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Pimping Daughters for Profitnew
A Tudor drama for the teen set depicts the Boleyn girls as privileged noble victims.
New York Press |
Armond White |
02-28-2008 |
Reviews
One Nation, Under vanden Heuvelnew
I kinda like the little liberal weekly. What's up with that?
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
02-28-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Missed Saigonnew
After a bitter, year-long strike, underpaid delivery workers won their battle with the owners of New York's Saigon Grill. Or did they?
New York Press |
Victoria Moy |
02-28-2008 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Animal Frenzynew
Like its predecessors, Hey Venus! is a deceptively breezy affair, filtering influences as far flung as the Beach Boys, Burt Bacharach and Phil Spector through a psychedelic palette resembling that of art rock contemporaries like the Flaming Lips or High Llamas. Only much more Welsh.
New York Press |
Crispin Kott |
02-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hey Venus!, Super Furry Animals
Stephin Merritt's Distorted Dreamnew
The Magnetic Fields frontman thinks about 26 songs at a time and imitates the Jesus and Mary Chain.
New York Press |
David Chiu |
02-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Distortion, Magnetic Fields
Dicing Up the Detailsnew
Ramin Bahrani discusses the finer points of Chop Shop.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
02-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chop Shop, Ramin Bahrani
Can't Fake Itnew
Based on Holocaust survivor Adolf Burger's memoir The Devil's Workshop, The Counterfeiters explores a side of the Holocaust we haven't seen before: a concentration camp where prisoners are not subject to ritual violence but psychologically manipulated and forced to compromise their own morals.
New York Press |
Raphaela Weissman |
02-21-2008 |
Reviews
Global Village Slaughterhousenew
In structure and content, The Signal plays out like a cautionary quasi-zombie comedy for screen addicts. The threat lurks on mangled television and radio signals, hence the inescapable doom.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
02-21-2008 |
Reviews
Insider Artnew
Michael Gondry's cute humor transforms Jack Black and Mos Def into primitive artists.
New York Press |
Armond White |
02-21-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Be Kind Rewind, Michael Gondry
Theodore Kheel Wants to Make NYC's Mass Transit Freenew
A crazy idea? Yes. A good one? Maybe.
New York Press |
Matt Elzweig |
02-21-2008 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
The Baracklashnew
The intelligentsia starts to notice that Obama isn't everything they'd hoped for.
New York Press |
Russ Smith |
02-21-2008 |
Commentary
Last Call for Rififi?new
The popular New York comedy/DJs/burlesque venue is still up for sale, and that's no laughing matter.
New York Press |
Nate Sloan |
02-14-2008 |
Performance
Tags: performance
How Indie Rock Morphed into Adult Contemporarynew
Sufjan Stevens and Feist are just the beginning.
New York Press |
Greg Burgett |
02-14-2008 |
Music
Cosmo D Takes on Electronica Cello and Kitchen Appliancesnew
Cosmo D and his new group Sauce stir up sounds with pot banging mixed with fun and passion.
New York Press |
Victoria Moy |
02-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sauce
Homespun Hip-hopnew
Leslie and the LY's make clothes, then sing about them.
New York Press |
Steph Auteri |
02-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Leslie and the LY's
