Month: April 2014
“Don’t Cry” is a soulful, melancholy highlight that arrives on the third side of Donuts, the instrumental swan-song from the late hip hop producer J Dilla. To celebrate the music, the blogger Darius Kazemi broke down that beat into its constituent samples — from the Escorts’ “I Can’t Stand to See You Cry” — wrote about […]
When U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm was arrested on federal criminal charges Monday, it was not questionable campaign finances that did him in, nor his televised threats against an NY1 reporter, but alleged tax evasion at Healthalicious, a small Upper East Side restaurant the congressman operated for a time before taking office. With such an inauspicious […]
According to the “Culture Track” study of “attitudes and behaviors among U.S. cultural audiences” you are: OVERSTIMULATED PROMISCUOUS HYPER-CONNECTED CYNICAL OVERCOMMITTED SELF-FOCUSED BUT CURIOUS The New York-based firm LaPlaca Cohen released this incredibly amusing […]
To the sure delight of pot-smoking, Bach-loving Coloradans, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra is hosting “Classically Cannabis,” a series of concerts that invites attendees to bring weed to the performance. “This partnership is part of an overall effort to reach out to every segment of our community,” said Jerome Kern, CEO of the symphony. “These businesses have […]
Beastie Boys fans, mark your calendars: May 3 is MCA day — a celebration of the life and music of the late Adam Yauch — at Gowanus’s Littlefield performance space. The third-annual event will feature “DJs, Beastie Boys-themed art, and for the first time this year, live instruments,” according to Brooklyn Paper. “He had the right idea about […]
Bed Stuy, Lennie. (Photo: Hallie Bateman) […]
Kara Walker’s giant sugar-coated sphinx has been installed at the Domino Sugar Factory. (Photo: Creative Time) […]
When we posted yesterday about Chase Bank’s closures of numerous adult entertainers’ accounts, we didn’t have a clear explanation for why. As a helpful commenter points out, Mary O’Hara at VICE News has a credible theory: that the U.S. Department of Justice told them to. O’Hara links the closures to Operation Choke Point, a DOJ initiative […]
Harmony Korine (writer of Kids, writer and director of Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, Trash Humpers and Spring Breakers) is having an art exhibit at the Park Avenue Gagosian Gallery this May. Here is a preview: Blue Checker (2014), from “Shooters.” We have collectively decided that this is a Magic Eye painting with a person sitting on another person’s shoulders in it and the […]
As part of its ongoing quest to scrub NYC clean of fun things, the NYPD has arrested 96 subway dancers this year so far. Forty-six were arrested for reckless endangerment, and 50 got disorderly conduct charges. Last year, cops arrested two dancers. This, then, is the work of new commissioner Bill Bratton, pomiser of building […]
