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It's maybe not the most cheerful fashion gift , but Swedish textile design student Marjan Kooroshnia 's swine flu H1N1 masks are quite pretty and cool-looking. Plus, the graphics are done with Thermochromic ink, which apparently means that the masks change color as your body temperature ...
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When the new production of Jerry Herman's musical La Cage aux Folles moves from London to Broadway's Longacre Theater in April, Kelsey Grammer will step into the role of George, the owner of the titular French Riviera nightclub. According to the Post , producers for the show wanted a star to ...
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Dream Theater
Stop the presses: vinyl is coming back in a big way ! Or rather, it already has: sales in 2008 were double what they were in 2007, the best year for sales since 1990.
Yeah, all of your favorite bands now put their albums out on vinyl—except for Edward Sharpe, bummer!—but nothing ...
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NPR
So I schlepped over to New Jersey last night to see Ray Davies at the Wellmont Theater (seriously, fucking Jersey, we got so lost, coming and going).
Ray Davies is 65 years old. Ray Davies can still sing. Ray Davies can still dance. Ray Davies can still rock. Ray Davies' diehard Jersey ...
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Ray Davies
Jersey
Too Short
The Metropolitan Museum —which recently quietly divulged its $8.4 million deficit—is really buckling down next year and digging deep into its permanent collection to cut costs. Artnet reports that on Monday New York's biggest art museum announced its program of exhibitions for ...
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It came to my attention recently that some people don't know that we have, ahem, a print organ. That's right, we print ON PAPER, and today our annual Gift Guide Issue came out. It has all kinds of recommendations for stuff you can buy or make to please your loved ones, and recommendations for ...
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We sent videographer Emmanuel Cruz out into the streets of New York to find out what the city wants for the holidays. And it was pretty goddamn adorable.
Filmed and edited by Emmanuel Cruz.
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I plan on drinking a lot tonight later today right now, and then soaking it all up over the next 36 hours by consuming my body weight in potatoes and tofurkey. [The author, pictured at right.] This is surely going to make me fat. Uh oh! I have a very important casual brunch meeting on Sunday ...
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Hey, check us out, we're now running poetry! Every week, forever... curated by the dashing Tommy Pico , of Birdsong fame. Our very first featured poet is Nicole Callihan , with her great poem, The Other Dead . Below is a sample; read the whole thing here .
I walked back to my house that I ...
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Birdsong
Those ubiquitous guys soliciting pennies with plastic jugs on the streets of the city are involved in some shady business: we've known that since at least last summer, when Time Out New York ran a piece that tried to examine the operations of the United Homeless Organization, the banner under ...
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Rivers Cuomo
Yeasayer released " Ambling Alp ," the first single from their forthcoming album, We Are Free (due out on 2/9), back in late October, and now it's gotten the video treatment. The rest of the record can't be this good, right? [ Pitchfork ]
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Yeasayer
A couple years ago, when the art world was transfixed by a shiny, sexy version of its moneyed self, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced plans to build a Jeff Koons sculpture called "Train": a 70-foot tall replica of a 1943 Baldwin hanging from a 161-foot-tall construction ...
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Train
Yesterday we got news of another Off-Broadway transfer , but this one doesn't involve a Broadway show moving to a smaller theater: Irish Repertory Theatre's hit revival of Eugene O'Neill's controversial The Emperor Jones will actually gain some 65 seats after it closes December 6 at Irish ...
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Norah Jones
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From tiny little reading lights to enormous bookcase staircases you have at least one more year before books become obsolete.
[image-1] For ten years now, New York Review Books has been reissuing stylish paperbacks of neglected demi-classics by everyone from L.P. Hartley and ...
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by Michael J. Rowin
[image-1] The Humbling By Philip Roth Harcourt Available now Coming from this country's most renowned, prolific novelist, the first lines of The Humbling suggest a vulnerable confession of artistic depletion and failure. My Life as a Man and The Anatomy ...
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by Mark Asch
[image-1] Chronic City By Jonathan Lethem Doubleday Available now Perkus Tooth, a semi-legendary guerilla pop-culture critic with a peripatetic lazy eye, endures signal-drowning "cluster headaches" and receives insight during trancelike "ellipsistic" states. The ...
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In the Chekhov adaptation Ward No. 6 , asking too many questions can only get you in trouble.
by Henry Stewart
Ward No. 6Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov Social misfits often harbor an irrational (except in tyrannical states) persecution phobia, a fear that their ...
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Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) goes back in time to find progressive sexual politics.
by Benjamin Sutton
Sarah Ruhl has managed quite a feat in her Broadway debut: Under the lush set and costumes of her late-1800s period comedy In the Next Room ...
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Dream Theater
Catherine
Finally, a place where the ghost of Walt Whitman can cruise for workmen.
by Bret Stetka
Henry Public 329 Henry St, Brooklyn Rating: 4 out of 5 L's Is that someone crank-starting a Model T? No wait, it's the sound of another old-fashioned bar opening up. But fine, the ...
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Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles is half of a great movie. Guess which half.
by Michael J. Rowin
Me and Orson Welles Directed by Richard Linklater The problem is there in the title. Anyone who cares about 20th-century American theater and cinema would welcome ...
