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MTV Accessorizes Itself With Music On I Just Want My Pants Back

I Just Want My Pants Back protagonist Jason Strider—a receptionist and aspiring music journalist who appears to live alone in a one-bedroom apartment despite claiming to have just $100 to his name—doesn't remember what sex tastes like because it's been six whole weeks since his last enco ... More >>

Kickstarter Employee Writes Elaborate Fanfic for Leighton Meester on Craigslist Missed Connections

Nicole He Blake Lively and Leighton Meester filming 'Gossip Girl' on the LES yesterday. ​Craigslist Missed Connections have been good lately! A few weeks ago we had the man who posted an epic missed connection for the girl who held his iPhone hostage, and now we have the poor young startup emp ... More >>

Man Posts Epic Craigslist Missed Connection for Girl Who Held His iPhone Hostage

​The Lower East Side can be hellish on weekends, sure. Sometimes it can be really hellish, especially on Halloween, when some teenager holds your iPhone hostage and the night degenerates into an almost-brawl in a pizza parlor in which your friends are chasing the girl around, calling her a bit ... More >>

Does Being a Food Critic Matter?

RatatouilleAnton Ego, old school critic​ In light of Sam Sifton's imminent departure from the New York Times' dining section and the firing of the Chicago Sun-Times' critic Pat Bruno, the Atlantic posted an interesting article about whether food critics still have a role in journalism today. ... More >>

The Vanderbilt's Brian Floyd Explains His Barman's Fund

Brian Floyd, barman fundraiser​There's a lot of talk about tipping these days: how much is appropriate, when it should be withheld, how it should be divvied up. But a bartender in Brooklyn is throwing a kink into the conversation by giving his tips to charity. Brian Floyd of The Vanderbilt cre ... More >>

Video and Transcript of CNN's Amber Lyon Helping Her Sex Trafficking Source, FAIR Fund, Raise Money

In February 2011, CNN's Amber Lyon aired a special on sex trafficking, "Selling the Girl Next Door" that attacked Village Voice Media-owned company, Backpage.com. At the end of the broadcast, Lyon's sources are singled out for "special thanks." We recently found out that Lyon is even closer to these ... More >>

Alex Stupak to Do Even More Mexican; April Bloomfield Goes to France

​Alex Stupak has confirmed that he will open a second location of Empellon, in the space currently occupied by Counter. [Eater] April Bloomfield on her first-ever trip to Paris and Lyon: "I wasn't expecting it to be so peasant-like, so that was a nice surprise, and Paris is not as anal as I ... More >>

Kathy Hochul Wins Craigslist Congressman Chris Lee's House Seat for Democrats

Disgraced Chris Lee​The special election in upstate New York's 26th District to replace Representative Chris Lee, who resigned after Gawker posted about his shirtless exploits on Craigslist, earning him the nickname the Craigslist Congressman, went to Democrat Kathy Hochul last night. The vict ... More >>

Long Island Serial Killer Website Is Like An Art Project, Creator Claims

​LongIslandSerialKiller.com looks part-cheesy and part-terrifying, like any good murder movie. The header is written in the scratchy font you might find on a metal band T-shirt and the headlines are equally ominous and outrageous. But the events discussed on the blood red and black website are ... More >>

Amber Lynn Costello, New York Serial Killer Victim, Was Targeted by Erotic Message Board

​Members of the LongIslandErotic.com sex forum were none too pleased last year with Amber Lynn Costello, a woman who advertised herself as a prostitute on Craigslist and has been since found dead among ten other bodies in the Gilgo Beach and Jones Beach area of Long Island. The New York Daily ... More >>

New York Serial Killer Probably Didn't Hit New Jersey

​Police said on Wednesday that the bodies of four prostitutes found around Atlantic City, New Jersey back in 2006 do not seem to have anything to do with the eight bodies (and maybe ninth and tenth sets of remains) found on Long Island, near Gilgo and Jones Beach, since late 2010. Thought to b ... More >>

Chicago Foodies Are Even More Batshit Than New York Foodies

Alinea Grant Achatz, the man most likely to drive Chicago diners to distraction.​Remember way back when Ko opened and people were doing all sorts of crazy shitto get a reservation? Three years later, Chicago has put us to shame.

Live: LCD Soundsystem Prepares Us For the End of the World at Terminal 5

Reggie and James LCD Soundsystem Terminal 5 Monday, March 28 Better than: The rest of those Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Thinks We are gathered here in New York City's Terminal 5 to say goodbye to one of the most impeccable music projects of our adult lives. ... More >>

NYC's Ten Worst Tenants

We hope you don't live next to these people

Facebook Now Useful Tool for Hookers

​So Facebook is essentially a seedy motel in Times Square now, what with the spammers crowding your wall and all the prostitutes hanging out. Because according to a Columbia sociology professor, Facebook is the new Craigslist for hookers. So -- Facebook can't deal with arty nude drawings, but ... More >>

Craigslist Congressman Resigns After Appearing Topless on Gawker

​Christopher Lee, a Republican representative from New York, is in hot (sexy) water today after Gawker posted the story of a woman who claims Lee sent her a bevy of flirty emails and a shirtless photo after she posted a dating ad on Craigslist. "Will someone prove to me not all CL men look lik ... More >>

Laurel Nakadate, Pickup Artist

It's panties and panting at P.S.1's 'Only the Lonely'

Suspected Long Island Serial Killer Murdered Prostitutes Who Advertised on Craigslist

​It's official: the Daily News says Suffolk County cops are pretty sure the speculated Long Island serial killer really is a serial killer. Better (worse?) yet, he's a Craigslist serial killer. Police say they've finally identified the bodies they found along Long Island's Oak Beach last mont ... More >>

Missed Connections: the Halloween Edition

​Catalyzed by booze and an incessant need to couple up for the winter season (because let's be honest, NYC relationships function seasonally), Missed Connections has been on fire recently. In addition to the flyers from our lovelorn friend JJ, the Metropolitan-Lorimer bachelor looking for his ... More >>

Iceland Is a Pretty Awesome Place to Live if You're a Woman; New York Still Up for Debate

​According to the World Economic Forum's latest Global Gender Gap report, which rates things like economic opportunities, education, health and survival, and political empowerment between men and women, the place you really want to live as a woman is...Iceland! Or maybe Norway or Finland.

Rumble, Oktoberfest, Flashing Lights, And Ratatat Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

​On Friday, there's only three places we'd want to be. In Manhattan, The Fader is throwing an afterparty for those of us who won't be attending the Gorillaz takeover at Madison Square Garden. Spin, the Flatiron ping-pong hall/bar/dancerie, will host tonight's revelry, which is less corny than ... More >>

Sick Fucks Now Promoting Bedbug-Infestation as a Revenge Tactic

No, no, no, no, no.​Things that don't need to be said: You are a very, very, very bad person if you infest someone else with bedbugs, purposely and knowingly. This draws comparisons to STDs that we don't even want to think about -- except, of course, bedbugs can't kill you, they can only drive ... More >>

Missed Connection of the Day: Greenpoint Robbery Averted by Good Samaritan

​Here's your feel-good story of the day, via Craigslist (Missed Connections, of course): A would-be cell phone thief in Greenpoint is chased down on the street by a random stranger who makes him give up the phone, and an apology, to his would-be victim. The stranger and the no-longer-victim hu ... More >>

Dating Calling Cards: Meet in Real Life, Say "I Like You" Online, Then Maybe Date in Real Life

via Tony Cenicola for the New York Times​As traditional online dating (yep, no longer an oxymoron) becomes a social norm, the Internet dating world keeps one-upping itself with newfangled ways to have awkward encounters with strangers. The latest: Dating calling cards, which really have no cal ... More >>

Worlds Apart

Federal law gives gay citizens with foreign partners tough choices: Leave the U.S. Lose your love. Break the law.

Q&A: Dâm-Funk on Modern Funk and Back Alley Keytar Deals

"I was tired of seeing the bell-bottomed guy with the rainbow Afro on compilation covers. It made a mockery of what funk is." Matthew ScottDâm-Funk The last time New York was privy to the backlit neon glow of Los Angeles' Damon Riddick a/k/a Dâm-Funk, he was on a (motherfucking) boat. It was jus ... More >>

Eric Korsh 'in' at Waverly Inn; Jody Williams 'out' at Gottino

​Eric Korsh has been enlisted to take over the kitchen at Waverly Inn while John DeLucie is on leave opening The Lion. Korsh has had stints at Prune and Patroon, and was the chef-owner of the now-defunct Eloise in Sebastopol, California. [NY Times] Jody Williams has reportedly left West Villa ... More >>

Clover Club's Franky Marshall on Holy Bars, Clean Glasses, and the Perils of Being a Hot Female Bartender

Photo by Andrew KistFranky Marshall: Yin to your yang.​In the restaurant industry, the issue of sexism doesn't seem to want to go away. Behind the bar, however, women have always had a place. But, as the role of bartender evolves, women are finding themselves having to strike a balance between ... More >>

Odyssea Coming to Williamsburg, Now Seeking Bar & Kitchen Staff

Is Odyssea's journey about to begin?​The space at the corner of Metropolitan Avenue and the BQE that formerly housed Nina's Restaurant & Pizzeria was fitted a few months ago with a sign proclaiming it Odyssea. A recent Craigslist ad suggests the place is getting ready to open in the not-too-di ... More >>

Village Voice Missed Connections: The One About the NYPD Tapes

Full disclosure: We love Craigslist's Missed Connections. We read them all the time, in fact, finding them a perfect mix of tragedy and comedy, dashed dreams and undying hopes ... wishing, praying, to see ourselves in them. Someday. And then it happened.

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Hot Chip, Basement Bhangra, Dam Funk, Carl Craig, And Gordon Voidwell

​Tonight Hot Chip performs at Terminal 5 alongside Gang Gang Dance... but you knew that already. Tickets have been sold out for weeks; so go nuts on Craigslist, stand outside an hour before the doors, or just go to the afterparty, which goes down at Webster Hall with the Hot Chip fellas on the ... More >>

A New East Village Coffee Shop Wants Former Gorilla Workers

HistoricBrooklyn.comFormer Gorilla workers welcome in the East Village.​The mass walk-out staged by disgruntled Gorilla Coffee workers last Friday was admirably ballsy, but if there's one thing a trained barista knows, it's that he or she probably won't have to look far to find another job. Es ... More >>

Ma Peche Looking for Hosts and Servers, not Cry Babies

​In another sign that it's getting closer to opening, Ma Peche has put out a call for hosts and servers on Craigslist. And it's outlining its job qualifications in predictably Momo fashion: "No cry babies." Also, in addition to working hard, the "ideal candidate" "loves cleaning and constantly ... More >>

Andrew Sullivan Trolling for Sex on Craigslist?

​This just came in from a dear friend: "Hi doll, Yesterday, Andrew Sullivan had a posting on Craigslist, M4M, showing his cock and advertising for someone to come to his hotel in Chelsea!!!!!!!!! LOL. And how you doing?"

G. Lucas Crane From Woods: "I basically dare you to date me."

​ Brooklyn lo-fi noise punk: unlikely well of local magazine bachelor profiles! First came New York's "totally weird" profile of Dustin Payseur, of Beach Fossils, who spoke about the Brooklyn warehouse scene and Urban Outfitters by way of providing an example of your typical, strugglin' New Y ... More >>

News Roundup: Lupe Fiasco, Elliott Smith, Brooklyn Bowl, Late Night TV

-- Lupe Fiasco released the first single from his upcoming album, Lasers. The track is the spacey "Shining Down," which has Lupe taking a dig at autotune by using it. It leaked last month to the rapper's dismay. He plays Governors Island on Sept 11 (tickets go on sale Friday at noon) and SUNY's Dewa ... More >>

See Dick Pay Jane: Chaste Dating for Cash

Recession desperation produces a quaint throwback

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Yeah, we finally made it to Citi Field Wednesday. What do we think? We think Johan Santana is awesome. Swine Flu fucked up Cinco de Mayo, continued to be funny until we got it. Wait, actually it's still pretty funny, especially since we really didn't get swine flu. But even if! Anyway Raccoon ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: Reading Julissa Brisman's Diary

By Yevgeniya ShekhtmanJulissa Brisman, the victim of the so-called Craigslist Killer, had successfully stopped drinking and was trying to repair past relationships and get her life on track when she was murdered, according to her personal journal, which was reviewed by the Voice."I had a taste of th ... More >>

Department of Eagles' Daniel Rossen: The Banjo Is "Dangerously Misused"

Department of Eagles play Bowery Ballroom on Monday, January 19. The show is sold out, but there's always Craigslist. Last year was a busy year for Grizzly Bear. In the midst of playing shows with Radiohead, performing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and recording the follow up to Yellow Hou ... More >>

Midday Mashup: Shooting, Stabbing, Suing, Etc.

In Search of a Midnight Kiss Recasts LA as Romantically Comedic

Apocalypse Now? Purse-snatchers and iPhone Robbers

MAGNETIC APPEAL

Town Hall gets distorted with Stephin Merritt & Co.

Letters

The Soul Hole

A deal with strings attached in a puppet Faust

Does 'Free Vegan' Equal 'Freegan'?

Trading Up

Money-for-nothing stunt proves an object's value is in the eye of the beholder

Crazy for You, but Not That Crazy

Madonna gives us the world, but suddenly it's not enough

Personal-Ad Adventure

Girlfriend gives her guy a special gift: Rachel in a live lesbian sex show