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Country Club Sopranos

American banks are on a massive crime spree. Obama and Romney hope you won't notice.

What's Happening This Week: Fatty Crab Boil, Omnivore Food Festival

Tuesday, September 18 Crab Boil. Fatty Crew Hospitality Group announces the seventh anniversary of Fatty Crab this month. To celebrate, the restaurant will be hosting a Maryland-style crab boil from September 17 through October 17. It's serving blue crabs with "Malay old bay" seasoned water, steamed ... More >>

Jay-Z Adds Two Shows To Barclays Center Run; Tickets Go On Sale Friday

Jay-Z has added two more shows to his run of gigs at the Barclays Center, the Brooklyn arena that will serve as home to his imminently-of-the-borough Nets. A presale going for American Express cardmembers will last until 10 p.m. tonight; the rest of the tickets, including a bunch priced at $30, go o ... More >>

White Riot at Webster Hall

Jack gets filmic with his Blunderbuss

Random British Couple 'Rewarded Handsomely' For Letting Mayor Ruin Their Wedding

​Mayor Bloomberg held a press conference today to announce that the city hosted 50 million tourists this year. As guests of honor for the conference, the city invited British couple Craig Johnson and Lucy Foulger. The pair had been married only an hour earlier. Johnson and Foulger, those gen ... More >>

Groundbreaking New York Post Report: A Couple Guys Stayed in a Hotel

​The New York Post rubs its hands gleefully today with a new "scoop": they've found two people connected with Occupy Wall Street who stayed in a fancy hotel. Therefore, the entire movement is a sham. Peter Dutro, "one of a select few OWS members on the powerful finance committee," and Brad S ... More >>

Get Out the Antacids and Start Prepping for Go! Go! Curry's Annual Eating Contest

​Competitive eating contests get some riled up given that many live in a time of food insecurity, but they can also be sources of camaraderie and good eating. Whatever your opinions on timed gluttony may be, Japanese restaurant Go! Go! Curry is hosting its third annual curry eating contest t ... More >>

Jo's to Host Labor Day 'F*cking Delicious' Pancake Eating Contest

pinksherbet/flickrHow will you stack up?​ The folks at Jo's are getting in on the competitive eating boom with their first Annual Labor Day F*cking Delicious Pancake Eating Contest. The event will be held Monday, September 6, at 4 p.m. in the restaurant's private dining room, the Albert Room.

The Spider Man Broadway Musical is Finally On The Way

​After way too many delays and hold-ups and people not believing this thing is going to work at all, the Spider Man musical (entitled Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark) with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge of U2 and with a book by Julie Taymor (who did The Lion King which is AMAZING) finally ... More >>

Investigative Journalism Doesn't Warrant Printing When it Unearths Nothing

​City Council members' requirement to disclose their financial information doesn't mean we need to write about it when nothing is awry. Today the Daily News published an article insinuating that by having outstanding credit card balances, council members are somehow in the wrong, while providi ... More >>

Ronnie's Kids: The Bright Side of "Amnesty"

So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Alas: Thursday Night's Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club Show In Prospect Park Is Canceled

​Visa issues alas -- same sorta calamity that torpedoed Joao Gilberto's Carnegie Hall show a few days back. The free Celebrate Brooklyn! gig will go on, though, replaced by a screening of Wim Wenders' Buena Vista Social Club flick, with flamenco dancer Nelida Tirado as the opening act. Full re ... More >>

Hot Bread Kitchen Moves into Harlem's La Marqueta; Prime Meats Takes Plastic

​The 4,500-square-foot city-owned La Marqueta market in Harlem will now house Hot Bread Kitchen, a non-profit bakery that trains low-income immigrant women in culinary skills. [Wall Street Journal] It still does not take reservations, but Prime Meats in Carroll Gardens now takes credit cards ... More >>

An Open Letter to Recent Victims of "Date Robbery"

​Hey, Rich Guys! We know how you feel.

Jennifer Mercado, On Jury to Decide Credit Card Fraud, Steals Fellow Juror's Credit Card

​Geez, Heidi Montag's little spiel about consumer protection is timelier than a $1,000 Piaget wrist watch. It seems that people really have a thing about swiping other people's credit cards more than ever. This week's alleged credit card snatcher is Jennifer Mercado. The Bronx native, 20, ... More >>

Tavern on the Green Bankrupt; Owes Mostly to Union Funds

Congratulations again to Dean Poll, who last month won the contract to run Tavern on the Green -- which is now bankrupt. Tavern on the Green LP filed for Chapter 11 yesterday. It's allegedly the second-highest-grossing restaurant in the nation, but lists liabilities of $50 million. Its largest cred ... More >>

Our 10 Best: Reasons to Hate 'Top Chef'

​ ​Here's why we thought this was going to be the Season of the Beard, and that excessive tattoos would be banished forever. Were we ever wrong! Yes, we watch Top Chef obsessively. We can't help it. But we hate ourselves the next morning, and here are the reasons why, in reverse order. ... More >>

Family Affair: Feds Indict Arroyo Relative for Housing Scams

Just as all eyes were on the mighty state senator Pedro Espada Jr. and his many escapades, along comes some strong competition for Bronx Schemer of the Week Award.A freshly unsealed indictment this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District, based on a joint city-federal probe, charges ... More >>

News Roundup: Brendan Flowers, Live Nation, Neutral Milk Hotel, Chris Brown/Rihanna

--The Killers' Brendan Flowers likely got to live out a childhood fantasy Saturday when he joined Bruce Springsteen for a duet of "Thunder Road" at the opening night of the Neatherlands Pinkpop Festival. Nowadays, it's a right of passage for Springsteen-influenced acts to join their idol onstage. Th ... More >>

Sharpton Forced To Return Campaign Funds...To Himself

By Jana KasperkevicNothing much surprises us anymore about the charmed life of Reverend Al Sharpton, but even he must have wondered in recent weeks just how he gets away with it all. Hanging at the White House with Mike Bloomberg. The governor, David Paterson, launching his comeback rally at Sharpto ... More >>

Colicchio Shills For Coke

I love both Diet Coke and Tom Colicchio, but I'm not sure how to feel about last night's Diet Coke commercial with Colicchio that played during the Oscars. It probably wasn't aided by being associated with, in my mind, the scary musical numbers and shots of Zac Efron that last night's ceremony fea ... More >>

"Butter Burgers" on Oscar Menu as Ad Sales Slump

Last month NBC had trouble filling ad slots for the Super Bowl and wound up taking a DRTV spot for Cash4Gold, which wound up being the success story of the evening. Now ABC is reportedly having trouble filling ad slots for the Oscars. The LA Times says they're cutting Academy Award ad rates, too. G ... More >>

The Worst Pick-Up Lines on the Planet!

Sarah Palin on SNL: No Preconditions Set

Con Man Tries to Use David Dinkins' AmEx Card

Doug Liman's Jumper

Subject Unknown

An attempt to chart David Lynch's mind proves there's no charting David Lynch's mind

Rocco DiSpirito on Why Hung is Just Like Him

The Morning-After Ill

Chasing away the sunday-morning woozies with Felix's boozy brunch

The Good, Bad, and Truly Spectacular: Tribeca Film Festival 2007

Rising ticket prices! Sponsorship gone awry! Oh yes, and a movie you do not want to miss.

The Dead Pool

Master of the nonsensical outdoes himself in cock-and-bull bedtime story

Sundance 2.0

Redford vs. De Niro: Utah fest moves into Tribeca's backyard

Hard Listening in the Big Easy

Jazz Fest is on. Clubs are open. The water's receded. The stakes remain high.

Best in Show

The Top 40 Picks of the Tribeca Film Festival

Does Vito Lopez have a Norman problem?

Sell, Sell

We have to hurry! The building owes over a million in back taxes

The Deputy Mayor for the Olympics

For city and glory, Dan Doctoroff seeks Olympic gold at home and abroad

Frat Daze, Clambake, Anyways, It's Still Country-Soul to Him

Music

The Impresario

Boo Froebel Sets the Scene for Edgy Performance

Where Was George?

As Dems Nap, New Activists Press Pataki on Record

Listings

Boomeranging Dr. Laura Off the Air

Homophobes Can Boycott, Too

Presto Chango

How to Make Yourself Disappear

Long Time Coming

Africa Fete Welcomes a Zimbabwean Star

NY Mirror

''At Kurfew, the revelers sloppy-kiss as if their only romantic experience was from watching Freddie Prinze Jr. movies.''

Through a Glass Darkly

Windows ’98

Lion's Share

Black Concert Dancers Storm Broadway

Union for Sale

DC 37, the city's powerful consortium of municipal unions, is rocked by corruption investigations—and challenges from rank-and-file reformers

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