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Nas, 2 Chainz, Fabolous, Miguel More - Capitale - 4/30/13

Better Than: Farmville "Why am I here?" That's the refrain that kept running through my head as I walked into Capitale on the Bowery last night, where Nas, 2 Chainz, Miguel, Elle Varner and a whole host of hip-hop and R&B artists emerged to celebrate the launch of Gig-IT, a new performance-based Fa ... More >>

Old Hats Doesn't Make Clowning New--But Does Make It Excellent.

Boys being clowns being boys

The Return of M. Wells: Hugue Dufour and Sarah Obraitis Move Into MOMA's P.S.1

Publishers Fight Back Against Schoolbook Piracy

Textbook torrents

Live: Grimes, Wild Nothing, And DIIV Electrify The Hudson River

Grimes w/Wild Nothing, DIIV Hudson River Park/Pier 84 Thursday, August 9 Better than: Halloween. Denizens of New York City know painfully well the dangers of the fabled "free show." Some have risen up against the tyranny of the Vans House Party and lost their lives evenings, while others have stru ... More >>

Live: Wake Up Madagascar Brings Serious Salegy To Bleecker Street

Jaojoby, Saramba, Razia Said, and Charles Kely Le Poisson Rouge Friday, July 20 Better than: "We Are the World" "I know there've been some complaints about the lack of seating," said MC Jamie Ambler as he primed the pump for Wake Up Madagascar, a traveling troupe of musicians raising awareness abo ... More >>

Live: Squeeze Turn Lemons Into Lemonade At The NYCB Theater

Squeeze / The B-52's NYCB Theater at Westbury Sunday, July 15 Better than: Writing in a diary. Last night the British pop band Squeeze took the slowly rotating stage at Long Island's NYCB Theater at Westbury (a.k.a. Westbury Music Fair) to their debut single "Take Me I'm Yours," a grand proclamat ... More >>

Q&A: Dom Kennedy On The Yellow Album, Maybach Music Group Rumors, And Funkmaster Flex's Tupac Comments

Over the last few years, hip-hop artists who grew up in the hood but wanted to go beyond clichéd gangsterisms have been on the rise—Kendrick Lamar, Curren$y, A$AP Rocky, Big K.R.I.T. Hailing from Los Angeles's Leimert Park neighborhood is Dom Kennedy, another subscriber to the school of thoug ... More >>

Art of the Deep Fry

That spot where the food and art worlds collide is a really odd place. And I find I'm always fascinated by food-related art projects, even when (especially when?) they're over the top. You may know Brooklyn-based New Zealander Henry Hargreaves from his previous projects, like the old-fashioned type ... More >>

Village Voice Media Releases First E-Book -- Seven Sins: A True Crime Anthology

Every week writers for the Village Voice and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing--a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories. Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True Cr ... More >>

Seeing Space Shuttle Enterprise From the Q Train: A Close Encounter of the Manhattan Bridge Kind

Knowing the Space Shuttle Enterprise was going to be arriving today in New York City, I was extremely pissed off to realize I had a doctor's appointment which would preclude me from actively viewing it, and I'd most likely be underground in the subway when it flew over the Hudson, guaranteeing I wou ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: April 18-24, 2012

TLC Seeks Proposals For Taxi Payment App

The days of having to carry around cash in order to take cabs are so long gone. Now, in addition to taxi's ubiquitous credit card machines, the Taxi & Limousine Commission is soliciting proposals for an app that will allow people to pay for their ride on their smartphone. It's just the next step in ... More >>

Pizza Prints: The Most Important Invention of 2011 or Any Year

You're probably busy getting ready for the festivities tonight, but please, take the time to watch the above video. It's a demonstration of Pizza Prints, which are meltable graphic decals you apply directly onto pizza. Pizza Prints are more than just fun, delicious, and gluten-free--they are quite ... More >>

100 & Single: Can Katy Perry Turn The States' Post-Christmas No. 1 Race Into Something UKrazy?

​Thanks to her husband, Katy Perry considers herself as an honorary Brit. But as the most frequent current inhabitant of the Billboard charts, she must wish we were all anglophiles. If only America had a Christmas No. 1 competition as rabid and media-fueled as Old Blighty's! Katy would have t ... More >>

McDonald's Cashier Cleared of Assault Charges; Unemployment Down; Deadly Shooting on Q111

​Rayon McIntosh, the McDonald's cashier who was videotaped beating two unruly customers with a metal rod in October, was cleared of all charges after eleven days of grand jury testimony. The Daily News reports McIntosh, who had previously served almost ten years in jail for a manslaughter rap, ... More >>

Steve Jobs Portrait Already in National Portrait Gallery

The deification of recently deceased Steve Jobs continues apace. A 1982 portrait of the Apple chief by Diana Walker is now being displayed on the first floor of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian. It's a pretty amazing photo:

Thought Long Settled, Print vs. Web Debate Rages On In Beware the Gonzo

Live: The 4Knots Party Continues With Dan Deacon And Yeasayer (And The Spice Girls, Too)

Willie Davis​4Knots Music Festival: Dan Deacon, Yeasayer (DJ sets) Saturday, June 16 4Knots Indoor Lounge Better than: Going home and passing out. In my coverage of the 4Knots main stage, my "critical bias," as named at the bottom of these write-ups, has been fairly obvious—almost so o ... More >>

Live: Washed Out Play Against Type At The Bowery Ballroom

Washed Out, Grimes, Blood Orange The Bowery Ballroom Monday, July 11 Better than: Trillwave? To any musician with an audience, it's been clear for ages—probably dating back to when Dylan went electric—that to change your entire instrumental vocabulary is one of the biggest risks you c ... More >>

The Brains And Boxes Behind Blip: Six Video Game Consoles To Use As Instruments, And The Geeks Who Love Them

​NYC's annual three-day Blip Festival, which starts tonight, is the world's most important celebration of "chiptune" music, wherein gamers-turned-composers write songs using their favorite ancient video game consoles. Wanna see how the sausage gets made? Let's take a look at the consoles that ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Death Pictures Hit First Freedom of Information Act Bump

​With President Obama deciding that the United States is not the type of country to release photographs of a dead Osama Bin Laden, shot in the head, there are two ways the public will ever see them: 1) a government leak when this all dies down, or 2) an enterprising journalist whose Freedom of ... More >>

Your iPhone Records Where You've Been; What Are You Going To Do About It, Chump?

​The tech world is having itself a little freak-out over the news that iPhones using iOS4 (the latest operating system) have been saving users' location data whenever they make a cell call. Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden discovered a hidden file in the phone's operating system that keeps track ... More >>

Vibrators Are Everywhere Now

​Did you know you can buy vibrators at Duane Reade now? Well, you can. No longer are they illicit devices confined to the vague, grimy territory of sex shops, hidden in brown paper bags or unmarked boxes, purchased late at night on furtive shopping missions to "video stores" with blacked-out w ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to West End, Goodbye to Café Flo

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Vai, the Upper East Side spot that just got a Soho outpost, has closed. The building is reportedly being torn down. [Grub Street] Café Flo in Astoria did not survive a four-alarm blaze that r ... More >>

Julian Assange Essay Slams New York Times; Vice Media Is Rich as Hell and Respectable

​The relationship between the New York Times and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange soured amid a power struggle, resulting in a detailed account of their break-up from the newspaper in which Assange is described as "a bag lady," as well as "arrogant, thin-skinned, conspiratorial and oddly credu ... More >>

Senator Schumer Coaches Colleagues on Press Call; The Guardian To Expand Stateside

Chuck Schumer, media adviser​On Tuesday morning, a telling little bit of the relationship between high-ranking politicians and the press was exposed when New York Senator Chuck Schumer was caught chatting prematurely on a conference call about the budget process with his fellow lawmakers. Schu ... More >>

Perfect Gay Couple Calls Digby Doll Son

​"Guys and doll," in today's edition of the iPad newspaper The Daily, is so much better than the world's oldest dog and all of the other dog stories combined, because it tells the gripping human interest tale of Mark Kirby and A.J. Sapolnick, whose 20-year-old son is a doll named Digby. Both m ... More >>

Nikki Finke Photo From The Daily Looks Legit

​Yesterday, we expounded on the saga of Nikki Finke, the uber-powerful Hollywood blogger behind Deadline.com, who refuses to be photographed and rarely leaves her house. She's also known to throw around threats, like negative coverage or worse, a blackout, for studios and websites should they ... More >>

Ex-Bon App Editor Barbara Fairchild Now Writing for Digital Mag Real Eats

Fairchild for the digital age.​The last we heard from Barbara Fairchild she was getting ready to launch her own food website. Now the ex-Bon Appetit editor is going digital.

Nikki Finke Fighting The Daily Over Photo

​Nikki Finke, the fearsome Hollywood blogger behind the rich Deadline sites, is important enough to have an HBO show created in her image. She's also been called the most "despised and uncompromising journalist in Hollywood," breaking a lot of industry news, but just as often making enemies, y ... More >>

New York Times Opens Hangover Rooms, Goes WikiLeaks; Rupert Murdoch Babies His Kids

""recoverycouch.jpg" via​It happens: some mornings you get to work without having been home the night before and you pull a freshly starched white shirt from the bottom drawer of your desk, you brush your teeth under the fluorescent light of the men's room with one of those little things you p ... More >>

8 in 10 Americans Think Prayer Saved Gabby Giffords

​According to a new Fox News poll, 8 in 10 American voters (Fox polled 900 of them) say they think prayers helped Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords survive being shot through the brain in a Tucson Safeway parking lot nearly two weeks ago. Giffords continues to improve, today scrolling t ... More >>

Paul McCartney Wins Kennedy Center Honors and Maybe All of 2010 As Well

Though the gala was weeks ago, CBS just got around to airing the annual Kennedy Center Honors award show. Among the honorees? Bill T. Jones, Jerry Herman, Merle Haggard, Oprah Winrey, and Paul McCartney, to whom Steven Tyler can be seen paying awkward, shrill tribute to above. Which makes us wond ... More >>

Who is the Media Person of the Year? (or "This Discussion Panel is On Fire, A Play in One Act.")

​At 12PM today at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute -- less than a block away from the Village Voice offices -- a panel discussion sponsored by I Want Media convened to discuss their 9th Media Person of the Year award. The panel -- featuring the New York Times' David Carr, Mediaite's ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Goat Town; Goodbye to Paladar

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Chiam Chinese Cuisine, known for its tasty dumplings, has shuttered after 19 years in operation in Midtown East. [Zagat Buzz] Orologio in the East Village appears to be on the chopping block. ... More >>

Angry Birds, The Short Movie (Video)

​When Steve Jobs revealed the iPad to the world, we were told to expect the world to be changed by the way we consume movies, music, write emails, and read things. Instead, what we really got was a better way to play Angry Birds, which is the best thing that happened in 2010. And now, there's ... More >>

News Corp. is Basically Hiring Everyone for The Daily iPad Thinger

​Lock up ye editorial staffers! The Daily is trying to hire them if they haven't already. And if Papa Rupe doesn't come for 'em, Yahoo will. A New York Observer-er peaces out. Finally, the clearing out of some old items, the firing of some long-needed shots, and the media company you're most l ... More >>

A History of Banned Drinks; Mike Tyson to Launch Kosher Resto Chain

​Sen. Charles Schumer has called for a ban on reusable grocery bags because some contain "five times the allowable limits for lead." [NY Post] A total of 11 out of 28 Bronx bodegas were caught in a sting selling the controversial caffeinated cocktail in a can Four Loko to minors. [NY Post] M ... More >>

Jimmy McMillan Sells Out, Officially; May Be Able to Pay Rent (Video)

​Jimmy McMillan, the "Rent Is Too Damn High" guy and surprise "star" of New York's recent gubernatorial debate, has about an iceberg's chance in hell of getting elected tomorrow, but he doesn't seem too depressed about that. We mentioned recently that he'd been offered an endorsement deal from ... More >>

Annals of Dim Sum Innovation: Jin Fong and Very Tong Vie for Supremacy

​Ever seen this one before? Shrimp paste and vegetables packaged like sushi at Very Tong. Three years ago, the city was in the dim sum doldrums, a condition that had persisted for a decade or more. What you got when you traipsed into one of the football-field size dining rooms was a processio ... More >>

Apple to Announce New and Improved Version of Now-Outdated Thing You Just Purchased on September 1st

​Does Apple really have to throw themselves a whole big event party thing every time they roll out a product? It's not that they aren't informative -- they are -- it's more that they feel like a company who just sold you a $500 piece of electronics which now makes you more available to people ... More >>

Letter Grades May Lead to Frozen Sushi; Fast-Food Chains Embrace Sustainable Fish

​A new iPhone app allows park-goers to order food from the green. CityMint has a GPS add-on that allows delivery people to locate customers anywhere in the park, forgoing the need for a fixed address. [NY Daily News] Jacques Torres may have pissed off Hershey's with his Champagne kiss, but Ge ... More >>

The New iPhone Features, Re-Revealed: The Basics

Via Engadget.Click to enlarge.​Remember that time Gawker Media gadget blog Gizmodo got their hands on an iPhone prototype, and it caused a big deal and mess and all kinds of fun trouble? Well, Apple had their big WWDC conference -- where they reveal all the new fun toys they have that you're g ... More >>

Shots Fired! Former New York Observer Editor Peter Kaplan Takes Tech Pundit Jeff Jarvis to Task

​Talk about burying the lede: AdAge just posted an article by Edmund Lee about Examiner.com, the web news traffic-gulag that sources out news stories to hundreds of inexperienced, amateur reporters (or "Examiners"), who then quickly write up Google-happy headlines and accompanying fluff that s ... More >>

Kill Your Television Week Inspires Family Bonding, '90s Nostalgia, the DTs

​It's National TV Turn Off Week, which means, folks, time to shut down those boob tubes and spend some quality time watching Netflix on your laptop. Or playing with your new iPad. Or listening to the family's favorite tunes on personalized coordinated iPod Nanos. No, but seriously...

Radiolab's Jad Abumrad on Lebanese Cooking, Foodies, and Why He Wishes He Could Eat Like the Jetsons

Radiolab's Jad Abumrad and his parabolic lens.​WNYC's Radiolab has developed a serious following -- it currently ranks third in iTunes podcast downloads behind This American Life and Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!. Its success is thanks to its mesmerizing sound design, and storytelling that teas ... More >>

BlogBeat: Sharon Waxman Won't Be Jacked by Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff will aggregate Sharon Waxman's smile. Sharon Waxman wants to mace Michael Wolff's face.​In this week's Monday BlogBeat, Hollywood blogger Sharon Waxman goes to war with Vanity Fair columnist and Newser entrepreneur Michael Wolff over getting her content stolen; a disgraced New Yo ... More >>

First Action Comics, Sold for Record $1 Million, on Display this Week in New York

​Comic book trading website ComicConnect.com posted a rare first edition Superman comic book on their site this week, and within one minute the special copy sold for $1 million. Someone really wanted that damn comic book. Vincent Zurzolo and Stephen Fishler, co-founders of the website, always ... More >>

Barack Obama is Golden, Rush Limbaugh is Screwed -- Predictions for the Year of the Tiger!

By Fatimah Surjani Ortega Yes, Tiger, this could be your year​Sunday ushers in the Year of Metal Tiger, which sounds like a golf club. That's actually appropriate, because things look auspicious for Tiger Woods -- as long as he can keep his dick in his pants. Just in time for Chinese New Yea ... More >>