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Basquiat's former band played a rare show last night, and they sounded as vital as they did in1980.
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Locals pols hope to bring in the CIA or FBI as tenants, but we think it'd make a great park.
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New York's longest-running Off Broadway theater keeps running.
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Turns out you can't claim copyright to "virtually any figure with outstretched arms." Darn.
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Until last week our boycott of Hotel Le Bleu was unofficial and incidental, but now it's virulently official.
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So a grad student, a roller-skating artist, an aspiring astronaut, an oversexed Italian supermodel, a weary housewife, a disgraced "native girl" and a "way-out admirer of Goethe" climb aboard a pirate ship...
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One way to get people to move out a neighborhood is to take their homes away.
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No sleep 'till Coney Island.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: TV , Bored to Death , Zach Galifianakis , Ted Danson , Jason Schwartzman , Jonathan Ames , HBO , trailer , Beastie Boys , Coney Island , Brooklyn stuff , Video
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There are more films and television shows being shot here than ever, but at whose expense?
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Some park users say other park users are using the park as an open-air toilet.
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But don't worry: the plaintiffs have vowed to wage "a longer war"!
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But will it just be a prefab construction job? That'd be... rich.
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In which I realize that we have been having the same conversation for a decade.
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East Coast or West Coast, Sunday Styles or Sunday Business.
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Mark Ecko needs your help finding an art thief who looks like a reject from a Beastie Boys video.
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Plus many other errors and perplexing decisions as the paper goes out in true form.
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Sutton sees a sexist dick where Stewart senses the sharp sword of merchandising.
by Benjamin Sutton and Henry Stewart
Tags: Film , BlockBluster , Conan , Conan the Barbarian , Stephen Lang , Jason Momoa , Rose McGowan , Sexism , Ron Perlman , The patriarchy , Merchandising
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I bet if they looked around Williamsburg, they could get a girl who looks like Daria to do it.
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Why, won't you whistle us a tune, Mr. Bird?
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OMG, LOOK HOW CLOSE THOSE PEOPLE ARE STANDING TO STEVE MALKMUS!
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Written for, of all publications, the New York Post .
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Hey Julian, here's what you'll look like in 15 years.
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"I got pretty caught up in the chapter on channeling your inner heiress..."
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Truly a child of destiny...
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Stephen Malkmus needs your help before his Hollywood show tonight. And no, "shmow-shmob" will not be accepted.
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Someone from management clears up the confusion.
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Luhring Augustine will open its new Knickerbocker Avenue project space and storage facility in November.
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Bath Beach and Gravesend will also be treated to this poison party.
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Checking in with this fall's cultural agenda (and next spring's, in the cases of the ones with subtitles).
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So the NYPD can track your every movement. Ha, just kidding (we're pretty sure).
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In which Ms. Clark is buried alive by a bunch of jerks.
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We've been sweating since June. Please make it stop.
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It's like Lord of the Flies , with drunk adults instead of children.
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One the world's most intellectually ambitious filmmakers has died, leaving a couple of unfinished films to go along with his other hundred.
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A light rain shower is set to hit the area this weekend.
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Throw a marble at a New York Press street box. Bonk!
by Mark Asch
Tags: Media , New York Press , Russ Smith , John Strausbaugh , Jeff Koyen , Harry Siegel , Adario Strange , David Blum , Jerry Portwood , Armond White , Stephanie Sellars , Kelly Kreth , Nostalgia
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So get thee to NPR, ASAP.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , wild flag , mary timony , carrie brownstein , npr , janet weiss , rebecca cole , helium , sleater-kinney , the minders , VMA's
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Originally titled "Gallery Girls," it's now called something less gross.
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This just in: Wavves likes pot, tweeting and sticking his tongue out when someone takes a picture of him.
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Not bad. Not bad at all.
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Can still drive stagecoaches and dirigibles.
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"Copper alloy" now costs as much as precious metals.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Bronze , Fabrication , Brooklyn art , Art materials , Luis Gispert , Jennifer Cohen , Urs Fischer , Tom Otterness , Sarah Peters , Sculpture
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Brazil's defining cinematic New Wave is more referenced than seen, which the Spectacle aims to correct.
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Are you guys as excited for the first season of Real World: North Korea as we are? Oh, wait.
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Soda is bad for you.
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Before its lease expires in May, the Water Street theater will host some big names and familiar faces.
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Are MFA students today's starving artists?
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You've read all of Infinite Jes t, right?
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As evidenced by this collaborative animation and drawing series set to 12 Screaming Females songs.
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Never thought I'd write "Foot Locker" and "Mr. Dream" together in the same sentence.
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A major overhaul of the messy mega-intersection will be finished this weekend.
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A landmass thousands (millions?) of years old is celebrating its 350th birthday today. This is why we never visit you, S.I.
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"Craft beer scenester freegan PBR williamsburg 8-bit." So true!
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Media , Single-function sites , Stereotypes , Hipsters , Signifiers , Words , Dummy text , Filler text , Gibberish , terry richardson , vinyl , stumptown , retro , brooklyn , dreamcatcher , four loko
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Ridiculous faux-suburban grass lot made tolerable with art!
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Street art , Lower East Side , Brooklyn , Timeshare Backyard , Backyard , Gaia , Over Under , Veng , Murals , Public art , Video
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Hot dogs for everyone.
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On finding time to make out, traveling, and indie rock's institutionalized fear of vaginas.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , alexei perry , dan boeckner , handsome furs , wolf parade , sound kapital , indie rock , vaginas , Kosovo , bowery ballroom , L TV , Video
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What kind of subtitle is "All the Time in the World," anyway?
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Sutton fears fixer-uppers, while Stewart wishes for a little genre remodeling.
by Benjamin Sutton and Henry Stewart
Tags: Film , BlockBluster , Don't Be Afraid of the Dark , Katie Holmes , Guillermo del Toro , Troy Nixey , Home renovation , Foreclosure , The proletariat , Guy Pearce , Horror movies
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It must be all the times Pitchfork writers have looked up the words to an Odd Future song.
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From our legal department: "The L Magazine in no way condones or encourages the consumption of alcohol by minors."
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Where our children will start playing with toy genitals when they turn four.
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The first piece of new art at the 9/11 Museum could be a giant pink palindrome.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , News , Robert Indiana , 911 , September 11th , Ground Zero , Andy Warhol , Ultra Violet , Sculptures , Public art , Roman numerals , Palindromes , IXXI
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Of plums, optimism, and burning ambition.
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Remembering The Great Brooklyn Earthquake of several minutes ago.
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The Brooklyn-based performance artist uses humor to cope with violence.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Inside the Artist's Studio , NYC art , Performance art , Chelsea , Installation art , Lior Shvil , Art Focus , Andrea Rosen Gallery , SculptureCenter , Video
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Or, Seismic Notes from All Over.
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Including the city's best Vietnamese place, in Sunset Park.
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What we talk about when we talk about "Never Forget."
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And if so, will that have any effect on the 2012 election whatsoever?
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Hicks Street resident Jeffrey Axelrod becoming pinned under on the truck's rear wheels.
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On non-intelligence-insulting adult entertainment, the Luc Besson ridiculousness factory, and more.
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This weekend's rep film pick anticipated YouTube by 70 years, sorta.
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If split 7"s only came from Kurt Vile and Woods from here on out, we'd be ok with that.
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Callicoon Fine Arts will open at 124 Forsyth Street next week.
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But exactly what that number is remains unclear.
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You will listen to this no more than .75 times.
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NYC health inspectors cracking down on dogs in bars; observers report no American civilization left to save.
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The (musical) artist throws his hat into the summer's "giant public sculpture" competition at the last minute.
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According to a new poll they do!
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Because you miss The Cardigans, that's why.
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So you can play waterfront soccer in mid-January.
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How is it possible that Google didn't already have a music blog?
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It's technically called Thursday , but we'll probably call it Thursdy instead.
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Rowin, departing our pages for academia, shares his favorite endings in movie history.
by Michael Joshua Rowin
Tags: Film , Michael Joshua Rowin , Farewells , Endings , Fellini's Casanova , Federico Fellini , Burn After Reading , The Coen Brothers , Spies , Fritz Lang , Pierrot le fou , Jean-Luc Godard , Slacker , Richard Linklater , What did we learn , Fucked if I know , Video
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Accuse Janette Sadik-Khan of having an ostentatious home.
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Here's one good thing to come out of all this gentrifyin'.
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In which we learn about his disgust for mayonnaise, but also hear a bunch of smart things he has to say.
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It's illegal to keep pythons as pets.
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Faced with a ridiculous rent increase, the non-profit must move.
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Well this is just lovely.
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Or, become jealous of the Handsome Furs as they travel the world while you're stuck in your office cubicle.
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Leon Reid IV wants to portray George Washington as a tourist, but the community board wants something more touristy.
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Hey, TV executives, here are ten better ideas than the one you have right now.
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Mostly fictional, but wouldn't it be cool if...
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Watch the Batman actress rap about paparazzi on Conan . Damn, she's got swag.
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I don't get it.
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Yes. Yes, we should.
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Jeez, Lou Reed and Metallica, you are the worst.
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Flooding, and trees down!
by Henry Stewart
Tags: News , hurricane irene , bay ridge , brooklyn heights , carroll gardens , ditmas park , dumbo , east new york , fort greene , gowanus , gravesend , greenpoint , manhattan beach , marine park , park slope , prospect lefferts gardens , prospect heights , prospect park , red hook , sheepshead bay , windsor terrace
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Things are not looking good for one of the city's smaller museums.
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But the local councilmember says that doesn't necessarily mean more crimes have occurred.
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Though there was alcohol...
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Do you like psych-pop? Yes. Yes. YES.
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And more importantly, Am I supposed to feel like a dick for pre-ordering the Foolish reissue?
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I really agonized over this one, you guys.
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Not a bad way to kick off the day.
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Please don't do that to yourself with a rubber duckie.
by Audrey Ference
Tags: Sex , sex , sex toys , vibrators , things that look like other things , pocket rockets , fleshlights , bunnies , duckies , necklaces , apples
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Now where will we find Faile's latest work, aside from on every block in Williamsburg?
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The no-wave pioneer takes to Greenpoint's candle-lit Manhattan Inn. Chaos Sleepiness ensues.
Album Reviews
With an assist from producer Beck, Stephen Malkmus and his Jicks are back with the very good, surprisingly straightforward Mirror Traffic .
Features
A new documentary concerns the team that uncovered Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, and was ignored.
Film Reviews
A stylish Brighton Rock update gets everything but the heart of the matter.
Features
Circumstance and Higher Ground both consider the sexual satisfaction of women in religious cultures.
Film Reviews
Romanian omnibus Tales from the Golden Age offers up amusing, sometimes excellent sardonic life-lessons from the Ceausescu years.
Film Reviews
Flat family comedy Our Idiot Brother functions mostly as guide to the snobbery of various NYC demographics.
Features
BAM revives two fascinatingly dated cult films by the unknown New Yorker.
Film Reviews
Hearts, minds and the ethics of torture are discussed in John Sayles’s drama of the Philippine-American War.
Film Reviews
One Day drops in annually to watch two people take two decades to get together.
Film Reviews
Colin Farrell has fun as the vampire next door, but this Fright Night remake has too many promising ideas fizzle out.
Film Reviews
This new lo-fi romance/serial killer mash-up telegraphs its big twist.
Film Reviews
Fine acting saves this somewhat schmaltzy adaptation of The Elegance of the Hedgehog .
Film Reviews
Programming the Nation? , a documentary about subliminal messaging, doesn't really have much to say about subliminal messaging, but it sure is paranoid.
Film Reviews
This tale of the great composer's possibly stifled sister safely lodges a feminist complaint in period garb.
The renowned photographer fills Midtown's modern display case with thousands of tiny nudes.
In Layers , a three-person show at Yes Gallery, features a few unexpected discoveries.
The things you should be excited about this season, including an exhibition of Bob Dylan's paintings and a breakdancing Pinocchio.
Tags: Art , Art , Sanford Biggers , Willem de Kooning , Lisa Yuskavage , Bob Dylan , Alfred Stieglitz , Carsten Höller , Maurizio Cattelan , David Wojnarowicz , Adam Rapp , Atlantic Theater Company , STREB , Company XIV , Jesse Eisenberg , Thomas Bradshaw , Merce Cunningham , John Malkovich , Robert Wilson , Philip Glass
On Cory Arcangel, Ryan Trecartin and the endless hype cycle.
Theater Reviews
Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival offers an international and intergenerational platform.
Theater Reviews
In Charles Busch's campy new comedy, a has-been actress turns even the sweetest relationships sour.
Theater Reviews
Drug deals and orgy plans fall through during this evening of two plays in a room at the Gershwin Hotel.
Theater Reviews
Terence Patrick Hughes' chaotic new drama is set in a town divided between blacks and whites by a line.
Meville House's new International Crime line offers up four detective novels by the German author Jakob Arjouni.
In Debt: The First 5,000 Years , anarchist anthropologist David Graeber traces the worrying depersonalization of a productive social institution (really!).
Ask A Cabbie
We stick our head in the freezer at the corner deli.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Sex, Dating and Other Atrocities
Will Kat find a magic connection with the man with a butt for a chin?
Sex, Dating and Other Atrocities
Will Kat find hot, magical love with a stranger from the L train? FIND OUT.
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At the bike-in movie!
