Bash Compactor: Brooklyn Bounce

Experiencing Sissy Bounce for the first time at Big Freedia's show at CoCo66

The crowd at Saturday’s performance by Big Freedia at CoCo66 seemed split into three groups: the gays; the Bushwick club music aficionados; and readers of the NewYork Times Magazine. Then there was me. Sissy Bounce, the New Orleans-born music offshoot with the gender-bending angle, has become a phenomenon since appearing in the Sunday paper a few weeks back. For the first few minutes of standing alone, nursing ...

Pussy Cats

Vagina Panther might be New York’s most savage beast

"Can you write Vagina Panther and then go: Snatch. Pussy. Cunt. Twat?” asks drummer Trent Good. I told him I would. So there it is. This is a highlight of a slightly insane and scattered conversation at the Palace Cafe in Greenpoint, a dark bar with loud music and cheap beer.

Flavor of the Week: Personal Flotation Devices

For MATTHEW STEWART, not all boobs are a day at the beach

Straight men have an innate desire to look at naked women. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just how we are. Even if the woman is someone we wouldn't want to get near, we need to look. Naked ladies are great and that's that. My girlfriend Bobbie and drive out to the beach at Jacob riis Park in Queens often as possible in the summer. It's an escape from the stuffy, breezeless, heatstroke-inducing climate that sett...

Machete

Robert Rodriguez doesn’t deliver on his spoof-trailer fun with full-length Machete

Spoiled alert: That over-the-top image of Danny Trejo firing a machine-gun-mounted-motorcycle while being propelled by a fireball in the Grindhouse spoof-trailer for Machete never appears in the movie itself. But Machete cheats even more than that. Robert Rodriguez’s spoof-trailer promised fun, but now that the actual movie is here, he gives us idiocy. Machete combines genre spoofery with a presumptuous politic...

The Anti-American American

Killing machine Clooney confesses his conceit

For one brief moment The American becomes a true thriller when George Clooney, playing an enigmatic assassin, stakes out a new assignment in Italy and encounters Filippo Timi who played the mesmerizing figment of Benito Mussolini in Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere. Here, Timi—the actor of the year—projects another fully-imagined life: a wary yet generous village mechanic so emotionally open that his comp...

24/7 Books

Kansas City, New York

A new coffee-table book looks back at one of our most infamous nightclubs

In 1990, a 13-year-old who wanted to know what went on inside of Max's Kansas City during the late '60s and early '70s would have to search for clues. He would pour over passages in Jim Carroll's Downtown Diaries enough times and listen over and over to the Velvet's Live at Max's, recorded in 1970, pausing especially for the few snippets of unmuffled dialogue (Lou Reed telling the crowd to dance; Carroll asking a wai...

The Time Is NOW

DanceNOW launches a new season with an exciting festival

“We’re definitely the less-is-more group,” says Robin Staff, artistic director/producer of DanceNOW [NYC], the busy and intrepid dance-presenting organization that gets the fall dance season off to an invigorating start with Festival Twenty Ten next week. Making big things possible with reduced resources is certainly a handy talent in this era of funding cuts and tightened budgets, and for a small o...

Off the Broadway Path

Previewing the Fall 2010 Off-Broadway season

Because of the large swath of Manhattan that Off-Broadway occupies, it’s less easy to focus on than Broadway, where all the shows are within walking distance of one another. Besides, Broadway gets time in the spotlight every summer with the Tony Awards; no closeted high school theater queens are planning their Drama Desk Awards viewing party. However, as more and more productions are transferring from Off to th...

NY comPRESSed

Kei Nishikori and Hurricane Earl become Topics of Grueling Day 4 at U.S. Open

What started as just another match on a sunny court 13 at 11 a.m. very slowly became a marathon match for the ages, one that wouldn't end until 4:59 minutes after it had started. Read more

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PRESS Play

Live Tonight: Apache Beat, Unnatural Helpers, Built To Spill, Marina & The Diamonds

Tonight Apache Beat, Blood Orange and We Are All Romans play a show at Coco66, 66 Greenpoint Avenue (betw. Franklin and West Sts.), Brooklyn, 718-389-7392; 7, $8. Read more

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Funny Business

Audrey Crabtree is a director and co-founder of the New York Clown Theater Festival. She is an award-winning performer, writer, and director who has worked with actors, improvisers, clowns, buffoons, burlesque performers and performance artists for more than 17 years.

So, when she kicks off the latest incarnation of the NYCTF on Friday with a parade that leads from Union Square to The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, you can trust it’s the start of something special. We caught up with Crabtree to find out just exactly what kind of—sorry—clowning around we can expect. Read more

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PRESS Play

Brand Nubian at The Knitting Factory

Promoted as a Brand Nubian concert in which the New Rochelle-based hip-hop crew would replay the 1993 album In God We Trust in its entirety, Wednesday night's Knitting Factory show may have not delivered fully on its promise but it did not disappoint the delighted fans who were clearly just happy to be transported back to hip-hop's so-called "golden age" for a night.  Read more

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PRESS Play

Nightclub Meets Book Club at ATP

If this year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties knock-out lineup—Iggy and the Stooges, DJ Kool Herc and Shellac, to name a few—doesn’t quite do it for you, the weekend festival is introducing an unexpected new feature for its third New York-hosted year: a book club. Read more

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