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Also: "People say "Didnt he kill all those people?'" I say, 'I dont know anything.'"
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Today in judicial calling-out of blatant mayoral stonewalling.
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Eastern European women were given fraudulent visas and forced to work in strip clubs.
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The pioneering South Asian art gallery shutters after 16 years.
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Excuse me, holiday songs.
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Including Brooklynite Rashid Johnson.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Hugo Boss Prize , Art prizes , Guggenheim , NYC art , NYC museums , Rashid Johnson , Trisha Donnelly , Monika Sosnowska , Danh Vo , Tris Vonna-Michell , Qiu Zhijie
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It also turns out you cannot get pregnant from sexting. Who knew?
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Hard to police and protect cyclists at the same time, apparently.
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Will Sheff has become quite the crate-digger. Spend some time with the artists that have influenced him.
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Happiness is all the rage.
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Nice try DOT,
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This is what a private fiefdom looks like.
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Sutton snivels at J. Edgar 's queer clichés while Stewart respects its structural sophistication.
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Parks used to be dangerous for very different reasons.
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And it really puts the "bill" in "billboard."
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The Times visits the void, takes pictures.
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Is it in fact a sex comedy about the courtship of Ally Sheedy by a sentient robot? Sure, why the hell not.
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This season has to be ending soon, right?
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A year's worth of live music, wrapped up in a little red bow, just so.
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We're so thankful for archival photos this year.
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And one of them isn't even Smith-Ninth Street.
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I'm thankful for pop music, you guys.
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While the rest of us yell out supportive words of encouragement.
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You can just go ahead and start calling her Miley De La Rocha now, basically.
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The B61 is late and overcrowded.
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With two new books out, the chronicler of post-war art history talks Pop art and the new international architecture.
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Thanks school's students for their support during dispute with board of trustees.
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Tuition will rise $1,500 because the board of trustees can't get money from the state.
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Eight non-James Franco suggestions.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , Joe Strummer , The Clash , The Right Profile , Julie Delpy , Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Sam Riley , Leonardo DiCaprio , Giovanni Ribisi , Bruce Springsteen , Ryan Gosling , Ethan Hawke , Alex Turner
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Rewarded with undisclosed sum from Chrysler.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Music , Jennifer Lopez , Jenny from the block , Bronx , Street art , Graffiti , TATS Cru , Fiat , Chrysler , Video
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"Real Estate was robbed! And so was Iceage!"
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Shame. Shame. Shaaaame!
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These could be worse, but they could also be better. Ideally, they would not even exist.
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The Arts & Culture committee is looking for a more permanent home.
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Worth a shot, right?
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The biggest contemporary art show of the season just got two hours bigger (on Mondays and Tuesdays).
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We all become art detectives when faced with a fake Rembrandt portrait.
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Now only missing Bloomberg's signature...
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You see what we have here? Something you could buy and wrap and give to someone as a gift.
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More red tape for streetscape improvements!
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Follow-up to 2009's Younger Than Jesus is much more worldly.
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Are people still excited by giant balloons in the shape of cartoon characters?
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Things have taken a tragic turn at the borough's best-known pizzeria.
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NY-10 continues to be our most interesting congressional district.
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Rich Londoner paid $17 million for Ab Ex painting someone's kid might actually have drawn.
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A crash course in the history of globalization, featuring talking head from Chomsky et al.
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Goodbye, Timboo's. Mourning the death of dying breed of drinking establishments.
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The question is how many. And who's Jewish?
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Alternate headline: "Feds to BQE: 'Drop Dead.'"
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How do you turn self-pleasure into a non-pornographic cartoon?
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A late entry to one of our favorite new Brooklyn bands this year.
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Lou Reed told the crowd he supports the movement in each and every way.
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We've been waiting 11 months to listen to that one song by The Waitresses.
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Or, when talks between the one percent and the ninety-nine percent break down.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Politics , News , Sotheby's , Labor , Art auctions , Strikes , Art handlers , NYC art , Diana Taylor , Occupy Wall Street , Mike Bloomberg , Lock-outs , Video
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Everyone loves some good old-fashioned festival speculation.
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The UK's top art award goes to the 44-year-old Glasgow-based artist.
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The Artist cleans up at NYFCC, in their earliest vote ever.
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The Squibb Park Bridge will link the same-named Brooklyn Heights green space to the waterfront.
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Fa la la la la.
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And so does the Williamsburg deli counter where it was filmed.
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Cars still killing more New Yorkers than guns, though.
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Be still, my fan girl heart.
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Neither is New York City, for that matter.
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Fugazi: still awesome.
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The Met's Satyagraha revival is confounding, spectacular and hypnotic.
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Police believe he may have just walked away.
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Protesters expected at art world's annual beachfront shopping spree.
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We wish he were the one who sung "We Wish It Were Christmas Today," but even still, this could be fun.
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Tonight and Friday's rep pick puts chilly-existential postwar arthouse cinema in its place (the Norwegian countryside).
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Get your 1979 Flipper t-shirts at Forever 21!
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , retro t-shirts , vintage , Flipper , Metallica , The Clash , Muddy Waters , Beatles , Sublime , Nirvana , Ray Charles , KISS , Flipper , Forever 21 , Urban Outfitters , Delias
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And here's your World AIDS Day news round-up.
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On the tricky, reputation-defying pleasures of The Tarnished Angels and A Time to Love and a Time to Die .
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More pizza drama! With cameos by the original Grimaldi and ugly condo architect Robert Scarano.
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What it means when songs crafted over ten years become existential comfort to strangers.
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On the perils of sexy, fascinating sex research.
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An in-office performance and interview with the New York natives on their debut album, Coco Beware .
Features
With Devin Theriault, Cloud Nothings, an underrated Dylan song, a 60s songwriter you probably haven't heard, plus one really, ridiculously terrible Rihanna line.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Features , Music , Smashing Pumpkins , Devin Theriault , Phil Cordell , Neutral Milk Hotel , The Ramones , Record Store Day , Cloud Nothings , Bob Dylan , Da Dapo Best Music Writing , Rihanna , Video
Features
"I think the speed with which things can be out there, can contribute also to the speed with which they are forgotten."
Album Reviews
Pterodactyl's third album, Spills Out , sounds like a band throwing up rainbows, basically.
Album Reviews
As true with Frog Eyes, resisting the impulse to run away in the face of unapologetic bizarreness yields some reward. And it's not like he's ever been real happy-go-lucky.
Features
Yes, we've been meaning to compile this feature for an entire month now.
Film Reviews
Martin Scorsese's first 3D picture and a festival favorite both rhapsodize the early, silent days of (French) cinema.
Film Reviews
Finally, a theatrical run for Edward Yang's 1991 opus, set amid the youth gangs of early-60s Taipei.
Film Reviews
David Cronenberg's birth-of-psychoanalysis movie also offers the primal scene of a great movie archetype.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film Reviews , Film , A Dangerous Method , David Cronenberg , Christopher Hampton , Psychoanalysis , Screwball Comedy , Freud , Jung , Michael Fassbender , Keira Knightly , Viggo Mortensen
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The best actor in movies today is totally captivating in this campy sex-addiction drama.
Film Reviews
As Kermit the Frog once said: Yaaaaaaaaay!
Film Reviews
A new documentary about nuclear power plants powerfully suggests a life on permanent lockdown.
Film Reviews
House of Pleasures is a languorous, ominous portrait of life in a 19th-century brothel.
Film Reviews
A doc about the rather, um, unconventional Buddhist ambassador Chogyam Trungpa.
Film Reviews
Khodorkovsky is an extensive, compelling look at the costs of doing business in Putinland.
Film Reviews
From 1981, a long-censored shock-horror drama about the end of a marriage.
Film Reviews
Yet another Joe Swanberg movie, continuing a substantial exploration of the blurred distinctions between life and art.
Film Reviews
The novelist's film takes on prostitution and rape, with a message muddied by weak execution.
Film Reviews
An FIAF series remembers when the French New Wave was thiiis big.
Restaurant Reviews
An old-school Italian sandwich shop with new-school style.
Bar Reviews
Let's all to Mary's, and have a party.
We spoke to the young sculptor while she prepped her plantlike assemblages of artificial materials for a solo show at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
The British artist's hand-painted messages on found objects exemplify his inclusive approach to art.
Theater Reviews
The renowned rep company's take on Shakespeare's ousted king nearly takes the crown.
Theater Reviews
The Atlantic Theater Company premieres three of the Coen brother's short plays, one of which is really good.
Theater Reviews
After a huge success downtown last year (which launched Nina Arianda's career), David Ives' sexy two-hander seems small on a big Midtown stage.
Theater Reviews
Ma-Yi Theater Company's production of Carla Ching's The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness follows twice-orphaned siblings' misadventures.
Reading Karaoke Culture , Dubravka Ugresic's essay collection, is like chatting with a very caffeinated intellectual.
Helen DeWitt's second novel cuts through a wide swath of American foible.
Art Fag City
The painter's new monochrome canvases on view at James Fuentes LLC reward long, close viewing.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Features
November 15th will mark a turning point in the Occupy movement. Where it's going, nobody can tell yet...
Features
Keep it in the borough this year (seriously, there's way more than enough to go around).
by The Editors
Tags: Features , Gift Guides , Brooklyn gifts , Brooklyn shopping , presents , Christmas , Hannukah , Kwanza , Divali? , shopping , lists , rank consumerism mitigated by a sense of local craft
