- Issue Archive for
- Mar 30 - Apr 12, 2011
- Vol. 9, No. 7
Blogs
We Visited Agata Olek's Epic Crochet Apartment Exhibition
It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't wanna live there.
Foodie Snobs on Tumblr The Yelp Elite Are Mostly New Yorkers, Obviously
"Mediocre food offends me," and more wannabe food critic quotes, collected at last.
Brooklyn to Build First Actual Brownstone in Almost 100 Years
What wasn't good enough for WWI-era homebuyers is coming back into fashion.
All-You-Can-Eat Mussels, $1 Oysters at Shellfish Happy Hours in Williamsburg
All-you-can-eat mussels is a fuck-ton of mussels.
Photos: Anthony Caro's Lightweight Steel Lands on the Met Rooftop
An excellent show that maintains a human scale against the out-sized backdrop of the Manhattan skyline.
A Jazz Funeral For Coney Island: SLIDESHOW
Mourners and revelers gathered to turn lamentations into gyrations.
New York Philharmonic Makes Good Company
An all-star cast produced a hilarious if musically unmemorable production of Sondheim's legendary Tony-sweeper.
City's Bike-Share Program Drops Only Local Contender
Instead, our new shareable bikes will probably come from Germany, China or, worse yet, Oregon!
French Colonialism, Doomed Love, and the Introduction of Claire Denis
Her debut feature, Chocolat, screens tomorrow night.
17 Years Later, I'm Suddenly Really Feeling "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter"
And "Drain You" too. Always "Drain You."
May Day, May Day: Crashing Foley Square's Union Rally with the Immigrant Rights Coalition
Unity, disunity and dancing.
Affordable Erections Might Be Coming to Your Town
Some drug companies are fighting over who gets to control your boners or something.
The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types: Sarah Gardner Borden
Talking Greek philosophy, modern art, pornography and stimulants with the Carroll Gardens resident and debut novelist.
Totes Legal: Cyclist Ticketed for Riding with Tote Bag on Handlebars
Another NYPD officer signs up for remedial bike law summer school program!
Closure Imminent, Mars Bar Gets Condo Camouflage Photo-Mural
And in a couple months it will begin its transformation into real condos.
We Should All Probably Watch This Video of Taylor Swift Rapping Part of a Nicki Minaj Verse
You know, just for research. For research.
Spring Booze News: Van Horn Backyard and Gowanus Yacht Club to Open Soon
Everything else presumably to get slightly less shitty as well.
Death Cab For Cutie Records Live Music Video, Ben Gibbard Gets Home in Time for the Mariners Game
Damn, Gibbard, you are just so likable.
The Archers of Loaf to Play Two NYC Shows in June
Also, not nearly enough bands are trying to rip off the Archers of Loaf. Just saying.
Marty Markowitz Is Now On Twitter, Which, Shockingly, Means He Wasn't On Twitter Before
It's a brave new world of social media.
Greenpoint Rejects Bazaar, Asks Williamsburg to Keep it Down
God, everyone in Brooklyn is so old and boring.
You Can Watch Porn at the Brooklyn Public Library
But not for long, if one state senator gets his way.
Today Is Free Cone Day
This post is SEO gold, (Ben and) Jerry, SEO gold!
Brooklyn Gets New Area Code, Its Third
Don't be suspicious of potential lovers who give you a strange phone number.
New Museum's Festival of Ideas for the New City Has Worms, Farms and Koolhaas
Lower East Side will be one huge urbanism conference and party for the first week in May.
The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types: Rachel Shukert
The local comedian and memoirist talks about Teddy Ruxpin, Suri Cruise, and a young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.
Specialty Cocktails and Sinatra Thursday Night in the L.E.S.
You know, Sinatra? Older fellow?
French Catholic Extremists Smash NYC Photographer Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ"
And you thought the Tea Party was scary.
As Part of Mad Men's Renewal Agreement, Local Blogger to Avoid Internet for All of Spring 2012 So As To Keep His VOD Exprience Unspoiled
Well, here's a really perplexing way of dealing with TV's migration to online.
And Here's Some Photos and Audios from Wednesday's Literary Upstart, Ahead of Our May 1 Submission Deadline
Can you not see/hear the fun?!?!?
Greenpoint Says No to Another Homeless Shelter
Are they concerned for the children? Or is Brooklyn closed north of Nassau?
Bushwick Garbage Man Drives Garbage Truck Drunk
As if there were any other way to drive a garbage truck in Bushwick.
Flushing Avenue Bike Lane Barriers Beautified
Local artists brightened those concrete dividers.
Dispute Over Condos in Brooklyn Bridge Park Spreads to Prospect Park
But more divisively, what's worse: paying lots of tiny fees for a long time, or sacrificing land for ugly condos once?
Greenpoint Actors Stage Shakespeare on the Subway
Fare hikes and service cuts aren't the only tragedies on the train these days.
After Brooklyn Subway Death, Everything Back to Normal
If you didn't know someone had died here this morning, you wouldn't be able to tell.
Tribeca 2011: Israeli Slasher Rabies Sticks it (Figuratively) to Netanyahu
The country's first horror movie shows who poses the real threat to the country's stability.
The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types: Tom Hopkins
In which the author and this blogger try and fail to remember a nice thing the latter once said about the former's work.
New Poll "Proves" That Brooklynites Love and Hate Prospect Park West Bike Lane
Or so the lawyer charged with suing for its removal would have you believe.
International Galleries Making Moves Into and Out of Chelsea
"Piss Christ" dealer Yvon Lambert is retiring, but who'll get his swank 21st Street space?
750 Cyclists (or 200, According to the Post) Ride in Support of Prospect Park West Lane
Who would want to destroy something so many kids like?
Haitian Pop Star Wins Presidency
Briefly, we considered what it would be like if this were to happen in the United States. All we could come up with was auto-tuned State of the Union addresses.
New (Non-Manditory) Window Decals Warn Passengers Exiting Cabs to Watch for Cyclists
A Brooklyn cabbie's bright idea earns city's halfhearted approval.
Bushwick Park Made Over by Bryant Park Team
There is a "broken windows theory" of park design.
Bike Lane Battle Halts Proposal for Car-Free Prospect Park
Can't have two controversial transportation fights going on at once.
TONIGHT: MNDR, New Villager, and Free Brooklyn Republic Vodka at Audiophile at the Brooklyn Museum
And then we'll all go to Sharlene's and play Apples to Apples.
New Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Album Coming in the "Not-Too-Far Future"
It ain't Pavement, but we'll take it.
L TV: Studio Visit With Melissa Murray, Whose Show Opens Tonight in Williamsburg!
Melissa draws stunningly intricate dreamscapes in her home studio in Bushwick.
Shoot the Geek: Photos from the Doctor Who Premiere Party at the Bell House
"The Lone Centurion" is a great name for a cocktail.
Park Slope Builds a Restaurant by Crowd Sourcing
If someone's going to start a business in Park Slope, it only makes sense that the neighbors should determine what it sells and when.
LOVE STREAMS: DP Christopher Doyle on Underwater Love at Tribeca
The DP talks porno and musicals. Mostly in CAPS LOCK.
Brooklyn Cyclists Receiving Twice as Many Tickets This Year
The NYPD actually did something it said it would do.
Is Brooklyn's Fancy New Waterfront Park Too Dangerous To Get To?
A local councilman is petitioning the city for safer pedestrian access to Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Another New Fort Greene Theater Gets an Opening Date
BAM contributes a new 250-seat performance space to the burgeoning BAM Cultural District.
Rob Pruitt's Andy Warhol Monument Unveiled Outside The Factory in Union Square
The Public Art Fund needs to find a permanent place for this shiny chrome sculpture.
Brooklyn's Miss Norway Tells Us What She Really Thinks of Sweden
And Staten Island's Norwegians versus Brooklyn's.
Brooklyn Public Library Offers Amnesty Deal on Overdue Books
If you've run away to Canada with your late books, it's finally safe to come back.
You Have Less Than 48 Hours to Get Your Cloud Footage in LCD Soundsystem's Farewell Show
It's your Big Moment. Your 15 minutes seconds of fame. Your footage on the big screen at Madison Square Garden.
PEN World Voices: "There's just too many books."
In which a couple of distinguished authors discuss who and who does not meet their standards.
Live: Willingly Almost Going Deaf at Weekend's Mercury Lounge Show
I'd take this over James Blake any day.
Lunatic Local Pol Squashes Superb South Brooklyn Bike Lane Plan
Dominic Recchia is "proud to announce that a controversial set of bike lanes proposed to run through Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst will not be moving forward."
Rehearsal Visit: Stunts, Runts and One Week of Prep for #serials@TheFlea
In their second rehearsal, the night before opening, the Rump of Folly team wrestles with comic timing and calculated wardrobe malfunctions.
Tribeca 2011: Tripping Out with Beyond the Black Rainbow
This 80s-retro sci-fi is an allegory for adolescence, and the most fascinating film at the festival.
Chelsea-Based Architects Design Best Public Bike Storage System Ever (For Korea)
But we sure could use some Bike Hangers in NYC.
Prospect Lefferts Gardens Wary of Homeless Farmers
Is a proposed shelter more attractive because it would grow its own fruits and vegetables?
Live: LCD Soundsystem's Final Show
Was it a funeral for the passing of an entire borough’s collective youth, or something else entirely?
Now That Osama bin Laden Is Dead, What Does It All Mean?
A round-up of actually thoughtful, pragmatic and useful commentary produced amid all the chanting.
Check Out Artist Mike Joos' Pop Culture Cyclist Illustrations
Hey look it's Darth Vader riding a bike with Death Stars for wheels.
Census and City Bike Ridership Data Differ Drastically
Either fewer New Yorkers are commuting by bicycle, or the Post is comparing two totally different sets of stats.
Tribeca 2011: The Trip, A Steve Coogan Vanity Project (Hooray!)
Funniest North England travelogue ever.
RIP X-Ray Spex Singer Poly Styrene
The punk icon died yesterday the day before the U.S. release of her final album.
Chinese Art Star Ai Weiwei Detained One Month Before Major Public Installation in New York
Nobody's heard from Ai Weiwei since he was escorted away by two officers at Beijing airport on Sunday.
Watch Okkervil River Perform I Am Not Very Far Standout "We Need a Myth"
This album is very good, you know.
Williamsburg Votes to Ban Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll
The borough's anti-noise crusade goes too far with a push to nix new bars in North Brooklyn.
The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types: Meg Howrey
The Blind Sight author discusses reasonable expectations and regrettable punctuation.
Live: PJ Harvey Focuses on the New Stuff Terminal 5
With an enormous raven’s wing headdress and a blinding white gown, PJ Harvey looked like a film still of a Pagan wedding beset by Hitchcock’s birds.
Criterion Collection to Release Tiny Furniture in 2012
I was really going to be somebody by the time I was 23.
Quick: Peter Bjorn and John to Appear on WNYC's Soundcheck at 2:30pm Today
You know, we actually can't differentiate between "Young Folks" confused and that one whistle-y Noah and the Whale song. Hmm.
The Village Voice Kills Siren, Announces The 4Knots Music Festival Instead
Hooray for summer! And for ancillary products from local publications!
The French Revolution As Miasmic Noir in Reign of Terror
The 1949 Anthony Mann rarity is this weekend's rep pick.
Northside Adds Atlas Sound, Woods, Mount Eerie, Eleanor Friedberger and Others for Shows at St. Cecilia's Church in Greenpoint
Plus, a new batch of showcase bands to boot.
Rob Pruitt Discusses His Andy Warhol Monument in Union Square
On living the Warholian dream and the pressures of public statuary.
North 8th Street Residents Complain About Crowds and Noise
Too many people are having fun in Williamsburg during the summer.
Contaminated Former Gas Station in Williamsburg to Become Diner
A program to encourage clean-up and development of former industrial sites takes off on Grand Street.
Marty Golden Gives Money to Millionaires, Cuts it From Veterans
The oldest Memorial Day parade in America may disappear because Republicans want to cut taxes on the rich.
More Metal Shutter Murals Underway and Finished on Bowery
New pieces by Lawrence Weiner and Mary Heilmann spotted last night.
Remember, If You Don't Like the New Britney Spears Single, You Are Nothing But Rockist Scum
Because liking things that are not stupid is stupid.
L.J. Davis, Novelist, Reporter, Gentrifier, 1940-2011
Remembering the author of A Meaningful Life and a friend of The L.
And Here's EastWillyB, a Web Series About Latino Williamsburg
(And the hipsters that are ruining it.)
Legendary Experimental Theater Under St. Marks for Sale; Resident Company Looking To Buy
Horse Trade Theater Group needs nearly $6 million to buy the building with the seminal basement theater.
White People Move to Bed-Stuy, Demand Police Protection
Longtime residents say gentrification has come with increased police presence.
Wheatpasting To Replace Graffiti on Subways?
A new series by Jilly Ballistic is so much better than the art (legal or not) we've gotten used to seeing on the train.
Next Stop, Never: Red Hook Trolley Plans All But Abandoned
More innovative transit improvements thrown under the bus.
After Fire, Open Source Gallery Mounts Show in Burned-Out South Slope Brownstone
Photos from Brooklyn's best and most unique group exhibition of the year so far.
Insidious: Super Scary, Super Socially Unconscious
The creators of Saw are good with a camera, but not so good with underlying ideas.
Giant Earthen Vagina Coming to Governors Island Next Month
And its weird, sex euphemism-sounding name, "Burple Bup," only reinforces the landscape architecture's biomorphic qualities.
A Brief History of NYC Art Stars: When They Were Young
At this point I'll do just about anything to toodle around on google image search for a few hours.
Interview: Sound Fix Owner James Bradley on Record Store Day
Part one in a series of interviews with record store owners as Record Store Day approaches.
Bon Iver to Release "Artfully" Auto-Tuned New Album on June 21
You remember this guy, he's a Kanye West protg.
Stream Panda Bear's Tomboy Right Now
You hear that? Go stream that shit right now, people.
In Red Hook, bin Laden's Death Ends Decade-Long Protest
A burning question, extinguished.
Conspiracy to Quarrantine Brooklyn Begins With "Routine" Bridge Closures
With construction on the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges, interborough travel might be slightly more difficult, maybe.
Sex Just Makes All the Ladies Sad
First you have sex, then you get clinically depressed. Case closed, ladies.
War Photographer and Restrepo Co-Director Tim Hetherington Killed in Libya
The British-born correspondent was 40; he lived for a time in Williamsburg.
"Greenwashing" and Radiohead's Newspaper, The Universal Sigh
The only guilt you need to feel about owning the Radiohead newspaper is that it's a fucking Radiohead newspaper.
With Festival of Ideas Approaching, Bowery Businesses' Metal Shutters Get Murals
One of next week's massive festivals' most high-profile public projects is nearly done.
Walmart's Newest Attempt to Infiltrate Brooklyn
A new round of mailers recast shopping at Walmart as a patriotic matter of personal freedom.
Theater Awards Season On, Off and Off-Off Broadway: Lortels Winners, Tony and Drama Desk Noms
Get all your fresh New York theater noms right here!
Animal Collective Welcomes Back Fourth Member Deakin and Plays a Bunch of New Songs Live
Guess what, you guys? The next Animal Collective album is gonna be awesome.
What the Hell is John Stamos Doing in the New Low Video?
Yes, there is a "Kokomo" joke.
Brooklyn Subway Station Falls Apart On Top Of Two Children
If you want to go to the library, the MTA will throw rocks on your head.
Win a Pair of Tickets to TV on the Radio's 4/12 Music Hall Show, and Stream Their New Album While You're At It
You'll be so much cooler than everyone going to Radio City the next night.
Park Slope Jazz Club Could Shutter Immediately
Puppet's must raise $15,000 by tomorrow.
Todd Haynes and Jon Raymond Talk Mildred Pierce at the New School
The Brown semiotics major discusses how straight he played his maternal-melodrama miniseries.
A Brief History of Controversial Art (Sex! Jesus! Jesus-Sex!)
Poor Jebus, never allowed to have any fun.
On the Classical Pleasures and Subtle Ironies of The Makioka Sisters, Now at Film Forum
Kon Ichikawa's late-career masterwork, a hit here in the 80s and underseen since, returns.
A Morbid Look at 25 Famous Writers Who Killed Themselves
Or, How To Ruin Your Friday Afternoon.
Windsor Terrace "Murder House" For Sale
For $1.29 million, you can own a home and a ghost.
MNDR, New Villager, and Complimentary Brooklyn Republic Vodka at Audiophile The Brooklyn Museum
Prospect Heights is bringing back happy hour.
Williamsburg's Cinders Gallery To Reopen Near Former Havemeyer Street Space
In a space recently occupied by another great local gallery.
Hear a Live Recording of a Woods Performance from Sweden
This is a very good way to spend your morning, promise.
Oh Hey Everyone, Tyler the Creator Said He's Not Homophobic, So He Definitely Must Not Be Homophobic
Jeez, you guys, stop taking things so seriously.
Cyclone and Coney Boardwalk Threatened with "Improvements"
The city wants to strip every last bit of character from the neighborhood.
L TV: Behind the Scenes With New York's Next Art Stars
Artists! Cameras! Questions!
City Narrows Bike-Share Program Proposals to Two (or Three?) Bids
One way or another, we'll have 300 bikes to share by summertime (but only in Manhattan).
Brooklyn Bridge Park's Carousel Pavilion Coming Around in August
Will make the Central Park carousel look like a Lazy Susan.
Listen to Wednesday's Literary Upstart Reading While Looking at These Photos Of It
Hear all four stories from Wednesday, and look at all the nice drunk young literary people.
Your Medieval Weekend at the Movies
Your Highness, some movie about King Arthur (right?), and Meek's Cutoff takes place in the past, right?
Live: TV on the Radio and Das Racist at Music Hall of Williamsburg
On the day they released Nine Types of Light, Brooklyn's finest sounded tight and refreshed.
Car Owners Resent New Park Slope Playground
Twenty parking spots aren't worth healthy communities and happy children.
20-Ton Urs Fischer Teddy Bear Sculpture Headed for Park Avenue
See it before it's auctioned for an eight-digit figure and disappears onto a rich dude's estate forever.
Brooklyn's Cop-and-Firefighter 'Hood Reacts to bin Laden's Death
People smashed bottles and literally waved flags in the streets of Bay Ridge.
Bay Ridge Teacher Arrested for Terror Threats "Seemed More Like a Pothead than a Gun Freak"
Student and teacher reactions have been divided.
Stereogum and Sacred Bones Bring Teenage Danish Punks Iceage to Northside for American Debut
Welcome to America, Iceage. You look so young, sound so feisty.
R.I.P. TV on the Radio Bassist Gerard Smith
The Brooklyn musician died of lung cancer this morning.
Art Star Liz Magic Laser to Direct Famous Filmic Staircase Chases on Broadway
Next week, see bat-, rifle- and chainsaw-brandishing actors chase each other up and down Times Square's big red steps.
Wrecked: Adrien Brody's Meaningless One-Man Show
In which the Oscar-winning actor cries, crawls, and eats bugs for no greater purpose.
The L Mag Questionnaire for Writer Types: Matthue Roth
On memoir, Judaica, slam poetry and Sammy Davis.
As Park Slope's Restaurant Controversy Cools, Manhattan Beach's Heats Up
All over Brooklyn, homeowners worry who businesses might attract.
Street Artist Space Invader Busted in L.A.
But somehow manages to keep his identity a secret before fleeing the country.
City Opera Finally Scores with Riveting, Heartbreaking Seance
A spooky and noirish new opera elevates American music, and genre storytelling, to classical grandeur.
"Drugstore Cowboy" Terrorizes Brooklyn
The borough's southern end has upped police patrols for a gun-wielding OxyContin addict.
Tribeca 2011: Iceland Goes for the Protest Vote in Gnarr
In which a professional comedian runs for mayor of Reykjavik, and does surprisingly well.
Do Greenpoint's Hipsters Have a Heroin Problem?
Or did the Post do a lazy reporting job?
Kota Ezawa's Pop Art Ode to Nature in Movies Takes Madison Square Park Tomorrow
Wouldn't be spring without some outdoorsy public video art.
José Gonzalez' Tortured Artistry Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
A documentary about the Swedish songwriter is set to screen at Rooftop Films this summer.
Literary Upstart: Deadline, Wild Card, and Next Reading
Get your stories in, and keep track of your favorites.
New York City's Biggest Anti-War March in Years
Thousands rallied in Union Square and marched downtown in support of peace.
In Case You Missed It: Photos from Gowanus Ballroom's Epic Spring Exhibition
A giant duck, an indoor tree fort, and a huge portrait of Bruce Lee were among the offerings.
Cash-Strapped Forest City Ratner Sells 49% Stake in Atlantic Center and Atlantic Terminal Malls
Hey, how're all those low-income housing units at Atlantic Yards coming along?
NYPD Now Ticketing Cyclists Who Don't Ride in Bike Lanes
When riding through Soho, don't dodge pedestrians or the cops'll get ya!
Cop Chases and Arrests Cyclist He Almost Doored
Don't tell double-parked officers to be more careful, especially when you have no way of knowing they're cops.
Rooftop Films Announces 2011 Lineup
High-profile NYC indie cinema, as soon as it's nice enough to be outside.
Broken Bells Release "Heartless Empire" Video
James Mercer didn't used to be a bearded guy, but is totally a bearded guy now.
Your Five Fast, Five Furious Weekend At the Five Fast, Five Furious Movies
So fast, so furiously did Jesse type to bring you this epic Weekend at the Movies column.
Bloomberg Asks for, Receives Cathie Black's Resignation, Not That Him Being So Totally Wrong About Her Will Change Anything
Turns out the former publisher of USA Today wasn't the best choice to run NYC public schools. But there was no way that could have been anticipated!
Come see Small Black at Act 4 Tomorrow!
And stay for a whole lotta Lincoln Center tequila.
Video: Behind the Scenes at the 8 Bands You Need to Hear Photoshoot
Drinks, laughs and a dog named Pony.
Photos from Last Night's ACT 4 at New York City Opera with Jack Daniels and Science Experiments
Whiskey + experiments = scientific breakthroughs.
Soho Banksy Parody "Hanksy" Is an Internet Hit
New York's best street art pun since Pussy Ham started tagging Dick Chicken's pieces.
Robin Williams Dodges Ticket for Sidewalk Cycling
The Mork & Mindy star gets preferential treatment from the NYPD.
Anonymous Artist Resurrects Vandalized "Piss Christ" for Easter
Last week's destroyed Andres Serrano photo spawns this week's collaborative web art project.
Controversial Expansion of Charter Within Ft. Greene Elementary School Building to Work Just Fine Provided Kids Stop Going to Public School
The DOE resorts to some very fuzzy math to prove it's not favoring charters over public schools unduly.
Bin Laden's Death Delays Unveiling of Ai Weiwei Sculpture
New York's most important public art of the year will remain cloaked a few more days.
Interview: British Online Mag The Quietus Responds to Salem Hoax
Oh yeah, there was a Salem hoax, by the way.
Cathy Erway Talks About Her New Pop-Up Restaurant Inside Prospect Heights' Milk Bar
No one ever asks us to cook at their pop-up restaurant.
Grand Army Plaza Revamp (Minus Bike Lanes) Will Begin This Summer
Brooklyn's most confusing intersection (?) to be less scary soon.
Pillowmaggedon 2011: We Fought Through Flurries of Feathers To Bring You These Pillow Fight Photos
On Saturday the city's notorious sleepwear gangs rumbled in Union Square.
Sheepshead Bay Drivers Indignant Over Request to Follow the Law
Southern Brooklyn drivers consider killing people with your speeding car to be a way of life.
A YouTube Rock n' Roll Mix by Filmmaker/DJ Serge Bozon
The new French filmmaker presents some semiforgotten psych-pop, glam and rockabilly favorites.
Super-Secret Drink Specials and Previously Unheard Short Fiction at Literary Upstart Next Week
So please join us, it was fun last time, right?
Come see The Secret Science Club at the Final ACT4 of the season this Thursday
It ain't over til we get hooked up to some cathodes and sing.
Bushwick Tongues Balls
In Bushwick, the balls of Arancini Bros. have been on the tip of everybody's tongue in recent days.
Separate and Unequal in Williamsburg's Affordable Housing
The Times looks at what life is like for people in the shadows of luxury condos.
Your Weekend at the Movies That Aren't Street of Shame at Film Forum (Incidentally)
That'd be Rio, Scream 4 and The Conspirator, if you're scoring at home.
So So Glo Guitarist Back On the Streets After Brief Arrest
It pays to litter when you're dealing with the NYPD.
Upstate Art Scene Gets Boost with New NADA Art Fair in Hudson
This is gonna make for such a nice, artsy day trip in late July.
Veteran NYC Muralist Knox Martin Plans Anti-Whaling Wall for Lower East Side
Grand Street getting city's bloodiest public artwork since... ever?
Photos from Cinders Gallery's Resurrection and Reopening
After a brief hiatus, the local gallery returns bigger and more minimalist than ever.
A List We're Happy to Keep Updating: More Japan Benefit Shows Announced
Good work, people.
PEN World Voices Festival: Meet Ludovic Debeurme and Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold
The first of our reports from the annual Gathering of the Writers concerns literary translation, and other matters.
Urs Fischer's 20-Ton, 23-Foot Teddy Bear Parked on Park Avenue
Big yellow's not quite ready to light up Midtown yet, but he looks close.
Citi Field Drops Brooklyn Brewery While Pizzeria Steals Their Logo
No NYC-brewed beer is available on tap at a Mets or Yankees homegame.
Join Us at the New York City Opera Tonight and Stay for Act 4
After Monodramas, many drinks. (And performance art!)
Red Hook Ikea Assembles Brooklyn's Biggest Solar Panel Installation
Over 1,000 Ringskär solar cells now piping current into Con Ed grid.
No Drama: Bruce Norris' Gentrification Time-Warp Clybourne Park Takes Pulitzer for Drama
American theater's top prize regains some cred after last year's debacle.
Your Weekend at the Actual Honest-to-God Genre Movies
Sci-fi! Horror! Superheroes! Malevolent tires!
Brooklyn Museum's Forthcoming Graffiti Exhibition Earns Insulting Daily News Editorial
Calls historical exhibition a "grand celebration of vandalism"!
NEWSFLASH: Angsty Teenagers Listen to Music?!?!
Are you depressed because you listen to chillwave, or do you listen to chillwave because you're depressed?
Arsenic Discovered at Atlantic Yards Construction Site
Is someone trying to "poison" the project?
Republican State Senators: "Tax the Poor, I Need a Foot Massage!"
A Bay Ridge politician photographed emulating his political hero, Marie Antionette.
Is Marty Markowitz Spreading Bike Lane Misinformation?
Or did he not mean what sounded like he meant in a speech last week?
Sober Summer for Met Rooftop Garden: Steel Sculptures by Anthony Caro
They'll make up for it with something crazy (by yet another male artist) next summer.
Rosie Perez, Ted Hope, Todd P Join Northside DIY Film Competition Jury
Which is currently taking submissions, so you, know, like...
Tribeca 2011: In Blackthorn, Butch Cassidy is Alive, But Not So Well
A weary Western that revises the story of an iconic outlaw. Just don't call it revisionist.
Live at Madison Square Garden: Before There Was LCD, There Was The Strokes
Let the battle of definitive New York bands begin...
PEN World Voices: New Fiction and Apartment Envy in Westbeth
At last week's "Literary Safari," residents of the West Side artist-housing complex hosted readings in their apartments.
Photos of Urs Fischer's Giant Teddy Bear Lit Up and Lonely on Park Avenue
The summer's biggest public sculpture has arrived (and been plugged in).
Talking Times Square Porno Theaters, Feminist Film Criticism and NYC Noir with Bette Gordon
A conversation about her seedy NYC landmark Variety (1983), and issues pursuant thereto.
Mr. Dream to Open for Archers of Loaf, Drummer Nick Sylvester Lists His Five Favorite Archers Songs
No one ever says "Fabricoh."
Brooklyn Lit Mag A Public Space Launches English-Language Annual of Japan's Monkey Business
Contemporary literature in translation, you guys!!!
Long Fought-For Waterfront Park Finally Coming to Greenpoint
Plus even more good news for North Brooklyn parks advocates.
Community Board Approves Prospect Park West Bike Lane Improvements Unanimously
Probably thanks to this aggressive letter from the lawyer suing for the lane's removal.
Tribeca 2011: Grave Encounters' Fucked-Up Mindfreak
Reality TV is sentenced to death in an abandoned (and haunted!) mental hospital.
Tribeca 2011: The Bleeding House Finds Nothing But Sociopaths in America
This home-invasion horror aspires to more than it achieves (like allegory, or suspense).
Will Greenpoint Get its New Boathouse?
Official recommendations on how to spend $7 million in settlement money have been made.
MTA Tracks Down MetroCard Painter for Trademark Infringement
And she probably thought she would save money by not buying canvases.
Shooting the Past in Present Tense: Talking with Princess of Montpensier Director Bertrand Tavernier
The well-traveled French filmmaker discusses how to restore the practicalities of everyday life to period melodrama.
British Street Artist Sweet Toof Paints Toothy Mural in Bushwick
...where his exhibition of good old-fashioned paintings opens next Friday.
Don't Miss Our Next ACT4 New York City Opera After-Party Tomorrow
After the modernist Monodramas, some delicious drinks and performance art.
Guided By Voices to Headline Saturday Night of Northside Festival
Seriously, someone pinch us.
Wallabout, Brooklyn's Pre-Civil War Neighborhood, Earns Historic Designation
One BQE-adjacent block is just the first part of a broader preservation project.
Watch Arcade Fire and the Creators Project Drop 2,000 Illuminated Balls on Crowd at Coachella
Then quietly make jokes about balls falling on your head.
Big Expansion in the Works for Red Hook Gallery Kidd Yellin?
Co-owner Dustin Yellin is buying a big 'ol brick warehouse down the block.
That Movie With Indie Deities Carrie Brownstein and James Mercer, Playing at MoMA Tonight
We are suddenly feeling soooo mopey.
Graffiti Artist Revok Arrested and Setenced to Six Months in Jail
When it comes to street art, the LAPD is the new NYPD.
Ziggy Plays the iPhone
Get ready to create your own remixes of David Bowie's 1975 single, "Golden Years." Or just continue using your phone to call and text your friends and family.
Sex is So Over
The Atlantic looks at some recent articles about why no one likes to bone anymore.
NYU, In the Midst of a Years-Long Salary Freeze, Announces New Shanghai Campus
The needs of employees must not be allowed to dampen the prospect of limitless growth, obvs.
Guggenheim Prize-Winner Hans-Peter Feldmann Putting Prize Money on the Gugg's Walls
Wanna see what 100,000 dollar bills looks like? Head uptown next month.
American Idol Contestant Sings "Man in the Mirror" Insults Americans
Sorry, this made me angry, and so now we have to talk about it for a minute.
TV on the Radio Release a Video for Every Song on Nine Types of Light
And in one of them, they sit on a bunch of magic carpets, so that is definitely cool.
Watch Wye Oak Cover Danzig
Another round of The Onion's AV Club Undercover series is upon us, and this week's installment is a winner.
Brooklyn Heights Terrorized by Would-Be "Soda Can Killer"
Bombs are falling on Clark Street.
Interview: Deer Tick's John McCauley Discusses Nirvana Cover Band Deervana
Man, do you guys remember Tad? We are totally going to start a Tad cover band. You don't remember Tad, do you?
Trader Joe’s Tomatoes a Target of Sunday’s Labor Protest
And the fight is literally over one penny.
Chinese Art Star Ai Weiwei Being Held for "Economic Crimes"
Which, nonsensical as it may be, might keep him from traveling to New York next month.
The People in Your Neighborhood: Nick Damici, Stake Land Star and Co-Writer
Surely the only low-budget horror filmmaker to be found in Nolita, right?
Photos from Act 4: our After-Party at The New York City Opera
Featuring performance art from Jen Liu and Maria Chavez.
National Guard Gives Up on Another Brooklyn Navy Yard Building
"Oops, we did nothing about it for too long and now it's too late. Oh well. Carry on."
Photos from LCD Soundsystem's Second-to-Last Show
Four down, one to go...
On The Bank Dick and the Brilliance of W.C. Fields's Sozzled, Petulant Line Readings
Today's rep film pick is the ideal showcase for this genius of the throwaway dialogue.
The Club Is Open, Meaning Tickets to Northside Festival's Guided By Voices Show Are Now on Sale
Let's see how more references to "Salty Salute" we can make in the next two months.
On Whiskeytown's Recently Reissued Pneumonia, Which You Should Buy Right Now
God, do you guys remember how good Ryan Adams used to be?
Are Brooklyn's Bowling Alleys Dying?
Or are they being reborn?
Noise Complaints Shut Down Coney Island Concert Series, Rest of Brooklyn
If you can't be quiet, maybe you shouldn't live in a major city.
The Time The L Feasted at Lunetta on Smith Street
We were banned from Chuck E. Cheese after last year, so we had our eighth birthday party in Boerum Hill.
Federal Judge Strikes Down Dumbo Tobacco Warehouse Conversion
An overwhelming decision in favor of preservationists contesting the National Park Service's privatizing of public space.
Interview: Other Music Co-Owner Josh Madell on Record Store Day
In which we discuss the music nerd (collector scum?) event of the year.
Assemblyman Wants to Make Pro Cro, BoCoCa Illegal
Hakeem Jeffries is writing legislation that would stop the coining of silly portmanteaux.
Northside Adds Surfer Blood, Sharon Van Etten, Theophilus London, Mount Eerie and More to Lineup
Yup, today's a good day.
Goose Advocates Protest Prospect Park Gala
Inside the gala, attendees dined on goose livers, goose eggs, and drank goblets of goose blood.
More Unwanted Sports Bars Coming to North Park Slope
Imagining how Atlantic Yards will transform a community is no longer an intellectual exercise.
New Theater Breaking Ground in Fort Greene
But still two years until the curtain rises on Theatre for a New Audience's Ashland Place home.
Tyler Perry's Madea's John Carpenter's National Lampoon's Weekend at the Movies
Plus: lions and elephants.
Controversial Leader of Brooklyn Young Republicans Won't Seek New Term
Jonathan Judge will let someone else take over when his presidency expires.
Bedford Avenue Bike Lane Battle Reignited; Hasidic Drivers Attacking Cyclists
Forget Prospect Park West; South Williamsburg hates cyclists even more.
Cyclone Opens, Coney Island Season Begins This Weekend
An appreciation of the last roller coaster in Brooklyn—for now.
Your Earth Day (and Deepwater Horizon Anniversary) Performance Art Video
Today is Earth Day; fix an oil spill.
To Silence Nay-Saying Slopers, City Starts Bike Lane-Boosting PR Push
Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson would like to remind you that most folks actually like the lanes.
Talking to Williamsburg Found-Footage Fabricators Sunset Television, Pitchfork TV's New Comedy Troupe
How (and why) five Columbia film-school students go about making their fake late-night YouTube gems.
Really, Really Enjoying This Photo of Ariel Pink Pouting at Coachella
I cannot roll my eyes back far enough.
Brooklyn Cyclist Killed in Gravesend Yesterday
Brooklyn's first bike fatality in months could so easily have been averted.
Marty Markowitz Now Basically Just a Talking Marty Markowitz Doll
So, Marty, what do you think about the Army Corps of Engineers leaving Fort Hamilton for a more expensive Manhattan location? Pretty crazy and possibly damaging, right?
More Traffic and Bike Improvements Planned for Washington Avenue
Safe passage from Atlantic Avenue to Eastern Parkway is just a vote away!
Police Intimidation Quashes Brooklyn Student Protest
A principalship descends into ugly tyranny.
I Refuse to Make a Bunny Pun: An Oral History of the Playboy Clubs
Oh man, Hugh Hefner is so gross.
The Gayest Neighborhood in Brooklyn
New census data says it's not what you think.
BAMcinemaFest Announces Full 2011 Lineup
Including NYC debuts for a number of local favorites and fest-circuit hits.
Live: Explosions in the Sky (And Some Reflections on Friday Night Lights) at Radio City
Clear eyes, full hearts, etc.
New Nanny-State Day Camp Rules Ban Kickball! Or Something.
State regulations, tabloid hysteria, and readings on the dangerous games children play.
Long Overdue BQE Fix Probably Won't Involve Digging up Brooklyn Heights
In fact it likely won't result in any fundamental fixes at all (those cost too much).
So Far Off-Broadway It's in Park Slope
Talking to the Gallery Players about operating a non-community theater in Brooklyn.
How To Organize a Late-Night Play Competition: Interview With the #serials@TheFlea Co-Producers
Stephen Stout and Dominic Spillane reveal plans for cycle three of the sold-out short play tourney.
DUMBO to Film Shoots: "Go Back to Tribeca!"
The neighborhood wants Hollywood moviemakers to find gritty industrial settings someplace else.
Brooklyn Flea Launches Food-Only Market in Williamsburg
Which makes so much sense that we can't believe they didn't do it sooner.
$1 Heineken Drafts at Literary Upstart Tomorrow Night
New fiction and cheap beer! Why hadn't anyone thought of it sooner.
Watch this video of MNDR dancing, New Villager rocking, at AUDIOPHILE at The Brooklyn Museum
It should also be noted that MNDR is wearing lederhosen.
Music
Songs About Feelings: An Interview with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
On the occasion of their very good new album, Belong, we spoke to singer/guitarist Kip Berman and bassist Alex Naidus about all sorts of things.
The Mountain Goats Are Back
With All Eternals Deck, John Darnielle and company recapture a spark that had been missing of late.
Addictive Punk Rock from Denmark's Iceage
A feral voice, serrated guitars and relentlessly maniacal drum fills with claustrophobia-dodging brightness.
On Cold Cave's Rich, Risky Sophomore Album
The synth-pop duo has upped the ante with the commanding Cherish the Light Years.
Contentment vs. Form
Four records into their career, TV on the Radio suddenly sound like they have nothing to prove. It suits them, but does it suit us?
Panda Bear's Great Letdown
On the persistently hookless follow-up to the Animal Collective member's universally acclaimed Person Pitch.
Slow-Core Royalty Meets... Ke$ha?
The inimitable Low hired an esteemed mainstream pop producer to work with them on their new album, C'Mon.
Wiz Khalifa's Rolling Papers Burns Slow
The blunted MC's major label debut gets lost in the haze.
Little Scream: The Golden Record
Little Scream
The Golden Record
(Secretly Canadian)
Ponytail: Do Whatever You Want All the Time
Ponytail
Do Whatever You Want All the Time
(We Are Free)
In Memoriam: Gerard Smith
Remembering TV on the Radio's much loved bassist.
So, What's Wrong With the Brooklyn Music Scene?
Notable local music figures jump at the opportunity to explain what's bugging 'em about Brooklyn these days.
8 Bands You Need to Hear
God, has it already been a year since we last did this? Fortunately, there's still no shortage of great bands currently calling Brooklyn home. Who knew?
Film
Source Code Is Already a Source Code Remake
Retakes and do-overs dominate this sci-fi thriller, until they don't.
Cosmic Cycles and Karmic Ironies in Le Quattro Volte
A metaphysical continuum between animal, vegetable and mineral in an Italian village.
Lost in America: Meek's Cutoff
Kelly Reichardt's painstakingly retrofitted fourth feature doesn't quite reach its revisionist destination.
Ghosts ‘n the Machines
Insidious, and Cronenberg's Crash at 15.
In Which Sentient Tires Blow Things Up for No Reason
Rubber is an ingenious piece of meta-cinema which hinges on a glorious dumb joke, repeated ad infinitum.
Super: The Superhero Satire as Excuse for Giddy Ultraviolence
Oh, another fanboy movie posing as "commentary" on what it actually is.
Brit Directors Introduce One of Our Best Comics in American: The Bill Hicks Story
The story behind Mr. "Fuck Your Inner Child".
Baby Bourne Comes of Age in the Silly, Stylish Fairytale Hanna
Hyperkinetic violence is just part of the process of becoming a woman.
Punks at Play in Abandoned New York
Blank City caters to your romantic nostalgia for New York's 70s and 80s filmmaking scene, which you totally weren't around to witness.
On To Die Like a Man Sense of Real Womanhood and Movie Magic
A romantic, resourceful Portuguese import about drag queens.
On the Questing, Questioning Filmography of Charles Burnett
A MoMA retrospective digs into the fascinating, wide-ranging career of a director best-known for a single stone masterpiece.
Gay Panic and F-Bombs All Up in Yr Middle Ages
The word "gay" used to mean something very different. If that strikes you as inherently hilarious, by all means see Your Highness.
In Which Ross from Friends Makes A Movie About Chat-Room Predators
It's called Trust. It goes about as you'd expect.
In Arthur, New York Belongs to the Rich and Childish
Fucking trusties get to do whatever they want.
Spirits in the Material World: Kaneto Shindo at BAM
A retrospective features intensely tactile metaphors from the world's second-oldest active filmmaker.
New Skin for the Old Ceremony: Scream 4
In this latter-day installment of Wes Craven's reflexive horror series, a fresh batch of teens are picked off, and the jokes are still, like, so totally meta.
Morgan Spurlock Sells Out
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold investigates the nefarious world of product placement through… product placement! Oh, oh, oh, the irony.
Skimming Pools During Wartime: A Screaming Man
Everything unassumingly descends into turmoil in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's fourth feature, about pride and indifference in war-torn Chad.
War, Duels, Heavy Breathing: The Princess of Montpensier
Bertrand Tavernier's latest renders 16th-century France at the speed of life.
Zeina Durra, Director of The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
Talking to former East Villager about her post-9/11 art world comedy.
Lost Futures: Dziva Vertov at MoMA
A new retrospective of the radical montage and post-human Bolshevik utopianism of Dziga Vertov, cinema's great, tragic innovator.
Happy 146th Anniversary of Lincoln's Assassination! Here's a Dull Movie About It
Robert Redford forces uninspired contemporary parallels in The Conspirator.
Vampires That Look Like Zombies, and an End Times America That Looks Like Sundance
Stake Land is a post-apocalyptic horror-road movie with a great sense of place and a limp cast of characters.
Mommy Issues and Tuscan Cheese
Dying-mom melodrama La Prima Cosa Bella gets lost in flashbacks and emotional vomit.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Herzog Was Here
In which the ever-intrepid Werner Herzog uses advanced 3D technology to travel way back to the beginnings of human expression.
In Which Mel Gibson Enters into a Spiral of Depression and Possible Schizophrenia
The Beaver, a middling family drama about the ripple effects of depression, offers the spectacle of a toxically miserable Mel Gibson, which is nice.
13 Assasszzzzzzins
The infamous Takashi Miike's samurai homage plays it tediously straight.
The Arbor: Art Imitates Life, and So Does Life
This conceptual art-inflected documentary portrait of the late public-housing playwright Andrea Dunbar is also a bruising saga of addiction and poverty across the generations.
When Life Gives You a Shotgun (and You Happen to Be a Hobo)...
Hobo with a Shotgun is a giddily in-poor-taste homage to all your worn-from-overuse VHS tapes.
Upstairs/Downtown
On the enduring appeal of the period British miniseries.
We Go Way Back: Lynn Shelton’s Quarterlife Crisis, At Last
And here’s a welcome, belated theatrical debut for the director of Humpday’s first feature.
As a Director, Mark Ruffalo Is No Mark Ruffalo
Cloying redemption saga Sympathy for Delicious proves that great actors should stick to acting.
And Here's a Tolerance Parable from WWE Studios
That's What I Am is predictably obvious, and occasionally perplexing.
An Invisible Sign Is Easy for You to Miss
Antisocial math nerd + precocious cute kid + handsome science teacher ≠ x, where “x” is a good movie.
The Best of All Possible Worlds, Or: The Importance of Just Being There
A new, comprehensive retrospective showcases the cynical Zen of cult filmmaker Hal Ashby.
Food & Drink
Freddy's will Outlive us All
Even the spirit of the bar’s bathroom graffiti has been preserved.
Nicky's Goes Beyond Banh Mi
But their pho (pronounced “fuuh”) falls flat.
Colonie of Dreams: Brooklyn is the New American
New Brooklyn is old Brooklyn is new American cuisine.
Way Station: The Bar for Nerds
Sometimes you just want to sit down with a pint and have a nice chat about the physics of the Tardis.
Giuseppina’s: Lucali Goes South
Good pizza, great theater.
Bar Review: The Emerson
Literary Brooklyn is more than just a bar theme.
Art
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5 Art Stars You Need to Know
It's probably too late to start buying their work, but you should at least know their names.
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Life and Death on the Piers with Alvin Baltrop
The late photographer's retrospective at Third Streaming focuses on three decades shooting clandestine encounters on the Hudson.
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The Death of Cute: Young Japanese Artists Say Bye Bye Kitty!!!
Japan Society's excellent generational survey portrays an obsessive culture expectantly bracing for disaster.
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Comedy By Default: Following Ideas to Absurd Ends
In Restore Defaults at Camel Art Space, artists take intended uses to extremes.
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Layers Better Left Unexposed
In Juxtaposed at Muriel Guépin Gallery, Béatrice Coron and Robert Szot fare best when they reveal the least.
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Midtown's Street-Art Pantheon
A survey of New York street-art and graffiti takes over the vacant Donnell Library storefront with mixed results.
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Held Momentarily By the Train's Dispatcher
Chris Marker's photo series Passengers falls asleep and misses its stop.
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Is the Campiest Camp Necessarily Naïve?
Works in Invisible-Exports's Notes on Notes on Camp by, among others, John Waters, suggest no.
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Renewed Monuments: Sculpture in the Post/Un-Monumental Era
The group exhibition New Monuments at Lesley Heller Workspace offers a miniature state-of-contemporary-sculpture update.
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Rirkrit Tiravanija Serves Food Art for the Soul
Free Thai food, $20 t-shirts and a borrowed Volvo at Gavin Brown's Enterprise.
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Inside the Artist's Studio: Melissa Murray in Bushwick
The obsessive draftswoman draws on dreams and uncanny animals for her solo show at Causey Contemporary.
Theater
Future Anxiety Can't Quell Contemporary Apathy
Laurel Haines' new apocalyptic sci-fi comedy makes every worst-case scenario for the future come true.
How Not To Succeed Reviving an Anti-Corporate Broadway Classic
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying doesn't even try, but expects success.
The Tremendous Tremendous Is Just That
The Mad Ones' sharp new vaudevillian backstage comedy takes place on the closing night of the 1939 World's Fair.
Punching a War Horse in the Mouth
Phenomenal equine puppets only further cheapen this epic sob-fest about a boy, his horse and World War I.
David Greenspan Stalks Successful Monsters
In the actor-playwright's latest, Go Back to Where You Are , he's a 2,000-years-old Greek chorus boy amidst a family vacationing in the Hamptons.
Happy Days Are Here Again
Laugh the recession away with The Actors Company Theatre's revival of John Cecil Holm and George Abbott's cheeky Depression-era comedy, Three Men on a Horse.
Born Bad Turns Out Good
The U.S. premiere of debbie tucker green's 2004 Olivier Award-winner delivers fast-paced family feuds with a fantastic cast.
Improbably, The Amoralists' Cannibal-Raising Lesbians Disappoint
The cacophonous company's latest, Bring Us The Head of Your Daughter, lacks some of their earlier works' conviction.
My Dinner With Marie and Bruce
An unexpectedly engrossing revival of Wallace Shawn's marital drama stars Marisa Tomei.
Domestic Disharmony Punctuated by Beautiful Truth
Bathsheba Doran's superb Kin sensitively portrays two tired families' hesitant coming together.
A Lesser Macbeth, and Greater
John Douglas Thompson kills in Theater for a New Audience's sparse, medieval production of the Scottish Play.
Bukowski's Ravenous Women, All Rolled Into One
The author's female characters and consorts get the last word in Company XIV's Lover. Muse. Mockingbird. Whore.
Books
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The Muddle of Modernity: The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
Jonathan Coe's latest novel gets lost in its title character's same brave new world of impersonal hyperconnectivity.
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Misery Loves Company
Stories of despair interlock in Sarah Braunstein's debut novel The Sweet Relief of Missing Children.
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Brilliant Boredom: The Pale King
Fragments of a moral system cohere in a losing race against page-number in David Foster Wallace's unfinished last novel.
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There Is No Plot (and That's Ok)
On the flattening, anonymizing onslaught of words and signs in Blake Butler's new novel There Is No Year.
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Fatale: Here Is the Roman Noir
A reissue of Jean-Patrick Manchette's slim, blunt, black-humored, elusive crime novel of 1977.
Horoscope
Columns
Blood Simple
He’s not into period sex? His loss.
So, Nuclear Power?
Driving a nuclear cab would be cool, but not if it raises taxes.
Commodity Fetishism in a Speakeasy Gallery
Images of objects—sexual and otherwise—are on view in Miguel Abreu Gallery's basement.
Porno Role Play for Beginners
"Pizza delivery for a very naughty girl!"
What Are You Going to Do with Your Tax Refund?
We're going to commission an ice cream sculpture of Donald Trump. Obviously. Tags: Taxes, refunds, IRS, fiscal responsibility, financial planning, money, wage
Look Out! Pepper Dick!
If you're handling hot chilis, do not touch your penis (or your vagina). The end.
Small-Time Rachel Whiteread
The YBA's rusty soda cans, candy-colored windows and translucent doors leave Paddy wanting bigger and better.
The Imagined Perils of Sex Gunk
Gunk is just a part of sex, sorry.
Ever Worry About Bedbugs?
Frankly, we stopped worrying about them. (It's like worrying about the bomb.)
When Sex Fantasy Goes too Far?
Not everybody's ready to jump right into rape role play, you know?
Better Than Nothing
Between Chelsea and the Lower East Side, there are at least three exhibitions worth seeing right now.
Special
The Best Amateur Skater in Brooklyn?
Tony Soto is the steeziest.
News & Features
Timber Shed Goes Timber, Tobacco Warehouse Up in Smoke
Projects to restore historic buildings in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and DUMBO are caught up in private real estate deals.
Brooklyn Designed: A Day in the Life
Time to kick back and indulge in the materialist fantasy.
The Fashionable Bystander: SoftSpot
SoftSpot on their musical relationship and tour necessities.
Variations on the Hipster Bear Trap
One-size skinny jeans do not fit all.
Brooklyn’s Billion Dollar Big Dig?
What will it take to put the horrible BQE underground?
The Whitest Neighborhood in Brooklyn
Visiting the part of the borough that reported 100 percent white in the census.
NYC: A Day in the Life of the Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World
Happy 4/20, everyone. Keep the marijuana in your bag.
Brooklyn Stories: The Nuts That Almost Got Punched
Corduroy pants are not a good reason to punch someone in the nuts.
A (Game) Room of One’s Own
How many nerds does it take to build a space to play Magic: The Gathering?
Imagining the Ultimate Brooklyn Mobile Home
The dream of the Bushwick trailer commune has died, but the ultimate hipster trailer lives on in our hearts.
Why is NYC in the Deportation Business?
The city of New York should not be helping the feds separate people from their families.
