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Does Kanye out-rap his mentor on this one?
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It looks... like a cologne ad.
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The line between art and advertising is officially gone (or was that ten years ago?).
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So not quite in the actual footprint, but close.
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Fuck, I'm tired today.
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Today in secret GPS messages left by creeps with too much spare time.
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Boy, that's fat.
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Tags: News, sumo, sumo wrestlers, iPads, mobile devices, texting, obesity, Japan, technology, cell phones, Mac, Apple, fatness
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Vandalizing private property apparently not that big of a deal.
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But do we have to call it "SoBi"? Isn't that the name of a fruity drink made from lizard juice?
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Commenters at the Post get the real story all on their own.
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Pre-clickthrough spoiler: it was rad!! And I wasn't even on LSD.
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They did play Madison Square Garden, you know.
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Oh boy, this is going to be so silly.
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I bet Radiohead was gonna play.
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More news than you can possibly handle concerning the only book to be published this year.
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Yeah, it didn't work.
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Among the materials exhibited are the boxes of rejection letters sent to the young author.
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Hey look, a conservative who actually believes in American values!
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The most tits, ass, and bloody just-deserts in a studio film since the 70s.
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These bike wars just got very, very civil.
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Uh, why is this guy ripping off Arcade Fire?
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You can destroy the art, but not the indomitable spirit of the artist!
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And then immediately do something smart or productive.
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Fun, smart, mainly fun.
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If only all the good bits of our lives could be animated by local artists.
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From Mott Haven and Southside Chicago to 8 Mile and Watts, a web-based cartography of rap lore.
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The ugly face of Islamophobia, in the ugly style of Taiwanese news animation.
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Good looking youth, photographed.
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Introducing the n+1 film review, N1FR.
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Party on, alien dude. (There's an alien in it.) Party on, John Norris. (So is John Norris.)
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My internet sucks, and I need to know what happens to the bird-camel.
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Will someone buy me a new computer, please?
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Tonight's rep film pick is a pop reverie.
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I'm rather partial to Gersh and Marty.
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Most of them are in the Bronx, Harlem, Bed-Stuy, etc...
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Jesus, this is sad.
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Meatburg? The Williamspacking District?
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Which also includes music and appearances by MGMT, Santigold, Suckers and Yeasayer.
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Health care until you're 26! (Assuming your parents are insured.)
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Seriously, it's like the 21 Club of bike lanes. Dress code strictly enforced.
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This is a perfectly good reason to not do any work right now.
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Thanks, Chuck. Now what about those surprise special guests?
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Plus: our genre-movie crisis, or: Neil Marshall is sure no Nimrod Antal.
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Either in support or in hunger, doesn't matter which.
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A happy, sad, humorous, bizarre trip down Memory Lane.
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Featuring Phoenix, duh, but also The Strokes, Sebastian Tellier, T. Rex and The Police.
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If this tour happens, then I will finally get that =W= tattoo I've been talking about since I was 13. Sorry, Mom.
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But you can totally make a convincing replica and call it Warholian.
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Attendance at the museum is actually pretty good, thank you very much.
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Like windmills and Greenpeace volunteers, the new biodegradable Sun Chips bags are irritatingly loud.
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Tonight's rep film pick is two movies in one.
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Small venue, huge-sounding band. It was as good and sweaty as ever.
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Making fun of old rock stars is always fun, no matter what.
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Is it Labor Day yet?
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You think they'll play "Brimful of Asha?" Yes, maybe, probably, I have no idea.
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Hopefully it'll sound more like their good record and less like their bad one.
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An arrest warrant has been issued for Sarah Palin.
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Get ready for your first transcendent YouTube experience since the Double Rainbow guy.
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Catching up with the straight-to-cable works of the international auteurs.
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Join a candle light vigil tomorrow night for all the thousands of innocent animals put to death every year in NYC.
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The Brooklyn Paper's "Smartmom" is no more.
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This should kill a bit of time between now and Labor Day.
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Vinyl, posters and more Band of Horses silk-screened t-shirts than you can ever imagine.
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In the War on Bedbugs, you're either with us, or against us.
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This week in Long Island grave robbery.
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I still hate Tao Lin.
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Some belated thoughts on the kids and their genre movies.
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Sure why not.
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You may soon cycle safely between North and South Brooklyn.
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I don't know... there's not really anything else going on this morning, so you might as well.
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Every generation of immigrants hates the subsequent generation of immigrants.
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Fuzzed-out retro rock with funny dancing.
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It's like you're INSIDE MY HEAD!
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There's just no elegant way to make a video with a jailed/murdered rapper.
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That bridge ain't gonna fix itself.
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Spend fall evenings with women Pop artists.
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On the social and personal crisis that ensues when a new book is lost in the mail.
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The Devil's Trumpet is blowing for you. (Ugh, today is bad copy day, sorry.)
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Try to find them all at the Pool Party this weekend!
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Seriously, this is the biggest non-pizza-related thing to happen around here since the Manhattan Bridge was built.
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Hey, at least he's a hockey fan.
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Tags: News, Canadian Idol, Al-Qaeda, terrorism, terrorists, Avril Lavigne, Complicated, Toronto Maple Leafs, everyone loves hockey, Khuram Sher, Video
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Co-starring celebrity witness George Clooney?
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Tags: Art, News, Shepard Fairey, Street art, OBEY, HOPE, Obama, Associated Press, Copyrights, NYC art, George Clooney
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This officially makes Bill Hader the funniest person on SNL. Or maybe it's Kristen Wiig. Can't decide.
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Some leather and eyeliner to get you in the mood for Labyrinth.
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A world-class collection of Lego art.
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Yeah, you probably do, too.
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Grainy visuals for the lead single off what might be the best cover album of...the millennium?
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Tags: Music, The Roots, John Legend, Common, Rap, Hip-hop, Music video, Wake Up!, Marvin Gaye, Time travel, Video
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Get your wallets out everyone! Or don't!
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Too raw, too real on the crossover.
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This is your brain on rave drugs.
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Getting ready for Brooklyn's very own Big Dig.
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The ninth installment in his stellar Bootleg Series.
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Not surprisingly, the people who actually live near the proposed Islamic Cultural Center are in favor of it.
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Tags: News, mosque, Ground Zero, it's neither a mosque nor at Ground Zero, Cordoba Initiative, Tribeca, Brian Lehrer, the Constitution, xenophobia, racism, hysteria, 9/11, Sufis are basically the Unitarians of Islam
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It was Film Socialisme that finally put him over the top with the Oscar people.
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Don't you hate knowing more or less exactly when the train is coming? These subway artists sure do.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Art, News, Spoiler Alert, Subways art, Jason Eppink, Newmindspace, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Public art, NYC art, Brooklyn art
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Proving once again that tragedy can bring out the good in people.
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Because there's nothing worse than stopping drinking before you get home.
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Less indie rock, more mosque talk, please.
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Tags: Politics, mosque, Ground Zero, it's neither a mosque nor at Ground Zero, Chuck Schumer, Jelly, Williamsburg, cowards, xenophobia, hysteria, the Constitution, well said George
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"Not a good pitch to hit, up and in, but Thomson swings and tomahawks the ball and everybody, everybody watches."
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And a good morning to you as well.
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Rush! Houellebecq! Franzen!
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Good name for a band playing before Labyrinth, right?
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Is also terrible at singing.
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Now we eagerly await Arcade Fire's cover of "Let's Go Surfing."
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Well, I mean, you know.
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Flatbush is the new Williamsburg? Or at least the new Clinton Hill?
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God, I skipped so much school... Good times.
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Jerry Stiller travels to the outerboroughs to meet his character and see his old house.
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The Last Exorcism straddles the divide between the old style and the new.
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Tags: Film, exorcism, exorcist, exorcist ii, last exorcism, daniel stamm, william peter blatty, william friedkin, exorcism of emily rose, requiem, hans-christian schmid
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Here come the plagues. Again.
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A bunch of photos of the alleged drunken, "Are You Muslim?" cabbie-stabber.
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Your weekend just got better. Or at least more elaborately arranged.
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She's really something else...
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Well, shit, here's some pretty good news.
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Well, actually, you probably should. You just need to be prepared.
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Hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster.
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Ugh. This would be sad.
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Watch him fall into a hole on stage, somehow continue singing.
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And yes, Le Noise is a really, really terrible name for an album.
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What, one wonders, did they expect would happen?
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In which lead singer Kevin Barnes wields a sword.
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I bet Flea will be there.
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In other news, this means pumpkin spice lattes will soon be returning to Starbucks (it's almost fall).
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A pier at the end of North 6th Street is a great idea, provided there are subsidies to keep the ferry coming.
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And then send someone at The A.V. Club a really nice email and thank them for doing this Undercover thing, which has been really awesome.
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"My right to practice my religion depends completely on my commitment to defend someone else's right to practice theirs."
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Oh, god. Have a picnic or something, really.
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"Now that I am across the sea, I wonder if you're going to wait for me or if you're going to find a new boy to spoon." Sounds like Jens, right?
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Surprisingly, though, they won't make you want to stop listening to music forever.
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Ever!
- by Lauren Beck
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Tags: Music, Jelly, Open Space Alliance, Pool Party, Chromeo, Kid Sister, Forest Fire, Abe Vigoda, Clinic, Asobi Seksu, Crystal Castles, Todd Goldstein, ARMS, HARD Festival
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And we sense a lot of people are going to complain about it.
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Mario Kart powerups appear in Portland bike lane.
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Tennis, Magic Bullets, Family Portrait and a few other bands you might have never heard of.
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Tags: Music, Tennis, Magic Bullets, Family Portrait, Cool Runnings, Night Manager, Glasslands, Woom, Underwater Peoples, sailing, Video
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City employee in feisty-irrepressible-old-dude shocker!
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It's like sonic-visual Red Bull.
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There's not a banjo in sight. Bummer.
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Investigate them all! With cat-o'-nine-tails!
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Today in scarily credible-sounding bluffs.
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Who wants to bet Will Oldham's would be sad?
- by Lauren Beck
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Tags: Books, Music, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Ezra Koenig, Jeff Mangum, Kanye West, Will Sheff, Milo Aukerman, Ted Leo, Craig Finn, Gil Scott-Heron, Jeff Tweedy, Patrick Stickles, Jens Lekman
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A master of the form, with a mind that could bend around different modes of media and consciousness.
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Tomorrow we die.
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'Zines make the world a better place.
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Also, please stop saying nice things about Katy Perry.
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If your band doesn't currently have a trailer previewing an album, a show, a film, a song or a tour, you clearly don't matter.
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Features
A conversation with frontman Todd Goldstein about supernatural beings and what's up next for his post-Harlem Shakes band.
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Album Reviews
Fuzzed-out, straightforward lo-fi retro rock that's actually really good. Go figure.
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Album Reviews
On the debut full-length from indie-pop traditionalists Magic Kids.
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Album Reviews
The long-running Scottish band has been on the decline for almost a decade.
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Film Reviews
The steady, effortless brilliance of the late, great French New Waver.
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Movie Journal
Nostalgic young-adult literature, and the multimedia future of interactive texts.
- by Mark Asch
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Mumbledom gets frisky in the fresh, absorbing Modern Love Is Automatic.
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Film Reviews
A Film Unfinished explains how your WWII propaganda sausage gets made, and consumed.
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Film Reviews
Altiplano asks: But how does neocolonial devastation in the Andes make you feel?
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Film Reviews
A MoMA retro for the actress turned groundbreaking female director.
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Film Reviews
The Last Exorcism is a classical-contemporary update of a hallowed (um) text.
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Film Reviews
That’d be Peru’s sensitive Oscar-nominated parable Milk of Sorrow
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Film Reviews
The two-part Mesrine is stylish take on France's one-time Public Enemy Number One.
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Film Reviews
Introducing an indie flick overstuffed with goodies.
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Film Reviews
The assured, unnerving Daniel y Ana leaves you with a lot to talk about.
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Film Reviews
In which producers T.I. and Chris Brown decide to actually star in the kind of aspirational gangster movie long-beloved by hip-hop stars.
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Film Reviews
You wouldn't think it'd be that hard to make Centurion entertaining. Michael Fassbender's in it! And yet.
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Restaurant Reviews
Good food, discreet affairs.
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Bar Reviews
"Ugh, Heather, that East Village place is sooo packed..." "I know, Heather, I know."
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Famous Accountants's new exhibition sends visitors down captivating virtual rabbit holes.
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Theater Reviews
Jonathan Tolins's Secrets of the Trade portrays backstage apprenticeship as mutual self-discovery.
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Per Petterson is not trying to make you happy.
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Frans G. Bengtsson's beard-and-battle axe page-turner stands the test of time...
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The L Magazine Online Questionnaire for Writer Types
Stephen O'Connor's new short story collection is Here Comes Another Lesson.
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Fare is Fair
The Constitution? Freedom of religion? Private property? Aren't those conservative talking points? (Seriously, people, we're better than this.)
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Fashionville
Getting to know the next generation of "it" designers.
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Art Fag City
Sure, everyone's a curator now... But these guys are good!
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Sex With the Natural Redhead
Killing me softly.
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Features
September 17th, folks, mark it on your calendars... D-Day for green space.
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Features
Try to have fun. Stay out of our way. And when in doubt, say "yes."
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Features
Six thousand people are coming to Williamsburg, and nothing will ever be the same...
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Features
You have Brooklyn cred if you think it's impossible to prove you have Brooklyn cred.
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Give us your tired, your hungry, your very good-looking...
