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Mayor tries to not pick sides in bike wars.
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Misinformed (radar) gun-toting cops ticket law-abiding cyclists.
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The sprite-like octogenarian street photographer of the Times hides from the camera in this fun, frothy man-at-work doc.
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The new head of the park asserts her authority by picking on the homeless.
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The French director talks Potiche, pragmatism, Deneuve and auteurism.
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The owner of a loft building and former gallery on North 12th Street is being taxed out.
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Rirkrit Tiravanija show inspires impromptu West Village joyride.
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We really, really want to play Hunter Jonakin's new first-person shooter.
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Catching up with New Jerusalem, Caught Inside, and Monte Hellman's mystifying return.
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Three full-time drivers ferry him from one catered photo op to the next (and, sometimes, to Borough Hall).
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Also, local high school students will get to play baseball on their home field. But kickball!
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New fiction and cheap beer! Why hadn't anyone thought of it sooner.
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When dogs are worth the price of a used car, people will try to steal them.
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We really need a Scottish Play-style curse-dodging nickname for this show. "The Spider Play"?
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The lives, loves, appetites and performances of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, considered.
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A "compromise" that isn't one.
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He even did his newly trademarked shoot-himself-in-the-head move from SNL.
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If you see a green plastic hat, just turn around and walk away.
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Stunning photographic proof of semi-permanent homeless settlement on site of forthcoming mini-park.
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The NIMBYs in Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes apparently aren't terribly engaged community members.
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Don't you wish you were one of these lovely people having a great time in fancy pants and surroundings?
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Oh, hey everyone, quit punching women.
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Note to bands: More of you should really consider having self-titled songs.
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Should help with those attendance figures.
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Maybe you could buy one less latte today and do something nice?
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Gossip Girl is a rerun tonight, so you have no excuse but to marvel at John Lennon navigating the Upper West Side.
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On Swanberg's Silver Bullets, Aza Jacobs's Terri, and awards-sweeping Natural Selection.
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The serialized short play competition's best week ever? The ridiculously close votes suggest "yes"!
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In which the congressman responds to someone who goes by the name "politibitch."
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Residents of Northside Piers are starting to feel gentrifier's remorse, in a roundabout way.
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Plenty of music — The Vaccines, Young Man, The Antlers and The Dodos, to name a few — just enough taxi cabs to get people home.
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In which Zack Attack Snyder at least has the courtesy to crawl up his own ass.
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Characters imagine hit singles and bobo hauteur, in the filmmaker's 1997 take on the collective dream bank.
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Things are always getting worse.
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A street art collaboration between artists Overunder and No Touching Ground has planned obsolescence.
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If you don't like modern music, you probably don't like yourself.
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Tags: Music, Theater, city opera, monodramas, michael counts, john zorn, arnold schoenberg, antonin artaud, morton feldman, samuel beckett, steeped in the classicals, Video
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The Fort Greene author on handwriting, Charles Barkley, Tolstoy.
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Hipster-attired Where's Waldo? star spotted all over north Brooklyn.
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Tags: Art, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Street art, Stickers, Where's Waldo, Billboard art, Subway art, Williamsburg Waldo, Tumblr, Daniel Savage
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Resolution #2: Be thankful for our generous tea-shirt design contest.
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There's another notable hawk making headlines in Brooklyn, too.
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Cardigans or not, these guys sure are likable.
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You might not automaticaly think this would be awesome, but we promise it is.
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No, they just didn't get the right permit.
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The young playwright explains how working for a private investigator helped her write the short play competition's hilariously awkward O'Hare.
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Did Asian immigrants go un-tallied? Or can Brooklyn just not deal with hard truths?
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Just add unicycles to the city's "no riding on the sidewalk" law already.
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Carl Kruger cohort Aaron Malinsky won't be replacing Admiral's Row with a ShopRite.
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Malevolent moronic mathematicians say suspicious stats boosted bike lane benefits.
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Featuring mob bodies and cowboys, somewhere in the vicinity of Howard Beach.
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Lisa Kim, former director at Gagosian and the city's Percent for Art program, is your new DUMBO Arts Festival organizer.
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Because it's like that, and that's the way it is.
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A week from tonight, in fact. Short fiction! Cheap booze!
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The actual sharing of bicycles by Brooklynites is still a few years off; better late than never, though.
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Take a minute to play Tour de Burg, the gentrification video game.
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A new City Council bill would ban cars from Central Park and Prospect Park, but it probably won't.
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Notes on The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Umshini Wam, Small, Beautifully Moving Parts and Convento.
- by Mark Asch
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Tags: Film, SXSW 2011, Small Beautifully Moving Parts, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Convento, Christiaan Zwanikken, Jarred Alterman, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, Marie Losier, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Umshini Wam, Die Antwoord, Harmony Korine
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Downtown's best short play competition pitches debaucherous politicians against bathroom-dwelling office drones.
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Plus The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Noah & the Whale and out-of-this-world salsa.
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And the Fort Greene Flea location returns on Saturday.
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The coffee company's CEO decides who has cred.
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The short play competition's second cycle comes to a close with sexy corpse puppeteering and urinal banter.
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Hear another track from Helplessness Blues.
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Or as you may know it, "The Pledge of Allegiance."
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Those tall blue construction walls blocked motorist's view of approaching deliveryman at Dean and Sixth Avenue last night.
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We've been had by insidious faux-vandal viral marketers.
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John Gray discusses Bay Ridge, where he grew up and where he shot his new coming of age movie.
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A rundown of benefit concerts featuring Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, Norah Jones, Lou Reed and more.
- by Sydney Brownstone
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Tags: Music, Yo La Tengo, Wynton Marsalis, John Zorn, Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore, Philip Glass, Lou Reed, Norah Jones, Buke and Gass
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It's not random that Video Forum is closing: it's a symptom of the area's decline.
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Improvements coming to one of Brooklyn's most dangerous bits of road next month.
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Last weekend's Memorial Ride and Walk visited two newly installed memorials on the streets of Brooklyn.
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Now that's a lot of face paint.
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Well, maybe, assuming their application goes through and local car-loving NIMBYs don't sue over two lost parking spaces.
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The longest cine-memory on the Times staff talks about his new book and series this weekend at Moving Image.
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Two new challengers in the raucous short play competition take inspiration from obituaries and Oscar Wildean satire.
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Justin Bieber, Neil Young and...
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So what? Not everything's about winning.
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The New York author has a Kindle-exclusive novella out.
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Every pole wrapped in colorful knitting in minutes flat!
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All these beautiful people came to celebrate our new print baby's birth.
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It's called "Benediction" and it is the best song you'll hear today.
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In the 1950s, the weed grew as tall as Christmas trees on "marijuana plantations."
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With seven classic tracks for your Nate Dogg memorial playlist.
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Tags: Music, Nate Dogg, Obit, Deaths, Gangsta rap, G-Funk, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Tupac, Warren G, Video
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Everything is much dumber you once thought.
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A beloved neighborhood homeless man, "a junkie that people trust," passed away on the corner he called home.
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Plus: Matthew McConaughey and Bradley Cooper in the same weekend? Thank you universe!
- by Jesse Hassenger
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Tags: Film, Paul, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Greg Mottola, Win Win, Limitless, The Lincoln Lawyer, Matthew McConaughey, Bradley Cooper, High Foreheads, Toned Abs, Smugness
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Those AnCo sneakers just started seeming a little less cool, didn't they?
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You'll have one good reason to visit the Meatpacking District come 2015.
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Print rules all.
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The Voice's annual sampler of delicious NYC eats takes over the 69th Armory tonight.
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This is probably the coolest thing you will ever get for $25.
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All those right angles spurred development, but was it for the best?
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As if you needed a reason to shine your loafers and put on your best Polo shirt.
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On why Peter Pan was never as big as Harry Potter, except for one writer...
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Which gentrifiers pay more than the other gentrifiers?
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Is that the right word for someone who hates women so much?
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Great new gallery has eyes on the street.
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The Gabi on the Roof in July costar's debut feature Green won award here earlier this week.
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The future of America depends on China! At least as far as chestnut trees.
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Reflections on Wild Flag, Yellow Ostrich, Weekend, Trail of Dead, Oberhofer and more.
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Name another one where two people have already died this year.
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None of which have anything to do with James Blake!
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"Heart in Your Heartbreak" has gotten the video treatment, and it is immensely enjoyable.
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Features
No Color is a kicking and screaming accusation against current indie trends, and the best part is, The Dodos might not even mean it to be.
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Album Reviews
After years of delays, Lupe's third album can't possibly live up to expectations, or his previous records' very high standards.
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Film Reviews
Paul is about an alien—but, like, one who turns out to be Seth Rogen.
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Film Reviews
Chilean documentarian Patricio Guzman investigates life, the universe and everything in Nostalgia for the Light.
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Film Reviews
Francois Ozon's new film, with Catherine Deneuve as a trophy wife turned labor leader, is a meticulously lite period pageant.
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Impressions from the Opening Weekend of the South By Southwest Film Festival.
- by Mark Asch
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Tags: Film Reviews, Film, SXSW 2011, South By Southwest Film Festival, Source Code, Duncan Jones, Better This World, The City Dark, Ian Cheney, The Dish and the Spoon, Alison Bagnall, Greta Gerwig, Turkey Bowl, Kyle P. Smith
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On the rocks-off vigilante ambivalence of the enduring Taxi Driver, now in revival.
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Movie Journal
On Red Riding Hood, Jane Eyre and Angela Carter.
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Film Reviews
White Irish Drinkers, like Saturday Night Fever, concerns the dreams of Brooklyn ethnics circa the 1970s.
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Film Reviews
Talking with the New Directors Pia Marais and Nicolas Pereda, about the New Films At Ellen's Age and Summer of Goliath.
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Film Reviews
The geek-mook auteur creates his own babydoll fantasy world, with remixed Pixies songs scoring fight scenes.
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The sculptor's sliced, abstract hybrid constructions combine rigid grids and fluid forms at Regina Rex through April 17.
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Theater Reviews
The 1961 musical adaptation's first full revival matches the much-loved songs with a re-written version of the much-maligned book.
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Theater Reviews
National Asian-American Theatre Company brings Caryl Churchill's near future father-son(s) drama back to life.
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Sex With the Natural Redhead
With soap, actually.
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Raise taxes on the rich, cut defense spending. Done.
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Today's topic: bodily fluids.
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Features
They are powerful, influential, and you probably don't know their names.
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Tags: Features, Marty Markowitz, Chuc Schumer, Lincoln Restler, Vito Lopez, Roberta's, Brooklyn Grange, Zeb Stewart, Michael Smart, Andrew Tarlow, Tom Mylan, Junior's, Peter Luger, The Bowery Presents, Todd P, Ryan Schreiber, Karen Brooks Hopkins, Arnold Lehman, Jason Andrew, Electric Literature, David Walentas, Jed Walentas, Joe Sitt, Bruce Ratner, Robert Scarano
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Who's in charge of Brooklyn crime? No one, really, it would seem...
- by Adam Bonislawski
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Tags: Features, mafia, mob, Brooklyn crime, gangs, Bloods, Crips, Trinitarios, drugs, drug dealing, narcotics, gang violence
