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While City Fights Sandy Victim Class-Action Suit, Judge Extends Eviction Deadline

Six months after Hurricane Sandy swept across New York City's coastlines, most people affected by the storm have moved on from crisis mode. Power's back, insurance has (hopefully) kicked in. But there's a smaller group of people--a little less than 200 households altogether--for whom Hurricane Sandy ... More >>

Hurricane Sandy and the Future of the New York Art World

Head above water

Two Reasons Given For Romney's Loss

That is, two out of the multitudes of available reasons. For now, let's leave out the 47% remark, the flip flopping, the Big Bird thing, the "whole binders full of women," the running mate, the "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt" editorial, the FEMA remarks, and everything else Romney stood for--or didn't st ... More >>

Dear New York, Here's Your Disaster Response

If it weren't colossally tragic, the level of disorder, dysfunction, and all-around clusterfuckery that characterizes the official disaster response in New York City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy would be fast approaching hilarious. As it is, the situation is both heartbreaking and enraging. The ... More >>

Food Distribution Begins in Red Hook

In Red Hook, most businesses are closed as they clean up damage from severe flooding. But Defonte's, Kennedy Fried Chicken, and Baked, are serving food today, and the bodegas that got their deliveries opened yesterday. And for the thousands of residents without power and water struggling to stay war ... More >>

Gov. Christie Stupidly Gets Flak For Praising Obama's Response to Sandy

Yesterday, we reported on the media's tendency to politicize this catastrophe into an electoral issue and how that is a terrible symptom of infinite media. And we continue to see this play out as the Eastern seaboard cleans itself up from some of the worst inflicted damage in recent history. The nex ... More >>

Flood Zone, NYC

Bloomberg's push for development in the wrong places

Hurricane Romney, "Go Home and Call 211" and the Politics of Everything

With Clint Eastwood's to-hell-with-this-wooden-chair speech in the past, the brutally drawn-out Republican National Convention has come to an end, leaving the Romney campaign to finally focus on the last three months of the election season. And these upcoming few weeks are the most important: as the ... More >>

Emergency Alert System to Interrupt All Television on Wednesday, Cause Mass Hysteria

Will Skynet become self-aware as well?​This Wednesday, a day after we narrowly avoiding being hit by an asteroid, America will be faced with another threat: television interruption. On November 9th, the FCC, FEMA, Homeland Security, and the National Weather Service will conduct a nationwide te ... More >>

Ray Kelly: the NYPD Could Take Down an Aircraft if Necessary

​NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly appeared on 60 Minutes last night to talk about New York City's counterterrorism unit, created after 9/11, which now numbers 35,000 uniformed police officers and 15,000 civilian employees. The interview with Scott Pelley includes a look at the NYPD's $3 billion joi ... More >>

Central Park Cyclist Gets Speeding Ticket, Then an In-Person Apology From Police

​Cyclists in Central Park have been issued over 200 tickets so far in 2011 for traffic violations as the city works to crack down on riders not stopping for red lights. But on Tuesday morning, the NYPD took it to a new level, setting up a speed trap, radar gun and all, at the bottom of a Centr ... More >>

Rainstorm Kills 6, Leaves Thousands Without Power (Maybe Till the End of the Week)

​The weekend storm was unpleasant for most of us, but somewhat worse for tens of thousand of New Yorkers who lost their electric service. As of this morning, the Advance reports, 14,560 households in the borough are still blacked out. NY1 tallies 8,400 homes out of service in the Bronx, 5,90 ... More >>

Fun For the Paranoid: Homeland Security TV

That uncle of yours who drinks Jim Beam neat, doesn't get out much, and watches the History Channel obsessively while cleaning his guns will be interested in the new Homeland Security Television Channel, "world's first online, on-demand television network dedicated to homeland security and global de ... More >>

Columbia Ignores Peril

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

Fringe Festival 2008 Reviews!

Missing Man, Ariel View, Keep Your Eyes Open, and more

Hillary's Pulling Out! As If!

Acid Reign

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

A classic-rock titan begs forgiveness and rhapsodizes the flood

Ian Hunter's Shrunken Heads

All Wet

Bloomberg's man Dan Doctoroff has an answer for rising seas: more coastal condos!

Hard Listening in the Big Easy

Jazz Fest is on. Clubs are open. The water's receded. The stakes remain high.

The Ninth Re-Ward

The Vietnamese community in New Orleans East rebuilds after Katrina

The Pre-Game Party

From Spike Lee to Mexican 'storm catchers,' dry times in a new New Orleans

Conspiracy 101

The basics of alternative 9-11 theories

Story of the Hurricane

They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

City Wins in Ground Zero Case

Make Levees, Not War

Serious hurricane protection could take 30 years to build

Thousands Still Searching for Kin in New Orleans

Has anyone seen Alphonse? Julia Mae?

Morning Report 12/12/05
Old News

10,000 Evictions in November

Big Easy becomes the big 'get out'

Black Out

New Orleans getting more white? Sure, by locking out African Americans

Open and Shut

Four years later, we still have ten big questions

Relief at the Point of a Gun

Relax, y'all: It's butter and bullets for big security firms in New Orleans

Morning Report 9/23/05
The End Times and Profits of Doom

Rita in Texas, Protesters in D.C.

President Bush Seeks Shelter From the Storms

Notes on Cashing In After Katrina

Bush takes responsibility for hurricane foul-up, sorta. Halliburton, others, take the cash for real

Bush to Rebuild New Orleans, Somehow

President throws expensive bag of gimmicks at Katrina disaster

Blowback From Katrina

Bush tries a P.R. approach. Basic problems of health care, jobs, housing remain

Morning Report 9/11/05
Hapless Anniversary

Morning Report 9/09/05
Another Bible Lesson From Bush

MSM: A+

Katrina: Big media speaks truth to power; bloggers, nonesense to navels

Rudy to the Rescue

Katrina stuns, Bush stumbles—time to call the master of disaster

Fashion Week: Clothes in the Time of Katrina

Sleepwalking in Washington

Katrina looting, despair no match for holiday weekend

Perfect Storms

Perfect for wrecking any chance of economic recovery, that is

Bush's Golden Vision

President Sees Election Cash in Rebuilding Iraq

The Odyssey

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Is Back From the Brink of 9-11

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Music

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Paranoia Runs Deep

Conspiracy theories have seeped into the heart of the American public