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Mmm, crowd sourcing.
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Everything you'll need to get through the local and national elections.
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Do not try to fuck a duck.
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A campaign to defend reproductive rights from the Center for Reproductive Rights. Starring famous people!
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Greta Gerwig stars in her boyfriend's vivacious latest about an itinerant dancer who loses her best friend.
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You know, our birthday is right around the corner.
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Spoiler: Annie Clark and David Byrne photograph well.
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This documentary investigates every possible subtext in the Stanley Kubrick classic.
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Not to sound overeager BUT WE HAVE A FEW SUGGESTIONS....
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Here's our predictions.
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"You are filled with unexpected ennui, knowing that no matter how freakishly handsome Brandon Flowers is, he too will one day die."
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Once again, DJs AndrewAndrew will be hosting the Dumbo Arts Festival, the "opposite of Burning Man."
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A zippered flight suit that can become a sex bag. One of several interstellar sex options. Just in case.
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This week: the New Yorker Festival, performances, and public art that's worth the trip.
by Whitney Kimball
Tags: Art , Global Model Village , Broome Street Gallery , Slinkachu , ISCP , Tazu Nishi , Discovering Columbus , Harvestworks , Martha Rosler and Michael Arcega , Bronx River Art Center , Bronx Museum , The New Yorker Festival , Alison Bechdel and Judith Thurman
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Plus, a post-performance drink with Pascal Rambert himself!
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At the New Yorker Festival panel discussion of the late author's work and legacy.
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Neo-folk singer Becky Stark's favorite things inspire a staff-wide spiritual cleanse.
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When a band we like likes the same stuff as us, we like them even more.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , 5 Favorite Things Right Now , First Aid Kit , Emmylou , Klara Soderberg , Johanna Soderberg , The Lion's Roar , Irving Plaza , Music Hall of Williamsburg , Johnny Cash , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Judy Garland , The Wizard of Oz , GarageBand , Video
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So many babies at once.
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Our thoughts go out to his friends and family.
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There's a study that says the candidate that blinks the least during the presidential debates is more likely to win the election. But what if that candidate is a robot?
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There are also a couple of movies named after food.
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Patti Smith was at The New Yorker Festival and talked about everything from Robert Mapplethorpe to Roberto Bolano to her love for the D-chord.
by Kristin Iversen
Tags: Music , Patti Smith , Paul Muldoon , The New Yorker Festival , Tony Shanahan , Robert Mapplethorpe , St. Francis of Assisi , microphones , geminis , Bob Dylan , Mickey Spillane , AMy Winehouse , Roberto Bolaño
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2012 is proving an interesting year for Bruce Willis. Don't get used to it.
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Ke$ha is almost certainly going to get ghost pregnant, because ghosts LOVE raw doggin' it.
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Close reading a seemingly-intentionally misleading conservative response to California's new law against forcing kids to undergo gay conversion therapy.
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Despite the paper's constant arguing in favor of fracking, Governor Cuomo has employed a little something called logic to delay its use here in New York.
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"Being a male musician must be a challenge, physically and mentally—how do you cope?"
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Scuzz-rock superwoman talks spectrum analysis, Bone Thugs n' Harmony.
by Jeff Klingman
Tags: Music , Royal Trux , Jennifer Herrema , Drag City , Accelerator , Virgin Records , The 90s , Spectral Analysis , Repetition , Repetition , Bone Thugs n' Harmony , Video
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Sayantani DasGupta at Racialicious with a very smart critique.
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Let us not be quite so taken with ourselves, please.
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Only reasonable, logical, sensible requests.
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Highlights, trends, and oddities from the NY Art Book Fair.
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"Everyday in Bushwick seems like a movie."
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The title grammar is confusing. Are they saying it is nice or it isn't? Because it is nice.
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The Great Northern Catskills of Greene County New York are home to the nation’s first wilderness.
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From the people who brought you the .xxx tld, a porn-only search engine.
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It’s a week for comebacks— for some, undue, and others we actually missed. The New Aesthetic, Baby X, and Roger Moore all make a fresh appearances. On the upside, we get to see all of the rest of the James Bonds, too.
by Whitney Kimball
Tags: Art , James Bond , MoMA , Sculpture Center , Baby X , Marni Kotak , Microscope Gallery , Will Brand , NurtureArt , Third Streaming , Zachary Fabri , Marrow in the Morrows , New Aesthetic , New Museum , Spit Banquet , Bronx Museum 40th Anniversary , Bronx Museum , Regarding Warhol , Metropolitan Museum , Sculpture Center , A Disagreeable Object , 50 Years of James Bond , MoMA
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Axl Rose is suing someone because of some Guns N' Roses art.
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Dioramic wrecks and art historical arcs are operative elements in this set of of art picks from the 9/26 issue of our fetching digest.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Thomas Hirschhorn , Gladstone Gallery , Costa Concordia , Guido van der Werve , Luhring Augustine , Norte Maar , To Be a Lady , Pocket Utopia , C.G. Boerner , Matthew Miller , Fools Are Those Who Lose Their Mirrors
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In the battle of embittered, entitled rock stars, there can only be one winner.
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Which, frankly, is a little less than we'd figured.
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A surprising artistic direction from vice presidential candidate/Nickelback superfan
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And with that, a beloved party tradition comes to an abrupt close.
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If you spent your entire advance (or are still waiting to receive it), you will likely have to auction off all of your possessions.
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What does Mitt Romney think about art? Well, mostly he hates it.
by Corinna Kirsch
Tags: Art , mitt romney , election 2012 , art , george romney , oprah , massachusetts , tyler green , will brand , nea , big bird , sesame street , neh , presidential debates
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Motown, Smokey Robinson, bloody faces, Detroit, a friend from RISD. Just your basic James Franco project.
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The Internet backfires on true love.
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About the East German police state, it puts the audience in an uncomfortable position as surveillance-keepers.
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Nicki Minaj has something she wants to get off her chest.
by Lauren Beck
Tags: Music , TV , American Idol , FOX , Nicki Minaj , Mariah Carey , Paula Abdul , butterflies , kookiness , feuds , confrontations , smakdowns , Keith Urban , Video
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In the eleventh hour, some good comes of Bravo’s “Work of Art.”
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Tonight's Animal Collective show at Williamsburg Park was canceled, which is totally fine. We just have one request.
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The Shapes play in the round.
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At the New York Film Festival, two hit-or-miss directors make much-needed returns to the drawing board.
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The Great Northern Catskills of Greene County New York are home to the nation’s first wilderness.
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The premiere of the show's last season finds it operating at peak levels.
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This scorched-earth, drunken-havoc classic returns after 40 years.
Film Reviews
Ursula Meier's film features an amazing kid who's like a Dardenne mini-hero.
Film Reviews
This omnibus horror film is brimming with nostalgia for the old experience of popping tapes into a VCR.
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Tim Burton returns to form with this animated adaptation of his classic short.
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In Andrea Arnold's adaptation, the landscape needs children to animate it.
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What is spassing? How did spassing begin? How can I spass?
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Tsai Ming-liang's 2003 masterpiece mourns the end of movies.
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Sidney Lumet's 1966 adaptation of John le Carré's first novel is eloquent and thrilling.
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The greatest Romanian New Wave director died young, but he left behind more than his one feature.
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This 1970 satire centers on a straw-man symbol of the soul-corroding effects of fascism.
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Martin Ritt's 1965 le Carré adaptation feels like one long cynical hangover.
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But this documentary is no Exit Through the Gift Shop .
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Aspiring butter-sculpting Milk-elangelos aren't as politically satirical as they're meant to be.
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A young Stephen Dorff saves the world from monsters in this 1987 basic-cable classic.
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In this 1932 cult classic, the upper crust is transformed into mindless slaves.
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This provocative documentary posits that draconian laws are annihilating the poor.
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This sequel does something action movies rarely do: acknowledge the humanity of the bad guys.
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Because it's too insane to be anything else.
Restaurant Reviews
Prepare to be transported to a drive-through on a Georgia highway.
Bar Reviews
Everything at this Gowanus bar is BIG.
Cheon pyo Lee’s show conveys commerce via monied machines and monkeys adaze.
Theater Reviews
Thomas Bradshaw's latest features an extended incestuous rape and murder, an eyeball gouging, and a castration.
This new memoir is about about too huge a subject: living and dying in a human body.
This comic novel by a former Arrested Development writer is also a powerful mosaic of mental illness, artistic temperament, and family melodrama.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
"Dear Audrey, I can't stop thinking about my penis."
Art Fag City
On his Gagosian Chelsea show featuring Lindsay Lohan and Sasha Grey.
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Does anybody read them? Does anybody care?
Features
Using a mathematically foolproof system that is in no way--we repeat, NO WAY--subjective, we will now tell you where you should be living.
by The Editors
Tags: Features , fort greene , clinton hill , park slope , prospect heights , carroll gardens , boerum hill , cobble hill , greenpoint , williamsburg , ditmas park , brooklyn heights , bushwick , red hook , windsor terrace , dumbo , gowanus , bay ridge , prospect lefferts gardens , crown heights , sunset park , mill basin , Slideshow
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Many were arrested as the movement celebrated its anniversary by marching.
