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So Many Gay Porn Stars Have Died Lately! Why?

Arpad Miklos (who committed suicide in February) is just one of the rash of porn stars who've succumbed in the last horrifying year. Sean Van Sant from rentboy.com has some ideas. "I think all of these deaths are very different," he wrote to me, "so I do not want to generalize. I think sex workers ... More >>

Spring Guide 2012: Vijay Iyer Brings Accelerando to Birdland

Duke meets Jacko

Gwynnett Street's Justin Hilbert on How He Found The Gig on Craigslist, Takes Inspiration From Wylie Dufresne

​New kid on the block, Gwynnett Street (on Graham Avenue in Greenpoint) is getting a ton of recent buzz. The reason? This is the coming-out party of Justin Hilbert (formerly of WD-50), plus his partnership with Esca's former wine director Carl McCoy, as well as a rotating menu, creative eats, etc. ... More >>

RentStuff.com Wants to Become the 'eBay Meets Facebook' of the NYC Rental Market

Most New Yorkers are pretty O.K. about renting things, at least when it comes to our living spaces. As for those living spaces, we're pretty resigned to them being on the small side -- so small that we might have to rent additional storage space for, say, our skis or summer wardrobes or collection o ... More >>

Epic Craigslist Poster and iPhone Hostage Victim Learns Valuable Lessons

​Remember the guy from yesterday who dropped basically an epic novel in Craigslist Missed Connections directed towards "The girl who held my iPhone for ransom in a pizzeria last night"? Paul Adler, 22, had an unfortunate experience on Halloween in which an enterprising outer-borough teenager h ... More >>

Complaining About Your Landlord, the Social Media Way

​Earlier today EV Grieve posted about a Twitter campaign against Jakobson Properties, which owns numerous buildings in the East Village (you've probably seen their no-fee ads around town and on Craigslist). This isn't a campaign to take down Jakobson, exactly, though "slum lord" is flying arou ... More >>

Village Voice Media Responds to Clergy

Today 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times. The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds. Neither government officials nor God' ... More >>

The Real World's Casting Call for Occupy Wall Street is Definitely Real

Ted Hall, natural candidate for Real World: OWS.​Yesterday it looked as though Bunim/Murray, the production company behind MTV's Real World, had put out a casting call on Craigslist. Nothing weird there, but the casting call asked for Occupy Wall Street protesters, who don't immediately spring ... More >>

New Yorkers Reveal Their Favorite Places on I-Call-NY

Concerned New Yorkers, an artist collective responsible for "Monty Burns for Mayor" and "Park 51", have launched a new project called I-Call-NY. They've put up flyers around Manhattan asking people to call in and leave a voicemail with a story about their favorite place in the city. Each message is ... More >>

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Radiohead returns on short notice

Cell Service on Subways Is Here, But It's Not Going to Ruin Your Life...Yet

​Are you one of the many who met the news that commuters would be able to use their cell phones at a handful of subway stations starting next Tuesday with a drawn-out sigh and perhaps a groan, or maybe a "Why, God, why?"? Are you imagining horrible, coffee-less, already-running-late tragic mor ... More >>

Live: Danielle Ate The Sandwich Gets A Little Too Cute In Brooklyn

Danielle Ate The Sandwich Red Horse Cafe Saturday, September 10 Better than: Sitting through YouTube comedy sketches. Danielle Ate The Sandwich is a young woman in thick-rimmed glasses from Colorado. She plays acoustic guitar, and sometimes the ukulele. If you purchase her self-titled debut album, ... More >>

I Thought Grindr Didn't Allow Dirty Pictures In The User Profiles

​That's what the founder/CEO told me in a recent interview. But then came the story that Puerto Rican Senator Roberto Arango was showing all kinds of shit--literally--in his Grindr profile. I reached out to the publicist for the hookup/networking app, but she didn't get back to me. (Busy ch ... More >>

Did You Lose Your Chicken in Downtown Brooklyn?

This is what happens when you google "hipster chicken."​Via Brownstoner, there's a chicken lost in Brooklyn that's been located by some kind soul who is trying to help it find its way back home. (Home, we hope, is a place amenable to chickens, as this story would go very differently if it were ... More >>

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Take in experimental theater and dance at the Dream Up Festival

Preston Mardenborough, 68, on Looking for People from 1960s Greenwich Village on Craigslist

Preston, when he was working at the Sea Colony​For about two years, Preston Mardenborough has diligently continued to post an ad to Craigslist seeking people who remember a bar called the Sea Colony. Mardenborough, now 68, was one of the few men who worked at the long-closed lesbian hangout in ... More >>

Couple Will Be Your Dinosaur For a Year If You Give Them an Apartment

​This ad recently appeared in Craigslist's "Real Estate Wanted" listings for Vancouver, where real estate seems nearly as difficult to come by as it is here in New York City. Unconventional Offer for Adventurous Home Owner (Vancouver) Date: 2011-06-26, 8:16PM PDT This offer is not for everyo ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: July 20-26, 2011

Rob Gorski Bought Rabbit Island, Hopes to Turn It Into Mini-Manhattan Artist Utopia

We have to go back​On jury duty one day last year, New Yorker Rob Gorski, who lives on the Lower East Side, found an island for sale on Craigslist. The 91 acres in Lake Superior three miles north of Michigan are called Rabbit Island and Gorski purchased the land with a plan, which has since bl ... More >>

The Tranny Chaser Chaser

Gay guys who like straight guys who like guys dressed as girls

Naked Gaming Party Fools Internet, Still Funny

Thinkmodo, the viral marketing company behind the Times Square video screen gag (really an ad for the bad action movie Limitless), is at it again. This time, they convinced a bunch of websites and publications that a group of people in New York City were sitting around naked playing video games with ... More >>

Taliban Confirms Bin Laden's Death; CUNY Board Reconsidering Kushner Decision

​The Taliban has joined al Qaeda in admitting that Osama Bin Laden is in fact dead. Bin Laden "embraced martyrdom as per the Will of the Almighty Allah during an abrupt attack by the American invading soldiers," as per their statement. In other Bin Laden-related news, the U.S. has demanded to know ... More >>

New York Serial Killer Hunt is On: Police 'Looking at Somebody'

Investigators search Gilgo Beach​The "Long Island Ripper," as the New York Post is calling him, may be responsible for both the Atlantic City prostitute slayings in 2006 and the recent rash of bodies turning up since December of last year around Ocean Parkway and Gilgo Beach on Long Island. Ei ... More >>

Chris Lee, Craigslist Congressman, Has Been Known to Party Hard

via​Christopher Lee resigned yesterday, less than four hours after Gawker published a story from a woman who claims Lee contacted her on Craigslist, claiming to be single, and proceeded to send her a (fairly impressive) shirtless picture. "I promise not to disappoint," he told her sexily. Now, ... More >>

Mysteries Abound in the Mumble-Noir Cold Weather

This Week in the Voice: The Success of Bronx Success Academy 1

​This week in the Voice, Steven Thrasher examines the methods of the Success Charter Network and its polarizing CEO Eva Moskowitz. The Bronx Success Academy features "a half-time psychologist, a speech therapist, a music instructor, and even a chess teacher." Would you believe that it's workin ... More >>

Was Oak Beach, Long Island, a Serial Killer's Dumping Ground for Murdered Hookers?

Oak Beach: This is going to suck for property values.​Cops continue to investigate the discovery of three bodies and a "set of skeletal remains" found on a stretch of road along Oak Beach in Long Island, dumped out of a car by someone authorities suspect may be a serial killer. As we mentioned ... More >>

Celebrate Bob Dylan's Return To NYC With This Atlas Sound Cover of "This Wheel's On Fire"

​At long last, Bob Dylan arrives in town tonight, kicking off three days at Terminal 5. The shows are sold out as all hell, of course, though Craigslist doesn't seem too predatory at the moment (think $75-150, or considerably more if you want to go the Stubhub route). And what better way to ce ... More >>

New York City Man Employs Unique Attempt to Attract No One

​The New York Post today tells the tale of a "pudgy, fanny-pack-wearing 40-year-old man who lives with his mother" and is "so desperate to find love, he's posting handwritten personal ads at payphones around the city." And yet, this man is not news (seriously, he's been at it since 2009, as Ga ... More >>

American Apparel Wants You to Work for Them, Apparently

​For those of you who have always dreamed of a retail gig at American Apparel, the time is nigh (even as profits reportedly sink. Hey, could be your last chance!). The retailer has issued a Craigslist call for "intelligent, friendly and dedicated people to work at our Lower East Side store."

Siren Festival: The Missed Connections

​It is pretty much our job to try to help here if at all possible. Anybody? (Related: this was the only one of only nine Siren-themed Missed Connections over the weekend. Let us hereby congratulate all the bright young things we saw walking around Coney Island on Saturday for being so impossib ... More >>

Phosphorescent's Van, Gear Stolen in Greenpoint Last Night

​Ask Ted Leo sometime about the brutal, unforgivingly marginal economics that confront indie musicians who work without the benefit of a major-label backer or any kind of meaningful record sales. Having $40,000 worth of equipment stolen, as Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck did last night after a ... More >>

Mysteries: Why Can't the Huge-Donged Financial District Dude Get Laid?

​Today in questions that are rhetorical to everyone but the asker, we have a "big boned" 33-year-old fellow from the Wall Street area who used to be a bit on the heavy side but now sports a 32-inch waist ... yet is "somehow, some way, getting laid less."

Behind the Bar: Kenta Goto on His Plans to Open His Own Bar, Dealing with Drunk D-Bags & Quashing Saketinis & Other Asian Cocktail Stereotypes

​Pegu Club is more than a swank cocktail bar, more than a gin palace. It's also a training ground for the types of serious craft bartenders who go on to open their own establishments. Kenta Goto can be found behind the bar at Pegu on a given night, but don't be surprised if you see him opening ... More >>

Criminal Accessory in Steve Phillips Case Tells Her Proud Story in the Post

​The Post brings us today a new revelation in the the case of ESPN analyst Steve Phillips' inamorata, whom they have unchivalrously taken to calling the "tubby temptress." They have found the woman whom Brooke Hundley allegedly hired to harass Phillips' wife by phone. Courtney Arp, a waitress ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Twitpic by moises. The spectre of death stalked the nation. We were all shocked by the death of a great American musician: Sky Saxon. Also, Michael Jackson. We looked at his fans, press reactions, his good works and his weird headlines. And let's not forget Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon. Presid ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

The Albany Coup, Week 2: It started with a shock twist as Hiram Monserrate rejoined the Democrats, putting the state senate in a 31-31 deadlock. The Dems optimistically declared new leader John Sampson the president pro tem. (Just to be on the safe side they sued, but were rejected.) The Republica ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

President Obama came down on the credit card companies. They're still trying to hang the socialist and elitist raps on him, but they don't seem to be sticking. Mayor Bloomberg got mad as hell about the MTA fare hike -- but didn't bother to tell his friends in Albany. His "Puppets for Educational ... More >>

New Yankee Stadium Opens Its Vast, Expensive Gates

As part of their "please don't notice that you no longer have public parks" campaign, the Yankees opened the gates of their new stadium to Bronx residents today, distributing 15,000 tickets via community boards to watch the team take batting practice, and get a sneak preview of the borough's first $ ... More >>

Daptone Records Robbed; Impending Rod Stewart Session in Jeopardy

Daptone flagship crew Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. CREDIT. From Brooklyn Vegan comes the dismaying news that retro-soul titans Daptone Records suffered a traumatic break-in over the weekend at their Bushwick headquarters, leading to a tremendously heartbreaking list of lost (and uninsured) equi ... More >>

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A Tent Grows Across the Bridge

Bryant Park, meet Brooklyn Fashion Week

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Brooklyn outsider performs surgery on Jamaica's formula

Whore Pride

Young, Empowered Sex Workers Want Respect Along With Your Dollars

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