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Thinking about our post-Sandy future and the shape it needs to take.
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Pick your poison: K-Stew? J-Law? K-Knight? S-Field?
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Who DOESN'T want unsolicited dating tips on the commute?
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Thank god they're back, because people, it turns out, really, really hate when the L and G trains are not running.
by Virginia K. Smith
Tags: News , MTA , The L Train , G Train , Joe Lhota , Williamsburg , North Brooklyn , mass hysteria , Tumblr , Twitter , Facebook , Yelp
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Occupy Wall Street offshoot wants to help get rid of debt.
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On Saturday, the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival took over a corner of Williamsburg.
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Talking about In the Family on the eve of its New York rerelease.
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We're partnering with our DUMBO neighbors Brooklyn Roasting Company to make your holiday shopping a little bit easier this year.
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In this week's art events: art shopping for artists.
by Whitney Kimball
Tags: Art , Migration Art Expo , ICI Benefit , Problem Play , Leo Koenig , Art in Boxes , About Glamour Gallery , CSA , Community Supported Art , Auxiliary Projects , Present Company , People’s Ping Pong Party , Hot Potato , Ben Gocker
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These hyena chicks are freaky, man.
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The author of American Genius, A Comedy reads tonight at Franklin Park.
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The city's newest museum is free, open 24 hours a day and publicly curated.
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Presence of a fetal heartbeat and hard-line anti-abortion laws cost Savita Halappanavar her life.
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Share prices shot up by 3,000%. Yes, that is the correct amount of zeros.
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Talking to the new programmer about what's changing.
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If Gagosian and the Whitney Museum can sell Yayoi Kusama key chains, then there’s gotta be a better way for Bushwick artists to make money. Enter Auxiliary Projects.
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America no longer finds sex scandals exciting enough to warrant a resignation. Instead, shape-shifters have become involved.
by Audrey Ference
Tags: News , david petraeus , affair , sex scandal , president obama , benghazi , paula broadwell , cia , nro , shape-shifters , haarp , fema death camp , blackmail , voter fraud , twitter , conspiracy theories
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At the benefit to raise money for Kim's sure-to-be-classic Bombshell Bakers: A Pinup Cookbook .
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You're going to be real busy between then and Christmas.
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We actually watched it—and so can you!
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Strings is a Bush-era Middle East allegory—with puppets!
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Fuck you, Times Square. This year the insane crowds will be thronging at the Barclay's Center.
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If you are not an asshole, resist the urge. And please knock off the "raped my childhood" thing also.
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Tweet quickly, Brooklyn.
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"Why am I randomly wearing glasses? Nobody knows."
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Depression on parade?
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Not everything turned out awesome last night, unfortunately.
by Audrey Ference
Tags: Sex , election , decision 2012 , obama , sex work , measure b , adult industry , porn , condoms , prop 35 , trafficking
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Councilman says BOE "succeeded at failing beyond my wildest expectations."
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Videology reopens tonight with a bar, screening room, and DVDs for rent.
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The Crumpled Press makes its books by hand, so they're precious objects.
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Among the many people who are still suffering because of Hurricane Sandy, undocumented immigrants have been hit hard, but lack the voice to speak up.
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The storm, Halloween, another storm, elections, weed, Grimes. We are fucking exhausted.
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It's a sold out show, you know.
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One of our most important cultural institutions took a huge hit during the storm.
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The sun ain't gonna shine anymore. In fact, it's going to rain worms.
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Whatever Used to Grow Around Here might not have been released the way it was if not for a seaside soothsayer.
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Sexual assault is a serious, serious problem in our armed forces, and a new report about Lackland AFB is representative of the endemic nature of the issues. But hey, let's talk about shirtless email guy instead.
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Take my word for it when I tell you not to go visit these places. Do your holiday shopping on the internet like a proper shut-in.
by Audrey Ference
Tags: News , holidays , christmas , gifts , crowds , tourists , shopping , midtown , target , fao schwarz , soho , freak outs
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Tom Wolfe squicks out the Bad Sex in Fiction committee yet again.
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This is all well and good, of course, but what about the flag?!
by Zachary Gomes
Tags: News
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Bodies in space and hellbent lakes ground this set of art picks from the 11/7 issue of our dashing gazette.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Art Picks From Print , Sean Kelly Gallery , Antony Gormley , Bodyspace , Pierogi , Kim Jones , Averno , Francis Alys , David Zwirner , Norte Maar , Bruce Dow , Allyson Strafella
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As Skyfall comes out, we look back at all the actors who've played James Bond to see how they fare.
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September and October were all mega-openings, but November celebrates the primo mini-shows.
by Whitney Kimball
Tags: Art , Surreal Machines , sculpture center , Anicka Yi , Camille Henrot , Noam Elcott , Artistic Fictions , Printed Matter , Hello AMIGA , HelloAmiga.ca , Lorna Mills , Amy Lockhart , Mark Pellegrino , Alex McLeod , Daniel Barrow , Barry Doupé , Yve Laris Cohen , Park McArthur , Recess Activities , David Harper , Evan Nesbit , Tatiana Berg
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Here are three net arts you need to see.
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Connie Britton, are you there somewhere in the crowd?
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As News Corp. plans to buy into a cable network, we look at all the other ways you get your local news from Rupert Murdoch.
by Henry Stewart
Tags: Media , rupert murdoch , news corp. , yes network , new york post , community newspaper group , brooklyn paper , brooklyn daily , wall street journal , fox 5 news , fox news radio
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This is what happened over Tumblr last night.
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Take a look at some screen shots of the site that never was, except for when it accidentally went live.
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"Mom, Dad, I know you want me to be a doctor one day, but I was just thinking..."
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He is NOT pleased about the small soda sizes.
Album Reviews
The third consecutive self-titled album from the goth-duo is unsettling, abstract and dehumanized, in the best ways possible.
Album Reviews
A few notes on the band's overlooked fourth album in preparation of their November 8 show at Music Hall of Williamsburg.
Film Reviews
Spielberg's biopic is much what you'd expect—including great!
Film Reviews
Hipsters at the apocalypse.
Film Reviews
This documentary looks at the laws governing the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
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Joe Wright does Tolstoy. It is lush and delightfully superficial.
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An adult-film actress stumbles upon $10,000 in Sean Baker's fresh character study.
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This elaborate justification for male midlife crisis masquerading as a mystical tribute to romantic love left us cold.
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This terrifying 1990 film was the perfect marriage of writer and director.
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Ida Lupino's 1949 directorial debut is about polio rehabilitation.
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This documentary offers a fresh alternative to Detroit ruin-porn.
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An idly wealthy Williamsburger fakes his own life in this peculiar character study.
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A gang of strange characters test an antipsychotic drug in this dark comedy.
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This 1979 Who documentary captures rock's best band in all its glory.
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Satyajit Ray's 1955 debut focuses on the beauty in the dust around our feet.
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Imamura's 1967 quasi-documentary is an epistemological investigation of non-fiction cinema. Also, a guy disappears.
Bar Reviews
Is this British pub in Park Slope the real thing?
Restaurant Reviews
The food is super-garlicky at this Clinton Hill bar.
A group exhibition at Parallel Art Space probes Brutalism to both revelatory and obfuscatory ends.
by Paul D'Agostino
Tags: Art , Art
Theater Reviews
Jessica Chastain's no Olivia de Havilland.
by Dan Callahan
Tags: Theater Reviews , Theater , the heiress , jessica chastain , olivia de havilland , cherry jones , moisés kaufman , augustus goetz , ruth goetz , henry james , washington square
Ian McEwan has matured nicely as a novelist.
Robin Sloan's novel celebrates technology and books.
Sex With the Natural Redhead
She's got herpes. Is it a dealbreaker?
Art Fag City
Seriously, somebody get this guy gallery representation stat!
Ask A Cabbie
"Jesus. That Sandy was a motherfucker."
Art Fag City
Glass! It's transparent! It's reflective! It's sexy! It's art!
Features
The storm proved that government is good.
