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    <title><![CDATA[Laughing Till You Make Lemonade]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[MilkMilkLemonade is a welcome breath of fresh downtown air The title comes from one of those old playground rhymes (&ldquo;Milk, milk, lemonade&hellip; around the corner, fudge is made!&rdquo;) that always left the little boys laughing hysterically while I sm]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Role of a Good Script Will be Played by &lsquo;The Understudy']]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Theresa Rebeck owes the three actors in her new comedy a huge debt of thanks Theresa Rebeck, please know that we get it. We get that show business is a cruel, crazy and sometimes wonderful world, because we've heard it over and over and over again&mdash;usually from you. And The Understudy is a lesson in diminishing returns.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: The Broken Hearts Club]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Looking for love at the Love is a Four-Letter Word reading I&rsquo;m the queen of broken hearts, so I was stoked to meet others who&rsquo;d experienced the same highs and lows. Last Wednesday night, scribes who&rsquo;d dumped and been dumped were reading their essays from Love is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Break-Ups, Bad Relationships and Broken Hearts.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Homo Panic! at the Cinema]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20054-homo-panic_-at-the-cinema.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Quasi-queer movies such as Bruno and Humpday are late to the game, while Nia Vardalos&rsquo; rom-com, I Hate Valentine&rsquo;s Day, provides better gay imagery Convenient political correctness is what stunts Sacha Baron Cohen&rsquo;s humor and keeps him from being a great comic artist. It&rsquo;s why his 2007 film Borat ultimately was worthless. Because Borat catered to liberal/conservative partisanship, even GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination) came to expect that Baron Cohen&rsquo;s latest film, the homophobia charade Bruno, would conveniently line-up with their program. (When GLAAD &ldquo;wasn&rsquo;t brought into the process&rdquo; of Bruno&rsquo;s production, they protested; apparently unembarrassed about demanding a priori censorship.) Evidently, Baron Cohen&rsquo;s Convenient Political Correctness teaches hypocrisy, not fairness or free expression GLAAD&rsquo;s objection to Bruno&mdash;in which Baron Cohen portrays a Eurotrash fashion-model-turned-journalist&mdash;comes from the few skits that challenge a mediasanctioned special-interest group.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Warrior Battles Mic & Hype]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Queen YoNasDa prepares to take her throne Few performers in hip-hop boast a pedigree like Queen YoNasDa. Every time she steps to the mic, YoNasDa is in the shadows of her luminary grandfather Minister Louis Farrakhan. For the halfblack/half-Native American (of the Oglala Lakota tribe) musician&mdash;and Staten Island ex-pat&mdash;the rap game is a shot at providence. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Heist and Humidity]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[LES gallery sweats out summer with the rest of us Summer in New York is long, slow, hot and brutal&mdash;especially for art galleries. Many of the people who might actually buy something are out of town, and the traditional tourist is not known as a big art consumer. Few artists or galleries want to commit the time and money to a one-person show. Hence the rise of the phenomenon known as the &ldquo;summer group show.&rdquo; Galleries come up with overarching themes that give them good excuse to mount large group shows that often have a little of something for everyone.They&rsquo;re lots of fun, but rarely earth shattering.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: F the F Word]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Ecstacy with Herra*C Club kids are a dime a dozen.  A fuchsia-colored wig, some glitter, a pre-made costume from Ricky&rsquo;s&mdash;that&rsquo;s no club kid, that&rsquo;s a mall rat slumming it. Herra*C is different. Partying since he was a tween from the Bronx, he faked IDed his way into the Tunnel and Twilo in their heyday. Now he&rsquo;s a party promoter paid to go and get his freak on.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Anne Getting Serious]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The Public Theater&rsquo;s Twelfth Night wins with star power It turns out The Princess Diaries may not be such horrible preparation for Shakespeare. Anne Hathaway, starring in the Shakespeare in the Park&rsquo;s rendition of Twelfth Night (Anne Hathaway was also the name of Shakespeare&rsquo;s wife, for those interested in cosmic coincidences), was the show&rsquo;s biggest draw&mdash;and greatest potential liability, but she gives an impressive performance as Viola, a shipwrecked aristocrat posing as a male servant.
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Dunn Deal]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Jancee Dunn's Book Soiree When Jancee Dunn&rsquo;s mom got her first tattoo, she wasn&rsquo;t fucking around. &ldquo;[She got] a big black raven on her wrist,&rdquo; Dunn said. &ldquo;It doesn't go with her pink sweaters."
I was part of the small but dedicated crowd that filed into Greenpoint's Word Bookstore Tuesday night for a launch party celebrating Dunn's new book, Why Is My Mom Getting a Tattoo? And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Answer.
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    <title><![CDATA[Out of Site]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Lower Manhattan Cultural Council brings dance Downtown There are myriad unpredictable elements to take into account when performances take place outside a traditional theatrical setting. For Untitled Corner, the site-specific collaboration between Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer and Judith Sanchez Ruiz, one such consideration was the fact that office workers from the 60 stories looming over the space, One Chase Manhattan Plaza, might be viewing the performance. At the same time, for the four lunch-hour performances, there is likely to be the interaction of a steady stream of traffic through the revolving doors at the front of the 1964 Gordon Bunshaft skyscraper.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Ring My Buell]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Bebe Buell (and her daughter Liv Tyler) at Hiro Ballroom Bebe Buell has been famous as a Playboy Playmate, the first lady of 1970s groupies and Liv Tyler&rsquo;s mom. Now, at age 56, she wants to be Tina Turner&mdash;a big star who succeeded against all the odds. But first she had to convince the audience gathered in a nightclub in the basement of the Maritime Hotel, that her act can move downloads.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[In MJ's Shadow]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ARMOND WHITE remembers Michael Jackson&rsquo;s pop open-mindedness Michael Jackson made the best cinema of 1991 with the music video &ldquo;Black or White,&rdquo; which was easily superior to any short or feature-length film released to the public that year. To find a comparable example of visual montage, you have to go back to one of Alain Resnais&rsquo; time-shifting &eacute;tudes, the marriage scherzo in Citizen Kane or the chase-trial fugue in D.W. Griffith&rsquo;s Intolerance. I combine musical and filmic values because &ldquo;Black or White&rdquo; &rsquo;s visionary approach to egalitarianism&mdash;ending with a still-miraculous sequence of genetic morphing and counter-balanced by a solo dance of frustration and rage&mdash;was a singular feat: Its constant rhythm was accompanied by a stacking-up of thrilling, provocative ideas.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Pleasure & Pain]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Getting Pierced with Elayne Angel Have you pierced your labia yet or did you wimp out with a little diamond in your bellybutton? One in seven Americans between the ages of 18 and 50 has a piercing somewhere other than the earlobes. Feel like getting your mojo cranked up a notch? Try getting pierced in one of the pleasure zones. Of course, you may feel an intense pinch or maybe even some real pain. But you can also get a rush of adrenaline from the process.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[LES Heatwave]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Break out the waterproof mascara, things are getting HOT! Downtown EARL DAX THOUGHT he was through with the HOT! Festival. After helming the annual queer theater event in 2006, the ubiquitous Downtown culture guru had moved on to events like Weimar New York and Tingle Tangle, plus a seemingly endless amount of globetrottingin the last few weeks, he jetted from the U.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Speed Freaks Take Soho!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[New exhibit exposes the alchemy of American counterculture DON&rsquo;T BOTHER WITH the back room at Caf&eacute; Select. Forget the basement of La Esquina.The new place to be in Soho is the burnt out meth lab on Wooster Street.

Beginning July 2 at the Deitch Projects annex on Wooster Street, you&rsquo;ll find an artistic mishmash so thought provoking and racy that it will give the neighborhood&rsquo;s usual debauched haunts a run for their (rolled up) money. I&rsquo;m talking jars of mystery meat and faux fetuses, strewn kitty litter, a library, visual and auditory deconstruction, Chinese herbs, astrological pelts, the aforementioned meth lab, a blown up RV, aquarium rocks and a replicated penthouse art gallery. Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, two New York-based artists completing their third collaboration, are the architects and alchemists behind this secret world.Welcome to the Black Acid Co-op. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Airport Lust]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL enjoyed a bumpy ride without ever leaving the ground Last year, I managed to miss five flights, out of probably three times as many total, due to lateness, transportation errors and general disorganization. Most of them weren&rsquo;t such a big deal; I could take the next one out, or pay a fee and wait around a few hours. I don&rsquo;t tend to mind, since it gives me time to catch up on the gossip magazines in the airport bookstore. I&rsquo;ve come to the conclusion that when it comes to flying, I&rsquo;m just not very good at it. Maybe it&rsquo;s my squeamishness about air travel that comes out via tardiness, or the fact that while I like going away, I always feel like I&rsquo;m missing something back home while I&rsquo;m gone.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Zine Teens]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Billy Cheer is that boy at the party who you really resent because you either want to be him or fuck him.You know? That guy. And Max Steele, a Leo with Cancer rising and Sagittarius moon, a performance artist, writer and singer, has become Billy, too. Hes a rock n roll go-go boy who dances in his underwear at Queers, Beers & Rears, the monthly homopunk party at Cake Shop.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: My Man Moose]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Animal attraction only took MARGOT LEITMAN so far SOMEWHERE DEEP BENEATH my thin Manhattan exterior, there is a Jersey slut just waiting to win a wet T-shirt contest at Club Abyss. Six years ago, the last time I was single, friends invited me for a vacation at a Jersey Shore beach house.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Homegrown Talent]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Newest Brooklyn film fest puts new New York onscreen The local selections in BAMcinemaFEST would deserve the title &ldquo;New York Film Festival&rdquo; if the name weren&rsquo;t already taken. Instead, these works by younger, emerging filmmakers from the area ought to be grouped as the &ldquo;New New York Film Festival,&rdquo; for their collective status as an emerging crowd.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dog Day Afternoons]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Party brunches aren&rsquo;t just for a-holes anymore The expensive daytime excess of the Meatpacking scene$750 magnums of champagne, as much as $20,000 spent at a tableis gluttony that would give Marie Antoinette pause, but some city venues, many within the past few weeks, have stripped away the ostentation and high cost of the party brunch and added their own flavor.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Maysles' Magical Mystery Movie Theater]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s no surprise that quirky local characters are the driving force behind the little movie house that documentarian Albert Maysles built in Harlem. But what ties them all together remains a bit of a mystery. A multiracial group mills about, sipping Haitian rum from plastic cups inside a four-story building on Lenox Avenue. The humid spring night marks the first evening of the second run of the &ldquo;Haiti in Harlem&rdquo; film series at the Maysles Cinema and Film Institute, and the eclectic gathering includes Harlemites, Haitians, cinephiles young and old and Aboudja, a voodoo priest and drummer who&rsquo;s been tapped to lead a concert after the film in the downstairs lounge of the pint-sized theater.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Tony Scott hijacks urban anxiety for box office entertainment TONY SCOTT&rsquo;S FILMS start from the premise that Americans are bored&mdash;and secretly resentful&mdash;of their lives. He specializes in violent, fragmented spectacle that feeds this boredom by drowning out subtlety and complexity. Yet, he&rsquo;s the good Scott; brother Ridley is merely a pretentious windowdresser of big themes. Tony&rsquo;s best movies (Spy Games, Domino) match hyperactive style to intricate storytelling, which suggests he could probably make a good film if he shook the super-cynical hucksterism out of his system.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[After 30 years, The Meat Puppets still give listeners something to chew on The first time I saw The Meat Puppets was in the mid-90s with Joan Jett, playing a &ldquo;Taste of D.C.&rdquo; festival in our nation&rsquo;s capital, and even then the band seemed ancient; not exactly old, just sort of eternal. As a kid deeply affected by grunge, I was blown away by the heavy sounds that had dented the heads of my own Seattle-based idols. Even now, when those idols are all dead or dethroned, The Meat Puppets&mdash;comprising brothers Cris and Curt Kirkwood and drummer Ted Marcus&mdash;still play regularly, and in May the band released a new LP, Sewn Together. New York Press caught up with Curt Kirkwood to talk in advance of the group&rsquo;s two New York shows this week.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Electric Rock Therapy]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Next to Normal sizzles with energy and brains After an Off-Broadway production and then a stint in Washington, D.C., why isn&rsquo;t Next to Normal next to perfect?]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Beyonc&eacute; proves she&rsquo;s no diva in &lsquo;Obsessed' Beyonc&eacute; doesn&rsquo;t waste a good lyric. As the wife of a man stalked by a crazed woman in Obsessed, Beyonc&eacute; gives musical measure to these lines: &ldquo;You come into my house/You touch/My child!&rdquo; She&rsquo;s an &ldquo;actress who sings&rdquo; (as Streisand always says) but with a homegirl&rsquo;s special audience rapport, not diva aloofness. Beyonc&eacute;&rsquo;s Sharon Charles, a young black middle-class homemaker, protects her domicile, child and her man, Derek (Idris Elba) from strangely maniacal harassment by Lisa (Ali Larter), an unhinged, almost comically sexualized white interloper.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor Of The Week: Like a Virgin]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[When it comes to ladies, DAVID JAMES finds first isn&rsquo;t always the worst THE DE-VIRGINATOR, we called her. She lived on my floor&mdash;moderately attractive and even innocent looking, but, hidden under the unassuming veneer, she was a cherry-popping superhuman, already the first for three guys after just starting her sex life.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Carr Show]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[David Carr's paperback launch party Last night in front of the Barnes and Noble on Union Square, a crowd of curiosity seekers gawked at two winos anxiously trying to rouse a grizzled white man in his late 50s from pill and booze-induced unconsciousness. It&rsquo;s the type of ignominy that Times reporter and author David Carr barely escaped.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Hymn, A Revelation]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Celebrates Its 50th With so much to celebrate in connection with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre&rsquo;s 50th anniversary, it&rsquo;s great news that New Yorkers get a second, very different opportunity to view the company this season. Its annual December City Center season is a longstanding tradition, but this is only the second time around for their on-the-eve-of-summer week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It serves as a festive coda to the company&rsquo;s extensive 26-city tour, which launched in January in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center, with the entire first family in attendance.
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    <title><![CDATA[Her Humps]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Humpday&rsquo;s Lynn Shelton dishes on her film&mdash;and her promised straight-up porno With her film Humpday garnering considerable buzz, director Lynn Shelton has become the toast of American indie film. Humpday follows two straight male friends from college who dare each other into ma]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Welcome To Dadhattan]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[How the recession created a new breed of stay-at-home dads (and why that's cramping my style). For me, the economic crisis began last April 2nd. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re letting you go,&rdquo; the office manager announced while standing in my doorway, on his way to another, more important meeting. Had it been a day earlier, I would&rsquo;ve thought he was kidding.


Actually, I wasn&rsquo;t all that surprised. I&rsquo;d been expecting it. Please don&rsquo;t confuse that with dreading it: I hated my job. In this particular job&rsquo;s defense, I&rsquo;ve hated all my jobs. As an advertising copywriter&mdash;&ldquo;With 14 vitamins and minerals, you can trust Cheerios for a lifetime of wholesome goodness for your whole family!&rdquo;&mdash;that comes with the territory.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Woody's Wet Dream]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Larry David tries to parlay his HBO shtick to the big screen Ten years after his great expectoration of bile in Deconstructing Harry, Woody Allen comes up with Whatever Works&mdash;the most shameless, cynically titled Hollywood con job since the days of Billy Wilder. Having lost his originality, Allen here reboots the acerbic Deconstructing Harry by mixing in the rancid, misogynistic Mighty Aphrodite. It&rsquo;s another of his old-goat/younggirl fantasies, but with TV&rsquo;s Larry David in the know-it-all lecher role and Evan Rachel Wood as the bimbo sexpot. Only this time, Allen&rsquo;s wet dream is primarily bile, adding little wit and then an avalanche of sentimentality.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Pubic Air]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Stupid white people tricks at the Air Sex World Championships Driven by humor, exhibitionism and sweaty-palmed horniness, the Air Sex World Championships steamed up the Highline Ballroom with many energetic air couplings Friday night. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gut Instinct: Feeling Butch]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Fearful of losing his meat supply, JOSH BERNSTEIN meets a butcher after his own heart Back in frigid February, the news hit like a razor-covered sledgehammer. My favorite butcher shop, Coney Island&rsquo;s Major Prime Meat Market, was shuttering. Septuagenarian flesh monger Jimmy Prince was closeting his cleavers and trademark neckties. This meant no more dry-aged steaks and fresh-ground &ldquo;murder&rdquo; burgers.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Martha Cool Girl]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ADAM WADE lost the girl who passed the bar but found another who would actually go to one On a Friday night in March, my hopeless, 31-year-old body lay on my futon. The futon embarrassed me, along with the countless water bugs scaling the walls, the extremely low ceilings and the basement apartment itself.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hopping To It]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Hip-hop is 30 and starting to act its age It was never intended to be in Brooklyn, for Brooklyn, by Brooklyn, he says. Its not about celebrating Brooklyn artists exclusively. Its about everyone from the world coming to Brooklyn to celebrate.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Hey ho, let&rsquo;s go: Dee Dee Ramone&rsquo;s widow pens memoir of woe In the black and-white photos that captured Dee Dee and Vera Ramone&rsquo;s 1978 church wedding, life looks like punk rock&rsquo;s answer to I Love Lucy. Ex-teen runaway Vera Boldis lovingly eyes her mop-topped man-child from beneath a pinned-up lace veil. The Ramones bassist and main songwriter, wearing a wide-lapelled white tux instead of his usual rough trade leather and torn Levi&rsquo;s, smiles back at her. More than 30 years later,Vera Ramone King has penned a vague but emotionally wrought memoir, Poisoned Heart, about her tumultuous time with the idiot savant behind &ldquo;53rd and 3rd&rdquo; and &ldquo;Rockaway Beach.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Every Rose Has Its Thorn]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[IFC's Hot Rocker Moms contest Before the start of the Independent Film Channel&rsquo;s Hot Rocker Moms contest to promote, well, something less interesting than skanky moms in the traffic island at the corner of 23rd and 5th, the rent-a-cops were taking more pictures of celebrity judge Sebastian Bach than they were of the heavy metal madonnas. And for good reason&mdash;Bach, as used-up, snaggle-toothed and double-chinned as he was, still made a hotter chick than any of the contestants we were able to glimpse.
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    <description><![CDATA[ These days, every year a newspaper survives seems like reason enough to celebrate. And the past 21 years of the New York Press certainly have been filled with plenty of growing pains. We&rsquo;ve been eager and stupid. We&rsquo;ve been juvenile and radical. We&rsquo;ve been spoiled and churlish. We&rsquo;ve been asinine and charming. But throughout it all, we&rsquo;ve had fun. So we thought it would be great to have some of our writers, readers and favorite people tell us about a truly American rite of passage: the 21st birthday.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[One Day It Will Please Us To Remember This Too]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The new New York Dolls do number two My two year-old son&acute;s  first concert was the New York Dolls. He wouldn&rsquo;t let me take him away from the front of the stage. His second concert was the exceptionally talented kiddie artist Laurie Berkner&mdash;as then regularly seen on TV. We went backstage, and I mentioned the Dolls to Berkner.

&ldquo;He danced around more at that one,&rdquo; I said. &ldquo;He mainly spent your show staring in amazement. He looked like all the adults at the New York Dolls concert.&rdquo;

Berkner laughed, and made the same perfect face of awe and disbelief. She&rsquo;s seen that look on a lot of kids. Or maybe she&rsquo;d been to one of those New York Dolls concerts.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[8 Million Stories: We're Not in the Bronx Anymore]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19717-8-million-stories-wersre-not-in-the-bronx-anymore.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[LORI MOONEY&rsquo;s Manhattan didn&rsquo;t taste quite the way she expected I had always wanted to work in Manhattan. With its bright lights and busy streets, the Big City called out to me like a John to a hooker, and as a child growing up in a smaller neighborhood, I wanted nothing more than to get in on the action. Big things happened in the Big City, I was told, and I needed big things to happen. Because I wasn&rsquo;t from the Big City&mdash;I was from the Bronx.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Joy Economy]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Despite the serious times, under-the-radar comedy clubs are having the last laugh Keemo, a smooth - talking guy with a friendly smile, spends his Friday nights on the corner of West 43rd Street and Broadway wearing a blue shirt and carrying a yellow sign. He might ask if you like stand-up comedy. If you say yes, he&rsquo;ll whisk you three busy blocks west&mdash;dodging tourists and hurtling past the corpse of the Virgin Megastore&mdash;before ushering you down a dingy flight of stairs under Sweet Caroline&rsquo;s Dueling Pianos.

The club down there&mdash;Ha! Comedy Club NYC&mdash;is anonymous and unheralded.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Scammed, Conned and (Almost) Blinded by Love]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19718-flavor-of-the-week-scammed-conned-and-(almost)-blinded-by-love.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[DAWN TURZIO thought she had hit the jackpot, but all she got was Dick Men who protect and serve. This was my addiction. From firefighters in their big, red, speeding trucks to sailors during fleet week, men in uniform, to me, oozed sex. After years of &ldquo;no strings attached&rdquo; relationships with FDNY calendar pin-ups, Marines deployed to Iraq and cops who were perfectly happy with bachelorhood, though, this 28-year-old brunette from Staten Island went on the hunt-and-click for someone who didn&rsquo;t wear his pride on his sleeve.

After days of deleting unwanted dating requests, I spotted a picture of a beautiful man whose profile displayed words of promise and respect. I scrolled down to his occupation and saw that he was in finance. Jackpot! Richard was his name, Dick for short.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[17 Atlantic City Musts]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19720-17-atlantic-city-musts.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Amazing views, great grub and fun times beyond gambling 1. TEPLITZKY&rsquo;S, THE CHELSEA HOTEL Feel like you&rsquo;ve stepped into a Brady Bunch episode. The diner is located in The Chelsea, and the authenticity is frightening&mdash;with waitresses looking like something out of Twin Peaks.While the menu offers healthier stuff for breakfast (a protein shake), you can also gobble down chocolate French toast, Belgian waffles or pickled herring on a bagel with a strong black coffee in retro-cool pitchers. It&rsquo;s probably the most comfortable place to nurse your hangover&mdash;far from the ching-ching of the slot machines.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pop Art]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19839-pop-art.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Museum's Special Events Team Talks About Upcoming Party in the Garden For its annual Party in the Garden fundraiser this coming Tuesday, MoMA is lowering the posh event&rsquo;s after party ticket price to $100 from $250 in hopes of bringing in a younger crowd. To help lure even more young&rsquo;uns, hip-hop star Estelle and DJ Cassidy are slated to take the stage. New York Press had a chat with Elizabeth Pizzo, Assistant Director of Special Programming and Events at MoMA, to chat about young people, art and just how crazy museum parties can get.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gut Instinct: Sin & Surf]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19719-gut-instinct-sin-surf.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[JOSH BERNSTEIN escapes to Atlantic City to look for danger&mdash;and artery-hardening greasy grub. Are you taking us to the bar surrounded by police caution tape?&rdquo; my friend Kelly asks, pulling on a Camel Light in the cool, salt-breezed Atlantic City night.
&ldquo;Umm&hellip;&rdquo; I mumble, transfixed by the dark bar bathed in flashing red-and-blue cop lights. &ldquo;Nice choice, bar writer,&rdquo; says Kelly, a compatriot who&rsquo;ll soon be betrothed. Our adventure to Atlantic City was planned as one last hurrah, a rampage on Las Vegas by the sea: quarter peepshows, stale-beer dives, all-night pawnshops eager to exchange gold for cash. Let zombie-eyed grandparents pump quarters into the slots&mdash;we craved rough trade.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Time to Get Rich Quick (Again)]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19683-time-to-get-rich-quick-(again).html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON joins the dreamers that believe quick money can be found amidst the real estate rubble. My path to real estate riches began on the subway, when I grabbed a copy of a free daily rag one morning to read on the way to work. On the same day that Bernie Madoff pled guilty to the biggest investment fraud in Wall Street history, I was intrigued to find a full-page ad with the blaring headline: "HOW TO GET YOUR SHARE OF TODAY'S TRILLION DOLLAR RECOVERY."]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[No Wimps Allowed: Toback's 'Tyson' & Montiel's 'Fighting']]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19695-no-wimps-allowed-tobacks-tyson-montiels-fighting.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[James Toback examines Tyson&rsquo;s intellect, while Dito Montiel develops the boxing metaphor to further his own autobiography Tobacks film is an act of bravura empathy.Without faking hipster identification,Toback implies soul-appreciation of the Other-as-brother that Montiel mucks up in white boy Shawns relationship with his black mentor Harvey (Terrence Howard).]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor Of The Week: The Little Guy]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19681-flavor-of-the-week-the-little-guy.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[RAYMOND CAVANAUGH JR.admits he doesn&rsquo;t have much to work with, but he&rsquo;s learned how to rise above (and below) with an undersized member I want to do porno. Not backwoods smut with some &ldquo;cocktail waitress&rdquo; and her donkey, I want to do respectable porn, the kind that appears on premium cable channels. I want to tap lines off USC Cheerleader tits before sacking it from behind like a blitzing Lawrence Taylor. As most of us know, however, men of mind-blowing stature dominate the adult film industry. Men who, while thrusting from the hallway, can penetrate a girl in the shower. As much as I enjoy watching these achievements, the brutal truth is that I have an undersized member. Yes, I have what some call the Irish Curse.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Evasive Evil Empire]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19686-the-evasive-evil-empire.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[There is no Black Metal scene in New York I started talking to myself on the Pulaski Bridge to keep the words of Pat Murano from Malkuth drilled into my Schaefer-woozy head. &ldquo;You consider them to be black metal?&rdquo; I kept repeating.This was his reply when I told him about my digging into New York black metal and a couple bands I liked.To me, the answer was obvious. I should have screamed in his face: &ldquo;Fuck yeah I do!&rdquo; But I held it in and later screamed to the blackness surrounding me as I walked across the shaky tin bridge from Brooklyn to Queens.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gut Instinct: Hey Nogne Nogne]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19685-gut-instinct-hey-nogne-nogne.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Norwegians don&rsquo;t know much about craft beer, but JOSH BERNSTEIN finds one that&rsquo;s a master. It's a sunny, breezy spring afternoon, the sort of flawless day that amnesias you into forgetting winter and loving New York City again. But in lieu of flinging Frisbees in Prospect Park or sipping Gowanus Yacht Club&rsquo;s icy Pabst, I&rsquo;ve slunk into subterranean beer hall Jimmy&rsquo;s No. 43 to meet Norwegian giants&mdash; of brewing, that is. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Sex Site Celebrates Seventh]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19680-bash-compactor-sex-site-celebrates-seventh.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ Despite the strangeness of its Webster Hall location, Trashs Burning Angel anniversary bash was every bit as fabulously promiscuous as the hallowed weekly once was at Rififi. Although Trash happens each Friday, this night was special because it celebrated the seventh anniversary of New Yorks homegrown altporn empire, Burning Angel.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Playboys, Endangered No More]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19953-bash-compactor-playboys-endangered-no-more.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[The premiere of The Last International Playboy By the title of The Last International Playboy, an indie movie that premiered on Wednesday night, you would think leggy supermodels have become hard for a high-class man to find. But, thankfully, the party after the film&rsquo;s Times Square screening showed high-class macking is still alive and well. The film fete was chock full of sexy models, many who had cameos in the film.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Moon]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19954-moon.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[A sci-fi film that feels right&mdash;despite being made of recycled parts Co-writer/director Duncan Jones&rsquo; debut feature Moon is a modest but nonetheless exciting bit of (derivative) speculative fiction. As the film&rsquo;s vision of the future is obviously cobbled together from a myriad of sources&mdash;most importantly 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris&mdash;it only really becomes involving after the first half hour has given us sufficient set-up. Although Jones and co-writer Nathan Parker add nothing novel to the mythic canon they&rsquo;re working in,  they do provide a very satisfying bit of genre falderal, albeit one that&rsquo;s a little too literal-minded.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Digging Through the Dusty Past]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19956-digging-through-the-dusty-past.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Two new plays ignore the vibrant present for stale history lessons The hippies are long gone, but you&rsquo;d never know it from The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, now playing at P.S. 122. A painfully prolonged look at four young activists living rent-free in exchange for running a vegan caf&eacute;, the entire show is a mass of contradictions and implausible characters.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Real Politikin': Slave Mentality]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Time for gays to stop this minstrel show for the pretty blondes Just when you thought it was safe to be gay, along comes Carrie Prejean, the runner-up in the Miss USA contest, who may have totally destroyed all hope of ever achieving full equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community when she so astutely stated, &ldquo;We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Slice Skirmish!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The new kid under the bridge puts Grimaldi's in the hot seat Donning a kilt for comfort as he cooks, Bensonhurst native Louis Termini is happy to be preparing pizzas at Ignazio&rsquo;s, his brand new brick oven-style pizzeria under the Brooklyn Bridge. After years spent managing his chain of seven pizza shops in Hartford, he&rsquo;s made his way back into the kitchen to practice the trade his Sicilian grandmother first taught him.   
But why has he opened around the corner from New York&rsquo;s thin-crust benchmark, the legendary Grimaldi&rsquo;s? &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; Termini explains, &ldquo;for the view , the rent&rsquo;s not bad.&rdquo; But forget the rent, how&rsquo;s the pizza?]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[One Great Plate: Shakshuka]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19726-one-great-plate-shakshuka.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ The most exciting dish at Hummus Place&mdash;the local chickpea chain, now with four locations&mdash;isn&rsquo;t the hummus at all.There are three tasty versions of the spread, but all of them are outdone by Shakshuka ($6.95), an Israeli dish made of stewed tomatoes, peppers, spices, organic eggs and (for a well-spent $2 more) Halumi cheese.

On previous visits to the restaurant, I&rsquo;d avoided the Shakshuka. Sure, it looked good, but why settle for one dish when you can make a meal of all of the tiny plates like falafel, lebna or a dish of the namesake hummus (I like the Masabacha variety, served warm with whole chickpeas and olive oil)? Then I tried it and found out why: It blows them all away.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Penniless Epicure: Good Wines for Trashy Food]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Taco Bell meets Argentinean Malbec and deliciousness ensues A couple weeks ago, I talked a bit about the basics of matching wine with cheese. I am going to assume that not everyone who read this has a plate full of $30-a-pound artisanal cheese hanging out in the fridge.


Because of this, I am prepared to give you some more practical options for wine and food pairing, using the same ideas I set forth for matching wine and cheese. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Real Monkey Bar]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Former Knit Space Goes Gay For Summer There are plenty of animals associated with gay nightlife. Bears, who would go to the Dugout, otters, known to flock to Metropolitan, and chickens, constantly clucking at Rush. Beginning in May, nightlife promoter Josh Wood, known for numerous parties, including Bootleg at (le) poisson rouge, will welcome a whole new breed to the former Knitting Factory space on Leonard Street with the latest beast to hit town, Gorilla Club.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Better Off Dead]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Broadway&rsquo;s shameful problem with resurrection dysfunction What the hell did audiences do to the Roundabout and Manhattan Theater Company to deserve the last season? Hot on the heels of a dry-as-dust Man for All Seasons, the tonally-schizophrenic Hedda Gabler, a sweaty Pal Joey and the abysmal To Be or Not to Be (remember that?), the Roundabout and MTC have opened The Philanthropist and Accent on Youth, respectively, two startlingly dull period pieces.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Brooklyn Bodegas vs The Brothers Khim]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to new deli! SARAH PORTLOCK checks out Khim&rsquo;s Millennium Markets in Williamsburg and Bushwick to determine what is lost when Brooklyn&rsquo;s corner delis undergo an organic facelift. The smell of bacon and bleach fill most bodegas around the city. Scuffed wooden floors are proof of years of traffic. Cold cuts, 99-cent bags of plantain chips and greasy grilled cheeses are available at any hour, along with cold bottles of water and beer. But now the organic greens and perfect, shiny apples are replacing the crusty shops as they creep farther, expanding where there used to just be musty, dusty reliability.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gut Instinct: Shangri-La on the Lake]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[JOSH BERNSTEIN finds himself grilling atop Flushtopia, a man-made island floating near Queens The recent heat  wave stoked my meat lust. Youve got that crazy look, my girlfriend says, retreating backward into our blue living room wall. Ineedto grill, I reply. I clench my eyes and envision flesh sizzling, my arm hairs singeing to stubble.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor Of The Week: Getting Off of Work]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[WARREN RIDGE&rsquo;s girl hated his job until he brought work home with him Inmates send me the best letters. Almost all of them are aspiring stars, equipped with huge cocks and endless stamina. They all have one other thing in common&mdash;they are all innocent of their crimes, and finishing their &ldquo;bit&rdquo; soon.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Back to the Future]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19751-back-to-the-future.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Fischerspooner channels 2025 by way of 2001 FISCHERSPOONER,THE HATE-IT-OR-LOVE-IT art pop duo, is back just in time to respond to yet another potential apocalypse. After coming of age as a decadent counterpoint to Y2K and achieving fame in the midst of our post-9/11 party cause were gonna die paranoia, Fischerspooner releases its third record, Entertainment,.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Where Young Boys Have Gone Before]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19758-where-young-boys-have-gone-before.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Star Trek and X-Men Origins teach audiences to watch movies like teenagers Bow down to Hollywood season is upon us. If the line, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to make you indestructible, but first we&rsquo;re going to destroy you,&rdquo; seems awesome, you&rsquo;re probably male and more than likely a child&mdash; at least emotionally.That consumer-oriented line is from X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which, like the new Star Trek movie, is designed for adolescent awe.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Choice is Ours]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Bob Powers and the grown-up Choose Your Own Adventure books The Terrible Horrible Temp-to-Perm Debacle begins with the anti-hero, a 33 year-old, barely functional alcoholic and failing writer, waking up in bed next to a dead woman with no recollection of what happened the night before. To make matters worse, he&rsquo;s late for his temp job.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Last Day to Enter Summer Fiction Contest]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/catalog/catalog.php?catalog_id=12&start_page=0]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Submit Fiction and Essays to be judged by Editors, Agents and Authors ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor:  Black & Blue and Red All Over]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[At the Manifesto Group Art Show Freaks and club kids are art. That&rsquo;s the whole point. They wear it, they perform it, but can they draw? And I&rsquo;m not just talking about pretty pictures. That was my question.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[These Are the Kafkian Days of Our Lives]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[DANIEL MCCARTHY was grateful for his unemployment benefits&mdash;until he had to enter into the labyrinth to retrieve it from the maw of bureaucracy The economic crisis hit the city like a fat kid belly flopping in the kiddie pool, and I, like many, have been surviving under a cheery banner of strife. In November, I was briefly hired (then fired) as a staff writer for a publishing house in Manhattan. Ever since then, unemployment checks have been my sole source of income.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[During auditions for a new chef at a strip club steakhouse, JOSH BERNSTEIN doesn&rsquo;t get the meat he bargained for The underwear-dampening downpour begins right after I depart Midtown&rsquo;s urine-scented Port Authority subway station. I&rsquo;m not the one who&rsquo;s supposed to look like a wet T-shirt contestant, I think, as I walk on water toward distant Hell&rsquo;s Kitchen&rsquo;s Headquarters Gentleman&rsquo;s Club. Though I typically abstain from visiting flesh markets during daylight, today is special: I was invited to attend Headquarters&rsquo; open call for its forthcoming upstairs steakhouse, Bianca&rsquo;s Triple Ds&mdash;dinner, drinks and dances, in whatever order a man desires. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[When REBECCA MAZIN jumped into a new job, she went headfirst Getting to a job interview can be stressful, but it shouldnt be dangerous. I was prepared to describe my strengths and weaknesses; instead I was responding to quizzical looks at every stop in a hospital triage route.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Annual noise rock event lightens up, but just a bit What was once the showcase for upcoming and legendary noise acts, the five-year-old No Fun Fest has evolved&mdash;or devolved, if you aren&rsquo;t into melody&mdash;into a different kind of beast.

It&rsquo;s still three days long and filled with many noise bands, and the Music Hall of Williamsburg will definitely be crammed with sweaty dudes in tight jeans on May 15, 16 and 17, but there are a few subtle differences this year, one being&mdash;gasp!&mdash; rock and pop bands.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Next Day Air is more profound than most art-house fare Foreign-language art films like Jerichow, by German writer-director Christian Petzold, Three Monkeys by Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Cary Fukunaga&rsquo;s Sin Nombre come pre-sold with film festival approval.That only means they appeal to the personal preferences of our cultural gatekeepers who predictably dismiss a pop-culture surprise like Next Day Air. Opening without fanfare or official validation, Next Day Air displays more creativity and relevance to our ways of thinking (about money and relationships) than movies that pose as art.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Or, how I learned to stop defending sadists and embrace federal prosecution It shouldn&rsquo;t take a genius to point out that getting a new publicity photo is not a good reason to conduct a low altitude flight of Air Force One&mdash;complete with a F-16 fighter jet in hot pursuit&mdash;over the skyscrapers and monuments of New York City. But there you have it, on April 27; officials at the White House proving that sense ain&rsquo;t always so common after all.  And while most New Yorkers experienced a collective feeling of &lsquo;here we go again, more in-flight drama in the skies above Manhattan,&rsquo; my particular d&eacute;ją vu skewed more toward the realization that I had seen this kind of bureaucratic bullshit before.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Who's the Boss]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Making a monkey out of Mike Edison Outlaw writer and provocateur Mike Edison lit up Bowery Electric Wednesday with his signature blend of literature, punk rock and mayhem to celebrate the release of both paper and spoken-word versions of his book, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Angels & Demons]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Ron Howard continues his attempt to imitate Spielberg&mdash;and fails Vatican City police in Angels and Demons greet American debunker Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) with sarcasm: "The Symbologist is here!" That&rsquo;s a clever line since simple-minded director Ron Howard has no talent for symbols--nor any feeling for the meaning of images, art, ritual. This overwrought chase/final-countdown movie is as banal as the genre comes. It&rsquo;s not a well-made action film; it&rsquo;s just expensively made. Howard&rsquo;s incompetence hides behind high-priced collaborators and goofy F/X.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[To Linfinity & Beyond]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Catching Up with Linfinity's Dylan Von Wagner During the month of May, two incredible local bands will have residencies at Pianos. Wednesdays will belong to the critically praised Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers. Sharing a common bass player (Nick Hundley), Linfinity will own Tuesday nights.        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Terminator Salvation]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Sam Worthington saves McG's boyish sequel from the sci-fi scrap heap. All Terminator movies are the same: junk. But McG&rsquo;s Terminator Salvation has an important new element: humanity. In the opening scene, terminally ill scientist Dr. Serena Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter) poignantly addresses Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a convicted murderer on Death Row. Her odd request that he donate his organs to science could be sinister, but Carter&rsquo;s humble, needful manner has an undercurrent of suffering, far beyond the expected sci-fi villainy. She looks at Wright sympathetically, even when he insults her&mdash;and that&rsquo;s the hook.Worthington&rsquo;s hard-assed response is complex.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: The Couple Downstairs]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ CATHERINE PEARSON discovers the true meaning of real-estate porn We first heard it a few months ago, a soft moan coming from somewhere beyond our Park Slope apartment. &ldquo;There must be another new baby in the building,&rdquo; shrugged my 28-year-old live-in boyfriend Ben. But the next day it was back and this time in the form of lusty, staccato yelps&mdash;male and female&mdash;that continued for well over an hour.There was no mistaking it:We were living next door to the loud sex people.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Night of Hope With a Crackerjack Jesus]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[How desperate are we for illusions of hope these days? BRIAN O&rsquo;CONNOR visits Yankee Stadium to experience Joel Osteen&rsquo;s New York-style evangelism. While evangelical Christians might claim there&rsquo;s only one path to getting on God&rsquo;s guest list&mdash;repent your sins and accept Jesus as your savior&mdash;I found an easier way, without the repenting and the accepting and the fear of relapse: I&rsquo;m a New York Yankee season-ticket holder.


That&rsquo;s how I discovered Joel Osteen&rsquo;s &ldquo;A Night of Hope&rdquo; would be barnstorming at the Stadium last month, anchored at second base, flanked by a full-throated choir and televised worldwide. As a secular New Yorker whose phone number was long ago discarded by the faithful fold, I have no interest in disparaging those who seek the comforts of Christian Fellowship, but a worm of wonder did crawl into my consciousness when I received an email from the Yankees announcing the event. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Littlefield of Dreams]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The next nightlife destination in Go-Go-Gowanus Just west of Fourth Avenues longshuttered Brooklyn Tile Supply Corp., along the shores of the Gowanus Canal sits a neighborhood that seems to be waking from its grimy, industrial slumber. Flanked from the east by an expanding Park Slope and from the west by the Smith Street renaissance, signs of change have lately arrived to Gowanus in the form of summertime kayakers who are committed to the revitalization of its murky inland waterway.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Beautiful and the Damned]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Soderbergh creates recession porn with 'The Girlfriend Experience' The system rewards Steven Soderbergh and he pays his Faustian debt with haughty judgments. Soderbergh&rsquo;s new film The Girlfriend Experience is the most unironic celebration of materialist privilege since Woody Allen&rsquo;s Reagan-era heralds Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters. Already proclaimed, even in the alternative media, The Girlfriend Experience paints a gaudy face on the whoredom to which every powerful person in New York, it sometimes seems, has consented. Narcissistic media can&rsquo;t even resist its fun-house mirror reflection. Problem is: The Girlfriend Experience really isn&rsquo;t fun (or funny, as Manhattan and Hannah occasionally were).]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Sequined Seance]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Liberace's birthday celebrated by the gang at Westbeth In the fluorescent-lit community room of Westbeth Artist&rsquo;s Community&mdash;an affordable haven for creatives in the West Village&mdash;a woman was cutting candelabra out of cardboard for the birthday party of the late Liberace. The over-the-top piano man would have been 90 on May 17, and what better excuse to get the old gang together?]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Alannah Starr shines brightly at her new party Goddamn Vandamn! For those not in the know, that&rsquo;s the weekly Sunday night party at the Greenhouse. We&rsquo;re all getting a bit tired of Susanne Bartsch prancing out on the floor of Vandam dressed like a goddess but acting like a mere mortal, a bitchy one at that. Two new parties to get your freak out are Alannah Starr&rsquo;s monthly Vamp at Element and Dina Marie Delicious and King Ralphie&rsquo;s Friday night Breakout at Rush. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A documentary about the NY designer refuses to ask difficult questions Milton Glaser, the designer and artist, has shaped our perception of modern New York City more than any other single individual. Yes, he&rsquo;s the man behind the simple, yet effectual, I &hearts; NY campaign from the 1970s, but he&rsquo;s also responsible for countless other brand identities and was the co-founder of New York magazine with Clay Felker (they owe him for that iconic logo). Unfortunately, the portrait first-time director Wendy Keys paints of the 80-year-old is more about myth building than anything else.        ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Someone's in the Kitchen with Thurston]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19841-bash-compactor-someonerss-in-the-kitchen-with-thurston.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[The Kitchen's Spring Gala Benefit I&rsquo;m no starfucker. OK, I threw myself at Jim Morrison once. But there were some pretty big names attached to The Kitchen Spring Gala 2009 on Wednesday night. Mary-Kate Olsen? OMG! Iman and David Bowie? Yowie, let&rsquo;s get that party started quickly! And what about that ubiquitous art-star team, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. I see them out so goddamned often I now know Lou&rsquo;s favorite pair of shoes.
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    <title><![CDATA[Summer Guide 2009]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19880-summer-guide-2009.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ Summer is the worst thing about New York. Summer is the best thing about New York. Since you&rsquo;re probably not going to be spending time in some exotic locale this year,or sharing a cottage on some spit of land,we provide an essential guide to the concerts,movies,restaurants and more outdoor doings that make the sweltering months ahead bearable. We check in with the locals who will add new sounds and tastes to the scene, as well as funny ladies,talented boys and girls and dedicated cultural curators. But you won&rsquo;t find everything you desire: Despite our vigilance,some of the folks in charge of our favorite events still haven&rsquo;t re-leased schedules or refuse to fess up to the truth about their anticipated programming. So take this as a starting point,mark your calendars (or tear out our handy ones showing events taking place every day from June1 to August 31) and remember: If you can&rsquo;t have fun this summer,it&rsquo;s not the heat, it&rsquo;s the stupidity. (P.S.summer scarves suck.) ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Merrittocracy]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The magnetic world of &lsquo;Coraline&rsquo; Off-Broadway Being strange, stupendously superstitious creatures, theater makers rarely offer predictions about new work. Distinctly averse to terror, they take pains not to irk those fickle goblins, critics. As they value their lives, they know it won&rsquo;t behoove them to speculate how those essential varmints, the audience, will react.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Eternal Cool]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ With the June 9 release of its latest album (and first for local indie Matador) quickly approaching, Sonic Youthone of the most influential New York rock bands of all timeseems to be coming home to roost.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[KEITH BLAKELY gets up close,but not personal,at a dirty movie shoot What do you wear to a porn shoot? After a little consideration, I went for the doofus hipster shirt, black jeans and black Converse. It seemed appropriate enough for a Burning Angel set.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The ScentOpera wafts into town IT'S ALMOST NEVER a good thing when, sitting among hundreds in a theater, a strong and distinct aroma fills the room. However, entrepreneur Stewart Matthew and veteran perfumer Christophe Laudamiel mean to do precisely that with 23 scents as part of a 40-minute &ldquo;operatic&rdquo; work that bucks genre classification and aims to pioneer new forms of artistic expression.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Pixar&rsquo;s rote whimsy ruins animation Pixar rules pop media like nothing since mid-20th century General Motors held sway as the preeminent American corporation (and the bane of grassroots individualism).The adage &ldquo;What&rsquo;s good for General Motors is good for the U.S.A.&rdquo; inspired cartoonist Al Capp to spoof: &ldquo;What&rsquo;s good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.,&rdquo; satirizing the military industrial complex.Today, nobody dares mock Pixar. Critics don&rsquo;t merely salute this bullmoose animation studio, they genuflect. Every Pixar film&mdash;including the new Up, gushed over by Cannes Film Festival shills&mdash;is greeted with nearly patriotic fervor.This absurdity clarifies contemporary news media&rsquo;s unprincipled collusion with Hollywood capitalism.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[In a race to the bottom, nightclubs such as Element market gimmicks to make a quick buck. Traffic halts while the five blondes flash their popsicle-colored thongs as they drunkenly pile into a cab on East Houston Street. Car horns blare. Wolf-whistles and shouts pierce the air as a FDNY truck zooms close by.

Adding to the carnival-like feel, the air is thick with the smell of vendors barbecuing street meat at nearby pushcarts. Standing here, watching scores of barhopping twentysomethings stagger around bleary-eyed on a warm Friday night, the deep recession looks like it might be over. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Welcome to Shredtopia]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Celebrate the Pre-Apocalypse with Children The apocalypse is coming. That's obvious. Hollywood says so. Religion says so. Crazy people in the 42nd Street subway station say so. What the hell are we going to do about it? Dude, let's start a band. And that's how Children&mdash;playing tonight at the Shangri-La in Greenpoint&mdash;was formed.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Soho Nostra]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Tom Folsom's Mobbed-Up Book Party The New York literati spent Monday night celebrating the same gangster that their forbears from the 1960s and &rsquo;70s couldn&rsquo;t get enough of. In Soho, the Accompanied Literary Society brought actors Steve Buscemi and Matthew Modine to read from The Mad Ones, Tom Folsom&rsquo;s biography of New York gangster Joey Gallo. &ldquo;Crazy&rdquo; Joe was heavily influenced by Beat-generation Greenwich Village. He read Camus and Sartre and garnered accolades from intellectuals and artists like Susan Sontag and Bob Dylan.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Totally Stumped]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Duane Sorenson has been called a             &lsquo;coffee messiah&rsquo; because of his Stumptown beans. On the eve of the caf&eacute;&rsquo;s New York City opening,  ETHAN EPSTEIN implores us all to wake up&mdash;before it&rsquo;s too late. Wake up, New York! You&rsquo;re supposed to be the city that doesn&rsquo;t take any bullshit, the city that chews up the phonies and spits &lsquo;em out! Are you really going to be bamboozled by a bunch of pseudo-hipsters from Portland, Oregon? Are you really going to fall for Stumptown Coffee?


I&rsquo;m an East Coast refugee myself, having just finished up four years of college here in Portland. I&rsquo;ve been indoctrinated into its style and, more importantly, its most popular coffee roaster and chain of caf&eacute;s, Stumptown. Since owner and self-styled coffee guru Duane Sorenson opened his first Portland roastery in 1999, he has overseen a massive expansion throughout the hipper zips of the Pacific Northwest.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Pienus in the Sky]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19896-flavor-of-the-week-pienus-in-the-sky.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[SARA BARRON uncovers champagne-soaked teenage desire Several years ago I went home for Thanksgiving dinner only to resign myself&mdash;after having argued with my grandmother about my boyfriend, the MTA employee/spoken word poet&mdash;to spending the night in my bedroom. Seeing as how my father had converted it into a study, however, there wasn&rsquo;t much there in the way of entertainment save for a do-it-yourself guide to Rug Weaving and a biography on Howard Taft, so I opted instead to dig through a box in the back of my closet. On its side my dad had written, &ldquo;Old Sara Bits,&rdquo; and on the top I found a tattered spiral notebook.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Get Smart: Away We Go]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Sam Mendes teams with Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida to try to impress indieland Likable TV actors Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski stress their charm to the limit in Away We Go. As Verona and Burt, an unmarried, mixed-race couple expecting their first child, Rudolph&rsquo;s warm coloring and freckly, smiling placidity contrasts Krasinki&rsquo;s lanky, unfazed, bigboy goofiness.They represent an Obama-era ideal, born of the media&rsquo;s predominant middle-class tenets: casual affluence, social mobility and the amazing self-possession of...TV stars.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Other 23 Hours]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Freshkills in England, a tour diary A rottweiler perches  on the roof of the Brixton Windmill like an oversized gargoyle. It snarls as we approach, a sound that seems to originate not from its throat or belly but from the Ninth Circle of Hell. Entering the club will involve crossing into his strike zone, and I can&rsquo;t imagine that he would hesitate to leap off the roof and bury his thick teeth into one of our soft white necks.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Year One]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19986-year-one.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Apatow's gang of cavemen pander to an insipid form of liberal sarcasm Judd Apatow&rsquo;s raunchiness may go too far but it never goes deep. That&rsquo;s the problem with Year One, which starts out spoofing prehistory but quickly veers into ridiculing religion. Its prehistoric and Biblical jokes don&rsquo;t necessarily go together, but the mash-up assumes a derisive attitude toward religious historical belief no different than Apatow&rsquo;s childish, self-serving, unprincipled approach to sex.
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    <title><![CDATA[Over the Rainbow]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19987-over-the-rainbow.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Anika Larsen&rsquo;s autobiographical musical never finds its voice Broadway performer Anika Larsen (All Shook Up, Xanadu) has written a musical valentine to her multi-cultural family in Shafrika, The White Girl, but good intentions aren&rsquo;t enough to prevent Shafrika from feeling overblown and overwritten.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Spinner Right Round]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[What's Up With Spinnerette's Brody Dalle It&rsquo;s been six years since Brody Dalle put out an album, but tonight the former Distillers frontwoman will hit the Bowery Ballroom with her new band Spinnerette. 
New York Press&rsquo; Rebecca Wallace spoke to Dalle about the new band, motherhood and Twitter.  ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Marriage may have its benefits, but SETH MICHAEL DONSKY wonders whether the struggle for same-sex marriage is really about equal rights&mdash;or just validation. THE CAST OF Hair was late. Instead of palpable political unrest, the tardy Broadway belters caused more anxiety in the crowd than anything else.When the young, attractive cast of men and women did arrive, they sang &ldquo;Let the Sunshine In.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s got to be the first time in history that a free-love anthem was used to endorse the institution of marriage. That&rsquo;s right: Instead of angry, fist-pumping protest, the love that dare not speak its name now holds concert rallies in the middle of Midtown.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Is a small Soho bookstore the most exciting new venue in town? AMANDA PALMER WAS fresh off a sold-out show for 700 at the Highline Ballroom in Chelsea. And author Neil Gaiman, his best-selling novella Coraline having been adapted into a feature film, could have sold just as many tickets on his own.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow's latest joins the short list of great Iraq War films ALTHOUGH BRIAN DE PALMA lost his artistic bearings on the anti&ndash;Iraq War bandwagon, director Kathryn Bigelow found her perfect subject.That&rsquo;s the difference between De Palma&rsquo;s confused, preachy Redacted and Bigelow&rsquo;s The Hurt Locker. Bigelow (working from a script by Mark Boal) stays focused on the personalities of soldiers during Bravo company&rsquo;s last 39 days of rotation in 2004 Baghdad.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[KATE WALTER burns sage to get laid After suffering through the break up of my 26-year relationship, I emerged from the darkness a different person. Once a cranky journalist, I became a New Age optimist. Now here I was walking through my studio apartment twirling a lit smudge stick, making sure the pungent scent got into every corner.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[On top of the world at Ali Baba&rsquo;s Terrace SECOND AVENUE IN the East 40s is not someplace you&rsquo;re likely to find me. So imagine my surprise when, on a recent evening that wasn&rsquo;t marred by rain, a companion who rarely ventures north of Delancey and I were barely in a cab back Downtown before we started planning a return visit.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Inside the bloody, lusty world of Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer Neil Gaiman is in his underwear. I&rsquo;ve been in his hotel room, the penthouse suite at the Maritime Hotel, for 15 minutes and Gaiman has stripped down, save for a button-up shirt and jacket bought off a homeless guy for $40, to follow his paramour Amanda Palmer (former Dresden Doll, current singer, author and all-around goth-girl heartthrob) into a bubble bath.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The &lsquo;Levittown&rsquo; characters can&rsquo;t find peace at home Playwright Marc Palmieri just loves to explain things. His characters don&rsquo;t merely reference past indiscretions or shared memories&mdash;they very helpfully go into them in great detail, even though the people with whom they&rsquo;re reminiscing are already aware of every excruciating detail. And while audiences may appreciate a handy primer on the tribulations of the Maddigan and Briggs families in Levittown, exposition disguised as dialogue is hardly good theater.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[College Humor's Bruno Party...Well, Some of It Before I was kindly turned away from Bar 13, College Humor&rsquo;s party celebrating the release of Bruno was actually a lot of fun.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Graphic designers say their T-shirts are original art. But the city doesn&rsquo;t see it that way. WE LIVE IN an era of unrivaled design choices. Due to technological advances, graphic artists can now easily market and sell their work, reaching an audience inconceivable just a few years ago.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Anger Management]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[New films from the most wicked man in cinema TO SAY THAT age hasn&rsquo;t mellowed legendary filmmaker Kenneth Anger would be an enormous understatement. When reached by phone in Los Angeles to talk about a selection of his output over the last decade, rounded up by Anthology Film Archives in a program to be shown there on July 18 and 19, the man himself was far from forthcoming about his latest offerings.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Boys in Lonely Places]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[With a big British-themed blockbuster opening this week, Shane Meadows&rsquo; Somers Town offers a wonderful solution to class fantasy ASTOUNDINGLY UNIMAGINATIVE, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ruins the idea of popular entertainment. It&rsquo;s the sixth tie-in with J.K. Rowling&rsquo;s lucrative series of children&rsquo;s books. All of the film versions have been pedestrian and overlong, as if trying to literally retell the book stories merely by adding up-to-date special effects&mdash;yet using them without creativity. This is the opposite of Stephenie Meyers&rsquo; Twilight book series, which was wondrously re-imagined for the big screen by Catherine Hardwicke. The Potter film industry has never employed a good director. As a result: one bad movie in a series is unfortunate, six amounts to a catastrophe.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[I Believe in Evil]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Well, evil and Screaming Females IF YOU&rsquo;RE ALL sad about The Dead Weather shows this coming Thursday and Friday because Jack White will be behind the drum kit instead of playing guitar, you probably haven&rsquo;t heard the Screaming Females album Power Move. I&rsquo;m not one to exaggerate, but the album has restored my faith in good guitar-driven rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Tits for Tats]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The Grand Opening of Friday Jones Fifth Avenue Tattoo Couture As I lingered on the edge of the dance floor at Tuesday night&rsquo;s Friday Jones Fifth Avenue Tattoo Couture party, clutching a cup of Hpnotiq and something, looking desperately for the friends I had brought here, a publicist tried to bounce me.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Pilobolus at the Joyce, light on the magic Pilobolus&rsquo; fascination with shadow play&mdash;incorporating silhouetted bodies behind a white screen, often creating playful or fantastical imagery&mdash;in their works has its place, but the venerable, feisty troupe has overextended its welcome. Their imaginative transformation of bodies into letters, numbers, logos and such made for entertaining short takes at the Oscar ceremony and in some advertisements. They used it for a memorable turn on David Letterman&rsquo;s show, tumbling and cartwheeling from the sides of the stage to create a host of New York City images to the tune of &ldquo;Summer in the City.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[They Probably Think This Show Is About Them]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Three navel-gazing cheerleaders get the musical treatment in Vanities Score one for the recession. Until the economy imploded, the musical version of perpetual community theater staple Vanities was Broadway-bound, where the three-person musical would surely have met the same fate as last season&rsquo;s similarly-sized [title of show] and The Story of My Life, both of which looked out of place on the vast Broadway stage.
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    <title><![CDATA[What Sank the Shank?]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[JAMIE PECK chronicles the rise and fall of Williamsburg&rsquo;s notorious after-hours playground. AN AFTER-HOURS club of unprecedented size and bravado, The Shank opened its doors the first week of January 2009 to a neighborhood crowd of nightlife professionals, nocturnal unemployeds and those who, for whatever reason, just werent sleepy when the bars closed.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gut Instinct: A Fine Evening]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Sidewalk beer drinking in Brooklyn creates a cop conflict for JOSH BERNSTEIN "Is there free wine or liquor?" I asked. I judge an art opening not on the works presented but by the open bar. Serving Franzia or Yellowtail equals a big fat fail. Pour Brooklyn Lager or Jameson, and Ill give any gallery a glowing review. Tons of free alcohol, my girlfriend said, soothing me with the honeyed words I needed to hear.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Sleeping Together Separately]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[RACHEL BIRNBAUM and her husband have very different ideas about what should happen in the bedroom MY HUSBAND AND I havent slept together much since we got married eight months ago. Im not talking shtupping, Im talking shut-eye. Im a night owl; hes an early bird. Although we are in sync in almost every other aspect of our relationship, when it comes to sleep, were completely out of step.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Sweets for Lunch! Lydia says, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m sweet as they fucking come&rsquo; WHAT HASNT LYDIA LUNCH done for drugs? The famed writer, performance artist, Dead Boys groupie and Teenage Jesus & The Jerks frontwoman has seen it all. Shes written vividly about her experiments with mescaline,THC, pot, acid, Quaaludes, Valium, coke and angel dust, among other substancesand now, from her perch in Barcelona, has released her ninth book, Will Work For Drugs.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Send in the Adults]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The Gerard Butler-Katherine Heigl rom-com pairing is so gay GERARD BUTLERS DANCE with Thandi Newton in Guy Ritchies underrated, multilayered gangster extravaganza RocknRolla was a lovely, funny flirtationthe sexiest musical moment in recent movies]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[CATE SMITHSON stops just short of beer pong in Alphabet City IT&rsquo;S NOT EVERY day that a bar offers you the chance to wax nostalgic and pay homage to your not-so-distant youth&mdash; save for the ritualistic &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t Stop Believin&rsquo;&rdquo; jukebox sing-along&mdash;but Superdive is bound and determined to change all that. Located on rapidly douchifying Avenue A, this plastic-cup-wielding, keg service-offering beer pong hot spot is the stuff of frat-boy dreams&mdash;in a good way. We think.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[For years Stuyvesant Town was a middle-class oasis in Manhattan. Now college kids looking for a good deal are taking over. HENRY MELCHER tries to understand why his neighbors love to hate him. TWO GIRLS IN skimpy white bikinis soak their feet in the fountain at the center of the Oval. Nearby, a couple of muscular guys casually flex as they toss a football back and forth for the admiring girls.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[RYAN TRACY remembers when he first set eyes on the legendary choreographer I visited New York City for the first time in my life in February of 2000. When I made that first trip, I was 23, queer and single. I craved a more culturally enriching life. After undergrad, I had been hiding out in Southern California for a year or so, until I decided to do some graduate work, and set my sites on NYC.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Die Young, Stay Pretty]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Livefastdie plays its own funeral at Rockstar Bar When I arrived at Rockstar Bar Saturday night, Livefastdie bassist Sarim of Denmark let me know he was taking his final show seriously. &ldquo;I have a bomb. If it doesn&rsquo;t go well, I&rsquo;m gonna kill everyone including you so you can&rsquo;t tell anyone about it.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Will New Yorkers send Christine Quinn back to her job as Speaker of the City Council or fall in love with another woman?  LADIES, PUT ON your mothers&rsquo; pearls: Yetta Kurland is comin&rsquo; a-courting&hellip;for your votes, that is.

A dapper lesbian, known to wear custom dress shirts and blazers, Kurland has been going door-to-door and bar-to-bar throughout the West Side of New York City looking to woo as much Sapphic support as needed to defeat Speaker of the New York City Council Christine Quinn in the September 15 Democratic primary. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: As Tears Go By]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[SARA BARRON goes from bawling to balling THE OTHER WEEK I was on my couch scratching my scalp, dislodging the material that had started building up beneath my fingernail with my front tooth, then spitting it onto the floor. I sustained this routine for close to an hour, at which point I stood up to get a glass of water, slipped on the pile of masticated scalp and stubbed my toe against the wall.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Our guide to surviving&mdash;and maybe even enjoying&mdash;New Jersey The All Points Wests website has detailed instructions on getting to the festival, but dont believe their ferry heresy! If youre coming from the City, steer clear of the $15- $20 ferry ride from Battery Park Pier. Opt for the $1.75 PATH train at the World Trade Center.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re breaking the bank on iced coffee this summer&mdash;but why? WHEN I WORKED as a barista, every summer people would whine about the price of iced coffee.

&ldquo;Why does it cost so much? There&rsquo;s less here than in hot coffee!&rdquo; they would cry. I smiled, nodded and took their money. I didn&rsquo;t know why it was more expensive either, but an extra quarter hardly seemed worth all the fuss. And, unlike hot coffee, making the iced variety at home calls for preparation that most people just aren&rsquo;t willing to put in. At hotspots around town this summer, however, iced-coffee prices can be a whopping $3 more than a comparable cup of the hot stuff. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Apatow ruins Sandler&rsquo;s comic rep, while the Scandinavian artiste soars with 'You, the Living' MORE LAUGHS&mdash;belly-deep, thought-provoking ones&mdash;are to be had in the first 10 minutes of Roy Andersson&rsquo;s You, the Living than in all of Judd Apatow&rsquo;s Funny People. If this suggests that Hollywood&rsquo;s current comedy kingpin is a less effective humorist than some relatively unknown Swedish cinema artiste who quotes Goethe, here&rsquo;s why: Andersson&rsquo;s a filmmaker of genuine accomplishment, Apatow is a TV hack out of water.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A prehistoric Twitter is born again on the banks of the Gowanus Canal IN 1844, SAMUEL MORSE transmitted the first telegraph message, asking the world via a series of electrical pulses, &ldquo;What hath God wrought?&rdquo;

One hundred and sixty-five years later, a group of 20 or so New Yorkers is gathered around a speaker-size black box beside the Gowanus Canal, awaiting the answer.With little more than some wood pieces, 500 feet of wire and a pair of bronze 1930s ham radio keys from eBay, artists Benjamin Cohen and Sierra Pettengill have assembled two telegraph stations linking the banks of the Gowanus.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[(We Just Wanna) Bang The Drums]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Watch out, Coney Island! Brooklyn&rsquo;s The Drums rides summer&rsquo;s surf-rock wave I COULD START THIS thing off with the expected allusions to beaches, nostalgia, tape fuzz, the &lsquo;80s and bands with repeated letters in their names that make 2009 summer jams, but why bother? Sometimes bands become unwilling victims of their birth date, and I&rsquo;m not going to degrade The Drums by lumping them into being part of some fake lo-fi marketing movement. While undeniably &ldquo;now,&rdquo;The Drums is really just a solid pop band, and that&rsquo;s great news because it means it&rsquo;ll probably be around for more than a minute. Founded by longtime buddies Jonathan Pierce (vocals) and Jacob Graham (guitar), The Drums drops Summertime, its first EP, on Aug. 7 and should soon be slaying house parties, ballrooms and festivals across the nation&mdash;the band&rsquo;s local live shows are already hot tickets.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Brooklyn&rsquo;s zombie auteurs flesh out the details of The Eaters The Eaters is the first zombie stoner horror comedy of all time. To celebrate this groundbreaking cinematic moment, Anthology Film Archives  is screening the movie, about a Brooklyn band that attempts an escape to Long Island after zombies take the boroughs, on Aug. 4. New York Press chatted with Katie Carman (director, producer) and Elizabeth Lee (actress, writer, producer) to talk about fusing the searches for blunts and brains.
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    <title><![CDATA[Cooking With Confidence]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Nora Ephron goes for full-on snobbery in Julie & Julia TALKING HEADS&rsquo; &ldquo;Psycho Killer&rdquo; underscores the Julie & Julia scene where Julie (Amy Adams) is called &ldquo;lobster killer&rdquo; by her husband as she prepares a dish from Julia Child&rsquo;s cookbook. It&rsquo;s an inane music-movie idea, but the Heads classic gives this pedestrian film a couple minutes of genuine art&mdash;and fun. Surely director Nora Ephron nixed using The B-52s&rsquo; &ldquo;Rock Lobster&rdquo; because that trash-pop epiphany violates her bourgie taste&mdash;and snobbery explains why Julie & Julia was made at all.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[SUSAN SHAPIRO thought she had quit everything. Until she had to learn to quit her therapist too. Do everything I say for a year and you&rsquo;ll be smoke-free and find a publisher,&rdquo; Dr. W promised.

He had to be kidding. As a broke, chain-smoking, 40-year-old Manhattan journalist mired in book rejections, a bad marriage and mythic midlife crisis, I&rsquo;d entered his office ready to ditch my spouse and teaching gig, finding them both too draining. Instead Dr. W&mdash;a 50-year-old, dashing, brilliant addiction specialist&mdash;insisted I put on the nicotine patch, increase my class load and cease all criticism of my husband. I wanted to bash him in the head.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Andrew Bujalski explains himself If the word &ldquo;mumblecore&rdquo; ever meant anything in the first place, it definitely had something to do with Andrew Bujalski. The lo-fi indie director of Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation showed up at the South by Southwest Film Festival with his third feature, Beeswax, in March. We sat down for a beer to discuss the unique qualities of his slice-of-life films, which routinely challenge Hollywood conventions, but still require&mdash;to hear Bujalski tell it&mdash;an appreciative audience. Beeswax, the story of twin sisters living in Austin amid troublesome relationships at work and at home, opens at Film Forum on Friday.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor Of The Week: Love Seat]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[GIULIA ROZZI and her chair affair When I was 10 I became addicted to humping. I&rsquo;d hump everything I could get my colorful Esprit sweatpants on: pillows, the side of the bed, every single one of my stuffed animals. Years later when I go home to visit my parents, upon entering my old room I immediately feel the glares of my Pound Puppy, Wuzzle and Dopey Doll staring at me their eyes calling out &ldquo;slut.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ In his perceptive, unillusioned review of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, critic Edward Douglas cites how the movie &ldquo;really gets to the appeal of G.I. Joe&rsquo;s fan base, although far too often, the movie veers into territory that seems more like advertising for the cool vehicles and playsets.&rdquo; Because it&rsquo;s the summer&mdash;hell, the era&mdash;of capitalist domination where junk movies win front page newspaper headlines and tie-in commercial products become &ldquo;news&rdquo; stories as well as Happy Meals, G.I. Joe must be understood as an authentic measurement of our cultural values. Its unabashed appeal to the pop-commercial synapses also demonstrates livelier filmmaking than such utter banality as Iron Man and Star Trek and Harry Potter&rsquo;s Half-Blooded Chintz.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The death of hip-hop regionalism means everyone dominates Since hip-hop emerged in the slums of the South Bronx in the 1970s, geography has often defined rap artists. It has informed their slang and explained their sound. It has been a source of pride and a source of authenticity. So it was telling several weeks ago that the second single released from Jay-Z&rsquo;s upcoming album has the geographically ambiguous title, &ldquo;We Run This Town.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[District 9 trucks in trash and South Africa&rsquo;s apartheid history HOVERING OVER JOHANNESBURG like a CGI outtake from Close Encounters or Independence Day, the Mothership of District 9 looks like a far-off hallucination, something unreal shrouded in atmospheric mist. It is both ominous and ridiculous, yet the movie gets no more creative than that secondhand &ldquo;gotcha&rdquo; spectacle&mdash;which is also central to its promotional campaign. Newsflash: Just because a film is advertised one way doesn&rsquo;t mean that&rsquo;s what the film is really about.Visiting extraterrestrials stuck on earth are forced to live as second-class citizens enduring humans&rsquo; degradation; and from there on, preposterousness rules in District 9.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Burn the Floor&rsquo; has charm and sex appeal to spare At some point in the recent past, dance fever swept America. Or rather, a passion for watching D-list celebrities and hubristic fools sweep across a stage glittering with sequins, tassels and fringe swept America. Apparently, the runaway success of shows like Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance? was enough motivation to book the endlessly touring international all ballroom dance extravaganza Burn the Floor on Broadway. What&rsquo;s surprising is how successful the show actually is.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Finding purgatory and more at Mars Bar Mars Bar is a grimy, spray paint-covered oasis in the desert of East Village glass and steel super-gentrification. Word is that it&rsquo;s still the type of dive where you can buy a dime bag of weed, get yelled at by an elderly alcoholic and make out with a teen runaway&mdash;all before 8 p.m. Last week, the sympathetic gods were paid some protection with a swirling acid-colored mural of the universal pantheon painted on its facade. It&rsquo;s part of the dive&rsquo;s Dante-themed art showcase, Hell Purgatory or Paradise, which officially started on Sunday.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: There Are No Feelings in Threesomes]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20197-flavor-of-the-week-there-are-no-feelings-in-threesomes.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[PETER JERNIGAN finds himself between a gruesome twosome STACEY ANSWERED THE door wearing a tiny red titty top and matching micro miniskirt. I&rsquo;d encountered her only once before, and that night she made both my Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame by perfectly executing an unexpected reverse cowgirl switcheroo, only to follow up that cunning stunt by drunkenly pissing my bed in her sleep.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gut Instinct: What's the Scores?]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[JOSH BERNSTEIN visits the famous strip club to sink his teeth into a nice, juicy&hellip; WHAT ARE YOU doing Wednesday?&rdquo; my girlfriend asks, eager to spend quality moments with me since work has made our schedules incompatible all summer.

&ldquo;I&rsquo;m&hellip;busy,&rdquo; I say, deflecting the naked truth.

&ldquo;Doing what?&rdquo; she asks. This is how conversations work: brief exchanges of information.

&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to eat steak at Scores.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lost in Place]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[A tour of Manhattan&rsquo;s forgotten fringe spots worth preserving. MANHATTAN DEVELOPMENT HAS finally slowed&mdash;which means its time to take stock of what remains. Now that buildings once destined for the wrecking ball have been given a reprieve, maybe we can save a few more.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cool Summer]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[We&rsquo;re sweating in crevices we didn&rsquo;t even know we had&mdash;but here are some ways to chill out this August. It&rsquo;s that time of year again, when New Yorkers emerge from the sweltering subways frothing at the mouth and seeking respite from the dreadful heat. Sure, it&rsquo;s still raining enough for us to consider building an ark, but summer is undeniably here. Luckily, there are more than enough ways to cool down&mdash;and most of them don&rsquo;t involve going home with people who have central air. That always works, too, though.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Draws of Mozart]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Forget ancient rock music, Lincoln Center has some real ass-kicking ghosts IT NEVER CEASES to astonish me that when ghouls like Brian Wilson come to town with their string orchestras, every hipster, proto-hipster, post-punk, music nerd, nebbish and know-it-all flocks to the show like a self-flagellating pilgrim crawling to Mecca. And yet every time I mention that a fully loaded symphony is going to be blasting away at Beethoven&rsquo;s Ninth or The Rite of Spring, everyone within earshot runs for the hills as if I were talking about Styx or Kansas or some other aural atrocity.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Evil Reads!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Jonathan Shaw's book party at Hospital Productions Upon entering, I noted that, for once, the boys had played dress-up as well as the girls. In a testament to the shows pull on masculine imaginations, imitation Don Drapers in vests and fedoras were cracking jokes, drinking Old Fashioneds and anachronistically answering their cell phones throughout the chandelier-lit space.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Mind Your Ps and Qs]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20220-flavor-of-the-week-mind-your-ps-and-qs.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[When life gave DAN DE LAMANCHA lemons, he made lesbian porn IT WAS MY second day on a girl-on-girl porno set. I was in a warehouse somewhere in Queens, and in the middle of the floor there was a Crown Vic full of halfdrunk, naked girls doing things you&acute;ve probably never seen in real life. Your mother would not approve.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gut Instinct: Pass the Celestial Butter]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s not the politics, but the price that keeps JOSH BERNSTEIN from the pleasures of foie gras MY FRIEND BEN&rsquo;S eyes roll heavenward and drool speckles his ChapSticked lips when he thinks of celestial butter. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino indulges his gory side to create Jewish revenge porn with Inglorious Basterds &ldquo;BACK TO BARBARISM&rdquo; is the theme of Quentin Tarantino&rsquo;s Inglourious Basterds. Its misspelled title and cheesy homage to a 1970s grindhouse flick (by Enzo Castellari) all mock the notion of sophistication. Yet it is truly unsophisticated. A barbaric jamboree, it uses the Jewish Holocaust as a pretext for gore, sadism and fanboy lore. This hipster version of what the Village Voice once called &ldquo;a feelgood Holocaust movie&rdquo; (deriding Schindler&rsquo;s List) intends audiences to get off on killing, mayhem and hatred. QT deliberately ignores Spielberg and Tony Kushner&rsquo;s precedent-setting moral examination of Jewish (thus, global) conscience in Munich to capitalize on Jewish revenge. Genocide becomes a justification for QT&rsquo;s usual comic brutality.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[With his film &lsquo;adaptation&rsquo; of Stew&rsquo;s rock musical, Spike Lee explores the Obama phenomenon and what it means to pass for black. SPIKE LEE&rsquo;S ROUTINE interest in provocative subjects&mdash;promiscuity (She&rsquo;s Gotta Have It), colorism (School Daze), miscegenation (Jungle Fever), urban racism (Do the Right Thing), Northern prejudice (Crooklyn), police indifference (Clockers) and sexual addiction (Girl 6)&mdash;makes his unentertaining films marketable. But by trafficking in superficial political controversy, Lee obscures his real ambition. Fact is, until his new movie Passing Strange, Lee has never made a film that concentrated on the central issue of his career: class.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[One Great Plate: Classic Chocolate Birthday Cake at LEVANTeast]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ I WAS SUSPICIOUS from the very beginning. &ldquo;Is it some sort of cake-flavored ice cream with a butter-cream foam emulsion thing?&rdquo; I asked the friend who raved about the birthday cake at new Lower East Side eatery and lounge LEV- ANTeast. &ldquo;No,&rdquo; I was told. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s straightup birthday cake.&rdquo; I was intrigued. Surely no birthday cake fits all; one person&rsquo;s strawberry shortcake would be different from another&rsquo;s Cookiepuss.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Beets Go On]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Forget Bushwick, New York&rsquo;s next big band hails from Jackson Heights THE BEETS MIGHT be one of the hardest working bands in town. Just over a year old, this Jackson Heightsbased outfit plays so many showssometimes three per week for the past yearthat it barely has time to practice.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Ang Lee and James Schamus take a dry look at free-love TAKING WOODSTOCK&rsquo;S cinematic problems start with wobbly psychedelic graphics that divide the title into three words:Taking/Wood/Stock. Is that title a naughty pun or a banal pun? Director Ang Lee and his writer-producer James Schamus try having it both ways.That&rsquo;s regrettably typical of this middlebrow team whose high-minded concepts always try for controversy (Brokeback Mountain,The Wedding Partner), excitement (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk), sophistication (The Ice Storm) and complexity (Lust, Caution).But the team&rsquo;s inherent banality&mdash; their lust-caution&mdash;always puts those goals out of reach. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A summer day in the life of Anne Pasternak, public art&rsquo;s head cheerleader IT&rsquo;S 10 A.M. AND Anne Pasternak, president of the 33-year-old public art organization Creative Time, is listing the tasks she&rsquo;s already completed for the day.

&ldquo;I sat on my yoga mats, went to the bank, sent my daughter a care package, wrote a grant&rdquo;&mdash;she paused briefly before cheerily continuing&mdash;&ldquo;sent three thank you letters and did all my emails for the day.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[JOSH BERNSTEIN gives some caffeine counsel: Just because you&rsquo;re broke doesn&rsquo;t mean you should settle for a lesser coffee experience MUCH LIKE GROOMING my graying nose hair with electric clippers and sanding my callused feet, my father taught me to love the French press coffee maker. During my childhood&rsquo;s blurry-eyed mornings, I&rsquo;d watch as he dumped inky grounds into a clear glass carafe. Steaming water caused crushed coffee to swirl like gnats dancing the lambada, before the mesh plunger consigned them to Davy Jones&rsquo; Locker.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Switching up your disco fries routine with a Canadian import AFTER A NIGHT of drinking and frivolity, what we eat to soak up all that alcohol often says a lot about where we come from. Offer me a cheese steak sometime after 2 a.m., and my inner Philadelphian will scarf that down without thought to calories or cholesterol.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Diet Kong fizzes with fun and ominous undertones COUNTLESS BANDS CAN trace their beginnings to one or maybe two significant and serendipitously accidental meetings, but Diet Kong, the collaborative effort between the Brooklyn-based, husband-and-wife team of Keith Gladysz and Jenn Penn is highly unusual and touching, even for the most cynical music fan.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[JAMIE PECK sours on her high school sweetheart &ldquo;YOUR TITS ARE just as nice as they were when you were 15.&rdquo;

Sloppy drunk and in the midst of a fourmonth dry spell, I&rsquo;d said fuck it and brought my high school crush home with me. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s impossible to hang out with someone from high school and not talk about high school,&rdquo; he pontificated. &ldquo;I could be with Charlie C., or Liz W. or even Dan S. right now, and we&rsquo;d probably be having roughly the same conversation.&rdquo; ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ On Sunday afternoon, a few dozen ashen-faced night owls,&mdash;looking for a respite from 90-degree temperatures&mdash;took to the beach. They plopped themselves, fully clothed, onto striped lounge chairs and stayed there for hours drinking free PBR. Daniel James, a tattooed nightlife promoter, flipped burgers on a big grill. Showing off bedbug-bitten legs, a girl splashed into the water alone, bouncing a beach ball. &ldquo;Come on in guys, the temperature&rsquo;s perfect,&rdquo; she said, eliciting only confused stares from three tattooed friends.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A crash course in ways to navigate New York How to Find a New York City Apartment: The unfortunate truth is that areas off-but-near campus will be pricey and apartments will be small.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Sunday night, hundreds crowded into a balmy Glasslands Gallery to pay tribute to Carlos Alvarez who tragically passed away the weekend before at the all-too-young age of 29.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Shudder To Think's Craig Wedren on the band's reunion Shudder to Think broke up in 1998, but has been sporadically reforming for almost three years now. On Sept. 2, the band will get back together once again for a show at Bowery Ballroom to celebrate the release of Live From Home, a 21-song compilation of live tracks from last year&rsquo;s limited set of reunion dates.

Craig Wedren, the band&rsquo;s lead singer and guitarist, recently ditched New York for the Worst Coast, but was kind enough to brief us on revisiting old projects, his new solo work and the possibility that the band might actually stay together this time.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Thanks to everyone who entered our first 8 Million Stories Summer Writing Contest. We received over 200 entries, both fiction and non-fiction, and after careful consideration by our judges, we selected a first place winner for both categories. The winner of the non-fiction summer writing contest will be announced in next weeks issue.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Short fiction (finally) gets some respect THEY MAY BE small, but short stories have been getting a lot of ink lately.This year, the Pulitzer Prize and the Man Booker International award both went to short story writers, and masters of the form like John Cheever, Donald Barthelme and Flannery OConnor have all gotten the biographical treatment in 2009.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ DOES GOING TO a reading sound like something you&rsquo;d do only as a last resort? Think again! In New York, many readings are taking place at bars. And bars are decidedly not boring. Almost all of them are free, and they offer the opportunity to see a variety of performers&mdash;known and unknown. It took an out-of-town friend, Kerry Cohen, author of the memoir Loose Girl, to help me discover Guerrilla Lit Reading Series. I&rsquo;d assumed I was clued in, but even though I run my own series (In The Flesh), I discovered there was a huge world of literary happenings that I&rsquo;d overlooked. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Don't Let the Son Go Down on Me]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20281-flavor-of-the-week-dont-let-the-son-go-down-on-me.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[For NANCY BALBIRER, a fling turned into a family affair I WAS IN my early twenties, and on the rebound from a jazz bass player, a cad I adored all out of proportion and with whom I&rsquo;d had heady, cathartic, atom-changing sex that invariably culminated in sweeping post-coital promises and lots of mutual weeping. Reeling from that relationship&rsquo;s end, I decided in a moment of Xanax-addled logic that the best way to assuage my anguish would be to immediately replace The Bass Player with another jazz musician. It was simply too painful to consider that it was The Bass Player himself that I ached for, so I convinced myself that, really, it was jazz that I loved and jazz that I would love again.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Reed, Boorman, Van Peebles are all filmmaking peers that deserve more time and attention ODD MAN OUT&rsquo;S re-issue this week at Film Forum coincides with the new DVD release of John Boorman&rsquo;s latest The Tiger&rsquo;s Tail and the recent, brief run of Melvin Van Peebles&rsquo; Confessions of an Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha. All three are Old Masters&rsquo; movies&mdash;the 1947 Odd Man Out representing classical period director Carol Reed, Boorman sustaining British modernism and Van Peebles, still the avantgarde bard of African-American bawdiness.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Back To Hell]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Richard Hell repaves his Destiny Street TO UNDERSTAND THE eerie conception behind Richard Hell&rsquo;s new project, Destiny Street Repaired, a stirring re-execution of his late band the Voidoids&rsquo; flawed 1982 album, you need to go way back in time. In the closing days of the mid-1960s, Richard Meyers, a fatherless 17-year-old high school dropout came to New York from Kentucky on a Greyhound bus. He was itching to make it as a poet.You can picture him&mdash;a cardboard suitcase in his hand&mdash;moving apprehensively out of Port Authority into the bright lights and big holiday crowds of Times Square.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Devil Went Down To Brighton]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Nick Cave&rsquo;s demons come out to play in &lsquo;Bunny Munro&rsquo; &ldquo;WE ARE EACH our own devil,&rdquo; Oscar Wilde once remarked, &ldquo;and we make this world our hell.&rdquo;

Beyond sounding like a Bad Seeds lyric, this is more or less the unwritten epitaph to Nick Cave&rsquo;s new book, The Death of Bunny Munro.While Cave is better known for his music than his prose, it turns out that he&rsquo;s a surprisingly gifted, if slightly deranged, author. Bunny Munro is Cave&rsquo;s second novel since his 1989 debut, And the Ass Saw the Angel, and if his new book holds any autobiographical credibility, Cave has spent those years schooling himself in the ways of prodigious drinking, nonstop fucking and generalized depravity. But then, this probably isn&rsquo;t a fair statement. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Two film icons take to the Great White Way in 'Wishful Drinking' and 'Hamlet' Anyone interested in Carrie Fisher&rsquo;s one-woman show Wishful Drinking would do well to steer clear of her memoir of the same title, because the whole show is in there. Having read the book prior to seeing the show, I can attest that only a few of Fisher&rsquo;s anecdotes benefit from her martini dry delivery. What mostly remains charming in its move from page to stage, however, occasionally annoys as the evening wanders towards its second hour.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ &ldquo;That was the best show I&rsquo;ve ever seen,&rdquo; said my friend, a talented musician who&rsquo;s seen hundreds of shows. &ldquo;Just for the breadth of it. Some of it was too long, but what a line-up!&rdquo; The venue&mdash;Carnegie Hall&mdash;wasn&rsquo;t too shabby, either.Where but in New York could you drag on one stage Bono, Lady Gaga, Courtney Love, Rufus Wainwright, Lydia Lunch, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Maria McKee, Martha Wainwright, Scarlett Johansson, Joel Grey and Chloe Webb, accompanied by U2, Flo & Eddie, Bill Frisell, JG Thirwell and John Zorn. And don&rsquo;t forget master showman Gavin Friday, the raison d&acute;źtre of the show. The Irish composer and singer for gothic rock band The Virgin Prunes had confided to his childhood pal Bono he&rsquo;d like to play Carnegie Hall before turning 50. Voilą! What Bono wants, Bono gets. But where the hell was Madonna?]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[DANA ROSSI washes her hands of corporate bathroom culture I&rsquo;d pee in a dumbwaiter if it had the proper plumbing.

I have my reasons. Most importantly, a dumbwaiter would only &ldquo;seat&rdquo; one, and I&rsquo;d never have to worry about being ambushed when all I wanted was to be alone in a room with my pants around my ankles for five minutes before heading back to my cubicle. But considering I work in New York, The City That Never Even Winces, it&rsquo;s not hard to fathom that people in the office bathroom culture would exist the same way they&rsquo;d exist anywhere else&mdash;unaffected and in numbers.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[IRIS SMYLES fell hard, but now it&rsquo;s fall all over again OCTOBER ALREADY, CAN you believe it? My doorbell rang this morning&mdash;a deliveryman saying he had a package for me. I was so excited I skipped down the stairs thinking it was a package from you. It was actually a box of purple suede go-go boots I bought online last week and then forgot about. I was a little disappointed that the package wasn&rsquo;t from you, but then I tried on my new go-go boots and kicked around the house a bit and felt better.They have zippers! I&rsquo;ve since put them back in the box, however.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A date night with a whisky ambassador has JOSH BERNSTEIN all toasty After countless forays to strip clubs, strip-club steakhouses and biker clubs, my girlfriend finally voiced an objection to my adventures in New York&rsquo;s inebriated underbelly.

&ldquo;You&rsquo;re not going out with Glenfiddich&rsquo;s female whisky ambassador,&rdquo; she commanded. I swear steam issued from her ears, like a real-life cartoon. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want you hanging out with women wearing bikinis, dumping whisky down your throat.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Technology enabled LEONORA EPSTEIN and her dream guy to meet and fall for one another. But Mr. Amsterdam was no match for the real world. You&rsquo;re my first Web crush since 1997.&rdquo;

The window of the Gchat box flashed green, telling me David had typed a new message.When I read his confession, I felt a girlish pride for winning his attention, but also a sense of hesitation, guessing that Web crushes could only be reserved for pervs, nerds or socially awkward types. A lustful admission was a bit of a creepy thing for David to say considering we hadn&rsquo;t even met. He was on the other side of the Atlantic chatting to me from Amsterdam while I sat in my Williamsburg loft, hugging my glowing white MacBook to my chest.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[About a Pearl]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[With her first solo album, punk phenom Jemina Pearl steps into the spotlight  Jemina Pearl should have no problem winning people over.The 22-year-old singerwho spent six years fronting the raucous Nashville rock band Be Your Own Pet before it broke up last yearis quick to smile, easy to talk to and has in her possession one of the most arresting voices in rock music today.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Stunt Movie Swagger]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[A Danish filmmaker creates a British badass with 'Bronson' Rather than a straightforward biography of Englishman Michael Peterson, aka Charles Bronson, a petty thug who in 1974 began his 34-year prison sentence and became infamous as Britain's most violent inmate, Refn sensationalizes Peterson's pathetic life story in a series of set pieces.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Something In The Water]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ The Esopus Creek is a renowned troutfishing stream that flows through the Catskill Mountains into the Ashokan Reservoir, a principle water source for New York City. It is also the name of a non-profit foundation, a magazine and now a gallery that all celebrate the quirky, literate and inspired vision of its founder, Tod Lippy.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Keeping Up With the Jonzes]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[A look ahead at MoMA's Spike Jonze retrospective Starting tomorrow, the Museum of Modern Art will present Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years, a retrospective of the work of the 39-year-old filmmaker running the gamut from his early commercials and music videos to clips from his upcoming adaptation of Maurice Sendak&rsquo;s classic childrens book Where The Wild Things Are.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Summer Writing Contest Non-Fiction Winner: 9 Lives for a Weeble]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ WISH I COULD blame nuclear weapons, a mutant virus or Hitler for the malformation in my Russian Jewish bloodline, but my theory is a suicide gene. That coupled with an inability to bond during difficult times. We held our sorrow separately, a silent pact&mdash;if we didn&rsquo;t put words to it, nothing was awry. With a child&rsquo;s vocabulary I tried to convey the dark storms in my head, but felt my efforts swept aside. &ldquo;What the hell does that kid have to be depressed about?&rdquo; Dad asked. Mom shushed him. I was unglued and my family found me exhausting.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Our Election Picks]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Endorsements for the Sept. 15 primary TRADITIONALLY NEW YORK PRESS has not endorsed in local elections&mdash;unless it was meant as ridicule. But times have changed.This is only the second time we&rsquo;ve endorsed a mayor (an entirely different editorial board and publisher &ldquo;satirically&rdquo; endorsed Fernando Ferrer in 2005), and nowadays we take the entire process seriously.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Don't Scare The White Folks ]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Tyler Perry remains calibrated to not offend, but he needs to step up his game if he wants his empire to continue AS A SCREENING of Tyler Perry&rsquo;s previous opus, Madea Goes to Jail, came to its treacly end, a stout, middle-aged black woman said to her cohorts, &ldquo;Huh? Is that all!&rdquo; It&rsquo;s gotten to the point that even Tyler Perry&rsquo;s core audience has become more demanding.The slovenliness of Meet the Browns, Madea Goes to Jail and the tortuous if dramatic plotting of Why Did I Get Married?, Daddy&rsquo;s Little Girls and The Family That Preys doesn&rsquo;t pass muster among moviegoers with (undervalued) sophistication about the pop culture they enjoy.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gut Instinct: The Whiskey Wind's a Blowin']]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[JOSH BERNSTEIN finds shelter amidst a storm Luckily, our tent is waterproof! I told my girlfriend, as enthusiastic as a car salesman angling to unload a clunker. Wed planned to camp in seafaring Greenport, located at the dead end of Long Islands North Fork. She trained a sleep-crusted eye on the wall of wet gray.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gonzo, Not Forgotten]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Hunter S. Thompson&rsquo;s widow, Anita Thompson, speaks about her husband and her book  WE ARE  TURNING into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear&mdash;fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Spirit of O]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Our man prepares to see Oneida at All Tomorrow&rsquo;s Parties IN 1999, my band practiced in a rehearsal space on South 4thStreet in Williamsburg, distinguished now as being the space where a singer named Constantine Maroulis bailed on his band for a TV show called American Idol. Ten years ago, that space housed a different creature entirely. The room closest to the exit seemed to constantly bulge with ferocious sound.The guys were a couple of years older than us, friendly in a quiet way and looked surprising normal.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: You Low Lifes Wanna Buy Some Weed? ]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Hattie Hathaway and others at Howl! The Lower East Side has always been infested with low life: immigrants right off the boat, vaudeville and the trailer trash of the world. Even now that some of the poor folk have been run off to New Jersey, the good news is some of the investment bankers and yuppies who&rsquo;ve invaded the neighborhood are now on the bread lines themselves. Oh, to return to the days of Skid Row! I miss flophouses far more than CBGB.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fear in Alphabet City]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The recent shooting outside an East Village bar shouldn&rsquo;t have been such a surprise. Bullets are more common in the neighborhood than most people want to believe. TWENTY-SIX MINUTES after last call on August 23, a loud pop sent a wave of jitters through the weekend drunks, bouncers, desperate lonely-hearts and wide-awake cokeheads hanging out on the Avenue A strip between East 12th and 14th streets. Just as they settled back into their cigarettes and drawn-out good-byes, another bang! rocked them.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Buy Sexual]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[With the help of the Freestyle, JAMIE PECK finally Mozterbates If you love music so much, why don&rsquo;t you mold it into the shape of genitals and fuck it? This is the reasoning behind sound-activated vibrator Freestyle, the latest gadget to up the ante in the race to see who loves their iThing the most.While some focus on the toy itself to a degree approaching objectum sexualis&mdash;bringing to mind many people&rsquo;s desire, circa 2008, to grease up the sexy new iPhone and make love to it with an orifice&mdash; when I first heard of it there was but one name on my lips: Morrissey.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Precisely, rigorously, technically, 35 Shots of Rum is a masterpiece CLAIRE DENIS MUST be the most exoticizing filmmaker Europe has ever produced. Barely telling conventional stories, her best films&mdash;Chocolat, Beau Travail and the new 35 Shots of Rum&mdash;are ruminations on the peculiarities of colonialism: How the white West interacts with the Dark cultures it has appropriated. Denis&rsquo; unique vision departs from traditional storytelling; she&rsquo;s interested in phenomena of mood and circumstance&mdash;the visual rhythms of sexual and racial irony.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Name Game]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Starfucker could be more serious, but eff that STARFUCKER NEEDS A new name. From radio announcers fumbling around the title to tour billing issues, the moniker has become a hindrance to the band. &ldquo;There are so many people who won&rsquo;t work with you,&rdquo; says band founder Josh Hodges. Hodges, at 30, is the oldest member of the four-person group, whose pulsing electronic pop music is known to cause spontaneous dance parties, and he knew that naming his original solo project Starfucker could stunt the band&rsquo;s potential for growth in the public eye. &ldquo;The name was intentionally stupid and self-sabotaging,&rdquo; he says.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[An Epicure's Jungle]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Fuck your farm, Anne Apparu grows her vegetables on the Bowery WITH A DEAD baby pig in her arms, Anne Apparu receives news that her good friend and former brother-in-law Dash Snow, has died. But instead of breaking down, Apparu has a meal to cook.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Baddies Girl]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ "OMG! I have an apartment, I have a job. I didn't even lose my ATM card or my money. I feel like shit, but I'm OK!" It was one of those intense hangover epiphanies. I woke up at 11 Saturday morning in a panic, still wearing my red pann velvet evening gown. My makeup was smeared and the lights were on.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Herding beer drinkers to homebrewers' homes, JOSH BERNSTEIN learns why he&rsquo;ll never be much of a tour guide I awoke from the nightmare, my heart somersaulting, my bladder threatening to spill like an oil tanker: Damn, I thought, why did I agree to be a tour guide?

I blame the good, fine folks behind New York Craft Beer Week&mdash;Josh Schaffner and Mark Foggin&mdash;who contacted me with an offer I should&rsquo;ve refused: &ldquo;Want to lead a tour?&rdquo; Foggin asked. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re a beer and bar expert.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: All Tomorrow's Afterparties]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Out All Night at ATP The second night of All Tomorrow&rsquo;s Parties New York was when people really go hard. Existence's sharp edges sanded down by music and substances, vacationing rock nerds are free to fling themselves around the padded cell of Kutsher's Country Club to their hearts' content. This year, many wandered over to one the resort's dusty bars after Animal Collective's set to dance all night to the smokin' soul 45's of Ian Svenonius. A V.I.P.-less festival meant egalitarian mingling of artists, fans and media; Jim Jarmusch stopped by for a drink and No Age could be seen hanging out.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Making Magic With Music]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[A new kind of festival comes to Santos Party House &ldquo;All great artists are shamans,&rdquo; says Larkin Grimm. &ldquo;Everyone who is a musician and goes into an altered state of conscience is a shaman, and music puts you in that altered state of conscience.&rdquo;
This mystical connection between a musician and their audience was one of the many reasons Grimm teamed up with the Ordo Templi Orientis, also known as OTO, to curate the Musicka Mystica Maxima Festival, a new sort of event featuring musicians who all practice magic, kicking off Monday at Santos Party House.]]></description>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20365-rage.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Sally Potter displays her cinematic values in latest The best thing about Rage, Sally Potter&rsquo;s movie mystery, is its simplicity. Potter defies the digital era&rsquo;s fascination with new technology by emphasizing its limitations (it will premiere on mobile phones beginning Sept. 21). Through straightforward, head-on, close-up video interviews of 14 people who witnessed an incident at a fashion runway show, Potter relays a variety of emotions, personal philosophies, class experiences. Her video technique doesn&rsquo;t substitute for cinematic variety or photochemical richness. Instead, strict adherence to the basic things that digital media record (a face, place, moment) helps to appreciate the difference between video and film. Eschewing the lazy carelessness of so many misguided digital enthusiasts, Potter&rsquo;s rigor becomes a refreshing reminder of true cinematic values.

Potter&rsquo;s formal experiment is also shrewd.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[JOSH BERNSTEIN enjoys some fresh-baked bread thanks to the homeless IT WAS A dark and drunken night, long past the hour of common sense, so naturally I was swerving my bike home from Williamsburg. My then-roommate Andrew and I had drunk two too many Styrofoam tankards of beer from Turkey&rsquo;s Nest, where the faded d&eacute;cor and prices are time-warped in 1982: $4 buys 32 ounces of foamy fun, tip included. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[8 Million Stories: Brooklyn's Own Delphi]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[JAMES GREENE JR. and the magic hardware store BALTIMORE HAS THE Poe Toaster. Punxsutawney, a groundhog that predicts the weather. In Brooklyn, the piece of modern folklore that peaks local interest isn&rsquo;t animal but electronic&mdash;specifically, an outmoded telephone that occasionally pops up across the street from Pinchik Hardware on Bergen Street in Park Slope.This ancient and partially wooden crank phone is humanity&rsquo;s only link to an otherworldly entity known as &ldquo;The Pinchik Oracle,&rdquo; an all-knowing being that has decided to periodically field our questions and answer them on an electronic sign above the hardware store in question. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A new push for labor rights inside the home gives nannies hope. "IF SOMETHING HAPPENS, you have nowhere to complain,&rdquo; says Anna, a 38-year-old West-African nanny. &ldquo;It makes me worried.&rdquo;

For most of her seven-year career as a nanny, Anna has been fortunate to work for two families that have paid her a decent wage for roughly nine hours of work a day. Her duties usually include taking the children for a stroll or to play dates, cooking dinner in the evening and cleaning.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cheating Chinatown]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Many Chinese workers who usually depend on the help of a close-knit community are also suffering due to the economy.  Unemployed restaurant deliveryman Jianhua Wang says there&rsquo;s no help left for him in New York&rsquo;s Chinatown. Not in this economic climate. &ldquo;Chinatown is full of compatriots,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;but there are many cheaters.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Lincoln Tunnel of Love]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[STEPH AUTERI&rsquo;s commute set the wheels of romance in motion A FRIEND ONCE said that it was too late for us...too late for love. She said that if we hadn&rsquo;t met anyone at college, we never would. Ridiculous as it sounded, once I landed my first post-college job and became resigned to the daily NY/NJ commute&mdash; stepping onto the bus in the predawn and returning home in the dark of night, motion-sensored porch lights flickering on at my approach&mdash;I began to believe her. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Moore of the Same]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Soderbergh&rsquo;s &lsquo;smart and cynical&rsquo; Informant! should have switched titles with Michael Moore&rsquo;s muckracking Capitalism: A Love Story &ldquo;SMART&rdquo; AND &ldquo;CYNICAL&rdquo; are not the same but, lately, film culture has confused the two&mdash;as proved by Steven Soderbergh&rsquo;s The Informant! and Michael Moore&rsquo;s Capitalism: A Love Story. Both films pretend to critique greed and corporate insensitivity through the filmmakers&rsquo; liberal-leaning scrutinies of the American way of life. Soderbergh dramatizes how an Archer Daniels Midland executive, Matt Whitacre (Matt Damon), swindled his company for over $10 million while Moore takes his usual scattershot, mockumentary approach to the banking industry and its connection to the recent economic collapse.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[How a $1 fast food can support a family across borders  The first time the police handcuffed Yolanda Hernandez, her child-sized wrists slipped through the rings, so she handed the metal restraint back to the cops.

&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t need these,&rdquo; she said, going peacefully to the police station. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t hurt anyone.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[With One-Half Nelson (and Mr. Black) at Tubway party I arrived at the club and followed the directions of the door boy/girl: &ldquo;Keep going until you&rsquo;re sure you&rsquo;ve gone too far.&rdquo; I was surprised when I entered the room and it was all sparkling and beige, like some &lsquo;60s Champs- Elysees bote.&ldquo;Give me a gin and tonic,&rdquo; I told the bartender. It was the re-opening of Mr. Black&rsquo;s Tubway party on Saturday night. Before I knew it, I felt an arm on my shoulder.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[MELISSA SURACH&rsquo;s uphill battle to lose her virginity AT AGE 17, people still called me &ldquo;pimple beard.&rdquo; My mouth was filled with braces and while my scoliosis developed better than the doctors expected, I still had a slight hump. The only thing greater than my physical monstrosities was my sex drive. Despite being hobbled by social anxiety disorder&mdash;when I got nervous around people I licked my wrists&mdash;I was determined to finally get laid.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Spike Jonze turns Maurice Sendak&rsquo;s classic children&rsquo;s book into an adult work of art A FREEZE-FRAME of lonely suburban kid Max dressed in wolf pajamas and scampering wildly, boyishly indoors with his puppy announces Spike Jonze&rsquo;s innovation in Where the Wild Things Are. It&rsquo;s a snapshot of youth in extremis&mdash;the unruly innocence that movies usually hide in saccharine artifice. Jonze, master of lo-fi surrealism, captures youth&rsquo;s anarchic, destructive undercurrent in that single image. It makes his feature-length vision of Maurice Sendak&rsquo;s 1963 children&rsquo;s picture book immediately distinctive as the most daring kid&rsquo;s-movie adaptation since Altman&rsquo;s still-avant-garde Popeye from 1980.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Swim With the Fishies    ]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Doing The Swim at the Mermaid Ball If you haven&rsquo;t been to Galapagos&rsquo; new home in Dumbo, it&rsquo;s well worth the trek. Unlike the old space, every seat in the house here has access to the large stage. Perched on the mezzanine, my date and I peered over the railing at the cloverleaf shaped seating and into the venue&rsquo;s trademark, black inky pools of water.  &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t fall in,&rdquo; I warned my friend.  &ldquo;But isn&rsquo;t this a mermaid thing?&rdquo; she shot back.  Touch&eacute;. We were, after all, attending The Mermaid Ball.
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor Of The Week: Gray's Anatomy]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[JENINE HOLMES will think twice before asking for another wiener I crave hot dogs the way crack heads crave rock. My preferred dealer is the Gray&rsquo;s Papaya at West 72nd Street and Broadway. Last April, I decided to give into the hankering before a hair appointment. After injecting two dogs (well done, no kraut, no onions) I exited Gray&rsquo;s wearing the afterglow of gastronomic pleasure. At the corner, I noticed an older white man noticing me. His 1980s navy blue Members Only jacket read retiree.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mission Accomplished?]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[After electing Obama, many progressive-minded people feel like they&rsquo;ve done their job. But a crop of activist-inspired documentaries reminds us there&rsquo;s no time for fatigue, just hope WE ARE IN A DIRE SITUATION. We are at a crossroads. We are living in an unprecedented era. We must do something now.

If you believe all the pronouncements, proselytizing and punditry (and the requisite media hype), then we are undergoing an extraordinary shift in the way in which Americans will live their lives, as well as a renewal of faith in our politicians to do something about it&mdash;which means it&rsquo;s a perfect opportunity for agitprop and activism to take hold yet again. At least that seems to be the argument from a recent upsurge in politically minded documentaries that seek to rouse a lazy populace once content to shop away all fears&mdash;both foreign and domestic.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Harmony Korine creates a world of &lsquo;killing, fucking and burning&rsquo;  &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all just one long game,&rdquo; rants a demonic reprobate in Harmony Korine&rsquo;s Trash Humpers, which screens at the New York Film Festival on Oct. 1.That&rsquo;s actually Korine talking, under the guise of a monstrous geezer&mdash; one of several populating this hauntingly immersive, knowingly fragmented work&mdash; as he unleashes a detailed rant on suburban domesticity.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Humor in Gloom]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The Coen Brothers clarify their Jewishness&mdash;without guilt "We're Jews. We have that well of tradition to draw on,&rdquo; Larry Gopnik&rsquo;s cousin consoles him in A Serious Man. Larry (Michael Stuhlbarg), a Minnesota physics teacher, endures a progression of miseries in the Coen Brothers&rsquo; ironic new comedy. Disaster affects Larry&rsquo;s sense of identity as teacher, husband, father, brother, tribesman. A student blackmails him, his wife asks for a divorce, his Wasp neighbor unnerves him, plus other travails. His cousin&rsquo;s advice inspires a helpless shrug, an accommodation to suffering that characterizes a particular vision of the world. Yet the film itself is so sharp-witted that every irony makes life vivid rather than despairing. Any critic&rsquo;s suggestion that a film as lovingly, emotionally precise as A Serious Man typifies Jewish self-hatred is ridiculous.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Babes and Bruises]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Drew Barrymore can &lsquo;Whip It&rsquo; almost as well as the real thing Lean and mean, Iron Maven passes rainbow-clad Smashley Simpson on the track. Dressed in a skimpy plaid skirt, the Holy Roller girl weaves in and out of the green-sash wearing Hurl Scouts and, with a violent hip thrust, Scouts&rsquo; Rosa Sparks knocks one of the Rollers to the ground with a bone-jangling crack.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hot and Hornby]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The dick lit master proves he&rsquo;s still got it with Juliet, Naked  Nick Hornby calls to mind a certain brand of cool, like taking a spin in a 1960 Austin Healey convertible. In his sixth novel, Juliet, Naked, out this week, Hornby thankfully sticks to his pet motifs: rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll, obsession, fandom, sex and afflicted relationships.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Asking For It]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Night of 1,000 Courtney Loves....Kinda A special edition of Eastern Bloc's weekly Good Times party, "Night of 1,000 Courtney Loves" turned out to be quite the overstatement, but fun nonetheless. Perhaps because gays who like grunge and riot grrrl tend to be less drag-inclined than those who like, say, Cher, there were barely enough wigs present to assemble a costume contest.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Doug Hughes Just Keeps Working]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Broadway&rsquo;s favorite director contributes to two ill-advised revivals this month What a dreary lot the Cavendish family turns out to be in the dull revival of 1927&rsquo;s The Royal Family. Director Doug Hughes and his design team have polished George S. Kauffman and Edna Ferber&rsquo;s satire of the Barrymore acting clan to a high sheen, but all the Pledge in the world can&rsquo;t disguise the fact that the play is imitation junk.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Light Those Torches]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[&lsquo;The Diary of Anne Frankenstein&rsquo; plumbs the depths of mediocrity  CHALK IT UP to another instance of a fabulous title coming before the idea for a show, because the funniest thing about The Diary of Anne Frankenstein is its name. Another in a long line of attempts at reviving the anarchic spirit of Charles Ludlam and other celebrated Downtown theater artists, Anne Frankenstein only succeeds in killing and hour and a half in the most excruciating way imaginable.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Grooms With a View]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Brooklyn&rsquo;s Grooms have a new album and a distinctive take on today&rsquo;s sound &ldquo;PRETTY SOON, BANDS will be doing the Charleston,&rdquo; Jim Sykes, drummer for Brooklyn&rsquo;s Grooms, says with a laugh. Bassist Emily Ambruso, sitting in an old wheelchair&mdash; purely decorative&mdash;across the room, laughs and shuffles her feet. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m cool with that!&rdquo; she says.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Nevermind the Canadian donuts; Checkers has come to Brooklyn THE BIGGEST FOOD-RELATED uproar in New York this past summer had to be the daring invasion of Manhattan by Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons. NYC residents were taken aback by the almost overnight appearance of multiple maple-leafed breakfast stations throughout the city in July, ramping up fears that our northern borders are not entirely secure. As a tireless Hortons supporter, it warmed my cockles to see Tim flex his sugar n&rsquo; coffee muscle through the city that never sleeps. However, I was far more excited to learn a Checkers had quietly snuck its way into Brooklyn a month earlier.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A new heroin epidemic? MATT HARVEY snorts his disapproval. HE WEARS A black hoodie to protect himself from the cold rain. The baby-faced guy is Dominican, probably in his early twenties. He rushes by me at the Graham Avenue L train entrance, pauses and asks, &ldquo;Matt?&rdquo; I nod. He leads me down the stairs, examines me silently. Once he&rsquo;s satisfied that I&rsquo;m not a threat, he takes $30 from my left hand and pushes a sealed bag of Cheez Doodles into my right jacket pocket. Without another word, he splits for the opposite staircase and races back above ground. I check my watch. It&rsquo;s 6:30 on a Saturday night under a busy Williamsburg intersection, and I&rsquo;ve just scored three bags of &ldquo;Nike&rdquo; heroin, all hidden inside a re-sealed bag of chips.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Gerry Visco and Lydia Lunch on a rooftop in Chelsea To be technical about it, I didn&rsquo;t actually eat lunch with Lydia Lunch. But we met at lunchtime, just the two of us, ladies who don&rsquo;t lunch on the rooftop of her friend&rsquo;s five-story walk-up in Chelsea. She&rsquo;d just finished a photo shoot with Richard Kern, who years back directed her in erotic films like The Right Side of My Brain and Fingered.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[BAM showcases films of 1962 as part of the New York Film Critics Circle&rsquo;s 75th anniversary HOLLYWOOD PUBLICITY HAS popularly established 1939 as the great signpost of the studio system&rsquo;s output (the year of Gone with the Wind,Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach and at least a dozen other memorable movies). But films of the &rsquo;39 classical era are rivaled by a year in the modernist era: 1962. It marked the highpoint of international, art-film exhibition as well as the beginning of the end of the old Hollywood system, all culminating in extraordinary but&mdash;up until now&mdash;overlooked riches.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Ari Up says, &lsquo;There is no comeback, we haven&rsquo;t even come yet!&rsquo;  THIRTY YEARS AFTER the release of Cut, the seminal dub-punk record that made The Slits famous, singer Ari Up is still perfectly pissed off.This week the band released Trapped Animal, its first fulllength in 25 years, and Up talked to New York Press about being ignored, her band&rsquo;s new line-up and what exactly is keeping Mariah Carey down.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[v FOR THE PAST nine years, Jessica Stockton Bagnulo has known she wanted to own and operate her own bookstore. Now, she has the opportunity to peddle classics, cookbooks, graphic novels and more at Fort Greene's newest attraction, the Greenlight Bookstore.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Two new shows explore the lives of the rich and famous THANK YOU, Judith Ivey, for reminding me why I fell in love with the theater. After a brief break, the theater and I are firmly back together, and all because of the unlikeliest of offerings: a one-woman show about advice columnist Ann Landers.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Memphis&rsquo; reminds us of how blindingly white most Broadway musicals typically are Who could have known that the season's most unsettling Broadway experience would be amiable musical Memphis? Never mind the shrill Oleanna or the strained A Steady Rainfor sheer seat fidgeting, try the musical about integration set in the Civil Rights-era South.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Scare Salon ]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ I was strolling east in Tompkins Square Park on a perfect autumn day, enjoying the sundappled urban vista in the heart of the Lower East Side, when I heard the lovely voice of a young woman. &ldquo;My pussy is magic, my pussy is magic, my pussy is magical!&rdquo; The leggy Jessica Delfino gestured toward her crotch, fetchingly attired in a violet-checked frock with glossy white pantyhose and vinyl gogo boots. Don&rsquo;t you love that schoolgirl &rsquo;60s drag? ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Jared Hess creates a personal, daring film about innocence that captures eccentric Americana Among the American Eccentric directors&mdash;those filmmakers who came of age in the Star Wars generation&mdash;Jared Hess is the most offbeat. That may explain why Hess, director of 2004&rsquo;s Napoleon Dynamite, has come up with the first American Eccentrics sci-fi movie&mdash;Gentlemen Broncos. Fellow Eccentric David Gordon Green, who got a head start with 2000&rsquo;s George Washington, regularly speaks of eventually making a sci-fi film, but Hess beat him to it. Treading that thin line between empathy and pity that also distinguished Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, Hess deals with the oddball aspirations frequently felt by teenage loners who escape into the fantasy worlds of sci-fi. Gentlemen Broncos directly expresses that weirdness through 17-year-old Benjamin Purvis (Michael Angarano), who longs to turn his isolation and idiosyncrasies into popular art.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Fans will cheer Michael Jackson&rsquo;s This Is It. Haters will sneer (as expected). But Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone and other first-class filmmakers who failed to transition Jackson onto the big screen during his pop-idol years ought to weep at the missed opportunities that This Is It makes apparent.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bumps (and Chumps) in the Night]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Arthouses look to fill the schlock void for Halloween cult film fanatics In a fitting dramatic flourish, the Two Boots Pioneer theater closed one year ago this upcoming Halloween. George Romero&rsquo;s Night of the Living Dead was the last movie screened at the much-missed hub for both vintage and contemporary cult flicks. The saddest part about the space closing was how quickly its unusual programming disappeared with nothing to fill the space. Programmer/manager Lee Paterson&rsquo;s eclectic and exciting month-long &ldquo;Schlocktober&rdquo; festival, featuring everything from Italian zombies to Mexican wrestlers, made it seem as if the Pioneer was going strong right up until its last night. This is the first Halloween in a decade that New Yorkers will have to get their horror fix without the theater and, while it&rsquo;s tempting to say that it&rsquo;s not going to be an easy one, there is hope yet.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor Of The Week: You Should Be In Pictures]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20526-flavor-of-the-week-you-should-be-in-pictures.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[AINSLEY DREW and the case of the unwanted sext messaging MY FRIEND ERIN is the girl who gets one-liners from men at bars. The do you come here oftens of slurred solicitation that she brushes away with a derisive laugh and a flip of her blond hair. My friend Danielle gets the CSI variety of creepy lurkers, and she&rsquo;s found her personal antidote in a keychainbound can of mace and a black belt in Aikido. Another friend gets the drunk dials, and still another gets the exes that return in the middle of the night like housecats. It&rsquo;s been said that every woman has the potential to bring out the worst in men. I summon forth the cock pictures.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Remembering a time before the democratization of rock photography There was a time when concert photography was an art. Someone with a good camera, a trained eye and a passion for music would crawl to the front of a stage and plant himself there, waiting to capture something about a performer that would make for a moving portrait. Indeed, rock photography was an art form. And while today there are still top-notch photographers following bands&mdash;despite many of them being shuffled out of the pit in front of the stage after a measly three songs&mdash;what&rsquo;s far more prevalent is the obnoxious glow of cell phone screens as fans spend entire concerts snapping their own photos to upload to Facebook, Flickr or a surplus of other sites.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Handle With Scare]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Six places to have a scary Halloween  REMEMBER WHEN YOU went trick or treating last Halloween and everybody gave you weird looks? It wasn&rsquo;t because of your totally ironic Sara Palin as the Joker costume.You&rsquo;re in that weird and awkward phase where you&rsquo;re not a kid, but you&rsquo;re so sick of costume parties that if you see one more girl dressed up as a sexy [blank] you&rsquo;ll scream.What is there left to do? If you still love the horrific side of Halloween, but don&rsquo;t want to watch the same old scary movies or take in the scene that house parties can offer, why not try one of these gruesome haunted houses.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pride & Precious]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[You can thank media titans Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry for much of the hype surrounding Lee Daniels&rsquo; film Precious. ARMOND WHITE calls it the &lsquo;Con Job of the Year.&rsquo;  SHAME ON TYLER PERRY and Oprah Winfrey for signing on as air-quote executive producers of Precious. After this post-hip-hop freak show wowed Sundance last January, it now slouches toward Oscar ratification thanks to its powerful friends.Winfrey and Perry had no hand in the actual production of Precious, yet the movie must have touched some sore spot in their demagogue psyches. They&rsquo;ve piggybacked their reps as black success stories hoping to camouflage Precious&rsquo; con job&mdash;even though it&rsquo;s more scandalous than their own upliftment trade.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: On a Tear]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[JUSTIN RICHARDS and the life (and love) lessons of a Brooklyn jailhouse THE AIR IN the cell was warm with evaporated piss and sweat, so eventually I took off the leather jacket I&rsquo;d been wearing. Someone sitting on the bench&mdash;a young, coffee-colored guy with fat red lips tattooed on his neck&mdash;jabbed the guy beside him and pointed at me.Well, it&rsquo;s about time, I thought.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gut Instinct: Down in the Dumps]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Dumpling fanatic JOSH BERNSTEIN makes the dubious decision to eat his weight in pot stickers YOU CAN CHUCK them in your mouth or put them in water, but if anyone vomits,&rdquo; the cute Chinese event coordinator chirped, pointing to trashcans lined with I HEART NEW YORK bags, &ldquo;they&rsquo;re disqualified. Anyone have any questions?&rdquo; Just one: Why did I enter Chef One&rsquo;s sixth annual dumpling-eating contest? Answer: A little bit of hubris, a lot of jet lag and, naturally, no common sense.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Future of the Past]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Performa 09 celebrates Futurism with a staggering lineup of artists  THIS CRAMPED CHELSEA office could be mistaken for a telemarketing operation, except for the small bookshelf lined with titles like Delirious New York and Women Artists of Italian Futurism.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Sunny Side of Things]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Formerly fussy Charles is surprisingly enjoyable WHEN I FIRST heard about this Charles character, he sounded like a dick. There was plenty of hullabaloo about him having no phone number, the sign hanging outside advertising the restaurant that used to live in his space and all sorts of nonsense that made me figure if someone was going to work so hard to keep me from seeing him, perhaps I shouldn&rsquo;t. And so for a while I didn&rsquo;t.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Inside New York's newest underground playground In a town full of skyscrapers, it&rsquo;s often what&rsquo;s happening beneath the sidewalk that ends up being the most exciting.  Hidden spaces&mdash;think SubMercer, the basement of La Esquina or the late, lamented Undochine&mdash;are black gold in New York's over-saturated nightlife scene. A hard-to-find, little-known location with the right music and crowd can become an overnight sensation, and if a group of people just above 14th Street play their cards right, they might have New York&rsquo;s next one on their hands.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Not So Childish]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Wes Anderson subverts babysitter-movie conventions with a story of male hubris (and talking beasts) with Fantastic Mr. Fox The best thing about Fantastic Mr. Fox? Director Wes Anderson liberates commercial animated cinema from the limits of children&rsquo;s movies. With Henry Selik&rsquo;s Coraline and Spike Jonze&rsquo;s Where the Wild Things Are, this amounts to the most noteworthy film movement of 2009&mdash;striking a necessary blow against Pixar&rsquo;s brainwashing, which has dictated most people&rsquo;s expectations of what animated movies should be.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Salvation was there Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass at the powerHouse Arena. Salvation was not a saving of my soul, but the hardcore band from Philly, along with a trio of kick-ass writers:  &ldquo;Bloodclot&rdquo; John Joseph of The Cro Mags, the &ldquo;Indestructible Wolf&rdquo; Max G. Morton and old-school New York tattooist Jonathan Shaw, all of whom have written books for Heartworm Press recently. We&rsquo;re talking Outlaw Lit 101.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Apocalypse Now (or Not?)]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ A SECT OF enlightened individuals lives among us. Their beliefs encompass shamanism, a 2012 doomsday scenario, obscure psychedelic drugs, mysticism, yoga, UFOs, crop circles, occasional communication with Mayan deities and the lingering suspicion that Obama is part of a robot conspiracy. Writer Daniel Pinchbeck headlines the movement, known as Next Age. He sells hundreds of thousands of books and travels around the world, lecturing at festivals and countercultural conferences. I met him a few months ago at his favorite East Village hang, a pirate-themed espresso bar on East Ninth Street and Avenue C to discuss the movement, drug use and what it will be like when the &ldquo;end of the world&rdquo; approaches.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sensory Deprivation]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Roland Emmerich&rsquo;s '2012' and Richard Kelly&rsquo;s 'The Box' FOR ALL THE elaborate apocalyptic imagery in Roland Emmerich&rsquo;s latest F/X marathon 2012, there&rsquo;s not a single witty or memorable sight. Not much story either: U.S. geologist (Chiwetel Ejiofore) discovers that the Earth&rsquo;s crust is shifting due to enormous solar flare eruptions. Neutrinos heat up the Earth&rsquo;s core &ldquo;like a microwave,&rdquo; which gives Emmerich&rsquo;s CGI team the chance to design various destruction scenarios. It&rsquo;s a demolition field day&mdash;breaking landmarks from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter&rsquo;s Basilica.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: How Much Is That Dignity In The Window?]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[MARK DURANE on the ups and downs of porn-store love I&rsquo;VE NEVER BEEN a member of Manhunt, Adam4Adam or any of those online sex sites geared for horny gay guys. Mostly because I&rsquo;ve always been terrified of a co-worker or acquaintance giggling over my photos or my profile, but also because I freeze up when confronted with the prospect of going to a stranger&rsquo;s apartment for sex or, worse, having someone from the Internet come to my place. The handful of times I got laid via Craigslist, I hid knives in strategic locations all over the apartment. Clearly, I wasn&rsquo;t cut out for online sex. Porn stores, however, turned out to be a different matter.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gut Instinct: Lard Help Me]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[After a few craft beers, JOSH BERNSTEIN tries to wash it down with a chunky fat spread THIS MAY SOUND as sacrilegious as an Exxon exec owning an electric car, but I often despise patronizing bars. I have a love-hate explanation: I love craft brews. I hate paying $6 or $7 a pint.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Fright Stuff]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The New York City Horror Film Festival returns to scare with delight  WHEN JOE MAUCERI was young, his grandmother took him to a double feature.The first movie was a Yogi Bear cartoon, during which Mauceri quickly fell asleep.

The adults decided to let him snooze and take in the second feature: Robert Aldrich&rsquo;s creep-tastic Hush&hellip;Hush, Sweet Charlotte, in which Bette Davis plays an aging recluse living in the same house where her married lover (Bruce Dern) was mutilated decades earlier.When Mauceri finally opened his eyes, he was confronted with a rather startling image.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sounds Like The Future]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Despite canceling tour, Echo&rsquo;s Ian McCulloch still loves New York &ldquo;Two questions in, and it&rsquo;s already utterly banal.&rdquo; We&rsquo;re off to a bad start. Ian McCulloch is late to the interview, his first in the U.S. for Echo and the Bunnymen&rsquo;s forthcoming 11th album, The Fountain. He looks a touch disheveled, unshaven with a pair of sunglasses on, as he shakes my hand and sits down in a table in the Chelsea office, walls lined with Aerosmith gold records and a smell emanating from a bowl of cat food sitting next to us.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Blind Side]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[With all the Preciousmania going around, is Sandra Bullock the only sane one? Sandra Bullock brings sanity to the madness currently infecting the movie scene. Her intelligent, affecting new movie The Blind Side uses a double metaphor (alluding to both a football player&rsquo;s vulnerability and racial color blindness) to dramatize how people can overcome race and class barriers to achieve their fuller humanity. Bullock&rsquo;s film is upfront about the attitudes mangled and suppressed in media hype for Precious. The past week&rsquo;s Preciousmania featured outrageous displays of self-righteousness, fake compassion and gullibility&mdash;from white journalists wondering if their instant recoil from the gross figure of Precious was proof of prejudice to a black journalist proposing &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a Precious inside all of us.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Playwrights' Lament]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20602-the-playwrightsrs-lament.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Children at Play&rsquo; benefits from a great cast, while &lsquo;Loaded&rsquo; is an empty chamber Not until Children at Play has ended does one realize just how much the cast of Jordan Seavey&rsquo;s promising (but ultimately disappointing) play has done to make the black comedy seem like the best new show in ages. Led by Susan Louise O&rsquo;Connor, fresh from her rave reviews in Blithe Spirit on Broadway, the eight actors and director Scott Ebersold all manage to smooth over the rough patches of Seavey&rsquo;s script about life in high school. Not until after the applause has died down does the realization come that Seavey bit off more than he can chew.
Among his plot points is the fallout from Chernobyl, eating disorders, teenage sexuality, molestation and the extent to which we&rsquo;ve failed the next generation. Some of these ideas fit more organically into his story of five gifted and talented students than others (the eating disorder is mentioned with annoying infrequency), but the cast all manage to make the script seem fluid and natural.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Buy Sexual: Big Teaze Toys]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20585-buy-sexual-big-teaze-toys.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[BEAU DEGAS tells a toy story &ldquo;Dude? Seriously, if you would just hold still for one second, I swear to God, I can almost get this fish&rsquo;s eyeball in your butthole.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Keep Moving]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20622-keep-moving.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Michael Jackson may not have been a film star, but ARMOND WHITE explains his music videos as art Liz Taylor was right in her now famous Tweet about Michael Jackson&rsquo;s This Is It. My Lincoln center program about MJ&rsquo;s music videos (Keep Moving: Michael Jackson&rsquo;s Video Art at the Walter Reade Theater, Nov. 22) was planned before This Is It, but it ought to confirm Dame Liz&rsquo;s enthusiasm. It&rsquo;s designed to show film enthusiasts who wonder: &ldquo;What happened to the movie musical?&rdquo; or &ldquo;Why wasn&rsquo;t Michael a film star?&rdquo; Despite race, class and puritanical obstacles, Jackson advanced the movie-musical genre his own way&mdash;working with the best, trusting his instinct and raising the promo film to an art form every time out.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Black Hole Son]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20610-black-hole-son.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;s triumphant oddities and alluring grotesqueries are now anointed by one of the world&rsquo;s elite cultural circles. Halloween&rsquo;s pumpkin glow may have barely drained from New York&rsquo;s autumnal complexion, but all things diabolical and dark will be resurrected beginning Nov. 22, as the auteur unveils over 700 never-before-seen storyboards, paintings, drawings, puppets, costumes, sculptures and ephemera at the Museum of Modern Art. It&rsquo;s a goth girl&rsquo;s dream (nightmare?) come true.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Springer Awakening]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20615-springer-awakening.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA['Dare' star Ashley Springer on Churchill, high school and poolside fellatio ASHLEY SPRINGER IS rapidly becoming the go-to guy for movies that require sexually explicit high school scenes. After losing his dick in 2008&rsquo;s Teeth (a fantastic, underappreciated black comedy about a teenager with vagina dentata), Springer is back on screen in director Adam Salky&rsquo;s Dare (based on Salky&rsquo;s 2005 short, also written by David Brind), helping Emmy Rossum shed her good girl image as onethird of a sexually adventurous trio nearing the end of their high school careers.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gut Instinct: Brief Encounters]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20609-gut-instinct-brief-encounters.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[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&rsquo;s carcass was comatose, immune to meddlesome light. I stood and stretched. My back snapped and crackled like bubble wrap, my muscles sore and flu-achy. Perhaps it was the tub of Buffalo Trace bourbon I consumed the previous eve, but it took several beats to make an important realization: Well, I thought, it looks like I&rsquo;ve lost my pants and underwear.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Smashing Billy's Pumpkins ]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20607-bash-compactor-smashing-billyrss-pumpkins.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[ 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.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Electric Teenage Lust]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-20608-flavor-of-the-week-electric-teenage-lust.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[A pale, pubescent JAMES GREENE, JR. plugs it in at a power station I WANT TO have sex,&rdquo; she announced politely but firmly, like a little girl demanding a new doll. &ldquo;Where can we go to do that?&rdquo; Not anywhere around here, I thought as I looked around the barren park where we were lunching. There was a devastating lack of shrubbery; surely we would be spotted fornicating like the wild dogs we were from every conceivable spot in this obstruction-free landscape.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Do the 'Doo']]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Pixies hit town on &lsquo;Doolittle&rsquo; 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)]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Twilight Saga: New Moon]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The boys are pumped but the sensuous undercurrent of the saga is lost Catherine Hardwicke&rsquo;s feeling for teen angst and female anxiety gave Twilight (the first film of the series based on Stephenie Meyer&rsquo;s novels) immense potential. But Chris Weitz&rsquo;s sequel New Moon is full of lost potential. Harwicke&rsquo;s visual elegance via cinematographer Elliott Davis emphasized the wooded Northwest territory as a natural wonderland where the heroine Bella&rsquo;s (Kristen Stewart) uneasy puberty emerged. Hardwicke gave Meyer&rsquo;s fairy/gothic tale an idealized representation of universal adolescent tension. Bella&rsquo;s attraction to teen vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) normalized today&rsquo;s sexual permissiveness&mdash;the cultural pressure teens feel to be sexually active&mdash;with a concept both shrewd and authentically Bronte-esque.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Live Tonight & This Weekend]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Tonight Blind Pilot headlines Brooklyn, at The Bell House, 149 7th St. (betw. 2nd &amp; 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' Ecstatic Showband &amp; Revue is at Death By Audio, 49 S 2nd St. (betw. Kent &amp; Wythe Aves.), Brooklyn, no...]]></description>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/blog-5434-remembering-ken-ober.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[One of my first jobs out of school was playing a rotating
succession of floozies&mdash;some dumb, some angry, all crazy&mdash;on MTV&rsquo;s first-ever
nonmusical program, Remote Control. The
parts were tiny, but Remote Control,
the cultish late &rsquo;80s game show in which three college kids confined to
EZ-Chairs answered trivia questions about television and pop culture, was a big
deal. Often p...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: What to Watch This Weekend: Penelope, Nick Cage's humpback, Hirohito, MJ as told by Armond White, Czechs and More]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/blog-5433-what-to-watch-this-weekend-penelope-nick-cages-humpback-hirohito-mj-as-told-by-armond-white-czechs-and-more.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[  

   
  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 Almod&oacute;var&rsquo;s favorite things:
bold colors; cinephilia; twisty, melodramatic plots; and, of course, Pen&eacute;lope
Cruz. Broken Embraces defies a simple
one-line description&mdash;something about a big-shot director tu...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Movies Come Back to St. Marks Place]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[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 is the perfect venue for his satiric tale of three very different sets of New Yorkers all plotting to ro...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Smoking's Back, Baby!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[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. ---&nbsp;...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Live Tonight: Dirty Projectors, Toubab Krewe, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Rakim and more]]></title>

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See the poster children of Brooklyn sound, Dirty Projectors, at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. 6th St. (betw. Wythe &amp; Kent Aves.), 718-486-540; 8, $15 ---  
  Toubab Krewe brings Malian influence to Santos Party House, 96 Lafayette St (betw. Walker &amp; White Sts.), 212-584-5492; 10, $15  
   Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson has been collaborated with members of Grizzly Bear and TV on the ...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Artist Jeanne-Claude Dies at 74]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[

 
          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. --- 
            
          Jeanne-Claude&rsquo;s career spanned nearly 50 years
and dozens of env...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: The Evangelicals & Holiday Shores at Union Hall]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/blog-5428-the-evangelicals-holiday-shores-at-union-hall.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[
When I first heard Evangelicals&rsquo; 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 Graham Parsons and Beethoven to mind in equal measure; it was marked by thematic cohesiveness, lyrical de...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: The Bagel King Steals Dough]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[
Helmer Toro, owner of H&amp;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 &ldquo;largest bagel manufacturer in the world&rdquo; wouldn&rsquo;t risk an enterprise that promising just to get out of paying some taxes? ---  

 
  It&rsquo;s a good thing Toro is pleading not guilty b...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[On its two albums, A Camp has a lilting, lush sound that wraps its pop sensibility in just enough indie packaging to make it the kind of music that should basically be played during every NPR program, all day, every day. Sure, it&rsquo;s not what you&rsquo;d call challenging to the listener, but everyone needs a few records they can play on a rainy day. It doesn&rsquo;t hurt, I might add, that the...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Live Tonight: Bob Dylan, Air Waves, Big Star, Dirty Projectors and more]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/blog-5425-live-tonight-bob-dylan-air-waves-big-star-dirty-projectors-and-more.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Air Waves addicts can check out the pop trio tonight with Bright Lights at
Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave. (at N. 11th St.), 718-963-3369; 9,
Free.--- 
  Classic rock heartthrobs Big Star play with with Kurt Vile (and the Violators) at Brooklyn
Masonic Temple, 317 Clermont Ave. (at Lafayette
Ave.), Brooklyn, 718-638-1256; 7, $35. 
  Bob Dylan performs (hopefully not his Christmas album) tonight at Un...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[There was a moment&mdash;one of those collective pant-shitting moments that only the truly great or deeply unstable ones can produce&mdash;in which the crowd at last night&rsquo;s Jesus Lizard show was transfixed by the possibility of David Yow whipping his cock out. ---&nbsp;I think it was right after they finished playing &ldquo;Then Comes Dudley&rdquo; during the second half of their encore. &l...]]></description>
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The Beastie Boys said it best: You've got to fight for your right to party&mdash;or, in this case, Pool Parties. The free concert series and summer pool party that is Jelly is facing an uncertain future after the New York State Parks Department and Open Space Alliance announced the summer series might not be able to return to East River State Park next summer. ---
   But Jelly isn't going belly u...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Not all hippies start jam bands, only the evil ones do. 
  Every day a new star is born. Charismatic, charming, talented&mdash;singer
Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe &amp; The Magnetic Zeros has the qualities
that make a star, and after seeing the band's performance at Bowery
Ballroom on Tuesday night, it shouldn't take long before that happens. --- 
  The former frontman of Ima Robot found his musica...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[

 
  I&rsquo;m glad I was running too late this morning for breakfast
because the following news is enough to make we want to vomit, swear
excessively and then vomit some more.  While
perusing the normally fun-loving photography of Miss Heather on
NewYorkShitty.com, I came across a story that is both disgusting and
disappointing. Brooklyn has Nazis.--- 
    
  &nbsp;A merry band of morons has bee...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Hulu has been making some, well,&nbsp;interesting business decisions of late. First, it drops hints that the portal will soon be charging viewers to watch TV shows and movies that are currently &quot;free.&quot; Now, they're adding content that is widely available&nbsp;elsewhere. --- 
  The New York Times' Bits blog reports that&nbsp;Hulu will soon announce a deal with music label&nbsp;EMI to begi...]]></description>
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The news on Monday that Window Media had finally closed its doors (literally) and that its chain of papers was officially kaput didn't seem to register much. Maybe that's because its two NYC titles, Genre and New York Blade, had already perished earlier this year. But the fact that the Washington Blade, a paper with a sizable reputation, as well as 21-year-old Southern Voice, one of the last pape...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: The Film Talk: Christmas Carol and Armond White]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The Film Talk guys, Jett Loe and Gareth Higgins, discuss A Christmas Carol and other recent reviews with Armond White. They call him the &quot;most controversial of modern film critics.&quot; But the blog chatter is still raging with Preciousmania, and over at The Cooler blog, they've latched on to White's explanation (with a post titled &quot;The Demonizing (of) Armond White&quot;) of his reputat...]]></description>
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  There&rsquo;s no getting around the opportunism of IFC&rsquo;s decision
to release How to Be, starring a pre-Twilight Robert Pattinson, on DVD three
days before New Moon&rsquo;s Friday
opening. (As if to underscore this sense of quick-buck desperation, the DVD&rsquo;s
back cover includes a misspelling of its star&rsquo;s last name.) Still, this minor
and frequently tiresome British comed...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Tonight we have A Camp at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St. (betw. Sullivan &amp; Thompson Sts.), 212-228-4854; 10, $15 ---Or Shonen Knife with Golden Triangle and JEFF: The Brotherhood at Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave. at N. 11th St. (Brooklyn), 718-963-3369; 8, $12For the literary crowd there&rsquo;s an event featuring Starlee Kine, David Rees, Todd Barry, Eugene Mirman, Jonathan Ames, Rick Moody...]]></description>
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