Tonight, ADULT THEMES, Parts & Labor and Shy Child play at Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Ave. (betw. S. 1st & 2nd Sts.), 718-599-1450‎; 9, $8. Read more

Conviction is the inspirational true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother. When Betty Anne Waters’ (two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank) older brother Kenny (Sam Rockwell) is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny.

With the help of best friend Abra Rice (Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver), Betty Anne pores through suspicious evidence mounted by small town cop Nancy Taylor (Academy Award nominee Melissa Leo), meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny's arrest. Belief in her brother - and her quest for the truth - pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny. Exclusive Engagements Start Oct.15 at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 12 & City Cinemas Angelika Film Center. To view the trailer click “read more”. This is a Sponsored Post. Read more

New Yorkers almost experienced a close encounter of the third kind yesterday when reports of UFOs hovering over Chelsea really turned out to be balloons—lots of them. Read more

Joao Amorim is the director of the animated documentary 2012: Time for Change, featuring Daniel Pinchbeck, with appearances by Ellen Page, David Lynch, and Sting. The film opens at the AMC Loews 7 tonight, Oct. 15, and will screen throughout the week. If you'd like a pair of tix to tonight's screening email us at promotions@nypress.com)

I sat down with the astonishingly handsome and articulate Amorim, in somebody else’s swanky Soho loft, to talk for almost an hour about the film, drugs and changing the world. Here’s a little less than half of what he said. Read more

"Hereafter” tells the story of three people who are haunted by mortality in different ways. Matt Damon stars as George, a blue–collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. On the other side of the world, Marie (Cécile de France), a French journalist, has a near–death experience that shakes her reality. And when Marcus (Frankie/George McLaren), a London schoolboy, loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each on a path in search of the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might—or must—exist in the hereafter.  Exclusive Engagements start Friday, Oct. 15 at AMC Loews, Lincoln Square 13 and Regal Entertainment Group, Union Square Stadium 14.

View the trailer after the jump. Sponsored Post. Read more

New Yorkers almost experienced a close encounter of the third kind yesterday when reports of UFOs hovering over Chelsea really turned out to be balloons—lots of them. Read more

When you look up the term “dive bar” on Wikipedia, the only definition that truly captures the mystic of the Mars Bar is the Playboy definition:

“A church for down-and-outers and those who romanticize them, a rare place where high and low rub elbows — bums and poets, thieves and slumming celebrities. It’s a place that wears its history proudly.”

With this knowledge in mind, you realize that Mars Bar glorifiers, including, strangely, The Wall Street Journal, are dodging the dirty truth with another Bud. Yes, the bar’s legend as a punk beacon in the '70s runs as thick and deep as the layers of paint and graffiti that decorates its murky interior and outdoor walls, and its burly, aged patrons are still sticking it to the man while flirting with the barmaids. Read more

“You know, the truth is if you head over into the basement, there are boxes and boxes over in that corner of soft-core men’s magazines." — Neil Gaiman tells his son where to find the porn stash.  Read more

Republican candidate for New York Governor Carl Paladino has voiced some very strong objections to the clothing choices (or lack thereof) of the participants in the Manhattan Pride Parade, going so far as to call the entire parade “disgusting.”

As it turns out, one of Paladino’s top advisors, Roger Stone seems to have no problem with the…um…attire of the annual all-gay-all-day event, as evidenced by this picture courtesy of the NYPost. Read more

Touting the tag line “Freedom is hard to swallow,” the Off Off-Broadway play The Deep Throat Sex Scandal was forced to close early from its scheduled run at 45 Bleecker Street Theatre, but it wasn’t because of bedbugs. As the press release reports, it’s because of a landlord-tenant dispute, which could mean discrepancies over rent, new tenants, or in this case, distaste for the seedy underside of adult film-making. Read more

Conviction is the inspirational true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother. When Betty Anne Waters’ (two-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank) older brother Kenny (Sam Rockwell) is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny.

With the help of best friend Abra Rice (Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver), Betty Anne pores through suspicious evidence mounted by small town cop Nancy Taylor (Academy Award nominee Melissa Leo), meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny's arrest. Belief in her brother - and her quest for the truth - pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny. Exclusive Engagements Start Oct.15 at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 12 & City Cinemas Angelika Film Center. To view the trailer click “read more”. This is a Sponsored Post. Read more

Joao Amorim is the director of the animated documentary 2012: Time for Change, featuring Daniel Pinchbeck, with appearances by Ellen Page, David Lynch, and Sting. The film opens at the AMC Loews 7 tonight, Oct. 15, and will screen throughout the week. If you'd like a pair of tix to tonight's screening email us at promotions@nypress.com)

I sat down with the astonishingly handsome and articulate Amorim, in somebody else’s swanky Soho loft, to talk for almost an hour about the film, drugs and changing the world. Here’s a little less than half of what he said. Read more

"Hereafter” tells the story of three people who are haunted by mortality in different ways. Matt Damon stars as George, a blue–collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. On the other side of the world, Marie (Cécile de France), a French journalist, has a near–death experience that shakes her reality. And when Marcus (Frankie/George McLaren), a London schoolboy, loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each on a path in search of the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might—or must—exist in the hereafter.  Exclusive Engagements start Friday, Oct. 15 at AMC Loews, Lincoln Square 13 and Regal Entertainment Group, Union Square Stadium 14.

View the trailer after the jump. Sponsored Post. Read more

Earlier this year, kids at Rushmore Academy were campaigning to release a Criterion Collection edition of Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, with 387 fans signing the petition. Their wishes were answered with a two-disc and Blu-Ray release on Tuesday, featuring a new HD digital transfer, making-of extras and the short "Hotel Chevalier," starring a bruised Natalie Portman in panties, that serves as an opener to the film. Set primarily on a train in India, the film isn’t considered one of Wes Anderson’s best in terms of plot and dialogue by many fans, but Armond White was a huge supporter of the film. It is  a visual feast of color, camera movement and expensive luggage. Pick up a copy and have a cup at House of Waris Tea Room. Read more

Ticked Off Trannies With Knives, which premiered this past April at the Tribeca Film Festival, will run from Oct. 15-21 at Cinema Village, and is available on DVD starting Nov. 9.

A campy revenge horror with a leading cast of five trannies (three played by transgendered actresses and two played by drag queens) and written and directed by Israel Luna, the film has generally received positive viewer reactions. Ticked Off Trannies has already acquired a bit of a cult reception, with audience members shouting at and interacting with the on-screen action. Read more

Tonight, ADULT THEMES, Parts & Labor and Shy Child play at Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Ave. (betw. S. 1st & 2nd Sts.), 718-599-1450‎; 9, $8. Read more

Tonight, Gross Relations plays with Heliotropes and Beloved Rogue at Bruar Falls, 245 Grand St. (betw. Driggs Ave. & Roebling St.) , Brooklyn, 347-529-6610; 8, $6. Read more

Walking into Terminal 5 last night for part one of the New York stop on Jimmy Eat World’s Invented tour, I found myself expecting to encounter a sea of teeny-boppers with Pete Wentz hair. It took me a while to realize just how much time had passed since my middle school days. There would be no teeny-boppers, for though it was an all-ages show, nary an under-20-something remembers the years (as my editor put it) of moping in a corner listening to Clarity.

Since, back in the day, I was more of KTU kid than Z100 gal, I had decided to enlist the help of one of my closest seventh grade friends in deciphering the strange world of white boys (err, former boys) with guitars. Read more

Tonight, The Thermals play with Twin Shadow at Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Pl. (at E. 15th St.), 212-777-6800; 7, $18. Read more

Tonight, Tough Knuckles plays Death By Audio, 49 S. 2nd St. (betw. Kent & Wythe Aves.), Brooklyn, no phone; 8, $TBA. Read more