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NYC's Tenement Museum is Blocking its Employees from Organizingnew
A pro-union vibe permeates the museum, from its bookstore stocked with tomes about the labor movement to the actual tenement at 97 Orchard Street, where the seeds of organized labor grew. Despite that reverence, a no-holds-barred labor clash is underway beneath their own roof.
New York Press |
Josh Zembick |
10-23-2008 |
Business & Labor
Angelina Jolie is Mother on a Mission in Clint Eastwood's Latestnew
Changeling isn't suspenseful: It's creepy. Lacking the historical veracity of De Palma's Black Dahlia, its style is a bizarre form of old-school storytelling, mixing masochistic dread with ugly reportage.
New York Press |
Armond White |
10-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Clint Eastwood, Changeling
'Fear(s) of the Dark': Parts of a Holenew
Fear(s) shortcoming(s) reveal the omnibus film's illusion of intricacy.
New York Press |
Simon Abrams |
10-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Charles Burns, Fear(s) of the Dark
George W. Bush: The Lame Ducklingnew
As we focus our attention on the next would-be president, it's not quite time to forget the one that’s screwed everything up.
New York Press |
Jamaal Young |
10-23-2008 |
Commentary
Responding to 'Brocabulary' with Some Sheologismsnew
Maybe we could offset Brocabulary's chauvinism -- too ugly and tiresome to be funny -- with some good old-fashioned American equality. And so it began. The girls would propose a sexual phenomenon, and we would work together to invent a sheologism.
New York Press |
Justin Richards |
10-23-2008 |
Books
In 'Noah's Arc' Movie, We Meet the Black Carrie Bradshawnew
The LOGO show makes the jump to the big screen -- showing a completely different African-American experience.
New York Press |
Armond White |
10-23-2008 |
Reviews
'Max Payne' Prefers Good Looks to Smartsnew
Gorgeously shot as a color noir (though the colors are more likely to run the gamut from gray to black than red to gold), Max Payne is one of those ludicrous action movies based on a videogame that's all style and little substance.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
10-23-2008 |
Reviews
Charlie Kaufman Turns to Philip Seymour Hoffman to Tackle His Neurosesnew
Entirely too "clever," this story about an upstate New York theater director parades all of Kaufman’s neuroses: sexual frustration, creative surfeit (not a creative block), body hatred and celebrity paranoia. What's missing is universality; that's swallowed up by Kaufman's intellectual egomania.
New York Press |
Armond White |
10-23-2008 |
Reviews
Softcore Porn Leads to Love in the Strange New Romcom 'Good Dick'new
Whatever success Good Dick may achieve as a film is almost entirely thanks to Jason Ritter's performance. Without his charisma and boy-next-door appeal, the movie would be just a cautionary tale about not using Netflix.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
10-16-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Good Dick, Marianna Palka
'What Just Happened?' Proves Barry Levinson Still Can't Directnew
In addition to getting wrong the proverbial Hollywood shibboleths (about violence, pets, etc.), Levinson and screenwriter Art Linson fake concern over selling out when everybody knows it is the way of things: Our tabloid media specializes in celebrating it.
New York Press |
Armond White |
10-16-2008 |
Reviews
Oliver Stone Doesn't Settle for Easy Ridicule, He Looks Deep Inside Bush's Soulnew
The hard work of Stone’'s new film about George Bush -- that uses the synecdoche title W. -- is to avoid impertinence and rebuild the concepts of fairness and empathy while examining the Bush enigma.
New York Press |
Armond White |
10-16-2008 |
Reviews
Ringtones Killed the New York Hip-Hop Starnew
While hip-hop in New York may not be dead, exactly, it is (at the very least) gravely wounded. If you're looking where to lay blame, look no further than ringtones.
New York Press |
Matthew Mundy |
10-16-2008 |
Music
Guy Ritchie Manages to Upend Thuggish Machismo in 'RocknRolla'new
Guy Ritchie didn't make the mistake of putting his wife Madonna in RocknRolla; but his latest gangster film queers a sense of Macho to match Madonna's sense of Slut. Hopefully, Ritchie's fantasy won't roll back human progress; but this time it's shaped an unexpectedly enjoyable movie.
New York Press |
Armond White |
10-09-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Guy Ritchie, RocknRolla
Castanets Built This 'City' on Rock 'n' Rollnew
Castanets nomadic mastermind Ray Raposa, no stranger to fusing his freak-folk with dissonance, noise or near-emptiness, is at his logical conclusion on Refuge. All his signature elements are incorporated, but the spare, hushed nature of his work is intensified.
New York Press |
Greg Burgett |
10-09-2008 |
Reviews
Love is All Tries to Keep the Embers Burning with its Second Albumnew
With A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night, the success of the previous album was in the back of the band's mind. "It's an impossible task to make a second record after the first one has been well received."
New York Press |
Christine Werthman |
10-09-2008 |
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