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  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Back Forty Stages an Oyster Showdown. Slurpers Mark Calendar.

    ChefMattRockWellfleets will try their damnedest.​ There have been numerous East Coast-West Coast feuds: Biggie vs. Tupac, David Chang's "Fig-Gate," and now a bicoastal oyster rivalry. The country's bivalve bookends will go head-to-head at Alphabet City's Back Forty on November 19 from 3 p.m. t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Q&A: Sex Church's Levon On Autumn, Depression, And Creepshow

    If any single phrase summarizes the Sex Church approach to reverb-drenched bombs, it's unquestionably "virulent erosion." The Vancouver-based outfit showcases a series of intense, furiously clanged and flanged slow/whoa! dissolves on its full-length debut Growing Over (Load). From the swirling acti ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 10, 2011

    Sightings+Shearing Pinx

    If any single phrase summarizes the Sex Church approach to reverb-drenched bombs, it's unquestionably "virulent erosion." The Vancouver-based outfit showcases a series of intense, furiously clanged and flanged slow/whoa! dissolves on its full-length debut Growing Over (Load). From the swirling acti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Download "Here To Stay" By Milagres, Who Are Playing Mercury Lounge Tonight

    Cameron Wittig ​ The debut album by Milagres almost never happened. The indie-rock group's singer and main songwriter Kyle Wilson had grown weary of his band and Brooklyn, so he traveled to rural British Columbia to rough it and contemplate his future. While rock climbing, he fell and suffered ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Quintron and Miss Pussycat Cancel Their Upcoming Tour, Including Brooklyn Show on May 28

    We spoke with swampbuggy bad-ass Quintron very briefly on Monday afternoon, amid the throes of a pre-tour van emergency. But since then something else far more harrowing has developed, specifically an undisclosed "family emergency at home," which has sadly forced cartoon lady Miss Pussycat and her o ... More >>

  • Books

    March 30, 2011

    Spring Arts Guide: 10 Semi-Erudite Choices for Spring Literature

    Rimbaud, meet Betty White. Plus David Foster Wallace, Tayari Jones, and other spring books picks.

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Behold, Britney Spears Is Coming To The Tri-State Area in August

    It's been some time now since Britney Spears was plucked from her pleasant Louisiana life and transformed into the world's foremost pop-robot. The seductive ...Baby One More Time came out twelve years ago, it's success crowning Britney as the prototypical, twenty-first century pop star. In the years ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    tUnE-yArDs Announces New Album, Plays MHOW In May

    ​Merrill Garbus, a/k/a the ukulele-strumming/drum-pounding/beatboxing/growling dervish known as tUnE-yArDs, is one of the best live acts going right now, a riot of energy, color, and (most importantly) volume, a loop-building and tonsil-flaring spectacle so joyous we're willing to tolerate the ... More >>

  • Music

    January 19, 2011

    Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: From Kanye West to The Suburbs

    ​Merrill Garbus, a/k/a the ukulele-strumming/drum-pounding/beatboxing/growling dervish known as tUnE-yArDs, is one of the best live acts going right now, a riot of energy, color, and (most importantly) volume, a loop-building and tonsil-flaring spectacle so joyous we're willing to tolerate the ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 3, 2010

    Free Will Astrology: November 3 through 9

    ​Merrill Garbus, a/k/a the ukulele-strumming/drum-pounding/beatboxing/growling dervish known as tUnE-yArDs, is one of the best live acts going right now, a riot of energy, color, and (most importantly) volume, a loop-building and tonsil-flaring spectacle so joyous we're willing to tolerate the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Wake Up to Coffee Cocktails; Canadians Come Up with Wine-Fed Beef

    ​The Randolph at Broome has started serving hot and cold coffee cocktails from 8 a.m. on, such as the World's Best Dad, incorporating Laird's Applejack and sweet vermouth, and the Slow Trip to New Orleans, made with Bulleit bourbon, Plymouth sloe gin, and coffee. [Diner's Journal] Tokaj, Hun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2010

    Wild Rabbits Take Over Canadian Campus

    Via Boing Boing comes this shaky 30 second cell phone video of a bunch of feral rabbits just chillin' on the grounds of the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Apparently, their nonstop sex has become a problem as 2,000 of these adorable bunnies tear up the lawn at the Canadian school. Acc ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 16, 2010

    OH, CANADA!

    See what's new in Canadian cinema

  • Music

    January 19, 2010

    Michael Jackson and Hip-Hop

    Guess which one of those things didn't die this year

  • Music

    January 19, 2010

    Yes, I 'Actually' Like It

    More music to love, loathe, fear, and tragically fail to avoid

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    New Tricks Against Bedbugs: Dry Ice Pet Dish, "Bedbug Saunas"

    ​Despite the founding this year of the city council's Bed Bug Advisory Board, bedbugs are still a problem in New York. WABC proposed yesterday a "less than $20" solution developed by a Rutgers entomology professor Changlu Wang: a fabric-lined, upside-down pet dish with a cooler of dry ice on ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 17, 2009

    SNOW DAY

    Get psyched for winter

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    All of the Apples Available at the Union Square Farmers' Market, 11/12/09

    AMBROSIA (British Columbia, new cultivar, sweet, not bad for eating) ​ This picture file is the result of a visit to the Union Square Farmers' Market on Saturday, November 12, 2009, and represents an accurate record of every apple available for sale, 30 in total. The apples are presented in al ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 28, 2009

    BIGFOOT STRIKES AGAIN

    Michael Puzzo's Lyric is Waiting

  • Music

    May 6, 2009

    Darcy James Argue's Metal Machine Music

    The long-awaited 'steampunk big band' emerges at last

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    East Coast Oysters vs. West Coast Oysters, Bout One

    The pugilists (clockwise beginning at the lower left): Beaver Tail, Fire Island, Meximoto, Phantom Creek   "In this corner, defending the honor of East Coast oysters," the ringmaster intoned, "are Beaver Tails from Rhode Island, and Fire Islands from Long Island." "And in that corner," h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    Giuliani "Advises" Pillmaker Banned by FDA, Opposes Needle Program

    The pugilists (clockwise beginning at the lower left): Beaver Tail, Fire Island, Meximoto, Phantom Creek   "In this corner, defending the honor of East Coast oysters," the ringmaster intoned, "are Beaver Tails from Rhode Island, and Fire Islands from Long Island." "And in that corner," h ... More >>

  • News

    July 16, 2008

    Letters 7.16.08

    The pugilists (clockwise beginning at the lower left): Beaver Tail, Fire Island, Meximoto, Phantom Creek   "In this corner, defending the honor of East Coast oysters," the ringmaster intoned, "are Beaver Tails from Rhode Island, and Fire Islands from Long Island." "And in that corner," h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2008

    The Would-Be Hubbard Biographer

    The pugilists (clockwise beginning at the lower left): Beaver Tail, Fire Island, Meximoto, Phantom Creek   "In this corner, defending the honor of East Coast oysters," the ringmaster intoned, "are Beaver Tails from Rhode Island, and Fire Islands from Long Island." "And in that corner," h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2008

    "Sex and the City" (Again), President Bush and Spinning Bullies: Other Tabloid News

    The pugilists (clockwise beginning at the lower left): Beaver Tail, Fire Island, Meximoto, Phantom Creek   "In this corner, defending the honor of East Coast oysters," the ringmaster intoned, "are Beaver Tails from Rhode Island, and Fire Islands from Long Island." "And in that corner," h ... More >>

  • People

    May 27, 2008

    I'd Rather Masturbate Than Have Sex With My Girlfriend. Yup.

    The pugilists (clockwise beginning at the lower left): Beaver Tail, Fire Island, Meximoto, Phantom Creek   "In this corner, defending the honor of East Coast oysters," the ringmaster intoned, "are Beaver Tails from Rhode Island, and Fire Islands from Long Island." "And in that corner," h ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 8, 2008

    Free Will Astrology

    The pugilists (clockwise beginning at the lower left): Beaver Tail, Fire Island, Meximoto, Phantom Creek   "In this corner, defending the honor of East Coast oysters," the ringmaster intoned, "are Beaver Tails from Rhode Island, and Fire Islands from Long Island." "And in that corner," h ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 15, 2007

    Knockin' Vintage Boots

    Golden girls get their groove on past 60

  • Art

    March 20, 2007

    Visions of Light Boxes

    Jeff Wall, photographer of modern life, shines at MOMA

  • News

    January 23, 2007

    Letters

    Jeff Wall, photographer of modern life, shines at MOMA

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2006

    Victoria's Secret Goes Green, Sort of

    Jeff Wall, photographer of modern life, shines at MOMA

  • Music

    July 18, 2006

    Rockafeller Skanks and Immanentizing Canucks

    Jeff Wall, photographer of modern life, shines at MOMA

  • Specials

    September 6, 2005

    Letters

    Jeff Wall, photographer of modern life, shines at MOMA

  • Specials

    August 30, 2005

    Letters

    Jeff Wall, photographer of modern life, shines at MOMA

  • Film

    August 30, 2005

    Broken Glowers

    My Life is a dog: Redford self-actualizes, Freeman bears the burden in new Hallstrom

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2005

    Dear Bush Beat: 'We Are Fed Up with American B.S. About The Great Bush Government … '

    My Life is a dog: Redford self-actualizes, Freeman bears the burden in new Hallstrom

  • Music

    May 3, 2005

    Beating Franz Ferdinand, in More Ways Than One

    My Life is a dog: Redford self-actualizes, Freeman bears the burden in new Hallstrom

  • News

    December 21, 2004

    Homeland Insecurity

    The American empire goes for broke—and it could be heading that way

  • News

    May 18, 2004

    Sure Shots

    The photo shows you can't miss

  • News

    July 8, 2003

    Sports

    The photo shows you can't miss

  • Music

    January 14, 2003

    Ride Hard, Die Hard

    Under-the-Table-Again Rock

  • Columns

    November 19, 2002

    Horoscope

    Under-the-Table-Again Rock

  • Film

    November 12, 2002

    Mind the Gaps

    Under-the-Table-Again Rock

  • News

    July 30, 2002

    Palestine 101

    A Short Take on a Long History

  • Specials

    May 14, 2002

    Letters

    A Short Take on a Long History

  • Specials

    May 15, 2001

    Letters

    A Short Take on a Long History

  • Music

    May 1, 2001

    Infiltrate It

    A Short Take on a Long History

  • News

    July 18, 2000

    Natural Capitalism

    An Interview With Corporate Guru Paul Hawken

  • Music

    July 4, 2000

    Three Degrees Celsius and Rising

    Canadian Hip-Hop Thaws Out

  • News

    December 7, 1999

    Nation

    Canadian Hip-Hop Thaws Out

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