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Lady Gaga Thanks Borough Prez Who Didn't Call Her A Slut

One of the more shameful remarks in recent history had Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro referring to Lady Gaga as a "slut" because she was photographed smoking a joint in Amsterdam. He said the singer is a terrible role model for kids, I guess feeling that one puffing action erased al ... More >>

Meet the Fokkens

Q&A, Part 2: Runner and Stone's Peter Endriss on Brooklyn Flea, "Tart-tening" Up Bread, and NYC's Whole-Grain Movement

[See More Interviews: North Fork Table & Inn's Gerry Hayden | Travis Post of Yunnan Kitchen] Yesterday, Peter Endriss told us about opening a permanent bakery in Gowanus, baking at Per Se, and working 35 hours a weekend. We follow up today with part two of our chat with the gifted baker. He shares ... More >>

Aryeh Ralbag, Brooklyn Rabbi, Might Get Kicked Out of Amsterdam's Orthodox Community

Aryeh Ralbag, the Brooklyn rabbi who also leads Amsterdam's Jewish community, might soon get booted from his Netherlands position for recent comments on homosexuality. Problems came to a crux for Ralbag, who has held the long-distance post for six years, in January, according to the Jewish Telegr ... More >>

Resistance is Futile: UWS Shopkeepers Fight (Inevitable) Domination from Chains

​New York continues its onward march toward looking just like the rest of America. From the New York Times: "The proliferation of chain stores, banks and pharmacies in the past decade or so has robbed many neighborhoods of the quirky one-of-a-kind shops that give those places their distinct ... More >>

Avant-Garde January! It's Koltes, the TEAM, Toshiki Okada, and, er, Ira Glass

A critical dive into the Under the Radar, Other Forces, and Coil festivals

Where Can I Find an Indonesian Rijsttafel in NYC?

​You probably won't need Bromo Seltzer if you eat at Bromo Satay House. Robbie C. asks: Do you know of any good Indonesian restaurants in Manhattan or any of the other boroughs? I'm particularly interested to know if there are any that serve a rijsttafel. I really don't understand why the c ... More >>

Russ & Daughters Will Bring Its Holland Herring to Sunday's New Amsterdam Market

Russ & Daughters​New Catch Holland herring fans who couldn't make it to Russ & Daughters' annual Herring Pairing last month, take heart: The store will be serving the Dutch delicacies at this Sunday's New Amsterdam Market.

Fork in the Road's Frozen Treat Fortnight: The Last Round-Up

​For the last two weeks, Fork in the Road has chased down some of the city's best ice creams, gelatos, icies, paletas, sorbets and sherbets, iced pops, frozen yogurts, soft serves, and frozen pudding pops. We've examined new technologies and new flavors; we've praised and made fun of. Follow ... More >>

Frying Dutchmen to Peddle Deep-Fried Carbs in Fancy Frites Form

Crain'sFlying into New York next week.​Just when you thought artisanal grilled cheese trucks were going to supplant Korean taco trucks as the gourmet mobile food vendor of the moment, into the picture flies The Flying Dutchmen, specializing in fancypants French fries.

It's National High-Five Day. Here Are Our Best and Worst High-Five Moments.

​Did you know that it's National High-Five Day today? Have you high-fived your children/coworkers/friends/enemies/bosses/strangers? Have you recounted your favorite high-five moments, like the time you high-fived that dog on the street, and it was either totally bad-ass or the dog bit you on t ... More >>

New Amsterdam Market is Having an Oysterpalooza!

flickr/Allerina & Glen MacLartyShuck 'em!​Get ready for some shucking and slurping: It's going to be an oysterpalooza on Saturday, April 9 at New Amsterdam Market!

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #19: Ringo Starr featuring Joss Stone, "Who's Your Daddy?"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​Far be it from me to make life harder for the least embarrassing living Beatle... but, wow, someone just double-parked his Yellow Submarine in Creepytown.

Ivo Van Hove Stages Pasolini on Governors Island

Teorema at Lincoln Center Festival

Hasids Pedal E in Holy Rollers

Faye Driscoll Is Mad at You and You and You

The Hold Steady Announce New Record: Heaven Is Whenever, Due in May

Judson Baker​Here's to ending the longest drought between Hold Steady albums, ever. In the two years since the Brooklyn band released the hardcore revival moment Stay Positive, the former five piece toured endlessly and, at the tail end of last month, bade farewell to keyboardist and chief mou ... More >>

Flight 253 evacuated in Detroit again today

MyFoxDetroit.com​Vigilant fellow passengers and crew members of Northwestern/Delta Flight 253, the same plane involved in Friday's terror attempt by a Nigerian-born suspect, notified authorities and led to the capture today of a Nigerian businessman who locked himself in the bathroom for, like ... More >>

Let Us Now Praise Stinky Foods: Japanese Natto Beans

tasteofculture.com​Not to be confused with annatto, a red coloring central to several Spanish-speaking Caribbean cuisines, natto are black soybeans (a smaller variety than familiar green soybeans) that are fermented using the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. These beans originated in China, but ha ... More >>

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​East Meets West Holiday Parade Little Italy and Chinatown Merchants Associations are sponsoring a parade from Mulberry to Mott Street, featuring marching bands, martial artists and acrobats, Italian American singers and Lion and Dragon Dance troupes.

Worst New Trend: Redesigned McDonald's, Burger King

​Jeremiah's Vanishing New York visits the McDonald's at 6th Avenue and 15th Street and finds "seating inspired by Arne Jacobsen's biomorphic Egg and Swan chairs of 1958," and "flat-screen televisions... mounted over the dining tables." This is apparently part of a "next generation of McDonal ... More >>

Quick Hits

​ Twitpic by imabrand. Mayor Bloomberg suggested in a meeting with the Daily News editorial board that he had to spend $65 million on his reelection because New York is a Democratic town ("This is a city where one party happens to dominate and party is very important"), and thus unfairly res ... More >>

News Roundup: Them Crooked Vultures, Miley Cyrus, the Walkmen, Yellow Submarine Remake

​--Them Crooked Vultures surprised fans by playing Belgium's Pukkelpop music festival yesterday (check out fan reports here). The band played the second stage between sets by Beirut and Wilco. The night before, the Dave Grohl/Josh Homme/John Paul Jones supergroup played their second gig at a s ... More >>

It's a MADCrush Pop-up Wine Bar at the Museum of Arts & Design

​ For the next five Thursdays, you can sip a glass of wine while overlooking Central Park at The Museum of Arts & Design pop-up wine bar. MAD's seventh-floor event space will be transformed in MADCrush, a temporary bar featuring furniture constructed from recycled wine boxes. A selection of w ... More >>

Dick Move Has a New Teengirl Fantasy 12-Inch, Which Isn't Nearly As Pervy As It Sounds

If you haven't had the pleasure of stumbling onto the blog Pukekos, you should. Brooklyn's B.J. Rubin is a meticulous documenter of underground music from the past decade or so, and routinely offers up digital downloads of long lost releases ranging from an SST Sonic Youth CD with no paper trail to ... More >>

This Week's Post-Black-Cop-Shooting Diversity Training Story

You may dimly remember that a white cop shot a black cop recently. The reaction has been the usual: nice gestures toward the deceased, calls for investigation, and diversity training. Thus, the cops have hired a professor to "investigate whether racial bias influences whether a cop fires a weapon or ... More >>

Born Into Brothels

Oblivion at Film Forum

Heddy Honigmann returns to her roots

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Where the magic happens. As Mom used to say as she filled our juice glass with Four Roses, what a week! The Go John Galt nuts threatened a "wealth producers" strike, though some of their numbers seemed not to have much wealth production to speak of. (Many other Americans scaled back their produc ... More >>

Marlene Dumas Reaches for Bacon; Vik Muniz Goes Plundering

Coney Island of the Mind: Big Thinkers Consider Coney, Offer Depressing Ideas

Clip Job: Jean Shepherd Says: Dig the Folk!

Why Larry Tee Bothers

Jolting New York nightlife—again—with his latest Invasion

Partway to Paradise

The Texas plains look plainer when Audra's offstage; Stew tells an old story pleasantly

'Headspace'

Looks Like Teen Spirit

Rineke Dijkstra's young subjects meet our gaze head-on

The Year in Pop Culture Shame!

The Unexpected Orgy

Spending Shabbat with six half-naked new friends—in one bed

Riding to the Rescue

Sympathetic European cycling activists jump into critical mess to say, 'Free NYC cyclists'

'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'

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Truck Stop

Access of Evil

The Burning of Bleak College

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Dangerous Liaison

Happiness Is Living in Secret With a Man Who Doesn’t Consider Himself Gay

Kiss of the Spiderwoman

Going Dutch

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