
Erik Piepenburg
Writer at Freelance
Contributor at The New York Times
Writer and horror columnist @nytimes. DINING OUT, my book about 🌈 restaurants, comes out in 2025 from Hachette. Cleveland native. Very gay.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Erik Piepenburg
This month's picks include everyday evildoers, Indonesian demons and a smug Brazilian serial killer. Rent or buy it on most major platforms. For most of its two-hour run time, Antonio Méndez Esparza's slow-burn thriller doesn't feel like a horror movie. There's no gore, evil spirits or gorgons. Yet, as it follows a middle-aged woman who loses her grip on reality, the film chillingly embodies Sartre's observation that hell is other people.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Erik Piepenburg
Stream it on Peacock. F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922) is a foundational vampire shocker that still shoots ice shards through my veins after repeated viewings. Robert Eggers's chillingly gothic reimagining of that silent film leaves my blood more lukewarm, offering too much romance and not enough monster for my taste.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Erik Piepenburg
In the warped new horror-comedy "The Monkey" (in theaters), Theo James plays Hal and Bill, estranged twin brothers who are besieged by a possessed music-making monkey toy they got under gruesome circumstances when they were boys. Once that little monkey starts a tinny rat-tat-tat on his drum, nobody's safe.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Erik Piepenburg
Adele randomly invited two little girls on stage — then gasped when she realized who they wereBritish icon left stunned after realizing that the two random girls she invited on stage were no strangers. Have you ever had that moment when you …
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2 months ago |
nytimes.com | Erik Piepenburg
When Vinny DePonto was a student at Manhattanville University, he really wanted to major in magic. But that wasn't an option, so he created his own course of study, combining theater and psychology into a major he called psychology of performance art. "I used a little trickery to major in magic," DePonto, 38, recalled during a recent interview at a West Village coffee shop.
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Reading @PeterTwinklage’s beautifully tender essay about Hooters reminded me of Tallywackers, the doomed “gay Hooters.” If I could take a time machine to a forgotten gay restaurant with a $9.99 lunch special, this would be one. https://t.co/4XGUjz1IcS

RT @GayBarchives: In his new book 'Dining Out' author @erikpiepenburg serves up a smorgasbord of juicy history on the restaurants that bui…