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Channel 11 hires an Andy Rooney for the rest of us.
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If you're feeling down just drop by the northwest corner of Houston and Bowery to soak up some happiness.
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There are exactly 22 ways to spend $7 million. Which are your favorite?
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"A lone white-haired antipodean/Aware of what goes on unseen."
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This is what gentrification looks like in an expensive gallery district.
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Art-lovers will be really into these.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Art, Sex, Keith Haring, Condoms, World AIDS Day, Safe Sex, NYC art, Graffiti, Planned Parenthood, Branding we can get behind, AIDS
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Said alleged heckler during fifth interruption: "I feel like it’s a dress rehearsal.” Word.
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The series, pairing experimental films with new musical accompaniment, continues tonight.
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Next time keep your $79 million collection of stolen Modern art to yourself.
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And I drank the whole thing.
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Will they or won't they have a new business partner?
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"Do you know how many people die every year doing Jersey Boys?!"
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It's the most noble Tumblr blog ever tumbld!
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When heavy hitting moral authority attacks.
- by Jonny Diamond
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Tags: Food & Drink, Gorilla Coffee, Martin Garbus, Darleen Scherer, Carol McLaughlin, Park Slope, lawsuits, free speech, defamation, terrible PR campaigns, Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Taylor Swift
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You probably can't guess what AIDS-themed artwork appeared on 3rd of May yesterday.
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In which an MGMT joke is made.
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CPCR may have to find a new private investor.
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Those grassy piers aren't going to pay for themselves (or, well, actually, yeah, they kinda are). Here's how.
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Writers are often unattractive and awkward socially, so this makes a lot of sense.
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Movie stars to be charming, good-humored, attractive.
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Despite its vaguely topical-sounding title, Clickistan is a decidedly abstract sort of video game art.
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Then go home and watch Die Hard by yourself when you don't score!
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A song to end the day on.
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Or are decomposed carcasses just business-as-usual?
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Also, Happy Hanukkah!
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Don't get brushed into by some dude carrying a "bottle of booze."
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What's a little high-dosage radiation on the body's largest organ, after all?
- by Jonny Diamond
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Tags: News, TSA, x-ray scanners, full-body scans, radiation, security, Harry Shearer, Le Show, scary shit, news you can use, Happy Thanksgiving!, cancer
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What would sleepovers have been without their combined talents?
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This is just so clever...
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The second annual art world awards gala takes Webster Hall on Wednesday night.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Art, Annual Art Awards, Rob Pruitt, Predictions, Guggenheim, Webster Hall, Glenn O'Brien, John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Marina Abramovic, Liz Magic Laser, Tauba Auerbach
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So much neon-hued, ADHD-afflicted 80s nostalgia in one place!
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Art, Theater, TV, Worlds colliding, Nostalgia, Pee-Wee Herman, Broadway, Bowery, Musicals, Murals, Kenny Scharf, Groovenians, Video
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Actually, forget "contender." There's no competition here.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Music, B.o.B, Mixtape, No Genre, Santigold, Rap, Hip-hop, Tupac, Foreigner, Sampling, Video
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Catch Up 2010 kicks off with a look back at that George Clooney movie nobody saw.
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Todd P Day is going to be awesome.
- by Mike Conklin and Lauren Beck
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Tags: Music, Girl Talk, Greg Gillis, The Hold Steady, They Might Be Giants, Todd P, Animal Collective, Vampire Weekend, Fake Holidays, Pittsburgh, Sidney Crosby
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We assume most of our readers are billionaires.
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It's a bike crime wave!
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One of our writers makes his adult stage debut in New York. And it's for a good cause!
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In which Joanna Newsom is compared to Kanye West.
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In which Black Swan is anticipated and I Love You Phillip Morris is praised.
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If you are, or know of, a nice young man from Jersey who wrote me a handwritten letter, please read on...
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Yeah, like a case of beer would ever last anyone eight nights.
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Tonight's rep film pick is an underscreened, overpopulated Russian masterwork.
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Who will be the Arctic Monkeys of 2011?
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Good enough for Paul Auster, good enough for you.
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Britain's top art award given amidst shouts of student protesters.
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Today in the modern GOP scoring easy points by fighting the previous generation's wars!
- by Mark Asch
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Tags: Art, Politics, David Wojnarowicz, John Boehner, Culture Wars, AIDS, World AIDS Day, The Smithsonian, The NEA, Free Speech, Arts Funding, Video
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Apparently "hard rock" is not exactly a thriving genre at the moment.
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Papa Ratzi sez: wrap it up!
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Immigration officials dig up an old arrest from another state to deport a productive member of our community.
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Our rescue dog is more famous than us.
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In which a bunch of stuff happens.
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One of the worst men in the city gets a platform! Cool!
- by Jonny Diamond
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Tags: News, Bill Donohue, Gersh Kuntzman, Catholic Church, abuse, pedophilia, rape, idiots, bigots, hatefulness, Catholic League, Video
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The A.V. Club is at it again, this time with a series of holiday-related cover songs.
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I can't believe this book doesn't already exist.
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Take that, Bloomberg!
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Nothing anywhere makes any sense at all, ever.
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The censored film will be on view in the NuMu lobby through late-January.
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Can you pull off a "French Fork"?
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Goodbye day job, hello student loans!
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A mystery tagger, armed with fire extinguishers, took over the city's most high-profile mural yesterday.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Art, Barry McGee, The Hole, Deitch Projects, Murals, Street art, Graffiti, SACE, Dash Snow, Kathy Grayson, Martha Cooper, Tags
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Med students! Frizzy hair! LOTS OF JOKES!
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The singing, dancing and bank-robbing duo plans to knock over the American stage's cash reserve next year.
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Illegal, expensive and Homeland Security-guarded skyline views for everyone!
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It turns out that showing three-month-old middlebrow arthouse flicks to bluehairs isn't a sustainable business model.
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A pretty damn good finale saves a pretty mediocre first season.
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Some random 9-year-old girl from Spain's gonna have her face all over 23rd Street come next spring.
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You think you know food? YOU THINK YOU KNOW FOOD?!
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Lend me ten bucks and I'll buy you a drink.
- by Jonny Diamond
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Tags: News, NYC, NYC Department of Health, binge drinking, drunks, drinking, Shane MacGowan, posters, campaigns, Thomas Farley, Stop drinking while you're still thinking
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"Holy Shit, It's Christmas" is a very good name for a Christmas song isn't it?
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Then why do I feel so alone?
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Catch Up 2010 continues with the ballet movie that kicked off this year's Northside Film.
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If you are sad, make art. (Or fix yourself a sandwich.)
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Porkchops, beer and... figgy pudding?
- by Keith Wagstaff
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Tags: Food & Drink, Porsena, Jimmy's No. 43, The Brooklyn Holiday Experiment, Sara Jenkins, Theo Peck, Nick Suarez, Jimmy Carbone, Belgian beers, Porchetta, Bell House, Video
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Thanks to this new single-function site, anything can be made (to appear) available on the online music superstore.
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The internet is ruining everything, somehow even the things it's not ruining.
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Some case studies in the strange fates of subtitled films in the American marketplace.
- by Mark Asch
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Tags: Film, Film Criticism, Film Distribution, IFC Center, IFC Films, Cinema Guild, Lorber Films, The New York Film Festival, Vengeance, Secret Sunshine, Hadewijch, The Red Chapel, The Strange Case of Angelica, The Strange Fates of Subtitled Films in the American Marketplace
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It's better than a cup of Hershey's hot chocolate, but not as good as a cup from Jacques Torres. (I could really go for some hot cocoa right now.)
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You know, it's been long enough that I think I'm definitely going to see Bright Eyes.
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Your favorite all-girl Japanese rock band just wants a 24-hour liquor store to open in Williamsburg. Not too much to ask, is it?
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Remember that scene in Rush Hour where Chris Tucker starts scamming people with a loaded dreidel?
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Some of us actually do prefer cold pizza, thank you very much.
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Has anyone else seen The Silver Fox of East Williamsburg?
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And yes, I'm angry that I didn't have a ticket.
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Sutton and Stewart swan dive into this year's prestige pics.
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A bright, grinning face-scape to get us through the bleak months ahead.
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It's been a long while since the last proper Beirut album, but we just forgave them.
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Nice looking people doing good things. Sigh.
- by Jonny Diamond
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Tags: Fashion, Housing Works, Fashion for Action, L TV, parties, sales, deals, bargains, charity, good causes, AIDS, homelessness, Video
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Tony Rosenthal's "Alamo" spotted on a sprawling Westchester estate.
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Well done, Rowan Somerville. Well done indeed.
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In which a lonely old man learns a valuable lesson about sharing.
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Features
On the undeniable triumphs and failures of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
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Album Reviews
Nicki Minaj proved she could deliver monster verses, but her debut comes bloated with tacky pop.
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Album Reviews
Greg Gillis took the mashup to its ultimate conclusion years ago, and then forgot to conclude.
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Album Reviews
Nicely layered indie-pop that can at times seem a little too paint-by-numbers.
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Album Reviews
The fifth full-length from Todd Gautreau is moody, dark and extremely beautiful.
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Album Reviews
And they were, if you recall, already really fucking good.
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Features
Please, from the bottom of our heart, we are asking that you do not get us a Best Buy gift card.
- by Lauren Beck, Jeff Klingman, Mike Conklin and Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: Features, Music, Gift Guide, Joy Division, Arcade Fire, Ikea, Orange Juice, Jay-Z, Decoded, Etsy, Insound
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Film Reviews
On truth, dignity, and why this newly revived classic isn't too beautiful.
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Film Reviews
Looking ahead to a season of awards bait and family fare, we offer our annual Reviews of Movies We Haven't Seen (and some that we have).
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Film Reviews
The frankly exposed movie-star flesh in Love and Other Drugs is just one arbitrarily element of a bewilderingly lumped-together rom-com.
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Film Reviews
Colin Firth will probably win an Oscar for The King's Speech, a fact about which you'll feel much better if you avoid seeing the movie.
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Film Reviews
Time's a-wastin' in Dwayne Johnson's new road movie revenge rampage.
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Film Reviews
Its leading man eats up the true-crime story All Good Things, an uneven but gratifyingly idiosyncratic period piece.
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Film Reviews
Tanya Hamilton grapples with the legacy of the Black Panthers in her auspicious debut feature.
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Film Reviews
Quirky romance reaches the Red Planet in near-future indie animation space race comedy Mars.
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Film Reviews
I Love You Phillip Morris, from the makers of Bad Santa, is a schticky-sentimental grifter comedy.
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Film Reviews
Finnish import Rare Exports: A Chrismas Tale is a cutely misanthropic holiday film about an eeevil Father Christmas.
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Film Reviews
Grown-ups make the same mistakes all over again in this lucid, detail-centric import.
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Film Reviews
Bhutto is about the late Pakistani leader, but takes a long, fascinating look at America's star-crossed 80s interventions.
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Film Reviews
A new Film Forum series revives essential and super-rare Japanese masterworks featuring original music by the great modern composer.
- by Cullen Gallagher
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Tags: Film Reviews, Film, Toru Takemitsu, Akira Kurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Film Music, Moderinst Classical Music, Ran, Kwaidan, Alone in the Pacific, Hiramatsu, Woman in the Dunes, Youth of Japan (Hymn to a Tired Man)
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Bar Reviews
Don't everyone go here at once, we want it for ourselves just a little longer.
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Restaurant Reviews
One of the best turkey sandwiches in Brooklyn (just in time for Thanksgiving).
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Two new exhibitions spread between the MetroTech Commons, Brooklyn Historical Society and BRIC Rotunda Gallery take up local place and past.
- by Benjamin Sutton
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Tags: General, Art, Brooklyn Historical Society, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Public Art Fund, Zipora Fried, Martin Basher, Sam Moyer, Matt Sheridan Smith, Kevin Zucker, MetroTech Commons, Slideshow
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The artists' delicate black-and-white depictions of animals thrive together at Pandemic Gallery.
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Theater Reviews
Kneehigh Theatre's staging of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale at St. Ann's Warehouse sets mime and clown steps to sharp rhythms.
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Theater Reviews
Alison Fleminger explains how University Settlement brings art practice and arts education under one historical roof on Eldridge Street.
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Theater Reviews
Neil LaBute's new post-tragedy dark comedy of religious rebirth gets preachy between divine first and final scenes.
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Theater Reviews
Gentrification serves as scenery for Tommy Smith's new dark comedy of death, depression and hilariously awkward neighborliness.
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Theater Reviews
Paul Reubens, his gift-bearing friends and animate furniture celebrate perpetual infancy.
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A Week at the Airport is a witty (perhaps too witty) definitive (perhaps too definitive) consideration of a universal phenomenon.
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The renowned Bengali author Buddhadeva Bose's oral narrative My Kind of Girl is in English for the first time.
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Sex With the Natural Redhead
Some times sex accidents don't look so hot.
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Ask A Cabbie
Our first job was doing coatcheck at the General Sikorsky banquet hall. No joke.
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Art Fag City
The sculptor's new solo show, full of bronze amputees, too often uses art history as a crutch.
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Sex With the Natural Redhead
One person's pheremones are another person's "ew, stinky."
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Local
Art, rebellion and Gossip Girl meet in Bushwick.
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Features
Allow us to guide you through holiday shopping with our humble, locals only gift guide.
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Features
In which the word “cunt” is spelled two different ways.
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Features
How does a young woman with a creative writing degree end up as a butcher?
- by Ellen Killoran
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Tags: Features, Sara Bigelow, The Meat Hook, Brooklyn Kitchen, meat, Marlow and Daughters, Brooklyn foodies, Tom Mylan, Julie Powell, locavores, Slideshow
