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NYPD Warrant Squad Cops Wear Controversial "Hunting of Man" T-Shirts

Members of the NYPD's Queens Warrant Squad were spotted last week wearing T-shirts imprinted with a quote that some folks might find just a little bit offensive. A photo is at right. The quote reads, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and l ... More >>

Scientology Sunday Funnies: Jake and Elwood Want Your Cash!

Scientologists don't really have a Sunday service. They like to say that they do, because they crave mainstream acceptance. But unless Xenu rested after six days and L. Ron Hubbard just forgot to mention it, there's no reason for Scientologists to treat Sunday any differently than every other day of ... More >>

Writers of the Future, Today! Scientology Gets Its Party On

Oh my, do we have a treat for you today. For several weeks now, we've been reporting on the "L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future" contest. For several years, certain writers have questioned the connection between the contest and Scientology, which owns and operates it. And recently ... More >>

Is Lisa Marie Presley Telling Off Scientology in a Song?

For a couple of days now, our excellent tipsters have been alerting us to this new song from Lisa Marie Presley. It's not that they're big Lisa Marie fans -- although this song really isn't bad, I must say. No, the reason Scientology Watchers are fascinated by Lisa Marie's new single, "You Ain't S ... More >>

Ruth Madoff's Back In Town -- Should She Still Be Villainized Because Of Her Dirtbag Husband?

​Are your torches and pitchforks handy?As you may have heard, Ruth Madoff, the wife Bernie Madoff, one of the most hated men in New York, is back living in the Tri-state area -- and none of her neighbors can muster a kind word about her.Ruth Madoff has moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, reportedly t ... More >>

A Beginner's Guide To Funkmaster Flex's Instagram Account

Those familiar with Funkmaster Flex, Hot 97's nighttime DJ and the one man Jay-Z and Kanye West trusted to break Watch the Throne lead single "Otis," know that on top his love for boom bap and muscle cars, Flex is something of a tech dork, fiending for the newest tablets and phones, blogging at infl ... More >>

Live-Blogging The 2012 Grammys: Tributes, Tribulations, Skrillex, And The Return Of Adele

via Cats Who Look Like SkrillexWill this cat win Best New Artist?​Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 54th Annual Grammys, coming to you live from a couch in Astoria. There are quite a few questions lurking around tonight's ceremony. Will Adele sweep the three major categories in wh ... More >>

For Just $1,850, You Can Live In Lady Gaga's Former Lower East Side Haunt

Hey, maybe the real estate agent can let her in.​Lady Gaga's old apartment at 176 Stanton Street has gone on the market for the I-have-no-idea-if-it's-reasonable price of $1,850 a month (via Spin). The "phenomenal 1br" where the shape-shifting pop star once resided is listed on the Citi Habita ... More >>

No Sophomore Slump for DOC NYC

Beyond talking heads

Beavis, Butt-Head, And Sagat Bid Farewell To Andy Rooney

Yesterday 60 Minutes curmudgeon Andy Rooney announced that he would be retiring from his weekly segment of wondering about the annoying things in life. Here is a clip from Beavis And Butt-Head where the two imminently returning couch potatoes do their best "Mickey" Rooney impersonations over "Funk D ... More >>

NYPD Probably Couldn't Take Down a Jet Plane After All

​Sunday night's 60 Minutes interview with Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly included the slightly frightening, maybe sort of soothing information that, if necessary, and in a very extreme situation, the NYPD had the "means and training" to take down an aircraft. But after speculation that he m ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden's Wives Could Be the Key to Punishing Pakistan For Their 'Double Game'

​Updated below American officials have had it up to here with the "double game" Pakistan is playing, benefiting from billions of dollars in U.S. aid while also likely harboring the terrorists we're hunting. President Barack Obama said Sunday on 60 Minutes, "We think that there had to be some ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Death Photo Will Not Be Released, President Obama Decides

​Updated below President Barack Obama has opted not to release a photograph of Osama Bin Laden's dead body, CBS is reporting. We wondered yesterday if the United States should release one of the pictures taken depicting Bin Laden shot above the left eye and in the chest after Sunday's raid in ... More >>

The Medium Is the Message in David Fincher's Present-Tense Social Network

Many, Many Children Left Behind in Ed Doc, The Lottery

The Sexy Banker Problem: 10 Other People Who Were Also Too Sexy For Their Jobs

​Tits and ass, tits and ass. Is it really just hard to accept others as they are? Apparently not, as we learned from the millions of dirty old men readers sympathetic to the cause of Debrahlee Lorenzana, The Sexy Banker Who Couldn't. Lorenzana says she was fired from her job at CitiBank becaus ... More >>

Alice Waters on Real Time with Bill Maher

Sadly, there was no panel discussion on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, instead the three guests (Billy Joe Armstrong, Chris Rock, and Alice Waters) sat down to individual interviews. Waters' segment was fine, although, oddly, she seems to be developing a faint, Madonna-style British accent. ... More >>

Sanction-busting Investigation Could Threaten Nets Deal, Atlantic Yards

​Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-NJ) tells the Post that he's requesting a Treasury Department investigation to see if Mikhail Prokhorov, the russian investor who's trying to buy stakes in both the Nets and the planned Nets Arena in Brooklyn, has violated Bush-era sanctions against doing business wi ... More >>

Crime Beat: NBA's Crooked Ref Won't Stop Blowing Whistle, Cites Iverson Fix

Just days before yet another replay of its major betting scandal, NBA officials — the league's executives, not the refs — must be running like mad up and down the hallways of their Fifth Avenue headquarters. Crooked ref Tim Donaghy has revealed what he says was a concerted effort to g ... More >>

More Bits of the Walter Cronkite Memorial Service

​Buzz Aldrin approves of Cronkite's coverage of Apollo 11, "explaining each procedure so that the waking world knew what was coming next." Andy Rooney, who memorably choked up at the original service, plays it safe with a taped tribute from his 60 Minutes crank-desk. He referred to his own s ... More >>

Oh, Alice Waters

Alice Waters has had an awful lot of advice for pretty much everyone lately, and that includes Thomas Keller. BlackBook reports that the magniloquent and high-flown but (presumably) well-meaning Waters was at Per Se this weekend, and she did not seem to enjoy herself one bit. Apparently, Waters sent ... More >>

Should Mets' Park Stay Citi-fied After Citigroup Collapse?

After Defeat, Rightbloggers Look Inward and Agree: Someone Else Must Change

Dinner With the President: A Nation's Journey

'Dr. Evil' takes on ACORN

McCain Suggests Andrew Cuomo for SEC; "Hell No" Says Reason

Letters

Our Very Own Axis of Evil in Guantánamo

A former prisoner describes the foul essence of the Bush presidency

Moolah for Mullahs

All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols's good time Charlie

Tenet's Version Doesn't Have a Prayer

What the Democrats Must Do

Mandate for the new majority: Curb the president's power to torture

Keeping Up With the Einsteins

Lessons from parents who overdo the lessons they give their 'hothouse kids'

Stoning Women to Death

Coming soon to the United Nations: Iran's chief executioner of women

Casualties of War

An ex–CIA op's martyrdom analysis, plus some war propaganda

Europe Shames U.S. Congress

CIA war crimes in Europe are now under official investigation there, but not here

In the Name of Sibel Edmonds

Intelligence whistleblowers storm Capitol Hill, asking for the right to be heard.

The News at Dusk

The death and life of network evening news; plus: Krugman's journey to prime critic of Bush

In One Ear, Out the Other

Mike Wallace v. Charles Schumer

Will Chuck Schumer, or any anti-Pickering revilers, finally apologize to the judge?

How the War Looks

Lost on Planet Rummy

Defense Secretary Puts Us in a Dangerous World of His Own Making

Theater

The Witness Who Was Not Called

A Juror: 'We Only Heard Half a Story'

Signposts of Posthistory

The Best New Jazz CDs of the Year of Louis and Miles

Music

Miss Understood

Doomed to Clichés

Teen Culture Leaves Media Quaking

Paper-Thin Reporting

New Channels

Spycam Chic

The Surveillance Society: Part Two