You may know her as the free-spirited Jessa in oft-discussed HBO show Girls, but Jemima Kirke considers herself more painter than actor. Her third solo…
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Sure, there’s such a thing as too many Lenas — but, come on: what would drive someone to say, “I want to kill Lena Dunham?” That’s…
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Next week thousands of theater patrons will once again descend on Lower Manhattan for the 19th annual NYC Fringe Festival. “Fringe theater” usually denotes plays…
Talks and Readings: Historic Greenpoint, Multiculti Confessions, and More
TUESDAY Almost Famous, except about a girl. And set in the ’90s. And British. How to Build a Girl, described by the New York Times’ Dwight Garner…
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The performance artist Penny Arcade called us back after getting out of a show that ran late. So, even in the midst of her own…
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So, Happy Ending is set to reopen under new ownership. But for literary types, the place just won’t be the same without the Happy Ending…
Lena Dunham Thinks Catcalls Are a Reason to Love New York
Lena Dunham’s new memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, is written with just the sort of unabashed honesty and self-depricating wit you’d expect from the…
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Now that Adam Driver is spreading his wings (witness his brotastic wingman character in the just-out What If) and now that Hannah is off to…
Dine With Lena Dunham in the Confines of the Lowline!
The Lowline folks are on a roll. Less than a month after a lucrative benefit netted them $30,000 for their ambitious underground park project, they’ve…
Not Enough Lena On Wythe Ave Today, Too Many Lenas On Stage Next Month
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…