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Blame It on Magritte

The artist's entertaining perversity veils his broad influence

Watch Erased with the Sound Off and You'll Still Know What's Going On

BrisketTown Is Serving Lunch and The General's Got Doughnuts

ISA in Williamsburg is now open for lunch from noon to 4 p.m. The Mediterranean restaurant has turned some of their dinner entree options into smaller dishes divided into snacks, pizzas, soups, and salads. Some items, like the Tuscan kale Caesar salad garnished with sourdough croutons, are available ... More >>

Your Brother. Remember?

The AKC Names Brooklyn the 'Dachshund' of Neighborhoods

Brooklyn plus bun.​As they gear up for their big Meet the Breeds event on November 19th and 20th at the Javits Center, the American Kennel Club and the International Cat Association have been doing some thinking about what breeds "match" which of New York City's neighborhoods. Jessica Rice of ... More >>

Euro Crisis Meeting; Earthquake in Turkey; Gaddafi's Autopsy

​EU leaders are in Brussels today for a crisis meeting on how to resolve the Euro's financial woes. Germany is resisting calls to increase the bailout fund and cut Greece's debt. Bloomberg reports "measures on the table include writedowns of as much as 50 percent on Greek debt, 100 billion eur ... More >>

Salinas: Some Spain, Some Pain

The ups and downs of a new Chelsea spot

Gangsta Excess From the Congo in Viva Riva!

Spring Arts Guide: Juliette Mapp Mashes Up Day Care and Gertrude Stein

Plus Paradigm, Karole Armitage, and other spring dance picks

Battles Announce Tour, Hit Le Poisson Rouge In April

​So Gloss Drop, the eagerly awaited new record from defiantly complex, deliciously weird art-rock trio Battles, is due out in June, which is great news, considering the excellent of 2007's Mirrored, which boasted, in "Atlas," probably the most appealing profoundly disturbing rock anti-single o ... More >>

Francesco Tristano & Bruce Brubaker

Belgium Brings the Avant-Garde, Probably No Waffles

Needcompany's The Deer House herds itself into BAM; Les Ballets C de la B experiments at the Joyce

Lance Armstrong Avoids Pile-Ups To Stay In Strong Contention

Cyclingnews.com/Fotoreporter SirottiIt was Eddy Merckx day at the Tour​It was old-timer's day at the Tour de France yesterday, in more ways than one. Not only is Lance Armstrong, at 38, trying to become the oldest winner ever in his final Tour, but on a day meant to be an homage to the greates ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Starts Tour de France Strong, Calls 1-2 Finish, Too

Cyclingweekly.com​Thanks to the New York Times, we all know it was the small electric motor hidden in his downtube which allowed Swiss cyclist Fabian Cancellara to power his way to a win in yesterday's Tour de France prologue. The world time-trial champion blew away the rest of the field on t ... More >>

A Week in the Life of Dinosaur Jr.'s Tour Manager

​Those unclear on what tour managers are for exactly might consider reading Interpol/Moldy Peaches/Yo La Tengo road wrangler David Scheid's testimonial to the New York Times about what he does all day, which basically consists of flying various places on planes. One particularly brutal itinera ... More >>

Posts of the Week

It's Friday afternoon. And these are the best posts of the week: We ranked Our 10 Best Food Shops. Corona's Abarrotera Central offers one-stop shopping for Halloween. Scottish food importer Andrew Hamilton is making haggis for Highlands. This week, g-u-t-b-o-m-b was spelled okonomiyaki at May Ch ... More >>

What's Up With Brussels Sprouts? Are They Really From Brussels?

​ One of the stranger sights to appear in October in area farmers' markets are brussels sprouts still on the stalk. Brussels sprouts look like tiny cabbages. That's because they are tiny cabbages. A similar farm product was cultivated by the Romans, but the modern version didn't appear until ... More >>

Congo's Politics of Dancing

Love (and sly political dissent) flourish on the latest Franco compilation

Booze News--Beer Cocktails & Pimm's Cups-a-Go-Go

EU officials in Brussels are blocking the sale of lower alcohol wines developed by New World wine regions. One method to make low-alcohol wine involves harvesting grapes which are immature and have a low sugar level, the second uses fully matured grapes to produce a normal wine, from which alcohol i ... More >>

Pilot Dies Mid-Atlantic Flight, "First Officers" Flying It to Newark (UPDATE: Plane Lands Safely)

A transcontinental Continental Airlines flight, the pilot of which died in mid-flight and which is being piloted at present by its two first officers, in due shortly at Newark Airport. The plane left Brussels at about 4 a.m. and its 61-year-old pilot died sometime thereafter. Newark says it will giv ... More >>

Two People Wind Through a Desiccated Labyrinth of Love

Decoration of War

It's violence versus art (and crab versus lobster) in a Marcel Broodthaers installation

Zap Mama's Supermoon

Ambitious, worldly pop avoids humorless pomposity

Wolfie Watchdog Site 'Sabotaged'

Up From Earth

A spectacle that grips the heart and quickens its beat

Dear Mr. President

Baby let's have a ficus leaf and a cranberry Snapple before Bush do something crazy

Old-Fashioned Amenities

Track after track of sincere classicism, internationalist anarchism, and foiled espionage

Bush's Spin Doctor

Condoleezza Rice's failed European mission to reignite faith in U.S. rule of law

Fashionistas and Soul Men Highlight Diverse Festival

'Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death'

Morning Report 6/14/05
We Take Dictation from a Dictator

Reassessing an Artist 'Too Preposterous for New York'

It's Iraq, Stupid

Film

The Martial Plan

Police State Tactics Transform a Nation—Our Own

French Kiss

A Pro-Weasel Shopping Survey

Luminous Motion

Early 1980s Four-Floor Townhouse

Sister My Sister

Letters

Bonjour Bourget

At the Paris Air Show With the New ‘Merchants of Death’

We Hear and eBay

Proving Money Says Just One Thing: Submit

Soldiers' Stories

A New Kind of War Film: Work as a Matter of Life and Death

War of the Words

Wail Like an Egyptian

International Male

John Jasperse Aces the Competition

The Winners

Brussels Sprouts

Pared Down

Degrees of Separation

Virtual students give school the boot (up)