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The activist group that once chained itself to the VIP balcony of the New York Stock Exchange more than two decades ago is back for a mass protest on Wall Street.
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First: It was SO great.
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A cardboard cathedral to be constructed in Christchurch.
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With almost 600 new properties protected, it now has more landmarked buildings than the Village.
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"They may take our brunch, but they'll never take our FREEDOM!"
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Plus, the career of Guy Pearce, considered.
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Head's up! Five-oh!
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Everything is going to be okay.
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So, can we keep it?
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Two attacks occurred hours apart in Bed-Stuy and Brownsville.
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This show continues making the world a much, much worse place to live.
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It used to be beautiful and important.
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The internet has been sort of a bummer lately, but now one very gentle superhero has come to save the day.
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The tense standoff among protesters, the NYPD and U.S. Parks Police has a new development.
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And you won't even have to leave your apartment for them--convenient, given the logistical difficulty of having sex in a restaurant.
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Songs from last year's stellar debut took on a playful nature with the queen of cool-without-trying-to-be-cool.
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Of red wine and cheap carbs.
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Quick, get thee to a boozy poetry reading!
by Zach Gomes
Tags: Books , Housing Works Bookstore and Café , McNally Jackson , Maria Negroni , Lillian Vernon , Paris Review , D.A. Powell , Strand , Thomas Sayers Ellis , Sandra Beasley , Yusef Komunyakaa , powerHouse , Americana Jamboree , Gryphon Rue , Calamity Janes , Knopf , Philip Levine , Tracy K. Smith , Saeed Jones , Karolina Manko , Nuyorican Cafe , Weiskopf , Book Culture , Steve Griffiths , Andrey Gritsman , Gardner McFall , Philip Larkin , Billy Collins , Zadie Smith , Paul Simon , Greenlight Books , Patricia Smith , Patick Rosal , Samantha Thornhill
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Taking recommendations from friends is still a really, really good way to do things, it turns out.
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On new music from St. Vincent, Laurel Halo, Beach House, and more. Post-Record Store Day longing edition.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , St. Vincent , Laurel Halo , Beach House , Fiona Apple , Lower Dens , Beck , Animal Collective , Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland , Madripoor , nerd references , Flaming Lips , Ke$ha , apocalypse , Death Grips , Dirty Projectors , Record Store Day , Monday after Record Store Day , new music , Video
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Hey, Spider-Man : you don't need $60 million to be the funnest thing on Broadway.
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A new study finds that children of New York City women exposed to higher concentrations of air pollution are more than twice as likely to be obese by age 7 than children of women who are not.
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These are the coolest middle schoolers ever.
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Paul McCartney directed the stars to sign the lyrics for "My Valentine" off the album Kisses On The Bottom . Oy.
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As with same-sex marriage, a few Republicans need to get on board.
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Organizers are also shooting for a 1,000 person "guitarmy."
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: News , Tom Morello and the Guitarmy , Dan Deacon , Das Racist , The Bobby Sanabria Band , The New York Labor Chorus , The Occupy Wall Street + Brigades , Immortal Technique , Talib Kweli , David Byrne , The Roots , guitarmy , May Day , coalition , solidarity
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Or, fastest "hurry up and wait for the effing F train."
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Oh, so this is where all the smart, cool, attractive and well-dressed people were last night, we guess.
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Hey, wait a minute, you're telling me this Liars video is super creepy?
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Legitimate? Or a position that belongs on Christwire?
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Front Room Gallery fills up in praise of euphoria.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Front Room Gallery , Cloud Nine , Larry Walczak , Fred Tomaselli , Bruce Checefsky , Chris Clary , Jeanne Tremel , Brent Ridge , Lorella Paleni , Gregory de la Haba , Patricia Fabricant , J. Fiber , Cham Giobbi , Amy Hill , Chris Jehly , David Kramer , Jesse Lambert , Linda Ganjian , I wonder if hearts of palm have any nutritional value whatsoever
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And of course lots of people dressed up in super crazy costumes.
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One couple brought it home and filmed the whole experience. Dawww.
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The Brooklyn Philharmonic will perform it in June.
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Yeah, let's definitely encourage sex workers not to use condoms.
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Donate more than $3,000 to the San Francisco Rock Project's lending library, and Merrill Garbus will write you a song.
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RIP, Dick Clark.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Music , TV , Dick Clark , American Bandstand , The American Music Industry , Baby Boomers , Captain Beefheart , Pink Floyd , Blue Cheer , Steely Dan , Talking Heads , Prince , Public Image Ltd. , Def Leppard , X , New Edition , Scritti Politti , Kurtis Blow , the Beastie Boys , Video
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The things you definitely won't be able to afford tomorrow, today!
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Supplementary things to check out before or after English Kills.
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Remember that teensy tiny thing Obama mentioned in his State of the Union?
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The city-sidewalk landscape is changing.
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New York City doesn't like being told that it needs to solve its sewage overflow problem.
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A Brooklyn high school program offers meditation sessions as an alternative to traditional disciplinary measures.
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The one time Josh Kurp isn't on Twitter, he misses a secret show with the reunited Swedish punk band. #twitterfail
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Oh yeah, also, Northside now lasts for eight days, which will be great for your soul and considerably less great for your liver.
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At least one politician thinks so.
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Actor Alex Karpovsky's anti-thriller explores the banality of psychopathy.
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Or, you know, the Census fucked up in 2010 and won't admit it.
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Chekhov's quintessential portrait of Russianness, performed by Russians.
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A group of 18 Jewish Springsteen fans used it in a specially themed Seder above Madison Square Garden on the night of his show.
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Or, what to expect when the always high-energy, engaged choreographer graces the closest thing Brooklyn has to a salon.
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They vere the robots...boop boop boop boop.
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And an apparent bike accident in Williamsburg.
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The formerly lo-fi Los Angeles pop act plays the Bowery Ballroom tonight, stops in to chat first.
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Being loaded isn't as easy as it looks.
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The legendary record store says it will open a Brooklyn location that's even larger than its 5,000 square foot UK flagship.
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Hang out with a large bird of prey!
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: News , Town Square , Go Green! Greenpoint! Earth Day Festival , Prospect Park Audubon , Green in BKLYN , Brooklyn Kitchen , Gowanus Canal , Sierra Club , FROGG , Newtown Creek Nature Walk , Greenpoint Business Alliance , Hudson River Foundation , Open Space Alliance , Hudson River Project
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Mark your calendars!
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One in five, the highest level since 2005.
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On record labels, record sleeves, records and the production of records.
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The primary authors of your weekend's entertainment: Nicholas Sparks, Steve Harvey, Lawrence Kasdan and Mary Harron. Plus: chimps!
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , The Lucky One , Nicholas Sparks , Zac Efron , Taylor Schilling , Think Like a Man , Tim Story , Steve Harvey , Chris Brown , Chimpanzee , chimpanzees , Darling Companion , Lawrence Kasdan , Kevin Kline , The Moth Diaries , Mary Harron
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Several reasons why you should soon seize the season to see these shows at Norte Maar and Studio 10.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Norte Maar , Tamara Gonzales , Kevin Curran , Austin Thomas , Studio 10 , Michele Araujo , Elana Herzog , Lisa Sigal , Bushwick , I don't suffer from allergies too much , but I empathize with those who do
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Win a Pulitzer, however, and you can live where you want.
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Roosevelt Island Shmoosevelt Island.
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Is it a sink hole, or a hellmouth?
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This whole Mexico thing might spoil the megachain's chances of opening up here.
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The Scottish post-rockers will compose a soundtrack for James Bowthorpe's story of rowing the craft down the Hudson.
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You may not know what a Kellerbier is, but we think you'll probably want to drink it.
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The rise and fall of a lobster processing facility in small-town Maine.
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"I respect critics who criticize art, not those who criticize audiences."
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French action movies have car chases and crying.
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A brief history of a very specific type of record that has potential to be great.
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Brooklyn Bridge Park is getting a fancy shmancy velodrome .
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Neighborhood names, monsters, nudity, christenings, aesthetic nuance. In that order, mostly, and all in a night's local jaunts.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Bushwick , 56 Bogart , Interstate Projects , Slag Contemporary , English Kills Art Gallery , Andrew Hurst , Parallel Art Space , Narcissister , Rafael Fuchs , post-Alf-ine gargantoid or Voltron reject or whatever the hell , it was a nice thing to chance across
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Meatball parms on the beach!
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The National Lawyers Guild counted twelve arrests in total.
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This should make crossing the street safer.
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Well, not really. But a certain group might well be excommunicated.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Whitney Museum , Occupy Wall Street , OWS , Martin Luther , Reformation , 95 Theses , Diet of Worms , Edict of Worms , Forest Whitaker , pseudo-spiritual conversions
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Boerum Hiller Tracy K. Smith takes the award for her collection Life on Mars .
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From Dick Van Dyke to Chris Rock to, well, Lena Dunham, of course.
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We're not exactly sure what you'll see at this solo exhibit, but we can assure you that it will be good.
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Acts associated with the legendary zine played for an audience that clamored for more.
by Tobias Carroll
Tags: Music , Chickfactor , True Love Always , LD Beghtol , Everything But The Girl , Gail O'Hara , Tracey Thorn , The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group , John Martyn , Nick Drake , Mick Gaffney , St. John , Michael Chapman , Bob Dylan , The Aislers Set , Amy Linton , Henry's Dress
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In which our writers tell you about the records they'll be falling all over themselves to get tomorrow.
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Who has the most amenities clustered together?
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The artist's new works in ambered mists are not to be missed.
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St. Vincent, we were crowdsurfing with you in spirit.
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Good, because you can't trust those people!
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Mark your calendars!
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Seriously, don't let anyone tell you the M. Ward record is boring or too NPR-ish or whatever.
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How one band came to matter enough to warrant an 8-night stint at MoMA.
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The Day He Arrives and Oki's Movie , two new variations on the Korean master's eternal themes, play NYC.
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Post Mortem , the new film by Tony Manero director Pablo Larrain, once more asks: does the depiction of 1970s Chile require that your protagonist be a creepy weirdo?
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In The Cabin in the Woods , Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon dismantle the horror movie, lecture us about our complicity in its barbarism, and make us like it.
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A love that always feels new, even when it isn't, is the subject of Mia Hansen-Løve's fine third film.
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Here is a sensuous road-trip romance trailing elusive ideas about place and representation.
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My Mars Bar Movie is Jonas Mekas's video diary of many a happy, boozy, aimless day in the lamented East Village dive.
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Hit So Hard covers a bit too much ground in telling the story of Hole drummer Patty Schemel.
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French doc Kids of Today tours the global punk scene, then and now, eschewing nostalgia for vital performances.
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The Graduate , now revived, has transcended its zeitgeist and become a piece of lasting, all-encompassing satire.
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This Oscar-nominated French-Canadian inspirational-teacher drama earns the lump it leaves in your throat.
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Talking to the Goodbye First Love director about living in a teen-love bubble, and discovering Paris.
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Fightville looks at the lives of mixed martial artists, and marks a new entry into this boxing-replacing sport-as-metaphor.
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Jean Gentil , about a mysterious Haitian man dropping out of society, challenges the picture of so-called "developing" nations as lush landscapes sullied by pesky political problems.
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Marley , Bob's bio-doc, is as overlong and unfocused as you'd expect a movie released on 4/20 to be.
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Mary Harron treads water with The Moth Diaries , an expertly made, totally negligible J-horror riff set at an all-girls boarding school.
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A special-effects guru is cast in a shadowy government plot in this surreptitious media essay, awash with 80s bunk.
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Para-industrial workers toil in flame-cast shadow in this grim, craggily beautiful documentary.
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The great Soviet silent filmmaker V.I. Pudovkin shows his gift for painting vivid character portraits while telling larger, fluidly moving stories in this epic of racial pride.
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Beryl Reid's volcanic lead performance, as a viciously insecure soap opera actress, is the source of the jealousy and rage fueling Robert Aldrich.
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Smack in the middle of BAM's Bresson series, a week of this angry, youthful but late-life declaration of refusal.
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Faustian pacts, devilish doubles and expressive acting in this 100-year-old German silent.
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Or, 12 more reasons you're better off living here than anywhere else in the world.
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Theodora Skipitares Plays with Prometheus
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Is Gore Vidal's slick The Best Man , back on Broadway in another election-year revival, an eternal chestnut or a product of a very particular time and climate?
Amelia Gray's viscerally rendered debut novel takes place in an alternate reality, where cryptic notes from a dead woman appear without explanation.
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A new show on John Cage's influence explores presence and absence.
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Altruism? Alcoholism?
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Word to the wise: consensual tickling is still 100 percent legal in the US.
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