Hurricanes and Cyclones

Judge Gives Hurricane Sandy Victims in Hotel Program Time to Find Housing

Over the past month, a group of people who lost everything in Hurricane Sandy have been waging a battle with the city. They came from the most traumatized areas, and from the poorest economic backgrounds. The city had given 3,132 evacuees temporary housing in hotels in the aftermath of the storm, bu ... More >>

While City Fights Sandy Victim Class-Action Suit, Judge Extends Eviction Deadline

Six months after Hurricane Sandy swept across New York City's coastlines, most people affected by the storm have moved on from crisis mode. Power's back, insurance has (hopefully) kicked in. But there's a smaller group of people--a little less than 200 households altogether--for whom Hurricane Sandy ... More >>

DISH IT UP

It’s food porn galore 
at the Food Book Fair

Day Before Deadline, Court Blocks Eviction Date for Sandy Victims

On Monday night, a state supreme court ordered that the city temporarily halt its eviction of Hurricane Sandy victims from hotels. Slightly less than 200 households were to face their move-out deadline today, including 125 families that had nowhere to go, and 71 that the Department of Homeless Serv ... More >>

Nathaniel Rich Wrote About Hurricane Sandy Before It Hit

In 2007, the writer began work on a project about a massive hurricane hitting New York City. Five years later, just as he put the final edits on Odds Against Tomorrow--published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux earlier this month--Hurricane Sandy descended on the city. Over a recent cup of coffee in Tur ... More >>

ORCHID FLOWER BOMB

Head uptown to see 
nature’s art show

DEEP FREEZE

Superheroes take on pro hockey players

PLANET GORE

The former V.P. shares his 
new scary book

VINTAGE VHS

Are your old tapes here?

SAVE WFMU

Two great ways to help 
a great station

The Good Fork Will Reopen in Red Hook, Plus Free Tours of Chelsea Brewing Co.

Thursday, December 27 Beer Dinner for Holiday Hurricane Relief at Alewife: Long Island City brewery Alewife will host a holiday meal fit for a beer fanatic. For $50, try brews from Smuttynose, Lagunitas, Oskar Blues, Dogfish Head, Greenport Harbor, and Bronx Brewery, all paired with a six-course men ... More >>

The Village Voice's Tejal Rao Named One of Forbes' Food & Drink 30 Under 30

Take heed, world! We're thrilled to report that our own Tejal Rao has been named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30, the magazine's annual list that picks 30 rising faces in 15 "entrepreneurial, creative, and intellectual" categories. Rao is noted in the Food & Drink section, and is the only restaurant crit ... More >>

Bloomberg Outlines Plans for Post-Sandy Rebuilding

In a speech this morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised New York's official response to Hurricane Sandy, called for more action to control climate change, and laid out the next steps in the city's rebuilding process. "Even as our recovery operations remain our top priority, we now have enough per ... More >>

GEEK CHIC

Bring your brain and 
your dancing shoes

Andrew Bird

Whole Earth Bakery Uses Crowdfunding to Stay Afloat

Peter Silvestri started Whole Earth Bakery with his mother back in 1978. Together they ran an all-vegan bakery, and served sweet and savory goods out of a storefront on Spring Street. "That was before SoHo became 'SoHo,'" said Silvestri. After Hurricane Sandy, the loss of goods combined with mounti ... More >>

ART for the STORM

Shelter in the Storm

"Please Don't Resign, LIPA CEO Michael Hervey," Said No One Ever

Long Island Power Authority CEO Michael Hervey will resign from his post as head of the utilities giant at the end of the year, which is music to the ears to just about everyone.Hervey's been with LIPA for about 12 years. Under heavy criticism from Long Island residents and politicians for his awful ... More >>

Cuomo Reiterates Intention to Spank Utilities Companies For Poor Post-Sandy Response

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo continued to chastise New York Utilities companies yesterday for their lack of preparedness and sloppy communication in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. "I'm not wed to any of the utilities," Cuomo said yesterday during a Sandy update news conference. "Let's get a gr ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo Launches Commission To Figure Out Why New York Utilities Companies Suck

It's no secret that Governor Andrew Cuomo is pretty pissed off with the lack of preparedness New York utilities companies had for Hurricane Sandy. It's also no secret that New York utilities companies have absolutely sucked at responding to power outages caused by the storm -- and Cuomo wants to kno ... More >>

Amazon Hurricane Registry Organizes About $75K In Donations -- No Thanks To Amazon

A group of do-gooders have come up with a rather ingenious way to get the victims of Hurricane Sandy the supplies they need to help rebuild their communities after last week's freakish "Frankenstorm" destroyed large sections of Long Island, Staten Island, and Queens: an Amazon wedding registry for h ... More >>

Sandy, Occupy, and the City's Failures

A Storm of Controversy

VOX Festival

Cockatiel Survived Hurricane Irene on the City Streets With Only the Words 'Pretty Bird'

DNAinfo/Leslie Albrecht ​Today in adorable animals in trouble, now not in trouble anymore: The best New York City hurricane story, via DNA Info, has to be the tale of 14-year-old cockatiel Josie, who is a he, and who escaped from a pet carrier along with another bird, Cliffy, while the two wer ... More >>

The Play About My Dad--A Father and Daughter Are the Eye of This Hurricane Katrina

59E59 Theaters hosts Boo Killebrew's family drama

Trash Talk+Off!

Dr. John & the Lower 911

NYC Pinoys for Pinoys Benefit Dining Event

To benefit victims of Typhoon Ondoy/Ketsana

Hopeful Dispatches From the 40th Jazz & Heritage Festival

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Rush Limbaugh to Leave New York

You folks deserve a little good news. Rush Limbaugh is mad about New York's new taxes on rich people and is looking to deprive us of his meaty presence. Even before Commissar Paterson's crackdown, Rush tells his mouth-breathless listeners, "if it weren't for hurricanes down here [in oxycontin haven ... More >>

Columbia Ignores Peril

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

HELPING HANDS

An evening with Orhan Pamuk and Salman Rushdie

New Orleans Still Struggles—In Song—With Katrina

Big Surprise: My Wife Has Lost Interest in Sex. What Do I Do?

The Beating Heart of Jazz

Art Blakey: 'You don't have to be a musician to understand jazz. Just be able to feel.'

Lower Ninth: Katrina Drama

The Flea's new Katrina drama echoes Godot

Winos to Global Warming: Thanks a Lot

Louisiana: Struck by Whitening

1955

Rattle Sabers, Blah, Blah, Blah

As polls sink, Bush turns to the same old, same old in speech

Any Profit in a Storm

Stormy weather allows big oil to practice a crude sort of blackmail

Rita, Katrina: Religious Fringe Sees Apocalypse Now

You say global warming, they say wrath of God

Morning Report 9/14/05
Picking Up Pieces in Baghdad, New Orleans

CAFTA Meets Katrina

And more than the fiscal health of an American city hangs in the balance

Tour De Farce: Bush Heads South

Morning Report 9/10/05
The Bush Krewe

Morning Report 9/09/05
Another Bible Lesson From Bush

Morning Report 9/4/05
Rehnquist Death Gives Bush Chance to Deepen American Crisis