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The 10 Most Corrupt Tax Loopholes

If Mitt Romney won't tell you which need to be closed, we will

Joe Biden Brings Precisely Nothing To Democratic Ticket

Following his latest derp-y bumblings about "putting y'all back in chains," there's been talk about replacing Vice President Joe Biden with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the number two spot on the Democratic presidential ticket. And why not? Biden brings precisely nothing to the ticket other ... More >>

Mitt Loves N.Y.: Robert Rosenkranz

With Mitt Romney as its de facto candidate, the roster of Restore Our Future, Romney's designated Super PAC slush fund, reads like a laundry list of New York City's wealthiest denizens. And, according to the Center for Responsive Politics and contrary to popular belief, Super PAC ... More >>

News Flash: Weed Cheaper On the West Coast and Wherever There Are a Lot of Republicans

​Marijuana enthusiasts know that despite the West Coast's deficiencies, it has one thing really going for it: weed is cheap out there and plentiful. And usually better. This information has now been backed up in fancy infographic form, with data from Floating Sheep, a collective of geographe ... More >>

Ask the Critics: Where Can I Have a Low-Key Birthday with Good Beer?

Webztuff / PhotobucketHappy happy!​Christopher P. Asks: After a brief stint in Delaware, I am finally making my return to NYC. I am looking for a bar or restaurant for a "birthday party hangout" that can accommodate 20 - 30 people who can meet and not have to shout over Katy Perry's "Last Fri ... More >>

The Comedy of Manhattan Parenting, Wasted, in The Best and the Brightest

NYC Cocaine Could Rot Your Skin Off

​A new scientific report notes that most of the cocaine in the United States is "adulterated" with levamisole, which is used to de-worm livestock, and can cause people's skin to rot right off. The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology reports that, "Up to 70% of cocaine in the United ... More >>

Salts of the Earth; China's Worst Food Scandals

​Behind the storefront of Japan Premium Beef is Bohemian, a hidden and secret restaurant that has managed to stay under the radar since it debuted two years ago. [NY Post] Remember those 10,000 menus the New York Public Library acquired to turn into a searchable database? Well, they're now be ... More >>

Huge Email Hack Reveals Customer Info From Target, JP Morgan and 50 More Big Brands

​The digital marketing firm Epsilon told its clients on Friday of "an unauthorized entry into Epsilon's email system," insisting it "was limited to email addresses and/or customer names only" and that no other information was at risk, but it's only now becoming clear just how widespread the ha ... More >>

Salvia Ban Looms in New York After Years of Fear Mongering, Bad Jokes

Drugs​Salvia divinorum, the drug used most publicly by Miley Cyrus and Arizona shooter Jared Loughner, moved closer to being outlawed on Monday when the New York state Senate approved a bill banning the sale of the hallucinogenic herb. John Flanagan, the lawmaker who sponsored the legislation, ... More >>

Top Ten Fattest States: Is Yours on the List, Fatty?

​Americans are the most obese people in the world. Big whoop, if Swedes had the option of eating a Baconzilla at 2a.m. from Checkers' late-night drive-in, those furniture-building fjord jockeys would have some extra winter weight too. Behind eating, Americans' second favorite pastime is readin ... More >>

Murderer Rosario DiGirolamo's Google Search for 'Lethal Karate Blows' Uncovered, Forces Him to Plead Guilty

​Rosario DiGirolamo was sentenced yesterday in New Jersey to 25 years in prison for killing his mistress, Amy Giordano, in 2007, cutting up her corpse, and dumping the pieces in the water at Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve in Charleston, Staten Island. A Google search for murder methods led the ... More >>

Joe Biden Promptly Excused from Jury Duty; Nation Breathes Sigh of Relief

​Did he use the old "my uncle's a cop" excuse? Or explain that he really didn't think he could be "impartial"? Whatever the reason (maybe because he's vice president, maybe because he's Joe Biden), the president's number two reported for jury duty this morning in Delaware but was dismissed by ... More >>

Blue Bottle Enters Phase II: Baked Goods

neil conway/flickrBlue Bottle coffee, pastry-less no more.​Last month, we dropped by The Great Coffee Debate at the International Culinary Center, where we learned from Blue Bottle founder James Freeman that the Williamsburg coffee house was in the process of building a pastry kitchen in order ... More >>

Election Update: Wins Called for Andrew Cuomo, Kirsten Gillibrand, Chuck Schumer

​According to early exit polls, Andrew Cuomo is the new governor of New York. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer also maintain their spots in the Senate, as was pretty much expected. According to an AP analysis of poll results, three-quarters of moderates supported Cuomo over Paladi ... More >>

Dustin Dominiak: The Guy Who Sleazed Christine O'Donnell, Says Friend (Updated)

​Remember that time earlier this afternoon Gawker took some guy's sleazy story about the time three years ago on Halloween he hooked up with Christine O'Donnell, the would-be Senator from Delaware, and published it anonymously after paying the guy off?

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Will Eno studies small-town life

The Top 10 Witches Better Suited for Elected Office than Christine O'Donnell

​Footage from 1999 of Delaware's finest anti-masturbation Republican/Tea-Party candidate for Senate, Christine O'Donnell, admitting to having "dabbled in Witchcraft" has hit the internet! It's a sensation, especially for those of us punishment-fetishists who also enjoy masturbating to witches. ... More >>

The Sad Desperation of Variety: Still Trying to Punk a Punk Band, and Losing

​Variety, which was once an essential Hollywood trade rag, has seen their milkshake drunk by the internet over the last decade. They're one of those publications that has made no good faith effort to do anything to compete with the likes of Nikki Finke's now-indomitable Deadline Hollywood Dail ... More >>

The 10 Worse Places to Stash Your Marijuana Besides a Cop Car

​Did you know that there are other places you can "stash" your marijuana besides the back a police cruiser? There are! But here are 10 places that are worse than "stashing" your Marijuana than in the back of a police car:

New York State Still in Running For Big Bag of Federal Cash

The U.S. Department of Education announced the finalists for federal Race to the Top dollars today, and New York State made the cut. No one should get too excited yet about spending any of that $700 million pile of loot, though. New York is only one of 17 states and the District of Columbia to mak ... More >>

The Jersey Shore May be Getting More Naked

via Gadling.com​Whether you're the type of woman who hates tan lines or the type of dude who likes to ogle at people's chests, here's something to consider when you're planning your next beach vacation: a topless beach in New Jersey.

A Quick Look at BAMcinemaFEST Docs: 12th & Delaware

NY1's iPhone App Generating Considerable Amount of Excitement

​New Yorkers are passionate about NY1. And now they can be even more passionate about NY1.

Huckleberry Bar's Slow Death in the Afternoon: A Sweet Way to Go

Photo by Philip AnemaKill yourself softly.​ The drink: Slow Death in the Afternoon The bar: Huckleberry Bar, 588 Grand Street, Brooklyn The price: $12 The ingredients: Kaffir lime-infused gin, Kirschwasser, fresh lemon juice, simple syrup, with an absinthe floater (Delaware Phoenix's Meadow ... More >>

New Yorkers' Well-Being Rises 0.3 Points in Survey; Hawaii, Unsurprisingly, Leads Nation

​The 2009 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index is out, purporting to show how citizens in each state in the union have been doing in terms of emotional and physical status. New York showed a net gain over last year of 0.3 points, from 64.7 to 65. No, we didn't notice, either. The number is calc ... More >>

Introducing Edward III, New York's Second Homegrown Absinthe

Edward III: a not-so-green fairy.​Mark Maurice was one of those "crazy Limelight club kids," as he puts it. One night at the club, he met a man carrying these mysterious green vials. The man told him the vials contained absinthe, and proceeded to write down a formula for Maurice, as well as th ... More >>

Mayor Mike Bloomberg's News Service Says We're Facing a Bankruptcy. Uh, No We're Not.

​As most in the world of media reporting are aware, one of the Voice's sister papers, SF Weekly, was sued by a competitor, SF Bay Guardian, and almost two years ago the Guardian won a $15 million verdict. SF Weekly is appealing that decision, and that appeal should be heard this year. Just re ... More >>

Booze News: Benedictine Is 500 Years Old & Popular Again; The Tom & Jerry Cocktail Comes Back

​Champagnes under $40 can be a great deal, especially those made by smaller producers who grow their own grapes. Look for bottles by Joel Falmet, Cedric Bouchard, and Fleury and Serge Mathieu. [NY Times] Cheryl Lins is the first absinthe distiller in New York State. Her micro-distillery, Dela ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Festival of Lights; An Absinthe Tasting

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Diwali Brick Lane Curry House various dates Celebrate Diwali, the Indian festival of lights with Chef Karthik Kumar, who is running a special menu this week an ... More >>

Subway Cars Donated for Artificial Reefs are Disintegrating, Program Suspended

Remember when former mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner wanted subway cars dumped in the Hudson to create an environmentally groovy artificial reef? And how, when New York couldn't get it together, we started shipping the cars to Delaware, where they were dumped instead? We have some bad news for Del ... More >>

Barrett: Delaware a Tax Haven for Bloomberg? Oh, Never!

The Times recently pointed out that while President Obama makes a lot of noise about shutting down overseas tax havens, there's an "onshore Cayman Islands" right here on the eastern seaboard: the little state of Delaware.Two thirds of the Fortune 500 use Delaware to cut down on their state taxes, th ... More >>

Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, ... More >>

CDC: New Yorkers' Sadness Only Mediocre

The Centers for Disease Control did a phone survey which they say reveals the state-by-state sadness levels of citizens, and surprise, New York did not win, place, or show. Kentucky -- yes, the home of bourbon and jes' settin' on the porch -- is the winner, with a frequent mental distress (FMD) occ ... More >>

Strange Snacks of the World -- Scrapple

During my recent sojourn in rural south-central Pennsylvania, I had the chance to reacquaint myself with scrapple. Like Spam, it is a meat invented in America based on pig. But unlike Spam, which has traveled the world and become a celebrity, scrapple remains an obscure regional dish. In a ... More >>

Paterson's Porn Tax Sparks Criticism, Hilarity

Along with his previously described suite of new taxes, we learn, Governor Paterson wants to tax porn. Being a forward-looking sort, he is only targeting porn downloaded from the internet, which may drive patriots to return to skin mags of the sort found in the grottier newsstands. We wonder if Pa ... More >>

NYC's Subway Car Recycle Plan Taken Over By Delaware

Remember when Anthony Wiener wanted subway trains dumped into the Hudson? (Not out of pique or malice, but because that would create an environmentally healthy "artificial reef" off the shoreline, and cost the city less than it was paying to have the disused cars shipped out to Delaware and New Jers ... More >>

Weiner Wants Subway Cars Dumped in the River

South Carolina Adds to McCain Landslide Honorable Defeat

Midnight Summ.: Violence and Indian-American Politics

We're Reaching Here: Joe Biden's New York Connections

Luke Wilson Romantic Development

Trigger Man

Exiles From Main Street

Spaced out: The collective costs of suburban sprawl

Show Me the Way to Go Gnome

Barely Legal

Culture Clubs

Russian Cons and New York Banks

Funnyhouse of a Negro

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks Goes Hawthorne with 'In the Blood'

Slow Dancing In a Portable Universe