Email Author Camille Dodero

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 4, 2011

  "Guys Who Like Fat Chicks"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 8, 2010

  "Revenge of the Losers"

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2009 Stories by Camille Dodero

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  FEATURED STORY

  RIP Vic Chesnutt: "I Really Do Think My Best Days Are Ahead of Me"

  published Dec 28, 2009

  Vic Chesnutt died on Christmas Day, after an overdose of muscle relaxants left him in a coma. If you've ever seen the man play live, you likely have "a Vic Chesnutt story." Mine involves a Boston-ar... More >>

• The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History Author John Ortved on Today's 20th Anniversary and How Male Simpsons Fans Can't Get Laid

  published Dec 17, 2009

  Twenty years ago today, Rupert Murdoch's upstart network FOX aired the first-ever half-hour episode of The Simpsons, a holiday special in which a financially strained fatso dad named Homer ends up a... More >>

• Adam Green Playing "Surprise" Full-Band Show $6 Tonight at Lit Lounge

  published Dec 14, 2009

  Should you be in the mood this evening for a sloppy tribute to Billy Corgan's GF, a Biz Markie cover, being called a "barbarian," or nonsensical asides about things like Stinky the Ferret or leaky f... More >>

• Haha: Impose Picks The "Best New Music of 2009"

  published Dec 09, 2009

  On Monday, our home slices over at Impose unveiled their year-end 50 favorite acts of 2009. It's a uniquely varied list of familiar blog-sprayed faces (Animal Collective, Fever Ray, Black Lips, Dan ... More >>

• Robert Christgau Remembers John Lennon, Redux

  published Dec 08, 2009

  "In 1971, I wrote something about John and Yoko that they liked a lot, and to show their appreciation they invited me and my girlfriend Dominique to John's 31st birthday party--in Syracuse, where a ... More >>

• Benefit for Twin Stumps' Bassist Mike Yaniro Happening Tomorrow at Death By Audio, With Extra-Special Guest Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

  published Dec 03, 2009

  If you've complained about anything in your life recently that isn't homelessness, domestic abuse, paranormal activity, or, say, a potentially malignant lump, you should probably shut the fuck up, qui... More >>

• The Decapitator Beheaded DJ AM in a Rather Ill-Advised NYC Adbust

  published Dec 01, 2009

  The impish genius of the Decapitator, an anonymous street artist who's captured imaginations by skillfully beheading smug advertisements in major metropolitan areas, has been that the objects of his... More >>

• SXSW Announces Mostly Unsurprising List of 200-Plus Bands Playing 2010

  published Nov 30, 2009

  Mere days away from Art Basel Miami, and our cold-weather-escaping reverie has already shifted to March 17-21, 2010 in Austin, Texas, where "the creative capital of the entire world" will relocate t... More >>

• Photos: Blowfly and GZA at Princeton

  published Nov 23, 2009

  All you need to know about this past Thursday's bonkers GZA/Blowfly double-bill in a Princeton cafeteria is right here in these photos. Blowfly, flipping you off. Blowfly, grabbing his junk. Blowfly... More >>

• ATP New York Is Happening Again in 2010 with Iggy and the Stooges, Sleep, and Mudhoney.

  published Nov 20, 2009

  FUCK YES! [ATP New York 2010]... More >>

• So Will N8 Be Open for That Annie DJ Set This Thursdayr

  published Nov 17, 2009

  Two weeks ago, a press blast announced that Annie would be DJing N8 this Thursday night, but if there's some sort of Williamsburg-bartender betting pool regarding the chances of this actually happen... More >>

• All Tomorrow's Parties: The Film Will Be at the IFC Center Again This Weekend

  published Nov 17, 2009

  This past weekend's midnight screenings at the IFC Center must've been a rousing success--All Tomorrow's Parties: The Film returns there again this Friday and Saturday for an encore engagement. Thi... More >>

• The Decapitator Strikes Again, Beheading Daft Punk in Shepard Fairey's DJ Hero Ad

  published Nov 16, 2009

  In case you haven't been following along, the street-artist known as the Decapitator has been in New York recently. And in addition to hiding headless Shakiras in the Union Square Barnes & Noble (on... More >>

• There Is a Bearded Dude In a Dress Currently Screaming "I Am the Master of All Reindeer" Outside Our Offices

  published Nov 13, 2009

  While we here at 36 Cooper Square have all gotten used to our uniquely daft brand of Bowery-runoff foot traffic--pimply NYU dross, sallow-faced post-methadone junkies, Adam Duritz--this particular a... More >>

• Photos: Neil Hamburger at the Brooklyn Knitting Factory

  published Nov 12, 2009

  Neil Hamburger November 12 Knitting Factory Stand-up character Neil Hamburger has, for years, been infamous for his unmannerly Michael Jackson jokes. The best one: "Why did Michael Jackson dangle ... More >>

• Exercises in Viral-to-Street Promotion: Vampire Weekend Contra Edition

  published Nov 12, 2009

  Okay, Vampire Weekend. You got us. Slapped on a tagged mailbox on the loiterers' corner of North 7th and Bedford, the faux-sorority girl with the blank stare proved to be such a weird visual deja v... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  We Found That Decapitated Shakira Rolling Stone. (Hint: Try the Magazine-Rack Art Section.)

  published Nov 11, 2009

  Quick refresher: the Decapitator, the street artist lauded for lopping the heads off actresses, Disney kids, rappers in glibly depicted advertisements, is currently in New York City. (Think Poster B... More >>

• Queens Band Twin Stumps Planning Benefit for Their Bassist Mike Yaniro

  published Nov 10, 2009

  Lost amid the Halloween blog blitz was the terribly sad news that Michael Yaniro, bassist for hardcore sludge outfit Twin Stumps, was violently attacked two weeks ago in Ridgewood over $10 and a cel... More >>

• Photos: Fucked Up at the Masonic Temple, with Andrew WK on Keyboards

  published Nov 06, 2009

  Fucked Up's New York shows always seem to coincide with historic American days: Inauguration Day 2008, the only time in recorded history when Ezra Koenig publicly covered the Descendents, and now th... More >>

• Matt and Kim Play Universal Studios, Frolic in the Original Back to the Future Delorean

  published Nov 05, 2009

  It's been impossible to keep up with the recent adventures of Matt & Kim: guesting on Jimmy Kimmel, winning the Breakthrough Video VMA for their cold-weather streaking parade "Lessons Learned," grea... More >>

• Good Morning, Human Bag of Cocaine at the Vice Halloween Party

  published Nov 05, 2009

  Let this be the final word on that 15th anniversary Halloween bash. All that's missing is a bloody nose. [@VICEMAG]... More >>

• All Tomorrow's Parties: The Film Gets a NYC Screening at the IFC Center

  published Nov 03, 2009

  At long last, a New York City screening of the official All Tomorrow's Parties movie. The 82-minute documentary premiered in the States at SXSW last spring, showed at ATP NY in September, and now ha... More >>

• So You Go to That Vice 15th Anniversary/Halloween Party with Jesus Lizard and Bad Brains. . .

  published Nov 02, 2009

  Jesus Lizard Bad Brains Empty warehouse, North 10th Street Saturday, October 31 So you go to the much-ballyhooed Vice Halloween Party, the 15th anniversary bash in Williamsburg that the lifestyle b... More >>

• Look at All The People Who Want to Work for Diddy

  published Nov 02, 2009

  "What's it like working for mer," says Sean Combs in the trailer for tonight's season premiere of the mind-boggling I Want To Work For Diddy 2. "It's a little like working working in Hell." So what... More >>

• CMJ Photos: Clipse at the Highline Ballroom

  published Oct 22, 2009

  Let's be frank. The bonkers CMJ shows of years past--say, like, the Knife--aren't happening this year. The biggest excitement right now is, what, the XXr (Who're great, but don't misunderstand.) Cl... More >>