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Hey, sad, Valentine-less person, don't send a stranger a sex tape; they will probably blackmail you, duh.
by Audrey Ference
Tags: Sex
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Mostly we're making jokes about Valentine's Day, I guess. And also butt sex.
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The future home of BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn and Urban Glass is taking shape inside the historic Strand Theater.
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Last week's edition of the monthly meeting of creative and scientific minds included post-apocalypse projections and baby pictures.
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The mega-museum's new design for its outdoor area doesn't include any new spaces for public art.
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Three museums have pooled their funds to buy Christian Marclay's 24-hour video collage.
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Beyonce and Jay-Z are trademarking the name of two of their albums their daughter for future branding opportunities.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Music , News , Blue Ivy Carter , Beyonce , Jay-Z , Babies , Baby stuff , Yachts , Champagne , Paint , Rap , Video
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It's almost over, you guys, I promise.
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And announces one of the February 23 ceremony's celebrity judges!
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Annual Art Awards , Rob Pruitt , Performance art , The Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Art Awards and Auction , Hennessy Youngman , Art Fag City , NYC art , Marilyn Minter , Jerry Saltz , Debbie Harry , Sean Capone , Art Fag City Rob Pruitt Art Awards , Paddy Johnson , Interview
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The 21-year-old electronic musician/producer debuted a five-hour multimedia piece inside PS1's new Performance Dome.
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Anyone we left out?
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Blair, Serena, meet Annie Clark.
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And just before the coming snow storm! Those trees are going to be so cold!
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Two local architects want to create a safe haven from violence and the overbearing police presence in the neighborhood.
by Lisa Gomez
Tags: Art , News , Crown Heights , Crime , NYPD , Police brutality , Art Not Arrests , Public art , Architecture , Lana Zellner , Kristen Svorka
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From your egg chair and your vintage typewriter to your frame cluster and your graphic throw pillows.
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Ah, sipping whiskey out of the bottle with a straw, setting shit on fire...all in a day's photo shoot.
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But there's upset over financial disclosure statements showing that sponsors of the bill received money from Williams Companies and National Grid.
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Cross from shore to shore, countless crowds of passengers! Stand up, tall masts of Mannahatta!—stand up, beautiful hills of Brooklyn!
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The EPA might use sediment removed from the contaminated canal (and treated) as landfill.
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This just shouldn't be happening.
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Would she have been more appealing had her suffering taken place in her songs rather than behind the scenes?
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Who's the most wasteful electricity and fuel consumer on your block? Oh, it's you...
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Bonnie's and Abilene have joined forces, which is definitely the best news you will hear today.
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We're beginning to think that the writers of this show keep words like "Hitler" on slips of paper in a jar labeled "Comedy Gold."
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An accident that left no one raving.
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On new music from Frankie Rose, Orbital, Prinzhorn Dance School, Mr, Dream, and more.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , Koko the gorilla , Frankie Rose , Orbital , Zola Jesus , Prinzhorn Dance School , Mr. Dream , Julia Holter , Veronica Falls , Olga Bell , Holograms , Captured Tracks , Mirel Wagner , Songs , New Music
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We live in a culture so permissive to rapists and so punishing to rape survivors that to do anything else would be monstrous.
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But I so badly wanted to be a jury member on that one...
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Plus: the Star Wars wars, some more.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , Safe House , Denzel Washington , Not Tony Scott , The Vow , Journey 2: The Mysterious Island , The Rock , Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace 3D , Star Wars , Star Wars Prequels , The Phantom Menace , LucasFilm , Jesus Christ
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We talked to Leon Reid IV about his and Julia Marchesi's new project for an unconventional public library.
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Your EP of Panda Bear covers might take a little longer.
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An array of genre fare, and the careers of Dan Radcliffe and John Krasinski considered.
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A new series profiling the weird and wonderful subcultures of the borough.
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by Audrey Ference
Tags: Sex
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Get a look at the green future for this corner of post-industrial Sunset Park.
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Because North Brooklyn needs outdoor hockey so, so badly. (We are being serious.)
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Midtown's Community Board 4 is calling on the Department of Transportation to get rid of 'em.
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After Nicolas Jaar's 5-hour piece at PS1 last weekend, we got to thinking...
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An innovative design by HWKN has won the museum's Young Architects Program competition.
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Is it because of that flashing side view of a butt cheek? Or is it something else?
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So this is how it would've felt to have seen Nico.
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The Qatari royal family just bought the humble painting for a quarter of a billion dollars .
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It took them nearly 25 minutes to get through a surprisingly delightful Gerald Ferguson performance.
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I had so much fun watching this terrific, horrible thing.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , Madonna , Super Bowl , half-time shows , MIA , Nicki Minaj , LMFAO , Cee-Lo , necklessness , a teenager's idea of rebellion , bird-flipping , dancer-flipping , video , Video
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Better put your name down for a shipping container condo soon...
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Art from a boardwalk-adjacent construction resurfaces in Bensonhurst, poorly put together.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Coney Island , Street art , Public art , Murals , Thor , No Longer Empty , OverUnder , Veng , Ephameron , Bensonhurst
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You know, I really did not see this coming.
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And it's not Rather Ripped . Oh puns, puns, puns.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , Kim Gordon , Sonic Youth , Surface to Air , X-Girl , Sofia Coppola , Kathleen Hanna , Thurston Moore , Spike Jonze , Chloe Sevigny , Video
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On "the ghosts behind the ghostwritten," and an impressive feminist lit syllabus.
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NPR has the story of the masked rebel grrrls who brought the riot to the Red Square.
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Concrete rained down on workers.
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The plant is offering romantic tours of its egg-shaped waste digesters.
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In which the longtime New Yorker staffer discusses his love for Keith Richards and Papaya King.
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And 4 other problems with a single Post article about this Greg Kelly thing.
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In which Randy Rhodes' affinity for polka dots is discussed.
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Romance, breakups and long-distance relationship anguish, The Bite Marked Heart has it all!
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Your dress shirts aren't "custom" at all. They're just dress shirts, like all the other dress shirts in the world.
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Yes, we would very much like to hear about the secret bottle you keep behind the bar.
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Now with a list of 10 terrible jokes rather than the standard 5.
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Our favorite art-swiper (Legal dept.: The L in no way encourages stealing art. ) faces up to three years in prison.
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On Juilliard's production of Armide .
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The giant of contemporary American art took his own life yesterday.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Mike Kelley , Death , Obit , NYC art , Paul McCarthy , Metro Pictures , Gagosian , Whitney , MoMA , Video
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The Icelandic composer performed his electronic score for Bill Morrison's film The Miner's Hymns .
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Also, this new song is sort of cynical, no?
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Even though Ray Kelly was all like, "cool it, guys," back in September.
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Will Downton Abbey join this incredibly eclectic lineage? Probably not, but still.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film , TV , Downton Abbey , Matthew and Mary , Period Drama , PBS Masterpiece Classics , Avatar , Coming Home , The Men , Live Flesh , Breaking the Waves , Paraplegism , Slideshow
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Human desire still impossible to calculate.
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Finnish singer's "No Death" brings to mind the work of an old master.
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A battle of the boroughs in lists, not fists.
by Josh Kurp
Tags: Music , The Archies , Billy Joel , Art Garfunkel , Cyndi Lauper , Neil Diamond , Linda November , Jay-Z , Alicia Keys , Three Dog Night , David Cassidy , Tony Orlando and Dawn , Hikaru Utada , The Village People , We Are The World , Lady Gaga , Video
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Hosting the show he created for over two decades, Cornelius introduced America to some of the biggest pop stars of the last half-century.
by Josh Kurp
Tags: Music , TV , Don Cornelius , Soul Train , Death , Obit , Aretha Franklin , Marvin Gaye , The Staple Singers , Curtis Mayfield , Gladys Knight , The Jackson 5 , Stevie Wonder , James Brown , Video
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Sutton is ashamed of men while Stewart is ashamed of Sutton.
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Sutton accuses a child of treason while Stewart charges him with gentrification.
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Singing an a cappella version of "For You" for a room of discerning Parisians sounds terrifying, but it came out magnificently.
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It's a long shot, but the next elevated public green space could be floating 20 miles north of the city.
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From anti-Keystone XL activists, with love.
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Gil and Justine Vernon of Eau-Claire, Wisconsin, you guys are my favorite.
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Fans marched, toilet papered, and lit fireworks above the streets of Bay Ridge.
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Reign of Terror debuts streaming on the New York Times website a week ahead of its release. Here are some notes.
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And it turns out that New Yorke r internet commenters are still like the rest of the world's internet commenters.
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Does that tell us something about the economy?
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Pfizer just recalled a million packages of birth control pills.
by Audrey Ference
Tags: Sex
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This guy is so much better than everyone else.
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Matthew Perpetua reflects on the mp3 blog's first decade.
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Though he hasn't settled on a name, his vast and utopian exhibition and studio space is quickly nearing completion.
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The new Tumblr that uses police sketching technology to portray famous literary baddies needs to do these characters next.
by Jennifer Mills
Tags: Books , News , The Composites , Tumblr , Book villains , Moby Dick , Rebecca , Narnia , Beowulf , Blood Meridian , 101 Dalmatians , Oliver Twist , The Outsiders , The Stranger
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Talking about the litter problem and parks department underfunding.
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Ronald Tillman was struck last night near Wagner College, where he was studying to become a nurse.
Features
The understated singer discusses her new album, Tramp , with Wye Oak singer Jenn Wasner.
by Jenn Wasner
Tags: Features , Music , Sharon Van Etten , Jenn Wasner , Wye Oak , Jimmy Fallon , Epic , Tramp , Greenpoint , SXSW , Anella , Slideshow
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One of which is Billy Joel, so I suppose I sort of owe you an apology for that, don't I?
Album Reviews
Not that there's anything really wrong with Dad Rock. Turns out, it's extremely pleasant.
Features
Real Estate did just play at a Chinese buffet in Queens, after all, so anything can happen.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Features , Music , DIY venues , Navy Yard , warehouses , Brooklyn Botanic Gardens , Admirals Row , Red Hook Grain Terminal , Loew's Kings Theater , Park Slope Pavilion , Boys High School , Brooklyn Tech
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Happy Valentine's Day! We're giving you this still from Reality Bites ! And also lots of music!
Film Reviews
Whether or not The Turin Horse is Bela Tarr's last film, it's a (sometimes ravishing, sometimes funny) work of exhaustion, negation, refusal.
Film Reviews
Harun Farocki traces the construction of civilization and its discontents from the cradle of life to late-capitalist Europe, literally brick by brick.
Film Reviews
Rampart , about Woody Harrelson's corrupt, brutal cop in 1999 Los Angeles, is a little silly and overloaded.
Film Reviews
A punk home movie; everyone at CBGBs looks so young, and so focused.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film Reviews , Film , Blank Generation , Amos Poe , Ivan Kral , Punk , The East Village 70s , CBGBs , Max's Kansas City , Patti Smith , The New York Dolls , Blondie , Television , Talking Heads , The Ramones , The Hearbreakers
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... and the cryptic, gory, discombobulating Kill List looks at the psychic toll of a soldier-turned-hitman.
Film Reviews
Autoamerican: John Carpenter's anti-nostalgic Stephen King adaptation concerns a 50s muscle that just won't die (or stop killing).
Film Reviews
A "lesser" early Renoir film is a Popular Front polemic that also plays as an office sex comedy.
Film Reviews
A 60s artifact in which poor sweet-creepy Norman Bates meets Tuesday Weld's fresh young thing, who just happens to be a murderer.
Film Reviews
With The Miners' Hymns , Bill Morrison euglogizes the textures of a different fading physical reality.
Film Reviews
Mark Cousins's The Story of Film is part travelogue, part argument, part introduction to film language.
Film Reviews
In Perfect Sense , an allegorical global pandemic strips humanity of its senses.
Film Reviews
Big Miracle , from the director of Follow That Bird , is a big-tent animal-rescue drama to melt even the most Alaskan of hearts.
Film Reviews
In Darkness , up for this year's Best Foreign Film Oscar, is a credibly murky Jews-in-hiding drama.
Film Reviews
Relatable work by Great Gerwig can't quite elevate indie two-hander The Dish and the Spoon past the level of interesting exercise.
Film Reviews
Artisanal Brooklyn animation, a videogame adaptation-cum-legal satire from Takashi Miike, and Vincent Gallo playing two roles in an Italian Kaspar Hauser riff. For starters.
Film Reviews
Parsing the short films competing in the animated, live-action and documentary categories at this year's Academy Awards.
Film Reviews
The Vow leapfrogs its obvious ground-laying Nicholas Sparks adaptation antecedents to be, actually, pretty good for this sorta movie.
Film Reviews
A familiar indie, a less familiar war story, Return is distinguished by a fine performance from Linda Cardellini, in her first starring film role.
Film Reviews
The Co-lab co-founder's 70s and 80s films reconcile urban space with unspoiled domains.
Restaurant Reviews
The Walter Foods offshoot serves up fresh local favorites.
Features
Sometimes we have to acknowledge that other cities have things that we do not. Here, we list of them.
Features
There is still time, assuming you don't have a job to go to, for you to whip up a quick batch of these for your Valentine.
This Valentine's Day, find romance on the walls of Brooklyn.
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Art , Street art , NYC art , Graffiti , Brooklyn art , Williamsburg , Red Hook , Greenpoint , Bushwick , Bed-Stuy , Dumbo , Vinegar Hill , OverUnder , Faile , Valentine's Day , Dodieboy , Mint&Serf
Neither wholly utopian nor clearly post-apocalyptic, the organic forms in In-Habitat at Front Room offer a balance between natural and man-made.
In their solo shows at Smack Mellon, Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins and Heeseop Yoon make familiar materials almost unrecognizable.
Theater Reviews
On the occasion of its 35th anniversary, we talked to the Off-Off Broadway powerhouse's artistic director about the difficulties of doing great theater on a tiny stage with a tiny budget.
Theater Reviews
John Jesurun's new multimedia psychodrama Stopped Bridge of Dreams stays stopped.
Two novels by the late Egyptian author Albert Cossery reveal him to be a connoisseur of human folly.
In the rich, extended essay The Poetry of Thought , polymath George Steiner argues for and explains the historical co-dependency between high thought and literary style.
Art Fag City
The new Tribeca gallery KANSAS's lovely space makes a strong sculpture show stronger.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Ask A Cabbie
These Cabbie Casanovas give us tips on how to woo our significant others.
Features
In which we realize, jeez, how do you go on dates in cities that don't have as many bars as we do?
Tags: Features , 56 Bogart Street Galleries , Centotto, Factory Fresh , English Kills , brooklyn fireproof east , The Narrows , East River Ferry , Jacques Torres , Brooklyn Bridge Park , Jane's Carousel , St. Ann's Warehouse , Vinegar Hill House , Commandant's Mansion , Uva Wines , Bedford Cheese Shop , Owl and Thistle General Store , dog day cyclery , Fairway , Valentino Pier and Park , The Good Fork , Sunny's, Brooklyn Brewery , Tortilleria Mexicana Los Hermanos , Huckleberry Bar , Radegast Hall & Biergarten , The Levee , Brooklyn Museum , the spotted calf , Outpost , Green-Wood Cemetery , Bar 718 , Mary's , Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory , Superfine , The Mark Bar , BAMCinematek , The Shop Around the Corner , Skype sex , Stonehome Wine Bar , Brooklyn Botanic Garden , Abigail , Dutch Boy Burger , Franklin Park , Black Rabbit , Santa Fe , Videology