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Tips for Today: Dum Dum Girls at Glasslands + Totally J/K at UCBeast + It's a...
Dum Dum Girls + Crocodiles + Bleeding Rainbow + Cassie Ramone at GlasslandsDee Dee Penny of Cali-based girl group Dum Dum Girls plays a special solo acoustic set tonight at Glasslands. She's joined by...
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Name Kim's New Friend
This little lady in the photo above is the insane and amazing Christmas gift Drew Elliott gave Kim Hastreiter for the holidays -- a shockingly lifelike orangutan doll from Ashton Drake. At lunch...
View ArticleLCD Soundsystem Covering "Live Alone" Is Our Music Video of the Day
LCD Soundsystem covered Franz Ferdinand's "Live Alone" for a limited-edition release from Domino records on Record Store Day 2011 earlier this year.The five-track EP of all FF songs from their Tonight...
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Foodie Call
Mustache cookie. $1.95 at Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain, 513 Henry St., Brooklyn Chocolate gift box by Fine & Raw. $49 at fineandraw.comEcuadorian chocolate with popcorn and chile by...
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Holiday Steals! 10 Last-Minute Sales
Turns out, you don't have to wait till after Christmas for the serious sales. Whether you're in the market for a last minute gift or you just wanna "treat yo' self," here are 10 online shops having...
View ArticleThe 10 Funniest Online Comedy Videos of 2011
Tired of trolling the Internet looking for laughs? Well, give your mouse-clicking finger some rest and enjoy PAPERMAG's top 10 funniest online comedy videos of 2011! 1. "Shit Girls Say" A PAPERMAG...
View ArticleRetro Christmas Jams to Cleanse Your Holiday Music Palate
By this time in the month, even big holiday music fans can feel pretty kaput on classics and carols. Below, 10 awesome doo-wop, R&B and girl group yuletide tracks from the '50s and '60s to cleanse...
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Lady Gaga's Forthcoming Christmas Song + A Bronze Statue of Steve Jobs in...
1. Lady Gaga is releasing a new song recorded "live, in one take, on the tour bus" on Christmas Day.2. Toronto's The Weeknd (ne' Abel Tesfaye) released another mixtape -- his third in 2011 -- and you...
View ArticleUPDATED: Matisyahu Snaps, Attacks Photographer! Rebecca Smeyne Tells Her Story
UPDATE: Matisyahu's PR team just sent over the rapper's official statement about what happened at the show:"I regret what transpired when I tried to remove the camera from the photographer's hands last...
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Tips for Today: James Brown Tribute at Drom, A Christmas Story at Nitehawk &...
The Fifth Annual James Brown Tribute at Drom Shake out some pre-holiday jitters by dancing the night away to the tunes of the Godfather of Soul, aka the one and only James Brown. Nickodemus, Nappy G,...
View ArticleJudy Garland's "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" Is Our Music Video of...
Today's oldie-but-goodie video comes courtesy of the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis (newly out on Blu-ray). It's the very moving and sad scene wherein Esther (Judy Garland) sings "Have Yourself...
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Matisyahu-Gate: Some Comments on the Comments
When we heard the news that the improbable Matisyahu -- a reggae singer/Hasidic Jew who had recently announced that he was cutting his beard and side curls! -- had attacked PAPERMAG photographer...
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Flashback Friday: Mark Ronson and Sean Lennon's High School Band, Whole Earth...
So while procrastinating on the Internet last night, we fell into a deep, dark Internet K-hole, which involved Google-Image-searching "Whole Earth Mamas," Mark Ronson's high school band (which he...
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Buy This: Leaf Cable Organizers From Jet Pens
Our life sometimes feels like one big overwhelming rubber-band ball of cables, cords and iPhone chargers. Which is why these lovely leafy cable ties, from Jet Pens (which we first spied on one of our...
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Ben Pundole Rumored to be L.A.-Bound + Headphones Are the New Earbuds =...
1. Volkswagen's SuperBowl ad featuring a boy dressed like Darth Vader topped the Nielsen Media Research list of the year's "most-liked" ads. One of our faves was the Hyundai Elantra ad with a white...
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PAPERMAG Holiday Programming Note
PAPERMAG is taking this week off to travel, return various unflattering sweaters and urge uncle Jim to really get serious about going to rehab. We'll still be posting here and there through out the...
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Director Dee Rees On Her First Feature Film, Pariah
Filmmaker Dee Rees' first feature, Pariah, follows Alike, a lesbian African-American high-school student as she moves through her different worlds (gay clubs to English class to dinner with her...
View ArticleIs Tropical In Moscow
Is tropical is a British three-piece band made up of Gary Barber, Dominic Apa and Simon Milner, whose debut album, Native To, came out this past June. In 2010, they booked a one-way flight to Moscow to...
View ArticleInside Chrissie Miller and Lindsey Thornburg's L.E.S. Shop 143
Sophomore designer Chrissie Miller had such a great time helming a pop-up store in L.A. ("I loved watching people try on my clothes!"), that she joined forces with designer Lindsey Thornburg, and set...
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From Adele to Swizz Beatz to Ryan Trecartin, the Best of What Was Said In...
Tons of fun stories and interviews popped up in Paper magazine and on Papermag.com in 2011. Here's part one of our favorite quips and quotes from some of the fabulous artists, musicians, fashion...
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