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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Of Apps and Ass]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[What made COREY COLDSORE&rsquo;s life Grindr to a halt My iPhone is not well. It tuckers out in less than two hours and despite what the Apple Genius Bar studs say, I know what ails my beloved friend: Grindr.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Weed Out the Weak]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Alain Resnais&rsquo; elegant Wild Grass makes most other films look like an embarrassment ALAIN RESNAIS WAS never a pop filmmaker. His &ldquo;fun&rdquo; always comes with an intellectual prerequisite that bespeaks class while also evaluating it. His experiments with narrative form are also a kind of emotional rigor and it often expands into glorious empathy, as in his latest film Wild Grass&mdash;although the title Les Herbes Folles suggests &ldquo;Crazy Grass,&rdquo; which accounts for the personal eccentricity that structures a relationship between Georges (Andre Sussolier), who finds a woman&rsquo;s wallet, and the wallet&rsquo;s owner, Marguerite (Sabine Azema).]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Junk As Art]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[In an exhibit mounted this week, heroin bags stand in for canvases  ON A HAZY day this June, I was hopping from stranger&rsquo;s loft to stranger&rsquo;s loft, dodging swarms of sweaty beer bottles as I navigated the Bushwick Open Studio weekend.

The crowd&rsquo;s assertive dress and distinctive swagger disrupted the otherwise normal neighborhood fare of hoopties swooping, chorizo grilling and children busting open fire hydrants. While trying to focus on the art, I found myself unable to do anything but stare fixated for hours at the cracked sidewalks in between venues, scanning them like a geriatric wielding her metal detector. The sought treasure? Heroin stamps, or paper packets emblazoned with tiny pictures that tell a story of how drugs are marketed, bought and sold in New York.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Anti-American American]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;s Vincere. Here, Timi&mdash;the actor of the year&mdash;projects another fully-imagined life: a wary yet generous village mechanic so emotionally open that his complex humanity exposes Clooney&rsquo;s dull sham.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Machete]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-21588-machete.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Robert Rodriguez doesn&rsquo;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&rsquo;s spoof-trailer promised fun, but now that the actual movie is here, he gives us idiocy. Machete combines genre spoofery with a presumptuous political message. Putting action-movie fantasy on the same level as the current Mexican border and illegal-immigrant controversy, Machete ruins moviegoers&rsquo; fun.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Time Is NOW]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[DanceNOW launches a new season with an exciting festival &ldquo;We&rsquo;re definitely the less-is-more group,&rdquo; 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 organization, the 16-year-old DanceNOW does a large amount to nurture and support dance artists.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Off the Broadway Path]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Previewing the Fall 2010 Off-Broadway season Because of the large swath of Manhattan that Off-Broadway occupies, it&rsquo;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 the Great White Way (including Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and The Scottsboro Boys this season), a quick glance at what the major Off-Broadway players have in store is in order.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Brooklyn Bounce ]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-21574-bash-compactor-brooklyn-bounce.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Experiencing Sissy Bounce for the first time at Big Freedia's show at CoCo66 The crowd at Saturday&rsquo;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 a Pabst, I was afraid that I had no chance of fitting into any of the groups. Finally, I gulped my beer and started talking to Jacob Flood. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pussy Cats]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-21582-pussy-cats.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Vagina Panther might be New York&rsquo;s most savage beast  "Can you write Vagina Panther and then go: Snatch. Pussy. Cunt. Twat?&rdquo; 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. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kansas City, New York]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[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 waiter for "a double Pernod"). He would take a walk up to Park avenue South and East 17th Street, see what was there and try to blot it out with an imagined black-andwhite marquee moon. If he did all that, a mental picture might begin to come into focus: andy Warhol's red-lit court and its swirl of artists, drag queens, superstars and speed freaks.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Personal Flotation Devices]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[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 settles over summertime new York. Why sweat in your apartment when you can lie in the breeze, read, drink beer and swim in the cool Atlantic?]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Rebel's Rise and Fall]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Vincent Cassel, a French Adrien Brody, struts in the role of macho Mesrine Killer Instinct, the first of the two-part French gangster film Mesrine, finally opens in the U.S. following a highly praised home turf reception. But it also has the misfortune of coming right after the Anthology Film Archives&rsquo; compelling William Lustig program of crime movies and what Variety calls &ldquo;actioners,&rdquo; where zero-prestige works by Larry Cohen, Henri Verneuil and Giuliano Montaldo raised the B-movie crime film to insightful or, at least, pleasurable and personally-expressive heights. Mesrine doesn&rsquo;t measure up.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Playing With Myself]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[RICH BINNING on whipping it out for a living "If anything, it will be a great story," I said last April to my college buddy Chris Cannon as we were walking into an open-call audition for Puppetry of the Penis. As musical theater majors, both of us jumped at the opportunity for any stage time we could get, but I never considered myself an exhibitionist. While my college roommates could tell stories of a game I sometimes played called Is-it-my-finger-or-penis-that&rsquo;s-touching-the-back-of-your-neck, in high school and before alcohol, I was too bashful to shower in the locker room with other guys. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cracking The Code]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[DNA goes into its fall season with real-estate woes front and center Certainly Catherine Peila, the executive director of Dance New Amsterdam, would prefer to be speaking about her company&rsquo;s upcoming fall season, with its intriguing international residencies and support for artists in residence. But DNA&rsquo;s focus this summer has been on survival and financial realities, with the threat of imminent eviction overcome, for the moment, as well as complex, difficult negotiations with city agencies as well as Fram Realty, the organization&rsquo;s landlord in Lower Manhattan at 280 Broadway.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Broadway Breakdown]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[What 18 upcoming Broadway shows have in common A total of 18 shows are Broadway-bound in the first half of the 2010-2011 season, but just a handful will bring a dewy freshness to the Great White Way. Only six of the shows are musicals, and the rest are either imports or revivals. All of the shows, however, fit into the same five categories that have defined the fall season for the last few years: Marquee Name Shows, British Prestige Plays, The Transplant, The American Original and The Misguided Revival. And, as now seems required, the season will also feature another David Mamet revival when Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight bring A Life in the Theater (Oct. 12) back to Broadway.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Brooklyn's Vanishing Witch House]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-21562-brooklyns-vanishing-witch-house.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[White Ring and CREEP burn your trends and have real music to show for it About twice a year, the music press collectively decides to invent a new micro-genre. It&rsquo;s easy enough. Find at least three bands that sound similar by scouring MySpace pages and blogs. Then, write a trends piece that uses their artistry as chum for web hits and temporary influence. Witch House, a bizarre blend of lo-fi shoegaze, chopped and screwed Houston hip-hop, house music and horrifying imagery, is the most recent of these movements. It&rsquo;s also about to die.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Over The River]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-21559-over-the-river.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ Despite growing pains, AMRE KLIMCHAK finds Greenpoint&rsquo;s Mrs. Kim&rsquo;s worth a visit Mrs. Kim&rsquo; is the happy outcome of a welcome transformation of River Barrel Cafe, a middling new American spot in Greenpoint, into an inventive Korean restaurant. When River Barrel&rsquo;s chef left earlier this year, one of its owners, Lisa Kim, partially filled the gap with her own Korean cooking. Then she hired chef Jonathan Meyer, who, inspired by her concoctions, encouraged a menu overhaul. And Mrs. Kim&rsquo;s, offering an innovative mix of contemporary Korean comfort food with locavore leanings, was born.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: The Big 3-0 ]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-21556-bash-compactor-the-big-3-0.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[With Nita Aviance at his 30th birthday bash at Santos Party House Do you want to lose your mind on the dance floor? Relax. You still can. It happened at DJ Nita&rsquo;s First Annual Birthday Beatdown last week at Santos Party House. &ldquo;Who do you think the best DJ in New York is?&rdquo; I asked one of my favorite party promoters. &ldquo;Nita Aviance, of course.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Visual Vibe]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-21547-the-visual-vibe.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Set Against The Backdrop Of New York City, New Mogwai Film Captures The Band&rsquo;s Intensity  Over the course of a three-day residency at the Music Hall of Williamsburg last year, four cameras filmed the Scottish band Mogwai, its cult of fans and all of their surroundings.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[In High Dungeon]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The searching souls of Paul Weitz&rsquo;s new comedy find safety in S&M Over the years, I&rsquo;ve found that it pays to be wary of TV stars that take to the stage&mdash;think of John Stamos in Bye Bye Birdie, Farah Fawcett (R.I.P.) in Bobbi Boland or Suzanne Somers in The Blonde in the Thunderbird. But Trust turns that particular preconception, along with a few others, on its head. In fact, Paul Weitz&rsquo;s new comedy at Second Stage delights in rattling people out of their complacency, and none more so than its characters, including millionaire Harry (Zach Braff) and his depressive wife Aleeza (Ari Graynor, updating Jackie Susann for 2010).]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: 23-Hour Party People ]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-21537-bash-compactor-23-hour-party-people.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[At the Panda NYC party with DJ Zhill When your hair is fabulous, your night will be, too. It&rsquo;s a known fact. Saturday night found strangers complimenting me on the street on my platinum &rsquo;do thanks to lots of teasing, gel and bleach. Nancy Spungen would&rsquo;ve approved. That&rsquo;s why I decided to go to a straight party for once&mdash;it&rsquo;s refreshing to be hit on by the opposite sex. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hero Worship]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[A soldier&rsquo;s tragic tale retold for maximum effect in 'The Tillman Story' "Fratricide&rdquo; is the word used in Amir Bar-Lev&rsquo;s doc The Tillman Story to describe the 4/22/04 incident in which Pvt. George Tillman was killed while on duty in Afghanistan. It is a sign of Bar-Lev&rsquo;s political bias that his film favors that moralizing term over the military designation &ldquo;friendly fire&rdquo; to describe gunfire discharged by allies and colleagues. Bar-Lev wants the tragic implications of a taboo act and is not above structuring this investigation into exactly how Tillman became a celebrated casualty of the afghan campaign into lurid melodrama. The Tillman Story is really about the chicanery of the U.S. Military&mdash;first in covering up the facts, then presenting a version to the media who used it to promote the war to the public. The Tillman Story is another example of how contemporary journalism and documentary-making have lost credibility.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Love and Other Strangers]]></title>

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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Whoa, Mama!]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-21549-flavor-of-the-week-whoa-mama_.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ANNA FISHBEYN asks New York moms what&rsquo;s happening with their babymakers I'm standing on Pier 70 in stifling humidity, watching moms with infants on their chests trying to clap for singing clowns while their kids whine to go home. As the moms begin to file out of the makeshift amphitheater, I diligently hand out postcards to promote my show. &ldquo;Hi, I have something just for moms&mdash;a show just for you,&rdquo; I say, and present them with an image of myself sitting on a Thomas the Train potty with the words, &ldquo;Sex In Mommyville&rdquo; next to my face. One mom stops in her tracks and under her breath, mumbles: &ldquo;Sex? What sex?&rdquo; Two seconds later, another mom does the exact same thing. A third mom says, &ldquo;Oh, I get it&mdash;you&rsquo;re making a joke because we never have any.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Lion in Summer]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[A new book recalls a horrible heat wave and how it shaped local and national politics This past July was the warmest on record after two heat waves, but the 10-day heat wave that scorched New york in 1896 could have the distinction of doing something far more historic: putting Teddy Roosevelt in the White house. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Almost All's Well at M. Wells]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Long Island City&rsquo;s latest attempt to get on the culinary map M. Wells doesn&rsquo;t look like much on the outside: a dusty chrome diner car in a stretch of long Island City that seems gray no matter the weather. The restaurant, owned by New Yorker Sarah Obraitis and Canadian Hugue Dofour, isn&rsquo;t a looker on the inside, either. The only things distinguishing it from its greasy spoon past are a modern light fixture by the entrance and two communal tables set apart from the booths and counter stools. What is striking are the prices&mdash;shockingly affordable considering it&rsquo;s the best breakfast in Queens.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Does the L Train Go to Ronkonkoma?]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Totally over Brooklyn, Twin Sister makes innovative pop on Long Island Living in the city can be a blessing and a curse for any new band. On the plus side, there&rsquo;s easy access to the press, venues, labels and like-minded artists. But spiraling rents and being shackled to a day job can easily sap creative urges. Twin Sister is a five-piece band made up of members who have shuttled back and forth between their hometowns in Long Island and adopted residences in Brooklyn during the group&rsquo;s two-year lifespan. A few months ago, four members of the band lived in Brooklyn and one in Long Island, but now the inverse is true, with only keyboard player Dev Gupta remaining in the city.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Saturday Night Fever]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-21504-bash-compactor-saturday-night-fever.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ Homicide took off a boot and slammed Balls over the head, then took off the other and clopped him on the side of the skull before taking off his belt and strangling Balls. The blood poured from Balls forehead until Homicide had to be pulled off and the paramedics were called to the ring.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Dweeb That Would Rule the World]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Edgar Wright dissects pop culture with plenty of speed and humor Midway through grinning at Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, I realized: this elation must be what Tarantino fans want to feel when watching one of his pop culture marathons. The difference is that QT&rsquo;s pop-referencing movies extract all social and political contexts, while Edgar Wright, who directed Scott Pilgrim and co-wrote its screenplay (based on graphic novels by Bryan Lee O&rsquo;Malley), is also a social satirist.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Samsonite Set of Conflicted Emotions]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Two friends grow up and grow apart in Jonathan Blitstein&rsquo;s keenly felt new play To find a play about twentysomethings that features recognizable characters is a rare commodity. To find an Off-Off-Broadway play about recognizable twentysomethings that involves a surplus of talent is the Holy Grail of adventurous theatergoing. Unlikely though it may be, that Holy Grail is now at Theater for the New City, being performed under the title Keep Your Baggage With You (at all times).]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Catch a ReRun]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The ReRun Theater screens films on Blu-Ray & DVD in Dumbo Jason Stevens opened ReBar on Front and Jay Streets in Brooklyn&rsquo;s Dumbo neighborhood three-and-a-half years ago. A former investment banker, Stevens was looking to utilize his creative side in a way that his job at Merrill Lynch just didn&rsquo;t allow. Built on the site of the Grand Union Tea Company, Stevens&rsquo; ReBar was voted by Time Out New York in 2007 to be the &ldquo;Best New Bar.&rdquo; And starting in mid-July, the ReBar has opened its own in-house movie theater.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Twelve]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Schumacher drifts toward fancy melodrama with his latest Joel Schumacher&rsquo;s talent exceeds his ambition in Twelve. Instead of making a meaningful tragic about modern pampered youth, he&rsquo;s simply updated his 80s hit St. Elmo&rsquo;s Fire (a multi-cast story of friendship and betrayal) and his 90s hit The Lost Boys (self-explanatory, replacing the occult with social-commentary and drugs, money, race and sex).]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Other Guys]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Adam McKay successfully satirizes the buddy cop formula to prick social conventions Thankfully, this week Warner Archives&rsquo; DVD premiere of Robert Altman&rsquo;s 1970 Brewster McCloud prepares you for the spottily clever The Other Guys. It&rsquo;s not clear if director Adam McKay (director of the hilarious Talladega Nights) promises an original vision as Brewster McCloud showed that Altman (following the massive success of M*A*S*H) possessed a penetrating and unpredictable social vision and satirical sensibility. McKay at least has an startling, lively end credits sequence that bitterly critiques the Obama administration&rsquo;s financial follies. McKay may come from the world of contemporary snark-humor but this audacious sequence which extends the plot&rsquo;s expose of Wall Street criminals is something neither SNL nor most mainstream media would ever dare.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Josh Bernstein pedals to Queens for his Qu&eacute;b&eacute;cois fix Much to my girlfriend&rsquo;s dismay, in recent days I&rsquo;ve begun agitating against eggs. &ldquo;I just don&rsquo;t like &rsquo;em anymore,&rdquo; I said one morning. I rifled through the fridge and retrieved a pink grapefruit, using a fingernail to send citrus spraying across the room.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Descender and the return of melodic hardcore The bands name comes from the typographic term for the spacing below a headline. dont worry, i didnt get it at first either. i thought it was more along the lines of descender = one who is descending into hell.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[With an Isabel Sarli retrospective and a revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at Film Forum, we're reminded of a time when there was a different sort of cinematic eroticism I first saw Carne, a showcase for Argentinian sex symbol Isabel Sarli, at a San Sebastian Film Festival revival of that 1968 film while in the company of John Waters and his assistant Pat Moran. The duo provided expert commentary on the camp quality of Sarli&rsquo;s overpowering voluptuousness. Waters took the right, knowing approach to Carne&rsquo;s auteur, the late director Armando Bo. The film&rsquo;s title means flesh, and Bo appreciated Sarli&rsquo;s virtues and her showgirl enthusiasm similar to the way Waters celebrated his own cast of eccentrics.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA['Middle Men' is a 'Sopranos'-meets-'Mad Men' cocktail of superficial complexity TV banality saturates Middle Men. It is more proof that the influence of TV-style superficiality&mdash;undramatic pacing, routine imagery&mdash;has ruined the imagination of both filmgoers and filmmakers. Few people these days can discern the difference. Writer-director George Gallo can&rsquo;t even feel how his attempted porn movie epic is false cinema, essentially R-rated TV.

Gallo has made Middle Men to look just like an episode of Mad Men meets The Sopranos: It&rsquo;s a series of slickly provocative domestic and business scenes meant to capture the everyday evidence of American cultural change, moral conflict and decadence. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ I know tons of drag queens, but I&rsquo;d never heard of Peaches Christ until last week. Apparently, in San Francisco, horror film freaks turn up at movie theaters showing horror flicks decked out in outlandish gore couture to worship her as their high priestess. Now Christ has directed All About Evil, her own fulllength feature bloodfest film, starring Natasha Lyonne, Mink Stole and Elvira star Cassandra Peterson. I expected a menagerie of blood-spattered whacks to arrive at the Landmark Cinema for a Friday night &ldquo;midnight mass,&rdquo; but New Yorkers can be so boring. The theater was packed, but there was nary a corpse or a zombie. Nobody was even decked out like a Goth&mdash;well, other than me and drag queen performers Shealita BaBay (who came down from Albany) and Mimi Imfurst.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[CSC Funk Band wants you to dance New York City has been the progenitor of myriad music scenes: punk rock, No Wave, noise-rock and more recent fads like dance-punk and Ivy League rock. Indeed, something is amiss when the sound filling Issue Project Room&rsquo;s cavernous courtyard isn&rsquo;t aping the usual. Instead, a long-haired stoner beardo, draped in an ancient guided by Voices T-shirt and clutching an oboe, announces to the crowd gathered under the hot summer sun: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s OK if you want to dance, we&rsquo;re a funk band!&rdquo; Such is the universe according to CSC Funk Band, an ever-expanding crew (at press time, a 10-piece) comprised of all white dudes and one brave lady defying the requisite post-punk retreads and avant-garde noise-isms and inciting a DIY dance riot by channeling not Eno or Bowie but James Brown.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Choreographer Miller prepares her latest work for the Joyce Her appearance and demeanor may appear charming, even demure, but Andrea Miller&rsquo;s dances are nothing like that. They revel in a visceral power and are unafraid to venture into ferocity and ugliness. Bodies are more likely to flail and collapse than to display an elegant line. In her two major full-evening works, 2008&rsquo;s I Can See Myself in Your Pupil and the following year&rsquo;s Blush, one can sense a young choreographer unafraid to tap into primal sensations and to ask her dancers to expose their nerve endings. But at the same time, her work is elegantly disciplined, and amid the tension there are helpings of wit and playfulness.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[RACHEL SHUKERT works her charms on the men of Paris Sometimes I have dreams in which I become capable of extraordinary things. I dream I am a professional ballet dancer or an Olympic gymnast or an M-to-F transsexual married to Joe Biden (actually, this last was rather upsetting, as none of the other Georgetown wives would have lunch with me once they&rsquo;d heard I had a penis), and I feel small and empty when I wake up to discover that I am still just me.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ALEX VADUKUL spends the night at Sunset Park&rsquo;s most exciting warehouse party The warehouse is located on a desolate street in Sunset Park. An ice cream truck jingle can be heard in the distance, and a few meat trucks are parked nearby. It&rsquo;s the second day of preparations for what is set to be a massive party in the 21,000-square-foot industrial space, and as artists and volunteers scuttle inside, barking orders, manning scissor lifts and laying down patches of green astroturf inside, the warehouse entranceway is beginning to resemble a gateway into a small fantasy city.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Kicking back with Manchester City Football Club and Afrika Bambaataa  Some things in life aren&rsquo;t likely to happen, like meeting the pope, or the president, or one of the creators of arguably the most influential music genre ever. But on Saturday night at the swank-but-chill HighBar, where the Manchester City Football Club of England kicked off their U.S. preseason tour with a party, there I was with the godfather of hip-hop, Afrika Bambaataa.  ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[What happens when you quit two of New York&rsquo;s hottest bands to strike out on your own? Frankie Rose tells JAMIE PECK all about it For better or worse, Frankie Rose had my attention. It was New Year&rsquo;s Eve 2009, and the crowd packed into Cake Shop&rsquo;s narrow basement space&mdash;rockers forgoing the city&rsquo;s glitzier fetes for the sure bet of a show&mdash;was sweating. Following an anticlimactic countdown (the clock in my cell phone actually hit midnight during one of the opening bands&rsquo; songs; no one cared), Rose hit the stage with her new band Frankie Rose and The Outs.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Forget pop culture stereotypes of granola and Birkenstocks and meet the New York lesbians making their mark on the city&mdash;with not a pair of sandals in sight. HOTEL MOTEL, A monthly party at Bushwick&rsquo;s Tandem Bar, boasts a young and lively scene. The speakers blare hot &rsquo;90s jams as a willowy blonde with a bowl cut grooves over her laptop. One girl chugs liquid Vicodin as she watches others entwine sweatily on the dance floor. Someone shows me a secret lesbian handshake in which various hands and mouths combine to simulate cunnilingus. I&rsquo;m pretty sure she made it up, but it&rsquo;s amazing.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Taking another shot at the mystery behind Sid and Nancy October 12, 1978. Room 100 of The Chelsea Hotel. The Sex Pistols&rsquo; Sid Vicious finds girlfriend Nancy Spungen bled out on the bathroom floor, a knife wound to her abdomen. An unsuccessful suicide pact? The unintended result of a robbery? The aftermath of an addict&rsquo;s all-night drug binge? Authorities never answered these questions, considering Vicious the only suspect in Spungen&rsquo;s death and closing the case after his own heroin overdose six months later. But one question still remains: Who killed Nancy?
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    <description><![CDATA[The night SEAN KELLY was cock blocked by a toilet "How many buttons can a toilet possibly have?&rdquo; I asked myself as I fumbled with the 10-plus gadgets and functions on the indecipherable and surely obscenely expensive throne in front of me. All I wanted to do was flush it, but instead of a simple metal handle, I was presented with a cornucopia of options for keeping my nether regions fresh and clean: rinse cycles, massage functions and a bright red button disconcertingly labeled &ldquo;blast.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A guide on how to score a drink for $1  Feeling repentant about how my perpetually broke self (along with my perpetually broke boyfriend) manages to spend such a pretty penny going out, I recently set out on a quest for the barfly&rsquo;s Holy Grail: The $1 beer. I&rsquo;m happy to report that I found New York offers a surprising number of options to quench your boozy thirst on the cheap. Here&rsquo;s a selection of spots for each day of the week.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Radiant Child is a glowing tribute to the late artist Half Baked. Billy Madison. Crossroads. Yes, the one with Britney Spears. This is the tail end of director Tamra Davis&rsquo; feature-film credits. At the top, that resum&eacute; includes videos by Tone Loc, NWA and Sonic Youth. Now, she&rsquo;s turned her sights to documentary to &ldquo;make a love letter for [her] friend,&rdquo; Jean-Michel Basquiat.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oft-maligned director Todd Solondz explores compassion and forgiveness (even for Todd Haynes) One of the most poignant scenes in Todd Solondz&rsquo;s Life During Wartime features a college student&rsquo;s dorm decorated with a poster for Todd Haynes&rsquo; I&rsquo;m Not There. It&rsquo;s a ballsy move. Haynes&rsquo; 2007 Bob Dylan charade stole its multi-protagonist concept from Solondz&rsquo;s 2004 film Palindromes. Critics&rsquo; darling Haynes won acclaim that was withheld from the stylistic, empathic challenge of Palindromes, yet Solondz soldiers forward. once again he&rsquo;s made a more affecting film than any by Haynes. In fact, Life During Wartime might be the toughest American movie of 2010. Its audacity confirms Solondz&rsquo;s ingenuity and thematic focus. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Here's three lessons supermom Angelina Jolie teaches her Benetton brood&mdash;and by extension, the global movie audience&mdash;in Salt: 1. The United States is an overweening superpower more inept than its enemies from Russia, Korea and the Middle East; 2. Violence is the answer to all political conflict; 3. Killing Americans is fun.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[at the Daniel Cooney Fine Art Gallery for Jessica Yatrofsky's Performance and the Male Nude No. 6 We were warned the performance would start at 7 sharp, but nobody told me it would be over 17 minutes later. Given New York Citys bumper-to-bumper traffic, some missed most of the show and there wasnt a drop of wine, beer or even sparkling water in the sweatbox of a room.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Doppelganger is happiest in New York It's a rainy summer evening and new york trio Doppelganger has convened after hours at Ludlow Guitars on the Lower East Side, where guitarist Robert Stewart picks up a paycheck. Though Stewart and his bandmates, singer and drummer Ryan Hines and bassist Joey Hamm, now live in Brooklyn, the Lower East Side is still home. It&rsquo;s where Hines and Stewart, while working around the corner at the now defunct Ini Ani coffee shop, decided to form a band, choosing the name Doppelganger because customers so often got them confused. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[At ABRACADABRA's Bed-Stuy Bikini Bash When I came to, I found myself shirtless and scrubbing cake frosting out of my beard in the bathroom of Bed-Stuy&rsquo;s Tip- Top Bar. During a set by Thee Oh Sees, a birthday cake was hoisted up in front of the band and promptly torn apart by the sweaty (and, apparently, hungry) crowd&rsquo;s murderous paws, resulting in some wedding-style cake smashing and a thin film of frosting on the floor that made remaining standing while dancing a bit more difficult, but a hell of a lot more interesting.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Discovering the life-affirming noise of Endless Boogie The incendiary device that ignites a musical awakening is generally a song, album or artist: you hear &ldquo;tired of Being alone&rdquo; or Prayers on Fire or Bikini Kill and your life is never the same. For top Dollar, aka Paul Majors, the guitarist and vocalist at the center of Endless Boogie, it wasn&rsquo;t a song but a sound. &ldquo;i was a pretty quiet kid, very into science. then&mdash;it was 1966, so i was about 11&mdash;i heard a fuzz guitar on the radio and&hellip; that was just it.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A sidewalk squabble between a street vendor and a hotel restaurant is just  the latest food fight for the public sidewalk. Mounir Boubane&rsquo;s food cart faces Plein Sud in Tribeca. The sloppy sign taped to the side of the chrome halal cart reads: &ldquo;Hi Gangters of Plein Sud Guess What!! We are not moving&hellip;from this spot.&rdquo; 
  
  
  Two scribbled arrows point toward the restaurant nearby. The hasty sign was composed with different colored ink on green and brown paper taped together in a checkerboard design. It&rsquo;s slightly illegible, which means you have to get up close to read the screed. The diatribe continues in a sort of streetwise poetry:]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[SUSAN SHAPIRO was trying to solve people&rsquo;s problems but ended up creating her own &ldquo;Three minutes to fix your life.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s what the headlines promised after the launch of my debut novel Speed Shrinking, where I introduced the world to the concept of free speed dating with therapists. It seemed a clever, timely idea in a lousy economy&mdash;and one that might help promote my book. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Reconsidering Rohmer&rsquo;s intense powers of observation The late Eric Rohmer is not known for his audacity&mdash;but he should be. The Film Society of Lincoln Center&rsquo;s complete retrospective of the director&rsquo;s quietly masterful career, &ldquo;The Sign of Rohmer,&rdquo; (Aug. 18-Sept. 3) confirms his daring. This is an irresistible opportunity to see his experimental musical The Tree, The Mayor and the Mediatheque, plus the erotic, psychological WWII drama Triple Agent (both previously unreleased in the U.S.) and his final exquisite classical myth The Romance of Astrea and Celedon.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A new musical allows the homeschooled the chance at a friend&mdash;via Satan Oh homeschoolers. so awkward in social situations, so pumped-up with their own inflated sense of self. Is it any wonder that calling someone &ldquo;homeschooled&rdquo; is now the Pc-version of &ldquo;retarded&rdquo;? But even the most dense and unaware of them must occasionally have the sense that other people look at them askance. And maybe, as rob Broadhurst and Brent Black have envisioned in their infectious new musical I&rsquo;ll Be Damned, some of them are desperate enough for friends to make a deal with the devil.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Christopher Nolan&rsquo;s two-and-a-half hour hackery Christopher Nolan doesn&rsquo;t have a born filmmaker&rsquo;s natural gift for detail, composition and movement, but on the evidence of his fussily constructed mind-game movies Following, Memento, Insomnia and the new Inception, he&rsquo;s definitely a born con artist. Who else could rook Warner Bros. out of $200 million to make Hollywood&rsquo;s most elaborate video-game movie and slap on a puzzling, unappealing title?]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Brian Pennington says hallo to Williamsburg&rsquo;s new biergarten Loreley is the name of the river maiden who in legend perched herself high over the Rhine and lured mariners with her singing. At the new Loreley Restaurant & Biergarten, the singing is in short supply&mdash;unless you happen to stop by during a soccer match. What should lure the thirsty and the hungry to this Williamsburg port are the almost two-dozen German biers, the schlachtplatte (a plate full of smoked pork chops, rib bacon and smoked sausage), the apfelstrudel with vanilla sauce and the hope of a warm Brooklyn evening. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Inside Art Spiegelman and Pilobolus&rsquo; sketchy relationship  Little did Art Spiegelman know he didn't really have much of a choice when asked to collaborate on a dance: He'd been Pilobolized.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[MEGAN CARPENTIER asks New York women to read their lips It started, as it almost had to, with Bill Clinton. Over drinks in a bar in the West Village, I remarked to a friend that our former President smoked vagina-accented cigars&mdash;what I thought was an obvious reference to Clinton&rsquo;s use of a cigar to masturbate Monica Lewinsky (hopefully to orgasm) before smoking it.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The story of a 1927 flood feels eerily contemporary On the Levee is the best show yet about Hurricane Katrina, most likely because it deals with that 2005 tragedy obliquely. Marcus Gardley&rsquo;s play and Todd Almond&rsquo;s songs (which are so period-perfect I didn&rsquo;t realize they were written for the show until afterwards) focus on the 1927 Mississippi Flood, the largest American natural disaster until Katrina. When characters left homeless by the rising tides of the river whisper rumors of spreading disease, rapes and murder while waiting to be rescued, the parallels don&rsquo;t need to be underlined, and director Lear deBessonet wisely doesn&rsquo;t try.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Robert W. Richards gives this year&rsquo;s HOT! Fest a blast from the past. Generally, when someone says that things were better in their day, you roll your eyes and silently list all of the things that weren&rsquo;t available back then (cell phones, Internet pornography, flavored condoms). But for some reason, when older gay gentleman say that the nightlife of their youth was better, it has a ring of truth to it. And longtime New Yorker Robert W. Richards is a reliable narrator when it comes to gay life in New York City, a role he will be taking on for one night only in his upcoming HOT! Fest show, The Vanishing Gay City: 1975&mdash;The Golden Age of Gay.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A fantastic foursome of Real Life Superheroes tackles crime fighting one borough at a time The new York Initiative is a splinter group from a worldwide movement of people calling themselves real Life superheroes (rLsHs), who adopt costumed personas of their own invention and take a number of approaches to the concept. It may seem like mere role-playing or a cheap copy of the popular The Watchmen.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: On a &lsquo;Casserole']]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[At VIG27 for Jeffery & Cole's season premiere party We were only munching on sliders, but last Wednesday night, Jeffery & Cole Casserole was what really filled me up. I was at VIG27  for a party celebrating the premiere of the second season of the LOGO sketch comedy show, which is nothing like your mother&rsquo;s tuna fish surprise.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Despicable Me poses a crucial summer question: Is it possible to enjoy a movie simply for what it is or does hype determine audience response? This 3-D animated comedy, developed by technicians from France&rsquo;s MacGuff graphic arts company, makes genuinely witty use of 3-D trompe l&rsquo;oeil: The ladders that stretch out toward you, the objects that seem to land in  your lap and the sun glare (a 3-D first!) are not a gimmicky after thought as in Toy Story 3 or Shrek Forever After. Instead Despicable Me has a sense of mirth&mdash;telling its story in slapstick kinetics, telling its story in slapstick kinetics, the very thing missing from recent Hollywood animation.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Where to go get your gay on this week Coming Out: A Historical Retrospective of New York&rsquo;s Trailblazing LGBT Institutions This exhibit spotlights the people who changed the history of Harlem, including Black AIDS Institute and FIERCE. Through July 12, Casa Frela Gallery, 47 W. 119th St. (betw. Lenox & 5th Aves.), 917-991- 4760, www.casafrela.com.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A night with Sebastian Blanck Sebastian Blanck&rsquo;s got quite the pedigree. Beyond academics, he&rsquo;s a
founding member of the widely influential Black Dice, a solo musician and visual artist of worldwide
proportions&mdash;h]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[On Zack Dugow's party bus headed for RdV East in Southampton I didn&rsquo;t expect to be reunited with my inner Snooki this summer, but let&rsquo;s face it: You never know what&rsquo;s lurking around the corner. &ldquo;Party! Party! Party!&rdquo; we all shouted in unison like maniacs, drinking champagne out of plastic cups and dancing in our seats to the blaring house music. We were on a party bus called RedRush Express, hurtling toward Southampton. Organized by partythrowing hunk Zack Dugow, the private shuttle leaves Midtown at 10 and heads back into the city at 4 a.m. after a night of carousing at the club RdV East, sister to RDV in the Meatpacking District. Admission is $20, but at Dugow&rsquo;s table, the booze is free. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The hip-hop wild bunch in 'Takers' reminds of Peckinpah outlawry Takers has a Brother vibe that only partly has to do with most of its dapper bankrobber cast being African American. Co-producing rap artists and stars, Tip &ldquo;T.I.&rdquo; Harris and Chris Brown, make vivid use of the crime movie genre&rsquo;s social significance which lackadaisical film commentators have mostly ignored. Takers accents the genre&rsquo;s bonhomie: its exercise of the same working-class frustrations young black artists articulated in hip-hop music and music videos under the influence of &rsquo;70s blaxploitation movies. But Takers is not a cultish parody like the upcoming Machete from Robert Rodriguez. It is&mdash;to redeem a police blotter phrase&mdash;a Saturday Night Special, excitingly executed.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Oliver Stone's South of the Border documentary shows the filmmaker as a biased hack Oliver Stone&rsquo;s documentary South of the Border sells itself as a &ldquo;road trip&rdquo; across five countries in South America, but the contentious director spends most of it stuck on Hugo Ch&aacute;vez and the current state of Venezuela. In fact, the film should have been subtitled: &ldquo;My Love Affair with Hugo.&rdquo; The final result of this ode to Chavez proves that, just because you can make a blockbuster film, doesn&rsquo;t mean you may grasp the fundamentals of crafting an intelligent documentary.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Restrepo is an unsentimental portrayal of platoon life "They&rsquo;re gathering intel on how to deal with us," says Staff Sgt. Joshua McDonaugh in the war documentary Restrepo. He refers to the psychological complications of U.S. combat soldiers in the Afghanistan War such as the military and civilian society have not faced since Vietnam or WWII. That&rsquo;s also Restrepo&rsquo;s basic theme: looking closely at modern warfare through one year with Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade under constant enemy fire in the mountainous Korengal Valley.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A film set in the Dominican Republic shows a side of the island rarely seen The Dominican Republic has stood in for many a film set in Cuba, but rarely has a film been set in the Caribbean island that tells a story about the culture and people of DR itself. La Soga, written by and starring Manny Perez, a Dominican-American who has a lot he wants to say about the country where he was born. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Master director Ken Russell receives a much-deserved Lincoln Center retrospective Why isn&rsquo;t Whore, the 1991 Theresa Russell vehicle directed by Ken Russell, part of &ldquo;Russellmania,&rdquo; the long overdue Ken Russell retrospective at Film Society of Lincoln Center? Although Russell&rsquo;s provocative filmography deserves re-consideration, this series (July 30-Aug. 5) concentrates only on his infamous 1970s films, which does a disservice to the arc of his idiosyncratic career. Russell&rsquo;s &rsquo;70s output&mdash;outrageous celebrity biographies, audacious musicals and adventurous literary adaptations&mdash;gave him a madman reputation that&rsquo;s almost forgotten, and that he couldn&rsquo;t live down.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Spencer Wilking Finds That New York&rsquo;s Tea Partiers Aren&rsquo;t The Bigoted White Guys You Fear. &ldquo;Liberty is on the march,&rdquo; Dan Halloran yells as he clutches a microphone in front of a gathered crowd inside Webster Hall. &ldquo;Not only is it on the march, but liberty is kicking ass and starting to take names all over the United States.&rdquo;

Halloran, the only libertarian New York City Council Member, was warming the crowd up for Rand Paul, son of former presidential candidate Ron Paul and current Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why Does MoMA Hate My Body?]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[JOSEPHINE DECKER waited 31 hours to sit across from Marina Abramovic. But it all ended in seconds when she decided to get naked. The line twisted along the East 53rd Street sidewalk outside of MoMA and included its own assemblage of bodies and props: sleeping bags, bug spray, notebooks, flowers. Most in line had arrived by 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 30, to sleep overnight for a chance to participate in &ldquo;The Artist is Present,&rdquo; a performance piece in which Marina Abramovic looks into an audience member&rsquo;s eyes for as long as the audience member desires.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ARMOND WHITE on the mid-year highs and lows HALFWAY THROUGH 2010, we&rsquo;re at a point in which movie culture has very clearly split between art and commerce. There used to be excitement about the blur between high and low art; critics could argue for the intellectual virtues of B-movies and genre filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino could slyly employ avant-garde tropes just to enjoy the audacious reference&mdash;the high/low joke.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Annette Bening & Julianne Moore star in what passes as a market-tested sitcom  The Kids Are All Right seems market-tested, like the pilot episode of a TV series. Annette Bening and Julianne Moore play Jules and Nic, a lesbian couple in Los Angeles. One&rsquo;s a doctor, the other&rsquo;s an artist, each has given birth and their teenage children, Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson), now seek out their common father, Paul (Mark Ruffalo), who has never been involved in their lives. He was a sperm-donor during his wild &rsquo;80s youth (&ldquo;It was more fun than giving blood&rdquo;). Cue laff-track, applause sign and awards.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[At Pomme for Penthouse Pet Ryan Keely&rsquo;s 25th birthday Penthouse magazine&rsquo;s halcyon days are a distant memory, but the idea of a few minutes&rsquo; face-time with skimpily attired Pets sparked the excitement of enough bridge-and-tunnel weekend warriors&mdash;of both sexes&mdash;to nearly fill the West 26th Street nightclub Pomme on Friday night.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Jim Knipfel: Life As A Dark Fairy Tale]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Our former columnist talks about his latest book, a collection of twisted tales In the beginning was the Void and then Satan created the Earth because, hey, he was bored and needed a good chuckle. At least that&rsquo;s Jim Knipfel&rsquo;s take in These Children Who Come At You With Knives his recent collection of deranged and twisted fairy tales. Knipfel, a long-time former NY Press writer who penned the column Slackjaw, delves deep into the dark heart of the Brothers Grimm and the traditional fairy tale mythos and returns with a cast of characters that include a pissed-off gnome, a serial killer horse, a maggot in a red sombrero and the world&rsquo;s crappiest snowman. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ It&rsquo;s been 20 years since Julia Roberts negatively revolutionized movie culture in Pretty Woman.  That was a Garry Marshall film, but Roberts&rsquo; screen-sized grin was what sold its fairytale&mdash;a Hollywood confirmation of Madonna&rsquo;s then-popular feminism-as-whoredom ethos. Playing a hooker who denies that she is one predated Clinton&rsquo;s self-serving pragmatism and won Roberts movie-star status. Romantic comedy has never been the same. Roberts&rsquo; new rom-com, Eat Pray Love, is for moviegoers of the Clinton generation who think of romance as a profitable venture.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[At the 'Instant' exhibition at Robert Goff Gallery Why do men having an orgasm look like they&rsquo;re about to croak? That&rsquo;s what I discovered perusing the Instant exhibition at the Robert Goff Gallery last week presented by The Fearless Project art collective. Pasted upon the walls, lined with construction paper and wild colorful graffiti, were 80 Polaroids of men taken while they were about to bust. I get the feeling a lot of them were flying solo. Of course, faces look far better post-climax&mdash;afterglow is better and cheaper than a facelift.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[While visiting a Catskills enclave, JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON witnesses an enduring bond between two men...  It's nearly sunset when Donald and David walk up the road toward the old two-story house on Terwilliger Road, chatting with each other and carrying a bottle of cabernet as a gift. Behind them is a Bedouin-like encampment, a sprinkling of little tent villages in the sloping orchard across the street for the dozens of New Yorkers who have come up to this out-of-the-way nook in the Catskills on a late summer evening.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Preparing for New York&rsquo;s trip with Brion Gysin&rsquo;s Dreamachine She flicked the switch. Nothing happened. The light shone, but the cylinder didn&rsquo;t spin. I was standing in artist Kate Specter&rsquo;s apartment in Carroll Gardens, hoping to have my first non-drug-induced hallucinatory experience using her Dreamachine.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[New 'Twilight' installment lacks director Catherine Hardwicke's touch In the self-destructive Twilight franchise&mdash;in which teenage Bella (Kristen Stewart) dithers between vampire suitor Edward (Robert Pattinson) and werewolf suitor Jacob (Taylor Lautner)&mdash;the films&rsquo; producers seem to determined to make its dubious premise as a metaphor for adolescent sexual panic more unpersuasive with every new installment.

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    <title><![CDATA[Resurrection of Affection]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Stonewall history gets gentrified with Stonewall Uprising STONEWALL UPRISING confronts our nonchalant present-day sexual freedoms with the history of struggle that peaked in the 1969 Stonewall riots. Its title asserts uprising (not &ldquo;riot&rdquo;) to convey the oppression that gay people had to violently oppose in order to claim their humanity and citizenship. This politically correct correction is subject to the clich&eacute;s and conventions of all PBS American Experience documentaries (that means droning music, campy archival PSAs and pandering buzzword references to &ldquo;waterboarding&rdquo; and &ldquo;nation of laws&rdquo; conservatism). Worse, Stonewall Uprising commits an unfortunate revisionism: Every person interviewed in the doc refocuses that legendary civil disobedience at the Stonewall Inn as a homogeneously white, mostly male memory. Stonewall Uprising&rsquo;s history is gentrified history. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[At Rare Gallery pop-up record shop and art show Last Thursday morning, Ari Spool made her way by subway from Greenpoint to Chelsea, one arm wrapped around a 25-pound box of LPs. She&rsquo;d been taking delivery of vinyl from independent record labels for the better part of a month.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[At New York City Food Film Festival screening of Florent, Queen of the Meatmarket Last Thursday night, The Altman Building was packed and abuzz. The idea behind the New York City Food Film Festival was to pair film with food and this was the night devoted to restaurateur Florent Morellet and Florent, his 24-hour French bistro in the Meatpacking District, which closed in 2008 after 23 fabulous years. &ldquo;Where&rsquo;s the food?&rdquo; I whined, jealous of the other guests traipsing around with fragrant boxes of French fries. But I&rsquo;d just located the open bar, serving wine and a strange tasting vodka cocktail, when it was time for the film to start. Dubbed Florent, Queen of the Meatmarket, the new documentary was premiering at the Festival.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Adam Sandler bounces back with Grown Ups&mdash;with the help of his comic friends It&rsquo;s inspiring to see Adam Sandler bounce back from last year&rsquo;s Judd Apatow catastrophe Funny People with the cheerful and surprisingly heartfelt Grownups. Instead of inflating a self-congratulatory stand-up comic's convention, Grownups offers a reunion of 1970s junior high school basketball teammates (Sandler, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock) and shows how they struggle to achieve maturity&mdash;even as adult males vacationing with wives and children. It&rsquo;s as if Sandler realized what was so false and ineffective about Funny People: the coddling sarcasm, ethnic self-pampering and egotism presented as an enviable part of L.A. comics&rsquo; privileged lifestyles. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[At ping-pong exhibition at SPiN New York with Susan Sarandon and pals &ldquo;I was a junior champion until I was 14, and then I discovered weed,&rdquo; said Will Horowitz with a smile on his face. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d have been able to take any of these guys,&rdquo; Horowitz, the executive chef and owner of Duck&rsquo;s Eatery, was commenting on the collection of world champions playing an exhibition at SPiN New York, the city&rsquo;s premier (and only) ping-pong nightclub.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Toy Story 3 suckers fans to think they can accept this drivel Pixar has now made three movies explicitly about toys, yet the best movie depiction of how toys express human experience remains Whit Stillman&rsquo;s 1990 Metropolitan. As class-conscious Tom Townsend (Edward Clements) tries fitting in with East Side debutantes, he discovers his toy cowboy pistol in his estranged father&rsquo;s trash. Without specifying the model, Stillman evokes past childhood, lost innocence and Townsend&rsquo;s longing for even imagined potency. But Toy Story 3  is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination&mdash;the usefulness of toys&mdash;and strictly celebrates consumerism.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Tonight, Your Youth is playing a show with Ava Luna over at Pianos, 158 Ludlow St. (at Stanton St.), 212-505-3733; 8, $10. ---
  Frank
 Black will kick off a three-night stint at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette St.
 (betw. E. 4th St. &amp; Astor Pl.), 212-539-8777; 9:30, $25.&nbsp;
  The Death Set plays at Lit Lounge, 93 2nd Ave (betw. 5th &amp; 6th Sts.), 212-777-7987; 8:30, $8.
  Des Roar is at Mercury...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Doug Martsch sat at his laptop for nearly an hour before the boat even
set sail. Everyone boarded the Rocks Off boat for a rare performance by Boise,
Idaho&rsquo;s Built to Spill while Martsch DJed an entire set before the boat took
off along the Hudson. Still, Martsch sat transfixed on the screen. No soul
dared interrupt. ---  
  Instead, the
front stage filled in on all sides, even against the p...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Manhattan Media, the parent company of New York Press, announced today that it has acquired the beloved 50-year-old weekly Hamptons weekly Dan's Papers from its owner, the financially struggling Brown Publishing Company. While the threat of Hurricane Earl has caused plenty of residents in the Hamptons to batten down the hatches (and the LIRR to curtail service), seems the Hamptons publishing tradi...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Peter Ackerman has done a lot of things (including co-write the screenplay for Ice Age and Ice Age 3), but most recently you can thank for an unusual childrens' book, The Lonely Phone Booth. The story portrays one of four remaining phone booths in Manhattan, 
located on the northwest corner of West End Avenue and West 100th Street (read our story about it here). An 
analog victim in a digital worl...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Miguel Gomes&rsquo; Our Beloved Month of August
is not a finished film. Gomes had an idea for a
&ldquo;fairy tale for adults&rdquo; set in the Portuguese country side, where many
of the
annual music festivals are held, but had an incredible amount of
difficulty
getting the project made. To many producers he shopped the project
around to, Gomes' intended shooting script was either of no interest or...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[
The latest dish at Grub Street features Vogue food critic Jeffrey Steingarten, who warns it is &ldquo;a very dangerous thing to be a Brooklyn booster.&rdquo; Indirectly referring to New York Times food writers Christine Muhlke and Sam Sifton, Steingarten says, &ldquo;They are relatively uncritical of things in Brooklyn the way that sometimes&mdash;but not often&mdash;Frank Bruni became a little u...]]></description>
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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. --- 
  Marin Cilic is the No. 11 seed in this tournament but was ousted by 20-year old qualifier Kei Nishikori who had hundreds of fans supporting him in the brutal sun. Although Nishikori did have to qualify this time a...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Live Tonight: Apache Beat, Unnatural Helpers, Built To Spill, Marina & The Diamonds]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[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. ---
  Unnatural Helpers is at Cake Shop, 152 Ludlow St. (betw. Stanton &amp; Rivington Sts.), 212-253-0036; 8, $8.
  Built To Spill plays the Rocks Off Cruise aboard The Temptress, board at W. 41st St. &amp; West Side Highway; 7, $35. ...]]></description>
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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 t...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[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 &quot;golden age&quot; for a night.&nbsp; ---
  Of cours...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Nightclub Meets Book Club at ATP]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[
If this year&rsquo;s All Tomorrow&rsquo;s Parties knock-out lineup&mdash;Iggy
and the Stooges, DJ Kool Herc and Shellac, to name a few&mdash;doesn&rsquo;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. --- 
  
    
  That&rsquo;s right. Attendees will have the opportunity to go to a
discussion, led by guest co-cu...]]></description>
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An old saying about politics is that it is showbiz for ugly people. But Lauri Apple, a Chicago-based artist and political writer, believes politics&mdash;or, at least, the New York City Council&mdash;is more like high school. 
  Apple is drawing the Council&rsquo;s 51 members in prom attire in a series called NYC High for the blog ANIMAL New York. Apple was also one of 50 artists to draw every Ch...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: What to Watch this Weekend: Late Spring, Never Fear, The Tingler]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The American: Armond
White writes about Anton Corbijn&rsquo;s gorgeous-looking thriller: &ldquo;Clooney&rsquo;s still
on his anti-American kick, sentimentalizing the corruption that appeals to
cynical film critics who fall for his forced, noxious &lsquo;charm.&rsquo;&rdquo; Read more of
White&rsquo;s review here.  
    
  Machete: White
writes about Robert Rodriguez&rsquo;s new genre pastiche: &ld...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Happy 90210 Day (9/02/10)]]></title>

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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Over-Heating Policy Talks Become Controversial At Day Three of U.S. Open]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[
"I would be in favor of an indoor tour all together" said Ivan Lujbicic after his opening round loss to American 18-year old phenom Ryan Harrison. "The heat was my biggest enemy". 
  And he isn't the only one who has to battle these hard conditions. In a weird twist, almost all the men's singles matches were put out first on court yesterday 11 a.m, meaning that some of these players would have to...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Live Tonight: Lou Barlow, Wye Oak, Boogie Boarder, She Keeps Bees]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[On this warm evening, Wye Oak plays with Lou Barlow at&nbsp;Mercury Lounge, 217 E. Houston St. (betwn. Essex &amp; Ludlow Sts.),&nbsp;212-260-4700; 7:30, $14. ---
  Boogie Boarder is at Union Pool, 484 Union Ave. (at Meeker Ave.), Brooklyn, 718-609-0484; 9, $TBA.
  And She Keeps Bees buzzes at Death By Audio, 49 S. 2nd St. (betw. Kent &amp; Wythe Aves.), Brooklyn, no phone; 8, $TBA. ...]]></description>
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Last February, kooky artist Ann Liv Young&mdash;who we spotted walking up and down Bedford Ave. with a cameraman last night&mdash;performed a show at P.S. 1 that included masturbation, urination and the public derision of artist Georgia Sagri. The show ended abruptly when the director of the art center, Klaus Biesenbach, cut the lights in the middle of her performance. This jarring halt caused Yo...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Dog Days of Summer: My Dog Tulip Tests the Limits of Dog Love]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The main thesis of Paul and Sandra Fierlinger&rsquo;s Plympton-esque animated 
feature My Dog Tulip, an adaptation of J.R. Ackerley&rsquo;s 1956 memoir (which opens today at Film Forum), is 
that people should accept dogs for who and what they are: messy, loud, 
often disgusting but infallibly loyal companions. Acklerley, voiced in the 
film by master raconteur Christopher Plummer, subsequently sp...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: The Big One: What a Worst-Case Hurricane Scenario Would Look Like in the Tri-State Area]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[If your sleepless nights have begun while fretting about your evacuation plan in case Hurricane Earl makes its way up to us, then maybe you don't want to read this story by Aaron Naparstek. Published in New York Press back in 2005, &quot;The Big One,&quot; paints a pretty bleak picture for what the tri-state area would look like in the event of a hurricane hitting the coast. As Naparstek explained...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Trumped? Not Quite]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The James New York is starting a cat fight with ugly buildings everywhere. The new hotel will open its doors today on the corner of Grand and Thompson streets in Soho. This will hopefully bring competition to the obnoxiously trendy Trump Soho and the Standard Hotel, but one can never be sure when gaudy architecture hangs in the balance. 
   Neighbor Michael Sorkin prefers the new building to the T...]]></description>
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