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Merrill Garbus takes to Pier 54 to prove that live music can still sometimes be life affirming.
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The pioneer of the Brooklyn pizza renaissance is no more (at least not in Brooklyn).
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The New Yorker thinks so, bolstering our belief that they actually would not.
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The uptown painting gallery is joining the conceptual kids Downtown.
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This viral video is confused about where campuses are located.
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Do the right thing, BK.
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Will communities actually be affected?
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And it kind of sounds like they recorded it in the bathtub.
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A rep film pick for Monday: Istvan Szabo's Cannes-laureled portrait of a man and his gods in decline.
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Raw/Cooked is exactly the type of programming we want from our hometown museum!
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"Filandia Street" near Times Square was meant to honor Sunset Park's erstwhile Finnish population.
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Not that they were ever not mellow.
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Odd Future didn't play, but that was part of what made it so nice.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , Bushwick Walkabout Festival , Brooklyn Fire Proof , Cold Fronts , Backwords , Little Gold , Fort Lean , Pitchfork Festival , No Age , Gang Gang Dance , OFF! , Destroyer
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So don't judge a musician by his neon rave pants.
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Good thing those harbor police off Manhattan Beach happened to see him.
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They gamed the system, but did good work, too.
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You guys remember what records were? Those circular things?
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Your seasonal "NYPD treating cyclists like second-class citizens" story is here!
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By the time the feds got to McKibbin Street, Broken Glow was already long gone.
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Running down Friday's opening program for this year's animation weekend.
by Elise Nakhnikian
Tags: Film , Animation Block Party , Animation , La Plage , Birdboy , 7th , The Girl and the Fox , Notes on Biology , She Was the One , Story Corps , Venus , Inkwell Shuffle , Tales from the Inkwell
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"None of us are anywhere close to being hackers. We don't even know how."
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Plus: Aliens! And Cowboys! Sorta like Firefly ?
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , Cowboys and Aliens , Sam Rockwell Is a Really Good Dancer , Crazy Stupid Love , Emma Stone , Ryan Gosling , The Future , Miranda July , Attack the Block , Super 8 , The Guard , The Smurfs
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High fives all around!
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New Yorkers like the new bike lanes so much they're riding them in record numbers.
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DZ's second Annual Summer Pop-Up Bookstore opens today.
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Skewville is in the windy city, repping his hometown.
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The curator discusses his program of films by Joseph Cornell, Marie Menken, Lewis Klahr, and more, starring Rose Hobart, Lana Turner, Mariska Hargitay et al.
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Don't worry, you don't have to vote for him.
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A grab bag of videos to watch, 'cause it's summer and you don't feel like working (and neither do we).
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You've won this round, Long Beach.
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A new coffee shop, and bigger literary events, for Fulton Street near BAM.
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Cool hot-pink baby chair, Steve-o.
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Your nostalgia is silly, unless it's the same as our nostalgia.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , TV , Nickelodeon , 90s nostalgia , The 90s Are All That , Welcome Freshmen , Salute Your Shorts , Hey Dude , Pete & Pete , Clarissa Explains It All , Doug , Rugrats , Legends of the Hidden Temple , Video
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We literally could have done this all day.
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A museum devoted to the area's rich history adopts its current architectural style.
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A new report confirms that traveling on Saturdays and Sundays has been getting more hellish.
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Making Times Square tolerable, even artsy: there will soon be an app for that.
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If you want Marty, you gotta pay Jamie's way too.
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We are weirdly into this.
by Ross Barkan
Tags: News , Art , NYC art , NYC garbage , Design , Trash , Trash art , Junk art , Justin Gignac , Yankees trash , Didn't this already happen in a Don DeLillo book?
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Lots of events, performances, and unorthodox discounts tomorrow night in Chelsea.
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Unpaid Internships Rule Everything Around Me.
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Coming to local communities with Mos Def, Beethoven, and Russian cartoons.
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This is why these things don't work.
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Talking to State Senator Diane Savino about her co-sponsored legislation to do just that.
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Boats are docked, fishing lines are spooled, and beach pollution advisories are in effect.
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764 gay couples got married in the city yesterday, and we took picture of some of them.
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Low turnout may bring Jelly back to north Brooklyn.
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After The Onion announces the end of urban decay art, a defense of a beloved genre.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Media , Ruin photography , Urban ruins , Architecture , Poverty porn , The Onion , Amanda C. Mathis , Eva Struble , Dan Witz , Ben Wolf , Peter Feigenbaum , Gordon Matta-Clark
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And the swans, and the squirrels, for the last two months.
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Our favorite restaurant (just barely) outside Brooklyn is closing at the end of August.
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The Parks Department is not amused by Leon Reid IV's "Tourist in Chief."
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A Q&A with the new Bowery venue's manager, Sean Agnew of R5 Productions.
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Also starring Minnie the Moocher, Susan Tyrell, and the "de plane! de plane!" guy.
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Filmed in our very own office, it's kind of like Hoarders , except with bands.
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Especially after Back to Black hit number one on iTunes over the weekend.
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The designation has kept out big developers, but not small businesses.
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And on that note, here's a non-ironic exclamation point: !
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"I'm sure he meant it as an insult, but the fact is that I did have a closet filled with stories like that."
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Makeshift vessels like the SS Botulism did battle in Jamaica Bay this past weekend. We took pictures.
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The solution: turn existing buildings into condos, of course!
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Or, why you should never cover "Smells Like Teen Spirit" or "Last Night."
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You know, assuming "two days old" still qualifies as new.
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"For me, words are a groping towards expression, and always secondary to gesture and mood," says one of America's rising film artists, who needs your money.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film , Matthew Porterfield , I Used to Be Darker , Amy Belk , Ned Oldham , Kim Taylor , Tattoos , Putty Hill , Independent Filmmaking , Kickstarter , Video
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Sutton sees extraterrestrial aristocrats where Stewart sees simple warmongering.
by Benjamin Sutton and Henry Stewart
Tags: Film , Cowboys and Aliens , BlockBluster , John Favreau , Westerns , Aliens , Harrison Ford , Daniel Craig , James Bond , Indiana Jones , Mashups
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And they've already won the special category Pulitzer for "cutest creative power couple ever."
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The city's foremost architecture gallery takes over the space next-door.
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We don't need to defend ourselves against Manhattan-centrics anymore.
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Because there's nothing more titillating than being on the verge of financial disaster.
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You had me at 4xLP 180-gram vinyl.
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In 600 Highwaymen's latest show, old records enable a time-traveling, role-switching investigation.
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Why not? Because we're all responsible adults or something.
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“The image of Andy Badalamenti high atop the smoldering ruins of the historic roller coaster remains a part of Coney Island folkore.”
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It must be the beards.
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Free classes start next month, but registration opened yesterday!
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Talking about the suburbs, pop songs, teen movies and nostalgic archetype with the first-time feature filmmaker.
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The brassy leading lady features this weekend in The Public Enemy and Blonde Crazy .
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Jeez, sandwiches are delicious.
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Just for the record, "Birdhouse in Your Soul" is a great song, rain or shine.
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Alternative weekly in no-news-peg political screed shocker!
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This week, instead of Picassos and Bacons they'll be carrying placards and banners.
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There are soooo many cardigans in this virtual club, you wouldn't believe.
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Once I spent $70 on a ticket to see Neil Diamond; should've saved it for this.
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The big box retailer hopes to win over undecided leaders in East New York with omelets.
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This is our not-so-subtle way of asking you to bring your funkiest dance moves to McCarren.
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One of which involves Kirsten Dunst, of course.
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New revelations definitively prove her innocence! What? Oh. Wait...
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Another new track from Watch the Throne hit the internet last night, and it's built on an Otis Redding vocal sample.
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We didn't get the long blue wig, but at least we got her playing with a dog.
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Concerning Marvel superheros, rom-com obstacles, and indie teen and sci-fi flicks.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , Captain America , Marvel superhero movies , Friends with Benefits , Romantic Comedies , Obstacles , Myth of the American Sleepover , David Robert Mitchell , Teen Movies , Another Earth , Sci-Fi
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Now you can convincingly reenact "Untitled Film Still #6"!
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Two women battle perceived discourtesy.
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They said it wouldn't be anything like an art fair, and they weren't lying.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , NADA Hudson , NADA , Hudson , Upstate , Untitled , Rachel Uffner Gallery , Lower East Side , NYC gallery , Brennan & Griffin , Nicelle Beauchene Gallery , Slideshow
Album Reviews
The resurgent girl-group sound has hit a dead end here, thanks to a lack of urgency and hooks.
Features
On new reissues of the first
four Ramones albums, and the real meaning of the word "audiophile."
"The two hands clasped together over the dead man's chest made a shape roughly equivalent in size to Babak's skull."
“I finger the non-pepper but can’t get a read through the dressing.”
"Certainly it seemed we could agree that death was nothing to get worked up about when the whole croquet tournament was hanging in the balance."
"'Come on you stupid fucking faggot retard pussy penis,' said Jeff. 'All hope is lost for you. The Confederates have won.'"
"All of that chaos, confusion, and how!"
“I need to prove to Liz that our relationship isn’t a lie. I need to eat pussy.”
“Now she owed the library fifteen cents times the number of books times the number of days plus the cost of the copy of War and Peace that she’d forgotten at the Laundromat where she had, in fact, not read a page.”
“At intervals, we howl, spiritedly, into the dark.”
Film Reviews
Steve James's new doc has great scenes of verbal jiujitsu and problems with perspective.
Movie Journal
Discussing metaphor, sex and Los Angeles with the thoughtful filmmaker/artist/author/etc.
Film Reviews
This trifle from the French New Waver's late-80s run has a great opening followed by agreeable-enough whimsy.
Film Reviews
Dominic Cooper plays Saddam's son, and his body double, in a film that shows emirs living like movie gangsters.
Features
It's a displaced-longing double feature!
Film Reviews
A new sports doc is predictable, but tells the great story of the West Indian cricket team of the 1970s.
Film Reviews
Octogenarian translator Svetlana Gaier is a steady, spirited documentary subject.
Film Reviews
Pam-from-The Office explores the sour city of midlist Americana in this overreaching indie dramedy.
Film Reviews
Now this right here is a gracefully retro Marvel superhero flick.
Film Reviews
Friends with Benefits is definitely the year's most charming, savvy movie about two obviously compatible people figuring out they should be together.
Film Reviews
A new documentary goes behind the scenes at molecular gastronomy’s world headquarters.
Film Reviews
The new doc Life in a Day takes it all in, in the form of a couple thousand YuTube videos.
Film Reviews
Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle are fine as always in the schematic, unfunny The Guard .
Film Reviews
Crazy, Stupid, Love boasts an annoyingly punctuated title, some nice performances, and a not particularly brave script.
Features
It's like we're all living in board-and-batten cottages on Cape Elizabeth.
Restaurant Reviews
Seriously, this bar is so uncool it's kind of cool.
The artist's new canvases at Lombard Freid Projects show cities dissolving into neon-toned landscapes.
An exhibition at the Center for Architecture imagines what New York and its Dutch cousin could look like in three decades.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: General , Art , Center for Architecture , dlandstudio , Interboro Partners , SO-IL , W Architecture and Landscape Architecture , WORK AC , space&matter , Architecture , Bushwick , Sunset Park , Amsterdam , Barcode Architects , The future , .FABRIC
Theater Reviews
Eschewing its trademark big top tent, Cirque du Soleil takes over Radio City, all of it, with Zarkana .
Ross's anxious and melancholy characters don't get off easy, but he does let most of them off, equipped with new wisdom.
This new reshuffled collection includes a selection of his writing about booze, we mean.
Art Fag City
Two standouts amongst all the slow-season artist-curated group shows are a few blocks apart on the Lower East Side.
by Paddy Johnson
Tags: Art Fag City , On Stellar Rays , Rachel Uffner Gallery , Barbara DeGenevieve , Sam Moyer , Eddie Martinez , Martha Rosler , Clifford Owens , Ben Gocker , Maren Hassinger , Sarah Dornner
Features
New short stories from our favorite authors, and the Literary Upstart winner and finalists.
