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You didn't know? A higher income would be bad for you, but only if you make minimum wage.
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E. J. Graff explains the complicated ways that same-sex marriage is actually a state-by-state thing.
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News flash: they don't sound like Erasure anymore!
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"You can't brew out benzene."
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Longest marathon mouth harp session, Jack?
by Josh Kurp
Tags: Music , jack white , mouth harp , largest guitar , guinness world records , earth passport , minikiss , jay z , hangar tour , glenn haworth , kuzhalmannam ramakrishnan , rock choir , big red nose show , peace old jazz band
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Get drunk, talk about books, etc.
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Expect not to see cobblestone streets or the Manhattan Bridge in TV commercials for a while.
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Your Monday box office post mortem sees Sacha Baron Cohen missing his targets, and US military might demonstrating its ability to weaponize pretty much anything.
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The Brooklyn-based artist is in the middle of a month-long residence at Cameo Gallery.
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But officials say the pipeline isn't meant to act as a fracking highway.
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In which the L's Cannes correspondent anticipates the cinematic and social buffet awaiting.
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In which the young, immensely successful German-Austrian novelist (really!) ponders his public self.
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Well, now I know what the interns are doing today.
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On two of our greatest "family films," screening together this weekend.
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The most affluent 1 percent of New Yorkers reeled in a third of personal income in the city in 2009.
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Talking sad stories and funny people with the visiting novelist.
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Man, you guys sure do love NYC Literary Trivia.
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Goth glows bright white now.
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But the theater will return to the new building once it's built.
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Oh goodness, here we go.
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Thank god James Franco was sort of automatically excluded from this one.
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We weren't the only ones upset by the news that Freeman had been named a casualty in the Gray Lady's recent layoffs.
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There's more to this thing than just Anthony Bourdain, you know.
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Festival founders give us their all-time dream lineup!
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WHY DOESN'T LIAM NEESON SAY "YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP" WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT ANYMORE.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Battleship , Peter Berg , Michael Bay , Hasbro , Veterans , The Dictator , Sacha Baron Cohen , Anna Faris , What to Expect When You're Expecting , Hysteria
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The man who shut down Williamsburg on Friday was just trying to brighten it up.
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Surgeons removed a towel from its stomach.
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And other Next Wave Festival news.
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In defense of latter-day Burton-n-Depp movies.
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Still, the percentage was down from 2010.
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Trees'll getcha.
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Our post post-modern "Renaissance" man has taken up blogging, thinks Bully didn't have enough bullying.
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And so much more, at Creative Week, going on right now in DUMBO.
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A guy got stabbed for watching porn on the library computer.
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Five brave, misguided writer types duke it out in The L's annual battle for literary supremacy.
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Books , literary upstart , Ben Greenman , Cal Morgan , Luis Jaramillo , Katherine Fausset , Jonny Diamond , Anneliese Downey , Jonathan Goldberg , Benjamin Dolson , Thomas Hopkins , Jenny Hapler , Wythe Hotel , Video
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Councilman Stephen Levin has drafted a bill that would make it legal to eat outside before noon on Sundays.
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Our first dispatch from the South of France features Wes Anderson, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Ulrich Seidl all striking out for the territory, in their own way.
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Pretty sure you can find the meaning of life in this thing.
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Merde! Fort Hamilton High School is about to get a phenomenal dance program.
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Looking ahead to the immersive festival of what we might as well call avant-garde film, and talking to one of the filmmakers about her train film and chance.
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More people should have watched Sarah Michelle Gellar's return to television.
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Butt plugs based on GOP polling numbers. Adorable! And topical.
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Canadian museum gives in to criticism and tones down their sex exhibit for kids, which is still a million times racier than anything we could get away with here.
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Instead of getting mad at North Carolina, sign this petition and get ready for a fight.
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The duo have unexpectedly called the band quits.
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"One of my major, major things that I want to do, that I think is essential to this movement, is to get in the ear, and get in the minds, and get in the soul, again, of the baby boomers."
by Sydney Brownstone
Tags: Music , jason samel , occupy this album , Ani DiFranco , Anti Flag , Crosby and Nash , Debbie Harry , Girls Against Boys , Jackson Browne , Joan Baez , Steve Earle , Mogwai , The Guthrie Family , Thee Oh Sees , Yoko Ono , Willie Nelson , Yo La Tengo , bryant park , Video
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If you stand for everything, you stand for nothing.
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And, if it's not too much to ask, put your name down for New York City Literary Trivia.
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Artworks and other items by 20 or so different street artists will be on sale in a studio store during Bushwick Open Studios.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Robin Grearson , Street Art Pop-Up Store , Bushwick Open Studios , street art , ASVP , Bethany Allard , Chris Stain , Criminy Johnson , QRST , Daniel Feral , Elle , Enzo & Nio , General Howe , Gilf! , Hellbent , Jon Burgerman , LNY , Moustache Man , Nathan Pickett , ND'A , Never , Quel Beast , Royce B , Active Space , Arts in Bushwick
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All that petitioning paid off!
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Kodak had a nuclear reactor in the basement of their Rochester plant, for some reason.
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Tennessee Williams's last play, produced in New York for the first time in a production that just closed early after bad reviews, is a compelling mess.
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A judge rules to allow an anti-stop-and-frisk lawsuit class action status.
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Screw the mealy protein bars and maximize your flavor-per-calorie intake eating out on the town.
by Cathy Erway
Tags: Food & Drink , Roberta's Pizza , Il Buco Alimentari and Vinieria , Prime Meats , Parish Hall , Boulud Sud , Yemen Cafe , Blue Hill , Northern Spy , Zoe , Sahadi's (the take-out counter) , Peter Kaminsky
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The creators of the Bloody Mary scone and spicy bacon caramel corn are setting up shop.
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No bets are hedged in the visual representation of her work.
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Alain Resnais directs his own wake, David Cronenberg's son picks up where his dad left off, and Benh Zeitlin's heralded debut disappoints.
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Or haunting, that is, in some recent pics of the vast crib. Of course, oligarch Roman Abramovich—a major art buyer, among other things—figures into this as well.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Politics , News , Putin , Project South , Roman Abramovich , art collector , RULeaks , Black Sea , House Arrest Resort , an unlikely reality TV show that would probably attract a lot of viewers
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Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner and Sam Brown are Divine Fits.
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The author published a piece at N+1 about the NHL playoffs, and it turns out he's not a fan of our local team.
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We really hope they do this at Northside.
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"Well, the credited screenwriter saw both cuts and he said they were both terrible, but I think he thought the first cut was the worst."
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What we talk about when we talk about food. Er, and books.
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A few notes to help you navigate the neighborhood's third annual Storefront Art Walk.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Bay Ridge , Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk , Bay Ridge SAW , Julie Torres , Rachel Day , Suyeon Na , Eunjeong Lee , Dave Eppley , California Girl , Doc Mike , Owl's Head , John Avelluto
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Perhaps more shoe-strung than bling-blung, this one.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Jules de Balincourt , Bushwick Basel , Norte Maar , Airplane , English Kills , Storefront Bushwick , Parallel Art Space , Regina Rex , Valentine , Bushwick Open Studios
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An almost absurdly open-ended open studio 'contest' of sorts could land you an exhibition in December.
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Should he have changed the line in the first place?
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Mick Jagger's Steven Tyler impression was spot on, but the commentary on American politics...not so much.
by Josh Kurp
Tags: Music , Mick Jagger , Jeff Beck , Steven Tyler , Tea Party , Foo Fighters , Arcade Fire , Rolling Stones , Burger King Crispy Chicken Strips , Steve Martin , Lorne Michaels , Amy Poehler , Chris Kattan , Rachel Drat , Video
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Another stellar offering from the up and coming Long Island brewery.
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In honor of his recent comments about Trayvon Martin dressing in "thug wear."
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We know not any other way to celebrate anything.
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New music from the Harlem frontman.
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We moved on up.
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That isn't the only sequence of intriguing words regarding a forthcoming spectacle at Secret Project Robot.
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So now they'll either way more hardcore or just way beardier.
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Good job not being assholes, you guys.
by Mike Conklin
Tags: Music
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This is what Best Coast should sound like.
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Mr. Zero Waste goes to Washington?
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Mitt Romney was a bully in prep school.
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A new, fantastical art project with a sense of humor performs psycho-spiritual rituals in Brooklyn.
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Find out once and for all if these "identical twins" are actually "the same person."
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Bei Bei Shaui was finally released today, after more than a year of wrongful imprisonment.
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You're not gonna want to get shut out of these shows, now are you?
Features
The Beatniks are coming! The Beatniks are coming!
Album Reviews
The band's new album is a weird case study against a career path of constant reinvention
Film Reviews
Bile and neurosis in new films from Bobcat Goldthwait and Alex Ross Perry.
Film Reviews
Dark Shadows is Burton and Depp's newest attempt at invoking whatever goodwill remains from Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood .
Film Reviews
Andrey Zvyagintsev's new film is a moody, noirish look at an increasingly wealth-stratified family, and country.
Film Reviews
Hirokazu Kore-eda refuses to fudge his perspective for the sake of uplift in his ambling drama of childhood disappointment.
Film Reviews
Taking inspiration from its subject, Patience (After Sebald) orbits the Rings of Saturn author curiously.
Film Reviews
On Nadine Labaki's hopeful, welcoming Where Do We Go Now?
Film Reviews
Two low-level grifters become surrogate parents in the flimsy, misconceived comedy A Bag of Hammers .
Film Reviews
Walter Hill's "rock and roll fable" is really a wildly stylized remake of The Searchers .
Film Reviews
A Russian director's brooding, allegorical debut draws comparisons not just to Tarkovsky but also Lynch and Dostoyevsky.
Film Reviews
On the proper facades and roiling interiors of a stone classic.
Film Reviews
Everyone's pretty bent, sexually, in Vincent Gallo's very funny directorial debut.
Film Reviews
On the extravagant underground films of the cult-beloved New German Cinema outsider.
Film Reviews
A French drama about life on the force indulges in film-fest realism and top-this kiddie crime.
Film Reviews
Formally bold debut American Animal explores the uses and limitations of pure trust-funded decadent hedonism.
Film Reviews
Hysteria , a light romp concerning the invention of the vibrator, makes much of our superiority to those strait-laced Victorians.
Restaurant Reviews
Williamsburg's Isa is all about sensory overload. In a good way.
Bar Reviews
Lucey's Lounge, in Gowanus, is a bar you could spend some time in.
We visit the studio of an artist whose upcoming project was evolved in response to man-on-the-street discussions in Delhi.
Theater Reviews
An interview with Erica Fae and Jill A. Sanders.
Theater Reviews
Well, if that wasn't the worst production of A Midsummer Night's Dream you'll ever see...
On the last of Derek Raymond's Factory novels.
Indie-press debut novel Falcons on the Floor is about young friendship tested by the US invasion of Iraq.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
Art Fag City
On the latest in spurious design memes.
Local
A look back at the first eight months of the movement, culminating with the events of May Day.
Features
Living here ain't cheap, but once your rent is paid and your groceries are bought, we've seen to it that you can enjoy yourself without any additional expenditure.
