Friendships

JOY RIDE

Find happiness with Neil labute

WHAT COUNTRY IS

See Luke Bryan shake it for 
you at Nassau Coliseum

BUILDING BLOCKS

Ware and Smith talk 
location in fiction

Mirman & the Barnacle Boys

BOSOM BUDDIES

Pal around with Eugene Mirman and company

Q&A: Ches Smith Of Congs For Brums And These Arches On Playing With Marc Ribot And Drumming In All-Night Vodou Ceremonies

Brooklyn-via-Cali drums heavyweight Ches Smith is a master of percussion, an omnipresent figurehead about town who holds the beats down for the likes of avant-jazz heroes like Marc Ribot, Darius Jones, Trevor Dunn and Mary Halvorson and can also be found pulling all-nighters drumming in Haitian vodo ... More >>

In Honor Of National Donut Day, The Trollgaze Index Sizes Up Krispy Kreme (The Rapper, That Is)

Yesterday the Alabama rapper Krispy Kreme—think a 21-year-old Paul Wall lookalike who sounds like a Yelawolf impersonator whose tricks are performing with a mouth full of marbles and rhyming "back" with "back," streamed over a super-slow Internet connection"—released the song "Best Frien ... More >>

Lisa Lampanelli And I Cameo In New Music Video

My best friend Lisa Lampanelli and I appear in "Q&A," the new video by Adam Barta, who sings about lusting for fame while shaking his booty at the Night of 1000 Gowns. Watch me sparkle--and thrill to my two phone messages too. Yes, I give good oral.

I Discussed The Dark Side Of Beauty With Jane Velez-Mitchell Last Night

I was a guest on last night's Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell on HLN, discussing Samantha Brick, the woman who wrote an editorial about how being so beautiful and alluring has ruined her friendships with bitterly jealous and resentful female friends. I should have such problems.

Q&A: Dinowalrus' Peter Feigenbaum on Co-Starring With Cult Legend Lloyd Kaufman

In the two years since their woefully under-appreciated debut %, Brooklyn demento-wavers Dinowalrus have been almost completely overhauled, with two-thirds of the trio replaced and their experimental agitations calmed from drum-and-drone loogie to synth-wave drizzle. One remaining consistent is the ... More >>

TENDER ARTWORKS

Visit the collection of 
Gertrude Stein’s family

THE BLOCK IS HOT

Pusha T still has it for 
a reasonable price

DOUBLE THE FUN

Plenty of Mirman for all

GIRL POWER

Mel & El just wanna have fun

FRANK, THE CREATOR

Frank Ocean numbs the pain at Bowery Ballroom

Police Horse and Bulldog are Best Friends [VIDEO]

Animals: When they aren't killing us or each other, they can be pretty damn cute. The above video shows Eddie, an NYPD horse, licking the face and body of his new best friend, an English Bulldog named Potato. Here's hoping they go on many adventures together and realize that friendship comes in all ... More >>

Presented For Your Enjoyment: A Shot-For-Shot Lego Remake Of LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends"

Everyone mourns the demise of their favorite bands in their own way; Michael J. Green decided to do so in elaborate fashion, crafting a shot-for-shot Lego remake of LCD Soundsystem's clip for "All My Friends." I have a strong feeling that this very well-done homage will be one of the more passed-ar ... More >>

The Most Cliched Types of Movie Scenes!

​We've seen them over and over again for decades. In fact, that's what makes them cliched! Here are my least favorite standard scenes of the type that usually only happen on a big screen, as opposed to life or even a small screen: (And thanks to datalounge.com for the idea) (5) Just when s ... More >>

And Here Is the Royal Wedding Route in 3D

This is not quite as good as a cat video, but here it is, anyway: The royal wedding route in 3D, thanks to Google Earth, makers of other things in 3D that you can share with your friends on the Internet, because 3D is either really retro or really modern or just another way to see the route of the r ... More >>

Your Mom Is Bogarting Your Facebook Friends

​Have you ever had the rather awkward, mortifying experience of realizing that someone far older than you -- someone who should, at least stereotypically, be far worse at technology than you, and someone who may, in fact, be related to you -- has way more Facebook friends than you? According t ... More >>

Funerals: Now on the Internet

via Funeral Streaming Network​Why would you have a funeral in real life when you could have it online, allowing people to pay their respects without ever having to put on a black outfit or even leave their homes? The New York Times explores our modern state of affairs, let's call it Memorial S ... More >>

Melissa Clark Will Likely Never Return to Sweden: An Interview

Melissa Clark: Times writer armed with knife​ For Melissa Clark, hunger has been a way of life and a way to make a living. Clark writes a New York Times recipe column, and her part memoir, part cookbook In the Kitchen With a Good Appetite just came out. Here, she chats with us about her book, ... More >>

Duane Reade Doesn't Develop Film Anymore!

​"Only digital!" That's what they told me yesterday when I waltzed in with my cheapo Duane Reade one-time use camera and wanted to get my film developed so I can eventually get personalized mugs made with all my friends' faces on them. This shocking development, as it were, raised the questi ... More >>

Q&A: Rapper Theophilus London Gives Tips For Remaining Cool and Fashionable at HARD NYC This Weekend

Eddie Brannan​"I was at M.I.A.'s secret birthday party two days ago when Drew Barrymore walked in," says a smitten-sounding Theophilus London, the much-championed young M.C. who, contrary to his rap name, hails from Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood. "M.I.A.'s brother invited all her friends, p ... More >>

Califone+Sonoi

BROOKLYN RULES

Help make this summer awesome

Q&A: Phantogram On Eyelid Movies, Recording In The Boonies, Dirty Hip-Hop, And Getting Picked Up On The Internet

Doron Gild, tinyhuman.com​A phantogram is an optical illusion that makes you woozy; Phantogram is a musical duo that toys with hip-hop beats, sleek vocals, and feral guitars in a way that creates a similar hallucinatory effect. Although Sarah Barthel (keyboards/vocals) and Josh Carter (guitar) ... More >>

FATHER FIGURE

This play is rated R

Live: The Drums And Surfer Blood Confound At Bowery Ballroom

Not a scene from Napoleon Dynamite The Drums/Surfer Blood Bowery Ballroom Wednesday, January 13 So the Drums, near as I can figure it, consist of four pretty-boy villains from cheesy '80s movies who've banded together to play twangy, relentlessly peppy new-wave with a canned backing track of ove ... More >>

Gretchen Parlato

Chromeo

DEAD MAN'S PARTY

Can't find a date? Just kill em' and drag em' along

The Coathangers

Guillermo Klein y Los Gauchos

HEALTHY COMPETITION

Miss California wouldn't bring her saline implants near this pageant

Actor Diego Luna Babysits, Discusses His On-Screen Reunion with Gael Garcia Bernal, Rudo y Cursi

"In Mexico, you're always asked where Gael is, like if you're by yourself then you are nothing." The Mexican blockbuster Rudo y Cursi is the first film that Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal have costarred in since Y Tu Mama Tambien, the much acclaimed 2001 indie coming-of-age film that simultane ... More >>

METHOD TO THE MADNESS

Star-studded electronica makes a comeback

GAY SHTUPPING

Dan Fishback's hot Chanukah play

Live: LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and Novelist Sam Lipsyte

THUMBS UP

Only the best in LGBT cinema

Cut Sleeve Boys

The Bridge-and-Tunnel Crowd Stays Home

Welcome to the Jumpoff, an unpretentious party similar to its Manhattan brethren, but. . . closer

Queer in the Crib

Gay adults like to say they were born that way. So where are the gay children? Everywhere? Fabulous, baby.

On the Lamb

The Easter scene at an Arthur Avenue butcher shop

BCBG Max Azria: Sitting Next to Lord & Taylor's CEO

1979

Biggest Midget in the Game

Teenage grime MC teases with her youth but has to puke

Dance

Film

Cold Sun