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    March 2, 2012

    Say Goodbye to Life Cafe, Manganaro

    Life Cafe, the Alphabet City hangout that inspired Jonathan Larson's musical "Rent," is set to close. [NY Daily News] Veronica People's Club, "a weird, wonderful little bar with some of the best and most unassuming cocktails in Greenpoint" is shutting down. [Flavorpill]

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Pumpkins Carved to Blow Your Mind

    photo courtesy of villafanestudios.com What a pumpkinhead.​If you're a diehard Food Network viewer, you may have seen Ray Villafane kicking ass with his pumpkin carvings on Halloween Wars. The Queens native makes a living carving figurines for DC Comics, but around this time of year he opts fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    Ooh, Snap! New York Is Getting Chicago-Style Wieners on Wheels

    ​"The Chicago-style hot dog," Zeph Courtney says, "is a classic piece of American food culture. It's a very, very specific thing. There's one way to do it right, and every other way is wrong." "And we're going to do it right," adds Liz Schroeter Courtney.

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    The 2010 Media Holiday Party Circuit Crash-Map

    ​For my second-to-last Press Clips, Day 27, we have a very, very special treat. Every year, many of the New York-based media companies who produce a large portion of American media that is consumed across the country gather after months of conspiring...to get shitface drunk. Behold:

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    CMJ Day Two: Salem Briefly Shut Everyone Up at Ramiken Crucible

    Yup Salem Ramiken Crucible Wednesday, October 20 Better than: Black Kids at the R Bar, 2007. Salem are referred to by some as witch house, drag, haunted house, or. . . never mind. The point is that people are actively referring to Salem. Curmudgeons who turn typing into rent checks are arguing ab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Week in Review: Report Gang Activity

    Have seen you seen this man?​In the week we wondered if it was still possible to sell out in 2010 (short answer: no), we also found ourselves introduced to the horrific new term "rape gaze," about which the less that's now said, the better. Cleanse your palate with the six best things you can ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Flavorpill Fix Goes to NY life, Becomes a Surprising Successor to Our Dearly Departed "New York Noise"

    ​ Once upon a time, there was an excellent hour-long music-video show on Bloomberg's city-television network called New York Noise. Dating back to 2002, the hour-long intern-spun idea predated YouTube, the music-vlog trend of filming bands playing in random locations, and nearly all MP3 blogs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Battle of the Yogis: Times Square and Central Park Duke It Out for Most Major Yoga Event

    ​Monday and Tuesday, the first official days of summer, inspired two major public (free!) yoga events in the city: The Solstice in Times Square and Yoga at the Great Lawn. One boasted its cred as one of the longest-running yoga-thons ever; the other prided itself on being the largest. But whic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    A Well-Costumed And Discerning Party-Seeker's Guide To Halloween In New York City

    If you haven't figured it out already, Halloween is on a Saturday this year! This means a whole two nights of ghoulish punch, "scary" dance parties, and punny costumes. I've already spotted a few Michael Jacksons and Sarah Palins (SO last year!) walking the streets of the Village, and thought it o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    A Somewhat Rueful Live Report From Twestival, As In "Twitter Festival," Which Went About As Well As You'd Suspect It Would

    Pic by Puja Patel​NYC's Twestival (Twitter festival, get it?) went down Saturday at Brooklyn Bowl, raising money for Bronx-based charity Camp Interactive, which means there was at least one good thing about it.

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    Weird 9/11-Related Lede of the Week, So Far

    ​The outrage over the World WIldlife Fund 9/11 ad (which WWF insists it did not authorize) has more or less died down, and here comes a Moscow Times 9/11 ad to pick up the slack. Like everything else these days, it appears the anniversary of the infamous terror attacks will be contentious. All ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 18, 2009

    PLAY THAT RECORD

    DJs do battle in a bookstore?

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    New York Promotes Itself with Website for Tourists, "Silvers"

    The city, in association with the shadowy corporate-government group NYC & Company, has launched NYCgo.com, which in contradiction to our hopes upon hearing the name is not a site encouraging feebs and wasters to get the fuck out of our city, but a "new online resource for exploring New York." It is ... More >>

  • Music

    January 22, 2008

    Harder, Faster, Stronger, More Surprising

    Kanye West drops in on the Natural History Museum’s suddenly splendid soiree

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2007

    Live, Sorta: Foreign Islands at the Luna Lounge, 06.14.07

    Kanye West drops in on the Natural History Museum’s suddenly splendid soiree

  • Music

    April 24, 2007

    A Deluge of Parades

    Promoters, DJs, and dancers alike prepare for some much needed cabaret lawlessness

  • NYC Life

    December 5, 2006

    Battle of the Tatas

    Announcing the first (and possibly last) edition of the Fly Life Nightlife Awards

  • Music

    February 7, 2006

    Celebrity Spin

    Rock Stars Are Not DJs—But DJs Are Rock Stars

  • NYC Life

    January 31, 2006

    Plugged In

    Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year

  • Music

    December 27, 2005

    Music

    Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year

  • Music

    October 25, 2005

    Club Crawl

    Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year

  • News

    July 20, 2004

    The Next Brooklyns

    New York's DJs flee overseas to Berlin and Barcelona

  • NYC Life

    December 23, 2003

    Absolutely Fabulous

    New York's DJs flee overseas to Berlin and Barcelona

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