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Fashion Week Photos: Ryan Adams, Damon Dash, Duran Duran

by Camille Dodero

February 7, 2008

Fashion Week G-Star Raw Party
Gotham Hall/Gramercy Theater
Tuesday, February 5
photos by Maro

Fashion around these parts generally means a pair of Vans clodhoppers and a burlap sack, so file this post under “Scenes in Which We’d Never Be Allowed.”

Danny Masterson is actually at the Hiro Ballroom tonight playing records as DJ Momjeans. Not kidding.

Ryan Adams again, photos by Maro

Jim Jones and Damon Dash, photo by Maro

MTV VJ Damien Fahey & Grasie Mercedes, photo by Maro

Nick Rhodes and Simon LeBon

Simon LeBon, Padma Lakshmi, Pierre Morisset

How baked does Sway look?

Joe Levy, Ryan Adams

DJ Ruckus and Dallas Austin

This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on February 7, 2008

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CRIME ARCHIVES

The Mob is Dead! Long Live the Mob!

“The notion that John Gotti — or any single mob figure — was some sort of omnipotent New York mafioso is ludicrous. The word 'Godfather' had a nice, Brando-esque ring, but the title itself is a fraud”

by William Bastone
FILM ARCHIVES

Citizen Kael vs. ‘Citizen Kane’

“Pauline Kael drifts away from a half-hearted analysis of 'Kane' to the most lively gossip imaginable about the alleged birth-pangs and labor-pains of the script. Bit by bit, 'Raising Kane' becomes an excuse to lower the boom on Orson Welles so as to resurrect the reputation of the late Herman J. Mankiewicz.”

by Andrew Sarris
BOOKS ARCHIVE

Prison Memoirs: The New York Women’s House of Detention

“When the iron door was opened, sounds peculiar to jails and prisons poured into my ears — the screams, the metallic clanging, officers’ keys clinking. Some of the women noticed me and smiled warmly or threw up their fists in gestures of solidarity”

by Angela Davis
FEATURE ARCHIVES

IRA: The Belfast Connection

The war in Northern Ireland is one of the longest-running and most intensive guerrilla insurgencies in the history of modern warfare. On one side, the forces of the British union. On the other, the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Beyond them, a network of supporters 3000 miles away in the United States.

by James Ridgeway and Patrick Farrelly
MUSIC ARCHIVES

Girl Groups: How the Other Half Lived

“Girl group records were based in the relationship of a young girl and an older man (white, until Berry Gordy) who put her on a pedestal and held her in thrall; out of that relationship came some of the most urgent and intense rock and roll ever made.”

by Greil Marcus
FEATURE ARCHIVES

American Zealots: Shoot Out in the Kingdom of God

“For nearly two weeks the Singer-Swapps — a family of fundamentalist Mormons — barricaded themselves in their cabin and, armed with an arsenal of handguns, rifles, and sawed-off shotguns, held off an army of county deputies and federal agents. On the 13th day, the standoff erupted into a gun battle that left one officer dead.”

by Teresa Carpenter