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Film Summer Guide: Club-going Teens Turn Celebrity Burglars in Coppola's The Bling Ring

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He's Old, Missing Teeth, and Has a Funny Haircut: He's Danny Brown, Rap's Biggest Deal

Apart from the overcrowding and cost of living, subway ads are one of the most depressing things about New York City. But now, next to the usual ads offering escape in vacation destinations and self-realization in a pair of shoes, you'll find a glimmer of hope in a Uniqlo ad featuring 32-year-old De ... More >>

The Revisionist: Pole Position

Jesse Eisenberg rewrites the culture-clash comedy

Side Effects May Induce Queasy Pleasure Well Worth Risking

Sorry, Haters: Kitty Pryde Is Staying a While

"It's a huge accident." That's how Kitty Beckwith characterizes the fact we're even talking, over chocolate tea at Tarallucci E Vino, about her unlikely success as a rapper. The alleged teenager made waves last year as Kitty Pryde, a Claire's employee from Daytona Beach who appeared, like all viral ... More >>

New York's Taxi of Tomorrow: What's Missing from The Cab of The Future

New York has supposedly stepped into the future with high-tech taxis which, sadly, are nothing like the vehicles in The Fifth Element. Anyway, the City will soon have a new official fleet of Nissan NV200 cabs, which will feature amenities such as sliding doors, skylights, USB cell phone chargers, ... More >>

So Much New Diplo Songs

On March 27, dance music innovator-slash-cultural carpetbagger Diplo will release his first book, modestly titled 128 Beats Per Minute: Diplo's Visual Guide to Music, Culture, and Everything in Between. This is clearly a ridiculous development in the career of one Thomas Pentz, but at least this ego ... More >>

Live: Chris Webby Packs Irving Plaza, Scowls While Doing So

​Chris Webby Irving Plaza Thursday, December 29 Better than: A Republican debate. Chris Webby has "203" inked across his right side, a gothic "Connecticut" burned into the skin beneath his neck. There are the scattered images of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mario Brothers and Transformers a ... More >>

Adderall Shortage Creates Panic in the Market

Wondering why that type A go-getter in accounting seems sleepy and uninterested in work? Well, apparently, there's a shortage of Adderall, the over-prescribed ADHD drug for kids that's also used by college students and grown-ups, according to an article in thefix.com. The article suggests that the ... More >>

Q&A: American Juggalo Director Sean Dunne on Drugs, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, and a Pregnant Smoking Juggalette

American Juggalo: The scene with the smoking Juggalette Commercial director Sean Dunne brought a six-man camera crew to this year's Gathering of the Juggalos, Insane Clown Posse's annual psycho-porn amusement park, and returned with footage of predictably lowbrow hedonism: Juggalos drinking, inhali ... More >>

Pop Chat: Our Critics Discuss Demi Lovato's Unbroken And The Uneasy Transition Away From Radio Disney

Demi Lovato, not pleased with her advance copy of our thoughts on her new record.​ In the span of months, Disney star Demi Lovato, only 19, has gone from ugly tabloid stories—many probably false, but still—about cocaine, eating disorders and regrettable parties to releasing her third ... More >>

5-Hour Energy: Does It Work?

We've all seen the commercials. And we all have the same burning questions: Does 5-Hour Energy really work? Will we really avoid the 2:30 slump? Just what does it taste like? There was only one way to find out. Behold the five-hour account of my consuming 5-Hour Energy.

Bi Lokma Plays Turkish Ambassador in Midtown

Orhan Yegen had a little lamb...that he ground up and sold to people as tasty food

Surprise! 1 in 4 Diagnosed Adults Fake ADHD

​Throughout college, everyone these days knows a handful of young adults who have told their doctors they feel a bit impatient or restless (the "impatience" in this scenario being a laziness and the "restlessness" being code for, "Hey, let me push this during finals week so I can make an easy ... More >>

Heroin.com: Selling Junk Online

Download the Hold Steady's Monday Night Set at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

"I woke up this morning and I had this weird feeling," Craig Finn told an unsuspecting audience on Monday night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, toward the end of the second of the Hold Steady's two shows there. "I hadn't really realized this until today, but our first show ever was on January 3 ... More >>

Columbia's Drug Dealer Frat Boys: The Rundown

​You know that big drug ring bust at Columbia that everyone's talking about? Where those five frat boys got caught selling $11,000 worth of pot, cocaine, ecstasy, and Adderall to undercover cops? (Oops.) Well now that they've been arrested and arraigned (and one of them has even been bailed out!), ... More >>

Columbia University Frat-Boy Drug Ring Busted!

​Eight people -- including five Columbia University undergrads, one of whom was the student council vice president -- were arrested this morning in a police raid, prosecutors have announced. The students are accused of peddling drugs (including cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, and pot) at campus dorms and f ... More >>

Four Loko, The Drinking Game: HUNGRY HUNGRY LOKOS.

FOUR LOKO BANNED, FOUR LOKO DRINKING GAME, FOUR LOKO MADNESS

R.I.P, Four Loko: Here Are the Five Stupidest Things People Have Done While Drinking You.

Colors of a beautiful rainbow...​Four Loko, known as "liquid crack" to certain admirers, was officially banned this weekend, no longer to be delivered to your friendly neighborhood bodega after December 10. Unlike just any garden variety booze, Four Loko didn't only make people sick -- it made ... More >>

Press Clips: "10 Reasons Nick Denton is an Asshole"

​Well, since it's now hailing outside, I'm stuck inside the office until it lets up just enough for me to run from our office to the Astor Place 6 using my emergency Umbrella Mafia-umbrella without getting completely drenched. Might as well do this thing. Press Clips, Day 11, Late "Hailpocolyp ... More >>

And This Is How You Get High Off the Internet

u can haz i-tripz 2​The Internet is full of vices. First, kids were posting pictures of themselves doing drugs on the Internet; now, kids are doing drugs on the Internet. Apparently. Wanna join in on all the fun? We'll tell you how. After many samples, trials, and tests, we have determined wha ... More >>

How to Tell the Difference Between Cocaine and Anthrax: A Crib Sheet

​If you're going to come to New York to work in fashion, you should probably know the difference between cocaine and anthrax. It's that simple. Via Page Six, an employee of NYC fashion megastar Marc Jacobs didn't, as she received a package that had powder in it, thought it was Anthrax, called ... More >>

Refresh Refresh Refresh: The Night the Internet Went Out in New York City

​Don't worry, your connectivity is fine. We're talking "out" as in "side" -- away from the warm laptop glow and into the drizzly, drunken night. That's what Fridays are for and on this particular one, the real world was especially welcoming to members of the internet community, offering multip ... More >>

Live: St. Vincent and Bon Iver Sing Your (Dad's) Favorites at BrooklynVegan's Haiti Benefit

St. Vincent, Britt Daniel, Bon Iver, Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, and more Haiti Benefit @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg Saturday, January 23 BrooklynVegan might best be known for having the most obnoxious commenters in the entire music blogosphere (which, in fairness, is certainly no small ... More >>

WRITER'S HIGH

Fashion Week in Review: Michael Kors, Anna Sui, Pamella Roland, Max Azria, Betsey Johnson

​ From the Betsey Johnson collection. Photo by David Wentworth. When Michael Kors tires of crafting pastel Barbarella dresses, he can sell designer migranes. I had one watching his Wednesday exhibition at Bryant Park -- not just because his pastel gowns caught the harsh glare of the revolvin ... More >>

STAYING FOCUSED

Cynthia Nixon has your ADD prescription

You Can Protest This Administration With Chords

Death Cab for Cutie’s sonic architect gets awkwardly, verbosely political

Trigger Happy

Jailed for forgery and notorious for his weapons art, Alfredo Martinez plots his next move

Thanks!

Clubbers are people, too. Nightlife denizens give thanks.

Indulge the Nerd or Release Ayurveda on a Defensive End

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Wanna Go Greek—or Save the World?

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Play Ball With the Beasties or Go Smarty-Pants With a Stripper-Agent

'Playboy' Goes Naked, But 'Wario Ware' Touched Us the Right Way

The People's Prozac

Dissident Scientists Question the Ban on Ecstasy