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Event BIOSHOCK FANS UNITE ON DECEMBER 5: PIER 54, NYC

December 1, 2009 - 1:06 pm

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BioShock-aholics will converge on Pier 54 in New York City at 12:00 noon on December 5th. Join fellow Splicers at this 2K-hosted event–a nice little morsel of goodness to tide you over until the worldwide release of Bioshock 2. JOIN THE RAPTURE FAMILY!

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Fashion A-Morir

October 21, 2009 - 9:51 am

Amorir Again

I discovered A-Morir at the beginning of the year. The Patricia Field Boutique in NYC is a veritable treasure trove of all things colorful, shiny & over-the-top, but even among their choicest pieces, something stood out: a pair of Swarovski crystal-encrusted glasses. The frames were square & oversized, & the crystals were gleaming gunmetal. They made me think of what the World Spelling Bee champion would wear if they’d had a huge (albeit underaged) win in Las Vegas.

You’ve seen A-Morir too– you just don’t know it yet. A-Morir is an accessory line, but customized eyewear is what they’re known for. A-Morir glasses have been donned on The Hills, the red carpet & in a variety of music videos. They’ve adorned the faces of a slew of true modern icons like Cassie, Katy Perry, Mariah Carey & Jazmine Sullivan. A-Morir also counts Rihanna as one of its most enthusiastic supporters, meaning it’s really only a matter of time until this one-girl operation is no longer a top-end secret.

Kerin Rose

I got cozy with Kerin Rose, the flame-haired vixen at the helm of the bedazzling, to get a view of the girl behind the glasses.

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Music The Darlings

August 31, 2009 - 12:48 pm

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It’s rare that a band manages to masterfully merge the catchy hooks of yore with that je ne se qua indie sensibility and a bit of proto-punk abrasiveness (remember The MC5?)– but it proves to be a conglomeration of endearing traits which have already helped NYC’s own Darlings garner notoriety outside the city that never sleeps. Peter Rynsky ensures rapt attention with both the right mix of angst and anger, stream-of-consciousness prose, and sporadic screams, all without sounding sappy or trite. Their new record, If This is Love, is out in stores now. You should get it.

Words by Jeff Nau

The Darlings – Teenage Girl

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Fashion Sex And The City 2: Open Call

August 11, 2009 - 9:53 am

SATC2 Casting Call Line

Yesterday’s open casting call for Sex & The City 2 was an incredible sight.  Despite the sweltering heat & lack of shade, thousands of well-garbed budding thespians thronged to the Metropolitan Pavilion for their chance to be immortalized on the silver screen, alongside the likes of Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte York, Miranda Hobbs & Samantha Jones.

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Art/Design Daze & Crash – Graffiti Gatekeepers

June 10, 2009 - 8:05 am

Brooklyn's Ad Hoc Gallery

Alison Buxton, the co-owner of Brooklyn’s Ad Hoc gallery is perhaps the nicest, most open-minded, welcoming person you’ll ever meet. Her gallery business card lists her as “Co-founder, Cat Wrangler and Problem Solver,” and one can only imagine her handling these duties with love and the utmost of human respect. In that light, there couldn’t have been a better venue than her avant-garde gallery for two great heroes of Graffiti culture, Daze & Crash, to show their latest collaborative retrospective.

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Bars/Clubs Botanica Bar – A Dive for Wandering Souls

June 4, 2009 - 10:11 am

Botanica Bar New York

Nestled in a non-descript location in downtown Manhattan’s kitschy Nolita area, on the cusp of the overpriced SoHo area is a bar called Botanica – a dive bar that gives all dives a good name. After walking through Nolita’s narrow (and expensive) side streets and coming across charmeuse blouses and wine lists that cost more than most outpatient surgical procedures, it feels great to enter a dimly-lit, affordable,  no-frills spot that takes things back to the true basics.

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Music Chin-Check: Get to Know Brooklyn’s Fantastic Chin Chin

May 18, 2009 - 4:23 pm

Chin Chin Interview

“Our CDs definitely pack a lot of energy,” Wilder Zoby, the keyboardist for the organic jazz/funk/disco ensemble Chin Chin interjects. “But our live shows are absolutely wild – we like to involve everyone, and basically bug the fuck out!”

Chin Chin’s reputation is growing faster than a Mojave Desert cyclone, and new listeners can’t help but get totally sucked in. The band’s nucleus has three members: biological brothers Wilder and drummer/vocalist Torbitt with the third musketeer being bassist, Jeremy Wilms. However, for their widely-revered NYC shows, the band’s number can swell to upwards of ten players. The end result is an lush wall of sound made up of thick slabs of gooey Parliament-style funkiness, irresistible disco riffs and the jazziest chords this side of BirdLand. “We’ll play for as long as they give us,” Wilder says about their notorious performances. “But given the right circumstances, we could go on for about seven hours,” he adds half-joking. Chin Chin is also known for its thunderous, Mardi Gras-evoking horn arrangements, a feat they attain by incorporating trombone and trumpet players from another exceptional live band you might have heard of, Antibalas.

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Music Everything Good: Butterface

May 14, 2009 - 7:44 am

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New York City’s DJ BUTTERFACE (aka Michael Bazini) got his start in 1994 with his “fundustrial” band Dystopia One. They released three full-length albums between None Of The Above Records and Rawkus Entertainment, and performed aggressively throughout the 90’s.

Butterpickle featuring Prez Ike Traylor Mix

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By 2000, he reintroduced himself as DJ Butterface, working as an electronic composer and producer. His music can be heard in video games (Extreme G3, Acclaim Entertainment), local independent films and television shows (CBS NFL / Basketball, MTV Cribs, Room Raiders), and his original compositions have been used for several New York City theatre productions.

DJ Butterface worked extensively with NYC DJ collective/label Vinylholic, and was a resident DJ at B3, their flagship club in the East Village. His current performances include events throughout the New York City area, and regular bookings nationwide in Tucson, AZ; Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; Miami, FL, and Boston, MA.

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DJ Butterface’s latest releases include remixes for Paranoid Social Club’s Two Girls (Vinylholic), and Nadir’s Slave (Bikiniwax). He appears on Martin Bisi’s (Sonic Youth, Helmet, Foetus) new solo album Sirens of the Apocalypse (Black Freighter) and performs backing vocals and keyboards on Bisi’s current tour.

Punks of Funk – Butterface vs Orion Mix

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Music N.A.S.A blasts off in NYC

April 3, 2009 - 10:21 am

If North America South America’s (N.A.S.A.) music were a type of food, it would be Gumbo or Paella (not a stew because stew aint cool), mixing disparate flavors of different nations into a delicacy worth devouring en masse. N.A.S.A. is a musical duo of DJs Squeak E Clean and Ze Gonzalez (Zegon) and about FORTY other collaborators from nearly every corner of music. More a traveling musical circus than simply an “act” N.A.S.A., brings the brash and bizarre influences of Brazilian Baile Funk to life with a North American thump – a serious sensory overload; a spiced mélange of all musical flavors.

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Contributors Little Red Ridinghood Didn’t Stand a Chance

March 20, 2009 - 12:43 pm

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Jamie Newman is a native to Manhattan Island. Photography was the first media to ignite his passion and intrigue in documenting the innermost workings of the city in which he lives, and the inhabitants who call it home. Jamie has been involved in media related ventures (professional and otherwise) since the age of 18  – honing his own biting brand of (backhanded) snark while serving as Editor in Chief at the liberal arts school he attended in the “scenic Hudson Valley” in Upstate, NY. Following graduation in 2004, Jamie worked for YRB Magazine, where for the next two years he grinded it out as Associate Editor/Music Editor.

A recent addition to the China Shop crew, Jamie strives to report his vision of the world he inhabits in New York City and any other locales his explorations of music, art, and fringe elements of society may take him. He also maintains a blog, www.StarvedArtStar.com , a site dedicated to his sardonic bent on his city’s cultural pulse. In addition, Jamie is also the Music Editor for NYC based site www.mapcidy.com

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