SAG Awards Give a Boost to the Best Actor Race

With just under a month to go until the Oscars, the 18th annual Screen Actors Guild awards presentation solidified the conventional wisdom as to who the front-runners are in this year’s Best...

The Young and the Restless: A Sit Down with Clay Bassford of Young Heel

Young Heel is a young band, with a lot of promise. Having started a couple of years ago as a one man set, by Clay Bassford, the band expanded from one to four, first adding JT Norton on vocals, th...

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Photographer Jai Lennard: It's All in the Story

Jai Lennard is a photographer based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. But more than that, he’s a prime raconteur. A connoisseur of sexual identity, one might say. There’s an ease to him that ...

Warm Ghost: Goth is Undead

It was about this time last year that the Goth phase began its renaissance. The once colorful city of Manhattan took on a dark suiting of black. It was drapey. It was moody. It led to a ton of unf...

OT Downtown: Filmmaker Journeys to Understand Visions

Jonas Elrod is a filmmaker in New York who woke up one day to discover that he was having visions and could see angels, demons, ghosts and auras. “My first vision was pretty personal,&rdquo...

Playlist for the Monday Morning Commuter

“Monday, Monday,” by The Mamas & The Papas: Ahhh…. It’s Monday morning. The sky is blue. It’s the beginning of the week. Your emotional state is analogous to fre...

Ruminations on Nominations: Doug and Amy Sit Down for Oscar Talk

As anyone with a Twitter account is likely well aware of, the 2012 Oscar Nominations were announced this past Tuesday morning. New York Press Film and Television writer Doug Strassler and Managing Edi...

Salvaging Silent Cinema with a Brand-New Score

Fans of experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison will have plenty of opportunity to enjoy his work this winter. In addition to The Miners’ Hymns at Film Forum Feb. 8–14, this year’s Sile...

See It, Hear It, Feel It

Kiefer Sutherland returns to FOX in another heavy show “I’m 4,161 days old,” says Jake the young protagonist of the new FOX series Touch, which just screened the series pilot prio...

The Legislature’s redistricting maps made losers out of a handful of Senate Democrats, who now find themselves living in districts represented by their colleagues. And NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly’s week – already pretty cloudy due to a storm over his involvement in an anti-Muslim video – got a lot more grim when news about an allegation of rape against his son surfaced. Here’s how the week shook out for the rest of the political world:

West Side Spirit: The Five Ugliest Buildings on the Upper West Side

Every neighborhood has a few. Even on the generally well-maintained Upper West Side, some buildings, whether from construction, neglect or outright abandonment, cause neighbors to flinch when they see...

City Arts: Beaton’s New York Years Revived

One high aesthetic compliment is to call an artist ahead of his time. Yet the real trick is to be of your time and ahead of it, too. Cecil Beaton—photographer, illustrator, set and costume desig...

OT Downtown: The New Face of HIV/AIDS

Back in the mid-1990s, when Dr. Tony Urbina was completing his residency at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, he witnessed a major turning point in HIV/AIDS care. At the time, medic...

Cloud Nothings: A One-Man-Band No More

Cloud Nothings came to fruition in Dylan Baldi’s basement in 2009. Dylan sang. Dylan played the guitar. He played the drums, did the backing, pretty much everything. With the success of his ...

A classroom of Bronx high school students was discussing John Steinbeck’s literary classic Of Mice and Men last week when a gray-haired, dark-suited visitor chimed in with the perspective of an extra 50 years.

OT Downtown: Where Everyday is Dia de los Muertos

For the past 10 years, directors Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Torro and Alejando González Iñárritu have been at the forefront of a remarkable renaissance in Spanish-lang...

Our Town: The Bloody Apple

An exhibit of Weegee’s photographs proves that crime does pay In the pantheon of New Yorkers—Dorothy Parker, Andy Warhol, the Ramones—photographer Weegee may not be the first to...

City Arts: Flickers of Dance at Lincoln Center

Now in its 40th year, Dance on Camera is at a new level of maturity. The annual event at the Walter Reade Theater that once fit into a three-day weekend has expanded to fill five days, Jan. 27&ndash...

Avenue Insider: Madonna Brings "W.E" to NYC

AVEThe Weinstein Company with The Cinema Society & Forevermark held a screening for Madonna’s new movie W.E. at Ziegfeld Theater last night. Taking the stage before the film d...

Playlist for the Greatest Cover Songs Ever. Period.

So last week we took a look at the worst cover songs ever. What’d we learn? Well, if you’re in a pop-punk band it’s likely you should not be allowed to record music. Of any kind. Cov...

Sometimes I love my job. It’s my great pleasure to direct you to Gob Squad’s Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good), the first must-see of an unusually busy 2012.

I’ve Figured Out How To Make A Relationship Work

Yeah, you heard me. I’ve figured out how to make a relationship work. I’m basically Batman right now but better, even though I don’t have a neat utility belt (I’ll get one...

OT Downtown: Dangerous Delancey

A recent tragedy proves once again the deadliness of the LES’ main thoroughfare A few months ago, a NYPD officer stood in the middle of the intersection of Delancey and Essex streets, out of b...