Blogs
April 24, 2013Better Than: Watching the Knick's game in a crowded sports bar.
There should be a point during every live show where you, as an audience member, undeniably want to be who you're watching onstage. That transformation may have been a bit difficult for Bleached's Clavin sisters to inspire in me last n ... More >>
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December 5, 2012Voice Choices
September 28, 2011Voice Choices
April 6, 2011These lectures could change your life
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December 8, 2010Blogs
October 28, 2010So the Wall Street Journal has this free interview/performance series at Lincoln Center Friday mornings, chatting with such cultural titans as Wyclef Jean, Stan Lee, Russell Simmons, and Jonathan Ames. (Note: If were putting those guys in order of who'd be most qualified to become president o ... More >>
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October 27, 2010The Brooklyn Lyceum gets animated for a second time
Columns
September 29, 2010Dying by degrees at the New York Film Festival
Blogs
September 27, 2010Well, it's media reporting day-a-palooza here, which means that seven more people are reading this blog than they are on the average day. So while we're at it, here's how to explain the relevancy and case for a great media reporter like John Koblin, which involves two angry, high-level New Yo ... More >>
Film
July 27, 2010Voice Choices
July 6, 2010Chat up Chuck Klosterman at Lulu's
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February 9, 2010Voice Choices
February 9, 2010Blogs
November 24, 2009Courtesy Publishers Group Canada and the CBC Jonathan Ames is the author of nine books, creator of the HBO series Bored to Death, amateur boxer, and a Brooklynite. We caught up with Ames to talk about his adventures with food, and eating in and around his neighborhood.
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September 8, 2009Blogs
July 28, 2009Manson's mug shot from 2001, after rubbing his pelvis on a security guard's head
Even funnier than that Best Music Writing-feted piece in the Onion from 2001--"Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People," a classic you should reread immediately--is that it's threatening to come tr ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2009Bored to Death, a new HBO half-hour comedy series about an alcoholic writer (Jason Schwartzman) pretending to be a private investigator, a la Philip Marlowe, and which also features Zach Galifianakis as his comic book-writing best buddy, has a trailer up at HBO. The show was created by Jonathan Ames ... More >>
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April 22, 2009International stars of the graphic novel tell all
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February 12, 2009The Shorty Awards -- not a rap thing, but a celebration by three enthusiasts to honor "the best producers of short content" on Twitter, where messages have a 140-character limit -- were held in Brooklyn last night. The awards were hosted by CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, with special appearances by Shaqui ... More >>
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November 19, 2008Five graphic novelists you should know
Blogs
September 24, 2008Books
September 23, 2008A quasi-date with the writer, ringmaster, and newly minted graphic novelist
NYC Life
May 13, 2008Blogs
March 21, 2008Books
March 29, 2005NYC Life
March 22, 2005Books
February 22, 2005News
October 12, 2004Tagging along on Operation Ohio in pursuit of the college vote
Books
June 15, 2004Jonathan Ames's romp is more than a tip of the top hat to the master (no, not Henry James!)
Theater
May 11, 2004Commemorating P.S. 122's 25-year history of stretching the bounds of contemporary performance
NYC Life
August 12, 2003Columns
May 6, 2003Theater
April 29, 2003Eric Bogosian and Jonathan Ames's Diary Product
NYC Life
March 4, 2003Books
July 30, 2002Specials
May 28, 2002Specials
May 21, 2002News
October 24, 2000David Leslie Throws His Art Into the Ring
News
September 5, 2000Performance Artists Put Up Their Dukes
Books
June 20, 2000News
November 9, 1999The L.A. Times's Eccentric Ex-Publisher Appears in a Bold Cameo
News
September 21, 1999Reeling from a major funding drought, vanguard performing artists downsize their dreams
Specials
February 16, 1999Theater
February 9, 1999
