Bash Compactor: To a Flame

From The Moth Ball to Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses

They invade your house, fluttering silently around the lamps at night, scaring the crap out of you, making holes in your sweaters. Moths flock to the light. It’s no different at The Moth, a popular storytelling series, named by writer George Dawes Green, that began on his Georgia porch and later migrated swarm-like, to his New York City apartment.

Bash Compactor: Sleeping Together

Pajamas and cupcakes at Creative Time's Ace Hotel sleepover

The art world regressed back to childhood last Wednesday night with a sleepover-themed fundraiser for public art organization Creative Time at The Ace Hotel. In case anyone forgot they were in fact grown-ups, designer pajamas by Will Cotton, milk-based cocktails and a resplendent spread of gourmet sweets took things far beyond your average trundle beds and flashlights affair.

Do the 'Doo'

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 threenight series of shows from the band that made her famous, Pixies.The group, made up of Charles Thompson (AKA Black Francis or Frank Black)

Black Hole Son

Attention all those who worship at the altar of twiggy, big-eyed, scraggly antiheroes: Tim Burton has come to town. Plus, four other misfit artists who mine their psyches for creepy material.

OFTEN GHETTOIZED INTO the cobwebbed recesses of haunted houses, Tim Burton’s triumphant oddities and alluring grotesqueries are now anointed by one of the world’s elite cultural circles. Halloween’s pumpkin glow may have barely drained from New York’s autumnal complexion, but all things diabolical and dark will be resurrected beginning Nov. 22, as the auteur unveils over 700 never-before-seen ...

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

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 lost potential. Harwicke’s visual elegance via cinematographer Elliott Davis emphasized the wooded Northwest territory as a natural wonderland where the heroine Bella’s (Kristen Stewa...

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Macy's Parade Says Bye-Bye to Broadway

Sharp corners and big balloons seems the kind of coupling that ends with a big POP! But we’ll find out for sure on Thursday when the classic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade forgoes the great white way for a new parade route filled with twists and turns.Read more

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Live Tonight: Pixies, Dinosaur Feathers, Melt Banana and more

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.Read more

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This Turkey's No Teetotaller

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 it’s not with dressing but vodka, giving new meaning to the term party fowl. Read more

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Miss G Train Crown Fit For a Girl From Queens

A walk of shame looking like a disheveled mess and wearing last night's 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.Read more

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Free Speech Not So Free; Artist Arrested At High Line

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 move both Lederman and the federal court system say violates his First Amendment right to freedom of speech.Read more

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