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Sound of the City
1:07 pm
May. 23, 2013
New York News
The Ultimate List of Free Summer Concerts in NYC, 2013
By Jay Stephens
Get ready to plug this in your bookmarks, iCals, sticky notes, and religious shrines, because the ultimate guide to free summer concerts in New York City is here! Seriously, scroll down and don't ... More >>
Runnin' Scared
10:25 am
May. 23, 2013
New York News
Tig Notaro: "It's Not Like I Take Myself Too Seriously, Like Some Kind of Truth-Teller Comedian Now"
By Laura Jayne Martin
Tig Notaro is busy. You wouldn't think 2013 would feel very busy for the comedian after the year she had in 2012. Notaro's last year seemed as though it contained a lifetime's worth of tragedy i... More >>
Runnin' Scared
8:00 am
May. 23, 2013
New York News
Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Could Make Late Entry Into Mayoral Race? That's the Chatter
By Graham Rayman
Could Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly be considering a dramatic late entry into the mayoral race? With 19 days to go before the campaign finance certification deadline, the chatter that the 71-y... More >>
Fork in the Road
6:00 am
May. 23, 2013
New York News
Harold Dieterle on What Wine to Drink With Spicy Food
By Lauren Mowery
Food and wine are natural companions, so I'm polling some of New York's most illustrious chefs to find out what kind of wine they are drinking off and on the job. After establishing they actually ... More >>
Runnin' Scared
6:00 am
May. 23, 2013
New York News
The Undercover Animal Cruelty Videos that Spurred Big Ag's Censorship Crusade
By Pete Kotz
This week's story, "The Ag Gag War," goes behind the scenes of the guerilla fight between animal rights groups and Big Agriculture. For years organizations like the Humane Society and Mercy fo... More >>
Sound of the City
3:15 am
May. 23, 2013
New York News
Different Tongues: 10 Foreign Language Songs That Rule the World
By Jesse Sendejas Jr.
A couple of caveats to this list: first, it actually includes more than 10 songs. Since one is sung primarily in English and another isn't technically a "foreign" language, they're considered ha... More >>
Sound of the City
3:05 am
May. 23, 2013
New York News
Five '70s Metal Bands Who Are Better Than Black Sabbath
By Nicholas Pell
OK, we get it. You like Sabbath. Everyone does. But there's a whole big world out there of '70s metal bands that goes beyond Sabbath -- even beyond Sir Lord Baltimore, if you can believe that. ... More >>
Sound of the City
3:00 am
May. 23, 2013
New York News
Famous Musicians Talk About Each Other, In Illustrated Form
By Jena Ardell
We like reading quotations just as much as we like quoting musicians. So we illustrated our favorite five quotations from musicians. This week's topic: WHAT MUSICIANS SAY ABOUT OTHER MUSICIAN... More >>
Runnin' Scared
11:30 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
NYPD Biased Against Blacks in Marijuana-Related Stops, Civil Liberties Group Analysis Suggests
By Graham Rayman
The NYPD's stop and frisk campaign led directly to the surge in low-level marijuana arrests, figures released today by the New York Civil Liberties Union show. For context, marijuana arrests are ... More >>
Sound of the City
9:15 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
We Interviewed Andre Nickatina, Who Detests Doing Interviews
By J. Pablo
Andre Nickatina has been a mainstay of the Bay Area rap microcosm dating back to the early 1990s, when he went by the name Dre Dog. He regularly sells out shows around the country and he even h... More >>
Runnin' Scared
9:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Muppets Are Coming to the Museum of the Moving Image
By Sydney Brownstone
Come 2014-2015, New Yorkers are going to be able to meet Miss Piggy in the...felt. On Monday, the Museum of the Moving Image and Mayor Bloomberg announced the creation of a new gallery that will ... More >>
Sound of the City
9:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Top 10 Spitters In Music History (w/ VIDEO)
By Corey Deiterman
Spitting. It's gross in any language or culture -- a sign of disrespect that garners admiration or adoration from no one. Well, except for fans. Stars and celebrities themselves get mighty pissed... More >>
Runnin' Scared
7:30 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Glafira Rosales, Master Art Scammer, Busted for Duping IRS and Selling Phony Masters
By Graham Rayman
Here's a little bit of Upper East Side intrigue: a fancy dealer took it upon herself to double down and sharply increase her profit margin by selling phony paintings and duping the Internal Revenu... More >>
Runnin' Scared
6:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Weiner's in the Race, And His Campaign Ad Is Remarkably Unsexy
By Sydney Brownstone
The better-than-rumor rumors are true: We have a Weiner in the mayoral race, and he has 64 reasons why, according to the debut campaign ad. ... More >>
Fork in the Road
5:45 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Num Pang Chef Ben Daitz on Easy Drinking and What Pairs Well With Venison
By Lauren Mowery
Food and wine are natural companions, so I'm polling some of New York's most illustrious chefs to find out what kind of wine they are drinking off and on the job. After establishing they actually ... More >>
Sound of the City
3:05 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
There's a Reason Indie Rock Pinball Machines Don't Exist
By Luke Winkie
There's a certain level of superstar ubiquity required to earn your own pinball machine. You need to have a long, impressive career, make a couple great albums, have your guitarist recognized on a... More >>
Sound of the City
3:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
French Montana's Excuse My French Is Finally Here, Though It Almost Didn't Happen
By J. Pablo
Moroccan-born, Bronx-raised rapper French Montana is at a photo shoot in Tompkins Square Park's basketball court. He's shooting the shit in fluent French with the photographer. A gaggle of scruff... More >>
Film
12:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Longing and Interdependence Fill the Void of an Hasidic Community
By Diana Clarke
Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void opens on green leaves, smiling faces, lush billows of fabric that when pieced together, the sensuous images... More >>
Film
12:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
For Fans of its Predecessors, Proceed with Armor for Before Midnight
By Stephanie Zacharek
Ask people about their favorite movies and the same titles come up regularly—Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, Annie Hall, Citizen Kane. But some... More >>
Film
12:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Lens Flares and the End of Film
By Casey Burchby
Daniel Mindel, A.S.C., is part of an ever-shrinking population: cinematographers who have yet to shoot a feature digitally. He acknowledges that... More >>
Film
12:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Entitled Fraternity Dicks Return to The Hangover Part III
By Chris Packham
The unlikeliest of all the Hangover trilogy's comic implausibilities might be its four pampered rich-boy leads unironically calling themselves... More >>
Feature
12:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
How Undercover Animal Rights Activists are Winning the Ag-Gag War
By Pete Kotz
Cody Carlson had no way of preparing for this moment. He was a Manhattan kid, days removed from working as an analyst for a business-intelligence... More >>
Film
12:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks Can't Get a Fix on Its Thorny Subject Matter
By Stephanie Zacharek
There's a thing that sometimes happens to copy editors, the workhorses who do the final grammar cleanup, general fine-tuning, and, sometimes,... More >>
Film
12:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Cannes: The Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis
By Stephanie Zacharek
I. First, Something About the Badges (Then We'll Get to the Coens) Someday I'm going to write a song and call it "Ballad of the Blue Badge." I... More >>
Art
12:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Los Carpinteros Moonwalk through the Crack-up
By Christian Viveros-Faune
Jimmy Breslin was right: There is no more beautiful sight than a heaving street full of people. In Havana, on a sun-baked afternoon, that sensuous... More >>
Counter Culture
12:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Williamsburg's Sweet Chick Revives an Iconic Harlem Favorite
By Robert Sietsema
Fried chicken and waffles seem like an odd pairing, as if somebody were trying to cram dinner and breakfast into a single meal. Which is just how... More >>
Music
12:00 am
May. 22, 2013
New York News
Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington Has a New Children's Book, This Little Piggy
By Brett Koshkin
"Apparently, NYPD frowns on two husky, bearded dudes in their thirties hanging out at the playground. Matter of fact, I think it's illegal if you... More >>
Runnin' Scared
2:25 pm
May. 21, 2013
New York News
West Village March for Mark Carson Came Out in Full Force
By Sydney Brownstone and Nick Pinto
More than 1,500 people marched through the West Village yesterday evening in response to the death of Mark Carson, who was killed Friday night by a man who, according to the police, said "look at... More >>
Sound of the City
2:14 pm
May. 21, 2013
New York News
No Bigs, Just a Photo of Cheap Trick Reading Our Cover Story About NYC Metal/Hardcore
By Brian McManus
Well, whatdyaknow? It's Cheap Trick photographed outside the i Heart Radio Theater reading a copy of our cover story this week, The Oral History of NYC's Metal/Hardcore Crossover. If you've not ye... More >>
Sound of the City
12:05 pm
May. 21, 2013
New York News
A Good Ol' American Intro for Clairy Browne and the Bangin' Rackettes
By Hilary Hughes
I don't understand plenty about Australia--Vegemite, the platypus' existence as a non-mythical creature, etc.--but what I truly don't get is how everyone in Melbourne could've kept Clairy Browne a... More >>
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