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Columns Sex | Wednesday, November 4,2009

Flavor of the Week: On a Tear

JUSTIN RICHARDS and the life (and love) lessons of a Brooklyn jailhouse

By Justin Richards
THE AIR IN the cell was warm with evaporated piss and sweat, so eventually I took off the leather jacket I’d been wearing. Someone sitting on the bench—a young, coffee-colored guy with fat red lips tattooed on his neck—jabbed the guy beside him and pointed at me.Well, it’s about time, I thought. Read more Read it in print
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Music Features | Wednesday, April 22,2009

Back on the Chain Gang

The nine rock ‘n’ roll lives of Ian Svenonius

By Justin Richards
So many artists have this contradicting dual fixation: On the one hand, they want to believe in the precious perfect purity of their art and resent the distorting lens of media hype. Their thoughts are too ambient and sensual for the parallel march of type. On the other, they have this terrible desire for recognition and must admit that they need exposure. Interviewing one of these people is a drag. Read more

24/7 Art | Wednesday, April 8,2009

What Would Jesus Show?

New Museum checks IDs, exhibits work by 50 artists under 33

By Justin Richards
Those of us born since the late 1970s have to wince when well-meaning journalists make pronouncements about who we are. Articles published in USA Today or The Wall Street Journal and directed primarily at middle managers, themselves fiercely curious about the character of their livestock, say we are entitled, impatient and self-aggrandizing. Read more Read it in print

Music Features | Wednesday, April 8,2009

Luaka Bop's Nine Lives

The strange survival story of an offbeat local record label

By Justin Richards
Any dutifully bored music writer knows that his handiest weapon is the cross-band comparison—it’s like Joy Division with bongos! Dearer still is the combination: Deerhunter meets Fleet Foxes meets Grizzly Eyes meets Frog Bear. Whatever. It suggests a certain conformity, doesn’t it? In this respect, record label Luaka Bop is a constant frustration. Read more Read it in print

Food Reviews | Wednesday, March 18,2009

Passing The Bar: Raines Law Room

JUSTIN RICHARDS gets Frenched at Raines Law Room

By Justin Richards
A lazy-eyed, dark-skinned server walks by in black latex tights that she appears to be injected into. I avert my eyes.Vulgar thoughts must be driven from the mind—not because they’re sinful but because, in this environment, they’re unseemly. Read more Read it in print

Columns Parties | Wednesday, March 4,2009

Take Out Your Lits

Accompanied Literary Society's Art War II

By Justin Richards
When I first arrived at Milk Gallery for the Accompanied Literary Society's Art War II, the crowd was sparse and bombshell founder Brooke Geahan, wearing a wee red miniskirt, was being photographed in front of each installation like it was a hot rod. "She's the head of an art society?" asked a New York magazine intern. "A literary society," I corrected. "I need to start joining more literary societies." Read more

Columns Parties | Wednesday, February 25,2009

Bash Compactor: Art House

A Night with Jeremy Earhart

By Justin Richards
It's one thing when an artist is milling around his own show, teetering a wine glass and trying to overhear what guests will say about his work. It's another for the audience to investigate his base Read more

Columns Parties | Wednesday, February 18,2009

Bash Compactor: Still Playing Pretty

An evening with Ian Svenonius

By Justin Richards
At first I didn’t see it.There was Jonathan Toubin behind the turntables, chest hair sprawling, Dr. Strangelove hair hanging over his right brow, wearing that perpetual smile like, Man you’ve gotta hear this joke. His partner Ian Svenonius, radical rhetorician and former frontman of The Make-Up, who described his first band, Nation of Ulysses, as “a political party,” was off to the side chatting with Jared Leto. How did this fit with his agenda for musical anarchy? What was so radical about being Cake Shop’s guest DJ? Read more

Features News | Wednesday, February 11,2009

Healthy Manhattan: Bypass the Heart Stuff

Preventative medicine and herbal remedies may be the best way to protect your heart

By Justin Richards
After hearing more and more about the growing interest in Eastern medicine, we figured it had something to do with Taoism, pet crystals and random hippie crap. I’ll take my Lipitor deep-fried. Next stop, the surgeon’s table, for a supple new chimp heart! Nothing can stop me! Then the economy tanked, our insurer went bankrupt and suddenly this whole idea of “preventive medicine”—its own sort of free health care—didn’t seem so absurd. Thankfully, the recession comes at a time when holistic medicine, after years of building a loyal indie following, is being absorbed into the mainstream. Read more Read it in print

Features Culture | Wednesday, January 28,2009

Book Marx

A small bookstore in Chelsea continues to operate and prepare for the time when the system collapses

By Justin Richards
The question was innocent enough. Having noticed the signage for Revolution Books/Libros Revolución while shopping, the slight, brownskinned man stepped inside to ask about the shop’s selection, looking about him as though recently orphaned. Read more
 


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