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This makes one-third of The L music team ecstatically happy.
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Bikes to be banned from Central Park by week's end.
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A preview of the first single from the band's forthcoming album, I Am Very Far.
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The parks department tires of German cuisine. Goose burgers, maybe?
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Leonardo Solaas uses the search engine of record as his canvas.
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One brownie to rule them all.
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Koons claims exclusive rights to balloon animals, rabbits and representations of Michael Jackson with his monkey Bubbles.
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And Green Hornet, the new Pineapple Express (for better or worse, depending upon your perspective).
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It won't be winter forever, people. Promise.
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A walk through the sloping, spaceship-white new space.
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Local homeowner Candy Harder rallies opposition to "City of Daughters."
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Starring cult members, lesbian aliens, troll hunters, and Vera Farmiga.
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Tags: Film, Sundance 2011, Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, The Troll Hunter, The Flaw, If a Tree Falls, Project Nim, My Idiot Brother, Higher Ground, On the Ice, Pariah, Martha Marcy May Marlene, American Independent Film
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Like Cream Wolf, in which you're a werewolf operating an ice cream truck. Play these now.
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The trickle-down effect of bad behavior.
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Also, is that really how you pronounce Ezra's last name?
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When I went there, I just posed with a drum kit like a fucking loser.
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And see firsthand how good their new album is.
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Sexy vampire to be shot with stun gun, say "bottle-fuck."
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Museum fight? Yeah, fuckin' museum fight y'all!
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Dan Bejar outdoes himself with this one.
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Sutton and Stewart track a limp movie across familiar territory.
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Plastic beads are her raw material and she makes entire galaxies.
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After this they're off to Venice to compete in the 2011 Biennale Games.
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One day, the staff of The L will be on Rides A Bike.
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It's on magenta vinyl, too, which is really exciting.
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And gets right back to work on the next earth bag building for an earthquake-devastated village.
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Everything dies, baby, that's a fact.
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Richard Serra and Momofuku? Yes please.
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Some thoughts on author-reader relations and regrettable relationships.
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The East Village, for those of you too young to remember, used to be even cooler than Williamsburg.
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In which we grouse pettily because we didn't win any free DVDs.
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It was a banner night for indie rock on television. Also for sweaters.
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Tags: Music, Iron and Wine, Kiss Each Other Clean, Half Moon, The Walkmen, Lisbon, Juveniles, Fallon, Letterman, Sweaters, Video
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Why meet with City Council if you can't get anything out of it?
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So, when can we start calling it "Brooklywood"?
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This is what happens when you let kids vote.
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This is a bummer.
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Running in the snow with a deaf white pit bull is really fun.
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Get us your tea-shirt designs soon if you want free money and concert tickets.
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A necklace and a wig were thrown on Sunday night at the Delancey Lounge during her latest performance as the provocative "Sherry."
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Tags: Art, Theater, Performance art, NYC art, APAP, Delancey Lounge, Ann Liv Young, Penny Arcade, Jim Fouratt, Feuds, American Realness, Gerry Visco
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From an apartheid school to a sleazebag hotel.
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Jerkin' it in Brooklyn never felt so good.
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Meat wrapped in meat, Star Wars, and 90s hip-hop. Yeah.
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In which the NYPD, cyclists, stroller moms and hipsters meet on the front of the next bike war.
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Tags: News, News, Biking in NYC, NYPD, Cops are dicks, Brooklyn, Bike safety, Bike lanes, Traffic laws, New York Post, Stroller moms
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A screening of Squeezebox, plus performance and interactive filmmaking, at reRun on MLK Day.
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This weekend in insidious and fearfully coordinated messaging.
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And then stagger, drunk-phoenix-like, back home up Fifth Avenue.
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This should buy them a lot more drugs.
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Reasonable people, acting reasonable.
- by Jonny Diamond
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Tags: News, gun sales, Jared Loughner, sad America, guns don't save people from gun violence unarmed people do, Arizona, Tombstone, tombstone, guns, Glock 19, shit I'm depressed
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APAP Week is to the performance community as Armory Week is to the art world.
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Tags: Theater, APAP, Off-Off Broadway, Culturemart, COIL, Under the Radar, Dance, Belarus Free Theater, HERE Arts Center, Public Theater, Video
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Looks like the folks at Fool's Gold Records have something planned for an empty space on Metropolitan Avenue. Just not sure what, exactly.
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Is it cosmic comeuppance for rude checkout girls or rude customers?
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Richard Eyre's one-year-old production is unusually grimy and slutty.
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She spent the last 50 years directing the most influential and enduring Off-Off Broadway theater in New York.
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The notable American independent film opens here mid-February, after reshoots late last year.
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The British neo-psychedlic act loses its cool-voiced frontwoman to pneumonia.
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All "serious students of Cage" know what to make of Season of the Witch.
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When the nation's moral compass resides in a sitcom.
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We want your fanTEAstic shirt designs today!
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A brief preview, with some short videos.
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Shocking but true: developers can't build fences that block city streets just because they feel like it.
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Plus, she tells us which bands inspire the most body art.
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A helpful instructional video from street artist Poster Child.
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But will anybody notice a difference?
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Just like the "Staff Picks" shelf at your local video rental establishment.
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Pruitt said to already be a shoe-in for most awards.
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"I look forward to leaving my coat there." — anonymous BrooklynVegan commenter
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Tags: Music, The Wick, Chris White, The Brooklyn Paper, music venues, Bushwick, East Williamsburg, Bowery Presents, Live Nation, Tiger Mountain Presents, Hittleman Brewery
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Sutton sobs for dead sweatshop workers while Stewart stuffs unused tissues back into his bootleg manpurse.
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Which means more exposure for the thousands of artists living and working in Brooklyn, right?
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The Beatles and Arcade Fire, keepin' it real.
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Devastating floods just a set-up for natural disaster video homage?
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Perhaps, but there are still some shows up this week that your really should see.
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Tags: Theater, APAP, Under the Radar, Culturemart, COIL, Performance, Off-Off Broadway, NYC theater, NYC dance, HERE Arts Center, Public Theater, PS122, Incubator Arts Project
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They're like Smith Westerns, but nowhere near as good.
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So get lights and reflectors, and stay the hell out of Central Park.
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Yo, have you been to that new bar, Industrial Park?
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The man who performed "Money, Cash, Hoes" now spends quiet nights on the couch in sweats with a glass of wine.
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Our critics' on the Top 25 of 2010, revealed.
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But you can probably guess how he feels about a play in which a mad scientist villain puts government funding towards global warming research.
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The two parties have agreed to sell "Hope" posters together.
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Tags: Art, News, Media, Shepard Fairey, Lawsuits, Associated Press, Barack Obama, World's Fair Use Day, Copyright, Fair use, Photography
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These beats were made for rapping.
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Turns out you can only bike on streets with bike lanes.
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He was released from detention in time to see himself on the cover of the Voice.
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Sociopolitically predetermined global hopscotch in your online rep film pick.
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When politics overlaps with schizophrenia, a trucker hat is born.
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For the second year in a row, contemporary art will race past millions of pedestrians atop New York City taxis.
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Tags: Art, Public art, Cabs, Ed Ruscha, Bill Viola, Liz Cohen, Adel Abdessemed, Valerie Hegarty, Chuck Close, Kehinde Wiley, Video
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This is not surprising, but it is still awesome.
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The Brooklyn-based trio have remounted their 2010 hit, which you mustn't miss.
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Also, they still don't sound as much like Bruce Springsteen as everyone's always saying they do.
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Which is sooner rather than later, which has us more excited than not.
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Concerning the Walentas family, curators of Dumbo since the turn of the century.
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New construction will cause unbelievable disruptions to the F and G line.
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Diabetics lie about their disease, and the media are too lazy to fact check it.
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Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Kanye! Yes, maybe! Maybe not! We'll see!
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Kanye has his face made of diamonds on his watch face. Every self-respecting rapper should do the same.
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Tags: Music, Fashion, Kanye West, Jewelry, Chains, Pendants, Watches, Ice, Luxury goods, Tiret, Rap, Hip-hop, Rick Ross, Pharrell Williams, Will.i.am
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Fight to the bloody, gory death.
- by Keith Wagstaff
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Tags: Food & Drink, food. curated., Liza de Guia, Liddabit Sweets, Brooklyn Cured, Sweet Loren's, La New Yorkina, Bombay Emerald Chutney Company, Brooklyn Flea, Brooklyn foodies, Video
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A band you still need to hear, though we're pretty sure they no longer live in NYC.
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The documentarian will be on hand when his film kicks off the next round of the Stranger Than Fiction series tomorrow night.
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Northside? Music Hall? Maybe?
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Album Reviews
The young Montreal band doesn't yet quite understand its own distinct lure.
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Album Reviews
The Scottish band thinks the world of its mid-tempo, Killers-meets-Kings of Leon alt-rock.
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Features
The New Jersey band known for its summery sound is about to record the sophomore full-length, and it just might mark a change in direction.
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Album Reviews
Valhalla Dancehall is yet another solid but frustratingly familiar sounding album from this English band.
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Album Reviews
The San Diego trio employs layers of feedback and lots of reverb, but they also know when to let certain instruments cut through.
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Film Reviews
Anthology Film Archives salutes the skeevy, priced-out cinema of true New York original Abel Ferrara.
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Film Reviews
Elia Suleiman's vignettes make resigned resistance out of his parents' lives during wartime.
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Film Reviews
Meet young George Pistereanu, a compelling justification for juvie drama If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle.
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Features
The 25 Best films of 2010, as voted on and discussed by the L's film critics.
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Film Reviews
It ain't just Nic Cage and Hellboy being violently silly during the Crusades, folks.
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Film Reviews
Superficially rootsy, this is just a vapid, sometimes entertaining celebrity-meltdown piece.
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Film Reviews
A Somewhat Gentle Man is comfortably familiar in its attempt at audacity.
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Film Reviews
Zhao Liang's documentary Petition demonstrates how authoritarianism thrives on Byzantine officialdom and systemic cruelty.
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Film Reviews
Michel Gondry's brand of playful innocence seems more than a little stunted in this superhero rethink.
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Film Reviews
An infidelity comedy in which the cheating spouse is the only one worth rooting for.
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The artist's fanged, wavy installation turns Joshua Liner Gallery into a tamed wilderness.
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A video game by Feng Mengbo and the social media-themed conceptual art retrospective The Talent Show digitize the past.
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Theater Reviews
The one-time Oscar nom talks into a phone for an hour and a half for the best and funniest acting exercise you've ever watched.
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But here's why you should still see Ibsen's penultimate play in this rare production at BAM.
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Ethan Hawke stars in Tommy Nohilly's cage-fight between members of a blue-collar Connecticut family.
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The posthumous Petting Zoo is here, which is something, but not enough.
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The lives of Russian immigrants make the subject of this riffy small-press novel.
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Sex With the Natural Redhead
What do you when a colleague just can't stop touching himself?
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Ask A Cabbie
Ours started out crappy, but finished really nicely. Hooray.
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Art Fag City
Some friendly advice for an institution we love to scrutinize.
- by Paddy Johnson
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Tags: Art Fag City, Laura Parnes, Julie Voyce, Julieta Aranda, Jose Lerma, A.L. Steiner, Lisa Hein and Robert Seng, Marcin Ramocki, Inka Essenhigh, Rico Gatson, Ele D'Artagnan, Curation, Top 10, Solo exhibitions, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Slideshow
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An entire marathon is daunting... But half? Now you're talking.
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Features
A brief, pseudo-scientific analysis of the consumption habits of three young musicians (or why you should join a gym).
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Talking style, dead or alive, with the man behind Harper Blynn.
