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The Avengers

Joss Whedon

Whedon ups the ante on what a superhero movie can… >>

Books News

Critical Mob at MoCCA Fest 2012

By Phil Guie

Two days in alt-comic heaven.

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Tribeca Film Festival wrap-up

By Josh Ralske

The sprawling event has another solid year.

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Restored gangster epic to premiere at Cannes

By Derek Hill

An extended version of Sergio Leone's sprawling masterpiece.

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2 Days in New York

Julie Delpy

A spirited comedy about love and family.

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Lola Versus

Daryl Wein

An insipid and aimless story of self-discovery.

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Books Review

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

Alex Gilvarry

Skip the title. Read the book.

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Music News

The Walkmen tease new tracks off Heaven album

By Laura Smith

The band seeks divine inspiration.

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Books News

Godfather prequel novel set for release

By Phil Guie

The Family Corleone makes an offer you can't refuse.

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Books Review

Unterzakhn

Leela Corman

It's the land of opportunity—for a price.

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Trailer of the Day: David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis

By Eric Schneider

Cronenberg, DeLillo…Pattinson?

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Clip of the Day: Louie's Manhattan

By Eric Schneider

Louie nods to Woody.

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Alicia Silverstone reunites with Clueless director for Vamps

By Kristy Puchko

A biting new comedy on the horizon.

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TV & Film Feature

Tribeca Film Festival 2012 Preview

By Adrienne McIlvaine

Over 80 films in 2 weeks—keep calm and carry on… >>

Music News

Track of the Day: The Walkmen

By Stewart Mason

Heaven out June 5

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TV Review: Girls Premiere

By Kristy Puchko

A smart and unsentimental new comedy.

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Music Critical Questions

Critical Questions: Slow Country

By Anna Graizbord

A chat before a Brooklyn show.

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Music Feature

Live Review: Pulp

By Chris Payne

Even if you can’t remember the first time.

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TV & Film Review

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola

The most influential gangster movie ever made.

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Alamo Drafthouse set to open NYC branch

By Eric Schneider

Austin cinema heads to Manhattan.

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Jason Reitman to stage The Apartment live in New York

By Kristy Puchko

A Wilder night of theater.

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Books Feature

NYC Reads: The Best New York City Bookstores

By Tracy O’Neill

The city that never sleeps always reads.

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Books News

Comic book O.C.T. coming to A&E?

By Phil Guie

Co-writer Rosario Dawson may star.

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Music Feature

Classic Video of the Week: Grizzly Bear

By Stewart Mason

It doesn't have to be old to be a classic.

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Books News

PEN World Voices Festival returns

By Damian Van Denburgh

Don’t miss this one.

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Music Review

Between the Times and the Tides

Lee Ranaldo

Sonic Youth's secret weapon steps out.

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Books News

David Foster Wallace lives

By Damian Van Denburgh

Adapting the unadaptable.

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Culture Review

Palisades

Melissa Brown

Paintings off the beaten path.

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Culture News

Stipe and Rushdie in your lunchbox

By Damian Van Denburgh

Stars come out for a good cause

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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Marie Losier

A provocative and heartfelt look inside an unusual love story.

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Woody Allen to appear in John Turturro comedy

By Eric Schneider

The prolific writer/director steps back in front of the camera.

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Friends with Kids

Jennifer Westfeldt

A raunchy rom-com with a dash of drama.

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Culture Review

Pop Spots NYC

Bob Egan

A man, a camera, and some comfortable walking shoes.

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Wanderlust

David Wain

A comedy about cutting loose.

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Books News

Long live Barney Rosset!

By Damian Van Denburgh

Legendary publisher's legacy lives on.

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Trailer of the Day: Lena Dunham's Girls

By Kristy Puchko

HBO's less romantic look at sex and the city.

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Wainy Days

David Wain

A guerrilla-style web series that's packed with talent.

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Music Feature

How to Fix SNL's Musical Acts

By Stewart Mason

The music could be good again.

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Culture Review

Love Before Intimacy

Lola Montes Schnabel

Intimacy Before Art

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Music Feature

Memory Motel: Talking Heads Grow Up In Public

By Jim Allen

New Wave pioneers caught in flux.

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Tiny Furniture

Lena Dunham

An accomplished debut about post-collegiate anxiety.

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Athena Festival celebrates women in film

Film festival thrives in its third year.

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Music Feature

Critical New Video: Nicolas Jaar, "Materials"

By Stewart Mason

Warning: contains clowns.

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Culture List

Velvet Goldmine: Fashion As Art

By Avram Finkelstein

If artists are free to joke about selling out -… >>

TV & Film List

The 20 Best Romantic Comedies

By Kristy Puchko

The romantic-comedy genre is often slandered as being mindless, flowery… >>

Music Review

Hospitality

Hospitality

Seemingly effortless pop cleverness.

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Culture News

MoMA gets occupied

By Anna Graizbord

Occupy Museums zeroes in on labor dispute.

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Culture News

The Return of Weegee The Great

By Jason Bogdaneris

A legendary photographer documents the Naked City

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The Divide

Xavier Gens

A grimy post-apocalyptic thriller that's hard to shake.

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Books Review

Out of the Vinyl Deeps

Ellen Willis

First anthology showcasing a pioneering rock critic.

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Music News

Caveman signs with new label & announces tour

By Anna Graizbord

Caveman continues to soar in 2012.

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News

The War On Drugs on Jimmy Fallon

By Stewart Mason

Critical Mob faves make their TV debut.

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Music Critical Questions

Critical Questions: Caveman

By Anna Graizbord

A member of NYC's hottest indie band shares his favorites.

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Culture Critical Questions

Critical Questions: Tim Barber

By Ranjani Gopalarathinam

Photographer turns online curator.

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Books News

Patti Smith’s Woolgathering re-issued

By Anna Graizbord

Early memoir explores growth of an artist.

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Culture News

Richard Prince piracy case in appeals court

By Anna Graizbord

Art copyright crisis in the making.

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TV & Film Review

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Stephen Daldry

A manufactured tearjerker.

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Pariah

Dee Rees

A gritty, yet graceful, coming-of-age tale.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lynne Ramsay

Swinton stuns in this thought-provoking exploration of a parent’s worst… >>

Culture Review

Scopophilia

Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin's history of the world.

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The Seven Year Itch

Billy Wilder

A tantalizing tale of temptation!

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Shame

Steve McQueen

A disturbing and sexually fraught character study.

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Dream House

Jim Sheridan

A scare-free ghost story.

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Books Review

The Submission

Amy Waldman

Good intentions aren’t enough.

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Music Review

In The Grace Of Your Love

The Rapture

Do you still want to party like it’s 2003?

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TV & Film Review

Alphas

Zak Penn

A surprisingly solid series from Syfy.

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Our Idiot Brother

Jesse Peretz

A surprisingly smart and sweet comedy.

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Music Review

CoCo Beware

Caveman (music group)

Kaleidoscopic indie pop from one of NYC's best new bands.

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Culture Profile

Bill Cunningham

By Ranjani Gopalarathinam

Uncovering fashion on the city’s streets.

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TV & Film Review

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

Marshall Curry

A thought-provoking examination of the ELF.

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Music Review

Hot Sauce Committee Part 2

Beastie Boys

Legends get back in the game.

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Music Review

Eye Contact

Gang Gang Dance

Indie experimentalists face the mainstream with grace.

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Music Review

Nine Types of Light

TV On The Radio

NYC mad scientists get intimate.

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Books Review

Toxicology

Jessica Hagedorn

Hagedorn’s characters suffer for their art.

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TV & Film Review

Dog Day Afternoon

Sidney Lumet

Lumet’s seminal crime drama effectively captures 1970s New York City.

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Music Review

Jump into the Gospel

Jump into the Gospel

NYC indie up-and-comers debut.

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Music Review

Angles

The Strokes

Is This It? Not quite, but close.

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Books Review

The Lover’s Dictionary

David Levithan

A structurally pleasing ode to love and language.

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Books Profile

Ben Katchor

By Damian Van Denburgh

Art manufactured from the detritus of daydreams.

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The Adjustment Bureau

George Nolfi

Disarmingly thoughtful sci-fi with an old-fashioned appeal.

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Books Review

Open City

Teju Cole

Open City is a fascinating, impressive first novel.

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Music Review

Closer

Paul Bley

Lyrical miniatures from the free-jazz era.

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Books Review

Night Soul and Other Stories

Joseph McElroy

Intellectual rigor paired with a humane and hopeful impulse.

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Books Review

One with Others

C. D. Wright

Captures the Jim Crow era in a complex mosaic.

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All Good Things

Andrew Jarecki

An unsatisfying murder mystery.

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Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky

Aronofsky transforms a timeworn tale into a brilliant directorial showcase.

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Books Review

After Claude

Iris Owens

Comes out swinging and connects more than it misses.

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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

Yony Leyser

An intimate and sympathetic look at an American iconoclast.

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Music Review

Interpol

Interpol

Somehow we're not impressed.

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TV & Film Review

Louie

Louis C.K.

Louis C.K. takes a solid second swing at a sitcom.

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Catfish

Ariel Schulman

A sad and compelling glimpse into the darker side of… >>

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Date Night

Shawn Levy

Sort of like going out to a decent, if overpriced,… >>

Books Review

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man

Bill Clegg

An amazing true story of a promising life spun out… >>

TV & Film Review

The Other Guys

Adam McKay

Will Ferrell is funny; car chases and explosions--not so much.

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The Extra Man

Shari Springer Berman

Disappointingly fails to capture the comic tone of Ames’s novel.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

Tamra Davis

A reverent, but ultimately superficial, look at the short explosive… >>

Books Review

The Exquisite Corpse

Alfred Chester

A radical search for identity.

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TV & Film Profile

Steve Buscemi

By Adrienne McIlvaine

A dynamic actor and director with an eye for the… >>

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How to Make It in America

Ian Edelman

For a group of friends living, dreaming and scheming in… >>

Music List

Critical Influences: Patti Smith

By Stewart Mason

More than any other poet turned rocker, Patti Smith fused… >>

TV & Film Review

Man on Wire

James Marsh

A wondrous feat gets its cinematic due.

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TV & Film Profile

Tribeca Film Festival

By Eric Schneider

The TFF is a vital NYC-based cinema celebration.

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Books Profile

James Baldwin

By Damian Van Denburgh

The conscience of a generation.

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TV & Film Profile

Robert De Niro

By Eric Schneider

Few American actors get more respect than De Niro.

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Music Profile

Laura Nyro

By Stewart Mason

Many singers' favorite songwriter.

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Culture Profile

Robert Mapplethorpe

By Michael Shaw

Classical grace and beauty in the most unexpected places.

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Books Review

Just Kids

Patti Smith

A brilliant memoir about two kids and one ambition.

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TV & Film Review

Nurse Jackie

Liz Brixius

Edie Falco stars as a very different kind of health-care… >>

TV & Film Profile

Jason Schwartzman

By Adrienne McIlvaine

Versatile actor. Unlikely star.

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Music Review

Horses (Patti Smith)

Patti Smith

Author-turned-singer uses punk's energy as a starting point for her… >>

Music Profile

Suzanne Vega

By Jim Allen

More than just another Village folkie.

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Books Review

The Basketball Diaries

Jim Carroll

It takes a city of sex, drugs, and basketball to… >>

Music Profile

Jim Carroll

By Jim Allen

Punk poet whose gritty but vivid imagery found its way… >>

Music Profile

Patti Smith

By Stewart Mason

One of the most important figures in punk's development.

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Network

Sidney Lumet

Howard Beale is as mad as hell, and he's not… >>

TV & Film Profile

Sidney Lumet

By Eric Schneider

The cinematic prince of New York City.

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Books Profile

J. D. Salinger

By Eric Schneider

Salinger wrote the most influential coming-of-age novel in American literature,… >>

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Martin Scorsese

By Eric Schneider

This master American filmmaker is revered like few others directors… >>

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Flight of the Conchords

James Bobin

The charmingly comical and odd NYC adventures of two aspiring… >>

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Jim Jarmusch

By Eric Schneider

Platinum-haired patron saint of independent cinema.

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Music Profile

A Tribe Called Quest

By Stewart Mason

The early 1990s' most influential hip-hop collective.

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