- 11/22/10 /
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Vulture Launches its Obsessive Guide to All Things Kanye
In this week's 'New York,' we go big on Kanye West's new album.
In The Magazine
- 9/20/10 /
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What Got Cut From Catfish
Plenty of footage ended up on the cutting-room floor.
- 9/17/10 /
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The Social Network Asks, ‘What Does It Mean to Be an Asshole?’
"Fundamentally, you could tell the same story about the invention of a really good toaster."
- 9/17/10 /
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Nussbaum on Boardwalk Empire
"Still, if 'Boardwalk' doesn’t have original ideas about the men who kill for money ... that’s very easy to ignore when you’re dizzy with the fun of it all."
- 9/17/10 /
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How Vince Neil Becomes Vince Neil
"When I'm not onstage, I'm usually just in shorts, and I like to hang out at the pool and do normal stuff."
- 9/7/10 /
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Edelstein: Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Still Here No Hoax
"To dismiss Phoenix's latest role because it’s not 'real' is to miss out on the charge of watching an actor play footsy with his own, barely corralled dementia."
- 8/13/10 /
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Edelstein on Eat Pray Love: A ‘Golden Turd’
In Monday's issue, David Edelstein reviews the "golden turd" that is Julia Roberts's 'Eat Pray Love.'
- 8/12/10 /
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Anderson on Franzen’s Freedom: ‘A Work of Total Genius’
"A reminder ... of why everyone got so excited about Franzen in the first place."
- 8/3/10 /
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Edelstein on Scott Pilgrim: ‘Blows [Its] Wad Too Early’
"Cera is a superhero for an indecisive generation, which might work if the disjunction were played for satire."
- 7/26/10 /
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Why the Hollywood Stock Exchange Failed
In this week's magazine, Mark Harris explains why Hollywood's fear of transparency led them to oppose the futures market that would've let you bet on box-office results:
- 7/23/10 /
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Edelstein on Salt: ‘A Senseless Blast’
"What 'Salt' lacks in coherence it makes up in centrifugal force."
- 7/12/10 /
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Edelstein on Inception: ‘Clunky and Confusing on Four Separate Levels of Reality’
"The tone is so solemn I felt out of line even cracking a smile."
- 6/24/10 /
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How Your Songs of the Summer Get Made
Wondering who to credit or blame for jams like "Tik Tok," "California Gurls," and "Your Love Is My Drug"?
- 6/23/10 /
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Davidson on MoMA and P.S. 1’s Deliberately Flimsy Pole Dance
"Maybe this is flimsiness’s moment."
- 6/22/10 /
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Helen Mirren Bares Most in New York
"It's amazing how quickly you get into dildos everywhere and pink-feather handcuffs."
- 6/7/10 /
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Bret Easton Ellis Looks Back, and Other Culture Highlights From This Week’s New York
Brett Easton Ellis, Alan Ball, Audrey Hepburn, and more.
- 5/25/10 /
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Why We’ll Miss Law & Order
In this week's magazine, Emily Nussbaum remembers 'Law & Order,' recently canned by NBC after 456 episodes.
- 5/25/10 /
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Edelstein on Sex and the City 2: An ‘Epic Eyesore’
"It begins with the nightmarish manic gaiety of 'Mamma Mia!,' with strenuous lockjawed smiles that make you think you’re watching stroke victims."
- 5/17/10 /
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When Betty White Met Tracy Morgan: Behind-the-Scenes Video From New York’s Cover Shoot
See the pair kiss and cuddle as Tracy doffs his shirt and Betty cops a feel.
- 5/3/10 /
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Edelstein on Iron Man 2: ‘A Stylized, Screwball Comedy’
And more from the magazine's critics.
- 4/26/10 /
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OK Go Spoil Next Video, Explain Their Business Model
In this week's issue of 'New York,' Chris Willman chats with a newly label-less OK Go.
- 4/26/10 /
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Nussbaum on Glee’s Kurt, Edelstein on Please Give, and Anderson on Anne Carson’s Box Book
"There's something at once original and old-fashioned about 'Glee''s evocation of doomed drag-queen longing in a young boy's body."
- 4/9/10 /
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Nussbaum: David Simon As Irascible As Ever
Just because critics are throwing out words like "humor" and "uplifting" doesn't mean the 'Treme' creator's lost his edge.
- 4/2/10 /
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Saltz and Zacharek See Red
"It encourages you to respect the sight of an artist, even a 'windbag-y' one, pushing himself to psychic, creative limits to invent something new."
- 4/2/10 /
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Edelstein on Clash of the Titans, Gondry’s New Doc
"A good case study for what’s wrong with the Hollywood blockbuster mentality."