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Nicole Rifkin’s cover illustration also features shoutouts to Death by Audio and Shea Stadium.

Small Brooklyn music venues everywhere can be proud today as one of their own finally made it big. Bushwick venue Palisades (and it’s infamous view-impeding support pole) is featured on the cover of the just-out “Entertainment Issue” of The New Yorker magazine The cover illustration, titled “Closing Set,” is by artist R. Kikuo Johnson, who told the […]

Sasha Frere-Jones, the longtime pop music critic for The New Yorker, has left the magazine to join Genius, a website mounting an ambitious expansion after starting as a forum for annotated rap lyrics online…

One day before author and humorist David Sedaris takes over Carnegie Hall by himself, he’ll hook up with ‘Girls’ creator and star Lena Dunham for “an insightful evening of reading and conversation” on the same stage…

Tickets for 2009 New Yorker Festival events go on sale at noon. That includes the Dirty Projectors, House of Ladosha, Jubilee, and Liturgy show happening at the Bell House on Friday, October 16th…

Neko Case @ the 2009 Newport Folk Festival (more by Jim Brueckner)”During the weekend of October 16th through October 18th, The New Yorker will present its tenth annual Festival, a three-day series of events that brings together some of the world’s most talented and distinguished people in the fields of literature, art, film, music, humor, business, food, politics, design, and science…

Grizzly Bear‘s new album will be released by Warp Records in May. There’s no title or tracklist or much else known about it yet, but Nico Muhly did some arrangements for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and a string quartet, all of whom are credited as contributors on the new record…

Speaking of SFJ, The 2008 New Yorker Festival has announced everything you need to know. Which events would you recommend? (thx Hiro)

Ani Difranco, RZA & Steve Albini @ 2005 New Yorker Festival (CRED) The eighth annual New Yorker Festival happens in NYC from October 5-7, 2007…