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A visit to Minus Space—a tiny, remote haven for Minimalism—is an experience, appropriately enough, of progressive reduction. Make your way down a bleak industrial...
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Two mansions, two miles apart, spark intrigue in Palm Beach, Florida. The first, on the northern end of the oceanfront street nicknamed Billionaire's Row, is 30,000 square...
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Sick of sequels, prequels, and fromage-y franchises? Well, along comes Higher Ground—director/star Vera Farmiga's adaptation of Carolyn S. Briggs's 2002 memoir, This...
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The 1990s coinage ostalgie, which combines the German words for "east" and "nostalgia," describes a particular sort of longing. Ostalgie is not so much a yearning for the...
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In The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin writes of a delightful liquid he encountered during his travels—the "cool pleasant fluid of the cocoa-nut." At the Beagle, a...
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"That Pichet Ong," a friend of mine quipped, "he sure knows how to open restaurants, but he doesn't know how to keep them open."
Indeed, the vaunted pastry chef who once...
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Violent J places his hand on Shaggy 2 Dope's upper-left thigh. It's a remarkably affectionate gesture for a rapper who last night told Charlie Sheen to call him if the...
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Bitterer than the horseradish on her Passover plate, the heroine of Charles Busch's amiably rickety new comedy, Olive and the Bitter Herbs (Primary Stages), is no tasty dish....
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Dir. Samuel Fuller (1955).
“I used to be your ichi-ban!” Fuller goes on location in Japan for this two-fisted, wide-screen tale of love and corruption in the...
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Last month, Ridgewood's Silent Barn, a hub for New York's Showpaper DIY scene, was broken into and badly vandalized; tonight, a few mainstays of that scene come together at...
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The Anthology Film Archives need no better advertisement for their new film program The Return of Nick Zedd than these words from John "The Sultan of Sleaze" Waters, "Nick...
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Last year, GWAR lead singer Oderus Urungus offered up his inaugural Crack-a-thon to raise funds to pay for his giant drug habit (a 43-billion-year-old monster from outer space...
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Nas or GZA? Lauryn Hill or Raekwon and Ghostface? Black Star or Masta Killa? These aren't the pointless hypotheticals hip-hop heads have used to pass the time for the last 30...
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Not to be confused with the Drake-endorsed avant-r&b act with which they almost share a name, San Francisco's Weekend hit town for two shows just ahead of a new EP that clears...
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Dir. Alexander Dovzhenko (1928).
The great Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko’s breakthrough came with this comic political folk tale—a Gogolian allegory of...
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Dir. Otto Preminger (1944).
Preminger's classy noir—which has the surrealistic premise of a cop falling in love with a dead woman—features Gene Tierney in the title...
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Outdoor electronic festivals can be real time-warps. They're often every bit as stylistically divergent as an old mega-rave, with an emphasis on now-retro big-room big names....
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Freddie Mercury, with his biker mustache, tight leather pants, and wifebeater, could work the stage like no one else. So how could we ever come even close to honoring him? A...
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Labor Day weekend might be your last chance to get out of the city without wearing long sleeves, so why not escape to Jones Beach for an evening with the woman who's been...
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Dir. Alexander Dovzhenko (1930).
Drafted to make a movie on rural collectivization, Dovzhenko produced a myth—the creation of the kolkhoz as part of a cosmic cycle of...
