| | | NYC's Ten Worst Tenants BY ELIZABETH DWOSKIN  We know the trouble and misery that landlords can cause New Yorkers. Just take a look at our franchise "10 Worst Landlords" lists (see part 1 and part 2), the latest of which we unveiled last year. But there are also plenty of bad tenants in New York City. We're not talking about frustrated people who cause trouble for bad landlords. Nor are we talking about especially obnoxious or run-of-the-mill slovenly renters who make their neighbors' lives seem like Hell. In the following list, we focus on tenants who have caused serious misery for other tenants or housemates or building supers or the landlords who aren't slumlords. These bad tenants have stolen peace and quiet, sanity, and money fr... more >>
| | | | | | | | Southern Soul Guide: Sweet Angel, Mel Waiters, and Luther Lackey BY CHUCK EDDY  A Memphis insurance agent and mother of two with a "sturdy build, big thighs, big hips," a feather boa, and minimal platinum-blonde hair was behind one of 2010's best singles, reminiscing about being 25 and having a crush on a big-time Southern Soul singer named Bobby Rush. For "A Girl Like Me," Sweet Angel borrows the incessant, repetitive, knee-deep funk vamp Rush once used on "Sue," a stutteri... more >> | | | | | | | | Heartbreak in the East Village Imports Some Alsation Gustation Elation BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  Once upon a time in the East Village, there was a restaurant called Roettele A.G. Located just off the southwest corner of Tompkins Square, the interior was cramped and labyrinthine, jam-packed with gilt cherubs, chandeliers, and dancing bears, the walls creepily painted in dark hues. Yet it opened up into a lovely backyard swagged with grape vines, which quickly became the haunt of literary type... more >> | | | | | | | | Finding (Fake?) Love in Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy BY J. HOBERMAN  Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy is exactly that: The Iranian modernist’s first feature to be shot in the West is a flawless riff on our indigenous art cinema. A romantic, sun-dappled Voyage to Italy with a Before Sunset structure and Marienbad backbeat, not to mention a suave acting exercise that would have been pure hell in the hands of David Mamet, Certified Copy is a rumination on ... more >> | | | | | | | | Alec Baldwin Isn't Scary Anymore! BY MICHAEL MUSTO  Success has a wonderful tendency to blur out any ill will. Remember when Alec Baldwin sold millions of tabloids with his fiery personal battles and other distasteful controversies that made him seem as hairy and scary as some of the thugs he plays? Then came a little something called 30 Rock, and all was forgiven and forgotten. We love you, Alec! But the reality is that success must have mellow... more >> | | | | | | | | Mark Flood, Judith Linhares, and Others Who Don't Need Your Darn Network BY MARTHA SCHWENDENER  A couple of years ago, art historian and critic David Joselit published an article on contemporary painting in the journal October. The article was sort of notable for a few reasons. One is that October, the formerly radical art journal whose founders now serve as overlords in Ivy League art-history departments, hasn't been a big supporter of painting. The essay also straddled the ... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared Ever helpful Marie Claire magazine just interviewed a bed bug expert, because, you know, it's just not good enough torturing you with advice about men and awful diets and how to do DIY dramatic e... Fork in the Road It's unfair to prematurely hate a place simply because of its name, so we hope that Angelo Sosa's Social Eatz will have far more to offer to the public than an annoying and completely unnecessary... La Daily Musto I hear Grammy winning Natalie Cole sang a duet with one of the Real Housewives for the cameras--and I don't think it's the same duet Natalie did with her father's beloved ghost. Anyway, producers... Sound of the City 2011 finally has its first legitimate chart superstar: Say hello to Adele, certain to engage in yet more anti-diva-like behavior now that her new record, 21, has been certified gold after just two... Corporate Every year it happens: Law enforcement officials, goaded by righteous advocacy groups, fan the flames of public panic by claiming that thousands of prostitutes will swarm into whichever city happ... | | | | |
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