Articles in the “arts” category

Woody Allen promoting "Wonder Wheel" in Nov. 2017 (Greg Pace/Shutterstock) Woody Allen has sued Amazon Studios for $68 million for terminating his movie contract due to what he describes in the suit as a "25-year old,...

(Jackie Leitzes, via West Side Rag) Jonah Hill was spotted filming a new Vampire Weekend music video at the iconic Zabar's on the Upper West Side on Wednesday, which is both Peak Vampire Weekend and also...

(Netflix) Ceremonially dumped on Netflix last Friday, Russian Doll has quickly turned into the first must-see new TV show of the year. It's a perfect star vehicle for Natasha Lyonne, who co-created the series with comedy...

At a time when there are so many horrible things happening in the world that deserve to be called out, the questionable aesthetic choices of a new East Village condominium really shouldn't amount to a hill...

'They amassed millions of followers by posting other people's content for years, often without attribution...It's profiting off that content, not compensating or crediting people when they use them for ads, and having a history of being rude, dismissive, disrespectful, and/or totally unresponsive to those who reach out for credit that I find the most troubling.'

(Netflix) Despite all the fanfare and viral advertising, the televised highlight of this weekend was not watching human ouija board Adam Levine rip off his furniture-like clothing as he performed at the halftime show of a...

What We Do In The Shadows, Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi and Flight Of The Conchords comedian Jemaine Clement's absolutely hilarious mockumentary about vampires living in modern times which came out in 2014, is undoubtedly one...

Remember WinterFest, the holiday market that popped up in the parking lot of the Brooklyn Museum just over a month ago? The festival that was supposed to be Brooklyn's answer to the popular Union Square Holiday...

(Universal Pictures) After you watch the trailer for Hobbs & Shaw below, I in my capacity as an official Fast & Furious scholar have three things to say about this, the ninth entry in The Fast...

If you've ever gone to a taping of Saturday Night Live—a.k.a. "S&L;"—you've witnessed the chaotic ballet of camera operators, grips and workers who make the show run behind-the-scenes. SNL has released a really fascinating look at...

Cardi B, clad head-to-toe in fur on this frigid day, appeared in Queens Criminal Court on Thursday morning regarding a brawl at Angels, a Flushing strip club, last August. Video footage allegedly showed the rapper, whose name...

'I think it was actually like a gift that I had to go through all that,' he said. 'Because I was meant to talk about the abuse, you know what I mean? I didn't know I was, but I was.'

via Yelp St. Mark's Comics, which has been a mainstay of St. Mark's Place in the East Village for over 36 years, announced on Tuesday evening that it would be closing at the end of February....

Rebel is Rebecca Carroll's regular conversation on race and pop culture. You can hear Rebecca talk about these issues with guests on Wednesday mornings on WNYC, or participate in one of Rebel's regular conversations in The...

Jussie Smollett at TrevorLive in December 2018 (Michael Buckner/Variety/Shutterstock) I remember feeling both enraged and terrified when I first heard the story of James Byrd, Jr. — the black man who was chained to the back...

"Cops are walking past us and they're like, 'What are you doing to Joe's car?' But then they just laughed and kept walking 'cause they couldn't imagine that somebody was just going to spray paint graffiti on a cop car in front of 1 Police Plaza in broad daylight."

GBV from L to R: Kevin March, Bobby Bare Jr., Robert Pollard, Mark Shue & Doug Gillard (Tony Nelson) It's easy to take Robert Pollard, the greatest rock songwriter of the last thirty years, for granted...

The giant, spiderweb-like crack in the front window of the bus seemed like a real good sign right off the bat. A couple dozen people carrying Queen tote bags mulled outside, waiting and wondering if we'd even...

James McAvoy was the host of this weekend's all-new episode of Saturday Night Live with musical guest Meek Mill. We were thankfully spared another insipid Alec Baldwin-as-Trump appearance this week, with the obligatory (and headline-grabbing) celebrity...

NYE at the McKittrick Hotel (photo by Jane Kratochvil) About a year after appointing its first ever official "Night Mayor," the New York Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment has released a comprehensive economic impact study...

(Jennifer Hsu/Gothamist) When Will Westerman—who performs moody, reverb-drenched music under his last name—started out 2018, he had a few grand plans in mind: he was going to make his first full-length album, learn to produce demos...

Did you catch a whiff of peanut butter-scented flop sweat in the air? That's because the 143rd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is right around the corner! Midtown Manhattan will be filled to the brim with...

Madison McFerrin (Nate Bajar) Rebel is Rebecca Carroll's regular column on race and pop culture. You can hear Rebecca talk about these issues with guests on Wednesday mornings on WNYC, or participate in one of Rebel's...

Ja Rule & Billy McFarland (Netflix) Last week, Hulu and Netflix released competing documentaries on the disastrous Fyre Festival event. Rapper Ja Rule, one of the cofounders of Fyre Fest, took some time out this weekend...

via Yelp Last week, the independent bookstore Westsider Rare & Used Books announced it would be closing after 35 years on the Upper West Side. There was an immediate outpouring of support from locals and longtime...

Moon worshippers and everyone who was cleansing their crystals all over the world were mesmerized by the super blood wolf moon eclipse. Professional photographers shared images showing the moon's surface bathed in an orangey-red glow, amateurs took blurry pictures trying to capture the magic—it was all glorious.

Saturday Night Live returned from winter break last night with host Rachel Brosnahan, but the best thing by far—and I really mean by far—involved a different guest. Former SNL writer John Mulaney joined Pete Davidson for a hilarious, esoteric discussion of Clint Eastwood's insane movie The Mule during Weekend Update (while also touching on Davidson's suicidal message last month).

Bassist Kathi Wilcox and vocalist Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill, in 1991 (Jonathan Haynes' flickr) We were all very excited when it was announced earlier this week that the original lineup of DIY punk band Bikini...

Pete Holmes (Craig Blankenhorn/HBO) Over the last decade, comedian Pete Holmes has launched a beloved podcast (You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes), a cult TV talk show (The Pete Holmes Show), a more successful TV...

Self-Taught Art, Art Brut, Outsider Art... whatever you call it, one of the largest and most diverse showcase of the stuff is happening this weekend in Chelsea. Once again setting up shop in the Metropolitan Pavilion, the...

via Yelp Earlier this week, the independent bookstore Westsider Rare & Used Books announced it would be closing after 35 years on the Upper West Side. There was an immediate outcry of support from locals and...

Man of La Murda Based on everything we've seen Keanu Reeves' single-minded one-man killing machine do in the first two John Wick movies, $14 million does NOT seem like nearly enough money to justify trying to...

The common grackle, described as a "lanky blackbird," is a familiar figure to birders in New York City. But lately, some are delighted with a more unusual sight: A leucistic grackle. Jillian M. Liner, the Director of...

The MTA reopened the 167th Street B/D station in the Bronx last week, after five months of major repairs and renovations, including new concrete and metal platforms, stairs, beams and columns; new LED lighting; digital signage for...

strykapose's flickr You've seen blood moons, you've seen lunar eclipses, you've even seen the much-ballyhooed supermoon—but you haven't really lived until you've seen a super blood wolf lunar moon with your own two eyes. And you'll...

Some of the original cast of 'Ghostbusters,' including Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Rick Moranis and Annie Potts, alongside associate producer Joe Medjuck (Images excerpted from Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Visual History by Daniel Wallace. Used...

(David Russell / HBO) Inside a class at Abhaya Yoga in Gowanus, a teacher is guiding her students through some of the typical breathing exercises in Kundalini yoga. But instructions on breath of fire soon turns...

Tressie McMillan Cottom, the author of 'Thick' Rebel is Rebecca Carroll's regular column on race and pop culture. You can hear Rebecca talk about these issues with guests on Wednesday mornings on WNYC, or participate in...

Yesterday, Hulu surprise released FYRE FRAUD, their documentary about the disastrous Fyre Festival, a few days before Netflix would release its own doc on the subject, FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. As many noted...

How do you roll out a movie whose existence "spoils" the plot of an entire franchise? That's the conundrum Marvel found itself in with promoting the latest adventure of the IP known as Peter Parker (not...

Attorney Gloria Allred, left, Faith Rodgers, center, and Michelle Kramer, mother of Dominique Gardner (Richard Drew/AP/Shutterstock) In the wake of mounting outrage over allegations about R&B; singer R. Kelly and his treatment of young black women,...

via Yelp Westsider Rare & Used Books, the independent bookstore located on the Upper West Side for over 35 years, announced today it will be closing down soon. "I just found out myself," said 80-year-old employee...

from the doc The story of Fyre Festival, the multi-sensory luxury influencer festival on an island in The Exumas which became a once-in-a-lifetime surprise survivalist cosplay disaster, is almost too much for any one documentary to...

The city's premiere shopping cart race made for-idiots/by-idiots is back: the annual Idiotarod race will take place on January 26th. That gives you plenty of time to start gathering and assembling all the random junk you can...

The humble pigeon, New York City's official bird, is ubiquitous as well as extremely helpful. But they get really thirsty, especially after eating a bagel. On Thursday afternoon, one man decided to give our fine-feathered friend a hand by turning on the water fountain at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.

Nick Vallelonga at the Golden Globe Awards (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/Shutterstock) Green Book won a pair of Golden Globe awards last weekend (including one for Best Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy), and hopefully everyone involved with the film got...

(Bohemian Rhapsody) Bohemian Rhapsody is already the highest-grossing music biopic of all time; it won the Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture, Drama last weekend (despite the fact it was basically a musical); and star...

For 85 years, the Apollo Theater has been a landmark and cornerstone of Harlem’s music scene. The iconic venue has hosted performers like Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Jay-Z, and Aretha Franklin. Even President Barack Obama has taken...

Because Trump can't stop having temper tantrums, check out today's end-of-day links: problematic artists, food inspections stopped, GoT ice hotel, slow morning routines, 'The Sopranos' ending discussion, coffee theme park apocalypse, and boxer puppy.

Woodstock '69 (AP/Shutterstock) Just a few days ago, we learned that there would be an unofficial musical festival taking place at the original Woodstock site this summer for a 50th anniversary Woodstock celebration that would include...

Reniqua Allen (photograph by Nina Subin) Rebel is Rebecca Carroll's regular column on race and pop culture. You can hear Rebecca talk about these issues with guests on Wednesday mornings on WNYC, or participate in one...

After more than 32 years away from the city, the American Kennel Club will reopen its museum dedicated to all things dogs in Manhattan this February. The AKC Museum of the Dog was founded in 1982, and...

(Tipster) You can't help it that you got sick—viruses are being passed around this city faster than leaflets for anonymous comedy shows. And just because you're sick doesn't mean you can afford to miss work. But...

drama book shop In the fall, it was reported that Drama Book Shop, the long-running Midtown Manhattan book store beloved by theatergoers for its extensive collection of plays and books on theater, was going to have...

(Fox) Did you know that Mayor Bill de Blasio is a huge The Simpsons nerd? He previously appeared in the 2017 mockumentary Springfield of Dreams: The Legend of Homer Simpson about the classic "Homer At The...

We've already counted down some of the movies we're excited about seeing in the new year—but who really wants to leave their apartment!? Below, you can check out a list of our most anticipated TV shows...

(Scott Lynch/Gothamist) Don't let the frigid air outside fool you: Summer Festival Announcement Season is here. Last week, the Coachella 2019 lineup was revealed, and this morning, the city's own Governors Ball has announced who will...

Just last week we were recounting and arguing about all the movies we saw and loved in 2018 (for the record: I have since seen The Old Man & The Gun, it is super charming, and...

If you've sworn off pants as one of your new year's resolutions, then this news is for you: the annual No Pants Subway Ride will take place Sunday, January 13th, filling parts of the subway system with...

Jake, the subway dog. (via Jake's human thayerjoyce on Instagram) On Wednesday night, trains on the J/M/Z line were delayed for nearly two hours as the MTA and NYPD attempted to save a dog that was...