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This is either the worst idea ever—or the best idea ever—for the allegedly struggling media company.
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If you react by drowning yourself in wing sauce, we understand but will be sad.
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Maybe that Clint Eastwood movie will be good if we pretend it's not a Clint Eastwood movie?
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First comes NYPD assault, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage.
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She's who I want to be when I grow up.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: TV , Fashion , Tavi Gevinson , Rookie , Rookie Yearbook One , Late Night with Jimmy Fallon , Jimmy Fallon , braids , bitchface , Lauren Conrad , people who are cooler than the rest of us , Video
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As Occupy enters its second year, it gets a boost from well-known intellectuals, including Martha Rosler, Paul Chan, and Trevor Paglen.
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Some people had very long, very public sex at a Yankees game this weekend. Anything to break up the monotony of watching baseball, I guess.
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Nobody knows what curating is anymore, but everyone knows what it's like.
by Corinna Kirsch
Tags: Art , curating , pinterest , corinna kirsch , tumblr , the awl , choire sicha , paddy johnson , jerry saltz , ruben natal-san miguel , nicolas bourriaud , meg cranston , martyn reynolds , Janus Høm , jens hoffmann
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As Ms. Knope leads Pawnee into the future in tonight's season premiere of Parks and Recreation , we put together a mix to remind her of who she is and where she's been.
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Learn how things are made and how to make them—for free!
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Slugs do it every which way.
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There’s so few ways to stay anonymous online that maybe it’s better to just give in and enjoy it.
by Corinna Kirsch
Tags: Art , surfcave , brad troemel , cole stryker , julia kaganskiy , Jonathan Vingiano , eyebeam , #artstech , 4chan , mcluhan , anonymous
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Girls in 13 schools are going to have access to Plan B.
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Probably, yes.
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But of course!
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This week you gotta see artist Trevor Paglen talk with Filmmaker Werner Herzog and Poet Tracy K. Smith in Bryant Park, and Barry Hoggard and James Wagner's collection at English Kills. Masochists can check out The New Aesthetic discussion at Storefront Gallery.
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"Everybody needs housing, and people are going to go where they can find housing they can afford in neighborhoods they like."
by Virginia K. Smith
Tags: Film , documentaries , film , My Brooklyn , Brooklyn Public Library , Hunter College , CUNY , Kelly Anderson , Allison Lirish Dean , Fulton Mall , Bloomberg , gentrification , Video
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The bands we'd be watching if we were allowed to go back to Canada (don't ask).
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Anthology kicks off ten days of classic Italian horror with Mario Bava's The Girl Who Knew Too Much .
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Hey, I don't feel like I'm floating helplessly in a cloud of passive harmony over here. What gives?
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Candidate asking for volunteers in the hand re-count.
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WHY?'s main man Yoni Wolf tells us what helps him keep sane while living in a tour van.
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Two directors with remarkably similar names release movies on the same day. Plus, Nic Cage.
by Jesse Hassenger
Tags: Film , your weekend at the movies , master , paul anderson , paul thomas anderson , resident evil , liberal arts , zach braff , josh radnor , pixar , nicolas cage
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Because we like you, Justin, and don't want you to live your life with regret.
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Hanging out with supermodels and rising NYC rappers is pretty much the only thing we're willing to do these days.
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This weekend's La Di Da festival features new and interesting independent movies.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Film , 92ytribeca , la di da festival , mumblecore , independent film , miriam bale , josh safdie , ben safdie , amy seimetz , stephen gurewitz , alex karpovsky , kate lyn sheil , eleonore hendricks
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Trying to become a professional artist? Here's our Q & A with artist Michelle Leftheris who has some real world advice for MFA students.
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Unscripted drama, ladies and gentlemen.
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When NBC asks, "Who do you want to see as a musical guest on SNL ?", we probably shouldn't respond with "Justin Bieber."
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , TV , Saturday Night Live , SNL , Lana Del Rey , crowdsourcing , Justin Bieber , Demi Lovato , Selena Gomez , Cat Power , Childish Gambino , Donald Glover , Animal Collective , Jay-Z , American Idol , Ryan Gosling , Amy Poehler , Will Arnett
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A new one is born!
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In an unusual performance piece, Elevator Repair Service read American modernist classics in the stacks at Grand Army Plaza.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Books , Theater , central library , elevator repair service , shuffle , beat festival , brooklyn book festival , mike iveson , ben williams , great gatsby , sun also rises , sound and the fury , hemingway , fitzgerald , faulkner
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Another band we can claim as part of the "Brooklyn music scene," this time happily.
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"I wish the squirrels could come over to my table so I could look at them & pet them but I get their apprehension."
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Supergroups (i.e. Divine Fits) not included.
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When the party in the park spilled onto the streets, police intervened.
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Yo, VIP, let's kick it.
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Calling all beer drinkers (that's pretty much all of you, right?)
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Backpage.com, the Voice's contentious classified section, won't be going to Denver with the rest of the paper. Now Ashton Kutcher can stop bugging Voice writers and focus in on his brownface comedy work.
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You like bright things? Dick pics? Playful sculptures? We found some art just like that.
by Corinna Kirsch
Tags: Art , art , brooklyn , bushwick , corinna kirsch , luhring augustine , guido van der werve , barry hoggard , james wagner , english kills , storefront bushwick , the new aesthetic , occupy , occupy museums , momenta
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Even New York is not immune to shame-based, inaccurate, hetero-centric sex ed.
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Gazers and glimpsers and curious vacuities bridge art picks from the new print issue of our handsome publication.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Matthew Miller , Pocket Utopia , C.G. Boerner , White Columns , Roger Fritz , Querelle , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Sander Cedee , Slag Gallery , MoMA , Franz Erhard Walther , Martha Rosler , Willem de Kooning
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C: Neither burning out nor fading away.
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Can you dig it. Can you diiiiig it???
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Ridiculous/awesome photos and .gifs of the camp-pop powerhouse at last night's record release show.
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Rain totally free of charge.
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"People talk about addiction as a lack of control, but once you have whatever it is you're addicted to, you're in total control."
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In memoriam: buster, phat, jiggy, flossy, chickenhead, skeezer, boo...
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , outdated rap slang , slanguage , no diggity , buster , phat , jiggy , flossy , chickenhead , skeezer , boo , Passion of the Weiss , Seth Green , cha-ching , Rally's , Video
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From here on in, we promise, no more rolling our eyes at this.
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Swedish doctors completed two mother-to-daughter uterus transplants.
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To help the emoticon celebrate it's 30th, a collection of obscure and difficult-to-parse emoticons. \o/
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A playwright's role is more than just writing the words.
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Let's all take a step back about this "hipster bar" coming to Bay Ridge, everybody.
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The show did not necessarily age well, we know that now.
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Whether you're trying to paint this week or hack into the mainframe, there's an art event for that.
by Whitney Kimball
Tags: Art , Art Book Fair , Dumbo Arts Festival , Occupy Wall Street , Occupy Museums , Momenta , Brooklyn Museum , Sugar , NURTUREart , Six Years , VICE , Lucy Lippard
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It hasn't been the best week for Chris Brown, but we're ok with that.
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This is why we're never leaving the house again.
Album Reviews
"There are times when it sounds like a trip-hop album whose inept lawyer failed to clear any of the samples, so they decided to just release it without them."
Album Reviews
In preparation of Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees' show at The Well on September 22.
Film Reviews
In this sensitive character study, an excon finds solace in stray pets.
Film Reviews
Amy Seimetz's feature debut is a gabby relationship movie with a corpse in the trunk.
Film Reviews
Exploring Midwestern masculinity from a Hebraic perspective.
Film Reviews
The Batman director's first feature sets up the themes he's spent an oeuvre exploring—in novella form.
Film Reviews
DePalma's 1974 rock musical, in which artists are "under contract"—to the Devil!
Film Reviews
PT Anderson's latest isn't about Scientology; it's about American individualism.
Film Reviews
Godard's 2001 film is about time, memory, Western civilization, and Hollywood.
Film Reviews
An icy hitman movie that's resolutely anti-glamorous, aheroic, and funny.
Film Reviews
The story of WBAI's Bob Fass celebrates its innovative subject—a little too much.
Film Reviews
This movie about the porn industry says women can have sex for fun and money and not be wicked.
Film Reviews
An Armenian-American responds to the Tyler Perry-level caricatures.
Film Reviews
Rock-n'-roll outcasts start a band with toy instruments in a last attempt at success.
Film Reviews
Orson Welles's investigation of an amnesiac's life also feels like one of his own career.
Film Reviews
Peter Bogdanovich's 1981 comedy is a mid-career showcase for the uniquely commanding actor.
Restaurant Reviews
"I was convinced that the place might be stormed at any moment by a flash mob of hungry vegans."
Bar Reviews
On the unpretentiousness of this Bushwick bar.
Andrew Ohanesian built a home to house a party to realize a Party to complete a House. All within the walls of The Boiler.
Theater Reviews
Sam Shepard's new play is hard to defend, despite Lois Smith's star turn.
New translations of one of 20th-century Brazil’s most intriguing, mystifying, and frustrating writers.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
When you just want to meet a nice girl who doesn't mind if you get some Craigslist dick on the side.
Art Fag City
Thinking about ...Is this Free? at NURTUREart.
Art Fag City
Contemplating the infiniteness of the web.
Art Fag City
Contemplating the infiniteness of the web.
Features
As the anniversary approaches, a look at active local chapters are keeping up the fight, even as media attention fades.
Features
Reformist Democrat Lincoln Restler is running for reelection as North Brooklyn district leader.
Features
Tags: Features , Brock Fetch , Bex Wade , Rebecca Smeyne , Mel D. Cole , Village Slum , A$AP Rocky , Zebra Katz , Summerscreen , Northside , Slideshow
