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We asked drinking experts (yes, really) what they'll be sipping over the next few days.
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A new crowd-sourced project to plot every bicycle traffic ticket offers clues about areas to avoid.
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1-37: Man, Graceland is still so awesome.
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Are you ready to capture and repurpose human power? I know, we are too.
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Plus three (3) worthy indies.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , X-Men: First Class , X-Men sequels , X-Men: The Last Stand , Submarine , Rushmore , Richard Ayoade , Beginners , Mike Mills , Turkey Bowl , The reRun Gastropub Theater
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A recent architectural imagineering exhibition gave the borough president a great idea.
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Tracy Chapman should have sung more about weed.
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The cyclist death rate continues to rise with the mercury.
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Sutton misses the "bang-cock" joke and Stewart is relieved to see Mike Tyson again.
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The first play in Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks 2011 new theater festival is a superstitious revenge comedy.
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But the India Street pier still seems unprepared for ferry service.
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And no record label profited from faux porn ever again...
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Uh, yeah, cool t-shirts, every other band in the world.
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With almost 400 exhibitions and events to choose from, we feel pretty strongly about these eleven things.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art
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"Isn't that weird to give someone a ticket for doing something illegal when you're doing something illegal yourself?" Yes.
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Bad for kids, good for fish.
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With no 19th-century structure to renovate, a Brooklyn institution faces difficult decisions.
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With a new fare system and travel time predictions!
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Only one of last month's miracles remains.
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More than 100 people gathered in a free-speech zone across from state senator Marty Golden's office to protest his position on gay marriage.
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So many attractive people, in black and white no less.
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Which... is... good? Sure.
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You'll have the whole museum almost kind of to yourself on a Monday morning.
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Which doesn't hold back any of his trademark disjointed digital delirium.
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With three robberies in the past week, residents of a McKibbin loft building worry that the party's over.
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That's what rampant development gets you. (Well, that, and higher rent and overtaxed services.)
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It really feels like there's no stopping this thing.
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You didn't even need to visit studios to see great art in Bushwick this weekend (we did that too though).
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Bushwick , Bushwick Open Studios , Factory Fresh , Skewville , Reverend Billy , Sweet Toof , Stikman , Veng , Curbs and Stoops , English Kills , Street art , Public art
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The late conceptualist's outdoor retrospective is a must-see (but in the meantime here are a bunch of photographs).
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By emailing us the answer to this simple question...
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And listen to all of Wednesday's stories (and semi-belligerent stage banter!).
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It's Margaritaville in Williamsburg!
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If you see a Trader Joe's bag, alert the commandos.
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A letter to a constituent reveals an uncharacteristically thoughtful person.
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An urban farm of Styrofoam and aluminum marks inaugural public art installation for Fort Greene Park.
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Ride the new ferry service for free for eleven days.
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Piano accompaniment, NYC literary trivia featuring NYC literary celebrity contestants, giveaways, and epic drink specials deep into the night. Also fiction &c.
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Or at least write your City Council member.
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They love Mariah! And hate the Magnetic Fields! Scandalous!
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Some things are precisely as bad as they seem.
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The trendy gallery reopens on the trendy stretch June 9.
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But we still just think you should walk to the record store and buy it.
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Museums aren't the only ones courting those summer art crowds. See these huge shows in Chelsea for free!
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Chelsea , NYC art , John Chamberlain , Pace Gallery , Gagosian Gallery , Tony Shafrazi Gallery , R. Crumb , Picasso , Paula Cooper Gallery , Sol LeWitt , Donald Judd , David Zwirner Gallery , Matthew Marks Gallery , Jasper Johns , Keith Haring , Robert Mapplethorpe , Sean Kelly Gallery , Louise Bourgeois , Cheim & Read , Martin Kippenberger , Luhring Augustine
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Now we wait. And wait...
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City still doesn't own majority of the property for the future North Brooklyn oasis.
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The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is plotting a move to the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge.
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But not the cool part, the very, very boring part.
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A plan so crazy it just might work. Or not.
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Making it like it's 1969.
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Also, First Impressions of the Earth is better than everyone says it is. Swearsies.
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An inflatable Pop art forest has sprouted beneath the elevated park.
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The thing that's supposed to protect you from thieves is the thing that the thieves want!
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This is, like, the new version of leaving your apartment and actually seeing other human beings.
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There's more under that neighborhood than oil.
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Cyclists can sue too.
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A planned infiltration of an eating contest in Bay Ridge didn't attract a single rainbow flag.
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A weekend rep film pick with a great sense of how it feels to drift through the city in headphones.
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If there were to be a new Jens Lekman song released every day for the rest of our life, we're pretty sure we would listen to all of them.
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The Boerum Hill poet and Bowie fan's new collection, Life on Mars , launches tonight at powerHouse.
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Has a venerated tradition met its end?
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Our arsty concert series goes out in high style.
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The "L" stands for "Launch party"!
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Blinding floodlights made the monument ready for its close-up.
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The internet is free! (For people who happen to be in one of Brooklyn's most expensive neighborhoods.)
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There's no better way to get between Northside venues (except maybe the ferry).
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It was only a matter of time before our favorite graffiti pun outgrew its Soho surroundings.
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"I've always had a... crush on women like Zelda Fitzgerald."
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His light pollution doc screens at Rooftop Films this weekend.
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Mindy Kaling is the best, the very best. Right?
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All the kids do today is send each other sexual self-portraits on their little telephones.
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No one hurt as debris covers the area.
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We spotted him working on an epic one last night along Delancey.
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Featuring a touching encounter with a David Bowie lookalike (Ziggy Stardust-era).
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Just what the neighborhood needs, another rich teenager.
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As the city contemplates cutting funding, libraries become even more essential.
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And got fired from it, too!
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One will rise 22 stories.
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Also, timely.
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Well here's how.
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As well as the creation of conflicting rolling and pushing classes?
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In which we visit Venice vicariously through other outlets' accounts.
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The founder of Cashiers du Cinemart is currently touring the state with his new anthology and favorite obscure films.
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We saw at the very most a quarter of Bushwick's open art spaces this weekend, and these are the ones that stuck.
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Tonight's rep pick also features the chest hair of the young Alec Baldwin.
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Art shows, coffee, silent movies, singer-songwriters, and neighborhood goodwill to, hopefully, bump up attendance at the recently troubled arthouse.
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The city allows some birds to have non-mentally challenged babies.
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A hodgepodge of funkiness, with some help from Big Boi.
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If you support gay rights, let's stop this man.
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Painting is still at large, it seems.
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Sutton says the mutants are yuppie racists, Stewart says they're sexist Nazi-apologists.
by Benjamin Sutton and Henry Stewart
Tags: Film , Blockbluster , X-Men , X-Men: First Class , Mutants , Racism , Sexism , Nazis , Magneto , Professor X , Kevin Bacon
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This is how horror movies about bees begin!
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And Blondie covered him too.
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In case you weren't already in love with her.
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Community boards do not represent their communities. They represent politicians.
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Oh, and, you know, Tree of Life .
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Ten more blocks of elevated greenery and a lot full of inflatable friends await in West Chelsea.
Features
The Beck-produced Demolished Thoughts is a gorgeous, laid-back affair that's still unmistakably the work of the Sonic Youth frontman.
Album Reviews
Stone Rollin', the follow-up to 2008's The Way I See It , is a more nuanced take on the old-school soul he draws from.
Album Reviews
This Brooklyn quartet releases one of the year's most pleasant surprises, a post-punk album with many different sides.
Album Reviews
The prolific and dependable songwriter releases another solid batch of songs rife with internal struggles.
Album Reviews
Frequent Knife collaborator Janine Rostron strikes out on her own with a predictably theatrical but surprisingly human-sounding album.
Features
The grandfathers of lo-fi are playing Northside this year. Find out why they still matter.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Features , Music , Robert Pollard , Guided By Voices , Frank Lyon , Andrew Savage , Beth Wawerna , Luther Russell , Ezra Feinberg , Emily Ambruso , Thomas Fekete , Travis Trevisan , Seth Olinsky
Features
This year’s performers and showcase presenters tell us which Northside shows they’re most excited for.
Features
If you like this one relatively big-name artist, check out this lesser-known but likeminded startup. See how this will work?
Features
An Interview with Fucked Up
Film Reviews
Terrence Malick's fifth film contains multitudes.
Film Reviews
Music video director Mike Mills's autobiographical second film never quite gets past the melancholy of the ephemeral.
Film Reviews
Come take a Mediterranean cruise with Jean-Luc Godard, and get 97 minutes of abstract and abstruse dialectics.
Film Reviews
In which the house style of the heretofore political Romanian New Wave is applied to an uneasily intimate love triangle.
Movie Journal
Concerning a single edit in Hou Hsiao-hsien's A Time to Live, a Time to Die .
Film Reviews
And now, a belated US theatrical release for Koji Wakamatsu's anguished, exacting drama about the failure of Japan's radical student movements of the 60s and 70s.
Film Reviews
In which an unsinkable premise largely sidesteps Dreamworks Sequelitis.
Film Reviews
On The Wave and We Are the Night , two imports from the director Dennis Gansel.
Film Reviews
A mid-career MoMA retro spotlights the lush, intense genre films of the art-school grad and Oscar-winning director of Point Break .
by Justin Stewart
Tags: Film Reviews , Film , Kathryn Bigelow , Point Break , The Hurt Locker , Blue Steel , The Loveless , Near Dark , Strange Days , K-19: The Widowmaker , Action movies
Film Reviews
A revival of Fellini's jet-set picaresque reveals the pilgrim's progress within the legendary decadence.
Film Reviews
A knowing, hyperactive, precocious directorial debut, about a knowing, hyperactive, precocious teen.
Film Reviews
Just over an hour long, this indie feature sketches the history of several friendships over the course of a five-on-five football game.
Film Reviews
Further winnowing down the grizzly men, hysterical pregnancies and menages a trois at this year's BFF.
Restaurant Reviews
Burgers filled with good things, Down Under the Iowa Corn Bridge, or something.
Bar Reviews
Fancy cocktails and Ronnie James Dio? Sure, it's Brooklyn.
Her photos, videos and feature-length films at MoMA PS1 and Leslie Tonkonow explore emptiness better than loneliness.
The city's museums have lined up their biggest productions for the warm months to shatter attendance and box office records.
Tags: General , Art , Francis Alÿs , Alexander McQueen , Ryan Trecartin , Cory Arcangel , Hans-Peter Feldmann , Lists , Vishnu , Elliott Erwitt , Photography , Fashion , Video art , Performance art , Science , NYC museums , Blockbuster exhibitions , The Morgan Library & Museum , Metropolitan Museum of Art , International Center of Photography (ICP) , Brooklyn Museum of Art , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , The Whitney Museum of American Art , MoMA PS1 , Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) , American Museum of Natural History , Japan Society , Slideshow
The performance artist's retrospective at MoMA and PS1 is best at its most absurd.
In his new solo show at Leo Koenig the German painter takes cues (and his title) from Tool's math-sampling album Lateralus .
by Kathleen Massara
Tags: General , Art , Torben Giehler , Tool , Lateralus , Chelsea , Painting , Abstraction , Koenig Gallery , Leo Koenig, Inc.
Ryoji Ikeda's immersive psycho-sensory assault the transfinite takes hold of a posh Upper East Side landmark.
Theater Reviews
The Mint Theater's revival of Rachel Crothers' 1918 sleeping car comedy finds love and laughs on the journey West.
Theater Reviews
Mike Gorman's witty new meta-dramatic comedy How and Why I Robbed My First Cheese Store at La MaMa is like the fine Camembert of cheesy meta-plays.
Theater Reviews
Discussing the Brick Theater's first annual Comic Book Theater Festival with curator-producer Jeff Lewonczyk.
Theater Reviews
Derek Jacobi does right by the mad monarch in a production at BAM.
China Mieville's latest sci-fi novel travels to the ends of meaning.
A newly translated novel by Yuri Rytkheu keeps the lore of his people alive.
Art Fag City
And yes, fashion is art.
Art Fag City
During the Biennale, the city on stilts begins to feel like the one that never sleeps, but there are some incontrovertible differences.
Ask A Cabbie
We've always been partial to Escape From New York.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Marriage means not being able to do whatever you want.
Ask A Cabbie
Ryan Vlastelica
Local
The East River is littered with the hulls of old ferries... And other things.
Local
Cyclists suit up for a class action lawsuit in response to NYPD's enforcement of inapplicable traffic laws.
Local
Don't be a jerk, don't kill a cyclist.
Local
A sad and predictable story, on film.
Features
From late-night F-bombs to talking gastropods.
Features
How the Prospect Park Alliance Plans to Save Money
