Email Author Araceli Cruz

2010 Stories by Araceli Cruz

• WHEN LIFE WAS GOOD

  published December 22, 2010

  In 1999, Mark Zuckerberg was only 15 and still had yet to think up his Internet plan to nuke face-to-face communication while Britney Spears had... More >>

• SUCK IT

  published December 22, 2010

  Unemployment is still high. Taylor Swift is still America’s Sweetheart (and Jake Gyllenhaal’s, too. Argh!). Sarah Palin is still... More >>

• MIRACLE ON HUDSON STREET

  published December 15, 2010

  Special thanks goes out to 92Y Tribeca for saving us from having permanent couch marks on our faces on Christmas Day. The venue has perfected the... More >>

• IT'S TRADITION

  published December 15, 2010

  Call us cheesy all you want, but around the holidays nothing brings out our soft side more than Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful... More >>

• A NAUGHTY XMAS

  published December 8, 2010

  This Christmas, we’re given the option of either spending the holidays with family in Cleveland and gorging ourselves on lasagna or staying... More >>

• WARHOL IN SLOW MOTION

  published December 8, 2010

  From the vast Andy Warhol film repertoire, it was his silent black-and-white films from the mid-’60s that best conveyed his raw talent and... More >>

• HAPPY FUCKING HOLIDAYS!

  published December 8, 2010

  During this time of year, people attempt to be kind to their fellow man, but really it tends to come across as . . . oh, what’s the... More >>

• WE DIG

  published December 8, 2010

  The Los Angeles–based artist Karthik Pandian has a way of capturing the most minimal things, like an eye or a graffitied wall, as he... More >>

• TUNNEL VISION

  published December 1, 2010

  One of the coolest things about the summer is watching movies on rooftops—courtesy of Rooftop Films, of course. But what does one do in the... More >>

• MIXED-UP FINGERS

  published December 1, 2010

  MOMA has shown us what it looks like to be locked inside a cage for a year and what it feels like to watch and be a part of a live performance by... More >>

• HUMAN INTERRUPTED

  published November 24, 2010

  "There’s definitely, definitely, definitely no logic to human behavior," sings Björk. But that hasn’t stopped Brooklyn-based artist... More >>

• DIY HOLIDAY

  published November 24, 2010

  Every year, the same holiday-shopping panic attack occurs, leaving us wandering the streets of Soho stressed about what to get and how much to... More >>

• AWESOME HOLIDAY

  published November 17, 2010

  When Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim—the comedic duo that star in the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! on Cartoon Network’s... More >>

• ALL HAIL THE QUEEN

  published November 17, 2010

  If burlesque stars Anita Cookie and Clams Casino can make a sexy striptease for Queen’s not-especially-sexy "Bohemian Rhapsody," just imagine... More >>

• BAH! HUMBUG!

  published November 10, 2010

  Ernest Hemingway once said, “All thinking men are atheists.” So, is this to say Old Saint Nick has never read Finnegans Wake? The... More >>

• GIVE CRANKS

  published November 10, 2010

  At first glance, Cranksgiving 12 sounds like a get-together for ungrateful bastards who are too busy texting to give thanks for anything.... More >>

• GAME OVER

  published November 10, 2010

  In 2008, GQ named Uwe Boll the “Worst Director Ever,” mainly because three of his video-game-adapted films (House of the Dead,... More >>

• TALLY HO!

  published November 10, 2010

  Riding a bicycle in the buff, and in Brooklyn, is so passé. The second annual Big Apple Tweed Ride is classing things up by bringing back... More >>

• MAKE ME LAUGH

  published November 3, 2010

  What do John Hughes, Chevy Chase, and Conan O'Brien have in common? If you answered that they've all made you pee in your pants at some point in... More >>

• SCAVENGER HUNT

  published November 3, 2010

  Whoever coined the phrase "One person's trash is another man's treasure" must have been living in New York City. A group of artists have taken... More >>

• GLEE ON CRACK

  published November 3, 2010

  There are no rehearsals, fancy sets, or second takes at the second annual New York Musical Improv Festival. Instead, the two-day fest... More >>

• TUNNEL VISION

  published November 3, 2010

  Whether it's art that's commissioned or graffiti on a movie poster, when we're commuting on the MTA, there's always something interesting to look... More >>

• ART ATTACK

  published October 27, 2010

  If you were too young to get your hands on the incredible outpouring of riot grrrl zines in the early ‘90s—with their personal essays,... More >>

• DEAD IS THE NEW BLACK

  published October 27, 2010

  Staff members at Shops at the Loom, the newly renovated textile mill in Bushwick that houses a slew of quirky local stores, have been hosting an... More >>

• INSIDE, OUTSIDE

  published October 27, 2010

  Journals & Notebooks marks artist Collier Schorr’s tenth solo show at 303 Gallery—and, fittingly, much of the work that... More >>