| | | Zaire Paige Not Only Played a Movie Killer, He Became One in Real Life. BY ELIZABETH DWOSKIN, JASON PARHAM  The most compelling moment in Brooklyn's Finest takes place near the very end. Ethan Hawke, who plays a renegade NYPD cop and the 2009 film's central character, stands in a filthy drug den in a Brownsville housing project. Ransacking the apartment, he finds what he's looking for: wads of dollar bills inside a washing machine. As he rips into the stash, the sound of shots explode as Hawke's character is gunned down from behind. He breathes his last breath covered in cash and blood. The camera reveals Hawke's killer: "Man Man," the lookout in the local drug gang. It's Man Man's big moment in the film—and also for the actor who played him, a 21-year-old from Brownsville named Zaire Pai... more >>
| | | | | | The Sex Shop Near Where Bob Dylan Lived BY ROB TRUCKS  Sometimes it feels as if every word that could possibly be written on the subject of Bob Dylan has already been written. Ikea, for instance, does not make a bookcase large enough to hold every Dylan dissertation. There are guitar books, harmonica books, lyrics books. Books on Dylan and art, Dylan and film, Dylan and philosophy, Dylan and scripture. Books about single albums (Blonde on Blonde, Hig... more >> | | | | | | | | Cholulita Sells Smut Under the J Tracks BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  Many of our best Mexican restaurants morphed out of bodegas. There on the shelves sat ripe avocados, cactus paddles, deep-red chilies, sacks of masa, rubbery Oaxacan cheeses, fragrant papalo leaves, piles of pinto beans, and freshly made white-corn tortillas—why not turn them into a full-blown Mexican menu? And that's what the bodegas did, in locations as far-flung as Hell's Kitchen, Sunse... more >> | | | | | | | | Ambisexual Hotties Go Sky-High in Kaboom BY J. HOBERMAN  As spacey as its title suggests, Gregg Araki’s latest youth film is an occult mystery set in the ultimate SoCal college playpen. Kaboom is Scooby-Doo with sex, drugs, and tattooed hotties; following on the heels of Araki’s relatively commercial stoner farce Smiley Face (2007), the movie makes you wonder whether Mysterious Skin (2005), his surprisingly serious and emotionally subtle evoc... more >> | | | | | | | | Why the Mafia Still Matters BY TOM ROBBINS  On the same day that federal officials launched their mega-Mafia rollout last week, a handsome silver-haired businessman named Joseph Watts stood before a judge in Manhattan to plead guilty to his own mob crimes. Despite the "biggest-mob-case-ever" and "Mafia crippled" headlines, there were some not unreasonable gripes about the media carnival staged by Attorney General Eric Holder: Much of the ... more >> | | | | | | | | Yuichi Higashionna at Marianne Boesky Gallery; Autochromes by Stieglitz and Steichen at the Met BY R.C. BAKER  The Japanese multimedia artist Yuichi Higashionna has written that his work is influenced by fanshii culture, which he defines as "kitschy, girlish, and tacky." Although his DIY aesthetic can certainly be seen as tacky, don't expect a Takashi Murakami vibe of perverse cuteness here. Higashionna, born in Tokyo in 1951, creates sculptures from those round fluorescent rings familiar from many a Lowe... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared The Daily News says police are investigating a bizarre Harlem "fender-bender," in which the driver of a BMW slammed into the back of a cab this morning, jumped out of the car, and ran away. Cops ... Fork in the Road Get 'em hot off the presses (or the online retailer, as the case may be)--tickets are now available for Choice Eats, The Village Voice's supremely delicious tasting event being held on March 29 at... La Daily Musto The other day--about eight months after she came out as a lesbian--country singer Chely Wright took the time to chat with me about the repercussions as I danced a concerned two-step. CLICK HERE f... Sound of the City All this week we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's arrival in Manhattan; with Cafe Wha? and Jones Street behind us, day three of our video tour of Dylan's New York finds us headi... Corporate ? Jared Loughner isn't the only deranged criminal with a gun to go on a rampage in Tucson lately. Last October, a 34-year-old man named Joseph Molina was shot down by Tucson police after... | | | | |
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