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Hillary, Roe v. Wade's 40th, and the Great Conservative Revival Not Working Out for Rightbloggers

Since the 2012 Presidential election, conservatives have been trying to think up ways to revive their movement. Last week a number of them approached the subject, including George F. Will (basically you're doing great don't change anything), Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (basically you're doing g ... More >>

Rightbloggers Bash "Bully" Biden for Speaking Roughly to Poor Paul Ryan

The week before last, Obama phoned in his first debate performance against Romney, and rightbloggers were ecstatic that the challenger had "schooled" and "humiliated" the President. "If last night's debate was a boxing match," one of the brethren gloated, "a referee would have had to stop the fight. ... More >>

Rightbloggers Make ObamaPhone Lady Their New Welfare Queen

After the panic over Mitt Romney's characterization of 47% of his fellow citizens as moochers, rightbloggers flailed for a way to make the maker-and-taker philosophy of the modern conservative movement sound less repulsive to normal people. What they seem to be clustering on now is the idea that, ... More >>

Joe Biden Talks About Chains; Rightbloggers Hardest Hit

Vice President Joe Biden said in a speech last week that the GOP's calls to "unchain Wall Street" really mean "they gonna put y'all back in chains." Having just launched their own Vice-Presidential candidate to less than earth-shaking effect, rightbloggers flipped out over Biden's remarks, expressi ... More >>

The Best Catfights In Hollywood History

They're all in John DiLeo's new book Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies, and not surprisingly, a bunch of them involve Susan Hayward. In fact, as anyone with any breeding knows, the above scene has Hayward as aging battleax Helen Lawson getting into a tussle with Patty Duke as pill-pop ... More >>

Q & A: The Raincoats' Ana da Silva On The Riot Grrrl Movement, Kurt And Courtney, And Being Johnny Rotten's Favorite Band

​ This month has seen quite a bit of ink spilled on behalf of the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind. But it's also a moment to remember the ways that lead singer Kurt Cobain's reach went beyond the scope of his band and that record—consider one of his most beloved influences, the U ... More >>

Rightbloggers Celebrate the Unprecedented Success of Sarah Palin's (10-Theater) Movie Opening

The Republican 2012 Presidential race, which has given us so much pleasure, remains in flux. Mitt Romney holds a lead, but is unacceptable to "the base" because he once tried to help uninsured sick people; thus, various fringe candidates compete ferociously (and that is the right word) for the right ... More >>

The James Beard Awards Semi-Finalists Have Been Announced

Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?​The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>

Lonnie Jones's Head Is Worth $20,000 in Coney Island. Blame the Brooklyn Bloods.

The New York native was released from prison after serving more than five years for a murder he didn't commit. Here's why he's still not free.

Disaster in Sausage-Land

​Snap these sausages up when you see them around town, because a key packaging facility in South San Francisco burned to the ground. Shown above, Columbus' uncured dry salame (left) and the transcendent cacciatore (right). Sixty-five fire fighters responded to multiple alarms at the Columbus ... More >>

From the Video Vaults: Lena Horne's Tree Grows in YouTube

The Agitators

From blacklisted in the U.S. to the Black Wave in Yugoslavia

Horoscope

Fritz Lang's Obscure Gothic-Noir

Cracked Rear View

A low-fi mid-'90s recording—in convenient novel form

NY Mirror

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