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Abba’s exuberant pop songs go head-to-head with the darker, old-rock influences of ‘Lou Reed’s Berlin’

Michael Ian Black reaches ubiquity with a book, TV show and more projects on the way

JOSH BERNSTEIN discovers there’s no better living—or dining—through chemistry


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JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON

JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON goes inside a communal Christian house in Bed-Stuy to find ‘Radical Living.’

JEN SWANSON

JEN SWANSON discovers that even relationships of ‘convenience’ can be a drain

DAVID SERCHUK

A random street encounter reminds DAVID SERCHUK that strangers are never quite who they seem

JOSHUA M. BERNSTEIN

JOSH BERNSTEIN discovers there’s no better living—or dining—through chemistry

RUSS SMITH

RUSS SMITH warns that a rejection of Obama at the polls this fall could bring lefty riots—or worse.

This Week: Someone in Washington Heights sets the record straight for all those white kids who don’t know their history; Armond White gets knocked for a supposedly obscure reference (and then praised); and a Flavor of the Week writer’s story hits the hard-to-get spot.

TONY MILLIONAIRE

TOM O'DONNELL

KAZ

CAERIEL

ARMOND WHITE

Christopher Nolan panders to hip, nihilistic tendencies, forgetting that superheroes are also meant to inspire hope

ARMOND WHITE

Jacques Nolot continues his cinematic search for sexual identity

ARMOND WHITE

Abba’s exuberant pop songs go head-to-head with the darker, old-rock influences of ‘Lou Reed’s Berlin’

MARK PEIKERT

Minnie Driver’s un-glam performance is reason enough to ‘Take’

SIMON ABRAMS

How Brad Anderson’s throwback to the 1960s just resurfaced

SIMON ABRAMS

Like the Romanian New Wave—minus the rebellion

SIMON ABRAMS

The key to understanding how Johnny To’s schizophrenic Sherlock cracks cases and minds

ERIC KOHN

An unremarkable movie, ‘Diminished Capacity’ gives us an unhappy metaphor

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DAVID BARDEEN

Sometimes ‘organic’ restaurants should be a little more refined

STAFF

David Chiu

Yaz, the ’80s electropop duo, ‘Reconnects’ after 25 years apart

Tony Ware

A Joe Strummer doc explains the many contradictions of the Clash man and myth

Greg Burgett

The Mae Shi is like Los Angeles: sprawling, vast, dynamic

Ben Lasman

San Fran’s Deerhoof discusses Stravinsky, its new record and the blogosphere’s campaign of misinformation

LEONARD JACOBS

A revival of Christopher Durang’s savage comedy, ‘The Marriage of Bette and Boo,’ still stings

NATE SLOAN

Michael Ian Black reaches ubiquity with a book, TV show and more projects on the way

SUSAN REITER

An audience favorite for decades, Pilobolus continues to develop challenging new choreography

DAVID LEVINSON WILK