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Reading Around: Annemarie Schwarzenbach's Impossible Journeys

Plus Noo Saro-Wiwa's Looking for Transwonderland

SPARE PARTS

Nik BÄrtsch’s ronin keeps
it lean

Breakfast Bills, Weight Contests, And Good Morning America: Fact-Checking The Myths About The Fat Boys

The early rise of the Fat Boys is an unfairly overlooked rap story. Having broken through as mainstream figures in the mid-'80s, an ascent helped by collaborations with Chubby Checker, William "The Refrigerator" Perry and Robert Englund's Freddy Krueger character, the oversized hip-hop trio have bee ... More >>

NYU Censors Its Arabian Campus

Yikes! Do We All Have Gourmand Syndrome?

Like to eat great food and maybe even obsessed with it? Consider yourself a foodie? You may be suffering from a lesion in the right anterior lobe of the brain, in a condition known as Gourmand Syndrome.

Live: Das Racist, Rahzel, Laurie Anderson And Many Others Play Philip Glass's Tibet House Benefit At Carnegie Hall

Philip Glass and Friends Tibet House U.S. Benefit w/Laurie Anderson, Tim Fain, Das Racist, Antony, Lou Reed, Stephin Merritt, and Rahzel Carnegie Hall Monday, February 13 Better than: Seeing how most ethnic Tibetans live. Last night's all-star benefit at Carnegie Hall began with a performance by ... More >>

White People Problems in Roman Polanski's Carnage

The parental rage of brownstone Brooklyn in Carnage

The Blue Flower

NYFF: And the Ladies Have It

5 complex female characters, 5 remarkable performances

'Autobrennt' w/ Dejan+Slow Hands

Fall Arts: Theater Picks

Ask the Critics: Where Can I Get Veal Cordon Bleu?

Archangeli/Flickr​Melanie M. Asks: I'm living in New York as an exchange student from Geneva and I miss my Swiss cuisine from home! Do you know of any restaurants where I can find veal cordon bleu? Dear Melanie: While chicken cordon bleu is a relatively common (though somewhat passé) ... More >>

Q&A: French DJ Douster On Robyn, His Dislike Of Moombahton, And Why Music Makes Him See Colors

​Hugo Douster is all over the place, in terms of both the French DJ's schedule (which in the last week has taken him through Norway, Switzerland, France, and tonight Brooklyn, where he'll kick off his North American tour) and his sound. The traveling helps, as the producer's influences vary fr ... More >>

SWISS MIX

Zen-funksters Ronin perform with precision

Dave Tompkins Salutes Rammellzee: "I Will Miss Our Annual Halloween Phone Calls"

​Our love for both hip-hop scribe Dave Tompkins (read our "mega q&a" regarding his essential new vocoder-history book How to Wreck a Nice Beach here) and rap/street-art icon Rammellzee (read our obit, following his death a few weeks back, here), so the former's tribute to the latter is essenti ... More >>

Tales of the Cocktail Announces Its Nominees for Best Bar

Who does booze best?​The boozefest-slash-cocktailing convention that is Tales of the Cocktail will take place July 21-25 in New Orleans. Each year, a mini awards ceremony names the best bars and bartenders in the country and beyond. This year, the nominees are...

Dept. Of Why The Hell Not: Rihanna Covers "Wonderwall"

The good people of Zurich were recently treated to this improbable spectacle; Rihanna's guitar player doesn't seem to know the song, but that never stopped anybody. Evidently this tune was so cathartic she busted up a rib, but she's alright now. Expect to see here on a red carpet in a BLUR = SHITE ... More >>

Morgy's Parting $268M Gift Gets Another Shrug From City Hall

Exiting with class, something Bloomberg was unable to do.​Outgoing Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau gave New Yorkers a $268 million present yesterday -- their share of a huge, $536 million deal reached with a very rich Swiss bank that admitted having illegally routed Iranian funds through the U. ... More >>

Dans Le Noir? to Broaden List of Acceptable Things to Do in the Dark in Public

Darco TT/flickr​The Post reported yesterday that Dans Le Noir?, the Paris-based restaurant chain that hires blind waiters to serve "surprise" menus to diners under the veil of total darkness, is planning to open a New York outpost. The chain, which was founded in 2004 with funding from the Pau ... More >>

'BlkMarket Membership & Cadenza Rooftop Party'

A Pleasing Secret History: Andrei Codrescu's Posthuman Dada Guide

Tzara ain't so bizarra, says NPR essayist

Fraulein

Urban Folklore: When the Olympics, Putt-putt, and Geometrical Picnicking Meet

BLOW SOFTLY

Hit thy neighbor with love

Iraq Government Takes the Day Off

Academy of Country Music Awards: A Running Diary

Crazy Beautiful

Mayhem was their antidote to a world gone mad

The Cartoons Conspiracy

The story behind the story of the furor over the Muhammad cartoons

Getting To Abs

Skilled chef moonlights in the gym

Brooklyn Euros

Welcome to the new auteurial wonderland

Directors Without Borders: Swiss Fest Highlights Spirit of Experimentation

German Xploration, Part 2

Tristan continues her adventures at a sex-positive weekend in Berlin

Able Ganz

Frog-voiced multilinguist as Swiss sailor, Icelandic waiter, Russian count, fallen angel

Mexx & the City

Mexx and H&M Uptown; Eve at Macy's

A Bum Trip Reborn

Blissed Psychedelic Freaks Bequeath Skykissing Guitars to Industrial Autopsy Aesthetes

Ivo, Chekhov, No Nudes

Van Hove Tackles 'Three Sisters' at the Holland Festival

The Invention of Hate

Global Retreat

The Real Reason the Forum Bigwigs Are Here: The Swiss Didn’t Want the Hassle

Dream of a Worldwide Truce

Education Supplement Listings

A Guide to Classes Around Town

The Execution of Black Children

All the Children Had to Watch

Photo Ops

A Last-Minute Guide to Holiday Picture Books

Spin City

Fast Times at the Bike Messenger World Championships

Swiss Bliss

Clothes Make the Mail

Skim.com Wants a Net ID on Your Shirt

Mood Swings

True or Faux?

Trunk Show

Gore to the Fore

Landow Lurks in Background

Giant Steps