We obviously love gift guides and giveaways as much as the next blog, but we also try to be conscientiously good and helpful every once in awhile. That’s why we’ve teamed up with the Food Bank for NYC to launch the 12 Days of Giving, a series of “virtual food drives.” Thanks to the Food Bank’s wholesale purchasing power and distribution model, a gift made here doubles or even triples the amount of food your dollar could provide at the grocery store.
Here’s where you come in: To make it interesting, we decided to turn it into a friendly competition, to see which NYC media company could rally its readers, staff, and users to do the most good. Help us take down our friends from Thrillist, BlackBook, Curbed/Eater/Racked, The Observer, Nerve, The L Magazine, VYou, and Gotham Magazine, while feeding some of 1.3 million hungry here in New York City. Donate right herethrough December 24, and then give yourself a pat on the back and go back to enjoying top 10 lists.
The club might be closed, but you don’t want to go home. Yes, it’s time to grab a bite. To help steer you right, we present our very favorite late-night eats, culled from the hungry night owls of the extended Flavorpill family and divided up by city. We’re sure you have faves of your own too, so go ahead and share them in the comments. Or better yet: Armani Code Sport is running a Foursquare competition, where the person with the coolest late-night itinerary each day wins a free bottle of Code Sport — and a grand prize winner gets flown to NYC for a shopping spree at the Armani store. In the meantime, nosh on this and Dive into the Night.
“Over the line!” “Obviously you’re not a golfer.” “That rug really tied the room together.” “I am the walrus.” “Nobody fucks with the Jesus.” “Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.” Really, we could go on all day here. As card-carrying Little Lebowski Urban Achievers, we managed to get in to The Big Lebowski cast reunion and screening last night at Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom. Also present? Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, and the film’s music director, T Bone Burnett. The event was part of this year’s annual Lebowski Fest, as well as a celebration for the film’s brand-new Blu-Ray edition. For all you super-fans who didn’t have the chance to down some Caucasians with the Dude last night, here’s a video recap and some of our favorite moments.
Summer is in full swing, and it’s got us doing our best to spend as much time as we can outside and enjoy it while it lasts. To help you make the most of the season, we’ve teamed up with Victoria lager to present a Guide to Summer, a four-part series presenting some of the best outdoor spots, events, and ideas in the country. To kick things off, we look at the fine art of the barbecue. Cultural mavens that you are, we know you’ll want to present something a little more culturally pertinent than your average backyard BBQ to your guests. So, with that in mind, here are some awesome themed party ideas for your next cookout.
Pardon our puns, but we’ve named a winner from last week’s headline-rewriting contest over on Schmedlines. Below are some of our faves from the week and one super-duper final winner: Top schmeditor (who, we must admit, got extra points for a kick-ass user name) Punonymous!
The best thing about rags like the New York Post is, without a doubt, their headlines. The puns! The witticisms! The terrible, terrible jokes. New site Schmedlines capitalizes on this, challenging readers to come up with the best (/worst, most groan-tastic) headlines for real news stories, every day. You can become a top Schmeditor on the site by crafting winning schmedlines and in turn voting for others.
Since we’ve consistently found Flavorwire readers to be a particularly droll lot, we figured y’all were shoo-ins in this Schmedlines racket. That’s why, all this week, we’re running a little contest over there, to see what you guys can come up with in the way of rewriting cultural-news headlines. Every day, you’ll find one post with a Flavorwire flag. Share your comedic genius, and at the end of the week, we’ll post our favorites and declare a winner, who’ll receive a very special holiday treat from us. Get going, schwannabes. Those schmedlines won’t write themselves!
Better known for his comedic work directing Saturday Night Live, in 1979, director Gary Weis infiltrated two brutal young gangs in the Bronx to film 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s. This fall, the previously unavailable film is now out on DVD, in a package that also includes the 40-page Esquire article by Jon Savage that inspired it.
Originally shot to fill one of SNL’s weekly time slots on NBC, the documentary, which was ultimately deemed too controversial to air, examines street culture before hip-hop blossomed, at the fomentation of breakdancing and graffiti. Members of the Savage Nomads and the Savage Skulls give frank testament to the harsh reality of life in the South Bronx: their crimes, families, communities, and cops.
Four years after it was banned from US release for its explicit content, Destricted brings together creative — and graphic — musings on sex and porn by artists including Marilyn Minter, Matthew Barney, and Richard Prince.
Among the DVD’s eight film shorts are Barney’s “Hoist,” a decidedly erotic take on man vs. machine; Minter’s “Green Pink Caviar,” featuring a woman kissing, sucking, and licking in extreme close-up; Prince’s “House Call,” a revision of a voyeuristic 1970s porno; and Larry Clark’s “Impaled,” for which he interviewed Gen Y-ers on their experiences with porn, then presented the reality of their fantasies. Together, the films are sexy, disturbing, and beautiful, all at once.
We, along with about 250,000 like-minded folk, were in Washington DC on Saturday for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally To Restore Sanity and/or Fear. And while the special guests were incredible (OK, we could have done without Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock, but the Roots backing up the O’Jays and Cat freakin’ Stevens? Amazing.), what really made the event was, of course, the crowd — and its creative signage. Check out a gallery of our faves after the jump.
More than 1,000 bands are playing the CMJ Music Marathon this year in NYC, at hundreds of shows from October 19-23. We love the variety, but it can be more than a little overwhelming trying to suss the massive schedule and figure out which bands to catch, and when. That’s where we come in. From the many, we present the select few showcases and artists that we are super stoked for this year.
