Friday Superlatives: The Best, Worst and Weirdest of the Week
Best Chuckle of the Week: Mickey's commentary on Joey Lawrence at the People's Choice Awards, because I feel exactly the same way. -- Max Kessler Biggest Surprise of the Week: The Simpsons getting...
View ArticleWho Left Their Dog at the Club?
When we saw the thousand-plus Facebook RSVPs to last night's free Class Actress show at 285 Kent, we knew to stay well away. (Plus the parenthetical phrase "DJ set" is always a turn-off.)And it seems...
View ArticleGirls Recap: "Like, I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar"
A season premiere should open doors, and last night's return of HBO's hit Girls, titled "It's About Time," did just that. It opens with Lena Dunham's character, Hannah, spooning with her now-gay-ex...
View ArticleOff Duty: L.A.'s Animal Guys
Each week in our new Off Duty series, we'll talk to some of our favorite chefs and industry folk around the country to find out their secret late-night spots where they like to grab a bite and a pint...
View ArticleCocktail of the Week: The Wayward Son at The Marrow
While waiting for your table (an inevitability given the constant throng of intrigued diners) at The Marrow, Harold Dieterle and Alicia Nosenzo's West Village homage to German and Italian cuisine, you...
View ArticleEight Items or Less: Furniture by Rem Koolhaas...
1. Chances With Wolves is hosting an "old-school dance party" on the second floor of Taavo Somer's Williamsburg restaurant, ISA (348 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn), this Wednesday, January 16, 9 p.m. to 2...
View ArticleRuPaul On the New Season of Drag Race + Refusing to Watch Award Shows
Last night might've been a big night for TV premieres, but there's one show that's leaving a giant hole in our hearts: RuPaul's Drag Race. The show returns January 28th and, here, we chat with Drag...
View ArticleYeah Yeah Yeahs Share New Album Details
You're looking at the album cover for the new album, Mosquito, by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, to be released on April 16 by Interscope. The album was produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio and Nick...
View ArticleMorning Funnies: While You Watched Girls Or the Golden Globes, a Park Sloper...
Kate Middleton's official portrait-meets-botched Jesus fresco. [via I'm With Kanye]...like a villain. [via Coin Farts] For all those who were titillated by the recent Times Magazine article about...
View ArticleSantigold's Ode to Girls
Girls, girls, girls. Getting tired of girls? Can you handle one more thing related to the HBO TV series? How about Santigold's video for her contribution to the Girls soundtrack -- yes it's called...
View ArticleStyle Scraps: Quvenzhané Wallis Is the Cutest + Sky Ferreira Models Saint...
This video where André Leon Talley interviews Quvenzhané Wallis about fashion is so insanely cute. It needs to be watched to be believed. [via Gawker] PPR bought a majority stake in Christopher...
View ArticleTriskaidekaphobia at Parade Ground
"Triskaidekaphobia" means fear of the number 13, which might explain why this performance art event at Parade Ground (the new gallery across from Seward Park) was split between Saturday the 12th and...
View ArticleOUTPUT Is Coming to Williamsburg
A legit nightclub -- not a warehouse party -- is opening in Williamsburg. The 400+ capacity club called OUTPUT is set to open at 74 Wythe Avenue and it's expected to include a restaurant as well as an...
View ArticleJonathan Morr On His New Restaurant, His Love of Jewelry and Why He's...
Innovative restaurateur Jonathan Morr just opened Cherry, a Japanese restaurant with French influences. The plush, seductive space under the Meatpacking District's Dream Downtown is a far cry from when...
View ArticlePOL & Sakiroo Choi's "Special Musician Collaboration"
It's a double-collab with these fantastic interpretations of classic music collaborations by two young illustrators. Colombian artist POL (Jean Paul Egred) hooked up with Korea's Sakiroo Choi to create...
View ArticleFinally, a Parenting Magazine for Hipster Dads
Here's something for all you "cool-dad" men of the house: Kindling Quarterly, a new mag that centers on fatherhood while celebrating the bearded crème de la bearded crème of hipster dads. We'll admit...
View ArticleEight Items or Less: The Coffin for Audiophiles
1. New York avant-garde/underground filmmaker Nick Zedd curated a "Cinema of Transgression" festival featuring his films and others by Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Richard Kern, Mary Jordan and more. It...
View ArticleMorning Funnies: Jennifer Lawrence Was Talking About First Wives Club, You...
Jennifer Lawrence was referencing completely memorable comedy First Wives Club when she said 'I beat Meryl' at the Golden Globes. What is wrong with you people? [ONTD]Happy first birthday to the Lana...
View ArticleA$AP Rocky Takes His Throne on Letterman
A$AP Rocky's album came out yesterday, so he went on the Late Show With David Letterman last night to be sure you knew. He brought his own throne in case you wondered who's the king, and wore a pair...
View ArticleStyle Scraps: Androgynous Models Edition
DuJour Magazine has an interesting profile of supermodel Coco Rocha and, among other things, discusses her Jehovah's Witness faith, saying the model still goes door-to-door every week. "There aren't...
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