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A number of offbeat, frequently quite promising October entries this weekend.
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I still hate kickball.
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Your beat Weezer reporter, at your service. (I mean, for real, I've been writing a lot about these guys lately. Sorry.)
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Get righteously angry with this financial meltdown recapumentary.
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The community garden as overarching metaphor for Mike Leigh's latest film (and all the rest, too).
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Everybody head to Jersey.
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A YouTube investigation of more bands taking on the Almighty Canadians.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , Arcade Fire , The Roots , John Legend , The Drums , The Canon Logic , Paolo Nutini , The Clash , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , cover songs , Video
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On tonight's rep film pick, Paul Schrader's Blue Collar .
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A beautifully made Russian festival film, until you start to think about it.
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So many massive murals slated for summer 2011.
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Well, selections from the history of mainstream rap, but still, they do the Humpty Dance.
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Mural-sized vintage video games, an '85 Chevy Caprice station wagon and Reverend Billy? And it's all free? Dude!
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The project's instigator receives death threats, he tells The New York Times .
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The French to everyone else: "Don't touch the beautiful relics of our much-missed monarchy!"
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It's actually vital to the film that you not understand what anybody's saying.
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Oliver Stone buys Basquiat, but Bruce Greenwood goes coo-coo for Kandinsky.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Film , NYC art , Kick-Ass , Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps , Richard Prince , Damien Hirst , Marc Quinn , Night at the Museum , Jeff Koons , Boogie Woogie , Downtown 81 , Jean-Michel Basquiat , Tracey Emin
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Good luck getting into or out of Williamsburg from between midnight tonight and Monday morning.
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Tonight's heist-movie rep film pick stars Sean Connery (sans toupee) and the weirdly, cadaverously hot young Christopher Walken.
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A multimedia performance piece at BAM's Next Wave grapples with trauma and absence. With nudity and rubber deer.
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You don't get to choose your own camera angle or anything, but still, we think they're pretty swell.
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I can't wait to see people using this on the subway.
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Since the MTA has basically given up on keeping that station looking decent, the locals are pitching in.
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The director of Bonnie and Clyde (and Night Moves !), and the first 70s filmmaker.
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Lesson #1: Any music made by a member of Animal Collective will sound super crazy!
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Extreme weather blows in Brooklyn.
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The greatest actor of our generation, cold chillin' in Brooklyn.
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The ravishing Assassination is a highlight of the NYFF's Japanese New Wave sidebar.
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I bet Surfer Blood's playing, though, right?
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Talking with Electric Literature about their new literary gossip blog, Dish.
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Please don't ever take a date to Popeye's. Ever.
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The Castle Braid is nice and it is weird.
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Fond memories of your weekend midnight-movie pick.
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It's a giant grape; it's a coiled snake; it's a beautiful temporary pavilion.
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Vito Lopez doesn't even really live in Brooklyn.
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Oh no! Who cares? I don't know!
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Manhattan-centric distribution of MTA improvements continues.
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Clint Eastwood's festival closer is a career embarrassment, especially for Peter Morgan.
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Sean Capone is one lucky guy. (Welcome to the neighborhood!)
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Curious musings on life, death and art from the world's greatest 101-year-old filmmaker.
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Go now, and eat your snowturkeys in peace.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Thanksgiving , Canadian Thanksgiving , homesickness , hockey , fighting , drinking , snow , Stompin Tom , Al Purdy , Video
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A beautiful, laughably somber Russian death trip.
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On the documentary Rachel , now playing in a limited run.
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Note the number of plays whose titles end in exclamation points!
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Threadless crew attacks art star for unauthorized appropriation of panda design.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Fashion , Rob Pruitt , Gavin Brown's Enterprise , NYC gallery , West Village , Pandas , Threadless , When Pandas Attack , Flashmob , Appropriation art
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Bar fights, vending-machine Viagra, the fetishization of the authentic, and other true tales of alcohol and the places that serve it.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Books , Food & Drink , Ben Westhoff , Bars , Bar Guides , Dive Bars , Port 41 , Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge , Motor City , Welcome to the Johnson's , Crehan's Pub , Palace Cafe , Beer Goggles
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Sewage treatment plants and old public baths, here you come!
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Kelly Reichardt's latest is like Oregon Trail! But much more allegorical.
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Just cold hanging out with Christiane Amanpour in the studio.
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What a fucking beast.
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An eventful night at craft beer week.
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Who knew Canadians could be so loud and noisy?
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Could NYC go gooseless under new federal "airport protection zone"?
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But before you find out what her favorite restaurant is, you need to hear her startlingly gorgeous new album.
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy comes out November 22.
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Good records, fancy turntables and free beer. Not a bad way to spend an entire lifetime.
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Get on the bus. The HuffPo bus.
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Californians aren't wasting a minute mounting their commercial weed industry.
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The Schoonmaker to Tarantino's Scorsese.
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It's almost enough to make a fellow want to set foot in Rochester.
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Which, for a song with such a prominent Duran Duran sample, seems appropriate.
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The American Dream now consists of fleeting notoriety through borderline personality disorder.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy , The Apprentice , Donald Trump , you're fired , I quit , Brooklyn , Brooklyn District Attorney , fame , reality TV , the new American Nightmare
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Joe Dante's triumphant comeback uses a hole as a metaphor for the sex orifice.
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Seeing B&S in galoshes would be awfully fun, don't you think?
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The Westboro Baptist Church, as ever, represents the worst of America. And they're coming to Brooklyn.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , Westboro Baptist Church , The Jews , Midwood , hate , hate speech , anti-Semitism , Fred Phelps , assholes , bigots , the worst America has to offer , free speech
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It's almost like getting paid to collect art.
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Well, maybe not a "beating," but it was the punching bag for a few hipster jokes.
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Responding to tonight's experimental film pick.
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And we do. But we were going to anyway.
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Or, at least the top six tweets in the last eight hours. (Twitter was acting funny earlier.)
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Another weekend rep pick: the sublime, influential heist film that announced a new talent's arrival.
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Which is awful! Unless you really kind of like shitty romantic comedies!
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The shortest 272-minute movie you'll ever see (not a compliment).
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Diminishing returns from Tony Manero director Pablo Larrain.
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Wind power, in Red Hook (and in the comments section of the Brooklyn Paper ).
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When you have your record release show, you can feel free to talk about whatever you'd like.
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Today's heist-movie rep pick is Jacques Tourneur's knotted David Goodis adaptation.
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Remember how nobody famous died this summer? Christ, this has been a brutal week.
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Reporting from Brooklyn's biggest green street fair.
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It's possible, no?
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The Beer Journal goes to Manhattan, where the livestock is loose.
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Well, "allegedly writes," but such provocative poetry could only come from a legendary MC.
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And the New York Philharmonic proves it with a performance of his Symphony No. 6.
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Even if you don't win, you should really just go, often.
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To be fair, MoMA does tend to only hire really attractive people.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Media , MoMA , Fred R. Conrad , New York Times , NYC museums , NYC art , Abstract Expressionism , Staged photos , Photography , Roberta Smith
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Tim Harrington was only, like, ten, when this scene was shot.
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There's other stuff to recommend Sunday's rep film pick, too, but really now.
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Agata Olek crafts a softer kind of graffiti.
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You should really go though (plus it's for a good cause).
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Re:Form School , Little Italy , Art installation , Art fair , Swoon , The Hole , TrustoCorp , Erik Otto , Kelly Towles , Elbow Toe , Michel Gondry , Specter
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Gnome life, from now till the muthafuckin' ever.
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Back when he was just a lowly Insound employee making fun of Oasis.
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In which we write down all the fascinating things we've recently learned about cheese, so as not to blot them out of our mind with craft beer.
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We ask the artists who founded the newest Bushwick-Ridgewood gallery where their name comes from.
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Which is super awesome. Unless you already paid full price.
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Don't worry, Snacks the cat got a shout-out.
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A trio of recent scary movies despises their awful audience, and for good reason.
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In which THE MOST IMPORTANT FILM OF OUR TIME is cautiously anticipated.
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"Would all the ugly teachers report to the softball field storage shed, please?"
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End Craft Beer Week with a bang, on a bike.
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Check out shots from Lmag darling Crystal Gwyn's photo booth at the after party for American Symphony Orchestra's Presentation of "James Joyce at Carnegie Hall."
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Here's one Shakespeare adaptation that shoulda been Cali-banned. Oh. Oh. Oh.
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Saturday's rep film pick is a baseball movie even a pinko and childhood fatty could love.
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Not surprisingly, Dickchicken is a house specialty.
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Seriously, dudes, wtf?
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Pick it right, and win the eternal adulation of a handful of strangers!
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The set was startlingly beautiful. Also uncomfortable.
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The Austrian arthouse Point Break plays tonight.
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Jeff Klingman totally wore a blazer to a rave.
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The life of a young art star, including obligatory James Franco cameo!
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Ryan McGinley , Harmony Korine , agnes b. , Photography , Larry Gagosian , Terrence Koh , Richard Prince , Klaus Bisenbach , Can't stop talking about Dan Colen , NYC art
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Oooh! A new recurring feature!
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Or, at least, not hideously ugly.
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Old jokes and new ground from the Korean master of humiliation and metacinema.
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In which the house style of the Romanian New Wave begins to grate.
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The show films in Brooklyn, and the cast is rather attractive. Should be a fun day, you creepster.
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And then, I don't know, listen to all the stuff he says you should listen to.
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More Romanian fare: a well-executed domestic love triangle.
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The hometown street art collective has installed another of their oft-stolen public prayer wheels on Kent Avenue.
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Called, appropriately, Kranium.
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In which Sarah Shanfield takes on the motherload event of Craft Beer Week: the Brewer's Bash.
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Well, that was certainly an accurate-seeming depiction of endless miserable social injustice!
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Very little, but a great exhibition at the New York Historical Society shows it doesn't matter.
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Shockingly, Carl Paladino fears exposure to the gays and their speedo-clad agenda.
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If we ever release a really awesome record, we're definitely gonna rock the Genius Bar the day it comes out.
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Not to mention four more terrific tens in Modern/contemporary art.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Media , Listicles , Top 10 , 10/10/10 , Marina Abramovic , Jasper Johns , Cindy Sherman , Keith Haring , Ray Eames , Charles Eames , Powers of Ten , Video
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Everything's fine, though, really, but just in case let's all go to the corner and convert our savings into bullion.
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Hey, a new "skate space" in the Heights. With bathrooms. And rubber.
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Or, how a genre lives and dies by the expectations of its most devoted fans.
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A drama of religion feels somewhat less than devotional.
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So who put all that money on Ngugi, then?
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There was no rain, and only a little bit of wind. Well done, weathermen.
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Really putting those millions on/above the stage.
Album Reviews
Halcyon Digest is a stunning album, the one Bradford Cox has been working toward all along.
Album Reviews
No Age's new album is the cleanest, most grown-up record they've ever made. Possibly their best, too.
Album Reviews
Swanlights is a harrowing new album from one of our most intimidatingly dramatic performers.
Album Reviews
The debut album from (we assume) the best lo-fi drum-guitar team in all of Virginia.
Features
We cannot wait to live in a world where no one can stop talking about The Promise Ring and Fugazi.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Features , Music , Jawbreaker , Archers of Loaf , Wilco , Whiskeytown , Son Volt , The Promise Ring , Karate , Fugazi , The 90s , Pavement , Video
Features
Talking with the Romanian New Wave director about his NYFF selection Aurora , and how he came to understand violence.
Film Reviews
Bad times and big-money dreams at Film Forum’s heist movie series.
Film Reviews
Inside Job and Freakonomics offer two very different explanations of how money makes the world go round.
Film Reviews
Nuremberg , a restoration of the official record of the mother of all war-crimes trials.
Features
Class envy and fuck-you money in the up to the minute Social Network .
Movie Journal
Talking to the author about the new movie of his novel.
Film Reviews
Let Me In is a surprisingly delicate update of your favorite Scandinavian coming-of-ace gorefest (with bonus Reagan-era political commentary).
Film Reviews
The I Spit on Your Grave remake gets harder for sickening rape than gory revenge.
Film Reviews
Based on a comic, Tamara Drewe gives the pastoral English countryside a witty, self-aware makeover.
Film Reviews
Marwencol is an engrossing, straightforward portrait of an outsider artist who's anything but simple.
Film Reviews
Neo-noir love triangle Stone isn’t an easy movie to take seriously.
Film Reviews
The bro's progress of studly Josh Duhamel enlivens the otherwise grating Life As We Know It .
Restaurant Reviews
Cheap, humble, wonderful Turkish food in Greenpoint.
Restaurant Reviews
You don't have to be an actual snob to be a good wine snob.
Features
All the food we love (and where to eat it).
Tags: Features , Restaurant Awards , Michael and Ping's , Tamarind Tribeca , Fette Sau , Sigmund Pretzelshop , Mile End , The Commodore , 4 and 20 Blackbirds , Sue Perette , Red Hook Mercado , Hot Bird , Fultummy's , Mauzac , Cariño , Kaz an Nou , Ki , Purple Yam , Peaches Hot House , Brooklyn Farmacy , Kors d'Oeuvres , Saltie , Nunu Chocolates , Paulie Gee's , Fatty ‘Cue , Pies ‘N' Thighs , Traif , Xi'an Famous Foods , Cafe Colette , South Brooklyn Pizza , Samurai Mama , Honeychiles
Restaurant Reviews
Keep Brooklyn Weird
The New Museum's death-of-print exhibition, The Last Newspaper , incubates the liveliest media environment of any major museum in recent memory.
The longtime Williamsburg resident's dazzling Brooklyn Museum survey keeps viewers guessing until they're eye to eye with each resin-embedded collage.
Neighboring exhibitions by Knox Martin and Silvia Russel grapple with art historical convention.
Theater Reviews
The free performance festival Prelude.10 brings audiences into the development process (for free!).
Theater Reviews
A Nobel-winning financial theory makes millions in Microcrisis , Ma-Yi Theater's high-returns bank-busting satire.
Theater Reviews
A revival of John Patrick Shanley's hyper-literate drama Women of Manhattan finds nuance behind the theatrics.
Theater Reviews
SITI Company co-founder and artistic director Anne Bogart discusses the company's Orson Welles double-bill: Radio Macbeth and War of the Worlds .
Theater Reviews
George Bernard Shaw's once-controversial upending of sexual codes, now just another story about the Hooker with the Heart of Gold.
Theater Reviews
Middle-tier and major Albee are indistinguishable in this tale of identical twins.
Theater Reviews
Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando strips the historical satire to its gender-bending nakedness.
Paul Murray's Irish sorta-epic Skippy Dies defines a darkly hilarious teenaged world.
On Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self , the debut short-story collection by Danielle Evans.
Ask A Cabbie
Obviously, the first answer would be "my wife." After that, Halle Berry, Michelle Obama, and Anne Hathaway.
Art Fag City
There's so much art more deserving of your time and attention right now.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
So, which way do you go?
Sex With the Natural Redhead
The harder they come, the easier it gets.
Features
Will there be more truck traffic? Less cancer? More raw materials for artists?
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Features , News , newtown creek , superfund , greenpoint , long island city , pollution , epa , newtown creek alliance , run-off , overflow
Features
Lincoln Restler is ready to take on the Brooklyn Democratic Machine. For this, we thank him.
Local
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend: where art meets fashion meets anyone but Anna Wintour.
Features
Chelsea's African Art Market dies a slow death in a Brooklyn courthouse.
by Brendan Borrell
Tags: Features , ivory , ivory smugglers , Africa , African art , African Art Market , Chelsea , Drissa Diane , US Fish and Wildlife Service , Brooklyn Courthouse , Mfopa Yacouba
Features
Sisters talk vandalism at Death By Audio and dressing like a fifteen year old.
