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Time after time. After time after time after time.
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There was dancing, and yes, some of it was even dirty.
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Whether you're headed upstate this weekend or staying in the city, there are plenty of art events to go around.
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One of the last of its kind on the mainland faces an uncertain future.
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A rat dinner, inedible pizza, and a dangling croissant!
by Corinna Kirsch
Tags: Art , jennifer chan , josh kline , shana moulton , michael mahalchick , jell-o , pizza , kool-aid man , jon rafman , rikrit tiravanija , tortillas , thomas demand , whitney houston , urs fisher , croissant , rats , rat dinner , allegra laviola , laura ginn , brad troemel , taco , etsy , food , art , corinna kirsch
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These west coast ladies sure are fun.
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Five politicians who came back from sex scandals and how they did it.
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Talking to Filmwax curator Adam Schartoff about development in Brooklyn.
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In honor of this week's statue sagas, a briefing on bad statues.
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Aww, we love you Bruce!
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The grumpy tweets of over-touristed Londoners remind us how lucky we are not to be hosting the Olympics.
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Matthew McConaughey looks really scary in this, you guys.
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Sad news from the indie rock world today.
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Huffington Post ranked the best American cities for live music with Brooklyn coming in at number five. So we complain about it, naturally.
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You missed, like, dozens of shows this weekend. We'll help catch you up.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , Live shows , Summer in New York , Drive , College , Electric Youth , Anoraak , TEEN , Iceage , Martial Canterel , Dirty Beaches
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"Poverty wasn’t inspirational."
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More photos of attractive people, all of them dressed in white this time around.
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Rubbing elbows with Sleigh Bells, making dreams come true.
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Includes not a single Muse song!
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The Umali-Behrens tie the knot at an NJ military base, a first since DADT was repealed.
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NYC tops list of best cities for aspiring writers, forgets to mention that the rent is so damn high.
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Real life nerds still shine through a "cool nerd" era.
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We can pretty much go ahead and call it a day.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , Snoop Dogg , Snoop Lion , Vice , weed , reggae , Major Lazer , Diplo , Catalpa NYC , La La La , things that you can't make up
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The choreographer's distinctive style was on display during the Lincoln Center Festival.
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The festival of new Japanese film concludes with a touchingly cheesy sci-fi-adventure blockbuster.
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Entries, evasions and variant egresses make up the thematic mix in the current exhibition at Valentine Gallery.
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Dumpling squids are like total freaks in the sack, man.
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A gold medal moment on so many levels.
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As LCD Soundsystem's Shut Up and Play the Hits opens, we take a look at classic concert films beyond the familiar shortlist.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , Concert films , LCD Soundsystem , Velvet Underground , Andy Warhol , James Brown , Joan Jett , Klaus Nomi , Wire , Sheila E. , Prince , Siskel and Ebert , Portishead , Yeah Yeah Yeahs , The Knife , Video
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Departing L Mag editor in self-indulgent farewell post shocker.
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Once again, here's our round-up of upcoming screenings, performances, and openings.
by Whitney Kimball
Tags: Art , rat feast , allegra laviola , clocktower , summerscreen , triple canopy , Zeljko McMullen , roulette , regina rex , esp tv , dirty dancing
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Shock, grief, and political disgust come first, but the venue of last week's Colorado shooting spree suggests the necessity, and limits, of a movie-centric response.
by Mark Asch
Tags: Film , News , The Dark Knight Rises , The Dark Knight , Christopher Nolan , Terrorism , Mao II , The Will to Power , Spectacle , Aurora Shooting , James Holmes
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Their entire discography is made up of smoky, atmospheric, murky pop songs that build on anticipation, and live, not much changes. Thank goodness.
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Live, and on the Montreal band's debut record, the line between "witch house" and "future pop" is a fine one.
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Man, that one scene in Step Up 3D was so good, wasn't it?
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , Your Weekend at the Movies , The Watch , Ben Stiller , Vince Vaughn , R-rated comedy , Step Up Revolution , Ruby Sparks , Killer Joe , Tracy Letts , William Friedkin
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Whatever, LMFAO are still the Beatles of our generation.
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In the meantime, cast your vote for the August 15 screening?
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This week, we'll be heading to a screening at Heather's Bar, eating brunch in Baltimore, and picking up the arts and labor conversation with a few group shows.
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Have you ever seen the cat-human on OkCupid? Or the hipster with a gun? One's an art project, the other's just a "get laid" project.
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Plus, Telepathe is playing, you guys. Telepathe!
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Stop putting on airs, city women!
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If you don't vote, you don't get to complain, you know.
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Advice for the city from the Simpsons, since the whole same sex marriage cash cow thing worked out so well.
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There's no mention of California, cats or weed, so we're contractually obligated to type those words here.
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Chocolate penis horn hat.
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No maybes about it.
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News belongs on AM!
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Plus, Prince Humperdinck himself will introduce the movie! Really! Chris Sarandon is coming!
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A used record store leaks their "do not buy" list of albums and spawns a brainstorm of what that list might look like 10 years from now. So many albums by The Futureheads!
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Sponsored in part by Los Angeles, Miami and Thailand.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Special Events , Talks and Readings , Brooklyn Art Weekend , Triple Canopy , Amaranth Borsuk , Erica Baum , Siglio Press , Regina Rex , Alexandra Hopf , Odalis Valdivieso , Marcos Vallela , Rene Morales , Invisible Dog , Siamese Connection , 245 Varet , Swing Swang Swung , Brooke Moyse , Jon Newman , Joe Ballweg , Residency Unlimited
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Here's some new ways to waste time!
by Corinna Kirsch
Tags: Art , art , new museum , corinna kirsch , richard kern , tabor robak , tupac shakur , gifs , cats , internet cat film festival , weed , fat cats
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When duty calls...
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This feels like a bit much.
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This one's for America.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Food & Drink , Special Events , London Olympics , opening ceremonies , drinking games , London , John Lennon , Ralph Lauren , Bob Costas , Team USA , America , Michael Phelps
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At the festival of new Japanese film, an amiably eccentric weepie.
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In search of the real Madeleine.
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Not as spooky as it sounds.
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Beer, burgers, babes, beaches...
by Bex Wade
Tags: Nightlife , Rippers , Roberta's , beach , rockaways , queers , lesbians , dykes , parties , dancing , Slideshow
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Flies that have prolonged, noisy sex are more likely to get eaten by bats. Is there a lesson here for all of us? Hopefully not.
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"The groom is really the new bride."
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Maybe one day, you, too, will be a Hipster in History. But probably not!
by Jonny Diamond
Tags: Media , Hipsters Throughout History , hipsters , Li Bo , Marcus Aurelius , Julian of Norwich , Goethe , Mary Shelley , Lord Byron , Irving Rosenthal , Christopher Isherwood , Mary Wollstonecraft , Federico Garcia Lorca , Egon Schiele , Fritz Lang , Oscar Wilde , Chester Himes , Lee Krasner , Nina Simone , Nick Drake , Frank O'Hara , Gypsy Rose Lee , Susan Sontag , The Band , Caroline Blackwood , Diane Arbus , Diane Di Prima , Dash Snow , Edna St. Vincent Millay , Dorothy Parker , The Mitford Sisters , Harry Crosby , Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Facebook just got its first art gallery!
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You’re a dickhead. Don’t worry— we all are. I tell you this, because according to Ph.Dickhead POWHIDA, none of our art friends will ever, ever do us the favor.
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Let's get fired!
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Quickly! To the Bat-archives!
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"We'll end the season with the pachenga."
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Is she a secret genius?! ONLY TWITTER WILL TELL.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , Kitty Pryde , Twitter , Santos Party House , Tumblr , self-aware , hearts , stars , ponies , teenagers , kids these days
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Takashi Miike's Harakiri remake takes on traditions cinematic and ancient.
Film Reviews
Gene Kelly brings a history of lovestruck Hollywood dance numbers to Jacques Demy's romance of tenuous connections.
Film Reviews
Nikolaus Geyrhalter's latest documentary looks in on Europe's mechanized, vacuum-sealed night shift.
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On Batman and everybody's favorite dissident.
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Chen Kaige's new Sacrifice is sumptuous and satisfying in its great scope.
Film Reviews
An anthropological landmark, from 1961, about contemporary France and the truth of representation.
Film Reviews
Are Austria's vegans "psycho-terrorists"? A new documentary follows their legal travails.
Film Reviews
The opening night film of this year's NewFest is a not infrequently lovely adaptation of a play about sexuality and freedom.
Film Reviews
A number of talented people, like Robert Mitchum, Raoul Walsh, James Wong Howe and especially composer Max Steiner, bring you this hauntingly dark post-WWII Western.
Film Reviews
Screenwriter Zoe Kazan, her real-life boyfriend Paul Dano, and the directors of Little Miss Sunshine muddle through a meta take on the manic pixie dream girl.
Film Reviews
On William Friedkin and Tracy Letts's grotesque, Texas-sized comedy of family and murder.
Allison Kaufman's videos of tentative personal connections explore notions of intimacy.
Theater Reviews
Never before staged in NYC, this Cole Porter musical is dated but interesting.
Art Fag City
The Whitney's Yayoi Kusama retrospective focuses on work that looks more diseased than playful. This is a good thing.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
In which nut allergies complicate casual hookups.
Art Fag City
On New Museum's "Ghosts in the Machine," about our lives with technology.
Features
"Mrs. Gallagher insists that you address her as 'Mrs. Gallagher.'"
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“Time... keeps on slipping, slipping into the furniture...”
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"He let his head gradually move down and looked up again at his left arm. Handless. Motherfucker."
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“I had known Kilbey since grade school and I never believed, then or now, he had friends other than me.”
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“In an attempt to prove to Ginny, wherever she may be now, that I am not without a sense of humor in these matters, I have inserted dead celebrities into the photographs of our vacation.”
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“I am Henri of Normandy, a foot soldier in the army of the triune Lord. I have journeyed this far and will journey further yet—to Jerusalem—to fulfill my vows to the Holy Roman Church and to receive penance for sin that is not mine but, for which, I am the vessel.”
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New short stories by Dean Bakopoulos and Ariel Djanikian, plus the Literary Upstart winner and finalists.
