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    April 4, 2012

    Live: Bruce Springsteen Takes Care Of His Own At The Izod Center

    Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Izod Center Tuesday, April 3 Better than: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in any of the 49 other states. At 11:06 p.m., seated in the press box at the Izod Center, it's hard not to like Bruce Springsteen. His last three songs have been, in order, "Ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Jimmy Castor, R.I.P.

    Jimmy Castor was a smart aleck; a wise guy; a clean shit-talker with so much joie de vivre you had to laugh even when his truth-telling smacked you upside the head. So when he died this past Martin Luther King Jr. Day at 71 near his home outside of Las Vegas, far away from the streets of Harlem he o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Live: Alabama Shakes Reintroduce Themselves To New York

    Benjamin Lozovsky​Alabama Shakes Lakeside Lounge Friday, December 10 Better than: Alabama (the band and the state). The banks of the Mississippi swell and contract in a brutally accelerated pace, not unlike the current cycle of Internet-fueled indie stardom. Channeling the bona fide heart of ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 1, 2011

    Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears

    Benjamin Lozovsky​Alabama Shakes Lakeside Lounge Friday, December 10 Better than: Alabama (the band and the state). The banks of the Mississippi swell and contract in a brutally accelerated pace, not unlike the current cycle of Internet-fueled indie stardom. Channeling the bona fide heart of ... More >>

  • Music

    October 13, 2010

    Linkin Park Made Their OK Computer

    All hail A Thousands Suns, the finest dystopian fusion a major label can buy

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Slideshows Abound for Brooklyn Museum's Rock Exhibit

    ​The Times. New York magazine, Spinner et alia will show you slides from the Brooklyn Museum's Who Shot Rock 'n' Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present exhibit. They sure didn't get press like this for Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video. The show opened this we ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 27, 2009

    BOOK IT

    A soul giant comes back to center stage

  • Books

    March 25, 2009

    Lit Seen: John Updike and John Leonard, Writers at Rest

    New York's literary community remembers two dominant, departed presences

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2008

    Status Ain't Hood's Greatest Hits

    New York's literary community remembers two dominant, departed presences

  • Music

    November 20, 2007

    When the Bop Gun Jams

    Plainfield's Tyrone Ashley once rivaled George Clinton. He may get his doo-wop due yet.

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2006

    Download: Wilson Pickett, 1941-2006

    Plainfield's Tyrone Ashley once rivaled George Clinton. He may get his doo-wop due yet.

  • News

    May 11, 2004

    On the Stem

    A.J. Liebling had an eye for the beauty of a con and an ear for the city's idioms

  • News

    July 8, 2003

    Manthia Diawara Won't Budge

    NYU's Renaissance Man Contemplates the Fate of the African Expat

  • Film

    May 6, 2003

    The Art of War

    Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

  • NYC Life

    March 4, 2003

    Taking Another Shot

    'Hoop Dreams' Director Steve James Rebounds With 'Stevie'

  • Music

    January 8, 2002

    Born Under a Bad Sign

    Blues You Can Use Before History Uses You

  • NYC Life

    February 27, 2001

    Live and Erect

    Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action

  • Music

    November 14, 2000

    New Wave Dogs Movin' In

    All My Ex's Don't Live in Paris, Texas

  • Music

    July 25, 2000

    Knight in White Spaghetti

    All My Ex's Don't Live in Paris, Texas

  • Music

    June 13, 2000

    What It Was

    All My Ex's Don't Live in Paris, Texas

  • Music

    November 2, 1999

    Hit It, Now Hold It

    All My Ex's Don't Live in Paris, Texas

  • Music

    March 17, 1998

    Queen of Pop

    All My Ex's Don't Live in Paris, Texas

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