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How many times have you heard some old person complain about what the kids are listening to these days? (Oh, yesterday, from me?) It's a certainty, like death and taxes, that popular music will only cause the furrowed brows of the cool kids of yesteryear to become more creased, their now wrinkled hands forming into limp fists raised slightly in the air as the loose skin on those arms shake with a ferocity only matched by the senility so depressingly spouting from their typing fingers. Do not dare hush them! They have opinions, and they are always correct! Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Musto has something to say about the current state of pop music! 

Sally Field. Roberto Benigni. Marlon Brando (by way of Sacheen Littlefeather). There have been over eighty years of memorable Oscar acceptance speeches -- some heartfelt, some batshit crazy. With this weekend's ceremonies just around the corner (and a fair amount of speeches to be delivered in broken English by The Artist's creative team), what better way to celebrate so many decades of Oscar memories by hearing some of the greatest speeches performed live on stage? That's why Rachel Shukert (author of Everything Is Going to Be Great!) and Michael Schulman (of The New Yorker) created You Like Me: An Evening of Classic Acceptance Speeches, running on Oscars Eve at Ars Nova in New York City.

Celebrating 25 years at The Village Voice this month, literary icon Michael Musto had more than enough material for his most recent book, Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back. His latest work is a follow-up to his hilarious and scathing offerings Downtown-V285 and Manhattan on the Rocks. Between his columns at The Voice and Ocean Drive, writing for Out Magazine, and the Sundance Channel blog SUNfiltered, his books and his appearances around town (he always arrives on his bicycle), Musto has become something of a celebrity in his own right.

A devastating virus brought the whole moment to a tragic, unforgettable end. But the legacy that is Robert Mapplethorpe extends far beyond the censorship, headlines—and S&M. As a new generation views his subversive, formalistic Polaroid portraits in an ongoing exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Nick Haramis catches up with some of the late icon’s equally illustrious subjects, supporters, chroniclers and partners in crime in an oral history submitted to set the record (mostly) straight.