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  • Blogs

    March 17, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Theater

    May 18, 2011

    OBIES 2011: Take This Job and Fill It

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

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2011

    Rightbloggers Enjoy The Birther-rific Quasi-Candidacy of Donald Trump

    In case you missed it, Donald Trump is sort of running for President. He's shown his seriousness about this by speaking at the CPAC political convention, and by taking a job at Fox News. That Trump might push this self-publicity campaign all the way to the 2012 Republican convention is expected by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Columns

    July 13, 2010

    State Assembly Lion Richard Brodsky Sharpens His Claws

    He wants to roar as attorney general

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    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..

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    '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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2008

    Clip Job: If I Were Krushchev

    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 >>

  • Columns

    November 12, 2008

    Free Will Astrology: November 12 through 18

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Film

    September 10, 2008

    Wayne Coyne's Christmas on Mars

    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 >>

  • Art

    July 29, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 29, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Columns

    March 18, 2008

    Free Will Astrology: March 19 through 25

    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 >>

  • News

    December 4, 2007

    This Bloodbath Brought To You By . . .

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

  • Specials

    November 27, 2007

    Letters

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

  • News

    November 27, 2007

    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

  • News

    May 1, 2007

    The Genocide Games

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

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2007

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

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

  • News

    September 20, 2005

    Blood Wrath

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

  • VLS

    May 10, 2005

    We Can Build You

    A field guide to genetic engineering and bodily enhancement

  • News

    April 26, 2005

    Viacom Execs Get $100 Mil

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

  • NYC Life

    December 7, 2004

    Hide the Reactor

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

  • Art

    November 2, 2004

    Art

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

  • News

    August 17, 2004

    Public Toilets for When You're in Town

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

  • NYC Life

    July 6, 2004

    Lecture Hall

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

  • Music

    June 3, 2003

    Electric Lights Orchestra

    The World Is That Which Is the Case

  • News

    March 25, 2003

    Peace Activists Planning to Disrupt Manhattan

    The World Is That Which Is the Case

  • News

    October 8, 2002

    A Peace Movement Emerges

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

  • News

    August 20, 2002

    Carl McCall's Secret Self

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

  • NYC Life

    June 18, 2002

    Railroad Apartment Over Bicycle Shop

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

  • NYC Life

    December 11, 2001

    People in Glass Houses

    Holiday Windows in a Sad Season

  • News

    September 18, 2001

    Test of the Fourth Estate

    Facing Danger, Media Puts Self-Interest on Hold

  • News

    June 26, 2001

    Bonjour Bourget

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

  • News

    July 25, 2000

    Fishy Business

    Polluted Rivers Make for Environmental Racism

  • News

    July 18, 2000

    Don't Mourn—Reorganize!

    Unlikely Alliances With Activists and Immigrants Help Unions Stage a Comeback

  • Art

    June 20, 2000

    Jeffersonian Koons

    Unlikely Alliances With Activists and Immigrants Help Unions Stage a Comeback

  • News

    November 23, 1999

    Green With Envy

    Pataki Wrestles Spitzer for Eco-Laurels

  • News

    October 5, 1999

    Chasing the Dragon

    Time Warner Goes to China and Gets Shanghaied by Its Hosts

  • News

    December 15, 1998

    Scales of Justice

    Striped Bass May Be New York’s Newest Contraband

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