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TV on the Radio guitarist Kyp Malone is trying to explain the ins and outs of negotiating success as he walks down the street in his South Williamsburg neighborhood. "It's...
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A wonderful lunch at a new neighborhood restaurant in Oakland later led us across the bay to an even more wonderful dinner at a restaurant that has been feeding its...
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Rex reaches over a chain-link fence and sticks a gyro sandwich, a two-liter bottle of Coke, and his skateboard between the branches of a tree. After a quick glance over each...
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The most vital movie I ended up seeing at this year's Toronto International Film Festival didn't have its first screening until the festival's final day and is, in the words...
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Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned out to be a blond, blue-eyed...
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Graphic artist and illustrator Shepard Fairey, whose street adaptations of propaganda have been “manufacturing quality dissent since 1989,” has found a non-ironic...
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We're squeamish. We can hardly believe people even get Brazilian bikini waxes, let alone give them for a living. It seems so invasive; isn't that hair there for a reason? Yet...
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In the early 1990s, it looked like indie bookstores were on the way out. Amazon.com dominated, and big-box stores were booming. Between then and now, the American Booksellers...
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If you've ever wanted to watch some people throw a bunch of art in the middle of the street and run that shit over with a steamroller, "Roadworks" is for you. At the annual...
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Let's hear it for weird old art guys! Specifically, let us now praise Buz Blurr, who spells his name buZ blurr and is famous among hobos for his fabulous cryptic train...
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According to the venerable distributor Women Make Movies, just six percent of the 250 top-grossing films last year were directed by women. That isn’t an indicator of...
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Perhaps no space in the city is more hotly contested than the parking space. So when the creative folks at design collective Rebar went looking for alternative uses for these...
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In the sprawling scrapbook of Warhol divas, the legends Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Candy Darling, and Holly Woodlawn still hold sway over lesser mortals. But to the cognoscenti, any...
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When we heard that a local theater would be screening a silent kung fu movie with live accompaniment, we were excited. It somehow didn't occur to us that a lot of movies from...
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Such is the state of anti-touchy-feelyness nowadays that it’s worth noting when The New York Times calls something “triumphantly sentimental.” Especially when...
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The girls who populate cartoonist Lynda Barry’s work are scrubby, scraggly-haired, befreckled, and awkward. Barry's most famous creation, Marlys, has a curt line of a...
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People who read the recent New Yorker profile of Alec Baldwin, which essentially outlined the actor's persecution complex, seemed to have one of two reactions. Some dismissed...
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The Greasy Hearts Cycle Club is fixated on one thing: fun on wheels. The group describes itself as "your friendly neighborhood bicycle-loving queers," and it gathers each...
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Ann Randolph performed with the Groundlings, the Los Angeles comedy troupe that has spawned Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, and Cheri Oteri, among others. Instead of going to...
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A pre-game party in Lot D (we're dreaming it includes sago't gulaman, but we can't make promises), Filipino music and dancing, a Giants Filipino Heritage Night II hat, and a...
