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January 19, 2012
For the Love of God, It's Not 'Downtown' Abbey!
Have you seen the extremely popular British period drama called "Downton Abbey"? It's all the rage right now. It won a Golden Globe! People are talking about it, watching it, DVR-ing it, weeping with joy and raising their glasses to it as we speak. And people and news organizations, which are bigger ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2011
Chipotle Founder Named 'Innovator of the Year'; Consumers 'Ripped Off' When Buying Fish
Just in case you were wondering, "Montezuma's Revenge" has not been a problem for athletes at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. [Washington Post] Kosher food is becoming more conventional in Berlin, post World War II. [Reuters] Restaurants are getting ready to raise prices as ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Goodbye Falafel, Hello Fries: Chipsy to Open on MacDougal This Summer
Lauren ShockeyChip-chop!For those lamenting the loss of the Hummus Place at 99 MacDougal Street, don't fret too much (after all, you do have another location close by on Seventh Avenue South). Chipsy is set to open in the space formerly occupied by Hummus Place.
Blogs
May 10, 2011
Google Music Beta-Testing Proceeding Just Fine, As Long As Users Aren't Interested In Actually Hearing Music
"Technologically speaking, then, Google Music--a streaming service users would access from Web-connected devices--appears close to being ready. However, the sources said the actual launch is being held up by the lack of one vital component. Music." --Everybody's talking about the news that in-house ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2011
American Idol: Jacob Lusk, You Were Too Good For This Show
Michael Becker/FOXFarewell, Jacob. It always happens. My end-to-end favorite contestant has never, ever won American Idol. They usually do pretty well, but they always flame out within a few weeks of the finish line because of some combination of nerves, bad choices, mass bad taste, and the f ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2011
Google Maps is Moving Inside, If You Let Them
A new Google project called Business Photos, beginning next week, will allow Google Maps to see inside of buildings and provide a 360-degree view for curious customers. The Street View feature will take users inside the walls of potential dinner spots or date bars if an establishments lets a ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2011
Kate Middleton Independent Headline Just a Nerdy Media Hoax; Adweek Debuts With Typo
This morning, a bullshit story started circulating not solely because it was nonsense, but because the URL on the Independent website called it out as such, reading "utter PR fiction but people love this shit so fuck it lets just print it," or in full: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/ ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
Did The Huffington Post Win the SEO Game With Today's AOL Acquisition?
The Huffington Post, which was just bought by AOL for $315 million, is really good at what media mind Jeff Jarvis calls the "black art" of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. That means, when people Google (or more rarely "Yahoo" or "Bing," which are not quite verbs) a term on a search engine ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
In Support of Jack Weppler's Meme-Making Ex-Girlfriend
Over the weekend, Gawker told the story of Jack Weppler, whose angry or hilarious (both?) ex-girlfriend ran a corny picture of the kid through Meme Generator, laying mocking, sometimes offensive phrases over his face about his fashion sense or aspirations. Then the whole internet got in on th ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #2: How Many Members Of New Edition Can You Name?
Left to right: Raphael Saddiq, Luther Vandross, Usher, Gerardo, Masta Killa, and Jimmy RollinsIt's a poorly kept industry secret that rock writers are cheaters, frauds, and goons -- as dependent on Google as a clown is on facepaint. Our ongoing column "Are You Smarter Than a Rock Critic?" pee ... More >>
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December 19, 2010
Pandora, MySpace and More Apps That Send User Info to Advertisers
A giant investigation by the Wall Street Journal this weekend shows that many of the applications people load their iPhones and Androids with are transmitting user data -- as much of it as they can collect -- to advertisers. This includes popular apps like TextPlus 4, Pandora and Grindr. Out ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
The 'Voice' is 55 Today
55 years ago today, the first issue of a newspaper put out by editor Daniel Wolf and publisher Edwin Fancher (and paid for by their buddy Norman Mailer) made its debut in the Village. More than half a century later, Wolf and Fancher and Mailer's little experiment not only is still alive, it ... More >>
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October 13, 2010
Free Will Astrology: October 12 through 19, 2010
55 years ago today, the first issue of a newspaper put out by editor Daniel Wolf and publisher Edwin Fancher (and paid for by their buddy Norman Mailer) made its debut in the Village. More than half a century later, Wolf and Fancher and Mailer's little experiment not only is still alive, it ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 22, 2010
Dinosaur Bones
55 years ago today, the first issue of a newspaper put out by editor Daniel Wolf and publisher Edwin Fancher (and paid for by their buddy Norman Mailer) made its debut in the Village. More than half a century later, Wolf and Fancher and Mailer's little experiment not only is still alive, it ... More >>
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June 14, 2010
Study: Younger Men Older Women = a Match Made in Sexy-Time Heaven
Interspersed between a lot of Roger Ebert-referencing and The Graduate plot-dissecting, Psychology Today gets to the point and presents an argument in favor of the May-December relationship, with women being the "colder" month in this particular situation. According to researchers from the Un ... More >>
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May 25, 2010
Summer Guide: Pulitzer Winner Jonathan Weiner Follows the Search for Immortality
Long for This World examines the scientific battle against aging
Blogs
March 15, 2010
Andrew Breitbart: Admittedly Petty, Shameless Narcissist, Scared to Go After Gawker
Snarly mainstream media hater, mainstream media pundit Andrew Breitbart - the guy formerly known Matt Drudge's waterboy - has been making quite the ruckus lately! Most recently, he yelled at people who yelled at him at the conservative power powwow CPAC, because - obviously - political think ... More >>
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February 10, 2010
Ruben Larios, Harlem Teen, Shot to Death in His Own Lobby (Update)
DATE: Friday, Feb. 5 at 11:23 p.m. LOCATION: 381 Edgecombe Ave, Harlem. Police say a 17-year-old named Ruben Larios was found late Friday in the lobby of his apartment building with two gunshot wounds to the chest. He was transported to Harlem Hospital, where he was later declared dead. Upd ... More >>
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January 15, 2010
That Yummy Fur Show Tonight Just Got Moved to the Market Hotel
More info on the switch here. Not a good sign for 171 Lombardy, the sporadically active (and awesomely Google Street Mapped) Greenpoint venue that was originally set to host. Still--Yummy Fur!
Blogs
November 24, 2009
Latest Google Trend Surprisingly Cultural
Well, at last, after all the "Why Won't My Parakeet Eat My Diarrhea" nonsense, we're seeing a Google Trend "On Fire" item that speaks well of the readership: "charles i insulted by cromwell s soldiers." The news hook is that the 1833 Paul Delaroche painting of roundheads harassing the soon-to ... More >>
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October 9, 2009
Murdoch Scores "Kleptomaniac" News Sites, Calls to Make Them Pay
Everyone says newspapers are dead (except in New York, city of seven dailies), but Rupert Murdoch has found a way to bring them back to life: making "aggregators and plagiarists" (presumably meaning sites like Google News and Drudge) pay the content-providing news orgs whose works they blurb ... More >>
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October 5, 2009
Google and Twitter Slow To Take Down Slanderous Impersonation of a Scientology Critic
Last week, Mark Bunker reminded us that over the summer, some scumbag had hijacked his identity and in his name was spewing anti-Islamic hate over a Twitter account and a Blogger website. We were shocked to hear that the identity theft was still going on. Back when he'd first told us about i ... More >>
Blogs
July 30, 2009
New York's Rotten Tree Menace Claims Another Victim in Central Park
Didn't we warn you about the trees? In 2007 we saw them crush cars in Brooklyn. Last summer, after a series of arboreal assaults, a tree on NYC Transit property severely conked a woman in Queens -- and the hits just kept a-comin'. In September a tree smashed a windshield, injuring a driver. I ... More >>
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July 15, 2009
Food Cart Wars Give Way to Fruit Wars; College Students Get Cooking in Their Dorm Rooms
Burger and taco trucks aren't the only mobile food enterprises at war in New York. The battle between fruit carts has been escalating as vendors ignore the unwritten rule about staying off each other's turf. [NY Times] The economic downturn has led more New Yorkers to cook at home, according to a Z ... More >>
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May 29, 2009
Organic Farmers Suffer Losses; Prisoners Excercise Their Green Thumbs
Organic farmers are feeling the sting of the organic food trend slowing. Dairy farmers, especially, are suffering, and many have been told to cut milk production by up to 20 percent. The slowdown, combined with the high cost of transporting organic feed from the Midwest has caused 32 dairy farms in ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2009
Are You Nuts4Pot?
Photo by specialkrb @ Flickr This Google Map was supposedly created for school credit--Mr. Dimalo's class, to be precise. It features 10 honey roasted nuts vendors in New York who also sell pot. Actually, it's nine. One of them is a hot dog vendor. According to the GMap: "yo this guy sold hot dogs n ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2009
It's Raining Meat... Already!
The long awaited trailer for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs has been released on YouTube. The animated adaptation of the popular children's book, written and illustrated by husband-and-wife team Judi and Ron Barrett, is expected to be out in September. We're so excited, we can barely hold on to ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2008
MTA Unveils Images from Unaffordable Second Ave. Subway
The long awaited trailer for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs has been released on YouTube. The animated adaptation of the popular children's book, written and illustrated by husband-and-wife team Judi and Ron Barrett, is expected to be out in September. We're so excited, we can barely hold on to ... More >>
News
October 22, 2008
'Learning 2.0' Brings Schools into the Digital Age
The long awaited trailer for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs has been released on YouTube. The animated adaptation of the popular children's book, written and illustrated by husband-and-wife team Judi and Ron Barrett, is expected to be out in September. We're so excited, we can barely hold on to ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2008
Google Founders Roll Out (ha ha) Android T-Mobile Phone
The long awaited trailer for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs has been released on YouTube. The animated adaptation of the popular children's book, written and illustrated by husband-and-wife team Judi and Ron Barrett, is expected to be out in September. We're so excited, we can barely hold on to ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2008
Brooklyn Book Fest: from Joan Didion to Gossip Girl
The long awaited trailer for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs has been released on YouTube. The animated adaptation of the popular children's book, written and illustrated by husband-and-wife team Judi and Ron Barrett, is expected to be out in September. We're so excited, we can barely hold on to ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2007
Adventures in Google's Contextual Advertising
The long awaited trailer for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs has been released on YouTube. The animated adaptation of the popular children's book, written and illustrated by husband-and-wife team Judi and Ron Barrett, is expected to be out in September. We're so excited, we can barely hold on to ... More >>
Theater
June 26, 2007
Who Are I?
Theatre Askew plays the same-name game
News
April 24, 2007
Having Won a Pulitzer for Exposing Data Mining, Times Now Eager to Do Its Own Data Mining
Theatre Askew plays the same-name game
Blogs
March 28, 2007
LCD Soundsystem Weekend: After-Party Info For Saturday
Theatre Askew plays the same-name game
Blogs
January 18, 2007
Folded Clothing as Art, Walls
Theatre Askew plays the same-name game
Blogs
November 1, 2006
Obsessive Guide to Saturday Night Live Needs You
Theatre Askew plays the same-name game
News
September 5, 2006
Google: The New Port Authority
A juggernaut gets ready to inject a big glob of silicon into New York City
News
August 1, 2006
Publishers vs. the Censorbot
As Google becomes more crucial to the revenues of online news sites, its practice of withholding ads from edgy stories threatens Web journalism.
Screens
June 20, 2006
All Hail
With its new spreadsheet application, Google continues on its path toward world domination
Screens
June 21, 2005
Blue Chipping
In 23 million years, Google will fall to the rebellion. And no, we don't mean 'Ask Jeeves'
Screens
April 19, 2005
Life From Above
The freakiest new info-fetish: plumb the weirdness that is peer-to-peer satellite surveillance
Screens
February 8, 2005
We Are the Borg
Questing for mind domination and an answer to where the fuck your keys are, G----e maps the world
News
August 17, 2004
O, You Cosh-Boned Posers!
Awful poems sought and found: From spam to Google, flarf redefines random
Books
December 30, 2003
Books
Awful poems sought and found: From spam to Google, flarf redefines random
Books
December 9, 2003
Books
Awful poems sought and found: From spam to Google, flarf redefines random
News
October 14, 2003
Trojan XL
How to Get the Malicious Delude Program Out of Your Computer
News
February 11, 2003
Search Me
Google's New Bells and Whistles—Worth Using?
News
February 4, 2003
Crush
Google's New Bells and Whistles—Worth Using?
News
January 23, 2001
'Dumb Motherf*cker' Still Takes Surfers to Bush Site
Google, E-tailer Promise Fix
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