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It's a funny thing, music criticism.
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This is awful; please help!
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: News , Biking in NYC , Greenpoint , Williamsburg , Franklin Street , Bike accidents , Bike crashes , Hit-and-run , Justice , Diamond , Drivers
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Also watch Jon Stewart bend over backwards to convince everyone he likes rap.
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Will Jerry Saltz get another crack at discovering the next great artists, or will they shuffle judges too?
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But obviously not at the gallery itself, which is toast.
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Brushing up on skateboarding lingo, seeing No Age, and feeling like you're on the set of "Rob & Big's Fantasy Factory."
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Sadly, she didn't just do her "Monster" verse over and over again.
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It looks cooler in the movies though.
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"Mommy, daddy, what are those weird, childlike figures with the bunny ears and vampire fangs?" "Uh... Teletubbies?"
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Finally, a tobacco company that gets me.
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Men get killed, women get the vote.
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When traveling through the Flatbush-adjacent danger zone, maybe stick to the bike lanes?
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So if you have 10,000 bikes lying around, you should offer City Hall your services.
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On Odd Future and the extent to which we should ignore what they say.
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You're probably not going to get them, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.
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Of unions, adversarial labor relations, charter schools, and Bloomberg's new Completely Unqualified Schools Chancellor.
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On the distinctive, disparate pleasures of Tony Scott and Lena Dunham.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , Tony Scott , Denzel Washington , Unstoppable , The Taking of Pelham 123 , Tiny Furniture , Lena Dunham , Morning Glory , Rachel McAdams , Skyline
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Hooray for streetside pop-up cafes! Booo to jerks who complain about parking!
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Shut up, they're tears of joy . Of joy .
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Internationally renowned cocksman to eat Grimaldi's, hit on Blake Lively (don't tell the fatwa).
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This is gonna be the dumbest backlash ever, we can already feel it.
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I bet he would've read in Sunset Park...if it had a bookstore!
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Ok, there are actually 11, but I wasn't going to separate "Polythene Pam" and "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"
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Protected bike lane barriers are the hot new urban canvases.
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Kanye feels tortured and used and also misunderstood! Just like you when you were fucking fifteen .
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But your inner child still has to wait a long time before riding those vintage ponies.
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Talking to publisher Kim Lyons in advance of next Monday's launch reading.
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When was the last time you wheat-pasted your face to everything? Do it, now.
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Kind of amazing we've gone this long without a giant golden pyramid.
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Two wars just seems a little excessive, no?
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Politics , Veteran's Day , Remembrance Day , And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda , Eric Bogle , The Pogues , Gallipoli , Mel Gibson , war , war is hell , let's honor the veterans by not making them fight anymore , Video
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If you're not watching the Reverse Shot Talkies video interview series, you should be.
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Unfortunately for the sad and sick, the works selected will not feature any nudity.
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Fighting back with images and snarky captions.
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An activist shares her beef with Williamsburg's latest chain store.
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Started in 1970s New York train yards, perfected in 2010 in the Rhine River Valley.
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Basically Twitter's justification for itself.
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Is there anything that neighborhood can't do!?
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Book Prom is set for December 4. There'll be a trapeze show.
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Audition and maybe you could be touring the world opening for Kate Nash one day. "You" meaning our female readers, age 13-18.
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You gotta be lucky to look good.
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No one seems to care, but these guys are really good.
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We've come an awfully long way from Jack Palance for Skin Bracer (but confidence is still very sexy ) (don't you think?).
by Mark Asch
Tags: Fashion , News , Shaving , Advertising , Nostalgia , Masculinity , The Art of Shaving , J. Crew , Mickey Drexler , Ok fine , Mad Men , Confidence Is Very Sexy , Don't You Think?
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We wish the formerly white cube space on 17th Street a speedy recovery.
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"Dismissed in the Interest of Justice" is right !
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An all around good night for indie rock.
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ARCHIE AND EDITH, TOGETHER AGAIN!!1!
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Bright young things read last night! The blurry evidence.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Books , 5 Under 35 , National Book Awards , Roseanne Cash , Rob Sheffield , Sarah Braunstein , Sarah Shun-lien Bynum , Grace Krilanovich , Scott Spencer , Téa Obreht , Colum McCann , Tiphanie Yanique , Jayne Anne Phillips , Paul Yoon , Kate Walbert , Slideshow
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Marina Abramovic FTW!
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The Puerto Rico-based duo will be playing inside a piano next month.
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Required reading for those flying home for Thanksgiving.
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Talking to the small Gowanus publisher of poetry and art books about how they get their work out there.
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It's like Brooklyn, but with... fine, we have no idea what it's like, actually.
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This is going to be awesome, obviously.
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Which actually isn't so much when you make $45 billion in profits.
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This weekend's rep pick is an underscreened "broken American dreams and minor-league sports" demi-classic.
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One of the year's best American indie films is held up over song clearance.
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The filmmaker's "queer road-movie-cum-transsexual romance" screens at the New Museum on Friday.
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Of stalkers and threeways.
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It's a documentary about the Red-tailed Hawk who prefers to nest on the UES, and the media frenzy following his eviction by a 5th Ave co-op board.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film , The Legend of Pale Male , Pale Male , Real Estate , Co-Op Boards , Central Park , Real Estate , Local Lore , Mary Tyler Moore , Hawks , Conservation , Clips , Video
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Tonight's rep pick, directed by the Brit documentarian-scenester Peter Whitehead.
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The city's most dangerous bike lane strikes again.
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Did we mention that Twin Sister and Cults are playing too? (Twin Sister and Cults are playing too.)
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If there is one thing Williamsburg residents are good at, it's drinking.
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FOR LMAG READERS AND/OR LMAG DRINKERS ONLY
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It all goes down on December 8 at Webster Hall.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Media , Annual Art Awards , Rob Pruitt , Art Fag City , Bloggers , Paddy Johnson , Jerry Saltz , Guggenheim , Webster Hall , Glenn O'Brien
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It bothers me when words having meanings is not a presupposition to a conversation.
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French-Canadian dancers take precedence over New York's blockbuster theater awards, apparently.
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Please just stay in Manhattan and embody our dreams of publishing opulence... Please?
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Books , David Black , Susan Golomb , Howard Morhaim , Jonathan Franzen , William T. Vollman , writers , Brooklyn writers , literary agents , Manhattan , Jay McInerney , Tom Wolfe , Paul Auster
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Proof that online graphic novels can been scary too.
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Get your one-cent punches in before the performance ends on Saturday.
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"America's Radio Sweetheart" Jesse Thorn sang the body corduroy-clad.
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Talking Jane Bowles, pro hoops and experimental fiction with the Pee on Water author.
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MTA says MTA is doing a better job.
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Part dissenter, part flag-waver, Johns's whole career has been building towards this moment.
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You say "unprepared," I say "comically elaborate conspiracy theory."
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You're not invited.
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Wow, the designs for the new NYC taxis are uuuuuuuuug-lee . Let's seek solace in sci-fi.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: News , Taxis , Cabs , Bloomberg , Ford , Nissan , Karsan , Total Recall , Minority Report , Heavy Metal , The Fifth Element , Cab drivers , Tom Cruise , Video
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When Mother Nature gives us broken trees, how does Greenpoint make brokentrees-monade?
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The Italian superproducer of variously glamorous and bloated international arthouse and blockbuster fare was 91.
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oh you heard right.
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Andrew Ohanesian's new installation at Famous Accountants in Bushwick is a trip.
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Young cool types should not be advertised to.
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At this point, being a music critic is a safer profession than being a club owner.
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The vicious alternatives to mass gassings.
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Well, the least hot part of it, but still.
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Oh jeez we wonder what will happen in the upcoming Harry Potter movie!
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Some day, the tri-state area might have a truly great NBA basketball team (PR campaign).
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Edith has been separated from her Archie. This is terrible.
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Some contemporary art for your canine friends?
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , David Hockney , Ross Bleckner , Robert Longo , Ed Ruscha , Kenny Scharf , Dog food bowls , Pet flatware , Auctions , Benefits , PAWS/LA
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I continue to dislike unicyclists.
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The Yes Men show us the way. Now we must follow it.
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The latest in health code violations. Ewww!
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Which starts previews on Sunday. We never thought this day would come.
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In which we program the Uptown art palace's new front court.
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The cartoonist's latest is a formidable addition to the literature of existential despair.
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In which you control a Red Army soldier on an epic journey across China, killing demons and dissenters.
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As the Coney favorite closes for good, one of the old paintball targets talks about what it was like to get shot by violent tourists.
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This will make it much harder to give people the wrong directions on purpose.
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'Cause they like to skateboard.
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Obviously . Why even bother with an open call for submissions when the perfect solution is right across the street?
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The wholesale destruction of a neighborhood's history, temporarily delayed.
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An ambitious greenspace and biosculpture project that needs your support.
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The cops are waiting for you under South 4th Street.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , News , Underbelly Project , Street art , Subway art , Graffiti , Brooklyn , Abandoned subway stations , Underneath NYC , Vandalism , NYPD , Trespassing
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One's a Whitney curator, the other's a (former?) Chelsea gallery curator.
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Um... A Isa Genzken sculpture grows on a Bowery balcony?
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Tonight's rep cinema pick is your film editor's personal arthouse holy grail, so pls be gentle.
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No, really, he's good. Look at all these photos of his paintings that he tweeted.
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City testing feasibility of large-scale clean-energy projects.
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I'm serious. Waiting for the G, worrying if you're cool enough, takes its toll.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: News , Manhattan , Brooklyn , Manhattan vs. Brooklyn , stress , hipsters , crime , commuting , MTA , youth , vermin , homicide rates , parlor room chit chat
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We now judge art based on how well it hits its target demographic.
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So, Shawn, you triumphed over a broken childhood to become one of the most successful rappers in history. What do you really think of Grizzly Bear?
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It's probably been chopped down already, but she promises there will be more.
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In which pretty people get naked a lot, and some thoughts on whether slow justice might actually constitute justice after all? Whoa.
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Among the more than 50 shows, these are definitely worth seeking out.
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Trivia Fact for Today: the first Coffee and Cigarettes short was shot at the Second Ave Courhouse while Anthology Film Archives was moving in.
Features
Members of Titus Andronicus, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Free Energy, Allo Darlin' and more share their remembrances of the last great Weezer album.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Features , Music , Weezer , Pinkerton , Deluxe Reissue , Rivers Cuomo , Titus Andronicus , Free Energy , The Pains of Being Pure at Heart , Allo Darlin' , Your Youth , Darlings , Bomb the Music Industry
Album Reviews
Cee Lo gives us exactly what we want: traditional pop craft with a few nods to the present day. And lots of cursing.
Album Reviews
The Cleveland-born rapper has grown dramatically on his new album, even while regressing emotionally.
Album Reviews
In the battle of noise vs. melody, with San Francisco trio Weekend, noise tends to win out.
Album Reviews
Two sides of extended experimentation and delicate tracks composed by collaborators. It's much better than it sounds.
Film Reviews
BAM offers up the World Cinema Foundation’s roster of unjustly neglected classics from pretty much everywhere.
by Michael Atkinson
Tags: Film Reviews , Film , World Cinema Foundation , A Brighter Summer Day , Edward Yang , Revenge , Ermak Shinarbaev , Limite , Mario Peixoto , The Housemaid , Kim Ki-young , Kim Ki-young , Djibril Diop Mambety
Movie Journal
Some questions and answers with the up-and-coming Voice of Her/Your Generation.
Film Reviews
In her new film as in previous decades, Claire Denis’s return to Africa marks a new moment in her career.
Film Reviews
IFC Center revives the NEA grant recipient, now a telling precursor to its maker's polyphonic career.
Film Reviews
Every Man for Himself , JLG’s post-60s return to narrative, feels now like one of many (many many) differently fascinating one-offs.
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Lena Dunham’s debut has an acute feel for youthful inertia.
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How the 80s art star fell for his own forgeries and emerged a near-master of his many refracted selves.
Film Reviews
On Disco and Atomic War, a charming, partly fabricated documentary about American pop culture in Estonia.
Film Reviews
Morning Glory is a marginal improvement on the professional chick-flick template.
Film Reviews
With "The Art of Montage," Film Forum salutes the avant-garde master of the pop-culture montage and mash-up.
Film Reviews
In which Tony Scott's contribution to the runaway train genre delivers the goods.
Film Reviews
An auspicious debut film for Aussie auteur/star Scott Ryan.
Film Reviews
In which the story of groundbreaking lady autoworkers becomes another cute-is-what-we-aim-for UK export.
Film Reviews
The once-celebrated Philip Ridley returns with a grungy, trippy, thoughtful moral-horror-fable.
Film Reviews
In a new documentary renders Burroughs's life unpleasant and, worse, unenjoyable.
Film Reviews
A new retro kinda sorta whitewashes the legacy of 80s schlockmeisters Golan and Globus, the maestros of Cannon Films.
Film Reviews
Russell Crowe will bust his wife out of jail sometime in The Next Three Days , whether she's guilty or not.
Film Reviews
"HP7pt1" gives sweet, sweet release to balls still blue from Twilight .
Restaurant Reviews
Is it a pool hall, a sports bar, or a comfy local?
Restaurant Reviews
Honey, you’re not on 6th Street anymore.
Artists in Lumenhouse's new exhibition, Convergence , turn trash into sculpture's raw materials.
John Gerrard and Pieter Schoolwerth explore contemporary consciousness through previous periods' artifacts.
Kenny Scharf, Dearraindrop and Jessica Snow transform colors in two exhibitions in Soho.
We talked to Aakash while he installed new cast aluminum pieces, a radical departure from his trademark tape art.
Theater Reviews
Vallejo Gantner, Artistic Director of PS122, on making New York a contender on the (experimental) world stage again.
Theater Reviews
Director and co-writer Steven Cosson discusses what makes the drama surrounding Forest City Ratner's city-facilitated land-grab so theatrical.
Theater Reviews
The celebrated young playwright's new slice of small-town sadness is a subtle, sonic masterpiece.
Theater Reviews
Domesticity's doomed in Adam Rapp and The Amoralists' Ghosts in the Cottonwoods and Heidi Schreck's There Are No More Big Secrets .
Theater Reviews
Nothing works so well as the fully functional fast food restaurant set in Eliza Clark's new play.
Theater Reviews
Everyone in Brooklyn needs to see The Civilians' Atlantic Yards docu-musical-drama at the Irondale Center.
Polio tears through WWII Newark in Roth's horrifying, page-turning new novel.
Christopher Higgs's breezy experimental work reminds us that this stuff is supposed to be fun.
Ask A Cabbie
Actually, drunk pedestrians are probably the biggest concern.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
How to say, "I'm ok if you do it but I don't want to do it," in one small look.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
So, is there a cool way to shrug off a sex fart? (No.)
General
DJs, models, musicians and artists who happen to be queer.
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Radical Outing: a collective of DJs, Musicians and MCS
who like to party.
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Models, promoters, performers and designers who can tell you where to go, but can’t promise that you’ll get in.
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House of Yes’ Fire Dancers, Stilt Walkers and Aerialists Bring Nightlife to New Heights.
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House of Yes’ Fire Dancers, Stilt Walkers and Aerialists Bring Nightlife to New Heights.
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DIY Bikers Who Ride Gnarly Fixies and Party LIke It’s
the Last Day on Earth.
Features
They finally shot the freak. Boo.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Features , Coney Island , Ruby’s , Shoot the Freak , Zamperla , Thor , the boardwalk , obituaries , sad things , Luna Park , Jimmy Prince
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Hipster spotting and beer guzzling in a Williamsburg bookstore.
Features
Stalking local youth, one party at a time.
Text and photos Crystal Gwyn
Features
Eight of NYC's (and Brooklyn's!) best photographers tell you about their favorite money shots. Also, their favorite photos.
