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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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The Affordable Art Fair, which is on display all weekend at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, is an alternative to the high-priced, blue chip art events that tend to dominate the scene.
Published Mar 24, 2023 at 4:07 p.m.
It’s impossible to keep up with everything happening in New York City arts and culture, but here are some recommendations for events you shouldn’t miss during the week ahead.
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![Mike Judge, director of the 1999 cult comedy Office Space, is back on the big screen with Extract. It stars Jason Bateman as the owner of a food flavoring factory whose wife (Kristen Wiig) won't have sex with him and whose best friend (Ben Affleck) is a druggie bartender. His employees are worse, and ultimately his plans to sell the company "are threatened by a strange, unexpected event" involving [SPOILER] testicles. Reviews are not so glowing, and the Washington Post's Dan Zak couldn't hold his thumbs down lower: "Extract may be the most disappointing American comedy of the decade, partly because it's jokeless and joyless but mostly because it squanders an all-star cast of superb comic talent."Everyone in this movie is pathologically moronic, obnoxious without also being funny, and every scene exists only to irk or infuriate Bateman's character. This worked in 'Arrested Development' because the characters had at least one other dimension besides 'moronic' (usually that dimension was 'funny'). Here, Bateman has nothing to work with... Judge seems to have either a careless disregard for his characters or a stunning lack of imagination. Jeepers, it's bad."](https://cms.prod.nypr.digital/images/283981/fill-700x467|format-webp|webpquality-70)
