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August is National Anal Pleasure Month. FYI.
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IKEA, GIFs, and public access TV all make Friday kind of worth it.
by Corinna Kirsch
Tags: Art , ikea , soccer , gifs , museum of the moving image , public access , madame chao's , jason eppnik , corinna kirsch , astoria , Video
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This week, we'll be thrown into the dark for the Bushwick Blackout, we'll take a trip to Governors Island, and we'll have a free artist therapy session
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But let's keep an eye on those clouds, shall we?
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For your inner francophile, and your inner cinephile as well.
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Listen to this cover by Beat Radio and find out.
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The final unicorn listicle!
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On the virtues of just getting on with it.
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After the attacks everything was different, from release schedules to press screenings.
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For serious pork-lovers only.
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The celebrated theater director trash talked NYC to the Chicago media.
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Time to get weird AND political!
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Nobody panic. NOBODY PANIC!
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If you really, really can't come, don't fret, there's a cool livestream!
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The porn industry shuts down following a syphilis outbreak.
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It costs $6 each way instead of $10. Sold!
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If you like beards and books, boy, do we have the thing for you.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Books , Music , The Unified Field Collective , Fleet Foxes , Robin Pecknold , 826 National , Bonnie "Prince" Billy , Amen Dunes , Department of Eagles , Damien Echols , Gloria Steinem , Autumn de Wilde , Charles Aaron , Abby Portner , Beach House , Sub Pop , Marlow & Sons , Mociun
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The GOP just needs to take this thing whole hog.
by Audrey Ference
Tags: News , gop , republicans , planks , republican convention , global warming , rape , bible study , evolution , sex ed , witches , personhood , racists
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Outerborough Blues is about a missing persons case in Clinton Hill in the 90s.
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The non-apology, a vital part of the life cycle of the internet, most recently exercised by dumbass Rep. Todd Akin.
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The Top Gun director made unpretentious pulp.
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Julian Assange is not a messiah, he is a rapist who has admitted to his crimes. Knock it off, everybody.
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On the brink of Centipede Hz 's release, let's listen to the best of AnCo's many, many derivatives.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , Animal Collective , Centipede Hz , Merriweather Post Pavilion , Body Language , Yawn , Alvin Band , Keepaway , Truman Peyote , Prince Rama , Sun Airway , Wavves , wannabes , derivatives , sheep , Video
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The director of Sleepwalk With Me explains why comedians make the best movies.
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Hannah Flegelman is giving artists a new place to show their work. So what if it's in the back of a truck?
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The Obamas like art, and here's what they have to say about that. Also, Barack Obama wrote poetry?
by Corinna Kirsch
Tags: Art , diebenkorn , ruscha , barack obama , michelle obama , george w. bush , laura bush , glenn ligon , alma thomas , poetry , occidental , george catlin , frank stella
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A woman was sexually assaulted by a man who offered to help her get home from a bar in the West Village.
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On the new album from Spoon's Britt Daniel and Handsome Furs' Dan Boeckner, which is only the best rock record of the year (maybe).
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We're not going to let a little rain get in the way of our love for Holly Hunter.
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Who doesn't have a pair of lucky Shrek ears?
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Let's try this again, shall we?
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Bravo's reality TV show Work of Art will not be extended for a third season. To artists, this is perhaps the darkest day since the plane crash that killed Robert Smithson, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper, thirty years ago.
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These lobsters are fell off the back of a truck cheap, all on the up-and-up.
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A cornucopia of sweet, sweet music.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , fall 2012 record release guide , New York bands , Animal Collective , Cat Power , Grizzly Bear , Yeasayer , Teengirl Fantasy , Matthew Dear , Swans , TEEN , Cult of Youth , David Byrne , St. Vincent , How to Dress Well , Woods , John Cale , Matt & Kim , Freelance Whales , Paul Banks , Titus Andronicus , Prince Rama
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Welcome to the borough, guys.
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After four years, Imperial Teen brings their pop surge back to New York tomorrow.
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The Olympics, hostile blinking, and a video festival!
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More than a decade after the release of his debut album, is Chris Carrabba still resonating with 16-year-olds? Or is this more of a nostalgia thing? We talked to fans at his sold-out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg this weekend to find out.
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What would we ever do without Starbucks?
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The annual Music Marathon ropes in The Walkmen, GZA, The Mountain Goats, The Presets, Icona Pop and so many more for this year's festival.
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For realsie reals.
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Commodore Barry Park played host to the most recent installment of this stellar festival.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , AfroPunk Festival , Free Concerts , Reggie Watts , Toro y Moi , Skate Culture , Punk Rock , Janelle Monae , TV on the Radio , Good Times , Video
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The Domino Effect examines New York's transition to a real estate-based economy.
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Talking to the really smart people behind some really smart companies.
by admin
Tags: Northside , Northside Entrepreneurship , Bloomberg Businessweek , foursquare , Dennis Crowley , Duann Scott , Shapeways , Michael Karnjanaprakorn , Skillshare , John Katzman , 2tor , Video
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A scary clown, flying limbs, a keyboard covered in intestines... could only mean Animal Collective released a video for "Today's Supernatural."
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At the latest exhibition by the former Moldy Peach, in which he morphs toons into totem poles.
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Out of concern that the happy couple stays happy.
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In which we combined two of our favorite things: Mozart, and booze.
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You voted for your it, and now we're showing it. Ahh, democracy.
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Ditch your cubicle, and get yourself to DUMBO.
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On the eve of the trial's verdict, writers and activists will be reading the closing statements and other court room documents of the detained women.
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From summer blockbusters to limited releases, it's the last chance for a breakout hit.
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New York, we love you, and you're not even bringing us down at the moment.
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All of which could have been, "Jesus, people really fucking love Radiohead."
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Whether bicyclist or motorist, this weekend has a chase movie for you!
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The South African government is shooting these horny elephants with birth control darts.
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There was once a time when college graduates got paid for work in their field. I have not experienced this, but apparently, most people over thirty have.
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A roundup of recently opened, yet current and long-running exhibitions as briefly recommended in print editions of our fine magazine. Add a few of these to your list of things to do before summer ends.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Picks From Print , Pocket Utopia , Norte Maar , Yossi Milo , New York Historical Society , Metropolitan Museum of Art , Cheim & Read , The Morgan Library & Museum , The New Museum , MoMA
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This week, we’ve got mostly-Brooklyn events, with a ton of emerging artists, a SummerScreen (woot), and a Flux Factory Death Match. We've also included a handful of artist residency deadlines coming up this week.
by Whitney Kimball
Tags: Art , Flux Factory , Death Match , SummerScreen , Raising Arizona , Pratt MFA , Look at Me Now , Kunsthalle Galapagos , Creative Nonfiction , Forever & Today , Liz Magic Laser , deadlines
Album Reviews
What to make of Mature Themes , an album that contains deeply felt emotional longing, and also a song about schnitzel.
Album Reviews
In preparation of the band's album release show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on August 15.
Album Reviews
Four is the band’s drunken college reunion weekend, their honest rehashing, and another shot at lasting resonance.
Film Reviews
John Hillcoat's prohibition drama posits the outlaws as the good guys.
Film Reviews
So Yong Kim follows up her abandonment drama with a custody drama.
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The title of Sophia Takal's relationship drama has many connotations.
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Barbara Hershey is raped by an invisible being in this gonzo, almost-forgotten 1982 film.
Film Reviews
In Von Trier's 2003 classic, a woman who turns to small-town America for help is enslaved instead.
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This romantic comedy, from the same year with the same cast, feels like a kooky occult sequel.
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Cronenberg pulls off this risky DeLillo adaptation about a supercapitalist camped out in his fancy car.
Film Reviews
This Brazilian film chronicles the lives of the residents on a single street.
Film Reviews
"It’s like Vertigo , if Vertigo were about being old and stealing diamonds with a robot."
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Christophe Honoré's latest is an epically tragic history of the 20th century. And a musical.
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Also: how this movie almost cost me a relationship.
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Chris Marker's tour-de-force doc chronicles the failure of Marxism in the 1960s.
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Old friends reunite in a big house following the death of a friend. Sound familiar?
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This 1953 Marker-Resnais collaboration explores the African statues in Paris’s Musée de L’Homme.
Film Reviews
The actor loses his shit in this 1989 dark comedy-horror movie.
Bar Reviews
South Slope's new beer garden could use a more inspired menu.
Restaurant Reviews
The French-Mexican gimmick at the Williamsburg spot sort of works, but not as well as elsewhere.
Winding through this sculpture exhibition at Airplane Gallery.
Theater Reviews
New Girl in Town musicalizes O'Neill. It's an all-around mistake.
Padgett Powell's novel is hilarious, which is its weakness and its strength.
Claire Vaye Watkins's story collection explores the Nevada you don't know.
Art Fag City
Is the art in Chelsea safe or risqué?
Art Fag City
In summer, many galleries give their space over to their employees. For better and worse.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
IUDs and TSA.
Art Fag City
Is it politically smart to threaten the NEA?
Features
Three sinkholes, one collapsed house, and copious riven trees.
Features
Talking to NYC composers, singers, actors, playwrights, and documentary filmmakers.
