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It's A Conspiracy

LAWRENCE BALTER, LINNEA COVINGTON, NEIL JAMES, BEN LASMAN, SAM ROUDMAN, CATE SMITHSON

Say what you will, but something is going on: strange smells, massive databases of personal info, ubiquitous tracking devices, clandestine housing. Living in a city with so many secrets, we all search for answers. And some of them may just be closer to the truth than you might want to believe.

Murphy's Flaw

ARMOND WHITE

To Armond White, it's his skin color—not his movies—that makes the media hate Eddie Murphy

David Carr: From Crackhead to Potato Head

DAVID BLUM

DAVID BLUM investigates the New York Times reporter’s odd, ongoing obsession with the spud

Flavor Of The Week: The Penis Show

TRISH BENTLEY

She just wanted a date with drinks, but TRISH BENTLEY got a lot more up close and personal than she’d planned.

Gut Instinct: Driven to Drink

JOSHUA M. BERNSTEIN

After a taxicab confession, JOSH BERNSTEIN realizes a cold beer can’t solve every problem

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This Week: A Catholic reminds us that Protestants didn’t get to the radical Christian living thing first; after Armond White’s review of The Dark Knight, we received a slew of mail. Here’s a few of the negative (and positive) reactions by Batman’s biggest defenders.
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ARMOND WHITE

Peering into high schoolers’ lives, Nanette Burstein pretends to document our country’s soul

Youthful Indiscretions

ARMOND WHITE

A study in quirky adolescent alienation leaves a lot out of life’s complexity

Dizzying Heights

SIMON ABRAMS

Standing beside Philippe Petit atop the world in ‘Man on Wire’

Settling Scores

SIMON ABRAMS

The hidden revenge fantasies of the socially condemned in two recent films from Japan

DVD: Satantango

ARMOND WHITE

At last, the epic art film can be easily seen, literally handled in this three-disc version

The Williamsburg Witch Project

MARK PEIKERT

The Duplass Brothers give horror films a hipster twist

Little Known Wonders

SIMON ABRAMS

Mexican Filmmakers meet New York audiences at the first Hola Mexico Film Festival
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No Shots—Just Wine

DAVID BARDEEN

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Slavs of New York

Linnea Covington

Gypsies, tramps and reeds take the stage as Balkan bands blow up

Making the Sand

Hamilton Nolan

Queens-born rapper Homeboy Sandman is headed for the big time with his new album

Someone's Listening In: Sit and Spinto

Greg Burgett

A Brooklyn residency makes NY well aware of a Delaware six piece

Band Together

Amre Klimchak

Bowerbirds and Bon Iver have plenty in common, but what makes these tour mates different?
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Theater: What the Hay?

LEONARD JACOBS

Sam Shepard’s ‘Kicking a Dead Horse’ leaves playgoers unstable

Theater: Not Even White-Out Will Help

MARK PEIKERT

Stain’s family dysfunction is dirty but tired

Paris is Burning

LINNEA COVINGTON

'Expatriate,' is a sexy, music-filled trip through two women's lives

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LINNEA COVINGTON

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MAKING THE SAND

Queens-born rapper Homeboy Sandman is headed for the big time with his new album

MURPHY'S FLAW

To Armond White, it's his skin color—not his movies—that makes the media hate Eddie Murphy
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DAVID CARR: FROM CRACKHEAD TO POTATO HEAD

DAVID BLUM investigates the New York Times reporter’s odd, ongoing obsession with the spud

LITTLE KNOWN WONDERS

Mexican Filmmakers meet New York audiences at the first Hola Mexico Film Festival
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