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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.
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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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Tags: Movie Journal, Film, Choose Your Own Adventure Books, Edward Packard, Robert Coover, Hypertext, Choose Your Own Adventure App, SilkTricky, The Outbreak, Bank Run, Chad Matt and Rob, Return to the Cave of Time, Hypertext Hotel, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
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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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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...