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HEART OF GLASS

Jean-Michel Othoniel 
comes to brooklyn

LET'S GET PHYSICAL

Neon Lycra and headbands 
never looked this good

Woman's One Happiness Is Her 1,200 Pairs of Shoes

​Here is something we hate at Runnin' Scared: Stereotypes. Particularly when people embody stereotypes in some desperate, transparent search for self-fulfillment, when really, they could, like, volunteer in a soup kitchen or just go get drunk and cry in their ice cream or something. Anyway! Be ... More >>

D-Tahjah Devone, 11, Missing in the Bronx

Where is D-Tahjah Devone?​Cops asked for help Monday afternoon in finding 11-year-old D-Tahjah Devone, who was last seen Sunday at her home, 1251 Webster Avenue, just south of Claremont Park in the Bronx. She's described as 4-6 and 100 pounds. D-Tahjah was last seen wearing a red T-shirt, blue jea ... More >>

"Will Carl Lewis Finally Come Out?"

​Olympic gold medal winner Carl Lewis is reportedly still running--this time for New Jersey Senate--but will he keep running away from the sexuality talk that's surrounded his athleticism for years? That's what a reader just asked me, and I have to say I'm not sure!

Ketha McCloud, 16, Missing in the Bronx

Where is Ketha McCloud?​Cops are looking for 16-year-old Ketha McCloud, who disappeared after leaving her home at 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, March 22. She lives at 2704 Heath Avenue in the Kingsbridge Heights neighborhood of the Bronx. She's described as 5-0, 130 pounds and was last seen wearing a black ... More >>

How Awesome Is This Weather? Pretty Awesome.

We ventured out of our bat-cave to Washington Square Park to see how New York's human people were enjoying this awesome weather (mostly so we could enjoy the weather a bit ourselves). The happiness quotient of NYC has increased a thousandfold. It's like it never snowed at all! It's above 60 degrees ... More >>

Marcus Samuelsson Scores Yet Another Product Endorsement

​Over the past year or so, Marcus Samuelsson has lent his fine name to many things: stainless steel cookware, a fragrance, Kraft Foods, American Airlines, kitchen linens, MasterCard, gas ranges, Buick, a cruise line, television, and, oh right, the Red Rooster. And to this list, we can now add ... More >>

Nia Jeanty, 14, Missing in the Bronx

Where is Nia Jeanty?​Cops are asking the public's help in finding 14-year-old Nia Jeanty, last seen at about 7:30 a.m. Friday, February 4, in the area of Tillotson and Baychester avenues in the far north Bronx. Jeanty, who lives at 4362 Edson Avenue in the Wakefield neighborhood, is 5-8, 170 pound ... More >>

Batman-Tattooed Guy Goes Missing in Queens

Cody Goudeau​Cops are looking for a 28-year-old Queens guy with a distinctive "Guapo Batman" tattoo on his right biceps. He's not in trouble; he's missing. Cody Goudeau was last seen at 1 a.m. January 30 at 25-01 Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria. He lives at 21-63 36th Street. He's described as 5-5, ... More >>

Michael Tiegel, Missing from Taft Projects

Have you seen Michael Tiegel?​Cops are looking for Michael Tiegel, a 28-year-old guy who was last seen at 2 a.m. Sunday, January 30, inside 1694 Madison Avenue, in the Taft projects just north of Central Park. Tiegel's described at 5-9, 180 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. He was wearing a ... More >>

Yuppie Parent Scourge Spreading to Williamsburg

​Every day we hear more about how Williamsburg is "over," whatever that word actually means. But now it's like seriously really "over" you guys, according to the 1000th installation in The New York Times Explores That Faraway Place, Brooklyn : it's the next Park Slope. Germy kids and their hip ... More >>

Kim Kardashian: "I Love Being 30 and Single!"

She's 'empowered'; Dan Choi's having fun; Joan Collins is showing slides

LET’S DANCE

Put on your red shoes and head to DUMBO

Cult in California Found Not Dead, Media Sighs

​Everyone that works in 24-hour cable news got really excited temporarily when the Los Angeles Times reported that a "cult-like" group could not be found, but left behind letters that "essentially state that they [the missing persons] are all going to heaven shortly to meet Jesus and their dec ... More >>

Wall Street Journal Discovers This Whole "Hat" Trend Thing

​Are you a young man, located in "areas like Williamsburg, Brooklyn," who likes to wear hats? Are you inspired by Justin Timberlake and "pictures of Frank Sinatra"? Do you consider your hat a part of your "look," but just can't nail down the proper hat etiquette? The Wall Street Journal can help.

Watch M.I.A.'s New Video For "XXXO" (Plus: "Illy Girl")

Unless we're mistaken, the visuals here--roses, galloping unicorns, swans, hearts, leopards, swords, gold jewelry--are pulled from (or at least are referencing) the photoshoot that so appalled the New York Times Magazine's Lynn Hirschberg back in May, which she described like so:

Stupid Trends: Cosmetic Foot Surgery

​For those seeking proof that people are stupid, there is this: Cosmetic foot surgery, a/k/a, the "Cinderella procedure," the absolute latest in ridiculous plastic surgery trends. If you have ugly, questionable, too fat, too skinny, wrinkly, or otherwise compromised feet, you can fix them perm ... More >>

Macy's Is Using An AIDS Song To Sell Jewelry

​That's right, kids. Rent has finally become so depoliticized and mainstreamed that its tunes are being used to hawk merchandise on the telly.

Infected Mushroom

ONE OF A KIND

Shopping, pinball, photobooth—you!

We Heart Pixels (and New York)

What if New York really was making a return to the bad old days? Witness the pixelation, Pac-Man/Frogger/Donkey-Kong-ization, '80s-ification of New York City. No one wore legwarmers in the making of this video, but they should have. I need to play Tetris. Now. Thanks, BoweryBoogie!

Missing Person: Farraha Senquiz, 13

​Farraha Senquiz, 13, recently left her home in the South Bronx wearing black Ugg boots, blue jeans, and a purple-and-black plaid fur-trim coat, and has not been seen since. She is described in "poor mental condition." She's 5'5" and 115 pounds, with brown eyes. If you've seen her, NYPD asks ... More >>

Crime Beat: A Gem of a Robbery in Far Rockaway -- If You're a Goon

The owners of Gold Fashion Jewelry in Far Rockaway are unlikely to be as gracious with bandits as Long Island deli owner Mohammad Sohail. Thugs roughed up workers at the Far Rockaway gem joint and absconded with cash and jewelry.

Have you seen: a missing Bronx man

​The police in the 52 Precinct are asking for help from anyone who has information about Hector Waites, 48, of 2287 University Avenue in the Bronx. Waites is 5'5" tall, 140 lbs., with brown eyes and black hair. He was last seen wearing green army fatigues (shirt and pants), black boots a brow ... More >>

Missing Person: Monica Gonzalez, 23

​Around 7 a.m. on August 30, Monica Gonzalez, 23, left her home at Rochambeau Avenue in The Bronx and has not been seen since. She's 5'7", approximately 140 pounds, with brown eyes and black, shoulder-length hair, and was last seen wearing a pink tank top, dark blue jeans, and black moccasins. ... More >>

'NYPD Confidential' Tells Tales of Bernie Kerik

​The latest and most detailed recounting of the epic New York City police disaster known as Bernie Kerik is in Leonard Levitt's fascinating new tell-all history, NYPD Confidential. Levitt, who wrote a column for Newsday that now runs on the Web, tells of sitting at his desk in One Police Plaz ... More >>

GREAT SCOT

Young pop upstart has a world of tricks in his bag

Robert S. McNamara: Master of War

You almost get the feeling from today's masterful obit in the Times of Robert McNamara, the Vietnam War architect who died Monday at 93, that he was so troubled by the tens of thousands of corpses that resulted from his many grievous mistakes that he paid for his sins. Reporter Tim Weiner eloquentl ... More >>

Bones' Beat: Chelsea Summer Season Begins with Your Gold Teeth II at Marianne Boesky

courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery The discreet jiggle that comes with the New York art world's switch to summer hours--Monday to Friday instead of Tuesday to Saturday--acts as a blunt industry-wide signal: the people who buy and sell art at a high level have checked out until September. Some are cha ... More >>

ENDURANCE TEST

A rare screening of one very long concert

Food for Thought--Paolo Pivi's Fake Food Sculpture at Deitch Projects' Group Exhibition: "Pig"

Deitch Projects LIC's current group exhibition "Pig" is based on a show from last year's Art Basel Miami and features a fake food sculpture that mimics a giant candy necklace by Paolo Pivi entitled "Fake Food Brings Art." [via Eat Me Daily]

Q&A With Cute Person Justin Tranter

Justin HyteJustin Tranter is a rock star (he's lead singer of the glammy Semi Precious Weapons) AND a jewelry designer (his sexy FETTY line sells at Barneys NY and Barneys COOP). He's ALSO a perfect subject for this widely read blog! So, in between bouts of rubbing sea kelp into my hair, I cornered ... More >>

GYPSY KING

It's gonna be a nude ol' time

Late Gay Rocker Dean Johnson Gets a Musical Weenie Roast

Michael Ruhlman Asks the Audience, Wears his Sunglasses Indoors

'Anonymous' vs. Scientology: 'Our Nonsense is Free'

Being the Fashion Police, Without Getting Up

On The Red Carpet #3

Clothes Line: Top Coats of the East Village

Beads and Burkas

A pair of docs shake down globalization

Susan Sontag Hair Extensions, Anyone?

'Bust' and local artists rescue the ailing holiday craft fair

Rhinestone Pigs Leave the Building

Chic Child o' Mine

Preschool cool isn't just for toddlers anymore

Soul Survivor

Lisa Nading's cozy heels are quite the feat

Toxic Love

In Time for Valentine's Day, Oxfam Points to Cyanide and Human Rights Abuses Behind Gold Jewelry

Shoes

Hanger Stakes

The Season's Top 10, Maybe

Magnets Unplugged

Is the force field for real?

Romeo and Juliet