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Radioactive Baby Formula Sold in Japan

​At least 400,000 cans of baby formula on sale in Japan contain radioactive cesium, but the island nation's government says that the contamination isn't dangerous, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Best in Show: Aldo Tambellini at Chelsea Art Museum

Plus: Leandro Erlich at Sean Kelly; “Boundaries Obscured” at Haunch of Venison

The Belarus Free Theatre Arrives With Being Harold Pinter, Zone of Silence, and Discover Love

La MaMa and the Public host the return of the now famous troupe

Klaus Jacob, Columbia Disaster Expert: Why Closing Indian Point Makes Sense

​In October 2008, the Voice profiled Klaus Jacob, Columbia University's expert on urban environmental disasters. In that story, we examined how the Ivy League school had ignored warnings by its own expert about expanding into areas subject to flooding because of climate change. Today we talke ... More >>

Berkeley Residents Panicking Over Almost Non-Existent Radiation

​The Daily has an article (not that I can read the whole thing in my iPad-less state!) about irritating Berkeley, Calif. residents being irrationally afraid of radiation from the nuclear crisis in Japan. They are flocking to the area's health food vitamin apothecary-places to buy potassium iodide, ... More >>

Radiation From Japan Is Headed for California...But Don't Worry

​Before you freak out over the words "radioactive plume" hitting Southern California, know that any radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan will be diluted and, via the New York Times, "at worst, would have extremely minor health consequences in the United States, even if hints of ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find the Lesson of the Japanese Disaster: We Need More Nuclear Power Plants! (Plus Obama Sux!)

Last week Japan was hit by earthquake, tsunami, and volcano. As the country tries to come back from this series of disasters, donations are pouring in from world citizens. Rightbloggers are doing their part, too. They're using the catastrophe as a teachable moment to explain that Obama sucks, glob ... More >>

The Millennium Recedes: Looking Back at Angels in America

The Signature Theatre and Michael Grief remount Tony Kushner's seminal play

Carl Paladino and Yehuda Levin: Made for Each Other

​Not that he'd appreciate the metaphor, but now that Carl Paladino has jumped into bed with veteran local loon Rabbi Yehuda Levin, maybe he'd like to take ownership of some of Levin's greatest hits. The 56-year-old rabbi from Borough Park has been glomming onto TV cameras since the early '80s, ... More >>

Bra Functions as Gas Mask: In Case of Emergency, Remove and Apply to Face

via ebbra.com​So, this happened: An actual doctor has created an actual Emergency Bra (in severe-alert red, with lace edging), that you can, in an emergency, cover your face with so as to avoid breathing in toxic dirty bomb fumes, or whatnot. They sell for $29.95 at ebbra.com under the tagline ... More >>

SWITCHING IT UP

A film festival for the ‘green’ generation

Amateur Bed-Stuy Scientist Embodies 'Do or Die' Ethos with Amateur Nuclear Reactor

​"Cute nerd alert!" notes Daily Intel's assessment of Bed-Stuy resident Mark Suppes, a guy who, the BBC explains, works on web-development for Gucci by day and his homemade nuclear reactor by night. Which is great, because what we really need to do is encourage him.

Oscar-nominated Shorts Roundup 2010

​"Cute nerd alert!" notes Daily Intel's assessment of Bed-Stuy resident Mark Suppes, a guy who, the BBC explains, works on web-development for Gucci by day and his homemade nuclear reactor by night. Which is great, because what we really need to do is encourage him.

Doc-Making Off the Map: Nikolaus Geyrhalter at Anthology

No explanation necessary. These works speak for themselves.

Brooklyn rabbinical student wins WBA title

​Brooklyn's Yuri (or, in english, George) Foreman, who came here from Belarus by way of Israel, defeated previous champion Daniel Santos last night to win the WBA Super Welterweight title. Foreman, who is studying to be a rabbi, is the first israeli to win a world championship title.

Grown Ups in Public School for Children at Play

​Brooklyn's Yuri (or, in english, George) Foreman, who came here from Belarus by way of Israel, defeated previous champion Daniel Santos last night to win the WBA Super Welterweight title. Foreman, who is studying to be a rabbi, is the first israeli to win a world championship title.

Somebody Got Murdered: Drunk Driver Kills Brooklyn Man

View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, Oct. 10,2009, 2:25 a.m. LOCATION: The intersection of 86th Street and 21st Avenue, Brooklyn. A Maryland man has been arrested and charged with drunk driving and manslaughter after causing an accident that killed a Ukrainian man who survived the Chernobyl disaster. ... More >>

Gogol Bordello Non-Stop

View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, Oct. 10,2009, 2:25 a.m. LOCATION: The intersection of 86th Street and 21st Avenue, Brooklyn. A Maryland man has been arrested and charged with drunk driving and manslaughter after causing an accident that killed a Ukrainian man who survived the Chernobyl disaster. ... More >>

Flora! Flora! Flora! It's Plants as Muse in a Big Group Show at a Manhattan Bank

View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, Oct. 10,2009, 2:25 a.m. LOCATION: The intersection of 86th Street and 21st Avenue, Brooklyn. A Maryland man has been arrested and charged with drunk driving and manslaughter after causing an accident that killed a Ukrainian man who survived the Chernobyl disaster. ... More >>

New Kids on the Block

Immigrant families try to wade through the school system bureaucracy

Blade Runner

Immigrant families try to wade through the school system bureaucracy

Welcome to the Jungle

Two movies, one point: That bacon burger you ate for lunch? Big mistake.

Flood Watch

Who slept here, and where were they when the waters began to rise?

Horoscope

Who slept here, and where were they when the waters began to rise?

'Typhoon'

Who slept here, and where were they when the waters began to rise?

The Orange Revolution's Message

You can help free a Cuban prisoner of conscience from a windowless underground cell

Books

You can help free a Cuban prisoner of conscience from a windowless underground cell

Film

You can help free a Cuban prisoner of conscience from a windowless underground cell

No-Sweat Gift Guide

You can help free a Cuban prisoner of conscience from a windowless underground cell

Off the Wall

An Extreme Painter Lays It Out

The Climes They Are A-Changin'

The Indisputable Science of Global Warming

Dirty Doings

The Justice Department Is Warning of Dirty Bombs. Freaked Out?

Gogol a Go-Go

Eugene Hütz's Gypsy Punk Cabaret Takes New York

Unsafe at Any Price

If Terrorists Take Down Nuclear Plants, You Pay—By the Hundreds of Billions

How We Lost Afghanistan

Fighting Terror on $1 Billion a Month

Nation

Fighting Terror on $1 Billion a Month

Goddesses and Monsters

Fighting Terror on $1 Billion a Month

Britney’s School for Aliens

Fighting Terror on $1 Billion a Month

Nation

Fighting Terror on $1 Billion a Month

Nation

Fighting Terror on $1 Billion a Month

Spring Bouquet

All Kinds of Dances Bloom in April

Parting Shots

All Kinds of Dances Bloom in April

Tea in Our Harbor

Ready for Your Grill This Fourth of July: Broadway Producers

Children of Chernobyl

Cubans Continue to Treat Victims of a Nuclear Disaster

Peace Blitz

Hawks in the Dark Over Belgrade

He's Killing 'Em in Kosovo

Milosevic Moves as Administration Stalls

Scoop

Behind the White House Face-Lift

Future Schlock

Behind the White House Face-Lift

Rubicon Beach

Sonic Youth in Occupied America