| | | Jazz Consumer Guide: Low-End Theories BY TOM HULL  Pick Hits Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra Ashcan Rantings | Clean Feed Like Mingus, Lane plays a mean bass, composes pieces that encapsulate the entire jazz tradition and then some, and runs a band that sounds even bigger than it is. His new group dispenses with guitar to deploy seven horns, doubling up on trumpet and trombone for cozy warmth as well as freewheeling action. Yet below all t... more >> | | | | | | | | Polonica Fights Winter, Polish-Style BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  At 19, Bay Ridge's Polonica is no spring chicken, even among long-running Polish restaurants. In fact, in restaurant years, it's sliding into a comfortable middle age. But in a cuisine rarely celebrated for its range or poignancy, Polonica stands out. The place is beyond cozy, with seven tables, a buff-and-green color scheme, and a noise level that permits quiet conversation. Glass tops on the ta... more >> | | | | | | | | Year in Film BY J. HOBERMAN  And the winner of the 11th annual Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll is . . . The Ghost Writer, Black Swan, Greenberg, Bluebeard, Mother, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Enter the Void. Just kidding. There’s only one movie of the moment: The Social Network. Listed on 52 of 85 ballots cast (the largest percentage of any poll-topping movie since Todd Haynes’s Far From Heaven won in 2002),... more >> | | | | | | | | Central Labor Council's Jack Ahern, A Supposed Reformer, Lives Large BY TOM ROBBINS  On St. Patrick's Day this year, the leader of the city's one-million-plus unionized workers rolled up to the pre-march events in a stretch limo. This caused more than a few heads to turn. Although he has kept a low profile, Jack Ahern has been president of the New York City Central Labor Council since January 2009. This makes him the public face of America's largest local labor federation, the s... more >> | | | | | | | | 'Day Job' at the Drawing Center; Steve DiBenedetto's 'Who Wants to Know?' at David Nolan BY ROBERT SHUSTER  The hoary advice handed to first-time novelists—"Write about what you know"—may not have an equivalent in the visual arts, but the ever-inventive Drawing Center makes a pretty good case for the daily grind as inspiration's primary source. For this engaging, refreshingly candid exhibit, curator Nina Katchadourian asked members of the museum's Viewing Program, a registry of un... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared 39-year-old John Martinez, the accused "ice pick bandit" who was picked up in New Jersey after allegedly cornering and robbing at least six women in elevators in the Bronx's Co-op City and Manha... Fork in the Road It's been a busy year in home improvements for Westville East, which sparked a bit of a neighborhood kerfuffle earlier this year with its application for a sidewalk café. The Avenue A rest... La Daily Musto Leonardo DiCaprio will kiss Social Network hottie Armie Hammer in Clint Eastwood's upcoming film about FBI bulldog J. Edgar Hoover. But he won't don drag in the role! ... Sound of the City Any last-minute digital-music shoppers out there are hereby advised that there's a new six-song Vampire Weekend EP up on iTunes today, mostly reprising their own work but including the whimsicall... Corporate Seattle native and University of Washington grad Mike Seely has been named editor-in-chief of VVM's Seattle Weekly. A veteran of the VVM organization, Seely started as a staff writer at the Riv... | | | | |
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