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Autograph Show Legends Captured By Angelo Pitillo

This week's column is an explosive jaunt to a New Jersey autograph show (Kevin Clement's Chiller Theatre), where you could buy signed photos of your favorite cult stars or simply ogle them from a safe distance. Angelo Pitillo went up in their faces and captured the magique.

100 & Single: Buy An Adam Lambert Album, Strike A Tiny Blow For Gay Rights

About a year ago, the movie Bridesmaids opened in the U.S. and was the subject of a rather unusual awareness campaign. Female movie fans, largely independently of the film's producers, compelled women to go see the film in its opening weekend and defy common Hollywood wisdom that non-rom-com movies ... More >>

100 & Single: Of Monkees, Michael, and "Maria"—The History Of The Chart-Dominating, Lifestyle-Accessory Album

Cassandra (Tia Carrere): You've heard it? Wayne (Mike Myers): Exqueeze me? Have I seen this one before? Frampton Comes Alive?! Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide. —Wayne's World 2 (1993) Fo ... More >>

Nine Fast-Food Franchises Missing From NYC and How Far You Have to Go to Find Them

​To reenact this scene, you'd have to travel 1,360.1 miles from the Empire State Building. With his developer-friendly real estate policies, Bloomberg has opened the floodgates to fast-food franchises. Ten years ago we had a fraction of what we have now, and ma-and-pa eateries prevailed at ... More >>

Live: Showpaper Hosts a Benefit at Silent Barn with Dan Friel and Starring

Starring. All photos by Georgia Kral​While Baltimore-based one-man guitar chorus Ecstatic Sunshine never made it to Ridgewood, Queens for Friday's Silent Barn-hosted benefit for the local DIY broadsheet Showpaper, Dan Friel of experimental Brooklyn act Parts and Labor did. Those in attendance ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Top 3 Results: Death to the Samurai Bun Ponytail

​Some thoughts on last night's American Idol results show: -- So Casey James is now back in the welcoming arms of total and complete obscurity. Nice one, America! High fives all around! I was vaguely terrified that Casey would somehow sneak his way into the top two, but no, no coup for medioc ... More >>

So You Go to That Vice 15th Anniversary/Halloween Party with Jesus Lizard and Bad Brains. . .

all photos by Rebecca SmeyneDavid Yow, Halloween saviour Jesus Lizard Bad Brains Empty warehouse, North 10th Street Saturday, October 31 So you go to the much-ballyhooed Vice Halloween Party, the 15th anniversary bash in Williamsburg that the lifestyle brand reportedly dropped $250,000 to throw. Y ... More >>

Mediocre TV

It's the chronic—what?—woes of freeware Web television

Vanity Fare

Feminine Masculine: Some pleasant pre-op photo ops and an unfortunate true story

Mind Games

Uncontrollable Urges

Pot of Gold

Screen Ravers

Movies Play Catch-up With the Clubbing-and-Drugging Scene

Letters

Different Doldrums

Fox Gets a Mascot, Showtime Gets Smart—Is This August or What?