| | | Donald Glover Is More Talented Than You BY BILL JENSEN  Red sweatshirt hood pulled tightly over his head, brown leather jacket wrapped tightly around his torso, fresh whiskey sour sweating in his hand, Donald Glover peels his way through the packed crowd in the upstairs lounge at the Lower East Side bar Pianos to the area where a lifesize panda, peering from behind a giraffe, pig, and monkey in a display window above the stairs, is staring at him. The previous night, the 27-year-old recorded his first hour-long comedy special, Weirdo, at two sold-out shows at the 500-capacity Union Square Theatre. He flew his family in to watch. His younger brother, Stephen, Tweeted after the performance from the bar: "Watching two women fight over my brother, ... more >>
| | | | | | Prodigy Speaks Freely BY LAURA CHECKOWAY  March 1, 2011. A year has passed since Prodigy of the Queens rap duo Mobb Deep and I delivered the first draft of his autobiography, My Infamous Life, to Simon & Schuster. The hip-hop blogosphere has been buzzing since the cover hit the Web in January. Comments range from praise (Rod: "no doubt about it, P is one of the greatest to ever bless the mic. i can't wait to read his autobio. free P!!!")... more >> | | | | | | | | Mable's Smokehouse—We Meat Again BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  If someone had told me five years ago that Williamsburg would become the city's foremost barbecue destination, I would have guffawed. After all, most of the BBQ joints in town then—which numbered about a dozen—were located in Manhattan, whining that they couldn't do the job properly because of city regulations against airborne emissions. The "smoke scrubbers" required to meet environm... more >> | | | | | | | | Saluting the Supreme Soviet Filmmaker, Dziga Vertov BY J. HOBERMAN  The greatest red documentary filmmaker of the 1920s, the greatest documentary filmmaker of the ’20s, the greatest filmmaker . . . ever? In the alternate universe where vision trumps commerce and formal innovation displaces narrative, Dziga Vertov (1896–1954) rivals Stan Brakhage and Oscar Micheaux as supreme inventor of motion-picture form. Vertov—bellicose bard of revolutionary eu... more >> | | | | | | | | A Broadway Leading Lady With Real Balls BY MICHAEL MUSTO  The best female performance on Broadway this year is being given by Brian Bedford—yes, Brian Bedford—in the charming revival of Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest. As the imperious and wacky Lady Bracknell—who spouts more aphoristic advice than an old lady's pillow selection—Bedford is wondrously witty without ever pandering, mugging, or nudg... more >> | | | | | | | | Long May You Shoot--'After the Gold Rush' at the Met BY CHRISTIAN VIVEROS-FAUNé  Private vice, public benefit. That's been the motto of privileged misanthropes for centuries—from Bernard Mandeville, the 17th-century coiner of the "invisible hand" of the market, to our own Medicare-slasher John Boehner. While the powerful have long argued for self-interest as a social good, the less strong have regularly suffered the effects of that maxim—with art often rendering m... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared Hey American, did you do the assigned homework for today? You were supposed to watch Obama's big debt-reduction speech! People are going to try to talk to you about it, what are you going to say? ... Fork in the Road Back in February, Fany Gerson told us that she was thinking of partnering with Rockaway Taco to open a La Newyorkina concession stand on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk. It her plans materialize, it... La Daily Musto Paper magazine astutely noticed me and Murray Hill in a video for the Brooklyn band TV On The Radio (one in a cycle of 10 videos they've put together all at once) and promptly did an in-depth inte... Sound of the City The 1997 murder of Christopher Wallace, b/k/a/ the rapper The Notorious B.I.G., remains unsolved. Last week, the case became both more transparent and more suspicious as the FBI opened up its file... Corporate Stories about con men, crooked cops, government spies and corrupt political appointees won VVM writers finalist nods in this year's Investigative Reporters and Editors contest. The IREs are consi... | | | | |
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