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Pondering the imponderable at a Bushwick intersection.
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Gambling? In Casablanca?
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Two federal lawsuits outlining wrongful policing of protesters have landed in the NYPD's lap today.
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Just by reading this post, you're a little bit on strike.
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The flower power survivor celebrated his recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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On purpose! Not just the accidental by-product of intense professionalism.
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How John Cusack (and contemporaries Cage and Depp) struggle to find age-appropriate vehicles for their quirky magnetism.
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Big banks are working together to keep track of protesters' movements, just like elk...in...national parks...
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A sad day for the music community, especially here in the city he called home.
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In which rom-coms and B-movies and odd mid-level indies all try to get into theaters before The Avengers .
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , The Five-Year Engagement , Nicholas Stoller , Jason Segel , Emily Blunt , Judd Apatow , Pirates! Band of Misfits , Aardman Animation , Bernie , Richard Linklater , Jack Black , The Raven. Safe , Jason Statham , Sound of My Voice , Brit Marling
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You know, Citibank. Financier of the coal industry.
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Those who would vote against the measure are "extreme people who don’t care about the rights of women,” Schumer said.
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On new music from Purity Ring, Animal Collective, Cozy, VÅR, and more.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , Animal Collective , Purity Ring , Cozy , VÅR , Northside , Amen Dunes , Beach House , The Intelligence , Family Band , Magnetic Fields , Four Tet , songs , new music , Video
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Turns out the rich are more likely to cheat. Or at least to use an Internet dating site to do so.
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Nets arena neighbors are not excited about the possibility of a Hooters in their neighborhood.
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On one band's apparent break from the shackles of the genre's most frustrating crutches.
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Civil disobedience, free bagels and an Occupy love story.
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Which, you know, is probably a good idea.
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And there are lots of ways to celebrate.
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The end of a big week here in the big city.
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And thus concludes the oyster portion of our coverage.
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It's about time Bowling Green had an electro dance party protest.
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Time to learn how to stop worrying and love the bacteria.
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Opinions on the green cabs differ.
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With big parties and all that, too. Here's a quick roundup to simplify things.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Frieze , Frieze Week NYC , Frieze Fair , Pulse , NADA , seven@SEVEN , Boiler , Verge , art fairs , art parties , Randall's Island
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One New York Times columnist is making the case to save it.
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Chrysalis, a lingerie company, is debuting a line of bras and panties specifically designed for trans women.
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Road rage par excellence.
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The terrific Andy Serkis saves this movie from being just the sum of its cliches.
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Way down south, where you'd least expect it.
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Or it renders the theoretical quite physical, at least. Intentionally or not.
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In which the founder and editor of Bushwick Daily tells us how the misery of legal work in Prague led to starting a website, gallery, radio station and blog in her beloved Brooklyn neighborhood.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Media , Katarina Hybenova , Bushwick , Bushwick Daily , online galleries , DIY , Jason Andrew , Norte Maar , Active Space , jojo Soul , Brothers from Another , Bushwick Gallery , Bushwick Open Studios , Arts in Bushwick , Northeast Kingdom , Tandem , Zefe's , The Loom
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No, no, you don't get it, these clothes are starting a dialogue .
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E.M. Forster finds prose in this American morality tale. Benjamin Britten finds poetry.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Music , Theater , billy budd , metropolitan opera , benjamin britten , em forster , herman melville , nathan gunn , james morris , john daszak , steeped in the classicals , Video
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Hey, this is actually really good!
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In which international authors hold forth in strangers' living rooms apartments at the legendary artist-populated West Village high-rise.
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The Original Music Workshop will feature rehearsal and practice spaces for up to 70 musicians at one time.
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A five-month saga comes to a close.
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A new interview with the artists touches on murder, rape and terrorism. And ladies' handbags.
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Is the Preezy of the United Steezy going to let interest rates on student loans double on July 1? Oh Pell no.
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And just one meal of goldfish a month, okay?
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No surprise, porn performers and producers have tons of smart things to say about porn. Also, recommendations.
by Audrey Ference
Tags: Sex , sex , porn , sinnamon love , madison young , museum of sex , sarah forbes , dan reilly , cindy gallop , apexart gallery , lynsey g. , tina horn , sex education , feminist porn
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A lot of Marvel superheroes (and hammy geriatric British thespians) combine their powers this weekend.
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Reading in a bar is one of life's great pleasures. Reading in a bar while mixing your own cocktail is unsurpassed.
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Food & Drink , Hotel Delmano , cocktails , rum , gin , vodka , bourbon , Fernet , Nabokov , Barry Hannah , John Cheever , Julio Cortazar , Graham Greene , reading in the bar , boozing
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Broken promises? At Atlantic Yards ?
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the original prototype of a winged NASA space shuttle!
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"I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.'"
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More people on the streets, record numbers in shelters.
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In more or less that order. In Ridgewood, Queens.
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Also, what does it mean when the publication reviewing your record also produced your video?
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And it sort of worked, at least near the front.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , Dan Deacon , OWS , may day , rally , tom morello , union square , guitarmy , interpretive dance , bobby sanabria , das racist , Video
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They defied police and got away with it!
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Just your basic heartbreaking dance party.
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GENDA, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, is going to the state senate for consideration for the fifth time. It's a vital piece of basic civil rights legislation, and Gov. Cuomo hasn't even officially put his support behind it. So like, what the hell?
by Audrey Ference
Tags: News , GENDA , trans rights , trans women , Gov. Cuomo , civil rights , Occupy Wall Street , Brandy Martell , CeCe McDonald , Paige Clay , TDOR , NYCLU
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Gerard Love, a TF favorite, releases his first solo album under the moniker Lightships.
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In one of the festival's lunchtime conversations, two authors discuss how best to honor one's literary household deity.
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Whoever tweeted this is gonna get fired faster than Gawker's Fox mole.
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Kids are having less sex these days. Is this good or bad? Hard to say.
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What else will the Barclays Center bring?
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Living humans score a victory over hologram upstarts.
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A brilliantly performed, very funny new production of the 1960 play strips human nature naked.
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A sci-fi opera about how aging affects the soul.
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Ooohhh, so this is why everyone in our office is acting all crazy!
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"Spider-Man, turn off the Tonys!"
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Protesting à la Occupy is all the rage these days.
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Oh goodness, this is not at all interesting.
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The filmmaker talks about loving to listen to folks talk, and seeing the potential in his actors.
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Oyster season is coming to an end, so hit up these great local spots before it's too late.
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Michael Winterbottom's latest is a literary adaptation as travelogue.
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Swag is a double-edged sword.
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So it's in talks with the city and MTA.
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Now let's watch Greg Dulli rock a black turtleneck better than anyone ever.
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The Van Brunt Stillhouse in Red Hook is now fully operational. Brooklyn-made rum drinks all around.
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Or the first 100 records he had filed under the letter A, anyway...
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Shine on, you crazy guitarmy.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , may day , guitarmy , tom morello , woodie guthrie , jd samson , men , rage against the machine , dan deacon , das racist , bobby sanabria
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More on the death penalty in documentary miniseries Death Row Portraits , screening at IFC.
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Another good year for the alterna-NYFF.
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The NY1 anchor is your new neighbor on Bedford.
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Are you sitting down? OMFG.
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"Every heroin addict in Red Hook goes here."
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Jack White's just blunderbussed at himself.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , Jack White , Blunderbuss , Meg White , Karen Elson , Allison Mosshart , Elephant , DJ Stijl , adolescent relationships , the summer of tongues , White Stripes , Dead Weather , The Atlantic
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Get on it, people!
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Michael Pena receives the maximum sentence for sexual assault.
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You are going to drink so, so much of this stuff.
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This is not something we say lightly.
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Also, the full 2012 film lineup!
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And really, who better?
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We will never be able to get over Sharon Van Etten's voice.
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How often do you get to spout off on a soapbox?
8 NYC Bands You Need to Hear
For the sixth year in a row, we tell you which of the seemingly billions of bands in this city are most deserving of your attention.
Film Reviews
A 50th-anniversary restoration of Shirley Clarke's memorable immersion in the jazz-inflected, doped-up Greenwich Village.
Film Reviews
Richard Linklater's based-on-a-true-story investigates a beloved Texas mortician's community standing, before and after a murder.
Film Reviews
Michael Glawogger's documentary immerses itself in the lives of prostitutes across the world, but is that enough?
Movie Journal
Concerning incongruous special guests, and our Frankensteined zeitgeist.
Film Reviews
Retro-gritty-corny Safe is a no-frills delivery system for cinema's most reliable ass-kicker, Jason Statham.
Film Reviews
The documentary Inventing Our Life grazes over the potentially fascinating subject of kibbutz life.
Film Reviews
Thinking through Otto Preminger's generation-gap melodrama Bonjour Tristesse , now in revival.
Film Reviews
Talking to the Brooklynites whose first feature, First Winter , at Tribeca, considers a very contemporary microcosm's relationship with technology, and each other, after a cataclysmic events.
Film Reviews
Thomas Vinterberg returns to his roots, after a fashion, with this crisp family drama.
Film Reviews
In which punk director Penelope Spheeris takes on preening metal gods.
Film Reviews
A primer in advance of the Museum of the Moving Image's tribute to TV's early, anarchic genius.
Film Reviews
The apatow factory considers commitment in the intermittently funny and focused The Five-Year Engagement .
Film Reviews
Headhunters is a well-paced, black-comic thriller from Norway.
Film Reviews
In Elles , Juliette Binoche plays a wife, mother and journalist whose interviews with a couple of working girls reveal... well, nothing particularly coherent about the roles women play.
Film Reviews
A revival of Jacques Rivette's 1974 counter-classic Celine and Julie Go Boating , a movie "about" the peculiarly, almost frighteningly delicious act of watching it.
Film Reviews
Urban archetypes collide in this slice of Weimar expressionism.
Film Reviews
In which Walter Hill shatters the ideal of Western heroism into many confusing pieces.
Film Reviews
Robert Bresson's study of a young woman's suicide ponders the possibility of freedom in a world of constraints.
Film Reviews
The Italian auteur talks out his frustrations, politics and mythology in this mid-career interview film.
Film Reviews
Marnie! In rhapsodic praise of one of Hitchcock's most mysterious blonde (and, maybe, movie).
Restaurant Reviews
Oh goodie, it's kid-friendly.
Bar Reviews
Sumptuous hedonism, closer to home.
Theater Reviews
This study of the relationship between a grandmother and grandson, is not a sentimental play about old age and youth coming to terms with each other, but neither is it a play that will disturb anyone on any level.
Adam Levin's latest collection of misfits and bastards.
Peter Cameron's new novel, about scars and enduring in 1950s England, is somber and deferential.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Large breasts aren't always fun for everyone.
Ask A Cabbie
We once saw a cabbie throw a guy out of a moving taxi.
Art Fag City
Looking at art online just got more... better?
Local
Brooklyn is a really, really walkable city.
