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Photos: Solange Asks 5,000 People to Grind Like They're at a Middle School Dance

Mike Conklin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:05:00 -0400

We'll have lots more photos from this past weekend coming at you over the next day or two, but we wanted to start with one of the final shows of the festival, Solange at McCarren Park as part of Converse Rubber Tracks Live at Northside?. It was everything we hoped it would be: there was dancing, there was singing along, then there was more dancing.…

Northside Film Day 1: Picks from The L Mag Staff

admin — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:54:00 -0400

Take it slow today, get re-hydrated and ease your Heineken-induced hangover; Northside Music may be over, but Northside Film kicks off today. Tonight alone, you'll find eight screenings going on across Williamsburg and Greenpoint, but in case you're having trouble deciding how and where you should spend the first night of Northside Film, allow us to make some suggestions.…

Sex, Love, and Brooklyn: Best Friends and Boyfriends

Lacy Warner — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:51:00 -0400

We were so bohemian and so wise. She was my best friend, and we lived together during my first year in Brooklyn.…

Northside Festival: Highlights from The Weekend

admin — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:41:00 -0400

The weekend is now upon us, and we are confident that even these past two wonderful days are going to pale in comparison to what you will experience for the next two. The rain is behind us, we're told, and their are good vibes as far as the eye can see.…

This is the End. But Is it Funny?

Jesse Hassenger — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:05:00 -0400

This is the End: This apocalypse comedy from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg represents an apex for what started unexpectedly with Judd Apatow and Paul Feig's Freaks and Geeks. For years, the profane-yet-sweet, improvisation-heavy comic stylings of Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jason Segel and others were shepherded by distinctive directors like Apatow and David Gordon Green or more experienced occasional sponsors and benefactors like Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller.…

Photos: Body/Head, Swans, Chelsea Wolfe and More at Northside, Day 1

admin — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:02:00 -0400

Now that day one of the 2013 Northside Festival is officially behind us, our shoes finally starting to dry out and our Jameson/Heineken-induced hangovers slowly easing up, we can say without hesitation that it was a success. Here as proof, we offer photos from some of last night's most noteworthy shows.…

Northside Day 2: Highlights from Northside Music

admin — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:30:00 -0400

We did it! We got through the first official day of Northside 2013!…

Northside Day 2: Highlights from the NExT Conference

admin — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:00:00 -0400

It's with heavy hearts that we announce that the last day of the Northside Festival's NExT Conference has arrived. It's the final day for panel discussions and demonstrations with the CEOs, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists at the forefront of New York’s tech scene, which means you should spend the next few hours wisely.…

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Northside Festival Day 1: Highlights from the NExT Conference

admin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:00:00 -0400

So by now you've heard that Northside is hosting the NExT Conference, the technology arm of the Northside Festival. Today and tomorrow, you'll find panel discussions, demonstrations and fireside chats with the CEOs, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists at the forefront of New York’s burgeoning tech scene at the Wythe Hotel and Brooklyn Brewery.…

Maybe Laughing at Fat Diabetics Makes You an Asshole?

Henry Stewart — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:43:00 -0400

It seems a stretch to file news about diabetes death rates under "food and drink," but that's the category where Gothamist stuck its recent post "Someone Dies from Diabetes Every 90 Minutes in NYC." I mean, yes, the disease affects a metabolic process, but is it of a piece with updates about lobsters, ice cream, cronuts, and glazed donut breakfast sandwiches?…

The Best Old Movies On a Big Screen This Week

Aaron Cutler — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:30:00 -0400

Day of the Locust (1975)
Directed by John Schlesinger
This over-babied white elephant, adapted by Waldo Salt, misinterprets the sardonicism and empathy of the Nathanael West source novel—the classic excoriation of late-30s Hollywood. But its tortured ambition leads to alternative delights, particularly the location scouting and the photography by Conrad Hall, whose relishing of the milieu is tangible.…

A New Luke Rathborne Video, Plus An Old One From Northside 2011

Mike Conklin — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:03:00 -0400

Just last night, I found myself thinking about this one time during the 2011 Northside festival when longtime L Mag favorite Luke Rathborne performed a solo acoustic version of Big Star's unimpeachable "Thirteen" in the backyard of Lucky Dog. It's one of my favorite Northside Moments ever.…

Erykah Badu, Serious Composer?

Henry Stewart — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:15:00 -0400

Last weekend, the New York Philharmonic performed a joint concert with the Jazz Orchestra of Lincoln Center, bringing Wynton Marsalis and his latest symphony, a history of jazz in six movements, into the concert hall. But compared to last night's Brooklyn Philharmonic concert, that was as adventurous programming as pairing Mozart with Haydn.…

Novelist Matthew Aaron Goodman: Don't Call Me a Writer!

Henry Stewart — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:43:00 -0400

Matthew Aaron Goodman's debut novel Hold Love Strong was published in 2010; he's also a professor at Hunter College and the coordinator of the New York Juvenile Justice Initiative, which advocates for reform of the youth-court system. Since 2007, he has lived in Crown Heights, which, he writes in an email, "was/is great/changing."…

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Game of Thrones: The Mother of Dragons and a Dick In a Box.

Kristin Iversen — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:00:00 -0400

The penultimate episode in each Game of Thrones season is always the one where the big stuff happens. In the first season, that's when Ned Stark's head was cut off.…
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Sex, Love, and Brooklyn: Missed Connections on the F Train

Lacy Warner — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:45:00 -0400

It's a rite of passage for New Yorkers. Everyone I know (especially all my gay male friends) has had at least one missed connection.…
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Brooklyn Has The Most Racist Pot Arrest Record in the Entire U.S.

Virginia K. Smith — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:24:22 -0400

Maybe not a huge surprise, given Brooklyn's dubious distinction as the epicenter of stop and frisk, but still, not really news anyone should be thrilled about: according to a new study from the ACLU, not only does Brooklyn lead the nation far and away in arrests for marijuana possession, but in a consistent pattern of racial bias: when it comes to pot charges, data indicates that in both Brooklyn and Manhattan, roughly 9 black people are arrested for everyone 1 white person. Oof.…
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Could The Internship Actually Be Funny?

Jesse Hassenger — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:16:00 -0400

The Internship: Vince Vaughn, like his colleague in the slide to CBS-sitcom laziness Adam Sandler, loves the 80s—that much seems clear from the slobs-versus-snobs aesthetic of movies like Dodgeball and the monologue he rattles off about Flashdance in the trailer for The Internship. So I guess it's appropriate that while The Internship appears, if anything, too far into the future—eight years removed from the Vaughn/Wilson team-up Wedding Crashers—its trailer feels like it's gone backward, like it's the 80s-style slobs-versus-snobs version of that previous hit.…
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How to Fill Out Your Tony Ballot

Henry Stewart — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:42:00 -0400

Some people fill out award-show ballots based on their feelings: who they like, who they want to win. But that's crazy!…
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Art Picks From Print

Paul D'Agostino — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:03:35 -0400

Don Voisine's formal humor and John Singer Sargent's light hand factor into this set of art picks from our 6/5 issue.

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The Best Old Movies On a Big Screen This Week

Aaron Cutler — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:00:00 -0400

Late Spring (1949)
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu
This home drama (shomin-geki) about a widower and his adult daughter, who’s too attached to their quiet life together to want to marry, is lauded as the director’s most perfect work—which is like saying it’s God the Son, or an avatar of Vishnu. Accordingly, critics battle over the movie’s stance on marriage: a social good or an unnecessary evil?…
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You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You: Invisibility

Henry Stewart — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400
David Levithan's latest collaboration gets mired in its own mythology but also evinces his greatest talents. by Henry Stewart Invisibility By Andrea Cremer and David Levithan (Philomel) No one does crushing like David Levithan: the giddiness, the lightness, the simultaneous fear, hope and joy that consumes the newly smitten.…
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Of Sound Mind: Berberian Sound Studio

Nick Pinkerton — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400
An Englishman unravels in Italy while doing sound design for a horror movie in the 70s. by Nick Pinkerton Berberian Sound StudioDirected by Peter Strickland The Englishman has long regarded the incense-perfumed mysteries of the Roman Catholic Continent, and its irreducible system of sin and indulgence, with mingled fear and desire.…
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A Bunch Of Irish Guys Walk Into A Bar...: The Weir

Dan Callahan — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 -0400
An uneven revival of this exceptional play at Irish Rep. by Dan Callahan The Weir Irish Repertory Theatre This Conor McPherson play was a big deal in the late 1990s.…
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