Meet Your Urban Outfitters Boyfriend
Meet Your Urban Outfitters boyfriend, a hilarious take on the Your L.L. Bean Boyfriend blog, but with way more beanies, flannel and corduroy. Who needs a mountain-climbing khaki-clad boyfriend when you...
View ArticleFor Sale: Keith Haring-Illustrated Leather Jacket
If you're looking for a lavish gift for an art-lover you know, but want something more unique (and less expensive) than just a painting, you might want to check out Artnet's annual holiday ephemera...
View ArticleDog Drives Car...
1. Dog drives car! Seriously. An animal rescue organization in New Zealand taught several dogs to drive a MINI around a track. (Autoblog) 2. The NYC off-shoot of Ibiza's Space nightclub won approval...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Reptile Youth's "Be My Yoko Ono"
A song with the name "Be My Yoko Ono" might sound like fighting words for a band, but fortunately, Reptile Youth's new track seems like a better indicator of the Danish duo's momentum than of their...
View ArticleMemes, Coloring Books and Edward Scissorhands This Weekend in NYC
Thursday, December 13 PHOTOGRAPHY: Impose Photo Show at Secret Project Robot Brooklyn-based magazine-turned-website Impose is celebrating its tenth anniversary with an exhibit of photos from its...
View Article10 Must-Have Blu-rays Or DVD Sets For the Holidays
Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection (Universal) This has 15 of the master of suspense's greatest films on Blu-ray, including his masterworks like Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window, North By Northwest and...
View ArticleScreaming Mimi's Is Now Selling Ugly Hanukkah Sweaters
Screaming Mimi's owner Laura Wills has had an "ugly Christmas sweater" rack in her store for almost 10 years now. This year, she's expanded her stock to include ugly Hanukkah sweaters. Below, we chat...
View ArticleMorning Funnies: Amanda Seyfried Performed "California Love" In a Frog Costume
In case you missed it, here's Amanda Seyfried wearing a frog costume, drinking sake and singing "California Love" on Ellen. She's really on a roll lately. (H/T Max) Eugene Mirmian's Comedy Central...
View ArticleHere's a Little Something For All You New-Wave Nostalgia Freaks
Who's going to "like" today's oldie-but goodie video? Drummers, first of all, and also new-wave nostalgia freaks that can't get over the '80s. It's a nonsensical ear worm and a great one-hit-wonder by...
View ArticleLook at Those Moves! C2C's "Happy"
Simply brilliant clip by French turntablists C2C -- featuring the "golden voice" of Detroit gospel singer Derek Martin -- hits all the right spots and should make you "Happy." Feel free to to get up...
View ArticleStyle Scraps: Kristen Stewart Wears...Something + Cathy Horyn Calls Pre-Fall...
Cathy Horyn's take on the existence of the pre-fall season begins thusly: "Stores are marking down the stuff they couldn't sell as designers present their new duds. There is no time to mourn in...
View ArticlePro-Skater Stefan Janoski On the Holidays + Making A Shoe In Honor of His...
Stefan Janoski is a very busy guy: he's a very well-respected pro-skater, he's the second skateboarder ever to have his own line of Nike shoes, and he recently had his first art show in Chelsea. While...
View ArticleWilliamsburg Veterans Nada Surf on Their New Album and Their Old 'Hood
Venerable indie rockers Nada Surf formed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn during the early '90s. With a benediction from producer/Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, the band (frontman Matthew Caws, bassist Daniel...
View ArticleWhat A Trip: 11 Travel Tales From PAPER Favorites
Hit the road with a crazy cast of creative types -- from Oscar-winning actresses to international DJs -- as they share their travel tales with us. Buckle up! Tig Notaro: The Great Escape Ari Shapiro:...
View ArticleThe South By South Bronx Festival Kicks Off This Weekend...
1. UK artist Damien Hirst is leaving Gagosian after 17 years with the New York gallery. The split was "amicable." (Financial Times, photo by Luke Stephenson on Flickr) 2. It's a little too soon to head...
View ArticleSpacewar! Opens Tomorrow at the Museum of the Moving Image
Is 2012 the year video games became accepted as art? First there was "The Art of Video Games" at the Smithsonian. There was an exhibition at London's City Hall. The Museum of Modern Art started a games...
View ArticleJulia Chiang Gets "Crafty" at New Museum
"Irascible" artist Julia Chiang will continue her five-day residency at the New Museum store each day this weekend from 2 to 6 p.m., working on A Word (Starting 2013), a group of twenty paintings...
View ArticleSo Excited For Pedro Almodóvar's Latest Flick
After watching a 45-second teaser trailer for Pedro Almodóvar's new film, I'm So Excited -- the majority of which features three flamboyant flight attendants serving some face and lip syncing to "I'm...
View ArticleArtist Hassan Rahim's Miami Beach Photo Diary
Welcome to You Should Check Out..., a weekly blog in which Chris Black of Words For Young Men and Done to Death Projects tells you about something or someone he really likes and that he thinks you'll...
View ArticleHere's the New Tim Burton-Directed Killers Video, Starring Winona Ryder
Tim Burton directed the "Here With Me" video for The Killers and it stars Winona Ryder and British actor Craig Roberts. After the band went on hiatus for some solo activity and returned with a new...
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