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Is Sao Mai Our Best Vietnamese Restaurant?

Take First Avenue to Hanoi

"Reserved for Mothers Today" Stickers Invade the M Line

It's that special time of the year again, when everyone steps back for a second and sends shout-outs to our most maternal partners in crime. Here at Runnin' Scared, we feel obligated (out of love, of course) to make sure the mothers who give birth to us bloggers are treated with the utmost respect. ... More >>

Sao Mai and Xe May Sandwich Shop: Finally, Your Banh Mi Tacos

The East Village gets two new Vietnamese spots

The Dutch for Your Holiday Bash? Some Private Party Notions for You.

Scaredy_kat/flickrAt the Dutch, get sloppy drunk--or eat sloppy duck sliders.​ Some folks wait all year long to throw back a few drinks with their otherwise buttoned-up co-workers. Some just call that Friday night. If you're in the latter camp, then you probably would rather spend your holiday ... More >>

Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories

The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>

Das Racist's Top Ten Tour Memories (So Far)

​Viktor Vazquez has just arrived at a hotel in Seattle and is pining for some noodles. Specifically, he has the hankering for some "fancy ramen noodles." It's a caliber of Japanese wheat-noodle that he has not been able to find since leaving his home in New York City to undertake a vehement 30 ... More >>

Two-Man Kidnapping Rule Helps Debut the New Ohio Theatre

After losing its longtime space, the downtown stalwart returns with a new season

Our 10 Best Things to Eat on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, NYC

​The four-cheese mac-and-cheese at Macaroni, Macaroni is engagingly crunchy. If you haven't been on the stretch of MacDougal Street between Houston and West 4th in a while, you need to pay a visit. This student haunt and historic refuge of Bohos from John Reed to Bob Dylan has lately become ... More >>

Excerpt: Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, And The Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop, Wherein Scarface Recalls His Mental-Health-Ward Days

​Also-beloved friend-of-SOTC Ben Westhoff's new book, Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop, will be available on May 1st from Chicago Review Press. This excerpt focuses on Southern pioneers Geto Boys and particularly beloved rapper Scarfa ... More >>

It's the Real and the Rise of the Rap Nerd

Why this duo's white, Jewish comedy-rap is funnier than you think

People Are Sleeping in NYC Food Carts

​Vendors are sleeping in their New York City food carts, presumably to save spots on good blocks, the New York Post is reporting in Sunday's paper. Or in Post-anese, "They're sleeping with the dishes." (Well played.) The newspaper notes spotting only two carts with sleeping vendors, both on th ... 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 >>

Dish No. 51: Migas at General Greene

​ ​Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike -- compiled daily. Today's pick: Migas ($8) at General Greene General Greene 229 DeKalb Avenue Ft. Greene, Brooklyn 718-222-1510

The Infamous American Apparel Benches of the Lower East Side: Gone.

via Bowery Boogie.​As if American Apparel isn't having enough problems these days, now, those problems are beginning to manifest in very public ways, right here in New York City. Symbolism, ahoy.

Keith Haring Doesn't Like the Shepard Fairey Mural Much, Either

via EV GrieveKeith Haring poster rips on Fairey​The latest abuse to the much-maligned Shepard Fairey May Day mural at Houston and Bowery comes via a tag on a poster of Keith Haring's face located on an ATM around the corner on Bowery, reports EV Grieve. It reads, "Put my mural back" and "What' ... More >>

Luke Wilson Brings Hardcore to the Masses in Middle Men

Shepard Fairey's Joaquin Phoenix: Comeback, or Final Blow?

​Shepard Fairey, creator of the frequently vandalized mural on Houston and Bowery, is back in the game with a series of street installations depicting bearded crazy person/actor Joaquin Phoenix. Vulture reports that the Joaquins have been spotted in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Bo ... More >>

Live: Fang Island Cover Mariah Carey, Inspire Much Unironic High-Fiving At Cake Shop

Fang Island's Jason Bartell, reveling. Pics by Raymond Haddad, more below.​Fang Island Cake Shop Saturday, May 29 No offense to the other four (!!!) bands on this bill, but the full-on, Facebook-abetted lightsaber battle raging in the park at Houston and Chrystie on the Lower East Side Saturd ... More >>

Morning Links: Advice on Befriending Aliens, Boobquake Day, More About the Stolen iPhone

​It's Monday morning. Here's what you should know: • Stephen Hawking warns us not to become friends with aliens, because "they very likely wouldn't be the cuddly, ET types we hope for." Noted.

To the Sales Clerk at Me&Ro Who Was Too Busy Being a Dick to Help Me

   We see you, dick.​Hello. If you are the guy with the handlebar mustache working at the Me&Ro jewelry store on Elizabeth Street between Houston and Prince who wouldn't make eye contact and barely spoke a word to me, even after I asked, nicely, for some assistance: Why are you such ... 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 >>

BLUES IMPLOSION

The mysterious Jandek pops up in Brooklyn

Girls Love Gay Male Porn

Brokeback Mountain was just the beginning . . .

Jah Cure's True Reflections . . . A New Beginning

Reggae's cause célébre celebrates both his new record's release, and his own

Letters

Hillary Says FEMA Should Be Set Free

After Katrina: Senator Clinton Calls for Moving Disaster Agency Out of Homeland Security

Border Rapper's Got a Squeezebox; Baby Mamas Miss Osama at Night

Film

NY Mirror

Bush, Whacked

Believe it or not, a slew of swanky downtown shops are getting political

New York's Marijuana March is an Annual Rite of Spring

Newsstands

Paper Trail

Listings

Best of the Rest!

Very Much Like a Death

Cracking Down on Immigrants—Again

As Ashcroft Pushes Harsh Laws in Congress, a Pakistani Student From New York Is Beaten While in INS Custody

Get Rolling!

A Bike Week Calendar

Three and Out

Women's Football Gets Crowded

Morning Sedition

WBAI Fights Management’s Move to Turn the Station into NPR Lite

Fish Rots From the Head

Pacifica Falls Into Corporate Hands

Memphis Bleak

Sports

Sports

LES Is More

In Defense of Liberty

Stinginess is the strategy as New York marches into the playoffs

Star Gazing

The WNBA All-Star Game Interrupts a Season of Change

Who is Gunning for Ex-Farrakhan Spokesmen?

Khallid Muhammad says FBI warned aides about Nation of Islam Death threats

Moderately Republican

The Power of the Maine-stream

Cabaret Lawlessness

Signs of the Times

Huge Billboards Invade Noho and Soho