| | | Kanye West Wins One For the Douchebags BY ZACH BARON  Yes, he sleeps on fur pillows, searches for marble conference tables on eBay, and has opinions about credenzas (whatever those are), but let no one say that in 2010, Kanye West's proletarian dreams weren't equally peculiar and rich. In a year of economic suffering and disastrous unemployment rates, West interrupted his own wealthy anomie to pen "All of the Lights," an incongruously star-stuffed s... more >> | | | | | | | | Lievito Does Frank Pizza BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  Lievito is an Italian restaurant. No, I mean a real Italian restaurant, as if it had been picked up by a spaceship in the mid-calf part of the boot and deposited right on Hudson Street, with no concessions to American sensibilities or tinkering with the menu to make it more Yankee. This attitude (or lack of one) begins with the décor: tables topped with very plain blond wood, dark-veneere... more >> | | | | | | | | The Way Back Is a Grueling Trip BY J. HOBERMAN  They call it “human interest.” There are few narratives more compelling than a survival story like Peter Weir’s adventure yarn The Way Back, unless it’s the cautionary tale of one who failed to make it, as with C. Scott Willis’s The Woodmans, named best documentary at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The protagonists of The Way Back, the veteran director’s fir... more >> | | | | | | | | NYPD Cops' Training Included an Anti-Muslim Horror Flick BY TOM ROBBINS  This month, when a group of New York City police officers showed up for their required counter-terrorism training, they got to watch a movie. And not just some diddly 20-minute educational film, either. It was a full-length color feature, with more explosions than a Transformers sequel and more blood-splattered victims than an HBO World War II series. The bad news was that it was a spectacularl... more >> | | | | | | | | | | Runnin' Scared ? Today marks the biggest mafia bust in New York history, according to the FBI, who have been conducting raids this morning to arrest more than 100 suspected mobsters on charges ranging from racke... Fork in the Road Wal-Mart is rolling out a five-year plan to make thousands of its packaged foods lower in sodium, fat, and sugar, and to slash prices on produce. [NY Times] Ever wonder how 89-year-old Betty Whi... La Daily Musto It's ONN (Onion News Network), a show on IFC which amusingly spoofs the excesses, biases, and crassness of certain cable news. Unlike Fox, it's supposed to be funny. At a panel discussion at th... Sound of the City Woof. Oh boy. Here we go. Welcome to American Idol's post-overhaul end-times. This is what happens when the only interesting people on America's highest-rated TV show decide that they've had eno... Corporate SF Weekly today settled the below-cost pricing lawsuit filed against it in 2004 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. The agreement, under which the parties have resolved and settled their differen... | | | | |
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