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  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Jordan Hawes Gets 25 Years In Prison For Beating Wife To Death With Baseball Bat...As She Slept

    ​A 32-year-old Astoria man will have the next 25 years to think about the last night he spent with his "best friend" -- which happened to be the same night he beat her to death with a baseball bat as she slept in the apartment the couple shared.Jordan Hawes, a now-former chef in Manhattan, pleaded ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 15, 2012

    'The Club House Party' w/ Anthony Parasole+Jus-Ed

    ​A 32-year-old Astoria man will have the next 25 years to think about the last night he spent with his "best friend" -- which happened to be the same night he beat her to death with a baseball bat as she slept in the apartment the couple shared.Jordan Hawes, a now-former chef in Manhattan, pleaded ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Hispanic Man Killed and Eaten

    Today in El Diario, that newspaper at your bodega you always wondered about... A man killed and ate the eyeball and part of the brain of a Hipsanic man from Connecticut, the Spanish-language daily reports. Police arrested Tyree Lincoln Smith, 35, on Tuesday night El Diario reports. They say that S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Juliette Dunn Arrested for Making 4-Year-Old Chug Beer, Giving 10-Month-Old Cocaine

    Part of a 2009 billboard to stop underage drinking in Connecticut. ​Remember how angry you were at that mom yesterday who let her baby roll out of her subway car in its stroller as she engaged in a wig-pulling throw-down with a fellow subway rider? Well, that mom is like the world's best mom c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Man Calls 911 Over 'Beer Emergency'

    Get it?​Fact: 911 does not care if you're out of beer. Even if you do. A Connecticut man has learned this lesson the hard way after calling 911 three times on Sunday under the guise of "an emergency." When medics arrived at the home of Raymond Roberge, who is 65 and should certainly know bett ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 27, 2010

    'Club House Presents DJ Jus-Ed & Anthony Parasole'

    Get it?​Fact: 911 does not care if you're out of beer. Even if you do. A Connecticut man has learned this lesson the hard way after calling 911 three times on Sunday under the guise of "an emergency." When medics arrived at the home of Raymond Roberge, who is 65 and should certainly know bett ... More >>

  • Music

    July 6, 2010

    Inside the Nitrous Mafia, an East Coast Hippie-Crack Ring

    Summer concert season means jamming to the familiar hiss of 'hippie crack'

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    The Many Thankful Screw-ups of Broadway Bomber Faisal Shahzad

    ​ There are a slew of new details today on klutzy failed car-bomber Faisal Shahzad's many missteps. Each one is deserving of a separate prayer of thanks that our latest attacker may have held an MBA, but apparently fell well short of the threshold for a Boy Scout preparedness badge. First the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Faisal Shahzad Seemed to Have a Happy Home Life

    AP​Details continue to emerge about Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber intercepted by agents aboard an Emirates flight at JFK as he was attempting to flee to Dubai on Monday night.

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    The Great Faisal Shahzad Garbage Pick: A Scoop You Can't Tweet

    ​Between the alert Vietnam vet T-shirt vendor, the big good-looking cop on horseback, the detective who squeezed underneath the Nissan Pathfinder to read the VIN number that klutzy car-bomber Faisal Shahzad forgot about, the FBI agents who lost his trail, and the mayor who decided he'd deal wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    Times Square Bomb Suspect Not Driven By Bad Housing

    ​ If the FBI really does have the right Times Square bombing culprit in Faisal Shahzad, the naturalized American citizen from Pakistan who was picked up last night at JFK, then his motives don't appear to have anything to do with bad housing. Here's a web shot of a home in the leafy Connecticu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Interview: Dick Zigun, Mayor of Coney Island, on What's Good and Not So Good About the City's Coney Plans

    Photo (c) Robert Schaffer. Dick Zigun is the artistic director of Coney Island USA. His Sideshows by the Seashore not only features the last "10 in One" sideshow, but showcases burlesque, houses a museum, and plays hosts to many events, including the Coney Island Film Festival, and is the headqua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Crime Beat: Explosive Documents Finally Unsealed, Rip Open Cardinal Egan's Sex-Abuse Coverup as Connecticut Bishop

    Cardinal sins: Years after his woeful behavior in the priest sex-abuse scandal, Edward Egan moved to New York and became a cardinal. Here he is with President George W. Bush. (Egan is the one who's not praying.) Documents long sealed and finally released against the Catholic Church's wishes reveal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    It's All Fun and Games Until Somebody Dies at the Gathering of the Vibes Fest

    ​Gathering of the Vibes Festival, the 14-year-old lark of a four-day concert in Bridgeport, Connecticut, concluded its 2009 edition on Sunday in a deluge of rain, Grace Potter, CSN, and Buddy Guy, tallying tens of thousand people in attendance and one mysterious dead body. The AP reports: Pol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    Woman Cuffs Man to Encourage Pillow Talk

    Our old hometown of Bridgeport is back in the news. Let's see what it is this time. The New York Post says an estranged husband fell asleep with his estranged wife -- no red flags so far -- and woke up to find himself handcuffed to her. Apparently role-play was not involved, as least so far as we un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2009

    Teacher Makes Kid Eat Banana from Trash, Hijinks Ensue

    Our old hometown of Bridgeport is back in the news. Let's see what it is this time. The New York Post says an estranged husband fell asleep with his estranged wife -- no red flags so far -- and woke up to find himself handcuffed to her. Apparently role-play was not involved, as least so far as we un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2009

    New New York Archbishop Gets Right to Work

    We tend to forget that, despite our godless liberal reputation, the Catholic Church plays a huge role in the life of New York. It holds spiritual sway over millions of our citizens and owns some prime real estate, which always buys a seat at the power table. Historically its archbishop has been a pr ... More >>

  • Film

    January 22, 2008

    American Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance ’08

    Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine.

  • News

    August 21, 2007

    NYPD Blew It

    Kelly's new deputy chief of training brings lots of experience, much of it bad

  • News

    February 20, 2007

    Letters

    Kelly's new deputy chief of training brings lots of experience, much of it bad

  • News

    October 17, 2006

    In the Beginning, There Was Adam

    The man who helped bring Abramoff down goes to prison for his own nefarious deeds.

  • News

    September 5, 2006

    FEVA Dream

    The East Village's Howl festival collapses amid mudslinging, debt, and broken promises

  • News

    April 18, 2006

    Letters

    The East Village's Howl festival collapses amid mudslinging, debt, and broken promises

  • NYC Life

    May 3, 2005

    After Mitchell-Lama

    We were shelling out $400 every couple of months to pay for the lawyer

  • News

    June 29, 2004

    Kerry's Catholic Question

    Cardinal Edward Egan faces a defining moment in the 2004 race for the White House

  • Music

    June 1, 2004

    Go 'Head, Fred!

    Boondocks and motherland sing that song to da rhythm of da boogie da bang bang da bong

  • News

    June 27, 2000

    Beating the Bushes

    Minor-League Ball Flourishes in the Shadow of the Mets and Yanks

  • News

    May 30, 2000

    The Archbishop's Tale

    Egan’s Bridgeport Record Offers Little Hope to Catholic Progressives 

  • News

    August 31, 1999

    Release the Hounds

    Dog Racing— The Sport of Plebes

  • News

    June 15, 1999

    Stand-Up Conspiracist

    UFOS, JFK, and Richard Belzer

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