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Almost as good as a $100 gift certificate to Insound. Almost.
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But some shit was thrown from the broken windows, which was cool.
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The Artful Conspirators' Brooklyn Underground explores the cemetery's legacy.
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Or, can you actually bear to watch to whole thing?
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The Northside community center will offer space for artists, families and nonprofits.
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We have a good guess who it was. Let's hear yours.
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A new contract agreement incorporates some (but not all) of their demands.
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Several trees fell in the native flora garden.
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On the joys of "rip-off" cinema, at 92YTribeca this weekend.
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Will live on at its Upper West Side location after near-closure scare.
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Our Canadian guest at this weekend's Brooklyn Book Festival talks love letters, and Dad's elusive approval.
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Featuring Matthew Dear, Juan MacLean, Blondes and more.
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We saw so many famous writers!
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Books , Talks and Readings , downtown brooklyn , brooklyn book festival , pete hamill , joyce carol oates , jonathan safran foer , tea obreht , justin torres , j hoberman , jason zinoman , david goodwillie , justin taylor , randall robinson , Slideshow
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Charles Grodin in person. You guys!
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In which the Danish director talks about scorpions, Kraftwerk, and Alejandro Jodorowsky's tarot readings.
by Miriam Bale
Tags: Film , Nicolas Winding Refn , Drive , Ryan Gosling , Albert Brooks , Los Angeles , John Hughes , Sixteen Candles , Kraftwerk , Cars , Scorpions , Gaspar Noe , Alejandro Jodorowsky , Tarot
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So we went to Canada!
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Your eyes are not physically capable of rolling back as far as they will want to.
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But those nightmares will have an excellent soundtrack.
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Spoilers: the bad guys won.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Politics , News , bushwick , sheepshead bay , david weprin , bob turner , rafael espinal , jesus gonzalez , special elections , ny 9 , 54th assembly district
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Pamela Geller will sue to get her crazy ad into subway cars.
by Ross Barkan
Tags: News , Media , Pamela Geller , Bloggers , Atlas Shrugs , Daily News , MTA , Subway ads , Terrorism , Israel , Free speech , Terrible people , Video
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A recent interview sheds some light on what independent record labels think of the majors.
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Lots of punching, kicking, and machine-gunning, too.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , Moneyball , Jonah Hill , Brad Pitt , The Killer Elite , Jason Statham , Abduction , That Child with the Abs from the Twilight Movies , Dolphin Tale , Ashley Judd , Machine Gun Preacher , Marc Forster
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This weekend's rep pick, from Anthology's Mexican cinema series, is a promising early feature from a rising filmmaker.
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In which we show you how to get drunk on dark-colored beers.
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Our first live review ever to discuss the contours of a performer's penis.
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David Comes to Life is still really good, btw.
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If you let people submit anything to an art competition, they will submit just about anything.
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(Hint: June 14-17)
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Go ahead, he's not the Vampire Weekend member who loves Phish.
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The mythic creature lurking beneath the Manhattan Bridge has been defeated.
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The ubiquitous borough prez isn't ruling out a run in 2013.
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A painting on a drug dealer's door may have been the late art star's last work.
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The hottest new business sector is in your pants!
by Audrey Ference
Tags: Sex , sex , vaginas , vulvas , racism , corporate overlords , feminine hygiene , flowery vaginal soaps , tampons , sex and the city , HPV , ayelet waldman
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Talking viral culture and the politics of hacktivism.
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The city wants your advice placing its 600 bike-share stations.
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Nirvana wasn't the only band to release a classic album on September 24, 1991.
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The band comes out with a crushingly cathartic and melody-centric new EP, Red , this week, so check out our interview with them earlier this month before a soundcheck at Glasslands.
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Cliches often become a clutch for artists working in another medium.
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Some things just make sense.
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Did you have an opinion about Brooklyn's redistricting process? Too bad.
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What? Can't hear you... we're always on our phone now.
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This lovely, smart gay romance is one of the year's breakout films.
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And plans for 599 more stretching from Uptown to Bed-Stuy by next summer.
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The little theater that could is about to be reborn in the West Village.
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After a final show in San Francisco, Kevin Drew tells Pitchfork it'll be hiatus time. Well, not really. Sorta. Kinda.
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The MTA spends money where it's most needed.
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In this possible Vietnam allegory, impure thought is as immoral as impure deed.
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Successfully antic comedy with a dark streak at MoMA's new-Korean-film series kicks off.
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Or maybe not! Either way, the 90s were so awesome.
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A year ago he was playing here with Pavement, remember that?
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Even the NY Philharmonic couldn't make fresh this tired take on Shakespeare.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Music , Theater , new york philharmonic , alan gilbert , christopher plummer , henry v , william walton , richard wagner , shakespeare , what's opera doc , steeped in the classicals , Video
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Fast food joints are pursuing liquor licenses, so that college students in search of munchies are no longer the only drunks in the place.
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The keystone business of the Lincoln Road commercial strip—and the heart of the community—is battling its landlord.
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Four successful female artists discuss the art world's enduring gender biases.
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And notes on upcoming Cindy Sherman and Diego Rivera shows from yesterday's press briefing.
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Two local papers declare Williamsburg dead, and the gallery scene suggests they're right.
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Over 300 pieces will chronicle the street artist's rapid development into a Downtown star.
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Similar conditions resulted in The Triangle Fire 100 years ago.
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At least one architecture firm thinks so.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , News , The High Line , The Low Line , Parks , Chelsea , Lower East Side , RAAD Studio , Architecture , Abandoned subway stations , Underneath NYC , Williamsburg Bridge , Trolleys
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We all have regrets, but not all of us go public with them.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Talks and Readings , With Regrets , Ben Greenman , Karlee Stine , A.J. Jacobs , Jonny Diamond , 10Q , regrets , shame , humiliation , Jessica Chaffin , Jessi Klein , The High Holidays
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Are you willing to whore yourself out to see Radiohead this week? Then you've come to the right place!
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Magic! (Plus gravel, epoxy, and community-led urbanism.)
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Hospital, heal thyself!
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The world just got a little brighter.
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Your cheat sheet to the best art festival of the fall.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , DUMBO Arts Festival , Brooklyn art , DUMBO , Smack Mellon , video_dumbo , Janet Biggs , Liz Magic Laser , Kim Holleman , Adam Parker Smith , Video
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If you read anything else about this album, read this piece that The Atlantic just posted.
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Despite some residential tenants' complaints, Brooklyn's got a new landmark district.
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Filled with true tales of death threats and indecent proposals from readers!
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Yes, of course it mentions Satan.
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Hardship continues to bring out the best in Brooklynites.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: News , Park Slope , Prospect Heights , Brooklyn , Rapes , Sex attacks , Cyclist escorts , Neighborhood watch , NYPD , South Slope , Biking in NYC
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Four short films exploring "the origin of music" from four All Tomorrow's Parties festivals need post production funding.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , Vincent Moon , Kickstarter projects , La Blogotheque , Broken Social Scene , Explosions in the Sky , Four Tet , Animal Collective , the Yeah Yeah Yeahs , All Tomorrow's Parties , Lydia Lunch , Josh T. Pearson , Saul Williams , Video
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Those harmonies. Man, those harmonies.
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Contains profanity.
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Cops won't coerce you into publicly displaying your pot anymore.
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This year in brilliance.
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More evidence of the plot to get indie kids to watch television this week.
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One of our favorite Brooklyn singer-songwriters tries his hand at acting/roaming around Iceland.
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The star sculptor and his wife now own all but one floor of a former Lower Manhattan factory.
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Your chance to tell James Murphy how you really feel about LCD Soundsystem breaking up.
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Pondering Ryan Gosling, Serious Thespian Movie Star, and the wisdom of a Straw Dogs remake.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , Drive , Ryan Gosling , I Don't Know How She Does It , Olivia Munn , Sarah Jessica Parker , Restless , Gus Van Sant , Straw Dogs , Subtlety
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Bloomberg's war on cigarettes producing results.
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It's ok. You are totally allowed to be bored by this.
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The paragons of feminine, feminist post-punk still shining 30 years later.
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You can get your name on a seat, just like at Film Forum!
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Must be all those courteous new cyclists.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: News , Biking in NYC , Hunter College , Studies , Transportation , Accidents , Injuries , Brooklyn , Williamsburg , Greenpoint , Bushwick , Lower East Side , Video
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It'll make you wish you could speak fluent French.
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All last week, while the rest of us were watching television and drinking beer, a bunch of our photographers were out taking pictures of tall, attractive people.
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New sounds from the new album, but retaining the audience's old puppy love.
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A stray bullet in Downtown Brooklyn almost hit a woman and her four-month-old.
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This may be the first time a respondent has composed an answer for the expressed purpose of regretting it later.
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He's that guy, you know, in Arcade Fire, who just beat San Antonio Spurs forward Matt Bonner in a 3-point contest.
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It's all happening, my punk and hardcore holdouts.
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The Portland power trio's de facto coming-out party fell on the first night of "jacket weather."
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by Audrey Ference
Tags: Sex , sex , contraception , world contraception day , condoms , nyc free condoms , iuds , nuvarings , birth control pills , safe sex , yay
Album Reviews
The head-turning Strange Mercy is Annie Clark's most urgent and inventive work yet.
Album Reviews
With a newly broad set of influences Father, Son, Holy Ghost is every bit as good as everyone's saying it is.
Album Reviews
Indie rock super-group Wild Flag release their endlessly inspiring debut.
by Jenn Pelly
Tags: Album Reviews , Music , Wild Flag , Merge Records , Sleater Kinney , Helium , The Minders , Carrie Brownstein , Mary Timony , Janet Weiss , Rebecca Cole
Album Reviews
The solo debut from this San Franciscan psych-pop artist is one of the year's most pleasant surprises.
Features
Ok fine, some are old things I listen to so I don't have to think about chillwave.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Features , Music , Michael Hurley , Superchunk , Foolish , Laura Marling , Salinas , Das Racist , Christopher Small , Slow Club , Bert Jansch , Birthday Blues , Jeff Tweedy , Video
Film Reviews
Why wouldn't everyone in a Tom Tykwer movie be bisexual? (And other pressing questions.)
Film Reviews
Everything is heightened in this finely tuned, naturally embodied, and crisply shot gay romance.
Film Reviews
Nicolas Winding Refn teams up with The Goz to make the purest cinema you'll see all year.
Film Reviews
Watch a dying teenager fall in love, without feeling manipulated!
Film Reviews
In The Mill and the Cross , Lech Majewski uses digital technology and well-costumed actors to live inside a Bruegel painting.
Film Reviews
Position Among The Stars is an essential—if a bit slick—look at the booming industry-of-sense-of-self in the world's fourth largest country.
Film Reviews
A documentary filmmaker does her part to bring justice to Guatamala in Granito: How to Nail a Dictator .
Film Reviews
Running down the history of some infamous recordings, Shut Up, Little Man! gets into the knotty issues that complicate even something so simple as laughing at screaming drunks.
Film Reviews
A comprehensive BAM retro revels in the filmmaker's alternate aesthetic universes.
Film Reviews
A revival of Marriage, Italian Style , in which Sophia Loren overwhelms pervasive cultural hypocrisies.
Film Reviews
Limelight looks at pre-Giuliani nightlife impresario Peter Gatien.
Film Reviews
An actress (Ellen Barkin) retreats into her own head in this uneven, autumnal, liquid black and white chamber piece.
Film Reviews
The FSLC spotlights Tuesday Weld, whose blonde pop neuroses were always the best thing about the movies she was in.
We stopped by the sculptor's studio as he was finishing work on pieces for his new solo show at the Brooklyn Museum.
The German artist's new show of sculpture pushes her oft-cited fashion training to its breaking point.
Theater Reviews
On the occasion of Itamar Moses' lab-set campus rom-com Completeness , a look at the persistent chasm between theater and science.
Theater Reviews
The Berserker Residents' new sci-fi-noir-Orientalist layover comedy keeps the audience laughing while the plane refuels and the frogs close in.
Theater Reviews
But while Dan Klores' play about muckracking reporter Mike McAlary trips itself up, Chad Beckim's post-incarceration comedy finds its feet.
Theater Reviews
The New York Neo-Futurists' latest follows the playwright's notoriously over-specific stage directions, and nothing else.
Theater Reviews
Jonas Hassen Khemiri's investigation of otherness in post-9/11 America invades the Flea.
Chad Harbach's much-hyped debut novel, about baseball and college and America and other lofty ideas, really is all that.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Art Fag City
Notes on art (and fashion) from a recent visit to the Danish capital.
Ask A Cabbie
How can anyone hate a bike lane?
Sex, Dating and Other Atrocities
"At one point I can swear he's staring at the exact place my vagina would be if I were naked."
Local
On The Crown Heights
Shootout and NYPD Firepower
Features
Very good things to eat and drink.
