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This Week in Pop Videos: Robin Thicke! 50 Cent! Lil Wayne! More!

A look at the week's hottest pop clips, including the frolicsome ribaldry of Robin Thicke, the mansion malaise of 50 Cent and the insufferable wackness of Somethingorother Yacht Idiots.

Q & A: Dirt Candy's Amanda Cohen on Vegetable Restaurants, Graphic Novels, and Bacon, Part 1

Amanda Cohen doesn't want to get political about vegetables. The chef and owner of the East Village's Dirt Candy is more interested in offering an exquisite and innovative meal of vegetables than in convincing you to go vegetarian. This plucky attitude, combined with a moratorium on fake meat, has a ... More >>

Live: Julianna Barwick And Ikue Mori Keep It Minimal At White Columns

Jenn Pelly​ Julianna Barwick & Ikue Mori White Columns Gallery Thursday, July 14 Better than: Spending twelve hours in a tiny car driving to Chicago to watch Julianna Barwick play this weekend at Pitchfork Festival. (Oh wait...) The not-for-profit White Columns Gallery describes itself as " ... More >>

Five-Finger Boots Exist, and They Are Horrible

via Gizmodo​We feel strongly about shoes, among the worst offenders Crocs, Birkenstocks, man mules, and anything "latticed." But among the very worst is the five-finger running shoe, a reckless shoe-form that turns feet into virtual fingers. You may recall our previous rants about them -- we s ... More >>

NYC's Nu-Lesbian "Muffia" Posse: An Actual Real-Life Lesbian's Take

​Every trend piece starts with a writer identifying a group of people doing something that is supposedly new or unique. And every blog post about every trend piece tries to take it down by identifying either how (A) The writer's just trying to provoke reactions. (B) The trend being written a ... More >>

Oprah and Gayle: Are They?

Gayle King photo by David Shankbone​They deny it, and naturally one doesn't want to fall into that old stereotype about how any two powerful women who hang together must be doing it. But Stedman never seemed that persuasive a force to me, and now Rosie O'Donnell has stirred the pepperpot by s ... More >>

Live: The Lowbrow Reader Presents Peter Stampfel, Larkin Grimm, and the Fiery Furnaces at Housing Works

Photo of the Fiery Furnaces via jcn's photostream Peter Stampfel, Larkin Grimm, and the Fiery Furnaces Housing Works Wednesday, July 22 "This one's about traveling to a distant galaxy to bring back spirit orgasms for women on earth who've never had one," Larkin Grimm said last night to a decent c ... More >>

Live: My Morning Jacket at Madison Square Garden, With MP3s

Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

Boys in the Hoodies

Dropping trou for a slot in the Duckie Brown fashion show

Burning Down the House

The literati get some heat in Brock Clarke's blazing comic novel

Hova's Slight Return

Jay-Z's aura finally outshines his art—what a drag it is getting old

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Sex and the Pity: Dowd can't make up her mind, while Levy takes on pornification

'Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic'

Where's the Beef?

The author might have forgotten why she's a vegetarian—but don't ask her to quit now

There She Is, Miss L.E.S.: She'll Take the Town by Storm

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Playing Footsie

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Extreme Makeovers

The Fine Art of Picking a Shtick

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Fast, cheap and in control

Rubbed the Wrong Way

Are Body Workers the Next Quality of Life Patsies?

Dressing Like It's 1999

The Year in Frock