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On the cruelties of the prank call.
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Enjoy your Halloween by skipping this clunker in an increasingly clunky franchise.
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Tonight and tomorrow at Anthology, films of Andy Kaufman, Albert Brooks and William Wegman telling jokes on and independent of the audience.
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On the new online mag Idiom and their screening, this Saturday, of a Rome, Open City making-of.
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Tonight, the band plays what will possibly be their final show in Rio de Janeiro. For those of us not in Brazil, there's this.
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It looks really good, as you can see right here.
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Another court upholds a 2010 decision barring him from making any new buildings. (Collective sigh of relief.)
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Lasers, a 60-member orchestra, the whole shebang.
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"Hopelessly romantic" and "Jay Reatard fan" — not an oxymoron!
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They're funnier than videos of you doing NYC-type things, we'll put money on it.
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Rep film pick: a rarely screened two-hander that's intensely attuned to the shifting climate of a single room.
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On a night full of productive discussion about the state of the industry, there was also plenty of great live music.
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Hey look, you guys, cute dogs!
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Oh, wow. Wouldn't necessarily call that pleasant.
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Last-minute costume ideas that will land you on the Tumblr Halloween or Williamsburg .
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Fashion , News , Halloween , Williamsburg , Costumes , Velma Dinkley , Bailey Quarters , WKRP Cincinnati , Scooby-Doo , Lumberjacks , Stalin
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The Brooklyn Navy Yard's historical center opens Friday; are you psyched!?
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Art Review 's most powerful artists of 2011 continues to live up to the title.
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The City Council approved purchase of the 19th century building, future Green-Wood visitors' center.
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But don't worry, it'll fit right in.
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Let the hours-long lines to ride the 10-second slide resume!
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Federal institute bestows a medal upon our hometown art museum!
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The greatest marriage of music and image made that much greater.
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In one Brooklyn precinct, rapes are up 90% from just two years ago.
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Well, at least the portion of it between South Williamsburg and Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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Unlike the Met and MoMA, visiting the Brooklyn Museum still costs the same as seeing a movie.
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So much for going to the park to "get away from it all."
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The Pop master's chromed likeness will watch over Union Square through May.
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The Department of Health hates fun.
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Nobody's neighborhood's immune to Park Slope-style NIMBYism.
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Have trouble commuting this morning?
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Wishing waterbed Hev a peaceful journey to and big tyme in the blue funk.
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As long as it's new to you, it can still be a trend piece.
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Or, how literary fiction and independent bookstores continue to save each other by cultivating their most dedicated patrons.
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Tuesday night drag race through Brooklyn leaves one kid in critical condition.
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Said the awards' judges: "Here is a voice of her generation!"
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Functions more like a "ladder to my shoes in my bougie apartment." This is an art joke, we think.
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For those of us whose goals in life are to eat lots of candy and see bands play in costume.
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Dreamworks animation, Andrew Niccol's sci-fi allegories, the Johnny Depp cred wars, and more!
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The orchestra's ambitious idea of bringing music to the people was a success.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Music , brooklyn philharmonic , alan pierson , brighton beach , shostakovich , beethoven , steeped in the classicals , soyuzmultfilm , bremen musicians , vinni puh , Video
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You're welcome.
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Roller coaster ridership rises while ranks of sun soakers subside.
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Hej hej, Danish Athletic Club.
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18 years later, the duo's most ambitious project finally gets approved.
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There are lots of strollers in Park Slope, just to clear that up once and for all.
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About 150 people walked over the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday afternoon to join protesters at Zuccotti.
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This new horror master knows that ten climactic minutes of terror are better than a few quick scares.
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Find out how terribly people in Park Slope treat the people raising their children.
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Humanity won't be happy until the last bureaucrat is dissolved in the blood of the last capitalist.
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Everyone still remembers the words to "She," in case you were wondering.
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Last night the Brooklyn-based artist discussed his 10-year retrospective at the Midtown non-profit.
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A discussion of the ethics of inebriated purchases that cites Matthews v. Baxter (1873) as a precedent.
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And the locals are concerned (though they probably won't sue).
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President watches independent film; local alternative press critic inspired to elaborate and contorted political interpretation.
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Re: Steve Jobs, some of this reeks of "Too soon! Too soon, Pete Townshend!"
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Our favorite way to celebrate a sesquicentennial.
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I mean, it will probably be more fun than a Halloween show with Radiohead.
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As art nerds who are also devoted to print media, we couldn't not like this art fair.
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You're about to feel so old. (UPDATE: now with video)
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Local boy reaches the big time.
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Music listings, show reviews, interviews, record reviews! Opening my mail! It can all be yours!
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music
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There are so many good things she says, so many good things, followed by a solo performance of one of the best songs of 2011.
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Kicking off our coverage of the performance art biennial with an impassioned argument for its importance.
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Including a posthumous Leslie Nielsen cameo!
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We have nooooo idea where the fuck everyone was running to yesterday, but we took some photos of it.
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The next album should sound more like this.
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Just your basic costumed, alcohol-induced last night ever.
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So Lou Reed walks into a Starbucks...
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1946 map marks brownstone neighborhood's buried secret.
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This should be very good...
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Tonight's rep pick stars Gary Cooper as a haunted man.
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19th century commandant's residence—and large addition—almost ready for the public.
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No wonder we spawned the occupy movement.
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What, you don't think it's funny?
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There's a literal sweatshop in Chelsea shipping workers' perspiration to Africa.
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Also in BAM film news: Halloween screening of The Warriors (of course!) tonight.
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That last part is a lie.
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A follow-up study will investigate the average ratio of functioning to nonfunctioning reading lights.
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Seems unlikely.
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From one of the best albums of the year to come out of Brooklyn. #realtalk
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Zee times, zey are a-changink.
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Cooper Union agrees to lower their rent for a year; and we have some suggestions for their new business plan.
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Saramago, Tagore, Kundera, Oates and Bolaño in Prospect Heights.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Books , The Coffin Factory , Brooklyn Lit Mags , Randy Rosenthal , Laura Isaacman , Joyce Carol Oates , Milan Kundera , Roberto Bolano , Jose Saramago , Rabindranath Tagore , Edith Grossman , Justin Taylor , New Directions
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Ratner & Murphy & Stiller & Harold & Kumar & wow that's a lot of people in Son of No One .
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"In hit-and-run cases, any driver who claims they didn’t know they killed someone gets a ‘get out of jail free’ card."
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Annie Clark shredding, howling, crowd-surfing and being, you know, ineffably beautiful.
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In which my deep admiration for Mandy Moore's wardrobe is revealed.
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On Saturday the historic cemetery hosted a screening of a documentary about the late artist followed by a Q&A with two close friends.
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The protesters face a new antagonist.
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Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. this Friday, so plan your brunch breaks accordingly.
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Five more terrible jokes for you this week. Does anyone know when this fucking season will end?
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"I'm listening to [fill in the blank]. What should I drink?"
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , alcoholics anonymous , drinking alone , mazzy star , lana del rey , yeah yeah yeahs , flaming lips , devo , st. vincent , jeff mangum , wild flag , drinkify , music hack day , boston
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Plaza Street West could really use a two-way bike lane though.
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Defying a measure to let workers bring their bicycles into their offices.
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All of which very well could have just been "awesome spelling."
by Audrey Ference
Tags: Sex , exxxotic expo , sex , porn stars , adult entertainment , chyna , joanna angel , ron jeremy , seymore butts , porn in general , exotic car shows , carbon fiber
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Soon we can count the number of Williamsburg galleries on our hands.
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The Brooklynite novelist presented a staging of his faux-Shakespeare play The Tragedy of Arthur earlier this week.
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A review of the best movie I've seen all year.
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Because we told you so (reason #4).
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Powell and Pressburger's melancholy epic debuts at MoMA, before playing two weeks at Film Forum later in the month.
Album Reviews
On his second full-length album of the year, the mysterious troubadour trades in spare and harrowing for... slightly less spare and harrowing.
Album Reviews
With a four-song EP the boys of CMJ '09 let us know they'll be sticking around awhile.
Film Reviews
The inane My Week with Marilyn offers yet another obstructed view of an icon long ill-served by our projections.
Film Reviews
In which Johnny Depp, Hunter S. Thompson's chief enabler, turns his rough early novel into an appalling vanity project.
Film Reviews
In Anonymous , the director of 2012 tries to convince us that Shakespeare couldn't read.
Film Reviews
A revival of Paul Newman's Ken Kesey adaptation, an unfussy generational elegy set in the Pacific Northwest.
Film Reviews
A new documentary observes innovative projects in global cities and the politicians, architects and local activists making them happen.
Film Reviews
We only ask because his Silver Bullets seems so ambivalent about the whole thing...
Features
A new biography and new collection show hints, at least, of how the inimitable Pauline Kael became her era's definitive cinematic tastemaker.
Film Reviews
The redistribution of wealth is literally a matter of life and death in the timely (ha!) latest from the human metaphor factory who brought us Gattaca .
Film Reviews
This scraggly, earnest portrait of a SoCal skateboarder ponders talent versus apathy, hedonism versus responsibility.
Film Reviews
Truffaut's noir homage is a two-hour running gag about objectification as a form of gullibility.
Film Reviews
Dimwitted ethnic caricatures rob from the rich in this sloppy, intermittently funny film de Ratner. Right on?
Film Reviews
My Reincarnation concerns a son's difficult relationship with his exalted father.
Film Reviews
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas gets the series back on track with knowing, inclusive subculture humor.
Film Reviews
Goethe is young, and in love, in the thoroughly pleasant Young Goethe in Love .
Restaurant Reviews
Top Chef contestant Mark Simmons brings a touch of New Zealand kitsch to the borough.
With a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum and new works at SculptureCenter, the young artist expands his cosmic voodoo.
The Brooklynite's 10-year survey at Exit Art abounds in bold colors and subtle textures.
Theater Reviews
Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Andrew Hinderaker's play finds all the right words.
Theater Reviews
The actress discusses her role as a failed publisher in the new Off Broadway hit.
Theater Reviews
Before adopting the trappings of Broadway family drama, Jon Robin Baitz's latest plays like a sitcom.
Theater Reviews
David Henry Hwang's Chinglish examines Chinese-American relations from an insider's perspective.
Theater Reviews
A new Public Lab production of Love's Labor's Lost wins big.
Theater Reviews
The Heights Players' recent production made good on the classic musicals' pleasures without adding to them.
Theater Reviews
The Best Actor nom stars in his own play, alongside Justin Bartha, about two roommates and their Filipina house-guest.
A 981-page book, taking place largely inside an online role-playing game, that reads like a sci-fi Tom Clancy novel, if Tom Clancy were a different kind of insane.
Art Fag City
Why the Abstract Expressionist master's worst paintings matter.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Features
A quasi-anthropological study of patronage patterns at a DJ, cocktail, sports, and karaoke bar.
Features
Aside from the NYPD badge, you probably already own most of the essential Rick Lee costume essentials.
