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Checking in on local corporate art.
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Previewing a vintage cartoon program playing at Vaudeville Park this weekend.
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Brooklynites: right at the forefront of francophilic foodie Tumblr blogs.
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Tags: Food & Drink, News, Jane Fonda, Conan O'Brien, Naan, Fondue, Cheese, Bread, Tumblr, Cheese People, Bread People, Wine
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This video's got it all: a scary owl, quirky comedy and invisible evil.
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...for helping abducted and missing children.
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Why Williamsburgers, by-and-large, don't care about theater, and how that's going to change tonight at the Knitting Factory.
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Your weekend rep film pick is another bit of Southland excavation from Thom Andersen.
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That neighborhood just doesn't make sense anymore.
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So, what happens now for Brooklyn?
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Your tax dollars at work, breaking up families.
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Wait, there's a cemetery along Kent Avenue?
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Can anyone gesture as grandly as Jarvis Cocker? We put other leading frontmen head-to-head to find out.
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Tags: Music, Pulp, reunion, Jarvis Cocker, Primavera Sound, Wireless Festival, Wayne Coyne, David Byrne, Eminem, Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, Video
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Oh yeah, totally going as a Sexy 1988 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix.
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Questions and answers pertaining to the annual touring showcase for self-financed film, coming to the BK this weekend.
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What's that, Lassie? Hector Tejada needs our help?
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It's Ben Greenman (who has a book party tonight), actually.
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In which our Questionnaire For Writer Types checks in with the Vanity 6, among other things.
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Where no one will expect you to wear a costume, on account of you being an adult.
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Also wish they'd hyphenated that shit properly.
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Hands up, everyone who remembers the Hellraiser VHS box.
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Fake cancer, real killing!
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A "Band to Watch in 2011" plays two NYC shows this weekend, in 2010.
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"Mom, dad, we need to talk about my aesthetic development..."
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Seriously. I get really unreasonably happy about winter.
- by Jonny Diamond
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Tags: News, snow, ice, sleet, hail, freezing rain, ice storms, winter, the weather, nostalgia, snow day?, hockey
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Image trouble? Sue somebody.
- by Jonny Diamond
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Tags: Food & Drink, Gorilla Coffee, baristas, strike, coffee, Park Slope, Darleen Scherer, Carol McLaughlin, New York Times, lawsuits, I see an owner fighting with a barista and I know whose side I'm on
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Turns out Monday night is great timing for theater in Williamsburg.
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Who hasn't tried to type "Bring me a Redbull" and accidentally texted "Bring me a terbium"?
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Tonight's rep film pick, a flavorful whiff of New American Cinema, features Kris Kristofferson singing and dealing dope.
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The founder of the Matador imprint reps for Fort Greene, not exactly the center of the Brooklyn music scene.
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It must be nice to have billionaires fighting over you.
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Lady Gaga, sociology and the molding of young American minds.
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Says eviction dispute had nothing to do with money, everything to do with coal-burning brick pizza oven.
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None of this should be happening, but also, please stop selling drugs in the venues we like to go to.
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2 out of two blogger/editors involved in the posting of this blog post agree: Sunshine is so totally awesome.
- by Jesse Hassenger
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Tags: Film, Your Weekend at the Movies, 127 Hours, Danny Boyle, Sunshine Is So Fucking Good, Megamind, Dreamworks Animation, Superheroes, Fair Game, Doug Liman, Due Date, Todd Phillips, Starsky & Hutch, For Color Girls, Tyler Perry
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Discussing crab pasta, Paul Westerberg and regrets with the Brooklynite author.
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At 69, the German conceptualist is finally poised for States-side art stardom.
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Take that, car culture!
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Imagine if your job required that there be a bucket of beer waiting for you every day?
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This is what those little wrist straps are for, people.
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Even if you live on Bedford Avenue.
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I don't know if anyone knows The Lilys, but everyone really, really should.
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Or, at least, in restaurants everywhere.
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Are they from space, or Minnesota? YOU DECIDE.
- by Jonny Diamond
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Tags: Fashion, Coco, Breezy, Coco and Breezy, Fashionable Bystander(s), twins, Minnesota, Bushwick, fashion, design, Video
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It would have seemed weird not to do this one...
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Why have we co-opted another generation's nostalgia? Why can't we imagine futures greater than the past anymore?
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Opera without an afterparty with free performances and cheap drinks is like a sandwich without bread. Here's why...
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Peter Parker just can't catch a break. Or, rather, he's been breaking too much.
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Man, being a superhero sucks!
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Theater, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Broadway, Musicals, Rehearsals, comic books, Accidents, Injuries, Kevin Aubin, Broken wrists
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The drummer explains the area surrounding Shea Stadium in the East Williamsburg.
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The lead singer was dressed like a bumblebee, which is not very threatening. In fact, it's kind of cute.
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And here, incidentally, are some suggestions as to which remixed commercial deserve your vote.
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Violence, sex, hysteria: it was like Altamont all over again...
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A quasi-academic appreciation of one of contemporary music's most vital postmodernists.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Music, Swizz Beatz, Producer-in-residence, Rap, Hip-hop, NYU, Tish, Jay-Z, T.I., Memphis Bleek, Styles P, DMX, Professor Beatz, Video, Audio
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Ten hours on a bus, one hour at a rally, and it's all worth it.
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Bentleys, Benzes and performance art in West Chelsea.
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The photographer of miniature ghettos is mad that his favorite laundromat became a tea house.
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One little misunderstanding can get every Coney-lover in the city against you.
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Nothing funny about infant incarceration... but plenty of cute.
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Do you have any idea how to get to the Welmont Theatre?
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Today in gradual realizations that an initially impressive aesthetic is in fact an insubstantial con (or something?).
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Hott Tips! for the lazy and/or "conceptualists" among you.
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Smart people making pretty things.
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Maybe they'll play another New York show? Please play another New York show!
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Boathouse! Skatepark! Sewage filtration! Oh my!
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Other than Belle & Sebastian, Arcade Fire and Radiohead.
- by Lauren Beck
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Tags: Music, All Tomorrow's Parties, ATP, Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Sun Airway, Grateful Dead, El Guincho, Alvin Band, Caribou, Dam-Funk, Beck
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It's true. Joan Didion was, like, 14 feet tall and really into Wavves.
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"I swear I am not a creep, though I wouldn't be lying if I said, I would eventually like to see you out of your costume as well."
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The Greatest 3-Minute Top Ten Lists of All Time: this should be fun.
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A Quiet Place tries too hard to endow 20th Century forms with 19th Century gravitas.
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That depends on whether or not you trust the new MegaDiebold Corporation.
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Did you catch marathon fever? I did not.
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Better plan to get there early, or this will be like Kanye all over again.
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Our first evening of complementary post-opera partying is Thursday!
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Keep cool, my babies.
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Specter cements his reputation as the city's foremost street sculptor.
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Howie Hawkins lays the foundation for the kind of bonafide change third parties could trigger.
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Someone had to do it, we just didn't expect the Germans to get there first.
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Transcend the Hate, a website, go to there.
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Crazy colorful parka time!
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High above Kent Avenue, a superb space for experimental theater.
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A reading next week features poems from a new Spanish-language anthology.
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But at least you still have your iPod, right?! Blech.
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Our stab at booking a highbrow art event got us an a cappella group that covers Fugazi. We're pretty proud of that.
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Cattle ranch coming to Bridge Street in 2011.
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Re-live the glorious minutes between 1am and 2am on Sunday, November 7, 2010!
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Despite the last part of that headline, this bums me out.
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Happy Guy Fawkes Day, everyone. Let's all celebrate a failed revolution by burning things for no reason.
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They're in town for a show at the Rock Shop this weekend. Do not miss.
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Well, have you ever smoked weed in Disney World?
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Four of New York's Finest lock themselves in a Bushwick courtyard.
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Questions for the director of the forthcoming award-winning indie documentary.
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Why is she being such an asshole to Santa Claus?
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North Highlands, Savoir Adore and Surfer Blood are involved, so how bad can it be?
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Turns out there's an actual law against the improper opening and closing of car doors; common sense wasn't enough.
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For a week at Anthology, Pedro Costa's engrossing, shadowy portrait of the singer/actress at work.
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Ooh, I think we were just subverted!
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The curator of an exhibit at the library explains.
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Unfortunately, it's necessary.
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Topics covered also include pants, Alaska, and the title of their next album.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Music, Special Events, News, The Honey Brothers, Williamsburg, Prospect Park, Open Space Alliance, Interview, North Brooklyn, Benefit shows, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Adrian Grenier, Ari Gold
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The Underbelly Project is like a street art hall of fame, somewhere below Brooklyn.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Art, Underbelly Project, Street art, Subway art, Graffiti, Brooklyn, Abandoned subway stations, Underneath NYC, Swoon, TrustoCorp, Faile, Gaia, Roa, Know Hope
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So many beautiful art objects to be seen/held/had and studios to visit!
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Art, Secret Project Robot, MoMA PS1, Williamsburg, Long Island City, Queens, Brooklyn, Chelsea, NY Art Book Fair, Editions-Artists' Book Fair, Cannonball Press, Affordable art
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I miss pulling the lever.
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Or, how the intergenerational, international hipster war begins.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Art, Music, News, Shirin Neshat, Henry Rollins, Artists, Non-artists, Hipsters, Old hipsters, Young hipsters, Iranian hipsters, Video
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We only get one, so let's make it count.
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He was known for definitive reckonings with the Second World War, and his flamboyant erudition. The Assault is really wonderful.
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There's only one thing more dangerous than the stunts in Spidey's new musical...
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I didn't really stand a chance; he has a freaking Batmobile.
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More genre excellence from Australia.
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Of course there's a postcard of a highway in Dallas tucked into an early edition of On The Road.
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In which the graphic designer offers a rather exhaustive rundown of the coffee options off the L and M trains.
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This disappointing sequel says rich people get their money from Satan.
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This (Billowing Light Matter) Thing Looks Like That (Billowing Light Matter) Thing.
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WE SAID NOW
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More (much more!) than you thought you wanted to know about the Saw movies.
- by Jesse Hassenger
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Tags: Film, Your Weekend at the Movies, Saw, Saw 3-D, Horror Franchises, Monsters, Welcome to the Rileys, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Strange Powers, The Magnetic Fields, Stephin Merritt
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And we're even giving the reporter a tape recorder!
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A 9-track live set recorded in the days following their performance at Glastonbury.
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A couple timely screenings for this Lovecraftian zombie/vampire demi-classic.
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Everything old is apparently terrible.
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Deconstructing the liberalism that dares speak its name, loudly, while decrying all aspects of liberalism.
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This is your building on drugs.
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Dozens of supporters gathered at the boardwalk bar to try and save it. Or at least to enjoy one last beer.
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Jennifer Arredondo says worse things could have happened, but we can't think of many.
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No excuses, go vote.
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Trannies and mystery baby deaths!
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Just don't go in the water: no lifeguard on duty.
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Nor was its epitaph written by Boethius.
- by Mark Asch
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Tags: Film, Music, Tony Wilson, Headstones, Death, Mutability, The Manchester Man, G Linnaeus Banks, Boethius, The Consolations of Philosophy, 24 Hour Party People, Epitaph, Video
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Anarchy, hedonism and homemade bikes in a Bed-Stuy parking lot.
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Remember when magazines had art collections? Neither do we.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Art, Sex, News, Playboy, Christie's, Art auctions, Tom Wesselmann, Pop art, Pamela Anderson, Hugh Hefner, Salvador Dali, Marilyn Monroe, Video
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Oh God, how is Mike McMahon so awful?
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Album Reviews
Is not a Mountain Goats record at all, but Undercard, the new record from John Darniele and Franklin Bruno's Extra Lens.
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Album Reviews
The solo debut from Animal Collective's Dave Portner is a dark, difficult listen that will pay off in the end.
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Album Reviews
Special Affections is a solid, tastefully crafted record that doesn't take nearly enough risks.
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Album Reviews
This14-track Elliott Smith compilation is great, of course, but it would have been great at 50 tracks too.
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Album Reviews
Sidewalks, the new record from the ever reliable party-starters Matt & Kim is fun, but also mega-cheesy.
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An interview with bandleader Josh Kolenik about the genre they unwittingly represent, the problem with seasonal evaluation of music, and much more.
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Film Reviews
In Strange Powers, the Magnetic Fields frontman reveals by not revealing anything.
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Film Reviews
Inspector Bellamy fittingly caps the beloved New Waver’s career.
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Film Reviews
Brooklyn artist Vik Muniz and pickers from the world's largest dump turn trash into masterpieces in Waste Land.
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Film Reviews
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest brings Stieg Larsson's trilogy to a somewhat less than merciful end.
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Movie Journal
New angles for looking at the quintessential horror movie as it turns 50.
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Film Reviews
A new MoMA series presents three films about the occupation that play a little like politicized Jarmusch.
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Film Reviews
If you're going to a horror movie this Halloween, why not go to one that near-wordlessly absorbs all the visual energy of the Eurohorror classics?
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Film Reviews
Monsters could really have used more, um, monsters.
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Film Reviews
... is Welcome to the Rileys, a sober indie drama. directed by Ridley Scott's son
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Film Reviews
With Client 9, Alex Gibney explores the shadowy corners of a seemingly familiar story.
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Film Reviews
Lauded lo-fi jazz musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench whiffs its rapturous premise.
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Film Reviews
Part editorial and part domestic drama, Fair Game is a Very Serious film about Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson.
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Film Reviews
Outside the Law explores terrorism’s origins in the French occupation of Algeria.
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Film Reviews
Wild Target comes too late to the hitman-comedy party to coast on its premise as much as it does.
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Film Reviews
In 127 Hours, Danny Boyle finds many fun new ways of filming the story of the pinned hiker who amputated his own arm with a penknife (as you do).
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Film Reviews
After The Hangover, even the lazily affable-enough Due Date counts as progress.
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Film Reviews
Brit jihadi satire Four Lions goes, frequently hilariously, where angels fear to tread,
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Restaurant Reviews
Sure, escargot might seem a bit much for a diner, but holy crap it's good.
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Bar Reviews
There are a lot of good bars in this town, but do they all have food as good as this? (No.)
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The multimedia artist's new exhibition of miniature video landscapes brings digital technology to monstrous life.
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Pure Beauty, the L.A. conceptual artist's first NYC retrospective in 19 years chronicles a stellar, shape-shifting career.
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Ati Maier, Daniel Zeller and Patricia Smith create expansive landscapes to plot our increasingly complex senses of space.
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Theater Reviews
An interview with Ping Chong, who directed the stage adaptation of Kurosawa's screen adaptation of Macbeth that runs this week at BAM.
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Theater Reviews
Enda Walsh's postmodern adaptation of the last chapter of The Odyssey never makes it home.
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Theater Reviews
An experimental performance piece in a Prospect Heights church basement fosters an exciting exchange between spectators and actors.
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Theater Reviews
Animal attractions run wild between a prince and prancing waterfowl in this still-radical re-imagining.
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In a new history of intellectual property, Lewis Hyde implores us to think in new ways about ownership.
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Darin Strauss's new memoir doesn't quite transcend the confessional genre.
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In Paul Auster's new novel, the neighborhood stands in for war-torn America.
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Ask A Cabbie
So we can all agree that the Tea Party are just a bunch of assholes?
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Art Fag City
The free exchange of media increasingly comes at the expense of the viewer's experience.
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Sex With the Natural Redhead
What to do when all of sudden you're living with a sex machine
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Sex With the Natural Redhead
On autofellatio and bending to your partner's needs.
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Art Fag City
Hanging studies alongside new canvases diminishes the Jersey native's new show at The Pace Gallery.
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Features
From Cobble Hill to Park Slope to Sunset Park, Paul Auster sure likes Brooklyn.
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Features
Dead bodies, black cowboys and ducks in the street. All just a subway ride away
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Stoop by stoop: so much borough, so little time.
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Two Minnesota-raised twins show us what the future looks like.
