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Ask Forest Fire how they fit into the current Brooklyn scene, and they'll tell you they don't.
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The street art star takes sides on behalf of a movement that strives to be side-less.
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The Brooklyn Historical Society presents a 20th anniversary screening and panel at BAM tonight.
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You guys, all of art history has just been one long, elaborate (and very successful) mating ritual.
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Recommended If You Like: Don't Look Now ; Twin Peaks ; Scary Stuff That Doesn't Make Any Sense.
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Rich people be buying landscape photographs like there's no recession.
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Somehow this must be Jeff Koons's fault.
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Never pegged him as a big Dandy Warhols fan! It's a slow news day!
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A modern dance performance where the environment is everything (and everywhere).
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Once you realize it, will you become less safe?
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On the Rap Board Diddy says, "Talk to 'em," to which Lil Jon says "Yeah!" and Rick Ross says "Ricky Ross!"
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The Grey Art Gallery's exhibition Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life highlights how that movement embraced incoherence.
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"No matter what you're into, no matter what your obscure, idiosyncratic drive is, you will find kindred souls here. And it's always going to be that way."
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , Will Hermes , Love Goes to Buildings on Fire , Talking Heads , Patti Smith , Lenny Kaye , Brooklyn Academy of Music , CBGB's , Bob Dylan , Television , Ramones , Fania All-Stars , Ruben Blades , Willie Colon , Larry Harlowe , David Murray , Lester Bowie , Rashid Ali , Queens , Springsteen , Mark Alan Stamaty , Video
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Spoiler: It's really great.
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Film Forum revives this summer's Rohmer B-side; it's a deceptively modest ode to friendship.
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Patrick Stickles told you to.
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But it's for charity, so it's not awful.
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In other words, attendance at the waterfront park has steadily increased since it opened last year.
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In which the ambiguous wording of Question #6 is addressed.
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David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly" film comes under fire again.
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Ain't no occupation like a Brooklyn occupation. Dance party at Cadman Plaza!
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Plus: Sandler's Advocate, and where to see Melancholia .
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , J. Edgar , Clint Eastwood , Jack and Jill , Adam Sandler , Immortals , Tarsem Singh , Melancholia , The Angelika , Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
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James Franco repeatedly spit in someone's eye during yesterday's Three Performances in Search of Tennessee .
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Theater , Performa , Performance art , NYC theater , Laurel Nakadate , James Franco , Tennessee Williams , Kalup Linzy , Ryan McNamara , The Glass Menagerie
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Gee, thanks Internet.
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A passionate response to the newly preserved works of the underground film legend.
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Update : Will reopen, in same location, in 2012.
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After serving his time in Cali, Mark Lugo faces art theft charges in NY.
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That's "Withrop" to locals!
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Hey, this is really good!
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I asked five artists to open their studio doors this weekend, so you should come visit.
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But it's because of a study that Spotify says doesn't even count.
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Starting Monday, you won't be able to take the subway to the neighborhood until spring.
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Tickets go on sale at noon.
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Including beatboxing, a very gross, very inter-generational sex story, and ridiculing ridiculous art collectors.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Comedy , Performa , Performance art , Cory Arcangel , Bedwyr Williams , Perform Ha! , Dina Seiden , Lumberob , Title TK , Michael Smith
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The 23-year-old was a senior at SUNY Stony Brook.
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Her latest performance quilts together a romantic drama out of political speeches and primetime interviews.
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An English visitor learns about the country's past and present in the first episode of the British miniseries.
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Feel free to share your treasured Muppets memories in the comments.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , The Muppets , Hugo , Family Films , A Dangerous Method , David Cronenberg , The Artist , My Week With Marilyn , The Weinstein Company , Arthur Christmas , Aardman
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A polite F-you to midweek doldrums.
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Or, in other words, his is still "a band you need to hear."
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More digital media companies will be hatching beneath the bridges in no time.
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There's no good reason why 11 bands shouldn't be playing Cake Shop tomorrow night.
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The inadvisable loves of a teen sexpot, in this bracingly dour French classic.
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This spring a new public art project will let you see beneath the creek sans scuba gear (and cancer).
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Thrilling, confusing and depressing.
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See?! History can be cool.
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The Canadian auteur's Tales from the Gimli Hospital was shown with a live soundtrack this weekend.
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I exchanged emails with God.
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This explains why he has such a purrrrrrdy voice.
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Mass arrests made as Bloomberg caves in to tabloid editorial boards.
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You didn't know they had a mobile unit?
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Robert Gardner's doc, at Film Forum, raises questions about the cinematic depiction of ritual.
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A long standoff ended in victories and losses.
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A local politician is posting photos of graffiti to Facebook because he thinks taggers won't like this.
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Rape is not a sex scandal, it's something much worse.
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(Happy birthday, Mike Conklin.)
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We're alway happy to brag about Brooklyn bands. (Sorry, San Francisco!)
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A very sad Christmas song.
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Sex, lies, love and death! In this credible, well-acted, import.
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One involving Abraham Lincoln, naturally.
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Sometimes New Jersey has indie rock too, you know.
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On Joans Crawford and Bennett, and the necessity of a feminist perspective in and out of the academy.
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In which, along with our friends at Southern Comfort, we offer you the opportunity to design a billboard in Williamsburg and a free trip to New Orleans.
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How long will it take 'em to work in an Occupy Wall Street joke, you think?
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2012: The psych-rock revival.
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Now you can post rush hour missed connections in real-time!
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Unforgiving San Franciscans outraged by old video they just heard about.
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Father, Son, Holy Ghost gets the stage setting it deserves.
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This should make everyone happy...
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Despicable men (played by Cassavetes and Peter Falk) and the women who tolerate them!
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Pizza news you need almost as badly as you need sweet, delicious pizza.
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The very sad Dark Sisters is a resolutely American work about wounded women.
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Talking to the Magnum photographer about intimacy and the camera, and why he's not downtown shooting Occupy Wall Street.
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Also on Bradford Cox, routines on the road, and how buying fancy music equipment sometimes isn't worth it.
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We wanted to be much, much more disgusting in this headline, but we thought we might get fired.
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Did you know that Vampire Weekend's manager has a home in the Hollywood Hills with a swimming pool? You're welcome.
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As if that spectacular mess is going to get any Tony nominations...
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"Wait, what is happening?" — overheard while person surfs the new Wise Blood site.
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Underlining need for better safety measures on park's busy roads.
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Two's a trend, right? Manhattan galleries are moving to Bushwick!
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On the occasion of Nigel Tufnel day, a mediation on the influence of this genre-defining mockumentary.
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Suzanne Geiss, longtime employee at 76 Grand Street, now runs the joint.
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Was the show a scam or part of a warped reality: discuss.
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Upcoming Hide/Seek exhibition will remain intact.
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"You see, I was right , all along, to feel this way!"
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Colson Whitehead was really good but Matt Sumell was awesome.
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In which you come up with a new drink and win lots of cash.
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There's a kung fu master watching over North 8th Street.
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Bill passed the City Council last week, and Bloomberg has come around.
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Don't say Best of NYC™ or the Voice 'll come getcha!
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Senile nuclear freak picking on helpless orange box.
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The latest AY lawsuit asks: Where are the jobs?
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Pretty good bands are playing in this city, like, all the time apparently.
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Fucking vampires.
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The tiny South Williamsburg park will be a haven for pollinators (and, one day, zombies).
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Is the trademarked term "Best of NYC" in fact "generic or descriptive"? (Spoiler: Yes.)
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It was totally candid!
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Of all the places you could possibly masturbate, the Chinatown Bus seems like, well, the grossest.
Features
The co-owner of one of Williamsburg's most respected show spaces spoke with us about the venue's undoing and his plans for the future.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Features , Music , Andy Bodor , Death by Audio , Shea Stadium , Brooklyn DIY , Cake Shop , Shark? , Tanks Amigo , Beachniks , Air Waves , Ex Humans & the Stalkers , Dive , Dino’s Boys , Night Manager , Big Troubles , The Beets
Features
With King Krule, Ian Dury, Gospel Music (the band), Michael Kiwanuka and a totally ridiculous R.E.M. song.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Features , Music , King Krule , R.E.M. , Insound , Michael Kiwanuka , North Highlands , Lulu , Gospel Music , The Crabs , Craig Finn , Video
Album Reviews
On an EP spun from the Smoke Ring for My Halo sessions, the singer-songwriter grapples with recent career success while managing to, musically, sound as sure and steady as ever.
Album Reviews
The D.C. MC's new label situation makes for tighter beats and repetitive rhymes.
Film Reviews
George Clooney and Leo Di Caprio are caught in the middle of circumstance and history, respectively, in the differently frustrating new films from Alexander Payne and Clint Eastwood.
Features
With Into the Abyss , Herzog goes to Texas, and crafts a sober, persuasive, and serendipitously timed argument against the death penalty.
Film Reviews
Paddy Considine's film is extreme kitchen-sink, with redemptive moments of tentative beauty.
Movie Journal
The Melancholia star talks about not liking her character, imagining the end of the world, and turning down a spot on the Cannes jury.
Film Reviews
In this new Albert Maysles doc, the Cute Beatle is shown to be an expert politician: a uniting force, at a polite remove.
Film Reviews
The Conquest is a satisfyingly tidy, grown-up and anti-sensationalist movie about the rise of the French president.
Film Reviews
The thrilling, heartwarming ingenuity in display in BAM's "Puppets on Film" series is a fitting tribute to the legacy of Jim Henson.
Film Reviews
Tarsem Singh's Immortals is a slightly more palatable, lower-rent version of oil-slick faux-Classics like 300 and Clash of the Titans .
Film Reviews
A new documentary examines the professional and private lives of revolutionary designer couple Charles and Ray Eames.
Film Reviews
Tomboy concerns a young girl who poses like a boy, continuing its director's investigation of the gender-identity maze.
Film Reviews
Rid of Me makes black comedy out of a belated bildungsroman.
Film Reviews
William Monahan's directorial debut is all sorts of uninspiring.
Film Reviews
In this little slice of indie indulgence, The Lie , a thirtysomething slacker finally reckons with stuff and shit.
Features
Our picks for the best places to get a boozy brunch in Brooklyn.
by Maria Vapnitchnaia
Tags: Features , Food & Drink , The Lovin’ Cup , Bloody Mary , Kettle Black Bar , Mimosa, Mets , Piquant , Sangria , Verde on Smith , Supercore , Sake , Sotto Voce , Le Comptoir , Drunk Friends , Hangover , Hemingway , F. Scott , Brunch Binges , People’s Republic of Brooklyn
Features
Here are some places you’ll find L Magazine staffers when they are A) Happy B) Sad C) Stressed D) All of the above.
Tags: Features , Food & Drink , Lulu’s , Superfine , “The Tennis Court Oath” , The Levee , Cokie’s , The Sportsmen Special , Black Label , Evan Williams , Minor Arcana , Alligator Lounge , Metropolitan Avenue , Maison Premiere , Absinthe , Lobster Joint , The Mark Bar , “A Poor Man’s Speedball” , The Brazen Head , Mullane’s Bar and Grill , Schaubuehne
The Los Angeles-based painter, sculptor and animator's new exhibition at ZieherSmith is full of tantalizingly malleable materials.
The Brooklyn-based artist's meticulous text drawings and charts at Postmasters take the art world to task.
The German painter's new exhibition with his Chelsea gallery is dominated by a strong, vaguely threatening female figure and her bird.
The artist's participatory installation and video at Momenta Art runs on audience interaction.
Theater Reviews
The rising playwright's fiery new many-stranded drama premieres at the New Group.
Theater Reviews
Perhaps the two greatest musical theater performers of our time command a Broadway stage like no others.
Theater Reviews
Circle in the Square's revival of the 70s musical contemporizes its Christian drum beating.
Theater Reviews
The Flea's nerdy epic She Kills Monsters takes us inside Dungeons and Dragons.
Theater Reviews
The Foundry Theatre's new participatory play asks valuable questions from its benevolent spectators.
Theater Reviews
The writer and actor's revival of his 1999 one-man show Dick Done Broke has him swinging and swigging above the Starr's stage.
NYRB reissues a collection of haunting Hungarian stories about love and its victims.
Art Fag City
Paddy worries about breaking Carsten Höller's $1,500 goggles then relaxes in his sensory deprivation pool.
Features
$3 million of the money the city had to pay for polluting Newtown Creek will go to a boathouse after all.
Features
Catching up with Brooklynites spending days and nights at Occupy Wall Street: BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT ALL HIPPIES.
by Eugene Reznik
Tags: Features , Occupy Wall Street , drum circles , hippies , Bennington , Bobby Steele , Canarsie , tattoos , Alex Courtney , Bay Ridge , brokers , keeping up with the Joneses , homelessness , unemployment , Zuccotti Park , Derek Brown , Crown Heights , Sage Meade , Williamsburg , high school , Carlos Cabrera , Sunset Park , Raul Flores , Bushwick , Marine Corps , Brant Thomas Downtown Brooklyn , a better America , Di Serra , Brownsville , Kristin Lee , Red Hook , yoga , spotlight on the human species
Features
The only guide you’ll ever need to spending Christmas in Zucotti.
Tags: Features , Occupy Wall Street , Sharpie , Kucinich , Glass Steagall Act , Graham-Leach-Bliley Act , PCU , socialism , Eugene Debs , iPhones , no chapstick? , Zucotti Park
