Molly Ringwald

David Bowie and Iggy Pop: The Next Day and Ready To Die

There's always a question of whether or not icons can sustain their status and relevance as they age. Tied to histories that have cultivated their own mythology over time, we've been presented with comeback albums grasping onto some semblance of the youth they thrived in. In the chorus of the openin ... More >>

Book It: Our Five Can't-Miss Readings This Week

Dina Nayeri & Julia Fierro Book Court Tonight, 7pm, Free When one considers radical literature, old issues of Life magazine with Molly Ringwald and Barbara Streisand on the cover might not immediately come to mind. But for the 11-year-old twin sisters who are the protagonists of Dina Nayeri's new no ... More >>

Q&A: Jami Attenberg on Her New Novel, The Middlesteins -- and What Is or Isn't Feminist Writing

Plus, a few words about Brooklyn

PRETTY IN BOOKS

The Brat-Packer is a novelist

OMD's "If You Leave" Can't Get Out Of Here Soon Enough

This month, to celebrate the Internet's unbridled love for wallowing in nostalgia and even greater relishing of talking about why certain cultural artifacts are horrible, Sound of the City presents First Worsts, a series in which our writers remember the first time... they ever hated a song enough t ... More >>

THE ’80S ARE OVER

Party like it’s 1993 and you’re partying like it’s 1984

King Lear

The Voice Apologizes to John Hughes

TOO GOOD TO BE FORGOTTEN

The films that are part of our lives

TOO GOOD TO BE FORGOTTEN

The films that are part of our lives

From the Vault: The Top 5 Most Fashionable Shows From The '80s

​Before Carrie Bradshaw's ballerina skirt and Blair Waldorf's slutty/Stepford Wives silk blouses, there were Punky Brewster's ripped "boyfriend" jeans. In honor of the Metropolitan Museum's "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity," which explores the style evolution of American women ... More >>

MY (UN)SUPER SWEET 16

No one knew teens better than John Hughes

Molly Ringwald Salutes John Hughes

​The actress Molly Ringwald has written a lovely tribute to the deceased filmmaker John Hughes in the Times today, in which she remembers the movies on which they worked together--she calls Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club the director's "most deeply personal expressions"--and recalls wh ... More >>

John Hughes, 1950-2009

​A lot of folks in their forties will be hauling out their fingerless gloves, vintage hats, taffeta and Simple Minds albums when they hear that John Hughes has died, apparently of a heart attack while walking with his family in New York, at 59. As a director, writer, and producer Hughes create ... More >>

All Points West Sunday: (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To See Coldplay)

I wore straight-up hiking boots to this motherfucker, clunky and impenetrable, and sloshed invincibly across acres of gushy, foul-smelling New Jersey mud like a hovercraft, like a Range Rover, like God moving across the face of the waters. The mud is what we'll all remember about APW, first broug ... More >>

King Lear

"The Late Film" at BAM

Directors in the twilight of their careers

Japanese Restaurant Week

Eat the Document

What about Bob? Nearly everything, in this Dylanologist's cross-reference orgy and bar-bet settler

Not Another Teen Movie

Thank hell for little girls: Jailbait revenge fantasy is guilty pleasure, then pure torture

Your Own, Personal, Shopper

This private eye will hunt down the vintage of your dreams

Maneuvers in the Dark

Minor major artist serves up his long-awaited two-CD complimentary hospitality suite

Chuppah Blues

Two Jewish comedies pit romantic love against tradition

The Princeton Review

Real teen movies have bell curves

April Foolery

Been Having a Cruelest Month? Try Running Away.

Music

Gamma Gamma Hey

Metal Gets Sentimental

The Belated Return of Loud Mushy Rock

Crouching Pussycats, Hidden Gems

Moviegoers Avoid Big-Budget Pitfalls

Picture This

Thrillers! Satires! Westerns! Indies! Blockbusters! Sequels!

NY Mirror

Comfort and Joy

Season's Greetings From Ted, Drew, and That Kid With His Tongue Stuck to the Pole