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A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake Revives His Music for a New Audience

On Saturday and Sunday, Williamsburg's Nitehawk Cinema and Vice/Noisey hosted brunch screenings of the 2002 documentary A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake as part of a week of events celebrating the April 16th release of live tribute album Way to Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake. It was also the fi ... More >>

New Single From the Yeah Yeah Yeahs Ignites Some "Sacrilege"

In what's already been a year toploaded with comebacks, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have made their own mark in 2013 by debuting some live tracks, album art, festival dates, and teasers from their upcoming April album Mosquito. In the most solidifying act of their pre-album build-up, Zane Lowe debuted their ... More >>

Hollywood Zion: 'Do the Reggae' at BAM

Five days of reggae royalty, mixing it up on-screen

Takarazuka!!! Opens Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks Series

Lear deBessonet directs Susan Soon He Stanton's new play

Barflies Explain the Super Moon at Burp Castle

It was a busy night for our bars what with Derby Day, Cinco de Mayo and the less-toasted event of the evening: the super moon. I sort of learned about the super moon from the barflies at Burp Castle, where I spent a few very quiet hours drinking excellent Belgian beer: It's the closest the moon ha ... More >>

Remember John Peel With A Spin Through The PeelPlayer, Which Will Send You Down A Rabbit Hole Of Fantastic Indie

Pulp's "Babies," No. 23 on the 1994 Festive Fifty The late BBC DJ John Peel unexpectedly passed away seven years ago today, leaving behind a legacy of inimitable musical curiosity and knowledge that reverberated throughout the world—even in the pre-internet era. Since then, the day's been uno ... More >>

Taste Buds Uses 1,000 Recipes to Pair Perfect Ingredients

Being a good cook is about more than just following recipes. Knowing what ingredients pair well together will help you avoid screwups in the kitchen and allow you to mix the dregs of your refrigerator into something remotely edible. That's why we love this fun new infographic from designers David Mc ... More >>

Alessio Rastani: Real Trader, Prankster, or Both?

The guy in that BBC interview says he's one Alessio Rastani and that he's a trader. The clip has been making the Internet rounds today mostly because of Rastani's bonkers quotes, i.e. "The governments don't rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world." He's either the most honest trader in the w ... More >>

Ai Wei Wei, Dissident Artist Freed From Jail, Fined Almost $2 Million

​Last week we reported that Ai Wei Wei, the dissident artist whose detention in China sparked international outcry, had been released after almost three months in jail. Authorities said he'd been released for health reasons, and for cooperatively copping to tax evasion. No details on the amoun ... More >>

Way Station's Andy Heidel Talks About Flaming Moes, Dr. Who-Themed Cocktails and His Infamous Stroller Manifesto

​The first clue that Prospect Heights bar Way Station isn't your average drinking den is the giant blue TARDIS (the time-and-space traveling machine from the BBC's Doctor Who television series) sitting there as soon as you open the front door. Also present: custom steampunk devices, Victorian ... More >>

Best in Show: Cao Fei at Lombard Freid Projects

John Chamberlain at Gagosian; Donald Judd at David Zwirner; David Shapiro at Sue Scott Gallery

Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari, Kidnapped Gay Syrian Blogger, Might Be Made Up

Not her?!​The defiant lesbian blogger Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari (a.k.a. Amina Arraf or Amina Abdallah), who was reported kidnapped on her blog "A Gay Girl in Damascus" by a cousin this week, may not exist at all or otherwise has a lot of explaining to do. Her story circulated everywhere fro ... More >>

Egypt Update: March of Millions Planned For Tuesday; Plus, Where to Read More

With the government curfew lifted and military roadblocks encircling the city of Cairo, Tuesday is shaping up to be the biggest day of protest yet as the ongoing general strike may top one million marchers tomorrow, according to organizers hoping to oust President Hosni Mubarak. Al Jazeera English ( ... More >>

Natalie Storm, Blondes, DJ Pauly D, Derrick May, And (Maybe!) Prince Headline Your Week In Nightlife

​Your partying jag kicks off on Thursday this week and features a global takeover of NYC. Jamaican dancehall queen Natalie Storm is something of an obsession for us lately (especially after Friday night's reOPENed party) -- she's returning to the Lower East Side for an appearance at Happy Endi ... More >>

Russia's Latest Anti-Drinking Ad: "In Soviet Russia, Squirrel Drink YOU"

THIS is a convincing anti-drinking image. Via BBC.​Why can't New York's anti-drinking ads -- by all accounts lame, by some accounts practically "outtakes from Fight Club" -- get more like Russia's? This drunken squirrel with the bellowing voice and raw, crazy eyes is everything we need to rem ... More >>

Former Dopers Looking for Glory in This Year's Tour de France

​Most of the Lance Armstrong news today is about his Twitter announcement yesterday that this year's Tour de France will be his last. (A typical write-up, from the BBC.) But with just a few days to the start of this year's three-week epic, there were some other items of interest...

Morning Links: OTB Lives, New Yorkers Imagine a World Without Doormen, Chastity Becomes Chaz

​Hey, it's Monday, time for lots and lots of coffee and, of course, your Monday morning update. • The OTB has a second (ninth?) life. The board voted to keep operations open for at least another year, and will submit a plan on how they will restructure the company to the New York State Wage ... More >>

Before the Frost

The Unsound Festival Gets Way Out

Poland's finest annual fete heads to NYC

Call Victoria Beckham's Face "Too Crazy" and Get on the BBC: Our Very Own Sharyn Jackson on 5 Live Today

Any minute now, in between reports of schoolgirls getting their tongues stuck to bus-stop posts, our very own Sharyn Jackson will be on BBC's 5 Live for talking smack in this space about Posh Spice on American Idol. "Victoria Beckham does look sharp," Sharyn wrote. "But her face is just too crazy ... More >>

In the Loop, an Iraq War of Words

The run-up to the war, Brit satire–style

Super Sunday! Bread and circuses and suicide bombings!

The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and terror: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fought to the death in a Grand Slam final, and so did the Pit ... More >>

Daily Flog: Attention, Secret Service: Keep hope alive

Daily Flog: Wall Street down the drain; White House plumber summoned

Watch Out, Obama!

WILD KINGDOM

John Oliver’s out of his cage again

Mad Money

Dome and Doomer

Cheers, Mate! The BBC Is the Future of Your Paper. Maybe.

Miles of Gilles

Mr. Peterson continues refining his taste in jazz, samba, and goat cheese

Life Is Sweet

With its seventh installment, Michael Apted's drama of aging approaches a half-century

Louvre Story

Hanks and Howard turn bestselling Christian skullduggery into long-winded History Channel special

'Why We Fight'

Morning Report 12/11/05
Disappearances Are Deceiving

And Another Thing, You Donkey Heads

Cheney falls way down the rabbit hole over Democrats' dissent

After the London Bombings: 'Our Dead Have Names Too'

Messages from a Muslim e-mail list

Morning Report 5/24/05
Compromising Democracy

Mixed Mulatto

Melting ZZ and Jay-Z and all kinds of purple haze into the pot

It's All About the Money in B-Wood Update of Austen’s Classic Novel

Iraq: Bullets and Ballots

Bush's Bitches

East Via Shortwave

Sun City Girls tune their static into freaky Asian frequencies, keep changing the channel

Re-enter Sandman

Fantasist Neil Gaiman Returns to the Graphic-Novel Series That Made Him Famous

News of the Dirty War

Stories the Censors Could Not Sink

Front Lines

Finding War Coverage on the Web

Hate Your Chromosomes

Past Action Heroes; Insane Clone Posses

BattleBot Galactica

Profit and Loss

Why the U.S. gets so little bang for its health care buck