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Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah Shows: What's Happened So Far

Yo La Tengo Hanukkah Shows: Final 2!

The Last Jelly NYC Pool Party: Yo La Tengo and Titus Andronicus

Live: All Eight Nights of Hanukkah with Yo La Tengo

photo by Liz Clayton Dawn Sutter Madell, via the Yo La Tengo diary Eight shows, eight-and-a-half comedians, eight charities, eight mix CDs, 24 sit-ins, and three Velvet Underground covers later, Yo La Tengo brought another Hanukkah at Maxwell's to a close. But, as befits a band named in reference ... More >>

Choice Eats Tickets On Sale Tomorrow

On Tuesday March 31st, the Village Voice will throw the second annual Choice Eats event at the 69th Street Armory. Those of you who loved last year's event (it was awesome) will be happy to know that this year's Choice Eats is basically the same deal, only with more restaurants and more space. Also ... More >>

The Individuals' Sex-Crazed Rhythms

Vintage, awkward teenage lust from Hoboken

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Vintage, awkward teenage lust from Hoboken

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Vintage, awkward teenage lust from Hoboken

Tonight They're Gonna Rock You Tonight: Phish!

Props to Zach for intentionally running the words "Phish in a barrel" on this website. Starting today, the legendary jam band wanks three nights away at Jones Beach. Isis do metaphysics by way of doom metal at Irving Plaza, plus a set by sludgy post-rockers Pelican. Sweden is weathering the rece ... More >>

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Props to Zach for intentionally running the words "Phish in a barrel" on this website. Starting today, the legendary jam band wanks three nights away at Jones Beach. Isis do metaphysics by way of doom metal at Irving Plaza, plus a set by sludgy post-rockers Pelican. Sweden is weathering the rece ... More >>

Hawaiian Hunch

One-bedroom apartment in tenement building

Close-Up On: Hoboken

One-bedroom apartment in tenement building

Close-Up on Jersey City

One-bedroom apartment in tenement building

Dancing Shoes at Home

One-bedroom apartment in tenement building

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One-bedroom apartment in tenement building

Close-Up on Weehawken

One-bedroom apartment in tenement building

Still a Contender

Guilt, self-justification, and Brando's career performance in Kazan's 50-year-old classic

Close-Up on Hoboken, New Jersey

Guilt, self-justification, and Brando's career performance in Kazan's 50-year-old classic

Another Brave New World

Glenn Mercer's solo debut could be a Feelies reunion. He's just too nice to make it one.

Menorah Report

A Hanukkah fete with Yo La Tengo, the only band worth trudging all the way to Hoboken for

Walk Unafraid

Yo La Tengo briefly convince us that New Jersey is for lovers

Still On the Waterfront

Long plagued by Johnny Friendlys, dockworkers fight to take back a mob-infested union

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Long plagued by Johnny Friendlys, dockworkers fight to take back a mob-infested union

New Yorkers Lured to Hoboken for Bogus Election Jobs; Some Get PATH Fare Home

The Hudson Reporter says yesterday some New Yorkers were tricked into traveling out to Hoboken, New Jersey by bogus flyers promising work on a mayoral campaign. The flyers offered 200 bucks to anyone ("No one will be turned away") willing to work from 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for mayoral candidate Peter ... More >>

News Roundup: Chris Brown/Rihanna, Oxford Collapse, Sunny Day Real Estate, Coney Island Rockabilly Festival

--Chris Brown reached a plea deal in court yesterday in his felony assault case. Brown will avoid jail time by receiving probation, doing 180 days of community service in his native Virginia, and attending domestic violence counseling classes. Brown is ordered to stay 50 yards away from Rihanna for ... More >>

FBI Arrests Jersey Mayors, Rabbis in Corruption Bust

The FBI swooped in this morning and arrested a bunch of New Jersey politicians -- and rabbis! -- in an international money laundering and corruption investigation. Among the former class of detainee: Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano (pictured), Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, Jersey City Council Presiden ... More >>

Barrett: Bill Thompson Questions Graduation Rates; City Responds With Its Shady Numbers Man

When Bill Thompson issued a recent audit questioning the high school graduation rate claims of the Bloomberg administration, the Department of Education enlisted its prestigious outside auditor, Ernst & Young, to rebut the comptroller's findings. But the E&Y partner who signed the unusual Ju ... More >>

Tonight! Cave In, The Reigning Sound, Dylan (Last Time), And Miles Benjamin Etc.

​Massachusetts metalheads Cave In have had quite a varied career, vacillating from screamy hardcore to what Spin once dubbed "emo-metal Radiohead" (2000's Jupiter is indeed pretty righteous to not-quite-ascendant major-label hopefuls to... whatever they are now. They'll be it, whatever it is, ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Cooking with Italian Grandmas; Eating Sushi with a Concierge

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! SLOW U: Cooking with Nonna, Cenone di Natale ($45) Astor Center November 30 Who cooks better than Italian Grandmas? Not too many people, according to Rossella Rago, host of the onli ... More >>

'Freaks Ball X Presents Anders Osborne & the Black Hollies'

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! SLOW U: Cooking with Nonna, Cenone di Natale ($45) Astor Center November 30 Who cooks better than Italian Grandmas? Not too many people, according to Rossella Rago, host of the onli ... More >>

The Week of New York's Free Nicotine Fix: Reasons to Sign Up That Don't Involve Quitting Smoking

​Do you smoke? Doesn't matter. You should register for New York City's free patch and gum program going on for the next two weeks. Not because you're going to quit -- because, let's face it: you won't -- but because it's there for the taking. To be clear:

Southern Culture on the Skids

​Do you smoke? Doesn't matter. You should register for New York City's free patch and gum program going on for the next two weeks. Not because you're going to quit -- because, let's face it: you won't -- but because it's there for the taking. To be clear:

Mayor Bloomberg Wants to Impose Indian Cig Tax, As If Smokers Would Then Buy in NYC (Bonus: Cheap Cig Maps Prices)

​In an interview with WOR radio host John Gambilng, Mayor Bloomberg essentially laid the smack down on Governor Paterson, saying that he should tax Indian cigarette sales and "let the federal government sue us" if there is a problem. The cigarette tax in New York City caused a 35 percent drop in ... More >>

Yo La Tengo Doing Their Maxwell's Hannukah Shows Again

​It just wasn't the same without them. Yo La Tengo's annual epic run of Hannukah-themed shows at Maxwell's in Hoboken was sorely missed last year, the first time they'd opted out since 2001, robbing us all of a crucial winter tradition, stuffed with holiday cheer and the inevitable super-secre ... More >>

Suck on This: Medical Marijuana Lollipops

​"KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN" warns the label When my friend Melanie came back from the Bay Area last week, she was very enthusiastic about California's medical marijuana program. I told her it sounded good to me, but I was really in excellent health and couldn't imagine how I'd get a prescripti ... More >>

The Clean

​"KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN" warns the label When my friend Melanie came back from the Bay Area last week, she was very enthusiastic about California's medical marijuana program. I told her it sounded good to me, but I was really in excellent health and couldn't imagine how I'd get a prescripti ... More >>

Crocodiles, Dum Dum Girls Cancel Their Tours

​Alas. Crocodiles (left) had a show at Maxwell's in Hoboken tonight; Dum Dum Girls were set for Music Hall of Williamsburg with Frankie Rose and the Outs on November 1. Both shows/tours have been scrapped entirely, per a family emergency (Brandon Welchez from the Crocs and Dee Dee from the Dum ... More >>

ROCKIN’ HANUKKAH

Eight nights of gifts from Yo La Tengo

Wednesday Night's Big Guest at Yo La Tengo's Final Maxwell's Show? Probably The National

Take it with a grain of salt, but we hear pretty reliably that the big guest for Yo La Tengo's eighth-night finale at Maxwell's will be none other than Brooklyn's the National. If true, they'd follow a murderer's row of guests YLT have already had out to Hoboken this year: M. Ward and tonight's Vi ... More >>

For Shame: Park Slope Food Coop Members Send in Nannies to Cover Shifts; Mocktails A-Go-Go

​New research shows that diners are eating outside the comfort zone of the "big three" ethnic cuisines -- Italian, Mexican, and Chinese -- and opting for Caribbean, Japanese, and Thai. [Nation's Restaurant News] One out of eight restaurant workers has come to work at least twice in the past y ... More >>

Tom Postilio

​New research shows that diners are eating outside the comfort zone of the "big three" ethnic cuisines -- Italian, Mexican, and Chinese -- and opting for Caribbean, Japanese, and Thai. [Nation's Restaurant News] One out of eight restaurant workers has come to work at least twice in the past y ... More >>

4 Great Places to Watch the Fireworks on the Fourth

​Since 1958, the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks display has been a New York City tradition. The fireworks were originally set off on the Hudson, but in 1976 they moved to the East River. Last year, they returned to the Hudson to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration of ... More >>

Mark Lugo of Hoboken Arrested in Theft of Picasso Sketch

WikipediaPablo is not happy. ​Oh art thieves, your crime of choice sure does seem like a glamorous business when you're envisioning yourself as Pierce Brosnan in The Thomas Crown Affair remake. But then you get caught like Mark Lugo, a 31-year-old from Hoboken, who was arrested in a hotel in N ... More >>

Mark Lugo, Who Stole a Picasso, Had Another Stolen Picasso Hanging on His Wall

Saddest mugshot ever?​Mark Lugo, the Hoboken man recently busted in a hotel in Napa for the theft of Picasso's 1965 "Tete de Femme" drawing, which he had snatched from San Francisco's Weinstein Gallery and then fled by taxi, is really more of a Thomas Crown than we had originally hoped for. Th ... More >>

Yo La Tengo's Eight Nights Of Hanukkah Will Again Take Place Over (Yes) The Eight Nights Of Hanukkah

​Which is a sort of snarky way of saying that tickets for this year's Eight Nights of Hannukah celebration go on sale tomorrow at noon. For those unfamiliar with the tradition, every year Yo La Tengo brings together a bunch of friends whose identities "will not be divulged until the last possi ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Yo La Tengo Celebrates 10 Years of Hanukkah Miracles

Next year, in Hoboken

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

Next year, in Hoboken

8 CRAZY NIGHTS

Yo La Tengo light their menorah

This Weekend In New York: The Gories, Black Dice, And Real Estate Go Beyond Brooklyn

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Remember when you had to drive an hour to a town you'd never been to just to see whatever D.I.Y. shit was going down in your state that weekend? You'd bitch about i ... More >>