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The Trouble With Safe Sexnew
A visit to NYC's last remaining bathhouses to investigate whether safe sex is still an effective message against HIV.
New York Press |
Seth Michael Donsky |
04-16-2009 |
Sex
Tags: HIV prevention, gay men
Memoirist Robert Goolrick Tackles the Novelnew
Robert Goolrick, a former advertising exec turned writer, explores the difficulties of "simple" married life and the dark family landscape within which it exists in his new novel. He talks here about writing fiction, the appeal of Wisconsin and where his writing career is headed.
New York Press |
Stephanie Lee |
03-19-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Obits Serve a Death Notice to Indie-Rock Clichesnew
On the band's debut, I Blame You, myriad shades of punk, post-punk, new wave and even '80s pop begin to materialize from amidst the sheen of guitar reverb.
New York Press |
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni |
03-19-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Marathon Night on the Good Ship WFMUnew
It's the second week of an annual drive aimed at keeping Jersey City radio station WFMU in the black, and once again a weekly comedy call-in show has positioned itself as one of the top moneymakers for the nonprofit freeform radio station.
New York Press |
Brian Heater |
03-19-2009 |
Media
Paul Rudd Proves He Plays Gay Better Than Anyonenew
Hamburg's formulaic contrivance is an accidental metaphor for Hollywood's sit-com dishonesty.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-19-2009 |
Reviews
Successfully Immigrating to America Is No Match for the Smoldering Edgar Floresnew
Unfortunately, other than some gorgeous scenery, a young girl's stupidity is the only thing that feels truly fresh in Fukunaga's debut feature, which won the directing award at the 2009 Sundance Festival.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
03-19-2009 |
Reviews
The Dirty World of Cleansesnew
Welcome to ground zero of a new New York addiction: The Blueprint Cleanse.
New York Press |
Joshua David Stein |
03-19-2009 |
Culture
Tags: Blueprint Cleanse, dieting
As Luxury Retail Continues to Suffer, Fetish Wear Feels the Pinchnew
The fetish wear business is experiencing the economic slump in its own peculiar way.
New York Press |
Joseph Alexiou |
03-19-2009 |
Fashion
Tags: recession, fetish wear
Zoe Heller's 'Believers' Captivates Despite a Weak Plotnew
Heller’s treatment of fraught and contradictory emotions, together with her unabashed exploration of intellectual musings, endows the story’s eponymous believers with an all-too-rare profundity.
New York Press |
Rayyan Al-Shawaf |
03-05-2009 |
Fiction
Tindersticks Are Out to Reclaim Americanew
Tindersticks is apparently huge in Europe, and in the Obama era that has to mean something, right?
New York Press |
Carter Maness |
03-05-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: indie pop, Tindersticks
'Watchmen' Is Both a Test of Zack Snyder's Movie Sense and Pop Culture's Maturitynew
With Hollywood's adaptation of Alan Moore's 1986 graphic novel, the future of pop culture hangs in the balance: Post-literary hipster culture meets post-cinematic movie culture to see who will dominate.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-05-2009 |
Reviews
Jan Troell's 'Everlasting Moments'new
Jan Troell’s film about 1907 Sweden is the height of filmmaking technology and emotional sophistication.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-05-2009 |
Reviews
The Directors of 'Tokyo!' Explain What They Were Thinkingnew
One of the strangest anthology films of recent memory, Tokyo! unites the distinctive visions of three individualistic filmmakers: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-Ho. Needless to say, it's not your average tourist video.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
03-05-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Who Are These Republicans? And Why Are They the Hope of White Conservatives?new
To counter their reputation of being the party of old, crotchety white men bellowing on talk radio that they are losing the country to the blacks, the browns and the gays, the Grand Old Party has recently put forward a couple of new faces of color.
New York Press |
Jamaal Young |
03-05-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: commentary, Republican Party
8 Million Stories: Amy Braunscweiger Takes on Her Noisy Neighborsnew
I don’t usually have violent thoughts. But this changed when it came to you. I’ve had my fantasies. One particularly desperate night (with a job interview the next morning) I seriously considered throwing Chinese firecrackers into your construction site.
New York Press |
Amy Braunschweiger |
03-05-2009 |
Comedy
Tags: humor, New York City
