| | | Women's Funding Network Sex Trafficking Study Is Junk Science BY NICK PINTO  ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING CRAIGSLIST told Congress on September 15 that the ubiquitous Web classifieds site was closing its adult section. Under intense scrutiny from the government and crusading advocacy groups, as well as state attorneys general, owner Craig Newmark memorably applied the label "Censored" in his classifieds where adult advertising once appeared. During the same September hearing of a subcommittee of the House Judiciary, members of Congress listened to vivid and chilling accounts regarding underage prostitution. The congressmen heard testimony from half a dozen nonprofit executives and law enforcement officials. But the most alarming words of the day came from Deborah Richa... more >>
| | | | | | | | LCD Soundsystem, Remembered BY ADRIENNE DAY  In 2003, during the salad days of New York City's electro-infused post-punk revival, I interviewed LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy. His DFA record label was gearing up for their biggest release to date: the Rapture's Echoes, produced by Murphy and then-label partner Tim Goldsworthy. The NYC band had gotten a massive profile goose from the success of their hit single "House of Jealous Lovers... more >> | | | | | | | | Goat Town Frenches Us in the East Village BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  Hopelessly unhip since the late ’80s, the battle-scarred French bistro seems to be making a comeback. Returning to Gotham in triumph are such Gallic commonplaces as steak frites, moules frites, frisée salad, pork rillettes, steak tartare, and—of course—French onion soup swimming in gobs of gooey Gruyère. The bistro moderne makes us remember why New Yorkers loved these... more >> | | | | | | | | Athina Rachel Tsangari Studies the Species in Attenberg BY ANTHONY KAUFMAN  Athina Rachel Tsangari approaches dramatic filmmaking like an anthropologist: “I don’t use psychology,” she says. “I prefer biology or zoology. These are my tools.” The Greek-born filmmaker—whose superbly calibrated second film, Attenberg, focuses on a newly sexual young woman and her dying father—left her native country in the early 1990s to study performance a... more >> | | | | | | | | Hot Sex at the Black Party: I Was Appalled For Eight Hours BY MICHAEL MUSTO  "I missed out on all the really fun Black Parties," a thirtyish clubbie recently lamented to me about the annual gay debauch at Roseland. "In the good old days, you used to see live castrations, nipple torture, and a guy who put a live snake up his ass!" I almost squeezed out a tear as I realized that those specialty acts are clearly as gone from the culture as roadside diners with homemade appl... more >> | | | | | | | | Best in Show: Berlinde De Bruyckere at Hauser & Wirth BY ROBERT SHUSTER  Mutilated bodies sensuously posed inside antique glass cabinets might bring to mind any number of horror flicks, but these victims of horrible acts—all molded in red-streaked wax—are part of Berlinde De Bruyckere’s unsettling homage to the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini. The lifesize figures, each suggesting a sexual position, appear to have been attacked by a meat cleaver in... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared This should come as a surprise to no one, because this is exactly what Westboro Church does, and then we all get angry, and then they laugh, maniacally, from somewhere inside their alien life form... Fork in the Road You've gotta pity the gin maker in Scotland. That's kind of like being the person selling sugar-free sweets in Candyland. But Caorunn, a new small-batch gin, hails proudly from the land of Fair ... La Daily Musto I know there'll be cries of "But what about...?" Fine. Chime in with your own two cents. But first, here are mine, culled from a glorious career. (6) Cleopatra. 1963. The laborious yet somehow d... Sound of the City If you had asked us after 2007's For Emma, Forever Ago, or even after 2009's auto-tune adorned EP, Blood Bank, we probably would have told you Bon Iver would be crazy to put out an album during th... Corporate The hype about "sex trafficking" has been unavoidable in recent years. A strange alliance of law enforcement agencies and advocacy groups has formed to propogate a troubling notion: That, enabled... | | | | |
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