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Meet The Photographer Who Wants $3.6 Million From BuzzFeeᴅ But Who Won't Restore Your Faith In Humanity
Spoiler: he won't get it. (Maybe he'll get a little settlement?) Above: a screenshot of the post in which BuzzFeeᴅ included a ("a"!) copyrighted photograph. READ MORE
Ban Drake
"I had lunch the other day with someone I extremely look up to. Okay—I had lunch with Will Smith, and listening to him talk, it made me think I don’t know what love is." READ MORE
New York City Is Overwhelmed With Opportunities!
Neil Gaiman! Claire Messud! The Roots! Laurie Anderson! It's hectic up in this piece tonight! There's also an enormous lineup of super-short readings tonight at Kunsthalle Galapagos by a cavalcade of weirdos, including Lynne Tillman, Emily Gould, Christian Lorentzen and Gideon Lewis-Kraus.
The Dull Rich Death of American Cities
"Now comes plutocratisation: the middle classes and small companies are falling victim to class-cleansing. Global cities are becoming patrician ghettos. In 2009, says [Columbia University's Saskia] Sassen, the top 1 per cent of New York City’s earners got 44 per cent of the compensation paid to its workers. The 'super-prime housing market' keeps rising even when the national economy collapses. After Manhattan, New York’s upper-middle classes are being priced out of Brooklyn. Sassen diagnoses 'gradual destruction.' Global cities are turning into vast gated communities where the one per cent reproduces itself."—This is why I like my theory that "Game of Thrones" is actually set in the future and London and New York and Paris are all the gross slave cities.
A Calendar of Events With Which You Can Pretend You're Going Out Later But We Know You're Not
Cory Booker's PR campaign at the 92Y (barf), Mary Harron talks filmmaking, some animated movies to see, a "queer ladies" reading, and the Indigo Girls play in Central Park. All here and more. READ MORE
17 Things To Do This Weekend (Calexico! Solange!)
Hey, tomorrow it's going to actually be summer, instead of... whatever this is. Most important: Calexico is playing Saturday at the Prospect Park bandshell, and Solange is playing Sunday in McCarren Park. There, your weekend is perfection! READ MORE
Lunch with Julie Klausner, Late Night Jams with Macaulay Culkin
Julie Klausner and Marc Maron want to entertain you at your lunch break, at the Bryant Park Reading Room at 12:30 p.m. Then, later: well, Macaulay Culkin's not a fella but a dinosaur DJ, tonight at Le Poisson Rouge, with "Macaulay Culkin's iPod presents Hulk Hogan's Slutty New Year's Eve in June Dinosaur Prom Night." There are other things to do as well, not like you'd need them.
Gays Tear "Mad Men" Apart, Put It Back Together
Oh my God, these queens are absolutely crushing it on the matters of color palette ramifications in "Mad Men." This report will change your life in how you watch the show.
Which Kanye Interview Quote Is Going In Your Twitter Profile?
I went with "Respect my trendsetting" but I'm also considering "I believe luxury is to be able to go into a store and be able to afford something." Really you can't go wrong. #LAMPS
Do You Like Doing Things? I Actually Don't, But Here Are Some Things To Do
Today: Big Daddy Kane at the Highline Ballroom! And that highwire tightrope-walking French dude does a lunchtime chat at the Bryant Park Reading Room. Tig Notaro is on WNYC Soundcheck, Devendra Banhart is at Town Hall, J. Courtney Sullivan's book party is at Greenlight Books, and Future Bible Heroes plays the Chickfactor 21 party at The Bell House.
