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Meet Pitch Perfect's Ester Dean
The morning after the MTV Video Music Awards, Ester Dean sounds like she's been punched in the neck. "Excuse my voice," says the singer-songwriter over the phone from L.A. "I woke up and was like, 'Oh,...
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Listen to Madrid's "Till Things Fall Apart" -- A Papermag Premiere
São Paulo-based Adriano Cintra and London-based Marina Vello formed Madrid last year after already having had successful music careers as part of two of Brazil's best-loved baile funk bands (that would...
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Rick Springfield Busks on the Subway + Dee Dee Ramone Gets a Posthumous...
1. While promoting his forthcoming album, Songs For the End of the World, out this week, Rick Springfield busked in Penn Station and treated commuters to a rendition of "Jessie's Girl" and a few other...
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And the WINNERS of the 8th Annual PAPER Nightlife Awards Are ....
*See all the photos from the party here! BEST PARTY HiGH ViBES at the Body Actualized Center Night Spa at Body by Brooklyn I Don't Like Mondays XTAPUSSY Westgay at Westway Chez Deep at Santos Party...
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Doyle New York Holds a Street Art Auction (But It's Not the First)
What is being billed as the "first U.S. auction of street art and graffiti" is actually the second. The New York auction house that's making that claim, Doyle (175 East 87th Street), is offering 46...
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The Morning Funnies: Celebrities on Law & Order + Nicolas Cage on a Plane
Leighton Meester! Jennifer Garner! Rainn Wilson! Bradley Cooper! Buster! A super-cut of celebrities on Law & Order. [via Vulture] Madonna eating cheese doodles in New York City circa 1983....
View ArticleYeasayer's "Reagan's Skeleton" Is Our Music Video of the Day
Brooklyn's Yeasayer released this new clip for "Reagan's Skeleton" from their Fragrant World album. It's a straight-forward performance piece, but it looks like the footage was run through an...
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Paul Ryan's Deeply Weird P90X Photo Shoot + Rodarte x Starbucks in Today's...
Carine Roitfeld has been named the new Global Fashion Director of Harper's Bazaar. [via Fashionista]Amy Adams starred in this cute little polaroid campaign by Boy by Band of Outsiders. [via High...
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Oh Yeah, Alright: Buy Tom Petty's Jaguar
Ladies and gentlemen, this conversation below could happen to you!Person: Hey, nice Jag.You: Thanks... It was Tom Petty's. The legendary musician is auctioning off his 1996 Jaguar XJS (a discontinued...
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Wendy James Is Back
At 16, Wendy James began a musical odyssey that brought her international stardom as the lead singer of Transvision Vamp, a pop-punk band that went on to record several top-10 hits in England in the...
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PAPER's NYC Weekend Guide
Thursday, 10/11Soho's Housing Works will be opening its doors -- and setting out its bingo cards -- for all four debates and tonight will feature special Vice Presidential Biden v. Ryan squares for...
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Skrillex, Rory Culkin, RuPaul's All-Stars Drag Race Gals + More Share Their...
We asked some of the bold facers at our Nightlife Awards last night where they like to go out when they hit the town. Take some notes.Ellie Goulding"I am always in a hotel, in a bar in a hotel. I love...
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Tom Hanks Is Headed to Broadway + NYC Doughnut Map = Eight Items Or Less
1. The Citizens Band, who introduced Michael Musto at our Nightlife Awards last night, will be performing at NYC's Abrons Arts Center October 24-27 in support of their latest album, Grab A Root And...
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My Little Pony Project 2012 Opens in NYC
Following a show in Los Angeles earlier this year and America's new pop-fascination with Bronies, the exhibition My Little Pony Project, featuring 20 artists' redesigns of everyone's favorite...
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Morning Funnies: Joe "Malarkey" Biden + Michael Bolton's New ABC Comedy
Good ol' Pappy Joe. [ModernPrimate] The only, only thing the Ryans have in common with Kurt and Courtney.. [GIFWich] Was Joe Biden at the vice presidential debate last night or taking in a fresh young...
View ArticleNow You Can "Carry" Big Dogs In Your Purse, Too
For those who prefer mastiffs to malteses or pointers to poodles and always grumble whenever you need to take the dog out and run errands (because you can't just stuff your pet in a tote bag á la...
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Sandwich of the Week: The Duc from Xe May Sandwich
New Yorkers have enjoyed their fair share of meatballs in the past couple years (see: The Meatball Shop, Terroir, the late Kenmare, etc.). Similarly, they've tasted a considerable variety of bánh mì,...
View ArticleBarbra Streisand & Barry Gibb's "Guilty" Is Our Music Video of the Day
"Back To Brooklyn." That's what Barbra Streisand is calling her current US tour and she's entitled. Unlike the hundreds of singers and musicians that just arrived in Williamsbug -- no offense --...
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Lanvin's New Lion Chokers + A Sports Bra That Detects Breast Cancer in...
"You can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight. It's not actually mutually inclusive. I just get frustrated because, just because I exist in this shape, doesn't mean that I'm like...
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Chef Matt Lightner On Atera's New Downstairs Bar and Drinks Made With Hot Pokers
"How are you taking notes when you don't even know what you're eating?" a neighboring diner whispered to me when he caught me scribbling at Atera. And he was almost right: what seemed like a "quail...
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