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Hang it correctly or don't hang it at all.
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On new music from Nite Jewel, Liz & Laszlo, Evans the Death, and Belle and Sebastian.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , Nite Jewel , Liz & Laszlo , Xeno & Oaklander , Automelodi , Evans the Death , Slumberland , Belle and Sebastian , The Primitives , Chromatics , The Men , Julia Holter , Gorillaz , Black Dice , Atlas Sound , new music , Video
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A Twitter feed about "giving people a look into a community from a perspective that they might not have had before."
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Sometimes the only thing to do when you're stressed is to belt out a version of "In The Name Of Love."
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The Monkees singer died of a heart attack this morning, at age 66.
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Favorite song left off of someone else's subjective list shocker!
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We take a look at the impressive growth of this Chicago band, on stage and in the studio.
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Brenner Eugenides was 26 years old.
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Because you can't spell "Lorax" without one!
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The Opening Night film flatters its audience so, so artfully.
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In which we welcome our new arts correspondent, Dr. Paul D'Agostino.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Bushwick , 56 Bogart , Studio 10 , Slag , Interstate Projects , 1717 Troutman , Regina Rex , Tim Spelios , Jason Clay Lewis , Andrew Sroka , Jesse Hulcher , Dave Hardy , John Almanza , Rico Gatson
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Art! Fashion! Dance parties!
by Crystal Gwyn and Sam Polcer
Tags: Art , armory week , armory , moma , beat nite , bushwick , centotto , active space , cindy sherman , cheryl , Slideshow
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An environmental outreach meeting at the Brooklyn Brewery Monday night highlighted the problem of sewage in New York waterways.
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Seriously, how are we supposed to feel about things like this?
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Goodnight, sweet ferry. You ferried us well.
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Someone raped in Brooklyn? Way to go, Obama.
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A rabbi was cheating the state out of almost $200,000 a week.
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He's very funny, you know.
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And other places! Why do cars have to be everywhere ?
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Watch this space.
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Have no shame in your Angry Birds and Tetris addictions any longer.
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If we can have the Pooh Sticks, well, then why can't we have Velocity Girl?
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Oh, internet, you are so stupid sometimes.
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On the release of his new book Zona , the English wit and distinguished guests talked Stalker .
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Books , Film , tarkovsky , stalker , zona , geoff dyer , walter murch , dana stevens , francine prose , michael benson , phillip lopate
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On the many joys of seaweed, sauerkraut, turnips and more.
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Oh, the things people do to win free airline tickets. And Purim.
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Done up in the Gorillaz animation style, of course.
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"There is hope for our nation again, maybe the first time since we had Ronald Reagan."
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We could listen to this song over and over again for days, and now we'll have something to look at while we do.
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2003 was our 1977, you guys.
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We're pretty sure this is really about waffle fries.
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With a brand new album out now, the band will be performing this evening at The Knitting Factory.
by Tobias Carroll
Tags: Music
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Because this Hunger Games track is awesome.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , Arcade Fire , Hunger Games , Regine Chassagne , Margaret Atwood , Year of the Flood , 28 Days Later , Godspeed You! Black Emperor , King Crimson , Children of Men , Peter Gabriel , Wall-E , Video
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Is it in response to community complaints? Or to continue to parkify the neighborhood?
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If you really loved playing with earthworms as a kid, this is for you.
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It's been a bad few days for our favorite greenspace.
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Two exciting directorial debuts, from NYC and Britain.
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Bushwick's Beat Nite is a trek through Brooklyn's deeper role in Armoriana.
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Fill in the blanks. You're welcome.
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And luckily, no flashing neon colors or a green screen.
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Police want your help identifying them.
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Plus, Eddie Murphy and Lizzie Olsen!
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On the lush but mellow new project from Trevor Naud and Daniel I. Clark of Zoos of Berlin.
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Other than, you know... extortion, of course.
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So long, East River State Park.
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Shalom Auslander, Adam Wilson and others read at the reading series' anniversary.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Books , Talks and Readings , crown heights , franklin park , shalom auslander , hope: a tragedy , adam wilson , flatscreen , ben townsend , melissa broder , john dermot woods , anne frank
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"It's a simple gesture in remembrance of our talented and compassionate friend, Chris." - Jagjaguwar
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In praise of ambitious failures.
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And why one interview with rapper Too $hort should be carved in stone.
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Scandinavians cometh and Scandinavians goeth.
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At least the old cars will remain.
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Somehow we're lacking a song for Vinegar Hill. Ideas?
by Josh Kurp
Tags: Music , Jeffrey Lewis , Bob Dylan , Harvey Danger , Jens Lekman , Raekwon , Gang Starr , The National , The Fugees , Clinton Hill , Lou Reed , RZA , Notorious B.I.G. , Eleanor Friedberger , Delta Spirit , Bushwick , Greenpoint , Williamsburg , Park Slope , Bay Ridge , East New York , Bedford-Stuyvesant , Video
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The one day of the year where no one groans and says, "You're really still doing that?"
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Wilson appears tonight as part of the Franklin Park reading series.
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A hometown show for a couple of indie rock's most exciting guitar-based bands.
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Chin up, kiddo. Chin up.
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Don't forget to roll your r's in "haggis."
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Which means you can status stalk the Gray Lady all the way back to 1851, before Facebook even existed, lulz.
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But a case that involves three counties in two states could probably use it.
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For the second year in a row, LIU takes the Northeast Conference.
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It's gonna be a fun mid-May!
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You probably don't have a huge roof, but you probably do have a window. So no more excuses.
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The art-pop hero answered our questions while preparing to seduce the Bowery Ballroom.
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International Women's Day brought awareness to one of the world's most unseen, horrific and ongoing crises.
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The people behind Bar Great Harry bought it.
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Lest we conveniently forget.
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Imagine a transit system that didn't always go into Manhattan.
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And you can keep up with the experimental mission's status updates via Twitter.
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Released a little after midnight, "Myth" puts to rest some of the myths surrounding the upcoming album.
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Women who live in states with better access to oral contraceptives make 8% more than women in less pill-friendly states. This is not surprising.
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It's like these kids have never even heard of irony!
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Get doused in colored powder!
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And all it cost us was a few private condo high-rises in a public park!
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On Matthew McConaughey and Harry Knowles's very different strategies for controlling a room.
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Or, why you shouldn't say that legalizing gay marriage is like if we were to legalize slavery.
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"I was proud of the work we did there, and miss the old Boardwalk of my childhood."
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What the fuck are you doing, NBC?
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Not everyone is excited about boxes of take-home tabbouleh.
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Concerning cult leaders and makeout sessions.
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And a local politician is pushing for decriminalization.
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Including the participating restaurants—a who's who of NYC eats.
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And 9 other reasons to make haste to gaze upon a grand panoply of Renaissance visages.
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No. No, no, no, no, no.
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Laurent Bigot performed his sound art piece to an audience of rapt children and equally fascinated adults.
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And a final exhibit, Souvenir , will draw the curtains.
Features
Only you, Stephin...
Album Reviews
Even when reminding you of other bands, it manages to feel like honest expression rather than practiced pose.
Features
In which we rate the top five summer music festivals, from a New Yorker's perspective. Objectively, of course.
Features
We sit down with the buzzy young artist to talk about, among other things, the indefinable moment where something turns into pop.
Film Reviews
In very different ways, for very different reasons, Jafar Panahi's This Is Not a Film and Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's Billion Dollar Movie efface their makers' professionalism.
Film Reviews
Italian import The Salt of Life stars its writer-director, Gianni Di Gregorio, as a ridiculous figure of pathetically failed Felliniana.
Film Reviews
A frenzied, fetid entry in the revisionist Western cycle, with a wild and irascible Robert Duvall as Jesse James.
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Delightful Chinese import Let the Bullets Fly seems to borrow from Tarantino as much as he once borrowed from Eastern genre masters.
Film Reviews
From the director of Fantastic Planet , a psychedelic animated sci-fi fantasy for kids that happens to be all about the acceptance of death.
Film Reviews
A vibrant 3-D Dr. Seuss adaptation blurs the message a bit.
Film Reviews
The director of Dogtooth returns with another icy metaphor.
Film Reviews
Starting production as a classic rock documentary and ending up as an obituary, Better Than Something: Jay Reatard presents a sad, compelling picture of a guy unsuited to anything but punk immortality.
Film Reviews
An Australian true-crime drama tells the story of a 1990s serial killer through the eyes of a young accomplice.
Film Reviews
Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein , Mrs. John Hamm) directs a surprisingly mean-spirited indie rom-com.
Film Reviews
Silent House puts its star through a (physically, psychically) demanding long-take freakout.
Film Reviews
Film artists from Werner Herzog to Thom Andersen to George Kuchar curate their own preoccupations with work at the hectic Whitney Biennial.
Film Reviews
Attenberg , the latest weird Greek allegory, shows us a nation wildly unprepared.
Film Reviews
Richard Pryor avenges himself against failed institutions like car companies, unions, families and The American Dream at large, in Paul Schrader's directorial debut.
Film Reviews
Found-footage teen movie Project X , produced by Todd Phillips, is a misogynist fantasy of high school wildness.
Film Reviews
A truly scarring collection of videos shot by combatants in Iraq, and a vintage counterculture mixtape.
Film Reviews
A three-week revival of French classic Children of Paradise , which lets us get so close to its idolized performers.
Film Reviews
New Zealand import Boy is a light, sensitive, affectionate story about learning not to trust your father.
Features
They pop up everywhere from your favorite restaurants to the recipe pages you scour online. But you can, and should, do better.
Just what is a "Messiah Map," anyway?
by Benjamin Sutton
Tags: Art , Art
At last, an English translation of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's Satantango .
Sex With the Natural Redhead
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You can't stumble ten feet in this town without coming across a different place to drink. Here, we'll tell you which of them are the best.
by The Editors
Tags: Features , Brooklyn Bars , Drinking , Happy Hour , The Sunburnt Calf , Strong Place , Brooklyn Ice House , Bar 718 , Red Hook , South Slope , Minor Arcana , Abilene , Banter , 200 Fifth , Matt Torrey’s , Mary’s , The Narrows , Henry Public , Sycamore Bar and Flowershop , Ontario , The Owl’s Head , Crave , Maracuja Bar and Grill , One Last Shag , Berry Park , B61 , Noorman’s Kil , The Shanty , The Bourgeois Pig , Fourth Avenue Pub , Alligator Lounge , Pine Box Rock Shop , Hope and Anchor , Tandem , Rocky O’Sullivan’s , The Sackett , 61 Local , South 4th Bar and Café , Dean Street , Harefield Road , Three Jolly Pigeons , Sunny’s , Wolf and Deer , Way Station
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Mayor Bloomberg called for proposals earlier this week for state of the art conversion technology. And we have some ideas! Some of which are jokes!
