A Dutch Artist/Singer Tells Us About the Best in Amsterdam Nightlife
Each week in our new column, "No Sleep Til...," we'll be talking to cool kids around the globe, asking them to fill us in about the bands, DJs, music venues and night spots they and their friends are...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood's "Summer, Sex & Spirit" Benefit: An AndrewAndrew Photo Recap
Paper's resident theater critics and cosmic DJ twins AndrewAndrew provided the tunes at last night's ninth annual Planned Parenthood Summer fundraiser "Summer, Sex & Spirit," featuring a...
View ArticleLeslie Bibb On Playing 'the Pretty One' in Neil LaBute's "Reasons to Be Happy"
In Will Ferrell's Nascar send-up Talledega Nights, Leslie Bibb plays Ricky Bobby's "red-hot smoking wife... a stone cold fox who if you were to rate her ass out of 100 it would easily be a 94." Bibb,...
View ArticleDaft Punk's "Get Lucky" Re-Imagined Through the Decades
It turns out that Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" would be a catchy tune in any decade. Case in point: this video, made by YouTuber PV NOVA called "Evolution of Get Lucky," which re-imagines what the song...
View ArticleDavid Letterman Would Like to Know If You Own Or Rent Your Drums
Here's a two and a half-minute supercut of David Letterman asking musicians, "Are those your drums or did you rent them? They're beautiful. " It's the kind of clip you think will be dumb and get old...
View ArticleFrom Punk to Witchy R&B, All the Cant-Miss Acts This Year
Deervana performs at the 2011 Northside Festival. Photo by Signe Pierce.The fifth annual Northside Festival starts tonight, shutting down ten blocks of Bedford Avenue. Since its inception, the...
View ArticleThis Rap Video Encapsulates All '90s Sitcoms In One Fell Swoop
Larz Randa is an aspiring 20-year-old New Zealand-based rapper who reminds us of Danny Brown and who just made the most '90s sitcom-tastic video for her song "Frankenstein." In addition to the...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Gayest Moments in the New 300: Rise of an Empire Trailer
The first trailer for 300: Rise of an Empire is here, and it's just as packed with blood, gore, slo-mo and CGI as you'd expect it to be. Rise of an Empire is a follow up to the original 300 film and...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Correatown's "Valparaiso" (Pleiades Remix)
For Correatown's hazy pop track "Valparaiso," frontwoman Angela Correa decided to use a clip from the 1909 French film, The Butterfly and the Spider. The whimsical footage of a turn-of-the-century...
View ArticleWeb Series "The Horribles" Tackles Gchatting at Work
Web series "Little Horribles" -- produced by Issa Rae and featuring a cameo by 2013 Beautiful Person Ilana Glazer -- premiered its second episode which addresses a subject that's extremely important...
View ArticleBenno and Leo Batali on Their New Cookbook and Chef Boyardee's Dark Side
Forget the children's menu, underage foodies have have a new bible for whipping up tasty treats in la cucina: The Batali Brothers Cookbook. We caught up with authors Benno and Leo Batali, spawn of the...
View ArticleThe In A World... Trailer's Here and Looks Awesome
The trailer for In a World..., Lake Bell's already-Award-winning film she wrote, directed and stars in, is finally here. And -- how meta! -- it's about trying to make it in the movie trailer industry....
View Article"Hipsters Who Dress Like Jackie From Roseanne" = Perfect
How are we just now finding out about the amazing new Tumblr Hipsters Who Dress Like Jackie From Roseanne? It's hilarious and perfect. [via TheFrisky]New Favorite Twitter Alert: Feminist Taylor Swift....
View ArticleScope Project 104's New Shrine-and-Vice-Inspired Swimwear Line
Ice Cream Maiden: "Energetic, full of life, jester / Centre of attention or she'll shoot you...with a water pistol / Find her...slipping skittles into Grey Goose at a beach rave in Goa""My body is a...
View ArticleBlasphemy in Rock: a Timeline
Yesterday morning Kanye West shared a snippet of "I Am a God," the provocatively-titled song from his forthcoming album Yeezus. The grandiosity is off-putting, but it's nothing new -- this is the guy...
View ArticleEverclear's "Father of Mine" is a Battle Cry for the Daddy Wars
Today in the New Republic, Marc Tracy makes a case for what he calls the "Daddy Wars" (though the phrase has previously been used by Time, the New York Times, the Telegraph, Salon, the Nation, and --...
View ArticleThe Hottest TV GILFs of All Time
TV Dads are great and hot and all (we're looking at you, Jim Walsh), but what about hot TV grandpas? In honor of Father's Day this weekend, and to see just how much we can creep ourselves out, we've...
View ArticleThe Apollo Theater Will Be Hosting An International Break Dancing Convention
This weekend, the Apollo Theater will be hosting the Breakin' Convention in honor of the international dance-theater festival's 10th anniversary. Breakin' is normally held in London, where it draws...
View ArticleCelebrities! How Similar To Us They Are
Welcome to our new series "Celebrities! How Similar to Us They Are," a surrealist send-up of celebrity weekly's' "Stars Are Just Like Us!" features. Each installment is written by Eli Yudin and Carey...
View ArticleThe Best, Worst and Weirdest of the Week
Best Use of a Snuggie: As a picnic blanket, with rolled-up sleeves as cupholders (see photo attached). -- Jonah WolfBest New Column We'll Be Reading Every Week: Michael Musto's new Gawker column Next...
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