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Deluxe Vinyl, Edible Goodies & Art
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OK, so maybe you're trying to downsize your life...or maybe not. We have a few ideas for what you need to have a little fun this time of year. Whatever you decide, it doesn't have to be all about buying and selling. Just remember to have fun! Check out Tony Ware's survey of the best new vinyl, deluxe sets and digital music. And then pick up some local grub-from kimchi to chocolate-for gifts. The best way to read our complete guide, with gifts organized by price, is to . Or Best OfferWhat's a piece of art really worth? A month-long holiday in Brazil; a year of therapy sessions; a personal wake up call every morning; maybe a kidney? It's time to find out. From Dec. 9 through 12, Art Barter, an "exchange between artist and the public," say its curators, is coming to New York-to NP Contemporary Art Center on Chrystie Street, to be exact. There are more than 30 artists contributing work for the New York version of the exhibition, which has previously taken place in London and Berlin. The artists include sculptors, photographers, painters and graphic artists whose work range in both style and price level. Read the story here. |
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This week is all about vision. Whether it's what New York looks like to an Ohioan, what words look like jumping off of skin or how we view Basquiat 22 years after his death, you'll need your eyes and wits about you to take this week in properly.
Nathan Harger
 Opens Dec. 9, Hasted Kraeutler, 537 W. 24th St. (betw. 10th & 11th Aves.), 212-627-0006; Free. Harger's super-high-contrast blackand-white photographs depict the glory of American engineering in a manner simultaneously eerie and cartoonish. This latest exhibition highlights power lines, cranes, factory apparatuses and other staples of industry in the outer boroughs, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Bottom Line: Leave it to a Cleveland "Untitled (Overpass)." native to see beauty in places like these. Now you can witness it too, minus the sketch factor of finding it on your own.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Opens Dec. 15, Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St. (betw. 6th Ave. & Varick St.), 212-727-8110; $12. Tamra Davis' 2010 film chronicling the career of Jean- Michel Basquiat re-opens Dec. 15. Over 20 years ago, Davis-a brilliant music-video director, host of an Internet cooking show and a friend of the artist-interviewed him on camera. That conversation forms the centerpiece of the film. Bottom Line: You can't get much cooler than being a brilliant artist who dated Madonna and was best buds with Andy Warhol, but you can live vicariously through this film.
Jawbreaker: The Musical
Dec. 12, Canal Room, 285 West Broadway (at Canal Street), 212-941-8100; 9, $20. Yep, this is really exactly what you think it is. It is really a musical based on the 1999 film starring Rose McGowan, in which the popular bitch pays dearly for sucking on something not found in the boys locker room. The nowdead bitch's clique Cinderella-fies the class nerd so she'll keep the whole thing a secret, and-for one night only- everyone sings and dances. Bottom Line: We're still waiting for musical remakes to stop being the latest "it" thing. Meanwhile, we'll be watching this to pass the time.
American Hardcore
D ec. 15, The Strand, 828 Broadway (at E. 12th St.), 212-473-1452; 7, Free. Punk rock chronicler Steven Blush, who founded Seconds magazine, speaks on a panel-with guests including Dag Nasty's Dave Smalley and Laura Albert of JT Leroy fame-about the past, future and current state of hardcore.
Bottom Line: Not only is Blush's book perhaps the best Christmas gift we could get, but this panel is a can't-miss collection of people we very much want to hear spouting off about floor punching and things of that ilk.
Franklin Park Reading Series
Dec. 13, Franklin Park, 618 St. John's Place (betw. Classon & Franklin Aves.) Brooklyn, 718-975-0196; 8, Free. The idea may have come to The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos From Bookworms Worldwide authors Justin Taylor and Eva Talmadge over a plate of cheap tacos, b ut the result has given voice to a movement. Discover the lofty tattoos of literary lovers over a plate of sausage bread at this month's installment of the Franklin Park Reading Series.
Bottom Line: Words on skin are infinitely sexier than words on paper. And these are words on skin on glossy, heavy stock.
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ARMOND WHITE REVIEWS
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Fighting for Class
David O. Russell surprises with a boxing movie that strips away nostalgia about the American Dream.
Read More Armond White Reviews here.
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Pining at Penn
Buffy Lexington says another "goodbye" at 33rd and 7th
Early Friday morning, as the cab inched down Fifth Avenue at the pace of a starry-eyed, pot-bellied tourist, I silently cursed the driver for taking that damned route. He should know better, I thought, and so should I. This is exactly what happened last time.
Last time. I almost laughed out loud. The real problem wasn't the cabbie, but the fact that I was doing this yet again. Dropping another man off at Penn Station, with 40 blocks and 10 minutes to go. This time, he was an actual out-of-towner, an unintentionally celibate friend who'd needed to be put out of his misery (via fornication, not homicide). But there was nothing foreign about this trip. Read More...
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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND
|  What to Watch this Weekend
In a Glass Cage, Night of the Creeps, Vampyr
The Company Men: "... sentimentalizes the Middle Class that politicians love to placate," writes Armond White about this drama about corporate execs that feel guilty for all the swindling they've done, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Affleck and Chris Cooper. Read more of White's review here.
The Fighter: "...a New England version of the downright low-life hillbillies in John Ford's still-neglected 1941 Tobacco Road," writes Armond White about David O. Russell's "based on a true story" of world champion boxer Micky Ward, starring Melissa Leo, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Marky Mark. Read more of White's review here.
Read about other films screening this weekend here.
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FOOD, THEATER, ART, MUSIC, BOOKS
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 Keep Calm and Carry OnBrenda Blethyn illuminates 'Haunted'Whenever Brenda Blethyn isn't on stage, Edna O'Brien's Haunted, part of the Brits Off Broadway Fest at 59E59 Theaters, is a wispy, hallucinatory bore, with distracting projections that quickly go from decorative to bizarre. But every time Blethyn marches into Simon Higlett's genteelly shabby living room set as the indomitable Mrs. Berry, all brash and brass, things take a comfortingly corporeal turn. Read More...December Speed ReadsThe month's literary landscape at a glanceReveling in 'Revelations' (and More)A look at Judith Jamison's last season leading Ailey The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater knows how to celebrate itself and its impressive history, and never misses an opportunity to create a sense of occasion. In 2008, the company's 50th anniversary was rightly the focus of many special events, and last year the company saluted the 20th anniversary of Judith Jamison as artistic director, which is winding down; Robert Battle, now artistic director designate, takes over from her next summer. Read More...
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