If you were even a slightly sentient being in the ’90s, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you can sing along with most or maybe even all of Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”– it’s the kind of song that sticks with you forever, with its piano bang-bangs, a sing-along ready chorus that swings from shrill highs to lowest lows. The song even shares its opening line (“I’ve been a bad, bad girl”) with an old prison blues song. We’re a long way from 1996, when “Criminal,” Apple’s hit single and award-winning music video dropped (20 years ago, almost to the date), but it still vibrates with the same fiery angst, tight-fisted rebellion and, yes, youthful sexual energy the day that it premiered.
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Line Up to Get Your Slab Poked at Meattt, Bushwick’s Freshest Tattoo Shop
Marina Heintze at her Bushwick tattoo shop, MEATTT, Inc. (Photo: Nicole Disser)
Another tattoo shop. In Bushwick. Next to an esoteric record shop. OK… you might be thinking. But your attention please, because the mind of Marina Heintze, bled out of her ears and solidified in tattoo parlor form, is anything but the embodiment of that triangle tattoo you’ve seen on everyone and her sister since Miley Cyrus revealed that anyone, so long as they’ve got a sewing needle, some India ink, and a bottle of vodka, can permanently press ink into skin.
‘Break Open Your Sexy Side’ at Brooklyn’s New Pole Dancing School
Sally Sutton, owner of Brooklyn Pole Dance Studio (Photo: Nicole Disser)
“I’ve seen it all,” says Sally Sutton. “Every type of venue, from topless, to nude, to burlesque, to bikini, pole, every level of every club in six different states.” Over the course of two decades, her career took her “from a girl to a woman,” and now she wants to do the same for her clients at the Brooklyn Pole Dance Studio.
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Lena Dunham and Girls are Currently Camping On St. Marks
Hannah works on her novel. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)
After hiding away inside of Saxon + Parole yesterday, Girls is turning the East Village’s biggest shitshow into an HBO show. Yep, they’re filming on St. Marks Place, between Second and Third.
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Girls Goes From Bedford to Bowery
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Not Enough Lena On Wythe Ave Today, Too Many Lenas On Stage Next Month
(Photo: Kirsten O’Regan)
We didn’t spot Lena Dunham when Girls filmed at Café Mogador in Williamsburg this morning — though, as you can (barely) see above, we did spot Zosia Mamet wearing a cute blue-and-white printed dress and Ugg boots, her hair newly shorn into a bob.
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Forget What You Saw On Girls: There’s No Free Lox at GQ
Following Sunday’s episode of Girls, there was one question lingering in everyone’s mind: Does GQ really offer its employees free lox?
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We’ve Solved True Detective. The Clue Is in Girls
Is it possible that when Adam said “I fucking murdered it, I cut its fucking guts out and left it in a dumpster by the side of the road,” he wasn’t just talking about his audition?
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10 Funny Things Allison Williams Said at the Apple Store Last Night
(Photo: Natalie Weber)
Girls star Allison Williams did not come in character to her Q&A last night at Soho’s Apple Store. While we regretted the missed opportunity for a Marnie TED Talk, Williams was lovely — in a blousy, pink patterned dress, with black tights and heels — and her conversation with Harper’s BAZAAR executive editor Laura Brown was as silly as we could have hoped for. These were Williams’s best quips.
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What Marnie From Girls Might Talk About at the Apple Store Tonight
Is Marnie Michaels embracing her unsolicited Internet fame? Tonight at 6 p.m. Girls star Allison Williams will be at Soho’s Apple Store to promote season three. On everyone’s mind: Marnie’s music video, which debuted in Sunday’s episode. If we know Marnie Marie Michaels, she’ll be giving some sort of small-scale TED Talk. A title has not been announced, but we took a few guesses.
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