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Ever wonder what those hip Japanese kids you see walking around the East Village have playing on their ipods? Well, it really could be anything; Japanese pop culture has a wonderful way of selectively absorbing the parts of other cultures it likes best and mixing them together in new ways, which is something that New Yorkers should be able to recognize.

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Dancer and choreographer Naomi Goldberg Haas opened the company Dances for a Variable Populationin 2005 to prove that movement and dance wasn’t solely for the young and fit. 
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The Association of Community Programs for the Homeless (A.C.E.) will hold an auction this Thursday, March 19th to benefit their homeless rehabilitation programs.

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Author and filmmaker Davy Rothbart was working on a personal documentary called My Heart Is An Idiot, and was trying to answer some basic questions about love and how to present it artistically. For example, how do you make a story about love funny without casting Kate Hudson or Matthew McConaughey? If the geniuses in Hollywood couldn't figure that one out, how could Davy?

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92Y Tribeca presents an evening of animated sex. No, there won't be people on stage boinking with an unusual degree of enthusiasm.

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Carl Newman released his second solo album this year and, like the last, it delivers—exhibiting the rare mix of catchy and relevant.
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Thanks to the folks at Daily Candy for the heads up.

This is not a time for spending copious amounts of cash on furniture and clothes. And maybe it isn't the time for alliteration either, so I'll stop. But seriously, what is a person to do if the shopping bug won't stop biting, yet you also want to sock away any extra money you may have for your "when I get downsized" fund?

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William Heller is a 16 year-old that goes by the nickname of Lowboy, mainly because of his fondness for riding the subway. Not the most exciting of hobbies, but then again you're not a schizophrenic off his meds who believes that the world is going to end in 10 hours.

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The Homosexuals are one of those bands that musical know-it-alls speak of with veneration and—if the know-it-all is of a certain age—a truly annoying "you just had to be there" kind of smugness. Why is that the case?

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NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies and KGB Bar present a panel of comics writers and artists who will discuss graphic novels and what American Splendor writer Harvey Pekar has called “graphic non-novels”—memoirs in the form of book-length comics. Think Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Alison Bechdel's Funhouse.

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