No city is really an island, and that goes double for New York, arguably the most cosmopolitan metropolis in the world. Gotham, instead, is a port—a point of entry for...
Matt Taibbi, like many journalists, grew up idolizing Hunter S. Thompson. But Taibbi, unlike many journalists, got Hunter S. Thompson's job. The similarities between the two...
Now comes a sordid tale of sex, abuse of power, and rampant text messaging from the mixed-up files of the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department. The PIPPD, tiny as...
Charity begins at home, and having been to a few hundred fundraiser events around town, I sometimes wonder if it should stay there. Charity bashes drip with good intentions,...
It's a new year for the city's favorite attack of the imported irrational—as the original publicity byline put it, Asian Films Are Go!!!—and as always, the New...
For many, especially black people who see in her a mockery of our own grandmothers, Tyler Perry's Madea is little more than a mammy—an insult to the matriarchal...
Not to knock films as fantastic as his Rachel Getting Married, Silence of the Lambs, and Something Wild, but there's something wilder—or, at least, more directly...
When Channing Tatum stood up and revealed his bare ass to the camera a minute or two into Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike—which the actor conceived of and produced based...
Woody Allen has just had the biggest hit of his career with Manhattan — a love letter to the titular city, a romantic celebration of its timeless urban landscape set in...
Top Priority: The Terror Within raises figurative red flags almost immediately, not all of them intentional. Asif Akbar's documentary on filmmaker-turned-whistle-blower Julia...
The Amazing Spider-Man, an inexcusably good reboot-thing from director Marc Webb, celebrates the heartwarming arachno-genetic bar mitzvah in which a boy becomes a spider, and...
With his creation Mabel “Madea” Simmons, here starring in her seventh film, Tyler Perry has built a franchise around barking disciplinarian, commonsense solutions...
In the 1890s, Atlantic Avenue south of Brooklyn Heights became the center of the city's burgeoning Arab population. The original residents were Lebanese and Syrians, but in...
Sporting a crisp, tucked-in oxford and a neat coif, the fortysomething Tom Abbs is heaping praise on the disheveled, splotchy beardo Adam Downey, his partner in the ascendant...
Bernard Shaw, who loved ridiculing Shakespeare almost as much as he loved reading, seeing, and quoting his works, often suggested that As You Like It (Delacorte Theater) had...
Good Year for Hunters, a collaboration between writer-directors Jess Barbagallo and Chris Giarmo, could never have played the old Ohio Theatre. That Wooster Street locale...
Amanda Palmer (also known as Amanda Fucking Palmer) made her career as the brash-voiced lead singer and pianist of the self-described “Brechtian punk cabaret” band...
The dazzling guitarist's guitarist (and ECM staple) has been an unclassifiable Nordic force to reckon with from when he was covering Hendrix as a teenager in the late '60s....
Dir. Stanley Kubrick (1975) Savaged by critics upon release, Kubrick’s magnificent adaptation of Thackeray’s 1844 novel stars—rather incongruously—Ryan...
Never ones to look back with anger, heavy-metal icons Iron Maiden are restaging aspects of the 1988 tour that supported their gold-selling Seventh Son of a Seventh Son,...
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