and Westerns of a rediscovered American auteur.
Film Reviews
It's social controls versus human desire in Dogtooth and Wild Grass , two of the year's best.
Film Reviews
In Knight and Day , he works very hard to convince Cameron Diaz, and us, that he is an action-movie star.
Film Reviews
His state-of-South America doc South of the Border is embarrassingly undergraduate-level.
Film Reviews
Young'uns get an early education in social status in Yasujiro Ozu's best-known silent film.
Film Reviews
A revival of Jules Dassin's post-blacklist Adriatic allegory.
Movie Journal
What might a movie theater in Williamsburg mean for the future of repertory cinema?
Film Reviews
Grunt's-eye-view Restrepo isn't nearly as "apolitical" as it thinks.
Features
A frank conversation with the parties responsible for this year's lineup of old action stars, the Tian An Men Square grounds crew, and stunt glass broken with kids' faces.
by Simon Abrams
Tags: Features , Film , New York Asian Film Festival , Subway Cinema , 8000 Miles , Symbol , Tian An Men , Sophie's Revenge , Actresses , Chaw , Gallants , Ip Man , Merantau , Raging Phoenix , Power Kids
Film Reviews
He and Helen Mirren run a whorehouse in Love Ranch . What more could you want? Plenty, actually.
Film Reviews
New doc The Agony and The Ecstasy of Phil Spector lays bare the complexities of the the famous producer and infamous murderer.
Film Reviews
Great Directors makes Lynch, Loach, Breillat, Bertolucci and a half-dozen more feel like chance coffee-shop encounters.
Film Reviews
A chastened M. Night Shyamalan turns a for-hire gig into the exhausted endpoint of his gooey spiritualism.
Bar Reviews
On second thought, maybe horses shouldn't drink...
Restaurant Reviews
Fat Mike's new joint is the perfect neighborhood spot... Especially if it's in your neighborhood.
Exhibitions at Canada and Thierry Goldberg Projects push the day's popular messy, figurative style to its limits.
SO-IL's Pole Dance courtyard installation is like a social network transformed into architecture.
If You See Nothing, Say Something , a group exhibition at The Invisible Dog, really has some things worth seeing.
Theater Reviews
Williamsburg only has one full-time theater; how does it work, and why aren't there more?
Theater Reviews
Dan Klores's mid-70s Brooklyn drug drama is a total downer.
Theater Reviews
That's the rhetorical question posed by Tiny Black Hearts' Dandelion and the Amazing Bicycle Cloud Plane at the Brick.
Theater Reviews
Dreams of the Washer King puts rural poverty through a magical realist spin cycle.
Short modernist meanderings written in very small handwriting in a Swiss sanitarium.
A collection of dialogues, perambulations and reflections.
The L Magazine Online Questionnaire for Writer Types
This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types learns something new.
The Indie List
Local and small-press books from the shelves at Greenlight Bookstore (686 Fulton St), picked by the staffers who know them best
Author Photo Smackdown
As usual, The L Magazine comes up with ever classier ways to engage with contemporary literature.
The L Magazine Online Questionnaire for Writer Types
This week, The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types gets over its divorce with bread bowls full of gin.
Art Fag City
There are galleries south of Chelsea (really!), and at least a couple are actually worth seeking out.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Is 16 years too much of an age difference? Depends, doesn't it?
Fashionville
Boutique jewelers just got a lot more affordable.
Fare is Fair
What do cabbies think of bike lanes?
Art Fag City
Brick and mortar versus Tumblr.
Features
Flag waving and horn blowing at a South African restaurant in Brooklyn.
Features
The commenters at DieHipster.wordpress.com do not like hipsters.
Features
New York skaters follow the money to Queens.
Features
Kim dresses 'creative but not crazy' with vintage Chanel zoot suits and orange Balenciaga bags.
Features
While all you music-happy hipsters were at Northside, the queers, gays and transgender were busy confirming their own stereotypes across the river.
