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May 25 | News
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At the risk of belaboring a point, I've never been a Patti Smith fan. I've explained why on multiple occasions here (most recently here). That all said, I've had so many people recommend her memoir, "Just Kids" to me. Even......
May 25 | News
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Gabrielle Giffords spoke for no more than two minutes at the commencement ceremony, where she also received an honorary degree, but she earned several standing ovations....
May 25 | News
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Mr. Renek was a critically admired New York writer who crafted comic tales about historical criminals and modern urban life but never achieved the commercial success he sought....
May 25 | News
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May 25 | News
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The NYPD is looking for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman on the subway earlier this month, and they're asking the public for assistance in their search. Cops say the assault occurred on May 15 at around 3 a.m.; a 21-year-old woman was riding...
May 25 | News
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It's been a week since the horrific Metro-North collision that injured dozens of commuters, and the first federal lawsuit against the railroad has now been filed. A 65-year-old woman who says she was injured in the crash is suing Metro-North for negligenc...
May 25 | News
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After eight years away, 50 horses of the historic B&B; Carousell are back in Coney Island with new coats of paint, refurbished joints and new tails....
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May 24 | Movies
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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 ...
May 24 | Movies
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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 ...
May 22 | Movies
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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, ha...
May 22 | Movies
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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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May 22 | Movies
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A Touch of SinJia 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 e...
May 22 | Movies
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You know those two little lines you get in your forehead when you frown? The ones that, if you frown too much, stick there for good? The French have a name for that: "the lion wrinkle." And by the 10th day of Cannes, there are a lot of lion wrinkles visib...
May 22 | Movies
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via The village voice movies
The Israeli arranged-marriage drama Fill the Void begins as a spy caper. Eighteen-year-old Shira (Hadas Yaron) and her mother (Irit Sheleg) play P.I. at the supermarket, observing a handsome asthmatic with gold-rim glasses and a gawky frame to see if he's...
May 22 | Movies
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Is calling a film's narrative structure "airtight" a compliment or a pejorative? Clockwork storytelling can entertain, yet such mechanisms can also seem overly constructed, like one of those essays that gets high scores from the SAT folks. If one of those...
Art
May 25 | Art
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Amanda Bynes has allegedly been on a bong-smashing tear over the last 72 hours ever since she was arrested for throwing a bong out the window of her apartment. This morning, Bynes took to Twitter to defend herself, claiming "I only smoke tobacco I don't d...
May 25 | Art
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Up until October 2nd 2011, the idea that we might one day be watching new episodes of Arrested Development seemed about as likely as Tobias and Lindsay making sweet sweet love. Despite the cult that had grown around the show in the years since it was canc...
May 25 | Art
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Documentary film director Alex Gibney's no stranger to controversial figureheads—he's profiled everyone from Eliot Spitzer to the Enron crew. In his latest film, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Gibney takes on Julian Assange, the embattled...
May 25 | Art
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When the final part of the spire was lifted and installed on to the top of One World Trade Center, the Port Authority attached a camera to the bottom-remember this video, delivering 9 full minutes of vertigo that's still making our palms sweat? Anyway, ar...
May 25 | Art
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Will Smith is nothing if not a man of the people, up for a sequel to just about anything he's been in if people want it (except when it comes to Independence Day, for some tragic reason). But Smith's most beloved role remains that of the titular Fresh Pri...
May 25 | Art
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NJ Governor Chris Christie has never made a secret of his disdain for MTV reality hit Jersey Shore, whose stars he's called "losers" (he also blocked a subsidy for the show's filming). However, yesterday the Today Show had Christie and the Jersey Shore ga...
May 25 | Art
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The multiple locations of Edward Hoppers Nighthawks, revealed....
Music
May 25 | Music
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Converge @ 'Decibel' party in Philly, January 2013 (more by Shaun Regan)
today in NYC
* Gaucho @ Joe's Pub
* Nervo @ Pacha NYC
* Cumbiagra @ Barbes
* Macy Gray @ City Winery
* Greg Proops @ The Bell House
* Wayne Horvitz: Duets @ The Stone
* The Denzels...
May 24 | Music
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Escort at MHOW in 2011 (more by Chris Gersbeck)
Brooklyn 17-piece disco orchestra Escort returned this week with the new single "Barbarians," and if you've been digging the new Daft Punk album, this single takes its inspiration from a ve...
Xenia Rubinos released 'Magic Trix' (streams and videos), playing shows with Sinkane and other dates
May 24 | Music
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With little more than keyboards, drums and her powerful pipes, Brooklyn's Xenia Rubinos has forged her own sound which can be heard on her new album, Magic Trix, which is out now on Ba Da Bing. You can stream a few songs from the album and...
May 24 | Music
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Paul McCartney @ Frank Erwin Center, Austin, 5/23/2013
Paul McCartney's Out There tour just swept through Austin with a two-night stand at the Frank Erwin Center and we've got pictures (and setlists) of the pyrotechnic/av/hit-fille...
May 24 | Music
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Paul McCartney @ Frank Erwin Center, Austin, 5/23/2013
Paul McCartney's Out There tour just swept through Austin with a two-night stand at the Frank Erwin Center and we've got pictures (and setlists) of the pyrotechnic/av/hit-fille...
May 24 | Music
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Kanye West in Sweden in 2011 (more)
NYC festival Governors Ball is totally sold out of regular tickets, but if you weren't able to get yours and still want to go, there are still a few options. From now until Monday (5/27) at 11:59 PM, you can enter the ...
May 24 | Music
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Delicate Steve @ 4Knots Fest 2013 (more by Chris La Putt)
Delicate Steve was among the performers scheduled to play GoogaMooga on Sunday that didn't end up happening on account of rain. For those who were especially looking forward to his appearance and ...
May 24 | Music
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The Decemberists in Austin in 2011 (more by Tim Griffin)
It's been a while since we've heard from The Decemberists, but the band's members are still finding ways to keep busy. Their side project, Black Prairie, whose lineup now includes four of the five ...
Food
May 25 | Food
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Last year, budding Brooklyn artists were gifted with boozy painting classes, courtesy of Williamsburg paint-by-numbers outfit the Painting Lounge. But apparently the the Daily News decided to ask the NYPD if the lounge's bring-your-own-booze policy was le...
May 25 | Food
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It feels comforting to know that in a world in which so many things are changing for the better, some things will always remain the same: hot dog hookers will keep hot dog hooking, Chris Christie and Snooki will never be friends, and the club elite in the...
May 25 | Food
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If you've been planning to head down to the Lower East Side to bid adieu to Max Fish, make sure you hang onto your iPhone: bars and clubs in the neighborhood have been experiencing an uptick in reported cell phone thefts over the past few months, and now ...
May 24 | Food
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• Picnic time: The Brooklyn Bridge Park concession stand collaboration between No. 7 Sub and Luke's Lobster opens 11 a.m. on Monday. The window service operation is located inside the Smokestack Building at 11 Water Street. [Grub Street]
• Ma...
May 24 | Food
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It'll melt your soul.
There is an odd ice-cream truck making the rounds in the far reaches of Queens. It sells Tweety Bird ice pops and frozen SpongeBob SquarePants treats (with gumballs for eyes) like the rest, but instead of blasting the conventional - ...
May 24 | Food
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It's all about "starbursts" and "dingbats."
In response to what it says amounts to a sneaky move, the company that makes Magic Hat beer has filed a federal lawsuit against the Lexington, Kentucky-based West Sixth Brewing Co. over similarities between the ...
May 24 | Food
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What'd you expect?
A new study conducted by Harvard Medical School found that people are largely unaware of the amount of calories in fast food - and teens are the most clueless. It's not shocking news that high-school kids think they're eating a 497-calo...
May 24 | Food
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You're about to know a lot more about where your sirloin came from, whether you like it or not. A new regulation requires steaks and other cuts of meat—with the exception of ground meats—to be labeled with information about where the animal wa...
Fashion
May 24 | Fashion
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May is Melanoma Awareness month and we’re proud to once again partner with The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) in support Melanoma research. For the entire month of May, we are supporting the MRA through a host of exciting initiatives (including a our #B...
May 23 | Fashion
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And we thought March's closet was large… Todd doesn't even know what to do with this Bond Street gem. OMG! This closet should be filled with nothing but the best… …I started to put together a list of all the finery that Bergdorf Goodman ...
May 21 | Fashion
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Like graduation, it's one of those dates that mark the beginning of summer: 5F Sale. This year we're having a full on 5F fete during a bit of a Spring Fling this Wednesday afternoon and evening. In addition to having some of your favorite 5F looks at up ...
May 21 | Fashion
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You know Vilebrequin for their easygoing, whimsical swimsuits. They put you in a good mood, ready to relax on the beach in Southern France, or wherever you happen to be. Vilebrequin is a favorite among fathers and sons, and their latest collaboration is p...
May 20 | Fashion
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It's been pretty rainy here in New York City, but summer is well on it's way. I guess April showers got pushed back to May. Without a doubt, the temperature is slowly but surely warming up so now is the time to stack up on summer product. I've searched th...
May 20 | Fashion
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It's been pretty rainy here in New York but summer is well on it's way. I guess April showers got pushed back to May. Nevertheless, the temperature is slowly but surely warming up so now is the time to stack up on summer product. I've searched the web and...
May 19 | Fashion
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Mom and Dad like all the coffee shops; they say that its a coffee kingdom....
Books
May 30 | Books
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David Bromwich
The recent past is still with us, if we take the time to look. The consequence of the NATO intervention that overthrew Muammar Qaddafi is the background against which one must assess the judgment of those persons—well placed in the medi...
May 24 | Books
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David Cole
President Barack Obama’s speech Thursday at the National Defense University may turn out to be the most significant of his tenure. After four years of failing to make much progress toward closing Guantánamo, while increasingly relying on a ...
May 24 | Books
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Susan Sontag
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilization are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois; they are writers who are repetitive, obsessive, and impolite, who impress by force—not simply by their tone of personal authority and by their i...
May 23 | Books
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Alberto Manguel
One day in 1842, the thirty-eight-year old Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in his notebook: "To write a dream, which shall resemble the real course of a dream, with all its inconsistency, its eccentricities and aimlessness—with nevertheless ...
May 22 | Books
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James Gleick
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
by Lee Smolin
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we ex...
May 22 | Books
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Martin Filler
The fact that many architects seem compelled to seduce and dominate those around them—whether patrons, junior partners, paramours, or some combination thereof—has been part of the popular image of the profession for much of the past cent...
May 22 | Books
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Nathaniel Rich
The great Northeast Blackout of August 2003 passed without Robert Silvers’s notice—or at least without him giving the impression of noticing. While I and the other assistants, racing to the windows to see what was happening outside, fra...
May 20 | Books
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Jenny Uglow
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
by Bee Wilson
Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat combines a passionate gathering of information, diligently communicated, and a...
