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Max Fish Is Officially Moving to Williamsburg

Virginia K. Smith — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:49:00 -0400

Confirmation of what we've all sort of known to be inevitable: Lower East Side mainstay Max Fish will be shutting down their original Ludlow St. location and moving to Williamsburg this summer, most likely some time in late July.

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Talking With the Creator of Park Slope Family Circus

Henry Stewart — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:45:00 -0400

A few days ago, Erin Bradley started a blog called Park Slope Family Circus, posting one-panel Family Circus funnies, their captions replaced with something particularly Park Slope-y. People love to pick on Park Slope, and the jokes about it can be predictable, but Bradley eschews the broad cliche for specificity, which makes it work.…

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Unlikelier Franchise: The Fast and the Furious or Before Sunrise?

Jesse Hassenger — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:05:00 -0400

Fast & Furious 6: First all, the actual in-movie title is just Furious 6, which is nonsensical in that it makes it sound like Vin Diesel is leading a six-person team (he isn't) or that the movie might be play on The Magnificent Seven (hell no). But it's also perfect in that it follows series highlight Fast Five, and Furious 6 is very much a sequel to that sensibility rather than the mostly tedious cops-and-drug-dealers bullshit of the first four movies.…
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How Did The Hangover Series Become So Successful?

Jesse Hassenger — Fri, 24 May 2013 08:55:00 -0400

Even if The Hangover Part III bombs out this weekend—and that seems unlikely—the Hangover trilogy will finish its run as easily one of the most successful comedy franchises of all time, even more so after you eliminate effects or action-based movies like Back to the Future or Beverly Hills Cop. This in turn makes Todd Phillips, the director and cowriter of the three movies, along with several other hits like Road Trip, Old School, and Due Date, one of our most successful comic filmmakers.…
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Northside Film Tickets Are On Sale Now!

admin — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:00:00 -0400

Northside Film is quickly approaching (mark your calendars for June 17-20 if you haven't already) and badges are on sale now. What does a badge get you, you ask?…
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Interview: Prinzhorn Dance School Finally Make Their U.S. Debut

Jeff Klingman — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:19:47 -0400

Prinzhorn Dance School are a band who feel like a science experiment, set to determine once and for all the bare minimum number of things needed to make badass rock music. Post-punk sounds have come and gone and come again over the past decade, and the British band—an odd, long-standing pillar of the DFA Records roster—have been more interested than anyone in ripping the cold, dark genre apart to see how it works.…
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Brace Yourself For The Porn Version of Girls

Virginia K. Smith — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:15:10 -0400

Now, I know what you're thinking. "There's so much sex on Girls, it's already like a porn!…
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No, The Levee Isn't Closed Forever

Virginia K. Smith — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:28:49 -0400

Well, this has been sort of an emotional 12 hours or so! Last night, news started circulating that Williamsburg mainstay (and probably the first Brooklyn bar I ever went to regularly) The Levee had closed its doors, never to return.…
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The 3 Best Brooklyn Dates This Week

Mike Conklin — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:22:00 -0400

If you're single and hating it, leave it to your friends at The L to help. We've teamed up with the minds behind HowAboutWe to create Brooklyn Dating, a service that will (hopefully) help change online dating and find you the Brooklynite of your dreams.…
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Art Picks From Print

Paul D'Agostino — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:07:54 -0400

Matt Freedman's deviled tricks and Matthew Barney's drawing feats factor into these highlighted shows for the coming weeks. From our 5/22 issue.

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That's It, I'm Done With Facebook

Henry Stewart — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:57:00 -0400

I was talking to a social-media expert over the weekend, complaining to her that my Facebook feed had become totally worthless. She suggested it was partially my fault, because I haven't been managing it well (unfollowing but not unfriending some people, setting it to receive only important updates from others, etc.), but it's not entirely.…
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More Bands Added to the Northside Festival Lineup: Chance the Rapper, A Place to Bury Strangers, Bleached, Weekend and More

admin — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:42:00 -0400

The countdown to the Northside Festival has officially begun! In less than 30 days, more than 350 bands will descend on Williamsburg and Greenpoint for four long days and even longer nights.…
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Frances Ha, Friendship, Wankers, and the Oboe: Talking with Greta Gerwig and Mickey Sumner

Kristin Iversen — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:28:00 -0400

In Noah Baumbach's latest film "Frances Ha," Greta Gerwig (who co-wrote "Frances" with Baumbach) and Mickey Sumner play Frances and Sophie—the closest of close friends. It's the kind of friendship where they fall asleep watching movies in bed together, have the same fantasies of being invited to universities to receive honorary degrees, play-fight in the middle of the street with a loose and intimate physicality, and even pick up each other's phone calls without letting it go to voicemail.…
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The Best Old Movies On a Big Screen This Week

Aaron Cutler — Wed, 22 May 2013 09:00:00 -0400

Elmer Gantry (1960)
Directed by Richard Brooks
“Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.” From these words, shown on a book page onscreen, the revivalist preacher played by Burt Lancaster bursts to life.…
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Dispatch from Cannes: The Movies that Left Audiences Confused

Jon Robbins — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:55:00 -0400

A Touch of Sin
Jia Zhangke channels Chan-wook Park in this film, which left some at Cannes confused. Combining elements of the South Korean revenge genre and American western with his more typical focus on the effects of urbanization and globalization on everyday Chinese citizens, it lasts an insistent two hours and 15 minutes, during which a respectable number of characters are killed and/or thoroughly humiliated.…
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Whiskeyed Away to Isle of Skye

Henry Stewart — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400
Williamsburg has a Mecca for Scotch drinkers. by Henry Stewart Isle of Skye 488 Driggs Avenue, Williamsburg 4 L's “Check out our beautiful 21- and 25-year-olds behind the bar,” read the sandwich board outside.…
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Did You Go to Your Prom?

Ryan Vlastelica — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400
"Who the fuck wants to hang out at school when you don’t have to?" by Ryan Vlastelica Ed Hailed in: Times Square Hails from: Atlanta Oh, yeah. Who doesn’t go to prom?…
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Unexamined Suburban Privilege: The Kings of Summer

Benjamin Mercer — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400
Boys build their own home in the woods in this American indie comedy. by Benjamin Mercer The Kings of SummerDirected by Jordan Vogt-Roberts This American independent comedy, which made something of a splash at Sundance under the title Toy’s House, emphasizes that parental mortification heats up when school lets out.…
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Old Masters: The Master Builder

Henry Stewart — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400
Ibsen's weird play, now in a solid production at BAM. by Henry Stewart The Master Builder BAM Henrik Ibsen knew The Secret.…
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Ode to Joy: Talking with Noah Baumbach

Kristin Iversen — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400
The director of Frances Ha on how much fun it was to make. by Kristin Iversen Noah Baumbach’s latest film, Frances Ha, cowritten with Greta Gerwig, is an unflinching yet unabashedly affectionate look at a young woman who is figuring out how to live her life. It feels like some sort of strange and perfect amalgam of road trip movies, coming-of-age stories, and close female friendship films while also transcending those genres to become so much more than just the sum of its parts.…
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Sex, Meh

Audrey Ference — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400
"Dear Audrey, I am completely uninterested in sex." by Audrey Ference Dear Audrey, I’m a 22-year-old male. I think I must be a cyborg, because I am completely uninterested in sex.…
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Grease-Monkey Melodrama: Fast & Furious 6

Benjamin Sutton — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400
Safeguarding country and family justifies any kind of violence. by Benjamin Sutton Fast & Furious 6Directed by Justin Lin Twelve years and five sequels in, the Fast & Furious franchise has finally grown up.…
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An Enquiry Concerning Zombie Understanding: A Questionable Shape

Henry Stewart — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400
Bennett Sims's brilliant zombie novel is as much philosophical treatise as narrative. by Henry Stewart A Questionable Shape By Bennett Sims (Two Dollar Radio) Colson Whitehead’s Zone One might have been the recent apotheosis of literary genre fiction, both a character-driven and action-packed story of man against zombie set in strip-mall ruins and an abandoned yet slowly resurgent New York City.…
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When Did Synth-Pop Get So Sincere?

Jeff Klingman — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400
Is the laptop the new acoustic guitar? by Jeff Klingman Have we gotten to an end-point in music at which authenticity and sincerity has little to no inherent connection to the instruments used to compose it? As more and more people grow up connected to electronic music, will the keyboard, the laptop, and the drum machine become symbols for direct, honest expression the same way an acoustic guitar and a bar stool did for previous generations?…
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Punk Couture: An Oxymoron?

Paddy Johnson — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400
The Met's latest fashion exhibit tells visitors nothing about its subject. by Paddy Johnson Hard living is sexy. It embodies rugged individualism and freedom.…
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