| | | Portrait of an Immigrant Detainee as a Young Man BY CAMILLE DODERO  It is a rare individual who, upon being jailed for a 10-year-old indiscretion that he had already paid for, has friends help contribute to his legal fees by playfully stripping. Pablo Airaldi is that kind of person. So here we are on a mid-November Friday at the Production Lounge, a weirdly contrived Greenpoint venue chosen for its flexibility to host a community fundraiser on short notice rather than its spectacularly gaudy low-rent Planet Hollywood posture. Onstage, Babes on Bikes are disrobing coquettishly, one of five acts donating their talents for this $10-a-head event to benefit Pablo, who is indefinitely detained in New Jersey’s Hudson County jail. Earlier this evening, a jumb... more >>
| | | | | | | | It's the Real and the Rise of the Rap Nerd BY BEN WESTHOFF  Eric and Jeff Rosenthal, the comedy-rap duo known as It’s the Real, are huddled near a Canon XL2 camera in rap label E1 Music’s offices in the East Village, working on their latest video. Eric is the older brother with curly locks spilling onto his forehead; Jeff is the taller one in Reebok Pumps. Both, however, crane their necks upward to regard Houston rapper Slim Thug, who has gamely... more >> | | | | | | | | Lima Limon Brings a Citrusy Addition to Little Latin America BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  Fifteen years ago, Roosevelt Avenue—the border between Elmhurst and Jackson Heights from the BQE east to Junction Boulevard—was mainly Colombian. But as successive waves of Mexican and Ecuadorian immigrants arrived, the complexion of the street changed. Now, with the further appearance of Argentine, Uruguayan, and Venezuelan businesses along the commercial strip, the moniker "Little L... more >> | | | | | | | | Go Go Tales A Sweet Strip Tease BY J. HOBERMAN  As the man himself might say: Who da fuck is Abel Ferrara? The self-taught pioneer of post-porn punxploitation—The Driller Killer (1979), Ms. 45 (1981)—Ferrara positioned himself as a lumpen Scorsese with his Little Italy–set youth gang film China Girl (1987) and relatively big-budget adult gangster King of New York (1990). He came into his own in the mid-’90s with the astoni... more >> | | | | | | | | Octogenarian Showstopper Rules New York! BY MICHAEL MUSTO  With nightclubs at a sickening standstill and Broadway getting downright dangerous, the cabaret revival couldn't be better timed. I always resented the inherent complacence in planting your entitled ass down in a fancy boîte and letting someone else do all the entertaining, but the moment is right and there are really good people willing to do it. For example, I finally decided to check in... more >> | | | | | | | | Runnin' Scared Yeah, so, what did you do over your holiday break? If you're like us, you survived mainly on videos of kittens and antipathy. But if you're like 10-year-old Canadian Kathryn Aurora Gray, you bec... Fork in the Road Brooklyn has - and has always had - a treasure trove of undeniable culinary delights, ever since the first Canarsie Indian sat cracking oyster shells on the lip of Jamaica Bay. It's where Italian... La Daily Musto I was at the forefront of trumpeting Lisa Edelstein back when she was a club regular calling herself Lisa E, in the Palladium days of creative partying and persuasive posing. And now, years late... Sound of the City Well, this is kind of a bummer--Titus Andronicus founding member and bassist Ian Graetzer has played his last show with the band. In a typically effusive post on the New Jersey punk juggernaut's... 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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