If Hiltons and Ronsons can have clothing lines just like the rappers who really know how to design fashion, then why not a former nightlife columnist? And after years shooting sex stars, how could a canny photographer not realize the value of limited edition porn DVDs? New York Post scribe Jared Paul Stern, having…
Flash from Liz Smith:
Browsing Black Book, as one is wont to do when lunching at Schillers, our eyes are drawn to a line in the table of contents: "Anthony Haden-Guest attends an orgy." Quick as can be, we're on page 106, reading "Sex and the the New New York Scene":
After Instapundit writes on the economics of drug dealing, Alarming News tackles the real question: "Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?"
1)It was the year of re-mixing and mish-mashing. The New York Times Magazine told us so! Must be why APT hosts the funk/soul/hip-hop stylings of KC the Funkaholic and DJ Antal tonight. [Rude Movements]
· Don't go saying the Jews never did anything for you: the hipster Hebrews over at Heeb Magazine throw a Liquor and Latkes party tonight at Lit, 9pm. Best of all, you get a dollar off at the door if you RSVP. Oh, the irony. [Heeb]
· Why throw away your rent money to by some Helmut Lang shit at full price when you can,…
Friday
· Falcon The Band, the band with world's most complicated backstory perform at Tommy's Tavern in Greenpoint, Brooklyn tonight at 11pm. $5 [Tommy's Tavern]
· We had no idea, but there are, like, other blogs out there! And some are about books, ew. Go size up their authors and see if any are hot, as literary…
· We're still a little fuzzy on the rules of this whole internet-thingy, but maybe this'll help: "How to Hack Copyright for Fun and Profit," with artist, writer, and curator John Ippolito. 6 pm at Columbia University, no less. [Upcoming]
· Shortlist nominees Eagles of Death Metal don't actually play death metal. What…
· The South Asian International Film Festival kicks off tonight. At least Bollywood makes no qualms about the fact that its films are over-produced, over-acted, and over-long. [saiff]
· Three idiot NYU students wanted to produce a variety show. They used Craigslist to recruit the actual "performers." "I think it could…
· We totally love L.A. Especially when it's being blown to bits in one of the greatest botched bank robbery scenes ever filmed. That's right—perennial TNT late night classic and De Niro/Pacino-overacting fest Heat screens today at the American Museum of the Moving Image. [AMMI]
· Do you like video games? Do you like…
· Culture and lit critic Harold Bloom discusses his new book tonight at the 92nd Street Y. Coed undergrads are kindly asked to refrain from sitting in the first two rows. [92nd Y]
· You can't sit down to hear Frank Gehry chat it up with Parsons Dean Paul Goldberger tonight at New School University-all seats are sold…
· Illinois Senator Barak Obama is eloquent, intelligent, and charismatic—the perfect man to lead the Democratic Party back to the White House in the next election. Too bad about that "no black presidents" constitutional amendment. In any event, he appears at the Union Square Barnes and Noble tonight at 7:00pm [Paper]
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· Just can't wait to see the new Alexander the Great biopic, Alexander? Wanna have drinks with Oliver Stone? Kill both birds with one stone (or both birds with multiple stones from a variety of different locations) at the Walter Reade Theater tonight. Movie starts at 7, drinks at 6. [Film Society of Lincon Center]
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Ha ha, just kidding. We would never condone that, even if U2 is giving a free concert in DUMBO at 2:30 or 3pm. Instead, just behold the fuzzy glory of their flatbed truck, carrying the Irish rockers (and we use "rockers" really fucking loosely) to their show. Tickets might be available here (listed under the MTV…
Friday:
· Video games, flat-screen TVs, and Japanese Anime: stoned slackers unite at the eNerGy Anime and Game Festival, held at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Retarded capitalization is theirs, not ours.
· Pour some of your 40 out for the irascible Ol Dirty Bastard and check out "Ghost Dog: The Way of the…
· Augusten Burroughs discusses how much more fucked up his childhood was than yours at Coliseum Books tonight. Unless, of course, you went to a Manhattan all-girls private school. [Coliseum Books]
· The lovely functional alcoholics over at Blacktable throw a CD release party for the Waylons at Lit tonight at 8:30.…
· NYT Sunday Styles columnist Bob Morris presents an evening of "style, cynicism, and song" like only a single gay son and uncle can. [TheatreMania]
· Go celebrate an evening of Random House self-promotion hosted by Random House executive editor-in-chief Daniel Menaker featuring a whole lotta Random House writers…
· Canadians are fucking weird, eh? Must be all the decriminalized weed. Head to the Slipper Room tonight for Trampoline Hall, in which three of our benevelont northern neighbors weigh in on such weighty topics as "Our Animal Friends" and "The World of New York's Pedicab Drivers." [flavorpill]
· It's the 4th annual…
We know it's last minute, but we can't imagine a better reason for you to call in sick today than to attend the media forum on acne treatment. No, seriously, this is really happening. In just a matter of moments, within the halls of the 30th floor of the Reuters building (3 Times Square), we anticipate a gathering of…
· NYU Law prof Stephen Holmes hosts a panel discussion with other likeminded smart folks about war-crimes tribunals and the persecution of Sadaam Hussein. BYOB, we take it. [Time Out]
· Zone out to avant garde, industrial-noise-as-jazz band (as if we even know what that means) Supersilent at Tonic. Or sit on the nifty…
