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On Default Genders, Dead Girlfriends, Politics, and Imagination

In the middle of summer, when the Internet is starved for something to gawk at, even the smallest of controversies can make some noise. So it was last week with the release of "On Fraternity" and a subsequent self-titled EP by Default Genders, songs that provided just enough grist for the content mi ... More >>

How Friends is Already the Relic of a Bygone Era

"I'll be there for you … and others in our census bracket"

HOT CHOCOLATE

Emma straub champions a forgotten '50s classic

Toasting the Year's Top Indies at BAM

Greta Gerwig Isn't Your Average It Girl

'Modern Family' Star On Gay Terminology, Gurl

Modern Family Star On Gay Terminology, Gurl

At the opening night of Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance--with Nathan Lane as a gay Republican who does swishy stage acts in 1937--Jesse Tyler Ferguson of Modern Family fame happened to sit next to me. (Lucky him.) So I nanced him up for this week's column. You'll see what Jesse had to say about th ... More >>

Lena Dunham Nominated For a Webby Because Lena Dunham is Everywhere

The past year has been a big one for Lena Dunham, to say the least. Her HBO series became the most talked about show on television, and the 26 year-old renaissance woman (or girl) quickly became a "voice of her generation," as her alterego Hannah Horvath would phrase it. She won two Golden Globes. S ... More >>

Abrupt Cast Change On HBO's Girls

Page Six reports that Christopher Abbott--whom they call the cutest guy on Girls--has quit the show, at odds with cocreator/star Lena Dunham. This has happened just as his part--the boyfriend of Allison Williams's character, Marnie--was rising in stature. He'd even made up with Marnie! That's boys ... More >>

The Return of John Sayles and Other Observations from SXSW

Marc Spitz's Poseur Remembers a LES That No Longer Exists

Spitz take

GIRLS POWER

Lena Dunham teams up with UCBT for a fundraiser

New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013: Relaxing in Style With Steven Alan; Wes Gordon's Party-Girl Harem

Steven Alan has always been the man to go to for an expertly made button-down (see our Best of New York issue for Best Shirts to Steal From Your Boyfriend) and an unexpected take on everyday basics. Over the last 10 years, he's launched numerous stores in the city and California and has a cult follo ... More >>

A Toast to Lena Dunham's Panties

Hillary, Roe v. Wade's 40th, and the Great Conservative Revival Not Working Out for Rightbloggers

Since the 2012 Presidential election, conservatives have been trying to think up ways to revive their movement. Last week a number of them approached the subject, including George F. Will (basically you're doing great don't change anything), Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (basically you're doing g ... More >>

Girls Boy Alex Karpovsky Makes Good

In movies and on TV, the actor is only playing an asshole

Little Boxes: Tiny Apartment Exhibit Opens at Museum of City of N.Y.

Lena Dunham finally has a place to put all that tiny furniture! The Museum of the City of New York understands that when you wake up in the morning you blast your head on the ceiling and punch a hole in each of the bedroom walls while stretching. Tomorrow, the museum is opening an exhibit that fe ... More >>

Lena Dunham's Style: Does It Need Fixing?

HBO's girlie-ensemble shows are great at giving sex symbol status to those who might not otherwise attain that. (Sex and the City, anyone?) And on Girls, Lena Dunham is a refreshing new lady star--a natural looking, offbeat but cute gal who attracts the guys on the show, and who's not afraid to rol ... More >>

FoxNation Equates Black Men With Chimps, Transgender People with Mrs. Doubtfire

Angry link-aggregatin' shithole FoxNation.com is the website of choice for white people who can't get through the day without saying "I'm not racist, but here's the problem with [INSERT OTHER RACE HERE]." Most days, the site's main page offers a couple dozen misleading or made-up headlines designe ... More >>

In Girls' New Season, The Gay Guy Sleeps With....

SPOILER ALERT! The new season of HBO's Girls--a/k/a Sex and the City with walkups--doesn't start till January 13, but at the premiere at the Skirball Center last night, we caught the first three glibly entertaining episodes that are a-coming.

Eat a $2,000 Plate of Pasta in Midtown

Turning 25 is kind of a big deal. You're in a quarter life crisis. You're watching lots of Girls and wondering why Lena Dunham got a multi-million dollar book deal when you're, like, totally as talented as she is. But Bice in midtown is celebrating its quarter century by serving a special bowl of pa ... More >>

Is This the End of the Culture War? Nah -- Too Much Money In It.

Recently at The Week, rightwing author Michael K. Lewis penned a provocative column called "The culture war is over, and conservatives lost." He was echoing what many rightbloggers have been saying since the recent election -- that after two consecutive victories by the Kenyan Pretender, conservativ ... More >>

Watch a Deleted Girls Scene Shot at The Little Cupcake Bakeshop

While this clip from a future episode of the much-loved HBO show Girls, which hits on the multitude of lows that occur in the lives of twenty something New Yorkers, won't make it on TV, it does leak two truths about the upcoming season. Firstly, women on HBO are still really into cupcakes. Secondly, ... More >>

The 11 Best Food Quotes from Lena Dunham's Book Proposal

In October, Lena Dunham signed a deal with Random House to publish Girls: The Book a memoir based on the lessons she's learned throughout her life. $3.7 million and a few months later, Gawker got its hands on the proposal for Not That Kind of Girl: Advice by Lena Dunham. As would be expected, Dunham ... More >>

Barack and Mitt Will Have Lunch Today; Here's What They Could Talk About

It has been almost a month now since America went to the polls and re-elected President Obama to another four years of running this whole place. Since then, we've collectively done well in the whole "taking our minds off the election" business. We've had Petraeus, the progress of the Sandy recovery, ... More >>

Rightbloggers Anticipate Romney Landslide, Denounce Nate Silver, Katy Perry

The election's Tuesday, and the whole political blogosphere is one endless screaming rah-rah for one candidate or another. We advise against all direct contact with it from now till next weekend. The preemptive victory dances of the left blogosphere are, as we never tire of paraphrasing Jed Leland, ... More >>

Priorities: On Eve of Election, Rightbloggers Rage at Slightly Sexy Obama Ad

With less than two weeks till Election Day, rightbloggers have rolled out what they perceive to be the Heavy Cannon for their assaults on President Obama. For example: When Obama operative Jen Psaki appeared on an MSNBC show and joked to the host that "the good news for you is I showered this mornin ... More >>

Nobody Walks

La Vie au Ranch

NYFF: Brian DePalma's Passion & Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha

Here's Nick Pinkerton on two highly anticipated films from NYFF's main slate: Brian De Palma's Passion and Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha: Brian De Palma and Noah Baumbach have become thick as thieves--odd when one considers that the two filmmakers' bodies of work seem, on the surface, to have positive ... More >>

Side by Side

N.Y.C. Vs. D.C.: An Urban Culture Breakdown

WASHINGTON D.C. - Every year, during the hot, humid, heat waves of summer, my father and I plan a historical trip of some sort to escape the hustle and bustle of New York for a few days and surround ourselves with nothing but some good ol' Founding Father lovin'. Last June, we traveled to Getty ... More >>

Live: tUnE-yArDs Gets The Panties Flying At Terminal 5

tUnE-yArDs w/Micachu & the Shapes, Delicate Steve Terminal 5 Friday, June 1 Better than: Seeing the "Naked Cowgirl." Merrill Garbus was vamping on "Powa," one of the sexier tracks off tUnE-yArDs' w h o k i l l, when a sudden synthesizer malfunction interrupted her banshee wail with a country swing ... More >>

Family Ties that Break and Bind in Elena and The Color Wheel

Kilo Kish, Smooth Operator

The rapper's laid-back flow makes waves in the hip-hop world

This Week in the Voice: Rikers Violence, Out of Control

This week in the Voice, out today: Graham Rayman has obtained photos of Rikers inmates with severe knife wounds and beatings to the face, neck, and arms, writing: "Four years ago, the Voice first wrote about the violence at Rikers, which was not only condoned but also promoted by jail officials in a ... More >>

BOOGIE DOWN

Lena Dunham talks to Whit Stillman

Whit Stillman in Distress

With his first movie in 14 years, the Damsels director returns triumphant—and worried

Lena Dunham's Favorite Girls on Film

GIRLFRIEND IN A BOX

Sex dolls inspires Laurie Simmons's new show

Photographer Francesca Woodman Gets Her Close-Up in a Haunting Family Study

Bernie Madoff's Ex-Employees Arrested; Meg Whitman Pays Housekeeper; Judd Apatow Films on Broome Street...and More!

"This Little Piggy" joke goes here.​• Two women have been arrested by FBI agents in connection to Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. Joanne Crupi and Annette Bongiorno (Madoff's secretary, who owns a $2.6 million mansion in Boca Raton) were both arrested at their homes in, respectively, New Jerse ... More >>

You Can Go Home Again in Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture

This Week in the Voice: Andrew Cuomo, Lobbyists Calling

​Congrats to the newly elected Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. As a welcoming gift, this week's Voice cover story would like to warn you and your constitutions of the various leech-like lobbyists waiting to suck your integrity as a public official dry. The inimitable Wayne Barrett reports ... More >>

What It Takes, BAMcinemaFEST Edition

Three filmmakers, sort of in control