Blondie's "Heart of Glass" Is More Punk Than Kanye
Though it's actually a new wave-disco song, this was one of the tracks that Debbie Harry performed on Monday night at the Met Ball for "PUNK: Chaos to Culture." (Read our review of the show here.)...
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Brian Eno: From Glam Rock to Gardening
If you attended Brian Eno's talk this past Tuesday, hosted by the Red Bull Music Academy, you might have re-considered your idea of Eno as a musician. Eno is credited as the Godfather of ambient music...
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Listen to Jonny Makeup's Ode to a Forbidden Love Affair With a Sailor
Check out a new track by Jonny Makeup, one-third of gay hip-hop trio VIP Party Boys, self-professed La-la-land "It Girl," and member of one of our favorite L.A. tribes -- the cuckoo collection of...
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The Pines' Angelo Romano Chats About His Childhood Food Memories & Playing...
With creative dishes like oxtail and crab brodo cappellacci and opal basil and tangerine bresaola, Gowanus eatery the Pines, and its chef Angelo Romano -- formerly of Roberta's and Lupa -- have drawn a...
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The Best, Worst and Weirdest of the Week
Most Delicious-Looking New Pastry Concoction That's Worth Trying, Even If It Means Running the Risk of Getting High Blood Pressure: The "Cronut" (or croissant-doughnut hybrid) recently launched at...
View ArticleWhat's Meryl Streep Doing in Osage County? (Trailer)
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. I'll never forget watching the Broadway debut of August: Osage County in 2007 at the Imperial Theater. There were no big names in the cast that had...
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Beer Drones Coming to This Summer's Music Festivals
1. The spire at the top of the new World Trade Center was installed today. (City Room, photo by Josh Friedman)2. A look at the phenomenon of musicians re-recording their hits (which we recently...
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Game of Thrones Meets TLC
In this weekly column, MC/DJ Hesta Prynn pairs pop culture stories with an original playlist. It's hard not to feel like a giant dork when all you want to talk about is Game of Thrones. The...
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A New Arrested Development Trailer Is Heeeere
Ahhh, it's a new trailer for Arrested Development! Soexcitedsoexcitedsoexcited. SNL's 1-800-Flowers mother's day commercial this weekend was excellent. The apartment comment is the best. Paul Rudd, at...
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How to Eat Your Way to Peace in the Middle East
We invited Israeli-American chef Lulu Kalman to document her favorite dishes from both Jewish and Arab cultures.The fight over who invented hummus goes back ages. Chickpeas have been around for...
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John DeLucie Unwinds at Yakitori Totto
Each week in our Chefs Off Duty series, we talk to some of our favorite chefs and industry folk around the country to find out their secret late-night spots where they like to grab a bite and a pint...
View ArticleWatch "Taylor Mead's Final Fifteen Minutes"
Poet, downtown legend and Warhol collaborator Taylor Mead, who passed away last week at the age of 88, will be remembered tonight by friends at the Bowery Poetry Club with "For the Love of Taylor...
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Recapping the Mad Men Recaps: Episode 7, "Man With a Plan"
Each week PAPER will help you sort through your feelings about Mad Men by rounding up the best and brightest of the MM recaps. Read below so you can compare, contrast, and ponder while having a light...
View ArticleAt Long Last, There's a Video For Kendrick Lamar's "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe"
So is "molly" the bitch Kendrick Lamar doesn't want to kill his vibe?After first hearing "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe," we never assumed Kendrick was directing his antipathy towards MDMA but after...
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Strangers Project Founder Brandon Doman Knows New Yorkers' Secrets
Photo courtesy of The Strangers Project In a world where we tweet about what we ate for breakfast and Instagram photos of ourselves dressing up our cats to resemble RuPaul's Drag Race contestants, it's...
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VFILES' Julie Anne Quay Brings Fans Into the Fashion Party
Portraits of Julie Anne Quay photographed by David Toro for Vfiles When Julie Anne Quay was the executive editor of V magazine she never missed one of the fashion magazine's legendary parties....
View ArticleOooh, a Clip from Michelle Visage's New Show "Hooker Makeover"
World of Wonder -- makers of RuPaul's Drag Race and reality TV trailblazers -- keep churning out things we would gladly watch over and over. The latest is a makeover show starring Drag Race judge and...
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The Breeders' Photo Tour Diary Part 2
One of our favorite music developments to happen so far this year? The return of the Breeders. The sisters Deal and the original band line-up are back with LSXX, a 20th anniversary re-issue of the...
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This Oreo Commercial Is So Twee
1. This new Oreo commercial really is over-the-top twee. [via Jezebel]2. Daft Punk's new album Random Access Memories, which is out in a week, is now streaming on iTunes. [via Pitchfork]3. The Bluth...
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What's Dylan Grillin'?
Here's a strangely riveting 8-bit-ish game called "What's Dylan Grillin'" in which you attempt to figure out what an unrealistically muscle-y Bob Dylan cartoon is firing up on his Weber grill. [via F...
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