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Better to die from heat stroke than shame.
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Featuring photographs from the decade the dissident artist spent living in the East Village.
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The Philharmonic says it's his fault they won't have a free concert in Prospect Park this year.
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Serious frivolity from the Ridgewood poet.
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Before we even get to the artists' studios, there are at least nine gallery exhibitions you need to see this weekend.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Northside Festival , NYC art , Brooklyn art , Williamsburg , Greenpoint , Northside Open Studios , Pierogi , Parker's Box , Causey Contemporary , Pandemic Gallery , Like the Spice , Jack Henry , Greenpoint Gallery , Fowler Arts Collective
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Bike activists love to dress dangerously.
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Store will be five times larger than local laws allow.
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The young Brooklynites, who play a brother and sister at each other's throats, take turns talking about Philip Roth, Robert Frank, Anna Karina and more.
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There will be free Brooklyn Republic Vodka too.
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Featuring a Movie Brat at his most self-indulgent, Cybill Shepherd's style, and Burt Reynolds' mustache.
by Joseph Pomp
Tags: Film , Get Your Reps , At Long Last Love , Peter Bogdanovich , Cole Porter , Musicals , The New American Cinema , Auteurist Excess , Cybill Shepherd , Burt Reynolds , Burt Reynolds' Mustache
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Yesterday, Northside's biggest exhibition opened in the Metropolitan Avenue hardware store.
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On "harmful," "disturbing" and "dangerous" outfits.
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How does one Manhattanite's opinion become news in Brooklyn?
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On an incredibly hot evening last week, similarly hot people gathered on a terrace high above the Meatpacking District.
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A history of the once-widespread practice and a preview of HERE's cantastoria festival.
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Two men were beaten and called faggots.
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Overwhelmed by all the Northside goings on? Now there's an app for that.
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Spoiler: yes, condos inevitable.
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Classy! And incredibly necessary. Christ.
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Would it surprise you to learn that the FBI has some very outmoded ideas on the subject?
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Seriously. Anybody? Bueller?
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If they are, all the Times is worried about is what will happen to all that "tasty" meat.
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Advance badges still available through Ticketfly!
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+Pool could be a self-filtering swimming pool in the likely-toxic waterway.
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This year's Celebrate Brooklyn festivities kicked off on Friday night, with a performance by indie-rock's greatest whistler.
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Our U.S. debut was not nearly as well attended.
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Time to buy some walkin' shoes.
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Public space! Public art! Private condos!
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Northside's first public artwork is looking goooood.
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Sutton's convinced they're queer, but Stewart's just sad they're growing up.
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The Spoon River Project , performed in Green-Wood, is as beautiful as its surroundings.
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And four more injured on the worst Brooklyn-Queens Day ever.
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Further cementing our status as Brooklyn's premiere lesbian magazine.
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Or, what happens when your first records were by Black Sabbath and Simon and Garfunkel.
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The maker of the SXSW-winning SoCal skate-kid documentary talks about his influences: Josh Peacock, Linda Manz, Robert Frank, Dungen...
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film , BAMcinemaFest 2011 , Tristan Patterson , Dragonslayer , Skateboarding , Skate videos , Josh Peacock , Skreech Sandoval , Dungen , Linda Manz , Out of the Blue , Adolescents , Adolescence , The Germs , Frederick Wiseman , Robert Frank , Abandoned Swimming Pools , Southern California
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His first Italian movie since the "Why Do Some Women Have Trouble Reaching an Orgasm?" segment of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask .
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Idea #1: Hold festival of ideas.
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And its wintry counterpart for Southern Hemisphere Googlers.
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The winner of the trivia contest at last Thursday's Upstart Final talks beer, booze and fallen idols.
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Which one of these is not like the other?
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A fun thing to do when reading these answers is to imagine the author's face as she says, "In real life?"
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Distro.fm is streaming songs from artists playing the Northside Festival, and they're giving away two free badges to the festival.
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None of the movie's evil shall escape Sutton and Stewart's sight.
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Director head shots in elegant black and white!
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And it's not a peep show. Wrong decade.
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Featuring live-painting, cocoon-dancing and hardcore kitties.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Northside , Northside Open Studios , Julie Torres , Skewville , Veng , Brooklyn art , Greenpoint , Jae Kyung Kim , Todd Bienvenu , Jackie Hoving
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The big-box retailer has expressed interest in a parcel of waterfront land.
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Happy summer solstice!
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And it's a race to the free RSVP list.
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Plans to turn trashed club into indoor sculpture garden.
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You've got until 5pm to get yourself a crochet-gloved handshake at Grand Central Station.
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Find out which is nearest you; we made a handy guide by neighborhood.
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Experience the sounds of four ancient Kyoto temple bells, not ringing.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , Bill Fontana , Rubin Museum , Silent Echoes , Arc de Triomphe , the Whitney Museum , Brooklyn Bridge , Kyoto , John Cage , Marcel Duchamp , Cleveland Orchestra , Wellcome Trust , Euston Road , Video
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The city says concrete is more durable than wood. That doesn't appear to be true.
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Rebooted web-slinger hasn't paid its creator.
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It's the Ken Russell movie of 90s hip-hop, and it plays at 92YTribeca on Saturday night.
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Frances McDormand gets some gold too, but not Al Pacino.
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There has been a spike in arrests.
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These nine East Villagers are winning at gentrification.
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Jason Grote's surreal, zeitgeisty comedy could have some fat trimmed off of it.
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Those are gonna be some sexy sports posters.
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The second play in Clubbed Thumb's new play festival alternates absurd humor and pitched battles.
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Financial troubles cited, political pressures suspected.
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This is what happens if you stay in bike lanes no matter what for fear of being ticketed.
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Who will put out Luna Park if it catches on fire?
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It's like Alphaville , except starring Keith Carradine in a big-brain pompadour.
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The busiest time of year on the city's busiest bike bridge is about to get much worse.
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It's like the new pickling!
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Oh to be young again in a time when Spielberg movies were still directed by Spielberg.
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Next year's triennial will feature artists working outside traditional art world power cities.
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The math: badge = lots of cheap booze.
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Moving pictures, you guys.
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But the cop eventually let her go, urging her to put on some pants.
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Will still be open till 10pm on Thursdays though.
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No peeping at the foot of the High Line.
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A second chance to see the winners at Rooftop Films on July 1st.
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It's a status thing.
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In seven months, two historic buildings will be saved (assuming they're still standing).
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From the deli to the art market in no time flat.
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Eating French tourists and Korean wedding parties.
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By elements, we mean mostly very light rain.
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That's one way to save a dying business model.
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"My work explores the relationship between new class identities and emotional memories."
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Finally, you can look for a job and enjoy not having a job at the same time.
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Free CDs, DVDs, and filmmaker talks.
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The definitive history of indie rock, brought to you by Kickstarter.
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We asked him which musician he would most like to hug.
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With Mayor Bloomberg, Marty Markowitz and Captain Michael Muia.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: News , East River Ferry , Williamsburg , Greenpoint , Dumbo , Brooklyn , Manhattan , Marty Markowitz , Mayor Bloomberg , Queens , Lincoln Restler , Janette Sadik-Khan
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We're riding the boats by the thousands, but what will happen when we have to pay?
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On Thursday we all got drunk on short fiction (and beer).
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When Grand Street was covered in bullets.
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Will the New York Philharmonic's withdrawal give the Brooklyn Phil its chance to shine?
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New Yorkers united in their disregard for traffic laws.
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It was really difficult because everyone was so well-dressed.
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The young Windsor Terrace novelist discusses the thrill, such as it is, of being read.
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Because the Nets stadium isn't enough.
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Narrowing it down to a dozen was impossible, so we cheated a little.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Northside , Northside Festival , Northside Open Studios , Greenpoint , Williamsburg , Fowler Arts Collective , Kristine Moran , James Dinerstein , Dan Sabau , Emily Noelle Lambert , Esperanza Cortes , Jae Kyung Kim , Raphaela Riepl , Skewville
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So numb, from all the genitals.
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Movies movies movies (in addition to all the music music music).
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Ticketing is now live.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film , Northside 2011 , Northside Film , DIY Film Competition , Tabloid , Errol Morris , Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation , Myth of the American Sleepover , PressPausePlay , Dirty Pictures , Bad Fever , Nothing Yet , Julian Lynch , Real Estate
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Selections from a day of studio-hopping.
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The three coolest arts nonprofits in Brooklyn need your support.
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We try to destroy one, while pretending the other doesn't exist.
Northside Festival News
Distro.fm is streaming songs from artists playing the Northside Festival, and to promote it, they're giving away two free badges to the festival
Northside Festival News
Ticketing is now live.
Northside Festival News
Advance badges still available through Ticketfly!
by Tyler McCauley
Tags: Badges
Film Reviews
One Lucky Elephant is about a very special relationship, which raises some troubling questions.
Film Reviews
One of the year’s most vivid films comes from a country without a film industry to speak of.
Film Reviews
A woman tries to duck the fate she forsees for herself in the disappointing Reversion .
Film Reviews
Alas, Norwegian import Trollhunter adds little to the fertile "found-footage" genre.
Film Reviews
On the early films of the the Polish New Wave icon Jerzy Skolimowski, revived at Moving Image.
Film Reviews
Anthology's series shows how New Hollywood reappropriated and reimagined a dying genre.
Film Reviews
Michael Winterbottom's made-for-BBC comedy is something of a road to nowhere.
Film Reviews
Monte Hellman's first movie in 22 years is a labyrinthine, ultimately touching movie about how movies distort the truth.
Film Reviews
BAM revives Summer , from 1986, one of Rohmer's finest films.
Film Reviews
Page One: Inside the New York Times tells a familiar narrative about old media, starring some fun old-media people.
Film Reviews
Blissing out on the divine, loopy movie-star chemistry of Grant and Hepburn in Howard Hawks's revived screwball.
Film Reviews
There's virtuosity to admire and gratuitous violence to abhor in this Spanish home-invasion thriller.
Film Reviews
Battle for Brooklyn goes for visceral outrage over number-crunching.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film Reviews , Film , Atlantic Yards , Suki Hawley , Michael Galinsky , Battle for Brooklyn , Prospect Heights , Forest City Ratner , Daniel Goldstein , Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn , Letitia James
Film Reviews
Mr. Popper's Penguins updates the venerable Newberry winner, to insipid effect.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Primitive at the New Museum tests cinema's role as the modernity's memory well.
The Brooklyn new media artist's solo show at the Whitney showcases some sharp tools and others that prove less useful.
We caught up with the three members of the Brooklyn-based architecture firm mid-way through assembling their new installation in Long Island City.
Theater Reviews
A revue of the late Broadway songwriter's best-known hits, and some previously unperformed pieces, includes his best and lesser songs.
Theater Reviews
Carey Mulligan carries Atlantic Theater Company's stage adaptation of the classic Bergman psychodrama.
Theater Reviews
Big Rodent puts on an intimate revival of Tom Stoppard's best-known work at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre.
A fine debut story collection either 16 or 53 years in the making, depending on how you look at it.
Eleanor Henderson's first novel is a powerful story trapped inside a bigger, vaguer one.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Sure, shaving can be sexy. Totally.
