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Erika cussed a lot; Spencer maybe just a little.
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So much for chamber music on a boat beside the Brooklyn Bridge!
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On the Dardenne Brothers' Dickensian latest.
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Taking over two warehouses and a church.
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Horse Trade Theater Company to keep renting basement space until it can buy the whole building.
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It's like arts festival central down here.
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"It's time for the Junior's Cheesecake three-point halftime challenge!"
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Fantasy plans for the city's craziest-looking skate park.
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And here are the five worst jokes from the last two episodes.
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Motorist under arrest after fatal collision on Columbus Day.
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It's near Manhattan, but it's in Brooklyn.
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Much more pleasant than post-lunch trying to stay awake at work.
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October 1st reopening date has passed, but renovations continue.
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Works in his exhibition at Gagosian all seem to be based on historic photographs.
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His dazzling new production of the Brecht opera runs through Saturday at BAM.
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2013 will be the Year of No Copays.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Politics , Sex , News , Birth Control , Obamacare , Preventive Medicine , Health Insurance , Contraception , The Pill , The Morning-After Pill , RU-486
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The Mexican drug wars and the problems of virtuoso victim cinema.
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The extraordinary, gorgeous and anticlimactic murder non-mystery screens just once.
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Today's rep pick, quite sincere and logical in its own way, deserves a series of double-takes.
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The banality of faith in practice, plus some invigoratingly literal Christian symbolism.
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Look at all that pretty stuff you could've, should've bought...
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Show off your ability to pretend you've read prominent old foreign writers!
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Father-son angst and Talmudic scholarship collide in this attempted crowd-pleaser.
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I sincerely hope this is the last time I have to write about this dumb lawsuit.
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Citizens say New York headed smoothly in wrong direction.
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“You, a baby rat, right now, are luckier than me.”
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Oedipal tension, hippie freakouts, and world-weariness in Nicholas Ray's unfinished testament.
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Thousands marched thrice against corporate greed and police brutality.
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Talking to candidate Jesus Gonzalez about what's at stake.
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"Tourist-in-Chief" takes Union Square on Saturday.
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Plus: Serious Clooney, evaluated.
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Three German films, allegedly different approaches to the same subject, mostly stand alone.
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Which involves cutting holes into the building's floors and ceilings—and buying lots of elbow pads.
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Thousands marched on NYPD headquarters.
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South Slope spree spreads to Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace.
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Lars von Trier's latest is about depression. Like, very much.
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Anthony Turturro was hit by a speeding car in 2004 on Gerritsen Avenue.
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Another basic food increasingly out of low income citizens' reach.
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Five people have died in Greenpoint parks in the last 15 months.
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ESPN has some ideas for selling professional basketball to "the borough's too-cool-for-everything citizens."
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Well, whaddaya know.
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Including towering buildings, floating pools and a cross-canal motorcycle jump.
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And it was captured on disturbing video.
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The water-filtering park will debut with a pilot project in 2012.
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Two chances to see your weekend rep pick.
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Also drink. Drink lots on Sunday.
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Resulting hybrid artwork is the trippiest thing you'll see all day.
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The revolution gets ready for bed.
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This weekend won't be as good as last weekend.
by Josh Kurp
Tags: Music , All Tomorrow's Parties , I'll Be Your Mirror , Asbury Park , Cults , Chavez , Shellac , Jeff Mangum , Neutral Milk Hotel , Bonnie "Prince" Billy , BEAK> , Oneida , The Horrors , Battles , The Pop Group , Swans , Ultramagnetic MCs , Portishead , Anika , Deerhoof , Public Enemy , Nadia Chaudhury
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We are hate-watching the shit out of stupid fucking show, and you should be too.
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It's the end of the world as Abel Ferrara knows it, which means last-gasp self-indulgence from a filmmaker never known for restraint.
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Other usual suspects will also perform in next month's biennial.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Theater , Performance art , Performa , James Franco , Laurel Nakadate , Shirin Neshat , Liz Magic Laser , Rashaad Newsome , Reggie Watts , Performa , Tennessee Williams
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The Scotish folk legend lost a two-year battle with lung cancer early this morning.
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Aka, our way of being able to post these pictures of Jenny Lewis on Monday night's premiere.
by Nadia Chaudhury
Tags: Music , TV , Gossip Girl , Jenny Lewis , Johnathan Rice , Jenny and Johnny , Lady Gaga , Cyndi Lauper , Florence and the Machine , Robyn , Lisa Loeb , No Doubt , Sonic Youth , Video
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Also, Furman is a two-way street now!
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: News , Brooklyn Bridge Park , DUMBO , Columbia Street , Furman Street , Red Hook , Columbia Waterfront District , BQE , Bike lanes , Biking in NYC , Brooklyn Heights
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"Go from chunky to hunky in 60 seconds!"
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A music doc premiering at NYFF watches the folk-rocker chases his ghosts.
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Painfully realistic real-time video game art.
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The ferry-espousing local reporter has returned to his old stomping grounds.
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Your first weekend rep pick is a 1998 documentary about the filmmaker's incapacitated father and caretaker mother.
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Whoa, I think Death by Audio transported to Manhattan for a night.
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It helps that he talked about his grandma too.
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In which L Mag Editor in Chief Jonny Diamond sacrifices his own sobriety for the greater good.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Food & Drink , The Richardson , brooklyn cocktail , manhatan cocktail , cosmopolitan , martini , Joel Lee Kulp , Jon De Rosa , Jonny Diamond , how to brooklyn , L TV , Video
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Hinsch's, I didn't like you. Please don't leave me!
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Check out those frisbee skills.
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[Hipster hyperconnectivity joke goes here.]
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Relieve yourself like a financial god at Olympic Restaurant.
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Radiohead joke goes here .
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Yep, we're still arguing about this...
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Foolish bike rider, recklessly running into a car like that.
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There's a Tumblr blog homage to Thom Yorke's half-closed eye that you might want to take a look at.
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In hopes that the community board will stop complaining, pretty please.
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Come get your anti-fat-hate booster shot.
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Are stunningly perfect metaphors for contemporary China contemporary China's biggest export, or what?
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They did not play your favorite song.
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Thoughts and photos from Occupy Wall Street's D.C. outpost.
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Study based on utterances of "sexy messages" in "18 sexy categories."
by Audrey Ference
Tags: Sex , sex , music , sex appeal , songs , billboard top ten , charts , snacks , mate guarding , mate provisioning , reproductive messages , the only time I'd believe something in an ev psych magazine
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Your Michelle Williams Oscarbait biopic is here. Ugh.
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Annual list of nation's most-produced plays includes some surprises.
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Scott McClanahan wowed the crowd at Blake Butler's book launch.
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In which we find Williamsburg drinking institution Daddy's can double as a laundromat.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , These Are the People in Your Neighborhood , Alex Craig , Big Troubles , Slumberland , Tortilla Factory , Sound Fix , Mr. Kiwi's , Daddy's , The Rock Shop , Blue Bottle , Supercore , Ari's apartment
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On October 5th, some very smart people will gather at the Knitting Factory to figure out exactly what's going on in the various corners of the music industry.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music
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Roman Polanski's adaptation of a Broadway play exposes the caveperson in all of us.
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An intermittently vivid drama about the emotional lives of aid workers.
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Immigration, empathy and the legacy of French cinema, in Aki Kaurismaki's latest deadpan fable.
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This was so much better than Radiohead, you guys.
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In which Ken Lonergan's second film is finally released, Anna Faris gets a star vehicle, etc.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , Margaret , Kenneth Lonergan , Anna Paquin , 50/50 , Joseph Gordon-Levitt , What's Your Number? , Anna Faris , Dream House , Jim Sheridan
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One of the city's most unique arts venues going back to its roots (and getting a huge elevator).
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Theater , Park Avenue Armory , Construction , Architecture , Upper East Side , Merce Cunningham , Herzog & de Meuron , Preservation , NYC theater , NYC art
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These guys are having a rough go of it recently, eh?
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"If there's no guy around you can honestly go years without acquiring a TV."
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Note to performance artists: having a kid in a gallery is the new masturbating in a gallery.
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Eventually, it will be slightly less crowded.
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Well, that was cathartic, I guess?
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In which an overweight Frenchman wearing only pneumatic tubes gives one of the borough's most exclusive restaurants three stars.
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You'll never lose track of time at the Modern again.
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James Benning's latest accurately titled film spends the duration of a cigarette with twenty people.
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Your rep film pick, from the NYFF's Nikkatsu tribute, is one of the Japanese studio's groundbreaking postwar youth movies.
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Slightly under the weather, the UK band ups its thunder.
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New show about NYC galleries' twentysomething female employees has started shooting.
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Another strong Lower East Side art space needs a new home.
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Everyone has their reasons, which is the tragedy of this Iranian drama.
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Things that don't really need to exist: a video game in which Jeff Mangum fights Hitler.
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Art! Books! Art books! As far as the eye can see at MoMA PS1.
by Ian Erickson-Kery
Tags: Art , Books , MoMA PS1 , NY Art Book Fair , Long Island City , NYC museums , Joel Sternfeld , Roe Etheridge , Printed Matter , The Thing , Showpaper , Ryan Foerster , Zines , David Horvitz , Werkplaatz Typografie , Tauba Auerbach , e-flux
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Loss of parking spaces causes conflict over new Newtown Creek-spanning lanes.
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As justified by this playlist.
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Inside contemporary cults with a master, if closed-off, filmmaker.
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Julia Loktev's latest explores the clash between modern gender roles and
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Risky, campy, and pointedly spongelike with its influences, this is the best Pedro in years.
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It only lasted about 12 hours, but it was great.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Olek , East Village , Street art , Astor Place , Tony Rosenthal , Sculpture , Public Art , NYC art , The Man , Video
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You see, Dad, I did "do something" for Rosh Hashanah.
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Analysis vs. spanking, and hysteric, hysterical Keira Knightley, in Cronenberg's very fine mature work.
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Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw.
Features
Some are new and some are old, but all of them are awesome and important and worth your time.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Features , Music , Jens Lekman , Bonnie "Prince" Billy , Riff Raff , Billy Bragg , Absolutely Kosher , Atlas Sound , Quilt , Shellac , Neutral Milk Hotel , The Hive Dwellers , Dinosaur Feathers , Video
Album Reviews
Crisp and engaging, the debut full-length from Twin Sister is one of the best albums of the year.
Album Reviews
The intense, slow-building Conatus is the best work yet from Nika Roza Danilova's Zola Jesus.
Album Reviews
Ha, remember when Pitchfork gave this a 6.9, then wrote a review that read like an 8.0?
Album Reviews
The Year of Hibernation is a neurotic, distressed record that's nonetheless immensely enjoyable.
Film Reviews
Michael Shannon goes nuts and Texas teens go melodramatic in these old and new small-town sagas.
Movie Journal
Moneyball isn't just about our national pastime, it's about how interesting stories get self-righteous and streamlined.
Film Reviews
Russians tell long stories and go nowhere in this impressive piece of arthouse grime.
Features
Running down the annual fall agenda-setter.
Film Reviews
It's hicks vs. college students vs. themselves in this hillbilly slasher send-up.
Film Reviews
Six years, two lawsuits and countless reedits later, Kenneth Lonergan’s second film is released.
Film Reviews
Hints of subversion are drowned like so many unwanted kittens in this unfortunate Anna Faris vehicle.
Film Reviews
The self-proclaimed "End of Cinema" is a freewheeling nihilistic road movie.
Film Reviews
Well here's a genuinely fresh 80s-set teen movie...
Film Reviews
Smart and steady, The Ides of March is story of political disillusionment.
Features
Japanese pub food worth leaving your house for.
Bar Reviews
A nice place for a date...
The artist's debut at Team Gallery features stenciled posters for concerts that never happened.
Theater Reviews
The latest revival of Sondheim's most majestic musical renders its characters' unhappiness with sadistically powerful detail.
Theater Reviews
A former Guantanamo interrogator's detainee comes asking questions in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's new family drama.
Theater Reviews
In its latest Jazz Age literary adaptation, ERS sets Hemingway's moveable binge in a Paris barroom.
Talking history jokes, Nancy Drew and New Yorker cartoons with the creator of Hark! A Vagrant.
A new translation of Raymond Roussel's prophetic avant-garde novel.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Art Fag City
"Suck it up. Expect to spend no less than 10 years working independently before receiving any kind of recognition."
Sex, Dating and Other Atrocities
In which Kat goes on a blind date and gets very, very lucky.
Local
Our totally scientific and entirely biased assessment of the borough, neighborhood by neighborhood.
Tags: Local , Features , Brooklyn Neighborhoods , Rankings , Greenpoint , Fort Greene , Clinton Hill , Ditmas Park , Cobble Hill , Williamsburg , Gowanus , Bushwick , Park Slope , Carroll Gardens , Booklyn Heights , Dumbo , Red Hook , Federal Superfund , Newtown Creek, , Five Leaves , Eat , WORD , Manhattan Inn , BAM , Greene Hill Food Co-Op , Brooklyn Flea , Fort Greene Park Greenmarket , Greenlight Bookstore , Rope , General Greene , Fulton Grand , Sycamore Flowershop & Bar , Mimi’s Hummus , The Castello Plan , Market , Ping’s , Bell House , Monte’s , Homebrew , Canal Bar , Momenta Art , Luhring Augustine , Nurture Art , Hanco’s , V-Spot , Nethermead , Community Bookstore , Galaxy Comics , Red , White and Bubbly , Pardon Me For Asking blog , Tutt Café , Grimaldi’s , Almodine , 68 Jay , Superfine , Jane’s Carousel , gentrification
Local
Young designers are coming up with wildly innovative fashion through start-ups like Alder, but are still scraping to get by.
Local
On the intellectual prowess of literary inebriates.
Local
Could new Urban Ex-Patriot Networks be the saving grace for “brain drained” cities in an emerging economy?
