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When you walk toward Doug Wheeler's bright, alluring enclosure, you might feel like one of those characters about to visit another dimension in fantasy films. Wearing paper...
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Jazz Hayden might be the most unlikely character in the long-running controversy over the NYPD's stop-and-frisk campaign, which has affected more than 4 million New Yorkers...
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New Yorkers are going to have to learn to dance again. After being conditioned to just sit around and blab thanks to years of lounges foisted on us by the city's...
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Béla Tarr, the Hungarian director who became something like the patron saint of slow cinema with 1994's 450-minute Sátántangó, has made some of the...
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“He's sooo hot,” the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of Ryan Reynolds working out flashed...
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The Vow, a full-bodied lunge for the heartstrings, has a humdinger of a premise, forcing its characters to face a question that most of us ask ourselves: If you could do the...
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In a borough famous for its pickle platters, this one was exceptional. The tantalizing assortment flaunted big leaves of cabbage tinted bright pink with beet juice, slender...
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The East Village has been transformed into a high-rise highbrow apocalypse, but at least one vestige of downtown's grizzled avant-garde remains: jazz titan Charles Gayle. "I...
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This Sunday, the music business celebrates itself with the 54th running of the Grammy Awards, where the impossible task of categorizing pop music is made plain. Songs from...
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For the British theater, the historical importance of John Osborne's 1956 play, Look Back in Anger (Laura Pels Theatre), can't be underestimated. It marked a pivotal shift not...
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Where better to stage a show called You, My Mother than at La MaMa, a space that for so many years served as a womb in which experimental arts could gestate. If La MaMa has...
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From playing on Saturday Night Live’s “Celebrity Jeopardy!” as a faux Sean Connery (“Knock, knock, Trebek”) to imitating former vice president Al...
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What could be better than watching the beautiful but somewhat desperate gals of The Bachelor claw their way to the heart of one clueless dude? Perhaps the sketch-comedy show...
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On “Love Song,” hip-hop artist Jean Grae bemoans, “On his face, jeans, and sweaters, something’s fishy/And it’s not what he tells her,...
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In January 2010, Aventura, the biggest bachata group the world will ever see, officially called it quits, taking a four-night victory lap through Madison Square Garden on the...
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When Das Racist’s Kool A.D., elusive as ever, drawled “We’re not joking/Just joking; we are joking/Just joking; we’re not joking,” he was...
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Kieran Hebden’s turn-of-the-century Four Tet albums—the jazz-blissed bedroom hip-hop thesis that is Dialogue and the folktronica-founding Pause and...
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“If at first you don’t succeed/Dust yourself off, and try again,” or so the great Aaliyah once sang. Adventure(s) & Nerve Dating is giving you a chance to...
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Tibet House’s annual benefit concert at Carnegie Hall can be depended upon as an opportunity to catch performances by the arty New York crew that revolves around Lou...
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Bring your best six-word story (yes, just six) on love and heartbreak to SMITH Magazine’s story slam Relighting Old Flame With New Matches.
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