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If You See a Snakehead in Central Park, Eat It

Ugly but delectable: the snakehead fish New Yorkers were shocked by recent news that snakeheads - fierce predatory fish that originated in Southeast Asia - had been discovered in Central Park's Harlem Meer. They were said to be bigger and more dangerous than piranhas. The Central Park Conservancy ... More >>

How Does a Small Band Book a Tour?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Q&A: The Found Footage Festival's Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher Have Got You on Tape, America

You name it, they've found it--The do's and don'ts of caring for your ferret, relics from the golden age of Jazzercise, and brazen fourth wall-breakers like "Rent-A-Friend," for very lonely people. Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have curated the great American garage sale of fringe video, one uninte ... More >>

NYC Food Film Festival Announces 2012 Selections

Selections for the NYC Food Film Festival have been announced. It sold out last year, but for those who aren't familiar with the event -- it's a film festival where you can taste what you see. Highlights include an authentic Lowcountry Oyster Roast, featuring South Carolina Oysters harvested in Bu ... More >>

Back Forty Stages an Oyster Showdown. Slurpers Mark Calendar.

ChefMattRockWellfleets will try their damnedest.​ There have been numerous East Coast-West Coast feuds: Biggie vs. Tupac, David Chang's "Fig-Gate," and now a bicoastal oyster rivalry. The country's bivalve bookends will go head-to-head at Alphabet City's Back Forty on November 19 from 3 p.m. t ... More >>

Q&A: Sex Church's Levon On Autumn, Depression, And Creepshow

If any single phrase summarizes the Sex Church approach to reverb-drenched bombs, it's unquestionably "virulent erosion." The Vancouver-based outfit showcases a series of intense, furiously clanged and flanged slow/whoa! dissolves on its full-length debut Growing Over (Load). From the swirling acti ... More >>

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Download "Here To Stay" By Milagres, Who Are Playing Mercury Lounge Tonight

Cameron Wittig ​ The debut album by Milagres almost never happened. The indie-rock group's singer and main songwriter Kyle Wilson had grown weary of his band and Brooklyn, so he traveled to rural British Columbia to rough it and contemplate his future. While rock climbing, he fell and suffered ... More >>

Quintron and Miss Pussycat Cancel Their Upcoming Tour, Including Brooklyn Show on May 28

We spoke with swampbuggy bad-ass Quintron very briefly on Monday afternoon, amid the throes of a pre-tour van emergency. But since then something else far more harrowing has developed, specifically an undisclosed "family emergency at home," which has sadly forced cartoon lady Miss Pussycat and her o ... More >>

Spring Arts Guide: 10 Semi-Erudite Choices for Spring Literature

Rimbaud, meet Betty White. Plus David Foster Wallace, Tayari Jones, and other spring books picks.

Behold, Britney Spears Is Coming To The Tri-State Area in August

It's been some time now since Britney Spears was plucked from her pleasant Louisiana life and transformed into the world's foremost pop-robot. The seductive ...Baby One More Time came out twelve years ago, it's success crowning Britney as the prototypical, twenty-first century pop star. In the years ... More >>

tUnE-yArDs Announces New Album, Plays MHOW In May

​Merrill Garbus, a/k/a the ukulele-strumming/drum-pounding/beatboxing/growling dervish known as tUnE-yArDs, is one of the best live acts going right now, a riot of energy, color, and (most importantly) volume, a loop-building and tonsil-flaring spectacle so joyous we're willing to tolerate the ... More >>

Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: From Kanye West to The Suburbs

Free Will Astrology: November 3 through 9

Wake Up to Coffee Cocktails; Canadians Come Up with Wine-Fed Beef

​The Randolph at Broome has started serving hot and cold coffee cocktails from 8 a.m. on, such as the World's Best Dad, incorporating Laird's Applejack and sweet vermouth, and the Slow Trip to New Orleans, made with Bulleit bourbon, Plymouth sloe gin, and coffee. [Diner's Journal] Tokaj, Hun ... More >>

Wild Rabbits Take Over Canadian Campus

Via Boing Boing comes this shaky 30 second cell phone video of a bunch of feral rabbits just chillin' on the grounds of the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Apparently, their nonstop sex has become a problem as 2,000 of these adorable bunnies tear up the lawn at the Canadian school. Acc ... More >>

OH, CANADA!

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Yes, I 'Actually' Like It

More music to love, loathe, fear, and tragically fail to avoid

New Tricks Against Bedbugs: Dry Ice Pet Dish, "Bedbug Saunas"

​Despite the founding this year of the city council's Bed Bug Advisory Board, bedbugs are still a problem in New York. WABC proposed yesterday a "less than $20" solution developed by a Rutgers entomology professor Changlu Wang: a fabric-lined, upside-down pet dish with a cooler of dry ice on ... More >>

SNOW DAY

Get psyched for winter

All of the Apples Available at the Union Square Farmers' Market, 11/12/09

AMBROSIA (British Columbia, new cultivar, sweet, not bad for eating) ​ This picture file is the result of a visit to the Union Square Farmers' Market on Saturday, November 12, 2009, and represents an accurate record of every apple available for sale, 30 in total. The apples are presented in al ... More >>

BIGFOOT STRIKES AGAIN

Michael Puzzo's Lyric is Waiting

Darcy James Argue's Metal Machine Music

The long-awaited 'steampunk big band' emerges at last

East Coast Oysters vs. West Coast Oysters, Bout One

The pugilists (clockwise beginning at the lower left): Beaver Tail, Fire Island, Meximoto, Phantom Creek   "In this corner, defending the honor of East Coast oysters," the ringmaster intoned, "are Beaver Tails from Rhode Island, and Fire Islands from Long Island." "And in that corner," h ... More >>

Giuliani "Advises" Pillmaker Banned by FDA, Opposes Needle Program

Letters 7.16.08

The Would-Be Hubbard Biographer

"Sex and the City" (Again), President Bush and Spinning Bullies: Other Tabloid News

I'd Rather Masturbate Than Have Sex With My Girlfriend. Yup.

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Knockin' Vintage Boots

Golden girls get their groove on past 60

Visions of Light Boxes

Jeff Wall, photographer of modern life, shines at MOMA

Letters

Victoria's Secret Goes Green, Sort of

Rockafeller Skanks and Immanentizing Canucks

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Broken Glowers

My Life is a dog: Redford self-actualizes, Freeman bears the burden in new Hallstrom

Dear Bush Beat: 'We Are Fed Up with American B.S. About The Great Bush Government … '

Beating Franz Ferdinand, in More Ways Than One

Sports

Ride Hard, Die Hard

Under-the-Table-Again Rock

Horoscope

Mind the Gaps

Palestine 101

A Short Take on a Long History

Letters

Infiltrate It

Natural Capitalism

An Interview With Corporate Guru Paul Hawken

Three Degrees Celsius and Rising

Canadian Hip-Hop Thaws Out

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