By Daniel D'Addario 4/05/11 11:24pm

The Eight-Day Week

The Eight-Day Week: April 6-13

Wednesday, April 6

Youth and Beauty 

Ah, Karen Russell. Or, as the Swamplandia! author might render it, Karen Russell! Never has a young author provoked such envy since that little minx Freudenberger. (Is it a girl thing?) But back to Ms. Russell: The 29-year-old phenom was pegged as an under-40 author to watch on that Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 4/04/11 3:20pm

premieres

Fab Five Freddy on Blank City: 'Go Make Better Stuff!'

Blank City, Celine Danhier’s documentary on the downtown independent cinema scene in the 1970s and 1980s, begins its run at the IFC Center Wednesday after Tuesday night’s premiere. (You can read more about the film’s opening in the next edition of the Eight-Day Week on Wednesday.) Fab Five Freddy, the so-called “hip-hop historian” and sometime Read More