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Free Will Astrology: March 27-April 2, 2013

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Nicki Minaj, Summer Jam, Pop Fans, And What's "Real": A Few Thoughts

Last night on Hot 97, Nicki Minaj called in to Funkmaster Flex's show to chat about the sliced brisket that led to her peacing out of Sunday's Summer Jam. A brief recap: Hot 97 morning guy Peter Rosenberg called out "chicks waiting to sing [Minaj's poppy single] 'Starships' later," then called the s ... More >>

Another Day, Another Drink in The Day He Arrives

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs Of 2011, No. 11: Kreayshawn, "Gucci Gucci"

​If 2011 had one takeaway, it was this: It's really, really easy to write a song that's by-the-numbers lousy. Rebecca Black's "Friday," the mushmouthed ode to getting down on the weekends, is a prime example; made on a budget, it nonetheless had enough brain-sticking properties to get inside t ... More >>

Six Awful Things About Karmin's "Crash Your Party"

​Tonight is Z100's Jingle Ball—headlined by Lady Gaga! with a set by Kelly Clarkson!—and the top-40 station's annual celebration of its playlist's biggest stars will be co-hosted by the duo Karmin, a pair of Berklee-educated musicians from Boston who rose to prominence earlier this ... More >>

Extreme Sex Addiction in Shame; Extreme Everything in Possession

Live-Blogging The 2011 American Music Awards: We Could Have Had It All (But Then Adele Had To Go Have A Vocal Cord Hemorrhage)

Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 2011 American Music Awards, the annual salute to the most popular popular music that exists in the American wild this year. While Lady Gaga and Adele and Beyoncé are absent, this year's show apparently has one performance that will cost $500,000 to pul ... More >>

We Love to Hate Nickelback (and Lulu)

Two recent bad decisions—one in Detroit, one on an album—bring out the knives

Live: Olivia Tremor Control Keep Hope Alive

​Olivia Tremor Control w/the Music Tapes (le) poisson rouge Wednesday, September 21 Better than: Poring over photos from May 1997 on Flickr. In the '90s—that increasingly storied decade that everyone under 30 is probably sick of hearing about the way I was tired of listening to yarns ... More >>

Indie Edges Sanded Down Completely in Win Win

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #5: Artists for Haiti, "We Are The World 25 For Haiti"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​In 2010, when pop musicians are struggling to have half the visibility of the latest news-cycle-spawned entrant into Google Trends, it's hard not to see charity endeavors as ego extensions. Recall "Just Stand Up!," ... More >>

Fashion Week: Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. is Rock Steady, Isaac Mizrahi is Park Avenue Perfect

Jamie MacDonald​Yesterday in the Lincoln Center plaza, I watched a man dressed as some sort of spelunking Little Lord Fauntleroy pose for a wall of photographers, glowering for all the world like his own personal Lost Generation, before storming out of range and berating his friend for sewing ... More >>

Thompson Says DOE Overspent Madly on Ballroom Dancing, Etc.

How did a contact for leasing Xerox machines that was supposed to cost the Department of Education one million dollars end up jumping by more than 6,700 percent? How did a company that was supposed to deliver restaurant supplies to school cafeterias for $15,000 end up billing the city more than $8 ... More >>

Christie's 'Punk/Rock' Auction: The Crying of Lot '77

W. Eugene Smith: Art, Not News

The Life magazine lensman finds a new context at Silverstein

'Present Tense'/'No Wave'

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CUBICLE BLUES

Ed Park pokes fun at the modern workplace

Elton John Cries His Way to the Bank

Open bars, closed bars, quickies on Broadway (See also these blind items)

Absolutely

Craving More Bill Clinton? Have we got a movie for you.

Dear Dan

More Savage Love letters about bestiality and Dan's response to RUFF

Disney Sinks The Little Mermaid

Live onstage, this version is longer, louder, more garish, and a lot worse.

Hope Floats

Wet hot American bummer: Chris Adrian's post-flood Magic Mountain

The Great Cover-Up, Part 1

A Rape in Cyberspace

How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society

The Eisenhower Error

Greenberg's Girl bears an amazing resemblance to summer-stock romances of the '50s

Beyond the Melting Pot

Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa sure are tough-minded—and also Indian Americans

Film

Goodfoot In The Grave

His stormtrooper helmet outgrown, a golden fluxchild goes back to the bricolage basics

Film

The Church of Bush

What liberal infidels will never understand about the president

Go For a Drive

Backing up your system should be fast, cheap, and totally under control

Das Experiment

Austrian directors push boundaries with global documentaries and transmedia translations

Tarantino-Tested

Will Quentin's Long-Awaited Kung Fu Gore-Super-Soak, Kill Bill, Inspire Moviegoing Fervor?

Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be

Jack and Meg Find a Little Place to Fight 'Em Off

Red Marks

Fake It So Real

Bio Feedback

Lunch Goes On

Burritos, Burgers, Chili Dogs, and Vienna Sausages

Essence of Tropicália

Boomeranging Dr. Laura Off the Air

Homophobes Can Boycott, Too

Waves of Faves

Thirty-Three New York Theater Types Offer Up Their Favorite Productions From the 1999–2000 Season

Making the Scenes

New Dramatists Turns 50

Profit Prophets

Wonks Predict Stormy Health Care Ahead

Dummy and Dummier

Dilbert's Back, and Guess Why UPN's Got Him

Stardust Memories

Psycho-a-Go-Go

On Reverence, Remakes, and Retreads

Nation

''...it is possible that once she has been arrested she will make a suicide attempt.''
—From FBI Psychological Profile of Suspect Terry Squillacote

NY Mirror