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Dethklok - Roseland Ballroom - 11/14/12

Better Than: Almost everything. Dude. On Friday night, Dethklok played the Roseland Ballroom, and our brains are still recovering from the awesomeness. Here are the ten best things that happened. See Also: - Exclusive Interview: Dethklok's Skwisgaar Skwigelf Makes Fake Boobs Explode - The Ten Best ... More >>

Your Handy En Vogue Refresher

This Friday, one of the '90s most prominent r & b groups, En Vogue, returns to B.B. King Blues Club for a night of some of this generation's most satisfying soul music. While it was originally scheduled to be a 20th anniversary reunion tour, disputes this year within the group have left En Vogue as ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Flip Flops Even More Than Romney

First, Lindsay announced that she was endorsing Mitt Romney because "employment is really important right now." Yeah, especially for her. Then she retweeted a yay-Obama message from the President's campaign, making us wonder if she'd switched teams on us. But then, after last night's debate, Lind ... More >>

Sesame Street Wants Big Bird Out Of Obama Ad

Sesame Street says they are non political and don't want anything to do with endorsing a candidate, so they'd like Obama to take the Bird out of his ad. Even though the other candidate vowed death to Big Bird???

Free Will Astrology: August 29 - September 4, 2012

Somewhere Between

Q&A: Questlove On Artistic Freedom, "Shuffle Culture," And Spreading The Springsteen Gospel

In a recent tweet responding to a follower's assertion that he was a celebrity, the drummer and head Root Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson demurred, claiming he was merely "a personality." The follower had a point, though; according to a website devoted to Quest's blogs about meeting famous people, for in ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Why Don't Mexicans Perform in the Winter Olympics?

Andrew Carmellini Named His Restaurant the Dutch Because It Sounded Cool: Interview Part 2

Yesterday we spoke with chef Andrew Carmellini about his new cookbook, American Flavor, and about the pain of pouring boiling-hot veal stock over one's foot. Today he tells us about expanding the Dutch to Miami and shares his thoughts on food trends. So where does the name the Dutch come from? The ... More >>

A Report From Halloween Stores on Halloween Weekend

Svedka girl​If you're getting dressed up for All Hallows Eve this year, hopefully you've already bought or sensibly made your costume, because the Halloween stores are zoos. They're insanely crowded! Lines running through entire giant warehouse shops! As we were leaving Halloween Adventure, we ... More >>

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey

Occupy Wall Street: 10 Halloween Costumes of the Movement

#8: Fat Cats on Wall Street​Halloween is one of the few opportunities we have throughout the year to dress as something else, something that we may never be, something that we may never WANT to be, with impunity and without obligation. And while some blogs are telling us that the costume of th ... More >>

MASTER OF PUPPPETS

Remembering the genius of Jim Henson

Working Blue: Smurfsex from Peyo to Porn

Smurfs Week Declared in New York City. Really.

​Monday marks a long-awaited moment in New York City history: The start of Smurfs Week. Yes. City officials announced it yesterday, and it is so. The Smurfs are taking on the "ambassadorial role" once held by Sesame Street characters and Dora the Explorer! The ostensible purpose of this market ... More >>

Common Goes To The White House: In Which Okayplayer Hater Sarah Palin Gets A-Moralizing

​In case you haven't been paying attention to Sarah Palin's antics lately (in which case: good for you), she recently got mad on the Facebook and the Twitters about noted rapper Common Sense performing at a White House poetry event. Like everything Palin says, this is gross and wrong. She appa ... More >>

Top Chef: "It Reminds Me of My College Days, When I Was Broke and Drunk"

​ Alas, poor Fabio. "If only he would have consulted with me," says Richard plaintively, "he'd probably still be here." But he's gone, baby, gone, felled by a misbegotten burger. And so everyone else is left to troop back to the kitchen for the Quickfire Challenge, where Padma, looking almost ... More >>

Fun Facts About Google's First Employee

​Craig Silverstein met Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford before the turn of the century and became the robot car-creating search engine giant's first employee. Allegedly he is a human. Needless to say, he's never needed another job and didn't even finish his doctorate. This weeke ... More >>

Katy Perry's Real Boobs Coming to The Simpsons

​Elmo couldn't quite grasp the Katy Perry breast situation, so her racy figure skater get-up got her edited out of Sesame Street. You know what they say: for every chesty pop star, there's a children's show that's tired of screwing her. But there on the rebound is another show with yellow char ... More >>

Fringe (Festival) Benefits

A play or two from outer space, but some hit closer to home

City Day Care Scam Ring Busted After One Bribe Offer Too Many

​The good news from today's big fraud case involving a ring controlling more than 30 for-profit day care centers that bribed and scammed their way into $18 million worth of federal day care funds is that they were tripped up when they tried to bribe the wrong city employees. Although the stra ... More >>

Polka Face: Let's Help "Weird Al" Yankovic Write His Lady Gaga Parody

Profoundly disturbing image by Camille Dodero​Today, Billboard reported that everyone's favorite accordion-playing pop-culture parodist, "Weird Al" Yankovic, is nine songs deep into his follow-up to 2006's Straight Outta Lynwood, and is possibly seeking inspiration from the current queen of th ... More >>

Chatting With Ample Hills Creamery's Brian Smith About Ice Cream, Writing Monster of the Week Movies, and His Plans to Open His Own Shop

Photo courtesy of Ample Hills CreameryBrian Smith sheds blood, sweat, and tears in service of ice cream.​The opening of Park Slope's Lucas Fine Foods in late May also marked the launch of Ample Hills Creamery, an ice cream company that takes its name from Walt Whitman's poetry and its flavors ... More >>

Live From the Bamboozle, Where the Most Emo Act Was A Rapper, and the Only Grownups in Sight Were the Five Kids in Paramore

The Bamboozle Meadowlands Parking Lot Saturday, May 1 The Bamboozle is the circus-themed mainstream punk/pop/whatever blowout where the line for Mrs. Field's ice cream and cookies dwarfs the one for $10 Miller Lites. It's the sunburn factory with a kid sporting an irony-free Snapple tattoo. A mor ... More >>

Ousted NY Governor Eliot Spitzer Finally Earns Hipster Cred

Is posing with Terry Richardson the new Make A Guest Appearance on Sesame Street Yo Gabba Gabba?

Maura Johnston Says Farewell to Idolator

​It was always going to be a thankless task, replacing Maura Johnston at Idolator--she was fluent, smart, informed, and took the thankless task of wading into the morass of pop kudzu on the internet seriously. It was her sensibility that garnered whatever readership the site had. Now that her ... More >>

'Top Chef': You Know That Leeks Aren't Protein, Right?

Bravo​ Things got off to a brisk start this week, with Mike sharpening his knives at the Top Chef ranch and Jen castigating herself for her previous televised culinary blunders. In the Quickfire kitchen, Padma and One of the Top Italian Chefs in the Country Paul Bartolotta told the chefs to ... More >>

"Facts of Life" Sweetie Costars with Gay Porn Studs

Meeting Mindy Cohn in Fort Greene. Side trip to Nashville.

Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration at MSG with Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, and Oscar the Grouch

Pete Seeger only turns 90 once, so why not have a big party? True to the folk singer's activist legacy, this packed Madison Square Garden celebration was a fundraiser for the Clearwater sloop and sailboat-centered foundation that Seeger built in 1969 to raise awareness about a then-near-dead Hudso ... More >>

YouTube Slowly Turning to ProTube

A Venture Through The 12th Annual New York Fringe Fest

Get out your coolie hats and your bloody Popeye clothes.

Strike the ’CHORDS

A funny flight without Bret and Jemaine

Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Fuzzy Fights

The combat’s cuddly in the new Smash

Janet Jackson's Dungeon Master Chic

Why it's still as vital and revolutionary as ever

The World Cup Refigured in Deep Play

Harun Farocki gets his kicks out of soccer and video

Menorah Report

A Hanukkah fete with Yo La Tengo, the only band worth trudging all the way to Hoboken for

File Under "Shows"

Recalling jazz's brief, obscure, but occasionally revelatory love affair with Broadway

Wordplay and Linguistic Amnesia

Al Franken vs. Bill O'Reilly

Brooklyn Zoo

Dan Zanes builds an interactive kid rock empire one starstruck toddler at a time

Summer Visitors

Hunky power from New Zealand and enigmatic robotics from Japan confront modern dilemmas

Future Is Rosie

The rich, lived banality of celebrity lesbianism: beats Emmy stench of a Hallmark special

Music

He'll always have Paris: Sometimes it's all about location

Open Admission

High Culture on a Low Budget

Oh, Norman!

Something Else

Journey Through Debtor’s Prison

Stephanie Black Chronicles Jamaica’s IMF Woes

Get Stupid

RA Knocks Boots (Over), Spills Secrets, Seed

NY Mirror