Moscow

Die Hard's Latest Breaks New Ground in Incoherence and Stupidity

Old Habits

Live: Pussy Riot's Cause Is Celebrated At The Ace Hotel

The dungeon-black walls of the hip Ace Hotel's underground room, appropriately called Liberty Hall, are relieved by vintage speakers stacked floor-to-ceiling like a rock wall. The decorative recycling of defunct gear, lit with candles like a sanctuary, made a righteous backdrop for a reading of lett ... More >>

Free Pussy Riot Public Reading

Moscow 57 Brings A Taste of Russia To East Harlem

A greenhouse-turned-lounge, tucked under the Metro-North Railroad, sounds like a strange location for a night out on the town, but that's exactly what lures visitors to Moscow 57.Part of a weekly summer pop-up event series, Moscow 57 is the brainchild of Ellen Kaye. If she sounds familiar, it's beca ... More >>

Moscow 57: Has Russia Come to East Harlem?

A greenhouse-turned-lounge, tucked under the Metro-North Railroad, sounds like a strange location for a night out on the town, but that's exactly what lures visitors to Moscow 57.Part of a weekly summer pop-up event series, Moscow 57 is the brainchild of Ellen Kaye. If she sounds familiar, it's ... More >>

Will Smith's Violence With Male Kisser Is Sad!

As you know, Scientologist Will Smith was greeting the press at the Moscow premiere of the esteemed Men In Black III the other day when he was approached by a male reporter who double kissed the star on the cheek, which is apparently the guy's shtick. At first, Will smilingly went along with it and ... More >>

'Turrbotax' w/ Brackles+Slava

New York Public Library and Causa Artium Honor New Russian Authors

Alfredo FloresIgor, Dmitry, Alisa, and Irina​Russian literature has fascinated the world for generations. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a fresh generation of talented writers has emerged to depict the nation in a new light. The New York Public Library and Causa Artium recently pres ... More >>

Hipsters

New York is Nothing But Green Screen

The above video demonstrating visual effects in movies and television proves what we've all secretly known for years: New York City doesn't exist. Times Square, the Hudson River, and the UN building are just post-production illusions. Instead, we live in a world made up of nothing but green walls.

Moscow Cops Find Suicide Bomber's Head in Airport Rubble

Cops in Moscow think they've found the head of the suicide bomber who blew up the city's busiest airport today, killing 35 people and wounding at least 168 others. As a Russia Today talking head puts it, it's "the head of a man wth an Arabic appearance." The mid-afternoon (Moscow time) attack "spr ... More >>

Vladimir Putin Declares Leonardo DiCaprio "a Real Man" for Getting on a Plane and Making It to Moscow

​This has been a big week for Leonardo DiCaprio. He was on that Delta flight to Moscow that had to make an emergency landing when an engine blew. A dog named after him is involved in a dramatic and bitter custody battle. His second flight to Moscow, where he is attending a conference on tiger ... More >>

To Think, We Might Have Lost Leonardo DiCaprio Last Night

​Surely by now you've heard about the Moscow-bound Delta flight that blew an engine upon takeoff last night and then circled JFK for an hour dumping fuel until they could make a safe emergency landing. Close call. Even closer: National treasure Leonardo DiCaprio was one of the 200 people on bo ... More >>

The Ten Very Worst 9/11-Themed Ads

Click to Enlarge.Via CopyRanter.​Yesterday, Copyranter caught an advertisement (pictured right) for French weekly Courrier International. The conceit of the advertisement, by Saatchi & Saatchi France, as put by Copyranter: "The World Trade Center architects should have stopped at about 50 floo ... More >>

Will America Swap Sexy Topless Spy for a Bunch of Middle-Aged Nerd Spies?

​In the movies, when one country has some of the other country's spies, and the other country has a few captive spies of their own, sometimes they can work out a nice little trade in which all the spies return to their respective homes. Which sounds nice, but often comes to no good at all, esp ... More >>

Real-Life Russian Spies Arrested in New York Area

​A bunch of tri-staters hailing from New Jersey, Yonkers, and Manhattan were arrested this weekend for being spies. Russian spies. How very James Bond. According to the Justice Department, as part of a multi-year investigation in four states, eight people were arrested on Sunday for allegedl ... More >>

From Moscow to Riverhead, Twisted Sisters at Large

​Every now and again, it seems like there's an open competition going on for best example of mass derangement -- an opportunity for those colossally bent out of shape to vent their real or imagined demons on the rest of us. The leading example is Moscow, which witnessed the apparent return of ... More >>

Can't We All Just Take the Subway Without Killing Each Other?

​Public transportation is not seeming so fun lately. We woke to the news of 37 or more people being killed this morning in coordinated terrorist attacks on the Moscow subway system during rush hour -- an act thought to have been orchestrated by Chechen rebels.

Your Moment of Sigh: Other People's Subway Stations

Designboom has a nice spread of dazzling subway stations from all over the world -- a cavelike, leaf-printed Stockholm entrance, a ribbed tube leading into the Bilbao Metro, a Rubbermaid theme in Prague, Imperial splendor in Moscow, these giant heatlamps in the U-bahn, etc. Glean it and weep; as w ... More >>

Coyote Ugly to Open in Moscow

​We were shocked to discover that Coyote Ugly -- that nice little drunkards' warren on First Avenue -- was part of a national empire of saloons, mostly in the south (the shot here is of the Coyote Ugly in Austin, where we thought girls danced on the bar without the encouragement of marketing e ... More >>

Tomorrow is Today: Cartoon Genius Back in the Voice

​We neglected to mention in our This Week in the Voice roundup that Tom Tomorrow -- a cartoonist favored by traitors and other fans of political entertainment -- is back in the paper. (We offered our own cartoon services, but were declined.) Tom will be running in the Voice till the money runs ... More >>

Aelita: Queen of Mars

Clichés Firmly in Place, Moscow, Belgium Still Won't Leave You Feeling Dirty

SANTA'S PARTY HOUSE

Don't let the kids out!

Susan Orlean, David Remnick, Ethan Hawke, and Others Pick Their Favorite Obscure Books

On to Chapter Two! We ask another round of authors for recommendations.

The Most Overrated Destinations in the World

Daily Flog 8/5/08: Death of a smart Alek, crime by kids, mad scientists, veep intrigue, close shaves, kosher giraffes

Beware the Soviet Corpses!

A sardonic Russian, and other summer book highlights

CAN THIS BIRD FLY?

Great casting may make this one soar

Moscow on the Hudson

Lincoln Center celebrates 100 years of Russian cinema

The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun

Another Russia

A hooker, a meat dealer, and a skinhead walk into a bar . . .

Altered States

The power of nightmares: Russian thriller and Southern mock-doc imagine scary dystopias

From Russia With Cats

Talking with Yuri Kuklachev, lead clown and creator of the Moscow Cats Theatre

Stadium Issue? What Issue?

An open letter to the international Olympic committee

Moscow on the West Side: Going from Cold War to hot jazz

The Dirty, Dirty Bomb

All's Rewrite With the World

A War on Love

Theater

Tiny Tears

NY Mirror

Tuner Salad

Good, Bad, and Recycled, Musicals Are What’s Going On

Pagan Energies Make Crazy Babies

Weather Forecasts

We are the World

Moderately Republican

The Power of the Maine-stream

Different Strokes For Different Volk

The Lost World Of Custom-Made Endings

Bear Markets

Scenes from Russia's ruble crisis

The Most Dangerous Mobster in the World

According to the FBI and Israeli Intelligence, Semion Mogilevich Rules Over an Arms-Trafficking, Money-Laundering, Drug-Running, and Art-Smuggling 'Red Mafia'