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BEST OF NYC® 2006
BEST OF NYC® 2006
It's that time again, when The Village Voice devotes an entire issue to telling you just what's so special about life in New York City — everything from late-night fossil retailers to singers who can double as air raid sirens, Russian-bathhouse parties to subway portraitists to gnarly noodles. These highly personal, sometimes practical, sometimes admittedly eccentric picks are meant to help you to escape to New York, even if you've lived here all your life. We hope you enjoy this guide to the ultimate fantasy island. Best Of Categories
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Arts & Entertainment >>
Best art studio collective | Best guy who sings like a girl | Best maverick research lab | Best movie house that lives up to its name | Best museum to experience Weimar glamour in | Best music festival that runs by the sun's rays | Best Open-Mic Night—Without the Mic | Best performance art space for dinner and a movie | Best place to send a future rock star girl | Best reasons to cancel that Netflix subscription | Best women artists not being casual about the penis | Best World War II–era rescue boat converted into a community arts space ... More New York Arts & Entertainment >> -
Bars & Clubs >>
Best bar in Brooklyn for great whisk(e)ys at reasonable prices | Best bar to watch lesbian pole-dancing | Best bar to wonder why no one's buying the frilly drink but you | Best bar you're sure to get a space at | Best beer brewed in the city | Best fish tank | Best karaoke songbook going sadly underutilized | Best music venue with a capacity under 30 | Best place to have a big sexy party | Best rocker dyke party | Best take on the classic tequila shot | Best website to make you wish digital cameras and alcohol didn't coexist ... More New York Bars & Clubs >> -
Food & Drink >>
Awesomest Austrian | Best Japanese— upscale | Best raunchy ribs | Best use of prunes | Best use of watermelon | Better Brooklyn burger | Fabulous old-fashioned malted milk | Most vivacious veranda | Raunchiest rabbit | Superior Senegalese | Superlative steak | Weirdest wobbly yellow stuff ... More New York Food & Drink >> -
People & Places >>
Best (only) reason to go to church | Best city lobbyist | Best Fabio tribute | Best Greenwich Village Defender | Best ornery petting zoo | Best place to dig for the past (and live it there) | Best place to get murdered, raped, or robbed in the city | Best purveyor of carcinogenic materials | Best retirement | Best spot to watch nervous mobsters and their lawyers eat club sandwiches | Best way to snag a seat at a fashion show | Steve Allen ... More New York People & Places >> -
Shopping & Services >>
Best boutique to help you break the black-clothing habit | Best bra-sserie | Best family-style market | Best new place to buy plain clothes | Best newfangled drug paraphernalia | Best one-inch lawnmowers | Best place to buy Edith Wharton– worthy furniture | Best place to fill up on free samples while shopping in Soho | Best place to get bathed like a giant baby | Best place to watch Brooklyn girls rationalize spending the rent money on a $300 top | Best reason to be a grown-up | Best T-shirts for angry boys ... More New York Shopping & Services >> -
Sports & Recreation >>
Best (Expensive) means to carry around a condom | Best ballpark to cheer for your minor-league team in | Best combination of sex and sports | Best former Brooklyn ballpark | Best place to grope a stranger | Best place to postpone the sexual inevitable | Best place to see a hipster sweat over buying a porn video | Best place to strip for free and still pay $16 a drink | Best put-down of a New York pro athlete | Best sex worker support system | Best young basketball player | Most exciting three seconds in New York sports ... More New York Sports & Recreation >>
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