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It's almost as if they aren't religious readers of The Measure.
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Rep programming without the pesky business of print licensing.
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Now will everyone stop releasing these stupid things, please?
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And a new downtown location, possibly to ensure honoree Jonas Mekas's attendance.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Annual Art Awards , Rob Pruitt , Art Fag City , Bloggers , Martha Rosler , Jonas Mekas , Marilyn Minter , Webster Hall , White Columns , Guggenheim
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I don't have a very big apartment, just to clarify.
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Even after a tornado, you must always give into 90s nostalgia.
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Kicking off our New York Film Festival coverage with a movie that will change your life if you want it to.
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They've really got this cover down pat.
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Matt Sharp, you're of course reading this right now: You should re-join Weezer on tour.
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Hedge fund money buys about 20% of the vote in a Democratic primary, it would appear.
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Figuratively and literally frozen phalluses abounded at Invisible-Exports on Saturday night.
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Nobody saw this one coming, which makes it even better.
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We're gonna go ahead and assume you did not watch this one last night.
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It's a secret.
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It's time to redesign our cash-dispensers, apparently.
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Bust a move on sacred ground in this 8-bit dance game.
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There are worse things you could do on a Monday morning like this particular Monday morning.
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Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you can abandon principles.
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It's not like people read outside of banking hours...
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They went to all five Pavement shows, made great sounding recordings of them, and then made them all available to you for free.
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The weather is being loud and hurtful.
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Jesus christ, someone please buy me the bus.
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Dude, holy shit dude, tornado.
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One of the city's great resources is in danger.
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White people live here. No, not there, here.
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Take that, Meatpacking District!
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BOW DOWN BEFORE YOUR DISTRICT LEADER.
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People of the Bike: Let us regain the moral authority by not being dicks.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , bike lanes , biking , salmoning , wrong way , one-way streets , urban transportation , safety , pedestrians , cars still suck , Randy Cohen
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In scuba Russia... um... submerged Schwinn rides you!?
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That's it, I'm going to start a Lemonheads blog.
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Are your office "personal items" really that important to you?
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On night three of four at Rumsey Playfield.
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Think you're such a tough guy?
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Totally non-partisan opinion: vote for the giant neon purple space snails.
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It's going to be awesome when our cell phones are telling us what to do.
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Seriously, Lincoln Restler looks exactly like young Al Franken.
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Now that everyone's so pleased with their "back to basics" new album, we're forgetting how good they were when they got just beyond the basics.
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eteam's nautical installation at Smack Mellon began its maiden voyage on Saturday night.
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Seriously, what is wrong with us?
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Bugaboo , Bugaboo Donkey , breeders , we really do hate your kids , Williamsburg , infestations , strollers , Fucked in Park Slope , stupid things , Donkey Punches
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Well done, Pavement.
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Man, he was only a month away from retirement, too.
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Turns out there are only five, probably because filming on the subway is prohibited.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , Gil Scott-Heron , Flight of the Conchords , Michael Jackson , Savage Garden , Macy Gray , Subway , MTA , Music videos , Chris Cunningham , Video
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Surveying Park Slope in the wake of last night's tornado.
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I hope he messes up.
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Not since Plato strode beneath the Lyceum arches has such eloquence been wrought by human tongue.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , tornadoes rule , tornado , dudes , bros , brahs , broheems , brosephuses , eloquence , I hate my generation , wind , Video
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Jeremy Scott has designed the scariest shoes since Crocs.
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The ongoing adventures of Dudimir and Brostragon.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: News , Brooklyn tornado , Brooklyn tornado dudes , Brooklyn tornado bros , bros , brahs , dudes , broheems , brosephuses , tornadoes , Samuel Beckett , we are alone in the void
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Mr. Vargas goes to Washington (to fight for justice).
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Tonight's rep film pick is about men and their sheep.
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What else were you going to do with that $250 grand you've been sitting on?
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So clear your schedule and get the F (train) down here.
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The New Austerity FTW.
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The internet sees right through your attempts to enrich your cultural awareness.
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If you're not there, I will chop-block you so bad.
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The Brooklyn new media artist knows about your lax blogging practices.
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The Gowanus, and now Newtown Creek, but we've got nothing on L.A.'s Superfund superstock.
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Unless the casting of a robot as the dancing, singing giant ape somehow obscures the text's colonialist narrative.
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Now playing at Film Forum, a new restoration blows up David Lean's grand delusion.
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In which an L Mag employee makes the mistake of keeping a record of her drinking.
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ROA and a bunch of other famous street artists painted on the hulls of boats during a real neat-lookin' Italian art fest.
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Bon Jovi is a shoo-in, though.
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A.O. Scott asks us to reconsider the idea that a movie can actually be "spoiled".
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Your epic experimental film pick for the weekend.
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Be prepared to dance.
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Here's another thing we can learn from Copenhagen.
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The New York Film Festival screens another of its strongest titles this weekend.
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The story of Joseph Smith, coming soon in song!
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Theater , TV , The Book of Mormon , South Park , Trey Parker , Matt Stone , Mormonism , Religion , Broadway , Musicals , Team America Musical: Fuck Yeah!
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Man, if only someone had told us they were one of 8 NYC bands we needed to hear.
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For your sake, we hope you're not one of them.
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Procrastinate better, with the full online Art of... interview archive!
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A series of benefit concerts for the Newtown Creek Alliance takes over a Bushwick tortilla factory. This is why I love Brooklyn.
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You ever seen a dog have a nic fit? I have.
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Now this is how you get a record released.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , Lupe Fiasco , Rap , Hip-hop , Lasers , Atlantic Records , Release dates , Protests , Petitions , Album delays , Twitter
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RADIAC is staying. RADIAC lives. RADIAC sees all.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , RADIAC , Governor Paterson , Joe Lentol , Williamsburg , toxic waste , plutonium , uranium , bad ideas , NIMBY , hazardous materials
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Just cold caravanin' around the British countryside, showin' movies.
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Just to be clear, though: we would much prefer a new album.
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Concerning the many special beers brewed right here in Brooklyn.
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The criminally underseen agit-drama in the New York Film Festival's repertory sidebar.
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Welcome to the new tornado belt.
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This is what it's like to be a piece of mail.
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The beard is real, though, and it is spectacular.
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Austin Powers used Apple, but Jason Bourne ran Windows.
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Another great song from a top-notch mixtape gets visuals.
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Public officials always have the best ideas. ALWAYS.
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The lives of Calabrians, goats and trees, in a silent movie with sound.
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It looks really nice in person. Also on the internet, we guess.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Media
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You know, we kind of like this dude now.
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Tired of all those crowded bike racks? Stash your fixie in style.
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Procrastinate Better! with this meditation on love and the passage of time.
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Concerning the structural rigor and gentle profundity of this weekend's please-don't-overlook pick.
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Talking physical ill-health and mental torment with the author of Journey to the End of Night .
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And with that, Pavement in NYC is a wrap.
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Everyone's angry! So angry! Politics in America is about anger!
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Been waiting for your ticket into the art world? This might be it!
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Brooklyn loses a writer named Jonathan, has many more.
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Yes, he's still in jail, and no, his non-humanness is not news to anyone.
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That was some tornado, huh?
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Is it too late to switch designs? 'Cause this looks stunning.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , News , Whitney Museum , NYC art , NYC museums , Renzo Piano , Axis Mundi , Architecture beef , Architecture , High Line , Meatpacking District
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Security is turning away groups of four or kids.
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What's a single guy gonna do with 4 lbs. of vegan cane sugar?
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Happy Monday!
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Also featuring slo-mo owl battles.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger , Woody Allen , You Again , Kristen Bell , Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps , Oliver Stone , Buried , Howl , Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole , No seriously that's what it's called , Zack Attack Snyder
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Your next favorite gallery opens tonight in Dumbo, an old favorite is moving to the Lower East Side, and more.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Hendershot Gallery , The Hole , Galleries , NYC art , Brooklyn art , Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery , Chelsea , Lower East Side , Dumbo , Kunsthalle Galapagos , Regina Rex
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Video game realism taken to its absurd extreme.
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Smart car and local art mags just cold throwin' up murals in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Procrastinate Better! with wardrobe advice from the poets.
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Nothing kicks off the weekend like the sound of warm, warm laughter.
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An instructional video on how to tame those square, neon green snakes.
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"There is very little violence over here. A bit of child killing, of course..."
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All kinds of crazy shit happens on Edgar Allen Poe Street.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Joey Ramone , street signs , CBGB , The Bowery , Malcolm X , Gilda Radner , Charlie Parker , Bob Marley , Edgar Allen Poe , why does Regis Philbin have a sign?
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100% historically accurate.
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Art bloggers sleep to the soothing sounds of performance art, and soon you can too!
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Which, in turn, are practically self-parody in any case.
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MoMA's kitchen design exhibition gets served.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Food & Drink , Media , Martha Stewart , Kitchen design , MoMA , NYC Museums , Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen , New York Observer , Art criticism , Design
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The future of video art? Probably not.
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Let's all reread "Babel in California" and think.
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Juliana Hatfield thinks so, and I guess she probably knows better than we do.
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Seems like a harsh penalty for using a student Metrocard...
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My goodness, there was some good indie rock on television last night.
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It's important that we keep telling people why shit like this neither funny nor ok.
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If it's because you're all still listening to "Runaway," then that's actually ok.
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I suppose that's not an especially subtle hint as to the surprise top slot in this year's list.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Theater , NYC theater , Broadway , Off Broadway , American Theatre , The 39 Steps , Patrick Barlow , Sarah Ruhl , Annie Baker , Tracy Letts , Lynn Nottage , Shakespeare , Playwrights , August Wilson
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The fall's most-hyped movie is both gratingly stupid and our Citizen Kane .
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Carl Paladino prefers the Real America of Queens and Staten Island.
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At least the teacher guy wasn't involved.
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Makes Poster Boy's advertising collages seem so juvenile.
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It's fall movie season. There's a lot to talk about.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , Never Let Me Go , Mark Romanek , The Town , Easy A , Emma Stone , Catfish , Devil , M. Night Shyamalan , Jack Goes Boating , Philip Seymour Hoffman
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This guys is truly awful. We cannot let him win.
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Here are some of his or her greatest hits.
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Nothing says "reclaiming urban blight" like eating delicious food with a bunch of strangers under a highway. Really; nothing.
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This is stupid. Everyone is stupid.
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Legendarily humorless hotel chain buys world's wittiest hotel.
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Polls. Goddamn polls.
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In which Bronx Democrats dump the worst person in Albany.
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BREAKING: Band plays reunion shows, sounds kinda lazy.
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Wait, Pavement's back together?
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Devil says that you’re going to hell...unless you tell the notorious egomaniac that you’re sorry.
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Life, summed up in four words, on the base of a Brooklyn lamppost.
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Talking about talk shows and Soviet farmers.
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In which the rich and famous gather at 3rd and C.
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I'd suffer a broken cheekbone for that much scratch.
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Filmed by one Thomas Edison, an early experimental filmmaker.
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A decade into their career, The Walkmen sound as vital as ever, which is more than they bands they came up with can say for themselves, now isn't it?
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The new Of Montreal album is over-wordy, over-labored, and grating. Also kind of pridefully stupid.
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Oh look, another new Weezer album that isn't as good as the first two Weezer albums.
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A 6’5" string bean partial to bowties and Marc Jacobs suspenders, Justin Townes Earle is prettier than his daddy, but that don’t mean he’s soft.
Album Reviews
Local trio write jams for cult members. Against better judgment, that Kool—Aid is actually starting to look kind of tasty.
Album Reviews
A promising debut from a local band doing the summery pop thing everyone loves so much.
Album Reviews
The Stereolab singer strikes out on her own. God, remember Stereolab? Let's all go listen to Stereolab.
Features
Wynton Marsalis takes jazz and classical on a cross-country honeymoon to open the New York Philharmonic's season.
Film Reviews
Funny Emma Stone carries the slightly too derivative high school sex farce Easy A .
Film Reviews
Catfish is a (not so) shocking tale of false identities.
Film Reviews
A couple strikes a deal in The Freebie; pained improv ensues.
Film Reviews
Kings of Pastry promises a behind-the-scenes look at a prestigious pastry competition; delivers.
Movie Journal
On the self-aware hypocritical Puritanical jollies of Piranha 3D.
Film Reviews
Right in the prestige-pick wheelhouse, Never Let Me Go is literate and modulated enough to feel like more than your money's worth of melancholy.
Film Reviews
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo is probably the best-ever documentary on the subject of the Oklahoma Prison Rodeo.
Film Reviews
A kid is left to her own devices in the aimless, gorgeous The Girl.
Features
While Oliver Stone flatters the wealthy with his Wall Street sequel, a revival of On the Bowery looks squarely at New York's underbelly.
Film Reviews
The Town , un film de Ben Affleck, is another solid, local-colored Boston crime saga.
Film Reviews
In his directorial debut Jack Goes Boating , Philip Seymour Hoffman spends a lot of the movie filming himself in a bathing suit.
Film Reviews
Estonian import The Temptation of St. Tony is an often breathtaking arthouse parable with a hollow aftertaste.
Features
Gaspar Noé's trippy après vie fugue Enter the Void feels like background a/v for the knowledgeable doper.
Film Reviews
James Franco dresses up in Allen Ginsberg drag for the lightweight Howl .
Film Reviews
Echt-claustrophobic thriller Buried stretches a promising premise past the breaking point.
Film Reviews
The Woodman's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger considers artistic failure, rather too well.
Features
Waiting for ''Superman'' considers the failures of the American education system.
Film Reviews
Zack Attack Snyder stayed up late watching Animal Planet, and decided holy shit, I should make a movie showing everyone how fucking cool owls are .
Restaurant Reviews
Who needs dinner when you have so much pie, all day?
Bar Reviews
We always imagined New York as a sleek Hal Hartley movie, with tall, elegant people clinking glasses in unassuming gallery cum bars. Like this place.
Nathaniel Robinson's readymade refuse has an unsettling presence.
Peter Feigenbaum's South Bronx-inspired miniatures open a reverse-gentrifying time-warp in Park Slope.
Spectacular installations by Pipilotti Rist and Zilvinas Kempinas challenge our perceptions with dazzling lights and seductive surfaces.
On the eve of his neon-hued, death-obsessed new show in Dumbo, we visited Humphrey's BMX-filled studio.
Theater Reviews
Gregory S. Moss's woodland Gothic has verdant comedy and wilting tragedy at Soho Rep.
Theater Reviews
Ghosts from distant and domestic conflicts come out of hiding in underneathmybed .
Theater Reviews
Samuel D. Hunter crafts father-son drama and break room comedy into Middle-American realism in A Bright New Boise .
Theater Reviews
Ivo van Hove's attempted revitalizing of Lillian Hellman's cruel family drama caps its teeth instead.
Theater Reviews
The experimental musician and performance artist's fragmented new piece at BAM signals a departure from her usual form.
Theater Reviews
31 Down's mile high thriller breaks the sound barrier.
Presenting a major work of American fiction.
Disillusioned South African dropouts survive the horrors of endless war in Ingrid Winterbach's To Hell With Cronjé .
Art Fag City
Who's better, who's better, who's best?
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Sex With the Natural Redhead
One man's plea for positional help.
Features
High School football is coming to McCarren Park in Williamsburg.
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Williamsburg and Greenpoint are getting dangerously close to a full-scale shitshow. Literally.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Features , Sewers , run-off , overflow , Williamsburg , Greenpoint , David Yassky , Evan Thies , shit , crap , excrement , poop , toilets , sewage , rain
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Though we know the real world isn’t easily reducible to GOOD and EVIL, we did so anyway. Here are the New Yorkers we love, and the New Yorkers we hate.
Tags: Features , Daisy Khan , Baruch Herzfeld , Brooklyn Grange , John Lurie , Yoko Ono , Donna Marsh O’Connor , Adrian Schoolcraft , Ronald Bronstein , Peter Pizza , Malcolm Gladwell , Douglaston Development , The Vendetta Breakdancer , Vincent Forras , Bill Keller , The Bike-Lock Gluer , Tao Lin , The Williamsburg Hotel , David Koch
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HBO bets big on tales of the proto-Mafia, down by the shore.
