| | | Dear Single Women of NYC: It's Not Them, It's You. BY JEN DOLL  My years of New York City dating—if you're counting, there have been 12—have involved a lot of guys, short- and long- and mid-term. My longest relationship lasted two years. My shortest—minus the one-off hookups that we all know aren't "dates" at all—was somewhere in the range of two weeks. There have been certifiable crazies, like the Eastern European fellow who broke my bedroom window in a fit of rage and told me not to complain that he'd broken my "fucking window." There was the Jersey boy who worked in women's handbags; fond memories involve him drunk-puking at the Hilton, then giggling hysterically, running, and "hiding" our soiled comforter in front of someone ... more >>
| | | | | | James Blake vs. The Machine BY ERIC HARVEY  The first most non-geeks heard of James Blake was in October, when he flayed a Feist deep cut, stuffed it with dubstep's dank sub-bass, and left the seams raw and exposed. On one hand, his "Limit to Your Love" was a public capstone for a year in which Blake curated three EPs of his itchy, precocious electronic music for an audience of rock critics and beat-mining head-nodders. But it also provide... more >> | | | | | | | | Andre's Cafe Has a Hungary Heart BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  The Hungarians could teach us a thing or two about comfort food. Take turoscusza tepertovel, even if you can't pronounce it: a towering platter of glistening egg noodles, shards of bacon, and random gobs of sour cream and farmer's cheese. The noodles slip and slide inside your mouth, the dairy products melt and further lubricate, while the bacon explodes in the bland, buttery mass with all the po... more >> | | | | | | | | A Middle-Aged Sales Rep Goes Wild in Cedar Rapids BY J. HOBERMAN  Fresh from Sundance, Miguel Arteta’s amiable Cedar Rapids is a mild comedy of embarrassment, set in the dark heart of Middle America and starring sitcom secondario Ed Helms (The Office’s obnoxious angry salesman Andy Bernard) as Tim Lippe, a prematurely middle-aged man-child. Taking an airplane for the first time in his life, the country mouse goes to town: As the most idealistic insura... more >> | | | | | | | | How To Throw a Party in 2011: Get Naked! BY MICHAEL MUSTO  Here's how to throw an event in 2011: First of all, invite me! Secondly, hire a door person who can figure out how to find my name on the freakin' guest list. Inside, try for a mixed crowd—come on, try—and give them some entertainment they can't find online, plus a modicum of food, booze, and gift-bag items to make them not unhappy they left the house. (Just don't pressure me to writ... more >> | | | | | | | | Everyone Wants a (Leon) Ferrari BY CHRISTIAN VIVEROS-FAUNé  How to explain the sudden renown of 90-year-old artist León Ferrari? Few knew this Argentinean figure before he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennial in 2007. When his MOMA exhibition was announced in 2009 (a retrospective he weirdly shared with the late Brazilian conceptualist Mira Schendel), news of the show elicited as many blank stares as it did words of praise. So how did the wor... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared Who would have guessed that "Larry Boy Barese," one of the minor hoods on The Sopranos, would turn out to be a real-life hood? Actually, he turned out to be a little chickenshit who plotted with... Fork in the Road When the Doughnut Plant announced yesterday that it would open its Chelsea Hotel store on Valentine's Day, our thoughts turned to Kim Ima, who told us last September that she was hoping to open he... La Daily Musto Or at least semi-naked, as in the splashy hotel pool party that's just come back, according to this week's column. CLICK HERE for the link. Come on, this place is the best dive in town, ba dum p... Sound of the City Behold the power of the Internet: Starting now, the Strokes are allegedly offering "Under Cover of Darkness," the first single from their new album, Angles, as a free download on the band's offici... Corporate After more than a quarter-century in alternative media, Michael Cohen is leaving as publisher of the Village Voice. Taking Cohen's place as publisher will be longtime VVM colleague Josh Fromson, w... | | | | |
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