Spike Lee

The Sweet, Small Pleasures of Gimme the Loot

Also read: Interview with Director Adam Leon and Co-Producer Sam Soghor

A Man's Story

The Cringe's John Cusimano On The Beatles' Vintage Gear, The Killers' Drummer, And New York's Best Chinese Restaurant

Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. New York City-based rockers The Cringe released their fourth studio album, Hiding In Plain Sight, earlier this week. The Cringe is fronted up by John Cusimano, w ... More >>

The Skinny With Patrik-Ian Polk, the Gay Filmmaking Love Child of Spike Lee and Tyler Perry

Before meeting the director of The Skinny for lunch recently, I had seen Patrik-Ian Polk refer to himself on his Twitter profile as "The gay Tyler Perry. Shut up." But I'd also heard of him referred to as the gay Spike Lee. So which is it, I inquired when we met, especially since many people consi ... More >>

A Heat Wave, a Crime Wave

As mentioned on the newspaper front page in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," while Bed-Stuy burned in the 1989 summer heat, it looks like a helter swelter out there. And it's a damn bloody one.In the past five days, with temperatures averaging well over 90 degrees, New York City has seen a spree of ... More >>

Interview with Dee Rees, Director of Pariah

Truth Matters: On Christopher Hitchens, Movie Critic

Albert Trummer Sued by Apotheke Partner; Bed-Stuy Teens Not Feeling Spike Lee's Brooklyn Absolut Vodka

​Albert Trummer's partner at Apotheke is suing him for ignoring orders to stop using booze to light up the bar for his signature pyrotechnic tricks. [NY Daily News] A new study in the U.K. claims that alcohol is more harmful a drug than crack. Of course, the study was authored by Dr. David Nu ... More >>

Snoop Dogg Paid Tribute to Michael Jackson in Prospect Park on Sunday

Photo via the Rap-Up​Though Michael Jackson's 52nd birthday would've fallen on this past Sunday, his music was pretty much the official soundtrack for the whole weekend in Prospect Park, blasting out of vendor trucks and ballfields, picnics and stereo-mounted bikes--pretty much everything with ... More >>

Rock The Bells, New Orleans Bounce, And Michael Jackson Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

​We're going to recommend you avoid Manhattan this weekend. Thanks to NYU and Columbia, every 20-year-old within a ten-mile radius will either be moving back into their dorms or celebrating the end of summer with one last cityside hurrah. Instead, take Friday night off and keep yourself in the ... More >>

Week in Review: You Rejected the Youth

Goodbye to all that. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week one of our team successfully transitioned into the "expert" phase of her juggalo fascination, the rest of us just kind of got silly. Hence: the top ten songs named "Fuck You" or the immediate equivalent; Jay-Z's ten most shameful rock and r ... More >>

Q&A: DJ Spinna on Michael Jackson, Whose Music He Will Be Playing for You and Spike Lee This Weekend

courtesy DJ SpinnaSpinna, as a little boy holding the Jackson 5 LP Get it Together Michael Jackson would've turned 52 this Sunday. Undoubtedly many parties shall be thrown around the globe in his honor, but MJ's spirit will most likely be floating over Prospect Park for Spike Lee's second annual Br ... More >>

The Written-In-The-Style-of-Tao-Lin New York Observer Profile, Reviewed in the Style of Tao Lin

​The blogger woke up on Wednesday morning around 9:00 a.m. and showered and put on clothes. He took the train into Manhattan. He once saw a young child eat a carrot alive on that train. He went to go buy the New York Observer from that newsstand on Astor Place and 3rd Avenue where they overcha ... More >>

Bloggers Can Be Sellouts, Too, But Mostly They're Just Poor and Underloved

​The bro who iced the New York Times set his sights on greedy bloggers in Sunday's Week in Review. He presented shameless shillers with a 22 oz Smirnoff Twisted Rasberry -- metaphorically. "As blogs take their place alongside traditional media," writes J. David Goodman, Times blogger, "their w ... More >>

Spike Lee Helps Create Absolut Brooklyn, a Vodka for Bed-Stuy

Brooklyn booze?​Brooklyn now joins the ranks of burgs with their own branded Absolut vodka, including New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Boston. Absolut Brooklyn was conceived with the help of Spike Lee, who still lives in the borough. (The house number on the stoop depicted on the bottle's label, ... More >>

Reggie Miller Back to Torment Knicks Fans

​To the entertainment and delight of Knicks fans everywhere, Reggie Miller is back. Filmmaker Dan Klores, director of acclaimed documentaries as Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, Crazy Love, and Black Magic -- the history of the rise of basketball in historically black colleges and uni ... More >>

Why Exactly Is Spike Lee's Video For Michael Jackson's "This Is It" Only Surfacing Now?

So why is the Spike Lee-directed video for Michael Jackson's "This Is It" arriving now, in the holiday media doldrums, instead of October, when the song was first released, or a few weeks after that, when the movie named after the track finally came out? Perhaps because of the controversy that the ... More >>

Film Poll 2009: An Introduction

As the '00s become history, an Iraq war movie finally wins us over. How fitting.

Thousands Attend Michael Jackson Birthday Event in Prospect Park

Despite sometimes disagreeable weather, thousands showed up in Prospect Park on Saturday for Spike Lee's birthday tribute to Michael Jackson. Borough President Marty Markowitz proclaimed August 29th "Michael 'King of Pop' Jackson Memorial Day." "It was great to see so many people out without anyth ... More >>

Spike Lee's Michael Jackson Birthday Party Is Moving to Prospect Park

​After widespread alarm by citizens and city officials about "crowd control" and potential chaos in Fort Greene around Spike Lee's Michael Jackson tribute block party next weekend, the city announced today that event will move from Fort Greene Park to the center of Prospect Park. Jackson is no ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Rap's Online Overdose, Our Jazz Consumer Guide, Heaven & Hell, Quentin Tarantino, and More

Charles Hamilton, hitting delete​In this week's Village Voice, Ben Detrick reports on rap's online overdose and the perils of allowing guys like Charles Hamilton anywhere near the Internet. Tom Hull presents the summer edition of our Jazz Consumer Guide. Phil Freeman celebrates the rebirth o ... More >>

Ludacris Raids His Rolodex

A veteran plays up his Hollywood success, defends his goofy-rapper legacy

NBA Union Square Event "Lame," Rainy

This Week's Voice: Brooklyn Book Festival, MySpace Music, the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading, Sue Williams, and More

Hoberman's Top 10

Beyond Penguins

One doc series, two months, 23 critics, war, grizzlies, and the Dixie Chicks

Letters

Best in Show

The Top 40 Picks of the Tribeca Film Festival

Vision Quest

Get your avant-garde fix with plenty of experimental cinema this season

The Pre-Game Party

From Spike Lee to Mexican 'storm catchers,' dry times in a new New Orleans

PG-Fiji: A Pacific Whim Leads to a Remote Movie Theater

Indie Film Guru Takes Family, Neuroses to Fiji

Melting Plot: Haggis's Hyperbolic Civics Lesson a Minor Wreck

On Purpose

Celebrating 35 years of activist filmmaking

Tracking Shots

Jazz

Sports

The Usual Suspects—and Beyond

100,000 Flood Washington for What May Be the Biggest American Antiwar March Since Viet Nam

Tackling Himself

Jim Brown: Still Punishing After All These Years

They Are the World

Island Captive

The King of Coonology

Spike Lee Mounts His Revenge on Black Hollywood

Sports

Men Swear

Yanks: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Crime Scene

Freeze-Frame

A Year (Heck—A Decade, Even) of Pop Music at the Movies

NY Mirror

Poor Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford, in the front row of the screening for Eyes Wide Shut, looked appalled; the film's a long, torturous meditation on adultery!

Mixed Blessings

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly