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Ladies, Fail Your Families With the Great Housekeeping Board Game From a 1963 Family Circle

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Family Circle magazines Date: March 1959 and March 1963 Discovered at: An Indiana flea market The Cover Promises: "The magazine you need for the life you lead." ... More >>

Scientology Greenery: Commenters of the Week!

Note: We'll have a special St. Patrick's Day report at 1pm this afternoon. Please come back for that after you check out these comments of the week! We went to Mecca and back this week -- Scientology's Mecca that is, the town of Clearwater, Florida to celebrate L. Ron Hubbard's 101st birthday. And ... More >>

Pelosi, Boehner, Bachus, Hastert, Other Congressional Reps Traded Stock On Inside Tips, But It's All Legal (!?!)

​Ever wonder why Congress seems so willing to help bail out the financial industry? Well, a 60 Minutes report on Sunday says that lawmakers purchased stock in companies while involved in debates on Capitol Hill about bills that would affect those companies. Conflict of interest? Just a teensy ... More >>

Alvin Moore Becomes Second Idiot to Overestimate David Letterman's Power

​For the second time this week, someone looking for attention chose to vandalize the Ed Sullivan Theater, home of the Late Show With David Letterman. Alvin Moore, the latest aggressor, was drunk and mad because he sent Letterman "several demo tapes," NBC NY reports, but had not heard back. Pol ... More >>

OBIES 2011: Take This Job and Fill It

The theater is missing some major figures. Who'll step up now?

Sidney Harman Dead at 92: Does His Politician Wife Own Newsweek Now?

​Sidney Harman, the audio equipment billionaire, philanthropist and Executive Chairman of Newsweek since purchasing the struggling weekly magazine about six months ago, died on Tuesday after a brief fight with acute myeloid leukemia, his family announced today in a brief statement. He was 92. ... More >>

Rightbloggers Counter Eco-Nazis' "Earth Hour" by Patriotically Wasting Electricity

This weekend, an unknown number of people worldwide participated in the fifth annual "Earth Hour" sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund. They turned off electricity to "take a stand against climate change." Landmarks were dimmed, but the effect on either energy consumption or awareness is unknown an ... More >>

Rightbloggers Celebrate Reagan's 100th Birthday; Attack His Son, Ron Jr.; Cheer His Daughter, Sarah Palin

You may remember Ronald Reagan, whose centenary was celebrated last weekend, as former Secretary of State James Baker does -- as the man who "taught us how to love"; or, as Arizona GOP Congressman Ben Quayle does, as "the nice man who gave us jelly beans when we visited the White House" and "shrank ... More >>

State Assembly Lion Richard Brodsky Sharpens His Claws

He wants to roar as attorney general

Dept. of Corrections: LL Cool J Is, In Fact, Hard As Hell. As is Toby Keith.

He represents Queens, she was reared in Wasilla. ​Sometimes, we make mistakes. Like that time we declared doorknob-dead the street credibility (or: "cred") of Queens-bred rapper LL Cool J. As it so happens, LL himself has remedied the situation, and even left his mother out of it..

What Do LL Cool J and Sarah Palin Have In Common?

​If you answered, "They both got lyrical beatdowns from Canibus in 1998," well, not quite -- if only because we can't confirm it. If you answered, "Brooklyn thinks they're just punchlines," close, but no cigar. Every borough has Wrong People, even Brooklyn, sparse as they may be. If you answer ... More >>

New Yorkers get wrong answers on NY "Pass-or-Fail" survey. So did the pollsters.

Prominent DC Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway has released the results of a phone poll (commissioned by tourism promoter and prominent former city employee Cristyne Nicholas, nee Lategano) of 300 New Yorkers with landlines who got a bunch of general knowledge questions about New York wrong. Unfo ... More >>

'Top Chef': You Know That Leeks Aren't Protein, Right?

Bravo​ Things got off to a brisk start this week, with Mike sharpening his knives at the Top Chef ranch and Jen castigating herself for her previous televised culinary blunders. In the Quickfire kitchen, Padma and One of the Top Italian Chefs in the Country Paul Bartolotta told the chefs to ... More >>

Stumptown Red Hook Roastery Opens

​ ​ Stumptown is all over New York these days -- even our little far-north-Greenpoint neighborhood has been penetrated -- and this weekend they held a little gala to celebrate the opening of their Red Hook Roastery in a converted artist's space at Commerce Street and Van Brunt, equippe ... More >>

25-Year-Old Hudson River Cleanup Plan Starts Today

Down on the Hudson River by Fort Edward, New York, General Electric, supervised by the EPA, started dredging today. They're looking to remove from the river the PCBs (Polychlorinated biphenyls) GE dumped there decades ago. When the government announced in the 1970s that PCBs are harmful to both f ... More >>

Passenger, Bill O'Reilly Spoiling "Miracle on the Hudson" Buzz

Remember when US Airways Flight 1549's heroic Hudson River landing made us all feel good about America and ourselves? Well, it's all going to shit. Earlier this week Chicago's Joe Hart, one of the survivors, told USA Today that he'd like to be "made whole for the incident," and we all know what ... More >>

Clip Job: If I Were Krushchev

Free Will Astrology: November 12 through 18

Russia's oil companies plead for bailout; our oilmen, of course, are flush with cash

Wayne Coyne's Christmas on Mars

'How Soon Is Now?' at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

'How Soon Is Now?' at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

Arab Government Bites Off a Big Chunk of G.E.

Free Will Astrology: March 19 through 25

This Bloodbath Brought To You By . . .

Pressuring al-Bashir by way of Coca-Cola and GE

Letters

U.N. Fails Darfur Again

NBC paid nearly $1 billion to broadcast from Beijing, but the stain of Darfur won't go away from these games

The Genocide Games

Using China's pride in the 2008 Olympics as a weapon against its shameful support of the Darfur nightmare

101 Ways to Protest on the Iraq War's 4th Anniversary

Blood Wrath

Talking with Clare Grady, one of the first Iraq war protesters to face federal conspiracy charges

We Can Build You

A field guide to genetic engineering and bodily enhancement

Viacom Execs Get $100 Mil

CBS parent's stock fell while duo raked in dough for on-the-job training

Hide the Reactor

I invited 65 people over. I had to put this Eames chair in my shower stall.

Art

Public Toilets for When You're in Town

Lecture Hall

A speech series from Toronto tries its best to make New Yorkers smart

Electric Lights Orchestra

The World Is That Which Is the Case

Peace Activists Planning to Disrupt Manhattan

A Peace Movement Emerges

Tens of Thousands Rally in New York and Other Cities to Say No to War With Iraq

Carl McCall's Secret Self

A Look Inside the Bizarre World of His Pension-Fund Proxy Votes

Railroad Apartment Over Bicycle Shop

People in Glass Houses

Holiday Windows in a Sad Season

Test of the Fourth Estate

Facing Danger, Media Puts Self-Interest on Hold

Bonjour Bourget

At the Paris Air Show With the New ‘Merchants of Death’

Fishy Business

Polluted Rivers Make for Environmental Racism

Don't Mourn—Reorganize!

Unlikely Alliances With Activists and Immigrants Help Unions Stage a Comeback

Jeffersonian Koons

Green With Envy

Pataki Wrestles Spitzer for Eco-Laurels

Chasing the Dragon

Time Warner Goes to China and Gets Shanghaied by Its Hosts

Scales of Justice

Striped Bass May Be New York’s Newest Contraband