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The many sons of 'Mad Men'

By Starlee Kine

This was Williamsburg

By Tom McGeveran

Politics by other means with Anthony Bourdain

By Josh Benson

music

Original 'riot grrrl' Kathleen Hanna meets the press, and this time it's happy

By Joe Pompeo

Richard Hell, and an old girlfriend bearing photos, at Bookmarc

By Jesse Sposato

An oral history of Zebulon, the music club that stepped 'over the doo-doo of hipster Williamsburg'

By Jesse Sposato

'For the Records': Capital presents a documentary about the final days of Bleecker Bob's

By Hazel Sheffield and Emily Judem

Don't let the green grass fool you: The Roots are one of the most respected hip-hop acts in the world; why can't they leave the sad stuff alone?

By Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

Brooklyn label Norton Records, back from the brink after Sandy

By David Meir Grossman

Widowspeak's Molly Hamilton discusses how a Brooklyn band goes country

By Tobias Carroll

Morrissey signals to fans his autobiography is coming, but who's publishing it?

By Joe Pompeo

art & design

At the New Museum, a time capsule from the garbagey, abstract, political New York art scene of 1993

By Whitney Kimball

For Charles Clough, a solo show that raises the question: What was the 'Pictures Generation' really?

By Melissa Smith

Victorian time travelers McDermott & McGough fast-forward to 1967 in new exhibition

By Yevgeniya Traps

Chelsea galleries emerge from Sandy devastation

By Whitney Kimball

White Columns mounts its annual survey of the year in art, and curator Richard Birkett explains

By Whitney Kimball

Ann Hamilton's Armory show takes flight on swings

By Melissa Smith

'An experimental moment': performance as music, film, poetry, and pickle-lighting at the Whitney

By Melissa Smith

Martha Rosler and others on women, household labor, and their giant MoMA garage sale

By Whitney Kimball

Conspicuous consumption: Rob Walker takes his consumer critique into the art gallery

By Yevgeniya Traps

food

Lost Foods of New York City: Vichyssoise

By Leah Koenig

After the harvest: on a stretch of Route 22, farmers find ways to adapt to a post-dairy economy

By Joel Lobenthal

Ups and downs of the Great New York City Chicken Frenzy

By Jed Lipinski

'Exceptional apple cake' and other ingredients of a non-redundant food-blogger cookbook

By Sarah Laskow

Brooklyn restaurateurs swap epic food-failure tales for Red Hook small-business relief

By Jed Lipinski

film & tv

'Mad Men,' in a dark wood

By Starlee Kine

The attrition warfare of 'Mad Men'

By Starlee Kine

Donald Draper might just be the devil

By Starlee Kine

Lena Dunham quietly shakes up the writing operation on 'Girls'

By Joe Pompeo

For film and television writers, an awards show awash in liquor, raunch and self-loathing brilliance

By Miranda Popkey

Politics by other means with Anthony Bourdain

By Josh Benson

Lena Dunham quietly shakes up the writing operation on 'Girls'

By Joe Pompeo

Ben Stiller, Jonathan Demme, Soledad O'Brien, and more gather to honor a Haitian film school

By Melissa Smith

For J. Hoberman, the cinema is dead - but its afterlife is fascinating

By Whitney Kimball

books & ideas

Sam Tanenhaus to leave 'New York Times' Book Review, become 'writer at large' for the paper

By Tom McGeveran

The youthful fantasy worlds of writer Karen Russell are growing up

By Miranda Popkey

The voices of NPR’s 'Planet Money' wonder if we’re all doomed, financially speaking

By Lauren Kirchner

New York novelists on the dirtiest word in contemporary fiction: experimental

By Molly Fischer

An evening of Betsey Johnson doing what Betsey Johnson does, and who's to complain?

By Jesse Sposato

John Holmstrom talks about founding and editing 'Punk,' the chronicle of late-'70s New York

By Jed Lipinski

'Mrs. Shandy': The life and opinions of Julie Klausner, comedian

By Molly Fischer

theater

Nathan Lane runs away with 'The Nance'

By Mark Sullivan

Tabloid vets to 'Lucky Guy' Tom Hanks: 'Thanks for letting me see all my friends again'

By Joe Pompeo

Vincent D'Onofrio and Ethan Hawke star in a mostly gassy Brechtian exercise

By Mark Sullivan

The Brooklyn roller-derby craze of the '50s gets a send-up in 'Jammer'

By Wayne Hoffman

Holmes holds her own, but Butz does the heavy lifting in sometimes funny, sometimes leaden 'Dead Accounts'

By Mark Sullivan

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