AndrewAndrew Insta-Review April's Broadway Highlights
April has been a huge month for Broadway, as many shows are making sure to open by the 26th in order be eligible for a 2012 Tony Award. This past week alone we saw three shows open on Broadway and...
View Article"The 13 Most Useless College Majors" List Makes Us Feel Great About Life
With debt from student loans hitting $1 trillion in the U.S., what could be more appropriate (and scary) than this list of "The 13 Most Useless Majors." Pretty much everyone who works at PAPER majored...
View ArticleNFL Guys on Grindr + Bug Memorials = Eight Items or Less
Ever wonder what your favorite NFL star's Grindr profile would look like? Outsports gives us a pretty good clue -- even if we weren't wondering.National Stand Tall Week, a week meant to build awareness...
View ArticleTips for Today: Lissy Trullie + Slavoj Zizek + "We Buy Gold"
Lissy Trullie at Mercury LoungeDowntown darling, the strawberry blonde husky-voiced chanteuse Lissy Trullie takes over Mercury Lounge tonight, where she'll be celebrating last week's release of her...
View ArticleMorning Funnies: Barack Obama Walks Into a Bar + Pictureless Pinterest
President Obama stopped by dive bar the Sink in Boulder, Colorado last night and took some photos with the locals. That's totally the face we'd make if we were standing next to him, too. More cute...
View ArticleYACHT's "Le Goudron" Is Our Music Video of the Day
Crack out your French-to-English dictionary and get to work. Yacht decided to re-make a classic "avant-garde" track from the '60s called "Le Goudron," and, from the looks of this trippy video, they...
View ArticleMoMA PS1 Gets Trippy This Sunday With the Electrical Banana Book Launch
Did watching Roger Sterling trip on LSD with Angela Chase's mom during this week's Mad Men really speak to you? Then head over to MoMA PS1 this Sunday for the Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic...
View ArticleCoco Rocha's Pissed With Elle Brazil + Kelly Cutrone Talks Unfortunate Prom...
Urban Outfitters and Toms are teaming up to host a "Style Your Sole" party on April 26th from 4-8pm in which special guest artists will customize TOMS shoes purchased during the event. The shoe...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Useful College Majors -- English Lit Puzzlingly Included
Whether you loved or loathed yesterday's list via the Daily Beast of the most useless college majors, we're sure you'll also enjoy the other side of the coin: The 10 Most Useful College Majors. This...
View ArticleWolf Gang's Max McElligott On Where to Hang Out in London + Style Icons
British band Wolf Gang, founded and fronted by multi-instrumentalist Max McElligott, has built a steady fanbase stateside since releasing their 2011 debut album Suego Faults, drawing comparisons to the...
View ArticleGrey Area's Sound Quality Mixed Media Show Kicks Off Saturday
The cool-combo shop+gallery Grey Area (547 Broadway) is hosting a big multi-media happening this Saturday, April 28, from 1 to 7 p.m.. On the music side of things, there's a performance by Dirty...
View ArticleRead's Clothing Project Founder Read Wall Chats About His Do-Gooding Preppy...
Even though I like my preppy fashions with a spike of punk rock -- I can't resist pairing L.L. Bean bluchers or Brooks Brothers button downs with some spiked-out Trash and Vaudeville threads -- I was...
View ArticleSir-Can-a-Lot Is SPAM's New Spokes-Toon, FYI.
Introducing Sir-Can-A-Lot, the new spokes-thingy for Hormel's SPAM. The iconic canned-meat brand is about to celebrate its 75th anniversary this summer, so a new cartoon character-spokesperson was...
View ArticleTop of the Pops: Jason Mraz Sneaks In, Lionel Richie Still Reigns Supreme
Jason Mraz' Love is a Four Letter Word ALMOST made it to the top this week, but Lionel Richie managed to hold on to the #1 spot by a margin of 12,000 albums and Mraz went in at #2. Train (yep, they're...
View ArticleJennifer Egan Talks Awful Temp Jobs, Writing from the Subconscious and Her...
When an author's achievements include best-sellers and a Pulitzer Prize, it's easy to assume that the path was always easy, always clean, and always gaining upward momentum. But for Jennifer Egan, the...
View ArticleFive Under $50: A Mr. T Teapot and Other Inexpensive Goodies
Mr. T teapot and teacup for one, $36, available at Etsy. "Herman Miller Summer Picnic August 20, 1971" by Stephen Frykholm, $25, available at the MoMA Store. Keds Women's Too Cute Crochet Flat, $50,...
View ArticleLook Inside the Burning Man HQ + The Original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
1. For $3.5 million, you could own the late Dick Clark's Flintstones-esque house in Malibu. [via Diane Carter] 2. Forget all the Montessori and Waldorf schools c. 2012 -- the most progressive school of...
View ArticleTips for Today: Gilbert & George + Faile + The Hives
Gilbert & George "London Pictures" Opens at Lehmann Maupin and Sonnabend GalleriesThe iconic art duo, "living sculpture" Gilbert & George, are in town for their first New York gallery show...
View ArticleThe Morning Funnies: Ke$ha Pi$$es in Public + a Cat Doing the Dishes
Ke$ha tweeted a photo of herself pi$$ing in the street and wrote: "Pee pee on the street. PoPo come and get me if you can find me." [via Daily Mail] Taylor Swift and Dianna Agron dressed up as Shirley...
View ArticleConor Maynard's "Can't Say No" Is Our Music Video of the Day
This song made it to number two on the UK pop chart this week and don't be surprised if it catches on over here. Nineteen-year-old Conor Maynard won MTV's "Brand New For 2012" award and was just down...
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