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  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    How Many Cops Does It Take to Get a Squirrel Out of a CVS?

    A wild squirrel walked into the CVS at 116th Street and Lenox Avenue on Monday morning and then just stayed, pigging out on delicious mixed nuts for four days, reports DNA Info. This is not only notable because there's video, but also because the squirrel entranced many a staffer and even random on ... More >>

  • Columns

    October 5, 2011

    Kathy Griffin On Paula Abdul, Michele Bachmann, and Anderson Cooper!

    Somebody's got to do the dirty dishes around here

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2011

    Diane McCloud, Long Island Woman, Denied Heart Transplant After Stealing from CVS

    ​Earlier this year, Judge Francis Ricigliano showed sympathy for ailing 47 year-old Diane McCloud, who was serving 15-months in jail for petit larceny. He suspended her sentence in order for her to get on a heart transplant waiting list. The Daily News reports that McCloud appeared in front of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    In New York, Your Cat Will Help You Find Love

    ​Imagine our surprise when, last night, we were just poking around in Craigslist Missed Connections -- not for ourselves, mind you, for a friend -- and we discovered not one, not two, but a veritable plethora of possible connections related to cats. Cat fashions, cat food buying, cat litter bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Williamsburg Is in Its 'Manhattanization' Era, But the Unreliable L Train Could Save It

    ​Today on New Urban Network, Peter Feigenbaum writes of the various stages of the "colonization" of Williamsburg -- "just another chapter in the reconfiguration and rebirth of New York since the city's nadir in the mid-1970s." For history and urban planning nerds, this is some fascinating stuf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    American Idol, Season 10, Top 12 Women: The Glut Of Interchangeable Blonde Chicks

    Julie Zorrilla has been downgraded from "molten hot" to "ridiculously fly." Credit: Michael Becker/FOX.​Here's something Steven Tyler said on TV tonight: "After Monday and Tuesday, even the week says WTF!" This was after Pia Toscana's show-closing, triumphant, r&b-ified take on "I'll Stand by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    NYC's Five Best Bargain-Basement Chain Stores

    ​Shopping is even more fun when it's dirt-cheap, and when you're sure no one you know will be there to catch you hunting for bargains. Here are the five best department chains that appeal to my budgetary needs and kitsch taste.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    The O.B. Tampons Shortage: A Story of Loss and Longing

    ​Tampons. They are important to ladies. We won't go into the details here, but suffice it to say, they're personal. Intimate, even. So when o.b. nonapplicator tampons disappeared from the shelves of our local Duane Reades, something of a Seinfeld: The Sponge Episode was born. Except maybe born ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2010

    Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the 'New Front Line' of Gentrification, According to England

    Via​Our friends on the other side of the pond have discovered a little neighborhood called Williamsburg, in Brooklyn, and today in the Guardian, deem it "perhaps the national capital for young 'hipsters' trying to beat back the commercialism and standardisation that defines much of American da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    CVS to Pay $77.6 Million for Accidentally Helping People Make Meth

    ​Poor CVS. Not only does everyone in New York pretty much prefer Duane Reade (not that there's really a choice), now the drugstore-er is being slapped with (a/k/a, has agreed to pay) $77.6 million in fines and returned profits because they allegedly improperly controlled a substance used to ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Self-Checkout Update: Machines Replace Humans at CVS!

    ​A friend of mine just went to CVS drug store and found that at that particular branch there were no cashiers left at all! There, human workers have apparently become as passe as bath oil beads and plug-in alarm clocks.

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Back Rent Kills East Village Mom-and-Pop Shop Village Fabrics

    via EV Grieve​First it was Grimaldi's Pizzeria in Brooklyn -- nearly three months and $60,000 behind in back rent and city taxes, the famed pie-slingers were facing eviction, despite the lines out the door. But while Grimaldi's owners were able to pay for their slack, the same can't be said fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    How to Have a Green Cookout; Tomatoes Make a Comeback This Year

    ​Target, Wal-Mart, and Costco sell items like recycled aluminum foil, additive-free charcoal briquets, and compostable cutlery for the ultimate green cookout. [Wall Street Journal] Since the launch of Kogi Korean BBQ-To-Go in Southern California in November 2008, dozens of food vendors across ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Times: Unemployed Geezers Even More Screwed Than Younger Ones

    ​The New York Times had the bright idea of following up with some 50-something job-seekers reporter Michael Winerip met at a job fair a year ago. Winerip finds they're doing terrible. "Of the 16 I interviewed again, 9 describe themselves as still struggling," writes Winerip. "Eight continue t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    The Susan Boyle of Salsa!

    She's older than Susan Boyle. Heck, she's even older than Mayor Bloomberg.

  • News

    December 29, 2009

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

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

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Battle of the Dishes: Candy Canes from CVS and Papabubble

    Papabubble's hulking candy cane menaces its CVS competitor.​ Aside from their red stripes, candy canes have changed remarkably little since the 17th century, when, as various sources have it, a German choirmaster took straight white sticks of candy and bent them into hooks to hand out to child ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Have You Seen... Rockaway CVS Thief

    This guy walked into the CVS at 271 Beach 20 Street in Rockaway on November 3rd around 6 p.m. with an empty bag, filled it from the racks, and headed out. He was accosted by the security guard and the store manager, whom he beat up before leaving. This surveillance video shows him entering the st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    American Shoppers Face Dire Eggo Shortage

    ​As head-scratching as the idea of a processed breakfast food shortage may be, apparently Eggo is suffering its own version of a rainy growing season. According to its website, "Eggo recently experienced supply constraints caused by flood damage at our bakery in Atlanta. In addition, we've be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Art D'Lugoff, Village Royalty, Gone Too Soon at 85

    ​Here's to Art D'Lugoff, the great Village music impresario, the round and bearded political and artistic enthusiast, whose eclectic tastes educated more than one generation, and who died yesterday at 85. Much too young. A friend, Thomas Vitullo-Martin, said D'Lugoff had been in good health, ... More >>

  • News

    December 11, 2007

    Cops on Steroids

    Baseball has no monopoly on foul balls. The NYPD's own drug scandal keeps simmering.

  • Music

    March 27, 2007

    Miami Vices

    NYC DJs invade the beaches, yachts, and Radio Shacks of South Beach's famed Winter Music Conference

  • NYC Life

    March 21, 2006

    Life After Reality TV=EMC²

    Project Runway contestant opens downtown shop

  • News

    December 6, 2005

    Video: Shop Local, Live Longer

    In 'Twilight Becomes Night,' a filmmaker watches New York loses its mom-and-pop shops—and a piece of its soul

  • News

    October 26, 2004

    Laborers Looted

    A top officer of the Mason Tenders Union helps himself to the members' money

  • News

    April 13, 2004

    Combo Platter

    Going from videotapes to discs is a snap with two-in-one vhs/dvd machines

  • Dining

    July 1, 2003

    Up on the Bayou

    Where the Catfish Doesn't Bite

  • News

    January 28, 2003

    Pataki's Man in Harlem

    How Randy Daniels Helped Put Chain Stores and Market Prices Uptown

  • News

    August 6, 2002

    Another 'Justified' Homicide?

    A Police Shooting Reveals Scared Tenants and Scary Cops

  • News

    December 12, 2000

    Memo to Turner

    Subject of CNN Story Issues Death Threat

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