BlackBerry Mobile Devices

City Wages War on Scam For-Profits

Warning signs

Foragers City Table: Something's in Store for You

A Chelsea artisanal grocery serves up dinner

RUNWAY NOSTALGIA

A new documentary remembers the tents

The Kardashians Are Krashing, According To The Post

The trapdoor has opened up and they're falling into the abyss of showbiz footnotes, where they'll no doubt join Topo Gigio and KC and the Sunshine Band. Says the article, public sentiment has turned against the kulty klan, especially since Kim's marriage barely lasted longer than the Merman/Borgnin ... More >>

Thief Does Not Want Your Stupid BlackBerry

No one wants.​Obviously, people everywhere are angling to steal your wonderful, beautiful iPhone. Not to mention that shiny iPad you're always waving around! As evidence, the New York Post reports today on a duo that has been taking iPhones at gunpoint on the Upper East Side: They've stolen at ... More >>

The 'Hipster'-est Words in NPR's Definitive Piece About Hipsters

You know it's over when you're an NPR article. Or a costume.​Yesterday NPR posted an article called "The Hipsterification of America." We are momentarily lifting our ban on the word hipster to address it, because it is, indeed, something special, and should be publicly recognized. Never in the ... More >>

YOUNG AT HEART

Jonathan Richman returns to the Bell House

Why You Should Maintain at Least One Human Friend

​In this day and age, technology has learned to fuck with us. Facebook will change, without seeming to give us any notice whatsoever! The unfailing Gmail may fail, and none of us will be able to communicate! Those of us who are busy "doing things" on the Internet (where else would we do things ... More >>

London Looters Brag About It on Twitter; the Twitterverse Fights Back

Via Reddit, here's an example of What Not to Do times two: Don't loot. And don't take to social media afterward to brag or make jokes about it. The woman (or person pretending to be this woman, because it's so grotesque it may well be a hoax or troll account) who tweeted the following has since canc ... More >>

Undercover Cops Are Roaming the Subway, Pretending to Nap

MattHurst/Flickr​Here is an interesting trend in police work, as reported by Metro: Transit cops, dressed like just regular old you and me commuter, will pretend to fall asleep on the subway only to open an eye and quickly bust pickpockets (really, we should just start calling these people out ... More >>

StreetMatching.Com Is an Online Dating Site for All Those Missed Connections

There's a dating site for this.​It's the year 2011 and there are waaaaay more options for online dating than Match.com. Enterprising people all over the world are creating business plans for their particular dating schemes (HowAboutWeOnlyDate BeautifulPeopleWithDogsWhoKnit), and the latest, wh ... More >>

Erotic Art With a Happy Ending

At this all-male drawing studio, the models touch themselves—but the artists can't

Jonathan Franzen Really, Really Loves Birds

​You know what Jonathan Franzen hates? The vacuousness of our modern techno-consumerism, and oh, how he hates his BlackBerry and yet loves its "marvelous clarity of its screen, the silky action of its track pad, the shocking speed of its responses, the beguiling elegance of its graphics." Sorr ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Gets 'No Sympathy' From Bloomberg, Digs Smiley Face Emoticons

​The French are concerned about images of the jailed IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, accused of rape, in NYPD handcuffs, because pictures that depict a suspect detained work counter to justice, according to French law. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has little worry about that -- or concern for jus ... More >>

An Almost-True Story About New York's Oversexed Thirtysomethings

​On a recent Thursday night, a 35-year-old in her twelfth year of living in New York hosted a late get-together in her East Village apartment. Everyone there would call it a good party, or, at the very least, an interesting one... This is an outright lie. No one would call it a good party, but may ... More >>

Q&A: Diplo On The Joys Of Dancehall, Kanye West, Social Work, Owning A Label, And Twitter

"For me, Twitter is like my diary. I hope someone saves it so I don't have to write it all again when I'm 75." ​Where do we even start with someone like Diplo? Wes Pentz is a DJ at his core, but he's also a producer (having worked with Lil Jon, Kanye West, and most notoriously M.I.A.), the fo ... More >>

BBM Coming to iPhone: Are There Still Reasons To Buy a BlackBerry?

​Tech rumors are flying that BBM, the exclusive BlackBerry messaging service, will be headed to iPhone and Android phones within the next year. Engadget says that, "RIM intends to take its BlackBerry Messenger outside the cozy confines of the BB ecosystem and straight into its competitors' app ... More >>

Five Better, More Brutally Honest Tips for Successfully Dating a Blogger

via​This is going to be hard to hear, for everyone. Yesterday, the website Social Times, which touts itself as "Your Social Media Source," published an article called "Five Tips for Successfully Dating a Blogger," with a dash of humor and a healthy dose of no please stop this is so misguided. ... More >>

Did Egypt Shut Down the Internet?

​As Egyptian protesters continue to demonstrate against government corruption in Cairo, we hear that BlackBerry Internet access in the country has been blocked. Via The Arabist [Update: as of 11 p.m. the site was giving a "connection interrupted" page load error], I just received a call from ... More >>

Starbucks Finds Ways to Make People Drink Even More Coffee

​Starbucks sure knows how to caffeinate America, having recently introduced its ginormous 31-ounce Trenta size. Now it's come up with a way to get people even more hooked on their java: a mobile application that lets customers pay via their iPhones or BlackBerrys.

So Much More Than Just the Facts in DOC NYC

Cinema's Hottest New Trend: Movies About Websites!

​The only time people aren't online these days is when they're at a movie theater -- after I scream at them to turn off their BlackBerrys, that is -- but now they can get over their Webby withdrawal by watching movies about the Internet. It's the latest trend! I recently saw a Luke Wilson fl ... More >>

New Yorkers Are Fast Talkers and Highly Efficient Cell Phone Users

​New Yorkers' cell phone PDA is constantly in-your-face with people yakking on the sidewalk and texting their way through dinner dates, but this outwardly rude display of love for the devices does not translate into an especially high call or text volume, according to a Nielsen study.

iPhone Users Barely Have Time to Make Any Calls What With All the Sex They've Having

​Oh yeah, here's some news you can use. Dating site OkCupid has done a helpful survey of its users' phone and sex habits, and of all the phoning, sexing Internet daters out there, the iPhoners are the sexingest! After them come BlackBerry users and then people who use Android and may or may no ... More >>

"Tweet," Basically Banned Word, Makes New York Times Headline; Internet Wins

​The Great Tweet-Banning of Early Summer 2010 seems like ages ago. It went like this: Times standards editor (? !) Phil Corbett unleashes a memo insisting that writers and editors "look for deft, English alternatives" because "tweet" is "jargon." Everyone basically agrees, but thinks it's pret ... More >>

Rebel Against the (Cell Phone-Dominated) Paradigm: Employees Sue Over Being Tethered to Cell Phones

​Today, the New York Post covers a bunch of people who are doing that thing everyone does when they feel slighted by society and suing! Suing who? Suing their bosses! Suing their bosses for what? For making them be on their cell phones all the time!

Styles P Wrote a Novel

The hard-boiled NYC rapper has found a new artistic medium for his badassness

Last Night: A Wednesday Night Out On The L.E.S., Featuring A Secret Entrance, Wobbly Dancers, And One Awful Bouncer

​Above, the scene at Ella; below, the nefarious Corona-based secret door at Stay. Pics by Puja. ​New York City's downtown party scene adheres to a finely tuned set of rules. It's one of those things that everyone understands and no one talks about--a delicate balance of power that's main ... More >>

Barack Obama Hates the iPod, iPad, Xbox; Probably Tumblr, Votes From Young People

​The problem with talking shit about young people and the technology they use is that then they use it. They use these technologies to spread Old Man ignorance and laugh at the empty words and remix them, mash them up or juxtapose them with pictures of cats. Young people, or the plugged-in, ma ... More >>

Leap Year, Perfect for that Mother-Daughter Matinee

Michael Musto's Year (and Decade) in Review!

Gaga for Google and every twittle thing that made the Aughts fraught with fakery and fun

Last-Minute Halloween-Ruining Ideas from Runnin' Scared

Here to ruin your Halloween is Chirstian Kimberly Daniels who, in an essay on "The Danger of Celebrating Halloween," calls the frightfest "dedicated to darkness and is an accursed season," and maintains that "Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by goin ... More >>

The Second Act of Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

He's through writing about himself—and he means it this time

Jay-Z's Midlife Crisis Is Over

Which doesn't make The Blueprint 3 a classic. But we'll take it. For now.

Hopeful Dispatches From the 40th Jazz & Heritage Festival

On the Gleeful, Disarming Dissonance of Micachu & the Shapes

Enter the labyrinth with Mica Levi

iFood, You Food

Now that the Obamas have started planting their garden, eating locally is sure to become more popular. You too can be an upstanding locavorous member of society at the simple touch of an LCD screen. The new iPhone Locavore app provides all the tools necessary to eat locally, from maps to the neares ... More >>

Ridley Scott's Body of Lies is the Post-9/11, Tech-Savvy Terror Thriller We Deserve

Lies we can believe in

'How Soon Is Now?' at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

'How Soon Is Now?' at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

At JFK, Erhan Yildirim Clears Corpses For Takeoff

A wing and a prayer

Stuck on the Runways as Fashion Week Takes Off

Diary of a mad housedress

Opening Night

First round of Tailor diners praise servers, renounce narcissism, eat pork belly

Purple Drizzle

Prince's fair-to-middling latest is a sad sign o' the times

Fillet of Soul

A financial-district tale for the broker-hearted

The BlackBerry Trickster

On the trail of a 300-pound con man in hot-pink sunglasses

This Is Constantine Maroulis. He Wishes You Knew That.

In which an American Idol runner-up tops it all by blow-drying his chest

Sundance 2.0

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

Morning Report 9/30/05
Wampumgate's Smoking Guns? Smoking and Guns.

I'm More Wired Than You!

Gadgetry Is Not Just an Obsession— It's a Way of Life