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Burglaries are up on the northside.
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The Fox News host e-mailed Politico with a heartfelt mixed message.
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by Audrey Ference
Tags: Sex
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A dialogue about bodies and spaces and gaps in understanding. A serious one, and seriously. Lynsey G. has a lot to say.
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It's like playing a version of the Sims, where you destroy instead of build, and with, er, real climate projections. Fuck.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: News , waterfront development , climate change , climate central , surging seas , new york harbor , the battery , williamsburg waterfront , planyc , climate change task force , Video
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I.R.S. and Casablanca Records are making comebacks into a music world that's very different than the one they left.
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Perhaps if he's really bored and seeking a new round of publicity.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Jeff Koons , Park Life , New Yorker , balloon dogs , balloon creatures , Canis balloonus , lawsuits , rejection letters , this is a really useless post , the cartoon on page 68 is pretty funny , the cartoon in this week's contest is pretty baffling
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Because caring about the health of your conscience was so last week.
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A controversial Sundance pickup is among the best movies made about post-Patriot Act America (metaphorically, anyway).
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L readers, meet Fat Rocco.
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Watch the cast chat up the show during a photo shoot at Williamsburg's Diner.
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Plus, the prosecuting lawyer is basically Leslie Knope.
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And an old foot bridge will be razed.
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Did you know that DUMBO rhymes with ho, and that that is hilarious?
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New Yorkers are too busy to report bike theft.
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On new music from Beck, Lotus Plaza, Mina Tindle, and Rebecca & Fiona.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , Taylor Swift , Donald Sutherland , Hunger Games , Beck , Lotus Plaza , Mina Tindle , Rebecca & Fiona , songs , new music , Video
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The Jesus Christ Superstar revival examines occupation, celebrity, and the tragedy of Judas.
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Do you have plans already? Cancel 'em and do this instead. (But maybe wait to see if you win first.)
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With Ital getting so much play lately, and the Experience Music Project's Pop Conference coming to town this weekend, we look at a trend that's as old as criticism itself.
by Tobias Carroll
Tags: Music
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The Guardian reveals from its stash of leaked emails that Bashar al-Assad has been buying a lot of LMFAO.
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Registration for Bushwick Open Studios 2012 is soon to begin, and Arts in Bushwick announces a mixer to get it all going.
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Maybe we can go get Grimaldi's sometime?
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He's wanted in connection with the Bedford Avenue death of a college student.
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We still think the role should have gone to Brooklyn's own Lincoln Restler, Democratic State Committeeman for the 50th Assembly.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: News , Allen Ginsberg , Jack Kerouac , Edie Parker , Lucien Carr , Daniel Radcliffe , James Franco , David Kammerer , William S. Burroughs , Carroll Gardens , Lincoln Restler
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Currently, the police do not follow state law.
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Notes on Her Master's Voice , Paul Williams Still Alive, Tchoupitoulas and Trash Dance .
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film , SXSW 2012 , SXSW Film , Her Master's Voice , Nina Conti , Ventriloquism , Paul Williams Still Alive , Stephen Kessler , Paul Williams , Tchoupitoulas , Bill and Turner Ross , New Orleans , Trash Dance , Andrew Garrison , Allison Orr , Sanitation
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It's not all hopeless! Here, knit your congressman a uterus.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Politics , knit uterii , sarcasm bombing , sam brownback , rectal exams , violence against women act , mad as hell rally , texas , virginia , oklahoma , wisconsin
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The date, program, and personnel are set for the year's best cultural event.
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DIY meat with the owners of Fleisher's in Park Slope.
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The little known contemporaries of Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth incorporated ritual fruit eating in their first set together in half a decade.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , Supreme Dicks , 285 Kent , Kurt Vile , Jagjaguwar , Lou Barlow , J Mascis , Dinosaur Jr , Sonic Youth , Neutral Milk Hotel , Breathing and Not Breathing , orgone energy , Willem Reich , William S. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac , Devo
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Thoughts on YA sensations (and a brief foray into the Terence Davies oeuvre).
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In which the Brooklynite filmmaker and I try to figure out what made a world premiere audience so livid.
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The Brooklyn Phil's brilliantly conceived program was like a time capsule flung back through the fourth dimension to hit Walt Whitman on the head.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Music , brooklyn philharmonic , alan pierson , brooklyn youth chorus , david t. little , matthew mehlan , walt whitman , roulette , aaron copland , sufjan stevens , steeped in the classicals
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Rinpoche Shingza, Dorjee Gyalpo and Yeshi Tenzing have already gone two days longer without food than Mahatma Gandhi on his 21-day fast.
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Well whatta ya know—it's exactly everything everybody said it would be.
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Demand for tickets to the Prospect Park music and food festival crashed its website.
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Internet person names favorite literary misanthropes.
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Activists are upset about the outcome—and the process itself.
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The city's plucky underdog of potential mayoral candidates investigates what a "post-Bloomberg" economy could shape up to be.
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Taking a look at the self-aware, deconstructed patriotism of one of our favorite Brooklyn design teams.
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And global warming may have had something to do with it.
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The career choices of Channing Tatum (franchises?), Will Ferrell (fun!) and Nicolas Cage (???) considered.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , 21 Jump Street , Channing Tatum , Jonah Hill , Jeff Who Lives at Home , Jason Segel , Ed Helms , The Duplass Brothers , Casa de mi Padre , Will Ferrell , Seeking Justice , Nicolas Cage , New Orleans
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For the record, no L Mag spouse has ever done anything like this at any party we've eve had.
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Give or take. With great thanks to all the contributors.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Armory , Dependent , Fountain , Spring/Break , Martin Bromirski , Hrag Vartanian , Hyperallergic , James Panero , New Criterion , Charles Kessler , Leftbankartblog , Thomas Micchelli , Hyperallergic Weekend , Ben Sutton , Artinfo , Katarina Hybenova , Bushwick Daily , Austin Thomas , Pocket Utopia , atworld , Paul Behnke , Structure and Imagery , Gstaad , I'm sure I'm forgetting a number of other possible tags but can't seem to care right now
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Plus a bonus round of our Questionnaire for Writer Types (TM).
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Think this doesn't interest you? There's a story about Norman Mailer head-butting an Alice Cooper band-member.
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It'll be yet another winter without ice skating.
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That could be terrible for the community.
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Shares dropped 3.4 percent after yesterday's viral resignation letter.
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Well, it was only a matter of time, right?
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Speaking with organizer Gabriella Gershenson of Saveur about the impact of the event and the things we can do to help all year.
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Thoughts on the #1 movie in America (and #3 opening weekend ever), and on the problem of fidelity in movie adaptations of YA blockbusters.
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As a fans-only concert film, it's tops; when it tries to do more, things get dicey.
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Speaker Christine Quinn is leading a resolution to condemn the killing of Trayvon Martin and the handling of his case.
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It'll still be tough to get to Red Hook this summer.
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Girls , the prequel?
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Invocation and provocation in sacred places. And bars, too, admittedly.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Bushwick , Ghost Face , Dave Bates , Andrew Ohanesian , Mandies , Xaviera Simmons , Adam Parker Smith , Brent Owens , Kristof Wickman , William Powhida , Ben Godward , Amy Brener , Don Pablo Pedro , Nathan Gwynne , Audrey Hasen Russell , Fabian G. Tabibian , Fabio Ernesto Corredor , Steven Mykietyn , Bobby Redd Project Space
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As authentic as Times Square's Brooklyn Diner!
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It's a sign of the times.
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In which I learn a thing or two about a formidable poly-aesthete named Action Bronson.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Books , Food & Drink , Music , Action Bronson , Seared Tuna , Hip Hop , Rap , Queens Rappers , Brandon Gentry , Ghost Face , the various ways in which I suck at using the internet , to marinate something is to semantically make it somewhat more marine , maybe this is all obvious , Video
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The Australian group is back, and they remain as distinctive and impossible to categorize as ever.
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Just follow these simple instructions, and it can all be yours, maybe, if you are lucky.
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At the end of November of last year, that number was just $8 million.
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That's what one turned-away ticket buyer alleges.
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Precisely the kind of thing you want to be thinking about right after SXSW.
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Maybe whoever provides the total sum can win a trip in the conductor's seat.
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And photographer Bex Wade captured the glory.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Special Events , Michael Musto , Miss LEZ Pageant , Chocha Libre , Bex Wade , Brown Meshugana , Bambi Galore , Lea Robinson , Mary Wanna , Rebecca Macabre , Murray Hill
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Dancefloor Diplomacy doesn't do your traditional mash-up.
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Today's special election could tell us.
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Not to mention a New York Sports Club and some new luxury apartments.
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Hundreds took to the streets last night to demand justice for Trayvon Martin.
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"I'm embarrassed to say how many times I've been writing on my laptop, hysterically crying."
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Composer David T. Little discusses his new piece, which the Brooklyn Phil premieres tomorrow.
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This is just impressive.
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Box office hit-to-be Hunger Games isn't the only film with a bangin' soundtrack.
by Josh Kurp
Tags: Music , Green Day , Angus , R.E.M. , Man On The Moon , Andy Kaufman , Elvis Costello and the Attractions , Party Party , Sting , Bob Dylan , Lucky You , Wonder Boys , Devo , Doctor Detroit , Dan Akroyd , Bon Iver , St. Vincent , New Moon , Twilight , Weird Sisters , Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , A Tribe Called Quest , Boomerang , Jarvis Cocker , Pulp , Radiohead , Eddie Murphy , Video
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"I wanted to be Iggy Pop on stage. I wanted broken bottles. I wanted things smashed."
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It’s time to take stock of the year 2012.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Politics , Rick Santorum , Foster Friess , Rush Limbaugh , David Albo , Terry England , Tom Corbett , Bob McDonnell , Andy Gipson , Troy Newman , Video
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Jerry Albert helped keep Coney active during its late 20th century rough patch.
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A Brooklyn-based photographer reminds us to look up from the sidewalk once in a while.
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Exxon-Mobil owes the community money for the decades of pollution.
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You really shouldn't miss it.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Bushwick , Ghost Face , Dave Bates , Andrew Ohanesian , Xaviera Simmons , Adam Parker Smith , Brent Owens , Kristof Wickman , William Powhida , Ben Godward , Amy Brener , Don Pablo Pedro , Nathan Gwynne , Audrey Hasen Russell , Fabian G. Tabibian , Fabio Ernesto Corredor , Steven Mykietyn , Bushwick Daily , Bobby Redd Project Space
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The track Matthew Weiner intended to use wasn't released until 6 months after the episode takes place.
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The SXSW darling returns with her quite funny, promising HBO sitcom.
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If a fish's sustainability "could use significant improvement," couldn't we start by... not selling it?
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And the possibility of rubbing orange juice on your mug.
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But the study was based on photos of 19 men, and Ryan Gosling was not one of them.
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Is the answer more complex than "Netflix"?
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By "art museum," they also meant "public bathroom free-for-all," right?
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Something needs to be cleared up.
Features
There are so many good records coming out in the next few week I was forced to include an unprecedented amount of new stuff here.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Features , Music , the Shins , SNL , Lucero , Women and Work , Ben Nichols , The Decemberists , We All Raise our Voices to the Air , Colin Meloy , The King is Dead , Daniel Rossen , Silent Hour/Golden Mile , Grizzly Bear , White Hills , Frying on this Rock , Jim White , When it , Video
Album Reviews
The Sonic Youth guitarist releases a loose, sweet pop album that sounds unfailingly honest.
Film Reviews
Anthology's retrospective of the filmmaker's long-unavailable (and too small) body of work constitutes a minor revelation.
Film Reviews
Terence Davies's first fiction film in over a decade is a problematic adaptation of a creaky play, with a swooning soundtrack.
Film Reviews
In which Willem Dafoe and the rest of lower Manhattan face down an oddly punctual Armageddon.
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See it when it plays at Japan Society, because you still can't see it in Japan.
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This New Queer Cinema standard-bearer, based on the works of David Wojnarowicz is the rare elegy that emulates rather than narrates the spirit of its subject.
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A space civilization disintegrates in this hysterically excessive, legendarily incomplete Polish extravaganza.
Movie Journal
An interview with the directors of The Kid with a Bike .
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Gerhard Richter Painting shows, for better and worse, how the artist's art is inseparable from his unintrospective, industrial attitude.
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Grief-stricken Gallic romance Delicacy , starring Audrey Tatou, brings the virtuous suffering.
Film Reviews
A new vigilante thriller is, alas, preposterous without being particularly campy.
Film Reviews
The Wise Kids is a lovely ensemble piece about three teenagers coming to terms with themselves and their church.
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Jeff, Who Lives at Home , is a surprisingly poignant comedy-turned-melodramatic weepie about fate, interconnectedness and the desire for meaning.
Film Reviews
Detachment, Tony Kaye's indictment of the American education system, is too overwhelmingly nihilistic to be convincing.
Film Reviews
Will Ferrel's Casa de mi Padre is not quite as funny as the telenovelas it parodies.
Film Reviews
The world cried out for a 21 Jump Street movie, and got this intermittently funny comedy and expression of drug-war hypocrisy.
Film Reviews
An Indonesian SWAT team goes floor to floor in this intense, athletic, graceful actioner.
Film Reviews
Light magic realism in a remote Brazilian village.
Film Reviews
Something like a family forms, slowly and organically, in this lovely movie set in the cab of a truck.
Features
Notes on the resourceful, dreamy sense of atmosphere Driver's rediscovered 80s films share with her handpicked favorites.
Features
The weather is unseasonably warm, but the available produce is lagging behind. Here are some summery foods you can have right now.
Theater Reviews
An “impressive surly beast” of a play
Art Fag City
Whitney Biennial leaves much to be desired.
by Paddy Johnson
Tags: Art Fag City , Whitney Museum of Art , Whitney Biennial , Jay Saunders , Elizabeth Sussman , Marina Abramovic , The Artist is Present , Mierele Laderman Ukeles , Georgia Sagri , Red Krayola , Dawn Kasper , Nicole Eisenman , The Breakup , LaToya Ruby Frazier , Campaign for Braddock Hospital (Save our Community Hospital)
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Features
So yeah, it was a pain in the ass to put this together and everyone’s going to complain about it, but that's ok. We love you anyway.
by The Editors
Tags: Features , 50 Best Brooklyn Blocks , Best of Brooklyn , Williamsburg , Greenpoint , Fort Greene , Crown Heights , Brooklyn Heights , Bay Ridge , Red Hook , Clinton Hill , Bushwick , Mill Basin , Park Slope , Vinegar Hill , Brighton Beach , Boerum Hill , Gowanus , East New York , Cobble Hill , Prospect Heights , Dumbo , Ditmas Park , Bed-Stuy , Sunset Park , Carroll Gardens
