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Otto Preminger's career-making film subverted genre with screwball dialogue and a hero who doesn't make a fool of himself out loud .
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Still no safe bike link between Queens and Brooklyn.
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Found on the Internet: the epitome of 90s nostalgia.
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Keep it local.
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Other than "The Hanukkah Song."
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , Colbert , Jon Stewart , B-Boyz , Hannukah , Chanukah , Hanukkah , Ein Prat Fountainheads , aish.com , David Rael , Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles , Maccabeats , Shlomones , kitsch , Video
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Starting in spring 2012, you are three times more likely to spot one of these vehicles than the Cash Cab.
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Cass McCombs playing "County Line" at Bowery is heartbreaking, btw.
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Gaul rascal had gall to scrawl "RASK" on twelve trains.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , News , Graffiti , Street art , MTA , The 80s , RASK , Maxime Bezat , Boston , Brooklyn , Subway art , Video
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Oh, haha, because it's stupid!
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Would use traffic noise to light the way to Smith-Ninth Street station.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Public art , Red Hook , NYC art , BQE , Silent Lights , Artist Build Collaborative , Smith-Ninth Street , F train , Subway , Video
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A giant of post-war American art has died.
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More top-rated bands (by Pitchfork standards, at least) came from NYC than any other city, thank you very much.
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"Mainly don't let this death eclipse this bright, too-short life."
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Furry things singing Christmas carols, yay!
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Sounds a lot like last year's resolution.
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Sutton votes for Streep while Yankee dissenter Stewart burns the Union Jack.
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The fun/serious one-two of Tintin and War Horse aren't really so different.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movie , Steven Spielberg , The Adventures of Tintin , Tintin , War Horse , The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , David Fincher , We Bought a Zoo , Cameron Crowe , Sorry for the multiple zoophilia references with the photos guys
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Which means basically anyone living in West Brooklyn, right?
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From Ben Weasel to Beyonce.
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Sutton explores coded female masturbation while Stewart muses about the escapist awards season.
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And offers cathartic comeuppance for grieving tree huggers.
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The route to take to see all the gaudiest decorations.
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9/11? Jonathan Safran Foer and Stephen Daldry have some adverbs for you.
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Shut up and deal.
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Strangely, we're at peace with this.
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Apologies to the rest of the L Mag music staff.
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In case you needed another art list today.
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An enduring figure of Abstract Expressionism, prolific to the end.
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Good King Wenceslas may be working today, but I am not.
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The 1995 film, directed by Yoshifumi Kondo from a Miyazaki script, is a familiar, familiarly beautiful Japanimation coming-of-age.
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In case you're wondering how this weekend's water substitute stays fizzy.
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You thought we were going to stop doing this, didn't you? Sorry, sorry, sorry.
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Josh Rubin was killed in Pennsylvania shortly after he disappeared.
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While we were eating the rest of our advent calendars, Chan Marshall hit us with her latest.
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Creative writing exercise, PR for his new record and self-help, all in one. It's awfully cute.
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Happened earlier this month in Qatar, in the middle of a bright, sunny day.
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Proof that quality can exist outside of Pitchfork ratings.
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The worst general conditions in the whole city by far.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: News
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Free internet at the Picnic House!
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From TV on the Radio to St. Vincent.
by Josh Kurp
Tags: Music , best of 2011 , tv on the radio , fucked up , titus andronicus , sonic youth , wild flag , lcd soundsystem , st. vincent , williamsburg waterfront , le poisson rouge
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The coming-out story set in Fort Greene's African-American community will open in theaters tomorrow.
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They don't make 'em like they used to.
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NYPD and Bloomberg say Occupy Wall Street protesters might deface it.
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Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix do the 80s preteen adventure thing in your long-weekend rep pick.
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But will a few more feet of fencing really do the trick?
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Kim Jong-il Dropping the Bass is our new favorite Tumblr, until tomorrow.
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On piles of gold found outside of this year's Top 25...
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , Best Songs of 2011 , Handsome Furs , Bjork , PJ Harvey , Cass McCombs , Prurient , Cold Cave , John Maus , Sacred Bones , The Men , TRUST , Zola Jesus , The Fresh & Onlys , College , Beyonce , Azealia Banks , Video
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Matador is teaming up with five local and independent record stores to give out free tickets to Girls' Jan. 14 show at Terminal 5.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , Girls , Matador , Other Music , Generation Records , Permanent Records , Academy Annex , Sound Fix , Terminal 5 , Father , Son , Holy Ghost
Features
On the best song from Raek's new, not-so-good mixtape, he lists the odd objects in his home.
Features
Brooklyn bands reveal their favorite albums and shows of 2011, plus share some insight on the new year.
Features
There was an absurd amount of great music released this year, but we can say with complete certainty that these are objectively the best.
by Mike Conklin, Lauren Beck, Jeff Klingman, Josh Kurp, Benjamin Sutton and Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Features , Music
Features
They can't all be great, you know, and these most definitely are not.
by Mike Conklin, Lauren Beck, Sydney Brownstone and Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Features , Music
Features
In which we sit in judgment of a handful of trends we saw take hold in 2011.
by Mike Conklin, Jeff Klingman, Lauren Beck and Josh Kurp
Tags: Features , Music
Album Reviews
Some of the best rap records of the year weren't records at all, but mixtapes, so we made a special list just for them.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Album Reviews , Music , The Illz , Rap , Hip-hop , Wiz Khalifa , Lupe Fiasco , Elzhi , B.o.B , Lil Wayne , A$AP Rocky , Skyzoo , Jean Grae , J. Cole , Mixtapes , Video
Features
Individual 2011 Top 10 lists from the L's film reviewers.
by Mark Asch, Henry Stewart, Nicolas Rapold, Benjamin Mercer and Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Features , Film
Film Reviews
Spielberg's Adventures of Tintin is a synthetic imitation of unbounded childhood wonder.
Film Reviews
Thanks to plug-and-play auteur David Fincher, this grisly rape-revenge thriller is a very well-made piece of garbage.
Film Reviews
The populist we know, and sometimes love, returns to the multi-hankie war epic.
Film Reviews
Cameron Crowe's first family film is a babyboomerific botch.
Film Reviews
The Iron Lady sidesteps politics to bring you Meryl Streep as Maggie Thatcher, and it's a surprisingly good thing too.
Film Reviews
How on earth did the implicit social critique A Separation become Iran's pick for the Best Foreign Film Oscar?
Film Reviews
Wim Wenders' tribute to the late choreographer is more stylistic portrait than biography.
Film Reviews
The perpetual reinvention of the Mission: Impossible franchise continues with the smooth Ghost Protocol .
Film Reviews
The Mother of the World dips into directing and geopolitics with her worthy (perhaps too worthy) Bosnian War romance.
Film Reviews
Pariah is a mostly nuanced, authentically low-key look at the (double) life of a teenage lesbian in Fort Greene.
Features
You never have to leave Brooklyn again, to eat well.
Tags: Features , Food & Drink , Brucie , Van Horn Sandwich Bar , Colonie , Giuseppina’s , Brooklyn Star , Dubuque , Shelsky’s Smoked Fish , Culture , Rucola
Features
Here’s where you should get drunk, friend.
Tags: Features , Food & Drink , (Name-Less Bar) , Masion Premiere , Freddy’s Bar , Way Station , 61 LOCAL , MikNic Lounge , Crown Victoria , Pearl’s Social & Billy Club , St. Austere , Crave
It's been, on balance, a good year for Brooklyn galleries. These are our favorite newcomers.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Art , The Active Space , Bushwick , Brooklyn Navy Yard , Brooklyn art , New gallery , Interstate Projects , Airplane , Space for Art and Industry , Bushwick Gallery , Julie Torres , NYC art , Kate Gilmore , Rico Gatson
From controversy at the Brooklyn Museum to giant porn paintings in Bushwick and Brooklyn's Armory Week debut in DUMBO, it was a good year for art in the borough.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Art , Brooklyn Museum of Art , Art 101 , Kunsthalle Galapagos , Smack Mellon Studios , Gowanus Ballroom , Pierogi , Open Source Gallery , Like The Spice , English Kills , David Wojnarowicz , Patrick Jacobs , Ofri Cnaani , Jim Herbert , Matt Stone , Isidro Blasco , Kathleen Vance , Art Brooklyn , Williamsburg , Bushwick , DUMBO , Gowanus , South Slope , Prospect Heights
His new show at Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery features dramatic images of decidedly undramatic objects.
Theater Reviews
One woman's struggle to end the Peloponnesian War becomes one abstinent cheerleader's quest to end a basketball team's losing streak in this sporty Broadway musical.
Theater Reviews
This year saw a 50s suburb, small-town high school football field, new media New Orleans, old-timey playhouse, po-mo prison, Cold War-era China and much more come vividly to life on the city's stages.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Theater Reviews , Theater , BAM , Off-Off Broadway , Broadway , Off Broadway , BAM Harvey Lichtenstein Theater , Playwrights Horizons , Metropolitan Opera House , HERE , Ars Nova , Baryshnikov Arts Center , The Bushwick Starr , Robert Wilson , The Wooster Group , Metropolitan Opera , New York Philharmonic , Target Margin Theater , The Berserker Residents , Roundabout Theatre Company , Half Straddle , Slideshow
Theater Reviews
Company XIV's dazzling neo-Gothic take on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale delights.
Theater Reviews
From BAM to Broadway, opera to one-man shows, and Shakespeare to site-specific theater, the most memorable productions of the year.
Art Fag City
Including Alexander McQueen at the Met, Christian Marclay's "Clock" and Lynda Benglis's cock.
by Paddy Johnson
Tags: Art Fag City , Occupy Museums , Alexander McQueen , Lynda Benglis , Christian Marclay , ArtPrize , Willem de Kooning , Jose Lerma , Andrea Rosen Gallery , Metropolitan Museum , MoMA , Paula Cooper Gallery , New Museum , Haim Steinbach , 319 Scholes , Tanya Bonakdar Gallery , Jayson Scott Musson , Hennessey Youngman
Art Fag City
Including hacked video games, hokey subway photos, an epic hanging and an anti-climactic jousting.
by Paddy Johnson
Tags: Art Fag City , Richard Artschwager , Maurizio Cattelan , Cory Arcangel , Rashaad Newsome , Chris Marker , Marlborough Gallery , Guggenheim , David Nolan Gallery , Peter Blum Gallery , The Whitney Museum of American Art
Ask A Cabbie
Ryan Vlastelica
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Amazingly, men still have a hard time keeping it in their pants.
Local
A look back on Brooklyn's most notorious news stories of 2011.
Tags: Local , Brooklyn molester , David Weprin , Bob Turner , Anthony Weiner , bike lanes , Leiby Kletzky , Grimaldi’s , Hasidim , Prime 6 , Josh Rubin , Atlantic Yards , West Indian Parade , Pro-Cro , Marty Markowitz , Brooklyn Navy Yard , Carl Kruger , Williams Boyland , Brooklyn College , Kristofer Peterson-Overton , East River Ferry , Brooklyn Bridge Park , Bushwick Inlet Park , The F Train , Jelly , Coney Island , Pablo Airaldi , Newtown Creek , boathouse , zip codes , Ozzie’s
Features
It is with great pleasure that we present to you our coverage of the year in music, film, art, books, sex and much more.
