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Video_dumbo, a Big Festival of Moving Image Art, Opens This Week
"Video_dumbo" -- the eighth annual festival and exhibition of "moving image art" -- opens on Thursday, May 16th, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (540 West 21st Street). Works by...
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From Tumblr to Fashion Week, #been #trill Have Their Hands In All That's Cool
Self-portrait created by #Been #Trill For anyone with even a remote interest in music, fashion or the Internet, it might be hard to suppress feelings of intense jealousy when talking about #Been...
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Five Ordinary-Folk Parody Accounts to Follow on Twitter
The world doesn't need another @GrumpyCatPope parody Twitter account's take on the Super Bowl. These Twitter accounts tweet as if they're ordinary people who might actually exist in our world, which is...
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You'll Soon Be Able to See All the Issues of the East Village Eye
Some exciting Tuesday afternoon news: legendary downtown paper the East Village Eye is making its entire 72-issue archive digital and downloadable. The Eye chronicled the art, fashion, politics and...
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15 New Yorkers We Most Want to See Be a Part of Prince Harry's Welcome Wagon
New Jersey really rolled out the red carpet for Prince Harry earlier today, what with Gov. Chris Christie presenting the prince with his very own "royal fleece," after all. Now that our favorite ginger...
View ArticleBlond Teens Spar in Lorde's "Royals"
"We crave a different kind of buzz," sings buzzed-about 16-year-old Lorde, after drily listing luxury accoutrements in a jumprope-worthy singsong chant: "Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece."...
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Own This Bea Arthur Nude for a Cool $2 Million (NSFW)
This nude portrait of Bea Arthur by John Currin (which she didn't pose for) is up for auction at Christie's today and estimated at $2 million. Run, don't walk! [HuffPo] Daft Punk X some goats = magic....
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Maison Premiere's New Chef Lisa Giffen on Williamsburg Fine Dining and Frog...
Before venturing to New York, where she was "exposed to food that gave me the push to get a job in a kitchen," Lisa Giffen lived in LA, working for Sharpie. Post-permanent pen era, she spent her days...
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Photographer Jamil Hellu Takes People and Makes Them into Superheroes
Jamil Hellu has been quietly creating a cuckoo series of photos called "Guardians of the Golden Gate" for months. Hellu takes ordinary San Franciscans, and asks them to create a superhero identity for...
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Armory-O-Rama: Steven Sebring + Paul McCarthy's Upcoming Shows
New York City's uptown and downtown armories are mounting separate, one-man art exhibitions in the next few weeks. New York-based photographer, Patti Smith documentarian and artist Steven Sebring is...
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Awkward Black Girl's Issa Rae Is About to Blow Up
Issa Rae photographed by Christopher Dibble "Why couldn't Seinfeld have black people? Did they think black people wouldn't find it funny?" This was the question the producer/director/writer Issa Rae...
View ArticleBridges and Powerlines Bike to "Williamsburg" (Premiere)
Each song on Bridges and Powerlines' Better EP (out next Tuesday on Daisy Pistol) takes its name from a different Brooklyn neighborhood. At the center is the soaring "Williamsburg," which agglomerates...
View ArticleHere's Isabella Rossellini As a Hamster, Eating Her Young
Oh my, how we enjoy Isabella Rossellini's new web series "MAMMAS" (which you can read all about here). Something about Isabella dressing up as animals and explaining their maternal habits just...works....
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Misspelled Band Names: What's the Matter With Kids Today?
I generally avoid saying anything that makes me sound like a cranky old person. You know how cranky olds say things like, "Nightlife today is lame. Now Area! That was a fun nightclub." You might as...
View ArticleThis Hilarious Katz's Deli Waiter Made a Talk Show
If you ever worry that your waiter might be judging your order choice, this video's proof that your paranoia might be justified. David Manheim considers himself the eyes and ears of Katz's...
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Actor Jake Silbermann On Opening Night Parties and Booze in the Dressing Room
How tired are you of actors and actresses who claim they don't care about awards when you know damn well they're up at 5 a.m. the day the Golden Globes, the Oscars and the Tonys are announced, drinking...
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Watch Tobias Fünke's Sizzle Reel
Prepare to set aside a good hour and a half out of your day to watch Tobias Fünke's sizzle reel (or "sizzling reel," as it were) and to d*ck around on his acting website, insertmeanywhere.biz. OMG...
View ArticleNasty Pig's New Video Lookbook Stars Every Gay Nightlife Personality You Can...
Here's the new video lookbook for gay, Chelsea-based clothing company Nasty Pig. The video was shot by @lilinternet, who directed Diplo's video ode to twerking, "Express Yourself," but in keeping with...
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Daft Punk and the Rise of the New Parisian Nightlife
In honor of the upcoming release of Daft Punk's much, much-anticipated new album, Random Access Memories, we're re-posting our November 2007 cover story on the duo. Below, we find Paris' electro...
View ArticleOoh, a New Track by Giorgio Moroder
Legendary Italian music producer Giorgio Moroder is back in the spotlight with his new Daft Punk collab -- and he's also just released a new track on his own. The seventy-three-year old did the music...
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