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I was so busy hating Adam Lambert this morning that I forgot to make fun of Jennifer Lopez for falling down during her performance of her new single "Louboutins" at the AMAs last night. If you're inclined to feel bad for her, don't. Because really, if you weren't laughing at her for this, ...
Music
The papal pow-wow between his holiness and some 260 artists (including Bono, architects Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind, Ennio Morricone, Robert Wilson and artists John David Mooney and Bill Viola) took place on Saturday in the Sistine Chapel, and despite my fears , nobody was mysteriously ...
Music
Did you know there are now seven of those A Very Special Christmas compilations, even though they stopped being good after the first one? Because it's true, there are. And the most recent installment, out today , features tons of bullshit, like Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Colbie Caillat and ...
Music
Leighton Meester
U2
Vanessa Hudgens
Miley Cyrus
Colbie Caillat
One of the most prominent details of the Eldridge Street Synagogue down in the southeasternmost reaches of Chinatown was left out of its recent 20-year restoration: the giant tablet-shaped stained-glass window on the facade. The restoration team couldn't find any plans for the original 1887 ...
Music
Back in April of this year, we honorably mentioned Dinosaur Feathers in our 8 NYC Bands You Need to Hear issue. Then we had them play on the street , as well as inside a proper venue on a proper stage, at the Northside Festval , and I remember wishing we'd settled on nine, rather than eight, ...
Music
We sent ace video reporter Emily Chen to cover last Thursday's Miss G Train Pageant, the brainchild of the nutty folks over at the City Reliquary Museum . As you will see in the following video, it was a truly MAGICAL NIGHT.
Filmed and edited by Emily Chen.
[ Subscribe to the ...
Music
Talking Points Memo introduces us to Hi Caliber, a conservative rapper who's really into Tea Bagging. Like most of the "movement" he's bitter, entitled and a little paranoid. But despite how predictably awful and irritating his lyrics are, I didn't actually mind the song. DOEZ THAT MAKE ME A ...
Music
Originally slated to be one of the Super Monday releases, Timbaland's Shock Value II is now coming out on December 8. The video for the first single "Morning After Dark" featuring SoShy (who, I guess, is a female vocalist?) premiered today, and it's the most blatantly crowd-sourced thing ...
Music
Timbaland
Michael Jackson
It's Coco! Found wandering the streets of Williamsburg's South Side, Coco was brought to the world's best pet store, PS9 (North 9th Street, between Bedford and Driggs) by some sweet kids, who couldn't keep her, but have been stopping in to give her walks and belly rubs. Joan, PS9's lovely ...
Music
As you may have figured out by now , we're big fans of online fiction journal Electric Literature and its noble attempt to make the short story cool and exciting and, you know, read. Also, they do these really cool videos based on sentences from their contributors. I wish every sentence I wrote ...
Music
ArtsBeat reports that Let Me Down Easy , Anna Deavere Smith's one-woman Off-Broadway show at Second Stage's 43rd Street theater (which we previewed back when it opened in October) has been extended a second time, and will now continue performances into the New Year.
Originally scheduled to ...
Music
The blurb on the wall at the entrance to the exhibit 100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009) at P.S.1 (through April 5 2010) starts off this way: “This exhibition has assembled a wealth of information explicitly intended as an archive for students and scholars of the history of ...
Music
Last week the winners of the Biking Rules! PSA Competition were screened to a sold-out audience at BAM, with four winners in the "Street Code" section (about riding safely) and three winners in the "Why Biking Rules" category. The winner in the latter category is a kind of retro after school ...
Music
We first told you about Super Monday back in the middle of October, and although some of the artists taking part have changed, it's actually an even bigger deal than we thought it was going to be, at least in that, along with the New Moon soundtrack, the records being released today will ...
Music
Lady GaGa
Rihanna
Susan Boyle
Shakira
Bon Jovi
Last night's American Music Awards closed with Adam Lambert 's first television performance since he came in second place behind Kris Allen on the last season of American Idol , and it was everything you expected it to be (horribly over-produced musical theater schlock) with an added ...
Music
American Music Awards
Madonna
Marilyn Manson
The Middle
Not a whole lot of people ever got the chance to see Neutral Milk Hotel . They only existed for about four years total, were seriously active only for about two years, and well-known for not even one full year. And since Jeff Mangum essentially retired from music at the end of 1998, only ...
Music
Nick Drake
So there's this thing called Lord Likely's Extra-Ordinary Inter-Active Moustache-O-Rama (which has something to do with this ) that will provide facial hair enthusiasts all over the internet with countless hours of entertainment. It's a fairly straight forward pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey sort ...
Music
Moore's photographs of the Motor City's crash offer a cautionary tale.
by Deirdre Hering
Chelsea's Yancey Richardson Gallery is the perfect space to hold Andrew Moore's latest exhibition. Detroit (through January 9), his fifth solo show at the gallery, is a ...
Music
Williamsburg Blane De St. Croix and critic Jill Connor discuss the former's Mountain Strip installation at Black & White Project Space , 483 Driggs Ave (between North 9th and North 10th Sts), 7pm French art collective Le Dernier Cri (work pictured) take over at Cinders , 103 Havemeyer St ...
Music
Evidence
Would you like The L to "weigh in" on Oprah Winfrey's decision to end her popular daytime television serial in which everybody takes turns talking about themselves?
It is very impressive, we suppose, that a person is secure enough in her employment and plans for the future that she can give ...
