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Commercial breaks will never be the same.
Elmer Lynn Hauldren, 1922-2011
Update: The Empire folks have created this website in honor of Hauldren.
Lynn "Empire Carpet Guy" Hauldren Passes Away [Chicagoist]
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A prosecutor at the Bronx District Attorney's Office says the cases that are thrown out are "because the police paperwork states the marijuana was actually not in public view. These cases she chalks up to honest mistakes." But if a cop lies, then it'...
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This is at last a favorable development in the gloomy history of these buildings, which had been purchased by high-profile Los Angeles-based company Milbank (one of the Voice's 10 Worst Landlords last year) at the height of the real estate boom. When...
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I had to admit, when I heard about Michael Fairman's explosive exit from Scientology (see our story about it here), my first reaction was, "Michael who?"
His face certainly was familiar, but I wasn't sure where I'd seen it before...
"Penske File! T...
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Well, this is what an insider tells me:"[Reopener] had not paid Don in months, he had not paid the staff, and he had not paid the rent.
"Don was [having a legal battle over] his rent-stabilized apartment.
"Don was VERY STRESSED."
Don, as you know...
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The above video demonstrates how fire ants morph together to build a super-buoyant raft. Researchers at Georgia Tech were able to use time-lapse photography and mathematical modeling to fully understand that the ants "spread out from a sphere in...
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The murder of Trevonne Winn, 24, was captured by a camera on Nostrand Avenue in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, outside of a Crown Fried Chicken. The clip above shows the victim blurred, but the Daily News has an uncensored version....
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"Instead of [the restaurant owner] getting killed, he'd have to pay a tax," [Salvatore] Volpe said in Brooklyn Federal Court at the murder trial of Bonanno boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano. "It was basically a penalty."
So practical! And less...
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But, baby, it's them who are getting sued.
I've just been told that lawyers have lodged a suit on behalf of Beverly Lee of the Shirelles, Dionne Warwick, Chuck Jackson, and others "for unauthorized use of names, images and biographical information."...
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On the Oscars.
But an unexpected occurrence got in the way of that, so he got dolled up as Marilyn instead.
Click here for my breezy Q&A with funnyman-slash-Oscar writer Bruce Vilanch, and that will all be gorgeously explained, with full accessorie...
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That time, Elvy was arrested and taken to the station with a blood alcohol content of 0.11 percent; he eventually posted bail and was sent home with a girlfriend. He'll be back in court May 4. In the meantime, dude, drink yourself silly if you must, ...
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reports that Fraser is suing Texas group Life Always, the folks behind the ad, calling "the billboard racist and the use of Ms. Fraser's daughter's image defamatory."Of course, as we learned in February, Fraser had signed her kids up with a modeling ...
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Sick of Nolita?
Bored with NoHo?
Furious at FiDi?
Still furious even though it's now known as SoMa?
Well, get your ass together and move to MiMa!
No, not the modern-art museum.It's the neighborhood that stands for "Middle of Manhattan."
Actu...
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"Oh, you're insulting the 911 responders to weed out the flood of neighborhood passerby terrorists who got sick and waited around ten years to submit insurance claims," Stewart said with rightful disgust. Watch the full clip above.
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The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn't good for the country. It may have been good politics and good TV, but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country. Therefore...
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"But duh. It's gonna spoil everything!"
She meant their mildly whiny dynamic on the show.
Anyway, Hoda explained how it all happened, which is beyond a fairy tale, even for a TV star.She was appearing at a book signing where two young women had put...
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?An Afghan military officer shot and killed eight NATO service members and a contractor who were meeting on the military side of Kabul International Airport. Though the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, the Afghan Army disputes that. [N...
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Also in Midtown, Lauren Shockey visits La Silhouette, an upscale French joint. It's expensive and serves up interesting fare that she likens to what "Louis XIV would have served at Versailles had he been an Applebee's franchisee."
Martha Schwendener...
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In previous weeks, two lawyers were transferred from the criminal division to the department advocate, which prosecutes police disciplinary cases. A third was moved last week. The moves were seen as evidence of the extent of the scandal.Meanwhile, po...
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Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
April 19, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 16
The World Trade Center
by Sally Helgesen
Governors Rockefeller and Cahill came together to congratulate each other, themselves, "the people," David R...
Type Miscast: An Elmhurst Doctor's Type 2 Diabetes Misdiagnosis Results in the Death of a Six-Year-Old Girl
The MTA Procures Storm Surge Protection via the Catastrophe Bond Market
Bill de Blasio's Elusive City Council Papers Raise More Questions Than They Answer
Daniel McGowan: The FBI's Least Wanted
Benjamin Lawsky: The Man Who Picked a Fight With Wall Street
Despite State Ban, Federal Inmate Ronell Wilson Is Sent to Death Row
