A Guy on “Girls”: Derrick Rose, Geographical Woes, and Birbiglia, Bros! (S1/E2, “Vagina Panic”)

What in the the name of Dolores was going on in that cold opening? Full blown boning from the word go is not a problem. But on what planet is the go-to fantasy of Adam (Adam Driver) to have Hannah (Lena Dunham) role play as an eleven year old crack whore? This is not the Brooklyn I know and love, where the nights are long and the truffle oil flows like wine. Look: I’m not here to tell people what’s […]

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Morning Bites: Dark Tower Movie, Sleepwalk With Me, Shtetl Food Carts in Williamsburg, and More

We are totally behind the Ashkenazi food carts of Brooklyn if they dance down Bedford singing “If I was a rich man,Yubby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dum.” It looks like Stephen King’s The Dark Tower will begin shooting in 2013. Granta talks to Edmund White. Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me is going to be on the big screen. Vice talks to our favorite Russian punk band that has no records (that we know of…) out. Nope, Apple is not […]

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