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I thought the craziness surrounding turkey preparation reached
its climax a few years ago when people got all goofy about deep frying their
Thanksgiving Day birds. I was wrong. Local tavern owner Paul Hurley has come up
with a new way to dress up Turkey Tom this Thursday, and unfortunately ...
Movies
Pixies start a three-night round about town tonight
with Black Gold at Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 W. 34th
St. (betw. 8th & 9th Aves.), 212-279-7740; 8,
$46.---
Coco Montoya and the Tommy Castro Band are at B.B. King Blues
Club & Grill, 237 W. 42nd St. (betw. 7th & 8th Aves.), ...
Movies
A walk of shame looking like
a disheveled mess and wearing last nights party clothes normally gets you
all the wrong kind of attention, but not so for Astoria resident Elizabeth
Kuchta. Her “walk of shame” outfit snagged her the honor of Miss G Train
2009.---
Kuchta, 27, ...
Movies
Thor
Robert Lederman learned a
valuable lesson Saturday: Having the law on your side doesn’t guarantee you won’t
get smacked with a summons—or five—and hauled down to the pokey, after the street
artist was arrested at High Line Park for selling his artwork without a permit. A ...
Movies
“Unassuming,” I think, is a good way to describe a band. It’s a term I wish I could toss around more, but can’t with the bands that breeze throw this town. There are those who try so hard to look like rock stars and those who spend so much time cultivating some image in ...
Movies
In his Sunday NYTimes Arts&Leisure cover story, "Two Films, Two Routes From Poverty," A.O. Scott writes about Precious and The Blind Side and how it is "useful to imagine these movies in dialogue with one another." It's a point that Armond White made in his review of The ...
Movies
Sandra Bullock
Tonight Blind Pilot headlines Brooklyn, at The Bell House, 149 7th St. (betw. 2nd & 3rd Aves.), Brooklyn, 718-643-6510; 8, $15 ---
The Bishop Allen plays with Twin Thousands and Spanish Prisoners at Union Hall, 702 Union St. (at 5th Ave.), Brooklyn, 718-638-4400; 8, $15
Sam Mickens' ...
Television
The 4400
The boys are pumped but the sensuous undercurrent of the saga is lost Catherine Hardwicke’s feeling for teen angst and female anxiety gave Twilight (the first film of the series based on Stephenie Meyer’s novels) immense potential. But Chris Weitz’s sequel New Moon is full of ...
Celebrities
New Moon
Twilight
Chris Weitz
Catherine Hardwicke
One of my first jobs out of school was playing a rotating
succession of floozies—some dumb, some angry, all crazy—on MTV’s first-ever
nonmusical program, Remote Control. The
parts were tiny, but Remote Control,
the cultish late ’80s game show in which three college kids ...
Celebrities
The rumors are true: other things will be screening this
weekend besides The Twilight Saga: New
Moon.
Broken
Embraces showcases a few of director Pedro Almodóvar’s favorite things:
bold colors; cinephilia; twisty, melodramatic plots; and, of course, Penélope
Cruz. Broken ...
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Next week, Theater 80 will fire up its film projectors for the first time in 15 years, when comic caper film The Brooklyn Heist begins its two-week run at the famed revival house. We asked The Brooklyn Heist director Julian Mark Kheel about how this unique booking came about, and why Theater 80 ...
Movies
We always assumed that people were still smoking inside because the places we tend to hang out are less than savory, but according to Eater, it's happening all over. --- ...
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Blogs: Live Tonight: Dirty Projectors, Toubab Krewe, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Rakim and more
See the poster children of Brooklyn sound, Dirty Projectors, at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. 6th St. (betw. Wythe & Kent Aves.), 718-486-540; 8, $15 ---
Toubab Krewe brings Malian influence to Santos Party House, 96 Lafayette St (betw. Walker & White Sts.), 212-584-5492; 10, $15
...
Television
The 4400
Artist Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, who is best known
for her collaborative environmental arts installations with husband Christo
Javacheff, died today in Manhattan of complications stemming from a brain
aneurysm. Jeanne-Claude, 74, is survived by her husband and son Cyril Christo. ---
...
Movies
When I first heard Evangelicals’ sophomore release The Evening Descends in December of 2007, it sounded like the second coming of Arcade Fire. To my ears, it was the only album since Funeral capable of matching its intensity without sounding like a canned attempt at doing so. It brought ...
Movies
Helmer Toro, owner of H&H Bagels, was indicted for tax fraud yesterday. He pled not guilty to charges of withholding over $360,000 in payroll taxes. Surely the owner of the self-described “largest bagel manufacturer in the world” wouldn’t risk an enterprise that promising ...
Movies
Pixies hit town on ‘Doolittle’ anniversary tour KIM DEAL HAS spent more time in New York lately than some people who actually live here.While she calls Dayton, Ohio, home, Deal has been in town with The Breeders, for her role in The Long Count at BAM and now shes around for a ...
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A pale, pubescent JAMES GREENE, JR. plugs it in at a power station I WANT TO have sex,” she announced politely but firmly, like a little girl demanding a new doll. “Where can we go to do that?” Not anywhere around here, I thought as I looked around the barren park where we were ...
Television
Billy, can I take your picture? He made a face and pretty much shuttered his baby blues. Billy, another one, can you please open your eyes? I asked again.
Movies
JOSH BERNSTEIN will eat (and drink) without pants if he wants THE HALOGEN-BRIGHT morning sun beat down on my crusted eyelids. Opening them felt like I was prying the top of an ancient jar of mustard.
To my right, my girlfriend’s carcass was comatose, immune to meddlesome light. I stood ...
