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Announcing Our New, Improved, And Totally Awesome Mobile App

We here at the Voice are proud to announce the arrival of our brand-spanking-new app. If you have used our app before, the new incarnation will still be your go-to for New York news, politics, music, concert listings, food, film reviews, and everything else you need to survive in the city. Now all t ... More >>

Announcing Our New, Improved, And Totally Awesome Mobile App

We here at the Voice are proud to announce the arrival of our brand-spanking-new app. If you have used our app before, the new incarnation will still be your go-to for New York news, politics, music, concert listings, food, film reviews, and everything else you need to survive in the city. Now all t ... More >>

Announcing Our New, Improved, And Totally Awesome Mobile App

We here at the Voice are proud to announce the arrival of our brand-spanking-new app. If you have used our app before, the new incarnation will still be your go-to for New York news, politics, music, concert listings, food, film reviews, and everything else you need to survive in the city. Now all t ... More >>

Announcing Our New, Improved, And Totally Awesome Mobile App

We here at the Voice are proud to announce the arrival of our brand-spanking-new app. If you have used our app before, the new incarnation will still be your go-to for New York news, politics, music, concert listings, food, film reviews, and everything else you need to survive in the city. Now all t ... More >>

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Watch This Video of New Yorkers Trying to Nab a Subway iPhone Thief

This year, the Daily News reported that iPhone and iPad theft in New York City is up an astonishing 44 percent so far. The handheld devices, with users constantly looking down at them, are easy targets for thieves. And, in this video from Gothamist's Ben Yakas, taken by a NYPD surveil ... More >>

STREET SURVIVOR

The evolution of Ari Marcopoulos

Food52 to Become Ultimate Culinary Hive Mind

You're probably already familiar with Food52, Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs' cool startup that began as a crowd-sourced cookbook and became a community of over 50,000 cooks (a mix of amateurs and pros) who share recipes, stories and tips. Hotline is the site's popular Q&A service, where cooks co ... More >>

Hollaback!'s Anti-Catcall App Gets 20K from City: Some Thoughts

Hollaback!, the Boerum Hill-based anti-street harassment campaign, will get $20,000 from New York for research and app development. Right now, Hollaback! already offers iPhone and Android apps where women and men can upload pics of street creeps along with harassment stories. The basic idea is both ... More >>

Senator Chuck Schumer to AT&T: Invite Us to Your Industry Meeting, Please

Appealing to his iPhone-addicted constituents, Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling on AT&T to do something about the steep uptick in smartphone thefts in the city. You might be thinking: "What can this little ole cell phone provider do to fight crime in Gotham?" Well, our senator thinks the company can do ... More >>

Shoplifters Cannot Resist Axe Body Spray

Today Adweek has a helpful and revealing list of the items people steal from retailers the most. Apparently, we're a criminal lot, with one in 11 people stealing something he or she didn't pay for -- and 70 percent of shoplifters (most of whom are adults who also have jobs) saying they didn't plan ... More >>

Why I Hate Nightlife! 35 Bitter Reasons!

The never-ending quest for the VIP room and other indignities

Greil Marcus Revisits Some Strange Days...

...in his latest book, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years

We're Really Freaking Happy With the Subway, Apparently

​Despite our own Steven Thrasher's harrowing experience on a smoke-filled 4 train last night, the MTA believes that we are mostly happier with New York City transit than we used to be (and apparently we do, too). According to the results of their just-released 2011 Customer Satisfaction Survey ... More >>

Women Who Want Men to Like Them Pretend to Hate Math

Barbie is so brave.​Science proves that there is a reason all your female friends fake not knowing how to calculate the tip (unless, of course, they truly are terrible at calculating things -- could happen!). Four new University of Buffalo studies have found that when a lady wants to be consid ... More >>

The Best Dishes From The #HipHopBBQActs Menu

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AT&T Buying T-Mobile For $39 Billion

Strange bedfellows.​And lo, one crappy service provider acquires another. AT&T announced today that it's buying T-Mobile USA for $39 billion from Deutsche Telekom. If the two companies fully merge, the deal will give AT&T another 46.5 million customers in America, pushing it way past Veriz ... More >>

Crumbs on Your iPhone: The Chain Launches an App, Moves Into Times Square, Park Avenue

Rebecca MarxCrumbs ahoy.​On the heels of the announcement that it would go public and unleash 200 new stores on the world by 2014, Crumbs Bake Shop is debuting its new iPhone app. According to Crain's, the app allows users to send a birthday card with a Crumbs gift certificate, as well as loca ... More >>

Download Meek Is Murder's Grindcore Opus "Hope Springs Eternal (Spaghetti Code)"

Pic by Ben Umanov​Schizophrenic Brooklyn grindcore troupe Meek Is Murder bounce riffs with the comic, stop-on-a-dime changes of a Carl Stalling cartoon score. Manic, unpredictable, and even a little bit jovial, they're a colorful headfuck, but they certainly don't sacrifice brutality in the na ... More >>

Bittman Dissects McDonald's Oatmeal; Minnesota Introduces 'Cheeseburger Bill'

​Mark Bittman exposes what really lives in McDonald's oatmeal: "A more accurate description than '100% natural whole-grain oats,' 'plump raisins,' 'sweet cranberries' and 'crisp fresh apples' would be 'oats, sugar, sweetened dried fruit, cream and 11 weird ingredients you would never keep in y ... More >>

Snow, Snow, Snow, Etc.; Beloved Twitter Apps Return; Man Finds Wallet After 40 Years

​• Happy Presidents Day! In case you haven't noticed yet, it snowed. Central Park was reporting 2.5 inches as of this morning. There's a chance of more snow over the afternoon, and again tonight. [Weather, NY1] • Protests in Libya against Muammar Qaddafi's totalitarian rule are spreading, ... More >>

NYC Health Department Launches App for Free Condoms; Also, Reminds You How to Use a Condom

​As we mentioned earlier, today is not just the special day of snuggles and commitment that everybody's all moony about, it's also the day of safe sexual encounters. And it's our own Mayor Bloomberg's birthday, to boot. In honor of this fortuitous triumvirate of occasions, the New York City He ... More >>

'Who's My Landlord?' Cover Story Inspires Useful Website, App

​In November, the Voice published a cover story that turned the maddening effort by slumlords to cover their tracks into a mock board game. Little did we know that some web geeks would get inspired and turn our make-believe project into an actual, and useful game! A team of web designers who ... More >>

Dorky Tech Snowball Fight Today at Madison Square Park

via ceonyc on Four Square​In news of extreme things that nerdy people like, New York's tech elite will be gathering at Madison Square Park today at 2:30 p.m. for an old fashioned snowball fight (#techsnowball) to be followed by a group meal at Shake Shack. We can't wait to see how many iPhones ... More >>

Pandora, MySpace and More Apps That Send User Info to Advertisers

​A giant investigation by the Wall Street Journal this weekend shows that many of the applications people load their iPhones and Androids with are transmitting user data -- as much of it as they can collect -- to advertisers. This includes popular apps like TextPlus 4, Pandora and Grindr. Out ... More >>

Food Network Launches an App; New Bacon Soda Is Gross

​Domino's Pizza in Japan has announced it will hire someone for a mysterious one-hour job in December that will pay 2.5 million yen ($31,000). [AP] Meanwhile, Domino's in Europe is opening its first store in Germany, in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, this Saturday. [PR Newswire] Food ... More >>

Williamsburg Drug Dealers Now Literally Ripping Off Customers

​As if the price one pays for drugs isn't enough -- a habit of criminal indulgence at $50 for a little under an eighth -- it now appears your drug dealers are going to gouge you for even more cash these days by just....straight-up robbing you.

Andrew Pressler 'Out' at Fatty 'Cue; Christopher Lee 'In' at Las Chicas Locas

​Scott Conant of Scarpetta has written an open letter to the city of Toronto introducing himself and inviting the city to his restaurant in Miami. [Huffington Post via Eater] Michael Psilakis's is closing down Gus & Gabriel Gastropub on the Upper West Side, but is planning to reopen it in a n ... More >>

HuffPo Dispenses Invaluable Social Media Advice for Youngs

​God, if there's one thing we millennials need advice on, it's how to use social media. Here we are, posting pictures of ourselves shooting up on Facebook and whatnot, barely able to operate our iPhones, practically begging for some guidance from old people. We're in luck, because the Huffin ... More >>

Bros Icing Bros: Icing Attempted on Legendary Astronaut Buzz Aldrin by Foursquare Co-Founder

​Are you hip to the cultural brainworm sometimes referred to as Bros Icing Bros? It involves Smirnoff Ice and humiliation, kind of like your third "real" girlfriend. Regardless: Last night at Cipriani Wall Street, a ceremony celebrating the greater cultural merits of the I CAN HAZ CHEEZERBURGE ... More >>

Meat Is for Pussies; the 'Sifty Fifty' Snubs

This week, in food blogs ... Eat Me Daily marveled at the fact that some woman in the U.K. carved a 1,000-pound giant crown made of cheddar and is giving it to the queen. Eater was surprised to learn that Superdive is still going strong -- now with weekly beer pong tournaments and co-ed wet T-shir ... More >>

Video: The Most Epic Marriage Proposal Ever, Starring Madison Square Park, a Chorus Line, Clowns, Cameras, and That "Shake Shake" Song

​Game. Changed. All of us who have yet to propose to our One and Only are very, very unlikely to step it up to a level of production you're about to see. Some people just have talent, and you can't teach that kind of thing. This is incredible.

NY1's iPhone App Generating Considerable Amount of Excitement

​New Yorkers are passionate about NY1. And now they can be even more passionate about NY1.

Chilean Wine Producer Forced to Halt Production; Moonshine Goes Artisanal

​A new poll shows that most New Yorkers support selling wine in supermarkets. Opponents say it would put many small liquor stores out of business and cost the state thousands of jobs. [Crains] Chile's biggest winemaker, Concha y Toro, has stopped production for at least a week following the e ... More >>

Kids Lunchboxes Packed with Sugar, Salt & Fat; Fake Gatorade Bottles Shame Tiger Woods

​Can one man eat at 10 Danny Meyer restaurants in one day? Apparently so. The author's Meyer Marathon started at Shake Shack, then continued with stops at Tabla, Gramercy Tavern, and ended at Maialino. [Wall Street Journal] Looking for your favorite gourmet food truck? There's an app for that ... More >>

Bronx Mosque Suspends Request to Amplify Call to Prayer; Residents Remain Unsympathetic

​A Bronx mosque that had sought a sound permit to amplify its morning call to prayer has quietly rescinded its application. But the Jame Masjid mosque's revocation of the proposal didn't hush its neighbors, since the mosque plans to resubmit its request to play the undulating ribbon of Arabi ... More >>

Tech Review: iPhone "Hottest Girls" Nude App

Though iPhone apps such as Bikini Blast and Peekababe have been around a while, Alan Leung's Hottest Girls app is said by its developer to be "the first app to have nudity" (He also says, "you should be happy to know that the new update contains 99% non-Asian images.") TechCrunch calls it "iPorn" ... More >>

Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show

In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>

Booze News: Drowning Our Sorrows

The burst of the wine bubble is obvious at this year's tastings of the 2008 Bordeaux vintages, where the prices for wine futures have dwindled. With no possibility of a winemaker bailout, the industry must adapt. [NY Times] Utah has repealed two drinking laws that were unique to the state. Bartende ... More >>

Timberlake Hawks Tequila

This week in booze news... Justin Timberlake tossed his designer fedora into the ring of celebrities with their own spirits brands with his newly launched 901 tequila. The number is supposed to signify the beginning of party time but also happens to be the area code for Memphis, JT's hometown. [Yum ... More >>

Quick Hits

Above: A map of sitcoms that take/took place in New York. If you liked our audio of Bill O'Reilly talking dirty, you'll also enjoy the slow jam remix. A soothing demo of Brian Eno's and Peter Chilvers' ambient music iPhone app. Nudes remain hard to come by, but here's 999 Brits wearing shamrock ... More >>

The-Dream's Logic

How his pop megahits are like iPhones, or maybe like swinging belts

How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B?

Eating hindsight is always 20/20. Looking back I wouldn't have ordered this creation called Wonton Nachos, but I'm a sucker for nachos and odd variations. I was checking out the new Brooklyn Public House (247 DeKalb Avenue) after a show at BAM. It was late, and beer-drinking food called to me. This ... More >>

Daniel Gets Four Stars

Frank Bruni reviews Daniel, loves the new look, gives it four stars.[NY Times]Former White House Chef Walter Scheib cattily recalls Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Bush as always being on diets.[WSJ]A new study finds that women who drink early in pregnancy, possibly before they even know they're pregnant, may ... More >>

Billyburg Bike Lane Removal Protest on Kent

Advance Covers Phone News of a Bygone Era

Red Menace: The Tomato Salmonella Outbreak

Holy Fuck at the Music Hall of Williamsburg Tonight

Dear Diplo, Who Is at the Apple Store Tonight