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Back in the day, the Photo Department at MOMA considered '80s-style "photo-conceptualist" art by the likes of Cindy Sherman to be simply bad pictures. As a result, that...
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Maria was drifting off to sleep on the bedroom floor. She could hear women getting raped in the next room. Only, she didn't hear screams—she heard the laughter of male...
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Help! YouTube is awash in pirouettes! Is virtuosity the new porn?
Google your favorite ballet stars, and you'll find assorted bravura passages that show off his leaps, his...
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Mike Bloomberg did a brave and good deed for this city last week, one for which he's due a round of applause, especially from those of us who mainly throw bricks his way.
He...
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Is this the year? Are we finally witnessing Total Cinema, the first stirrings of Huxley's feelies, the apotheosis and—as suggested by the "Classic 3-D" show opening...
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"Tuscan" must be the most abused term in the gastro-lexicon. Originally, it referred to the cuisine of a Central Italian region where a limited number of emphatically local...
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It is, objectively speaking, the best opening track of the past decade, any record, any genre; it is a list of drugs. The lyrics to "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" are as...
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Jonathan Tolins's new play, Secrets of the Trade (59E59 Theaters), is ingenious, amusing, and ultimately annoying. This should cause no surprise: Tolins, author of The...
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The Argentine-born composer, pianist, vocalist, and bandleader's new album, Domador de Huellas (Footprints Tamer), is devoted to work by the late Argentine composer and lawyer...
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Despite their reputation as shoegaze figureheads, James Hanna and Yuki Chikudate write songs that are too blissfully poppy to be considered truly psychedelic. That chaotic...
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She'll be tickling the keys and the standards with her feathery fingers and voice. He'll be matching her with a sexy but never blatant sax. They've done this sort of match-up...
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This Jaki Byard repertory outfit played at the Brooklyn Lyceum last month and were impressive in the way they gave props to both the wily pianist's serious and silly sides....
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Like other '70s new-wave and garage-pop geniuses, the B-52s (a self-described "tacky little dance band" from Athens, Georgia) translated the detritus of pop culture into...
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Collaborations with Catz n Dogz and Tasho—and a job with Carl Craig at Planet E—have brought some well-deserved attention to Monty Luke, a/k/a ML Tronik. The...
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His Chicago locale suggests house music but his name, reminiscent of Maurizio's genre-defining M Series, offers the bigger clue to M50's sonic vocabulary. Whether recording as...
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The Italo-disco and electro resurgence has reignited the career of a number of nearly lost '80s underground stars, including Florence's Alexander Robotnick. It doesn't look...
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They're not twines, exactly, but long, thick ropes that bind the bandleader's sax with that of Tony Malaby. The pair circle and swoop through each other, knotting things when...
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This welcome assault from the fearless and indestructible entertainer is called "The Bukowski Project." She is working with her band as she sets the outpourings of Charles...
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Ah, summer nights in New York City, when the humidity evaporates just enough to enjoy a feel-good movie on a lawn or a rooftop—like The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, a...
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It’s becoming increasingly difficult to reach blindly forth into the pop cultural stratosphere and pluck out a proper analogy for what author Rick Moody does. But here...
