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The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide
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L Magazine offers up-to-the minute reviews, commentary and listings for NYC events, bars and restaurants, and all things to do in NYC.
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Your Monday Morning Video of a Guy Carrying Around a Giant Wool Dick for Art

Hello good morning! Artist David Livingston has sewn a large wool penis and has released it on the steps of the courthouse.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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Addicted to Yourself: An Interview with Lisa Duva, Director of Cat Scratch Fever at the Brooklyn Fi...

Cat Scratch Fever, the impressive debut feature from Brooklynite Lisa Duva, is about about two best friends who become addicted to watching themselves online (in other dimensions). The film, which pl...

2 days ago

"Fuck, Fuck, Fuck": Regina Spektor Live at Le Poisson Rouge

“Fuck, fuck, fuck.” Only 10 minutes before Regina Spektor’s show at Le Poisson Rouge was supposed to start, the singer was yelling rapid fire into the mic. “I have to get all the fucks out before we ...

2 days ago

Republican Wins Brooklyn Senate Seat

After months of contentious hand recounts, a winner has been declared in the special election to replace disgraced former state senator Carl Kruger: Republican candidate David Storobin, a lawyer, has...

3 days ago

Northside 2012 is Almost Here!

The beginning of June means one thing. Northside Festival is almost here, and we’re bursting with bands and films, art and entrepreneurs all ready to take over Williamsburg and Greenpoint.… [ Read mo...

3 days ago

We Know Authentic Thai Food. And Pok Pok is Authentic Thai Food.

There’s been a lot of talk about Pok Pok, Andy Ricker’s new northern Thai restaurant in the Columbia Street Waterfront District. His popular Portland restaurant and Lower East Side wing spot have don...

3 days ago

Watch Hospitality Perform "The Birthday" Inside a Restaurant Supply Store

In a new video produced by Bowery Presents (hmm, apparently this is something they do now?), Brooklyns own Hospitality can be seen performing "The Birthday," a standout track from their excel...

3 days ago

10 Foods You Didnt Know You Could Grill (But Should!)

We all know that zucchini and eggplant slices are great when drenched in olive oil and tossed on the barbecue. Or peppers and mushrooms on a shish kebab stick.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comme...

3 days ago

Your Weekend at the Movies Released by the Weinsteins to Win a Bet

Snow White and the Huntsman: And with that, our rollercoaster year of only seeing movies about Snow White draws to a close. Now we have nothing to do until Gemma Arterton and Jeremy Renner kick off t...

3 days ago

Does Obama or Romney Have the Most Ironic T-Shirt at Urban Outfitters?

Now that it’s officially official that Mitt Romney will be the Republican candidate against Barack Obama in November, we can finally start talking about what matters—Urban Outfitters t-shirts. Never ...

3 days ago

St. Anns Warehouse Moving into Tobacco Warehouse After All

In November 2010, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, with the National Park Service, announced that St. Annes Warehouse, the DUMBO theater on Water Street, would renovate and move into the crumbli...

3 days ago

Thousands of Bees Escape and Swarm Bed-Stuy

Several thousand bees escaped a station wagon on Madison Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Tuesday, drawing police who shut down the street and arrested the beekeeper, the Times reports. Michael Hegedu...

3 days ago

Gallery Pointers for Giant BOS Friday Night

In case you havent heard, Bushwick Open Studios, always a great big event, is very seriously, this year, gargantuan—a proper Nimrod to the hoods resident Himrod. As such, try though one might, its re...

4 days ago

Bloomberg to Ban Large Sodas

First, he wanted to tax soda, but the idea died in Albany. Then he wanted to stop food stamp recipients from using the program to buy sugary beverages, but the feds told him he couldnt.… [ Read more ...

4 days ago

Pretty Shady: Fifty Shades of Greys Fanfictional Origins Getting Shoved Down the Memory Hole

Fifty Shades of Grey, the mommy-porning Newsweek-covering, Kindle-inhabiting bestseller thats got all us ladies making panty slaw these days is trying to cover up its somehow-even-more-embarrassing -t...

4 days ago

Soundtrack By Tangerine Dream: A Video Mixtape

The German space rock group Tangerine Dream (1967-) was one of the first-ever bands to adopt the synthesizer. Like Kraftwerk, Neu!… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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Burger Chain Moving to Coney Island

The new Coney Island will soon be crowded with outposts from local institutions: Toms Restaurant, Zitos Sandwich Shoppe, Grimaldis, and Cha-Chas are all opening new spots. Joining them will be Checke...

4 days ago

Miami Man Whose Face Was Eaten Graduated from Stuyvesant

Police have identified the homeless Miami man whose face was eaten on Saturday as 65-year-old Ronald Poppo, a graduate of Stuyvesant High School, class of 64, the Daily News reports. As a student he ...

4 days ago

The Western allitaliana

Film Forums series of spaghetti Westerns surveys the most memorable characters of a subgenre that took apart the myths it profited from. by Justin Stewart Spaghetti Westerns June 1-21 at Film Forum A...

4 days ago

Brooklyn Cyclones To Host "Williamsburg Night"

July 5 will be "Williamsburg Night" at MCU Park when the Brooklyn Cyclones play against the Williamsport Crosscutters (a hipster team from Pennsylvania, see right), Sheepshead Bites reports. ...

5 days ago

Sausage, Beer & Chicks: A Recap of the 5 Boro PicNYC on Governors Island

It was hot and muggy all Memorial Day weekend, but the rain waited just long enough to keep the crowds sitting pretty on picnic blankets at Governors Island. Most of them had come to check out the is...

5 days ago

Cannes 2012: In the Fog, Student and the Awards

This is the last of Glenn Heaths dispatches from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, which concluded over the weekend. In the Fog’s title is indeed overtly symbolic and quite literal: war blurs the line b...

5 days ago

Pretty Shady: Fifty Shades of Greys Fanfictional Origins Getting Shoved Down the Memory Hole

Fifty Shades of Grey, the mommy-porning Newsweek-covering, Kindle-inhabiting bestseller thats got all us ladies making panty slaw these days is trying to cover up its somehow-even-more-embarrassing -t...

5 days ago

Park Slope Police Station Has Bedbugs

The 78th Precinct station house on Sixth Avenue, whose officers patrol Park Slope and Prospect Park, has bedbugs, the Post reports; a prisoner complained over the weekend that "the insects were n...

5 days ago

Women With a Vision HQ Set on Fire: How to Help

Women With a Vision, a very awesome New Orleans-based advocacy group for sex workers, low-income women, women with substance abuse issues, and other at-risk populations, was broken into and set on fi...

5 days ago

Jennifer Egan Tweets New Short Story

Detractors of Jennifer Egans novel A Visit from the Good Squad often mention "the PowerPoint chapter"—a 75-page slideshow in which a teenage character narrates scenes from her family life. Fa...

5 days ago

Pinkwashing

Pink Ribbons, Inc. casts a skeptical eye at corporate breast cancer awareness branding. by Ryan Vlastelica Pink Ribbons, Inc. Directed by Lea Pool Pink Ribbons, Inc. is a polemic against companies us...

5 days ago

Insider Tips for This Weekends Behemoth Bushwick Open Studios

Arts in Bushwick, the volunteer-fueled creative entity behind a number of yearly Bushwick-wide events, is gearing up for its biggest iteration yet of its biggest annual event, Bushwick Open Studios. ...

5 days ago

Calexico Coming to Park Slope

The owners of Calexico, the popular taco truck turned brick-and-mortar restaurants known for their "crack sauce," plan to open a new outpost, their third, in Park Slope, Heres Park Slope repo...

6 days ago

Did That IKEA Bookcase Cost The Ruin Of An Ancient Forest?

It seems that something more sinister may lie behind IKEAs minimalism and meatballs. Despite the companys sustainability-touting slogan of "We Love Wood" the Guardian reports that an internat...

6 days ago

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