Or Best Offer

These artists will trade their work for anything except money

What’s a piece of art really worth? A month-long holiday in Brazil; a year of therapy sessions; a personal wake up call every morning; maybe a kidney? It’s time to find out. From Dec. 9 through 12, Art Barter, an “exchange between artist and the public,” say its curators, is coming to New York—to NP Contemporary Art Center on Chrystie Street, to be exact.

El Haab's and the Haab-nots

Cheapo Mexican doesn’t get any better

El Haab, The Haab or simply Haab, Joaquin Velasquez’s new Mexican joint, opened with little fanfare in mid-August on a charmless Williamsburg street. This follows in the proud tradition of hardworking, low-key restaurants that have popped up on the strip of Grand Street between, say, Union and Graham avenues.

Bash Compactor: Bowery Bums

Hanging out at the Mister Lower East Side pageant

Dick Velour, in dark sunglasses and leopard print socks with white wingtips, pulled down his bright red g-string, stretched his ballsac out until it was unrecognizable, and proceeded to bounce his penis up and down on top of it furiously. “Have you ever seen a squirrel jumping on a trampoline?” he asked the audience.

Films Reviews

Fighting For Class

David O. Russell surprises with a boxing movie that strips away nostalgia about the American Dream

Americans used to seeing trickedup versions of themselves in the movies (or degraded-by-narcissism versions on reality TV) will be startled at the honesty of David O. Russell’s The Fighter. Even I was thrown by the vivacity in Russell’s semirealistic account of Dicky Eklund, the Boston Irish welterweight tagged “The Pride of Lowell, Massachusetts”; his younger sibling, the upcoming boxer Micky...

The Loneliest Time of the Year

Holiday blues have never been funnier than in ‘Lonesome Winter’

Joshua Conkel possesses one of the most deliciously off-kilter imaginations currently being put to use in New York. His MilkMilkLemonade (which New York Press named the Best Off-Off-Broadway show of 2009) was a refreshing rebuttal to the usual slew of sloppy gay plays. His Lonesome Winter, co-written with Megan Hill, proves that MilkMilkLemonade wasn’t a fluke.

Bash Compactor: God Save Her

At Queen Vic for Epiphany Get Paid's performance of Royal Bitch

Epiphany Get Paid is a piece of work. The breathtakingly gorgeous drag queen who arrived here from San Diego in 2004 and immediately began plying her shamelessly zany antics all over town. This is a chick with a brain and maybe a dick, too. But how is Epiphany getting paid and for what? I was curious enough to visit the opening night of Royal Bitch, her solo show at Queen Vic, a new faux dive bar on Second Avenue tha...

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Live Tonight & This Weekend: Julianna Barwick, Violens, Peaches Christ Superstar

Tonight, Julianna Barwick plays Zebulon, 258 Wythe Ave. (betw. 3rd St. & Metropolitan Ave.), Brooklyn, 718-218-6934; 8, Free. Read more

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Jens Lekman at Green Building on Union

Walking away from the Jens Lekman show last night, my girlfriend said to me, “Don’t be offended, but I kind of wanted to hug him.” How could I be offended? Jens Lekman is adorable, first of all, with just a bit of gray at his temples, looking chic in striped shirt, blazer and piece of jewelry he designed himself. He’s got a pleasingly long face, like how a movie star looks when you see them in person (and in fact Jens looks a bit like Paul Bettany’s cool younger brother).

Then there’s his voice. Airy but deep, stretching each word out into a velvet hammock that invites you to just lay down, just for a bit. It’s like Stephen Merritt without any distance or archness—just crushingly intimate sincerity. He closes his eyes just a bit when he sings, like he’s leaning in to kiss you. Read more

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Hydroponic Food

Tuesday marked the grand opening of Chef John Mooney’s new West Village restaurant Bell, Book and Candle. While we haven’t eaten there yet, their much talked about hydroponic, rooftop garden has us wondering how exactly chef Mooney plans on harvesting his crop in the dead of winter. Read more

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Want To Remind The TSA Of Your 4th Amendment Rights?

Tim Geoghegan and Matthew Ryan have designed a collection of ready-to-wear (both outer and under) that displays the 4th amendment while under the airport scanners reports AOL.

The line of clothing, called 4th Amendment Wear, has the privacy rights in the amendment printed in metallic ink, meaning it shows up under the full body scanners. Read more

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ON SCREEN

Defective Visual Flair: The Look and the Progression of Agusti Villaronga's Films

The most important thing to talk about when we talk about Agusti Villaronga's innovative visual flair is acknowledging his limitations as his shortcomings as a visual storyteller probably shed more light on his influences and style than any strict discussion of his strengths could. His camera, for instance, is characteristically immobile and hence deceptively crude. Villaronga often doesn't ask his cinematographers to attempt any camera movement more complex than a slow, deliberate tracking shot. Anything beyond that level of sophistication, like a tracking shot in Moon Child that bobs upwards on a crane to follow the characters as they enter a cottage, transitioning inexpertly from a low to mid-level shot, calls attention to his compositions' artifice in the worst way possible. Read more

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Music
Not So Idle Hands
By Chase Hoffberger
It's A Gass
By Sean Patrick Kelly
Flux With This
By Chris O'Connell
Hot Grit
By Jon Reiss
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Gut Instinct: A Chili in the Air
By Joshua M. Bernstein
Gut Instinct: No Holds Zabar's
By Joshua M. Bernstein
The Bed Bug Breakfast Club
By Danielle Gelfand
Gut instinct: So Long, Ruby's
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