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Stuart Varney Claims (Based On Literally Nothing) That OWS Is Recruiting Paid Protesters On Craigslist

Good news for the Occupy Wall Street folks: you can now be an OWS "bum" and get paid for it -- that's according to Fox News' Stuart Varney, anyway, who claims (based on literally nothing) that OWS is recruiting paid protesters via-Craigslist to "hang out" in Zuccotti Park today and tomorrow (spoiler ... More >>

The Bowery Diner Goes Online, and Neon

​ Although the Williamsburg location of Motorino passed into the great beyond last week, Mathieu Palombino's Bowery Diner is showing unmistakable signs of life. In addition to the neon sign Bowery Boogie noticed hanging on its facade, the restaurant now has a website. There's not much to it ex ... More >>

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 >>

Heidi Knowles, Washington State Mom, Tries To Sell Baby in Taco Bell

​ A mom tried to sell her baby for $500 in a Taco Bell in Vancouver, Washington last week, joining a long tradition of people attempting to sell their children in down-market chains. 36-year-old Heidi Knowles approached a woman at the restaurant and tried to hand her her baby boy, making it clear ... More >>

Just When You Thought You'd Heard Enough About Breast Milk, It Gets Its Own Website

Big business.​Before you gag or roll your eyes, we're not talking breast milk ice cream or breast milk cheese here. We're just talking plain old frothy goodness straight from human boob intended for none other than infants. (Let's hope.) Wired has an in-depth piece that examines the booming br ... More >>

Buying Cigarettes Online Is Cheap Until NYC Asks for Millions

​New York City is going after 32 people for buying thousands of cartons of cigarettes online and reselling them illegally to get around the city's astronomical tax on anything that feels good. The city filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, which also targets the now-defunct Kentucky tobacco company Ch ... More >>

NYC Superheroes: How to Not Get Murdered by the Long Island Serial Killer

​The New York Initiative, a local chapter of the Worldwide Real Life Superhero Community, describe themselves as a "free public security/community watch/community outreach program" working "to achieve peacekeeping objectives and humanitarian missions." The vigilante crime fighters state that t ... More >>

New York Serial Killer Update: Tenth Body Discovered on Long Island Beach

​A day of searching the Long Island coast near Jones Beach has turned up not just one, but two additional bodies, both thought to be victims of the New York serial killer who has been tied to four bodies already, all Craigslist prostitutes, with another six found nearby. Newsday reports that t ... More >>

Your Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Caribou, Frankie Knuckles, Trouble & Bass, Night People, and, Uh, LCD Soundsystem

There's no getting around it, this is LCD Soundsystem week. Buy your tickets on Craigslist and be scorned by James Murphy forever if you must--sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. But hey, other things are happening this week too! Tropical dance fete Que Bajo?! has relocated to a new home fo ... More >>

Women's Funding Network Sex Trafficking Study Is Junk Science

Schapiro Group data wasn't questioned by mainstream media

Digitally Inclined Hookers Choose Facebook

​Just because you're a prostitute doesn't mean you're on Facebook, and just because you're on Facebook doesn't mean you're a prostitute (it doesn't!), but there does seem to be a link between the two, at least according to a sociology professor at Columbia. Sudhir Venkatesh says that 25 percen ... More >>

Do You Want to Reunite With a One Night Stand?

​No, seriously, this sounds like a really great idea that won't embarrass you or your family. An unnamed network or production company has taken to Craigslist to find New Yorkers willing to participate in a new reality show, in which "outgoing, vivacious 'reality type' people" will link up aga ... More >>

Pat Kiernan Was at the Village Voice Web Awards Last Night

He has the most melodious of Canadian accents, reads us the papers daily, and won "Best Use of Twitter to Promote a Personal Brand." Swoon. Here is Pat Kiernan, who is mostly asked by strangers about his sleep habits (he naps in the afternoon!), with last night's winner of Blog Post of the Year, nov ... More >>

Live: Brooklyn's Hedonistic Waffles & Tits Party Takes On Heavy Metal Parking Lot

Just your average Sunday afternoon. Pics by Chris, more below.​Waffles & Tits 3: Heavy Metal Parking Lot House of Yes Sunday, October 24 Waffles & Tits, Brooklyn's traveling shit-show of a Sunday-afternoon party, is equal parts rock opera, Vaudeville revival, and Gathering of the Juggalos-esq ... More >>

Guy Who Plans Ahead Seeks Missed Connection Prior to Actually Missing One

​Some people are just...proactive. Like this guy, who posted a Craigslist Missed Connection even before making eyes at someone he'd only realize later might have been his beloved, going home drunk, getting on the Internet, and penning a missive for that special lady and what might still be, we ... More >>

A User's Guide To Tonight's Drake Show at Radio City Music Hall

Is this you, perhaps? Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Last night, Drake played the first of two shows at Radio City Music Hall, alighting triumphantly on a New York stage after two horrifically abortive attempts earlier this year. But last night was uniformly dubbed a triumph, a coronation for the yo ... More >>

Week in Review: Quarantine the Past

Later, dude. Photo by Rob Harvilla​In the week we threw up our hands and named all seven days after Pavement, we celebrated at the now-reunited and finally in New York band's first show at the Williamsburg Waterfront, pitied the plight of scalpers trying to get rid of their tickets, hung out w ... More >>

Williamsburg Record Store Sound Fix For Sale on Craigslist

​Sound Fix's James Bradley is no stranger to the vagaries of record selling business. "I used to tell people to go to the Virgin Megastore," Bradley told us last year, when we asked him what happened when people came by the defiantly indie store inquiring about the Beatles, or Katy Perry. "But ... More >>

There Is a Vibrant Market for Used (er, Vintage) 212 Phone Numbers

We bet this phone has a 212 number.​If you have an iPhone 4, you're sort of cutting-edge, but if you have an iPhone 4 with a 212 number, you're a walking statement of ironic cool, one toe in the future with a nod back to the landlines of yesteryear, because 212 area codes are the techy rich ki ... More >>

Freemans 2.0 Is Now Hiring

zagat.comToday, plywood. Tomorrow, interminable lines.​ Earlier today, Grub Street wondered aloud when the new Freemans restaurant would open on the corner of Bowery and East 2nd Street. Thanks to Craigslist, that bastion of unintentional restaurant news, here's some evidence that it will be o ... More >>

Local Girl Uses Internet, Gets Stolen Bike Back in Voice Writer-Assisted Sting

​In proof that good things happen to industrious, Internet-using people, and that sometimes cops, too, are a force to be reckoned with (in a good way), here's our favorite story of the day thus far. Brooklyn novelist Jami Attenberg went to the Arcade Fire/Spoon show last night, biking to the M ... More >>

The Top Three Worst Ways to Spend July 4th Weekend, via Craigslist Postings

​Fourth of July weekend plans? We've done some dirty work and uncovered the top three things you don't want to do via Craigslist, since the people-driven site never fails to advertise some of the worst /strangest /most entertaining /life-sucking gigs on the planet. Such a democratic forum reve ... More >>

The Missed Connections of Pride: A Breeding Ground for Love?

​The L-train isn't the only place where love's labor makes its long-lost way onto Craigslist's Missed Connections. New York City Pride, the LGBT community's July Halloween Parade in which everyone dresses up as Rainbow Bright, took place this past Sunday, causing many a proud parader to lose e ... More >>

Drunken NYC Ladies Now Losing Their Louboutins in the Streets

​Okay, we're just assuming that the rather pricey single shoes recently found in the streets of Manhattan are due to some rather drunken single lady behavior. Why else would one allow a $600 shoe to simply fall from a presumably well-pedicured foot and then lie in the street unclaimed? Why not ... More >>

Today in Missed Connections: "You Asked Me to Dance at the LCD Soundsystem Show"

During "New York I Love You," from our perch on the balcony. Romantic!​And the award for person we most want to help find love in the world this morning goes to this plaintive Craigslist poster, whose experience at last night's LCD show at Terminal 5 was every bit as romantic and confused as o ... More >>

Good Food Jobs Promises "Meaningful Food Work"

​For most people looking for jobs in the food and restaurant industry, Craigslist is, for better or worse, a one-stop shopping destination. But while it lists plenty of opportunities for would-be line cooks, servers, shot girls, and social butterflies, it's lacking in gigs that don't involve t ... More >>

Craigslist, Starbucks New Drug Trade Hot Spots

​Ah, gentrification. It seems that nothing these days is free from the sucking black hole of Starbucks. Not even illegal drugs. Kinrod Priester, 37, ("a personal trainer with a rap sheet") took his drug biz to Craigslist, which just seems efficient in this Internet-savvy era, no? Unfortun ... More >>

Lost and Found, NYC: Suitcase O' Money

​A post from EV Grieve this morning alerted us to an Internet-savvy gentleman who's located a suitcase full of moolah ($78,383, to be exact, and my accountant says that when things are in odd numbers like that, they're usually true!) on the Lower East Side. Out of the goodness of his heart, an ... More >>

FRIENDS FOR RENT

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Perhaps You Are a Singer-Songwriter, and Would Like to Be Part of the New Reality TV Show The Scene...L.E.S.?

​That the Lower East Side is a place totally inimical to struggling artists of any kind is probably the least of the ironies of The Scene...L.E.S., the new in-the-works reality TV show from Jimmy Lloyd Productions. As per the above Craigslist ad:

Found: World's Least Persuasive Apartment-Share Ad Reply

So we've all heard that one silver lining to the whole economic meltdown is that New York is

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

We know how you feel, kid. Via Craftser via urlesque. We suspect Obama got that Iranian-American reporter released, and he's certainly trying to help refugees and rescue us from financial criminals. But does he get credit? No -- because he he laughed at Wanda Sykes, just like all the newly-reclas ... More >>

ROOMMATE WANTED

Must really like cats

Quick Hits

The way we see it, you can never have enough Nick Cannon and Spongebob Squarepants at the Empire State Building. Yeesh, that Craigslist Killer suspect is getting his laundry aired out: now they tell us he kept his victims' underwear, along with his gun (!), in a hollowed-out Gray's Anatomy. Also, ... More >>

Blond, All-American Craigslist Killer Suspect Justifies All Our Prejudices

Philip Markoff, a second-year man at Boston University, is accused of murdering masseuse Julissa Brisman of New York in a Boston hotel, and of robbing at least two other in-calls. There is something dramatically satisfying about the apprehension of a clean-cut Nordic pre-med student from Sherrill, N ... More >>

Fiancee Defends Markoff, Leaves Up Guest Book, Drawing Unpleasant Remarks

Megan McAllister, fiancee of alleged Craigslist killer Philip Markoff, maintains her intended's innocence as a "beautiful person" who "could not hurt a fly" in an email to Good Morning America. Police are leaking that Markoff was trying to pay off his gambling debts with the robberies. McAllister ... More >>

Russia Today Reports Inauguration "Sexy Fun"

photo by Whitney Dafoe From the land of mail order brides, Russia Today reports "A sexier inauguration than usual." DC Craigslist is loaded with "ads under 'erotic services' and 'casual encounters,'" says RT, "and their promises are anything but discreet... some men are offering a free place to s ... More >>

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