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Psychedelic pop band Django Django is famous for their crazy live performances which have included everything from props like a giant swinging lightbulb to coordinated stage outfits like pilots' uniforms and safari outfits. Be sure to catch this English group tonight at Bardot. (And watch their music video on PAPERMAG, while you're at it.) [Oh My Rockness]
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To Be a Lady: 45 Women in the Arts opens today at the 1285 Avenue of the Americas gallery. The exhibit, which includes awesome women in the arts like Alma Thomas, Elisabeth Condon, Louise Bourgeois and more, aims to redefine and examine the meaning and history of the word "lady." [Zing]
On the heels of the release of their fourth album, Shields, catch indie rockers Grizzly Bear play Radio City Music Hall with Unknown Mortal Orchestra opening. [via Oh My Rockness]
On the heels of the release of their fourth album, Shields, catch indie rockers Grizzly Bear play Radio City Music Hall with Unknown Mortal Orchestra opening. [via Oh My Rockness]
Check out synth-pop band Craft Spells alongside fellow sugary electronic act Ice Choir tonight at Glasslands Gallery. It will be a night so 80's you'll forget what decade you're in. [Oh My Rockness]
Los Angeles
Psychedelic pop band Django Django is famous for their crazy live performances which have included everything from props like a giant swinging lightbulb to coordinated stage outfits like pilots' uniforms and safari outfits. Be sure to catch this English group tonight at Bardot. (And watch their music video on PAPERMAG, while you're at it.) [Oh My Rockness]If you're feeling especially avant-garde, check out the the experimental 16mm Kodachrome and Ektachrome films of artist Timoleon Wilkins at REDCAT. If you see these films along with Django Django's show recommended above, you're going to have one hell of a trippy night in City of Angels. [Flavorpill]
Chicago
Catch Allen Ruppersberg's latest piece, No Time Left to Start Again/The B and D of R 'n' R, today at the Chicago Art Institute. The colorful piece includes a survey of iconic American music from classic blues to 60's rock comprised of laminated vinyl record covers, vintage snapshots of music events, and an extensive collection of over 1,400 songs collected by Ruppersberg that will all be available for listening at the exhibit. [Art Institute]
Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit got Youtube-famous after posting a cover they did of the Fleet Foxes' song "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song," but now these two sisters are performing their own music on a tour across the world. Hear their melancholy folk songs tonight at The Metro. [Flavorpill]
London
Grammy-nominated, old-timey English rock band Mumford & Sons is playing tonight at Roundhouse as part of the iTunes music festival. [Time Out]
Merge Festival has just returned to Bankside -- check out loads of art, music and performance scattered throughout various locations over the next month. [via Flavorpill]
Merge Festival has just returned to Bankside -- check out loads of art, music and performance scattered throughout various locations over the next month. [via Flavorpill]
Lena Dunham, naked and eating cake in a bathroom stall, was most definitely the best thing about Jimmy Kimmel's opening sketch at last night's Emmy's -- and maybe the Emmy's in general? [via 
Oh, and please 
Meanwhile, on Saturday Night Live, Joseph Gordon-Levitt did this. [via 
Slaterrrrrrrrrr. [via 
Mugging for the camera. [via 
Twerk it. [via 
We're not in Kansas anymore. [via 
Lady Gaga wore this cuckoo bananas Comme Des Garcons dress in Paris. [via 
We can't. [via 
Stop, drop and roll. [via 
Derek Lam is bringing a Brazilian-inspired diffusion line to Kohl's next spring. [via 
Sofia Vergara tweeted this shot of a last-minute wardrobe malfunction at the Emmys last night and, yes, that's her butt. [via 
Emanuel Ungaro, they of the misguided "let's have Lindsay Lohan be our Creative Director" decision, announced they will be re-launching the iconic French brand. Rising Sicilian designer Fausto Puglisi has been named their new Creative Director -- he previously 
These Maison Martin Margiela trunk boots kind of remind us of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...[via 
Gilt has announced that it will close their full-priced Park & Bond, folding the division into their Gilt Man section. [
WTF?! Apparently Kelly Osbourne had a $250k manicure using Azature's "Black Diamonds" nail polish (yes, supposedly made with the precious gems in 'em). Ugh. [via 
Even though there's nothing particularly new about a celebrity spotting in Williamsburg and Bushwick, our little ears perked up nevertheless when we heard that such
unexpected visitors like Katie Holmes and Suri and Bill and Hillary Clinton were seen in the area this weekend. What's more, these folks weren't spotted in 
The Clintons, meanwhile, dined al fresco at the Bushwick fave last night
for a private 70th birthday party for big-time friend and Democratic
donor, Esprit-founder Susie Buell. Capping off the experience was a
performance by singer Lia Ices and, in case you were wondering, no, the
Clintons did not dine side-by-side with the regulars -- the restaurant
was closed to the public during the event.
Image courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.
EP, Elizabeth Peyton. 2012. Image courtesy of 
Image courtesy of Salon 94. 
Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman's Stray Light Grey at 
© Yayoi Kusama. Photograph by Jason Schmidt. Courtesy of the Whitney. 
1. The highest Korean restaurant in the world, Gaonnuri, opens at 5 p.m. tomorrow, September 25, on the 39th floor of 1250 Broadway. And, yes, that's just down the street from PAPER's world headquarters on 32nd Street in Manhattan. Let's do lunch! [via 
2. The 
3. New York artist Leo Villareal debuts his gigantic tribute to Buckminster Fuller in Madison Square Park on October 25. The light sculpture, "Buckyball," is made from 180 LED tubes arranged in a honeycomb pattern. Multicolored honeycombs are, apparently, a new trend as they're also incorporated in the new Bleecker Street subway transfer station. [via 
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5. Anthony Haden-Guest is releasing a collab album, Rudely Interrupted, with New York singer Lorraine Leckie on November 12. There's also going to be an album release show scheduled for the Mercury Lounge that night. The album combines Guest's lyrics with Leckie's melodies. [via 
6. Super-tiny version of New York's iconic Katz's Deli by Alan Wolfson. [via 
8. Deviant Artist SharpWriter has a few ideas for how President Obama can cut costs in defense spending... [via 
Love this photo of Madeleine Albright playing the drums at DC's Kennedy Center this past Sunday. She and 
Dino-pugs. [via 
Props for being honest. [via 
"Cats Acting Out Their Favorite Movies." 'Nuff said. [via 
Now you can sit on Brad Pitt or Ryan Reynolds's face. [via 
Whoa. Here's a lewk from the recent European Beard and Mustache competition held in France. We believe it's called the "Double Cyclone." [via 
Nope. [via 
Ohmygodyouunderstandme. [via 
Check the box pleeease. [via 
Oh no bigs, just Cher cuddling with a monkey. [via 
A day after he joined Bon Iver for a surprise performance in NYC courtesy of Vitamin Water and The Fader's Uncapped series (more on that later today!), Frank Ocean has a new rap-heavy track, "Blue Whale." Ocean nimbly rhymes over beats as smooth as those found in his R&B songs, name-checking Earl (Sweatshirt,
we assume) and Hurricane Katrina ("My hometown flooded, with just a
little bit of water") and making subtle references to his sexuality ("I
wasn't much into the type that my bros liked / so I never really had no
wife, and that's alright"). It's a thoughtful, slightly stream of consciousness-style track and you can listen to it in full below.
Despite Vogue's pledge not to work with models under 16, Vogue Japan has an editorial in its December issue featuring 14-year-old Brazilian model Thairine Garcia. 15-year-old model Ondria Hardin appeared in Vogue China's August issue, as well. (That's Garcia in Harper's Bazaar Brasil above.) [
Erin Fetherston is selling pieces from her super-cute personal vintage collection on e-commerce site Wasteland. [
Natalie Portman has gone blonde, we repeat, Natalie Portman has gone blonde. [
Condé Nast has named its first black Editor-in-Chief to one of its publications. Keija Minor, formerly of Uptown magazine, will now run the show at Brides magazine. Congrats to Ms. Minor. [
The Sunday Times Style magazine got a whole mess of models including Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Jourdan Dunn, Lily Cole, Karlie Kloss, Lara Stone and Erin Wasson to appear on 10 different covers for their 10th Anniversary Issue. [
ASOS has a new plus-size line and it's real cute. More images at 
Kenzo has a new video our for their Fall/Winter 2012 women's collection featuring a model smashing her way through a marble palace and lots of '80s computer graphics a la that one Dire Straits video. Watch it 
Zooey Deschanel (of course) got her dress stuck on Lucy Liu at the Emmys. [via 
A vintage photo of Jack Nicholson eating a watermelon. [via 
The cat's out of the bag (sorta). [via 
Now open on Sundays, thank goodness. [via 
Beep boop beep boop beep boop. [via 
The season four poster for The League, y'all!! [via 
DIY DMX [via 
London, Singapore and Staten Island may seem like strange bedfellows but pretty soon NYC's oft-underappreciated borough will be home to a massive ferris wheel along the likes of the London Eye or the Singapore Flyer -- in fact, it'll be bigger than both! The same team behind the London Eye, Starneth, will be responsible for the construction of the 625-foot tall ride -- soon to be known as The New York Wheel -- that will contain 36 capsules carrying up to forty people each (or 1,440 people per cycle). We also hear the wheel will anchor a huge space in St. George that includes a 350,000 square-foot outlet mall and hotel and will cost $230 million clams (uh, who's paying for that?). Construction is set to begin in 2014 with the goal of sending the first riders up into the Staten Island clouds by 2015. Pretty cool.
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Vogue is sorry for 
Ann Romney wore this weird, leather "Mitt and I read 50 Shades as a couple"-get-up on the Tonight show recently. [
FYI: WSJ. magazine editor Deborah Needleman is officially taking over T: The New York Times Style Magazine following Sally Singer's departure last month. [
Rookie 
H&M is delaying their e-commerce launch. Noooo! [
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