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Tejal Rao at Perla; One Star for La Silhouette

See what NYC's restaurant critics have been up to this week: Tejal Rao makes her inaugural review in this week's Voice with a write-up of rustic Italian Perla on Minetta Lane: "Perla's long menu is divided traditionally--antipasti, primi, secondi, contorni--and if you're wearing your eatin' pants, ... More >>

SONG OF BROOKLYN

An indie-rock ode to Whitman’s borough

Download: Bright Moments' Yacht Rock Gone Gypsy Punk Anthem "Tourists"

True to its name, Bright Moments is a big sunshiny explosion of optimism: joyous found sounds, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, Beach Boys harmonies, anime keyboards and big explosions of billowing brass. It's the demented brainchild of New Yorker Kelly Pratt, a multi-instrumentalist who's played horns for B ... More >>

The Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival, Starring The Walkmen, St. Vincent, Beirut, And A Bunch Of Other Bands, Is Happening In May

The Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced the inaugural running of Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, a three-day music, film, and art extravaganza put together by the National's Bryce and Aaron Dessner, and set to take over BAM from May 3 to 5. Named after a poem by Walt Whitman, the festival has a lineup ... More >>

The 10 Best Things From 2011 To Listen To While Writing, According To Actual Authors

Gish-era Smashing Pumpkins: Reissued in 2011, so it counts! ​Reports from the holiday-party front indicate that 2011 was another long and lonely year for the fiction writers and memoirists of New York, who were kept company at home all day long mainly by various "internet friends" and related ... More >>

Grandma, a Thousand Times

Crack Investigative News Team Discovers Beer Pong

&#a0;Watch this at WJAR Providence A Rhode Island NBC affiliate put its boots to the ground and dug up something good: a curious "beer pong" game is being played in bars, right under the authorities' noses! This merits a three-part investigative series (click through, video isn't embedding).

California Fading: Life on the Shores of the Salton Sea in Bombay Beach

Movers & Shakers: More Foreign Transplants and One New York Export

photo by Liz BarclayGoing to Miami.​It's that time of year again, when the food media begin to obsess and chitter over the restaurants set to open in the fall. Among the forthcoming newcomers is more than a handful of foreign transplants, restaurants from other countries that hope to translate ... More >>

Secret Lovers: Iranian Girls' Clandestine Romance in Circumstance

NYC Is No Longer The City That Never Sleeps

​In fact, it didn't even rank in the top 10 of badoo.com's survey of the world's most nocturnal, jazzing-till-dawn cities. Number 10 was Buenos Aires 9--Seville 8--Valencia 7--Barcelona

Muslims? They're Just Like Us!

Will the Real Macarons...er, Macaroons or Maakarons, Please Stand Up!

​One of these pastries is also called "macaron," but which one? We've spilled lots of ink lately on the difference between macaroons and macarons -- the former being sticky, coconut-based cookies popular for Passover, the latter cheerless-but-colorful sandwich cookies that taste something l ... More >>

Better Movies, Less Hoopla--Tribeca Finds Its Footing

I Love NY: Politics, Romance, Paranoia, and Bottle Service Work Together in The Imperialists Are Still Alive!

Mulberry Awakes! Rubirosa, Torrisi Italian Specialties, and Balaboosta

The new culinary life on a tired food street

How to Throw a Party for 7 Billion People

​It's Friday: Let's throw a party for the world's entire population (about 7 billion people). We've made the Facebook invite but spent so much time trying to make it funny (what should the picture be? A cat wearing a party hat? Charlie Sheen?) that we forgot to add a location. How much space w ... More >>

Northside Festival Announces Initial Lineup, Starring Beirut, Deer Tick, Twin Sister, And Delicate Steve

​The L Magazine's Northside Festival is perhaps the city's finest home-grown music festival, now in its third year of ramming as many bands/artists/filmmakers as possible into the Greenpoint/Williamsburg nexus: "Elaborate and somewhat intimidating" is the way we've described it in the past. Th ... More >>

Bonnaroo 2011 Announces Lineup, Starring Eminem, Arcade Fire, Lil Wayne, The Black Keys, And Buffalo Springfield

Star-studded lineup videos: now a thing. Yes, the Tennessee mega-festival, now in its tenth (!) year, has announced its initial lineup, the usual melange of rappers, rockers, and jam-band monoliths, this year headlined by Eminem and Arcade Fire, only one of whom won the Album of the Year Grammy 48 ... More >>

Subway Announcer Has Not Taken the Train Since 1957

​The New York Times City Room blog has a feature this Sunday on the woman who makes the subway announcements, revealing that she lives in Maine, where not even the Q train goes. Carolyn Hopkins, the public address announcer for 15 years, "works from a windowless room in her house" up north and ... More >>

Your CMJ 2010 Panels, Cynically Summarized: Day 2 (Wednesday)

​It continues. On the second day everyone wakes up a little late, a little hungover, a little cranky at having failed to get into Salem. Shake it off, though, at one of this afternoon's informative industry panels, which we've taken the liberty of crassly summarizing below.

CH-CH-CH-CHANGES

Making an impact through art

DIY Food Entrepreneurs Head to the Market; Top Chefs Head to Beirut

​The new food entrepreneurs are bypassing restaurant kitchens to instead peddle their handmade fare via food trucks and at market stands. [NY Times] Joël Robuchon, the Parisian baker Eric Kayser, and perhaps even Jean-Georges Vongerichten are among top chefs being tapped to open restaurants ... More >>

'The Calm After the Storm: Making Sense of Lebanon’s Civil War ' at Walter Reade

Lebanese film series illustrates the absence of sense in a 15-year fight

LISTEN UP

Preview the Armory Show with the Walkmen

Sultana, The Queen of the Middle East Village

From Egypt by way of Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and Mars, Sultana is a hip-swiveling bellydancer and lipsynch artist who believes Arabs get a bum rap. This diva of the night has no use for ethnic stereotypes and even less for veils, preferring to flaunt her face for the world to see, albeit with l ... More >>

Broken Lizard's Likably Stoopid Slammin' Salmon

KGB & Basic NYC Halloween Bash

Pulp Fictions: Naoki Urasawa's Pluto and 20th Century Boys; Ari Folman and David Polonsky's Waltz With Bashir

Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka Volume One Naoki Urasawa and Osamu Tezuka Viz 20th Century Boys Volume 01 Naoki Urasawa Viz Someone is killing the great robots of Europe. In celebrated manga artist Naoki Urasawa's Pluto, manga god ... More >>

War Wounds in Waltz With Bashir

Ari Folman, an Israeli filmmaker, takes on his country's Vietnam

Caramel

Lincoln Center South

The NYFF walks its avant-garde picture palace to Anthology Film Archives

Howling in Beirut

Hallucinatory prose and civil war in Rawi Hage's debut novel

Get Your Cool On

From free cookouts to urban beaches, the best in New York's summer scenes

I Lost It at the Guggenheim

Positively 27th Street

Carving out a home for good nature in Chelsea

New(ish) Stuff

This Just In! New(ish) Music We Currently Love

Noise from the Front

For the week of November 15–21, 2006

Living in Violence

Israeli choreographer examines images of war

Lebanon: Peace Group's 'Dear John' Letter

Morning Report 7/23/05
The War on Tourism

Saddam in the Crosshairs

Beyond Osama: The Pentagon’s Battle With Powell Heats Up

On the Road in Lebanon

The Living Theater Meets the Legacy of Civil War and Israeli Occupation

The Making of Americans

Mind Games

The Spoils of War

Teenage Wasteland

A wartime adolescence in a divided city

Consumer Guide