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Homeless Genius Teen Invited to State of the Union

Last week, Runnin' Scared brought you news of Samantha Garvey, a 17-year-old aspiring marine biologist from Long Island. Garvey gained nationwide attention when reports surfaced that she and her family were living in a homeless shelter -- and that she'd risen to become a semifinalist in Intel's s ... More >>

Raj Rajaratnam, Hedge Fund Emperor, Slapped With 11-year Prison Sentence

​One of the more sinister figures in the Wall Street scandals, disgraced hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 11 years in prison today. He was also fined $63 million. Prosecutors described his trail of fraud and deception as the largest hedge fund ins ... More >>

Greg Washington, Worst Squeegee Man in NYC, Has Been Arrested 186 Times

A weapon in the hands of Washington.​Greg (Grover) Washington, who the Daily News has dubbed "the squeegee king of New York" was arrested for the 186th time on Tuesday, making him not only the squeegee king of New York but possibly the king of New York City arrests. The trouble with Washington ... More >>

It's Not Too Late to Buy This 6-Foot Rick Perry Chia Head

​Necessity is the mother of invention, and we need a 6-foot terra cotta flower planter that looks extraordinarily like Texas Governor/wannabe presidential nominee Rick Perry. It is for sale on eBay for $4,500 (local pick-up offered in Blanco, Texas). "The outline of his hair is surprisingly ac ... More >>

Levi Aron Participated in Prayers For Leiby Kletzky; Williamsburg Bridge Acrobats Defend High-Flying Felony

​New details continue to emerge about Levi Aron, the Brooklyn man who confessed to killing and dismembering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky this past week. Police sources said that Aron's family claims the 35-year-old was in a car accident at age 10 which impaired him mentally. Co-workers at the hardware ... More >>

David Paterson to Teach Class at NYU

​Today is just brimming with news about gone, but not forgotten New York politicians. First, the people of the city learned that they will no longer be able to watchEliot Spitzer's cable television show, and now it's been brought to our attention that Spitzer's replacement in office, David Pat ... More >>

Independents Think Charlie Sheen Would Be a Better President Than Sarah Palin

​Charlie Sheen or Sarah Palin? Charlie Sheen or Sarah Palin? Apparently we are not the only people struggling with the difficult question of which of those two incredibly qualified, sane, intelligent, politically savvy personas we would elect president. Thankfully, there has been a poll, and w ... More >>

Etsy Privacy Policy Shows Everyone Your Heinous, Uncouth, or Twee Purchases

For sale: vintage JFK bust​The e-commerce website Etsy, which focuses on sickeningly cute arts, crafts, and vintage junk, also happens to sell sex toys, like ceramic polka-dotted dildos and crocheted vibrator cases, as we learned today! Others on the Internet may have learned a similar lesson ... More >>

Bradley Manning Stripped Naked Every Night For 'Sarcastic Quip'

​Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier charged with "aiding the enemy" and 21 other counts in connection with leaking government information to WikiLeaks, is now being forced to sleep naked at his Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia, and stay without clothes during the roll call in the morning ... More >>

Ruth Madoff Shunned at Son's Memorial

​When Mark Madoff, son of disgraced Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff, killed himself in December, his mother Ruth traveled to Greenwich, Connecticut for the memorial service, but was not allowed in by Mark's widow Stephanie, according to a report by People appearing in today's New York Post. Instea ... More >>

Chris Lee Could Be Replaced By Carl Paladino

​Christopher Lee, the New York representative who resigned yesterday amid a scandal over shirtless pictures, will be replaced between 30 and 45 days after Governor Andrew Cuomo calls for a special election. Rumors have already started as to who might run for the spot, including one that New Yorker ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords Asked For Toast

​Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head only one month ago in the Arizona killing spree of six others, has healed enough to speak; she asked for toast at breakfast time. "Yes, that's accurate," Giffords' chief of staff, Pia Carusone, told MSNBC. The moment occurred Monday morning at TIRR Me ... More >>

Gawker Media Rolling Out Redesign, The Daily Coming Tomorrow and NewsBeast Merged

New Jalopnik, Gawker's Car Blog​Gawker, The Daily and NewsBeast, oh my. Three of the year's biggest media launches so far have landed, albeit in different stages, on or around February 1, 2011, making for some vaguely exciting times on the internet, if you're into that sort of thing. Taken tog ... More >>

New York Times Opens Hangover Rooms, Goes WikiLeaks; Rupert Murdoch Babies His Kids

""recoverycouch.jpg" via​It happens: some mornings you get to work without having been home the night before and you pull a freshly starched white shirt from the bottom drawer of your desk, you brush your teeth under the fluorescent light of the men's room with one of those little things you p ... More >>

How Will We Format Rupert Murdoch's The Daily, Which Comes Out Next Week?

​The Daily, News Corp.'s much anticipated iPad newspaper, will release its first issue on Wednesday, January 19, 2011, according to a report from Forbes' media writer Jeff Bercovici, though a company spokesperson is still mum on the drop date. In the meantime, the new publication, which everyo ... More >>

2010: The Year In Music Photos

​The year in music, circa 2010, started at the Cake Shop, with a shred-down to the New Year courtesy of Siren Festival MVP-to-be Marissa Paternoster and her band Screaming Females. After a tour through the NYE fetes of the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, that night ended amidst a marathon sh ... More >>

New Jersey Inching Toward Medical Marijuana, But It Won't Be the "Good Stuff"

NJ Stoners​Ailing New Jersey residents may be smoking medical marijuana by next summer thanks to a compromise reached between Governor Chris Christie and weed advocates, who thought they had won when previous Governor Jon Corzine signed a law legalizing the treatment on his way out of office. ... More >>

The Daily Kill Dossier: A Hit List of News Corp's Freshest Poaches

​As it's been noted, News Corp's daily newspaper built just for the iPad -- The Daily -- is on the way. It is Rupert Murdoch's newest child, the Draco Malfoy to his Voldemort. As such, they're hiring or trying to hire every editorial staffer this side of the Bangkok Bugle Tribune, which I just inv ... More >>

Miss New York Crashed Miss USA's Macy's Parade Float Because She Could

​New Yorkers get a bad rap from Real America as pushy and self-centered, each of us the star of our own Broadway (or reality) show. You're goddamn right we are. Davina Reeves, the outgoing Miss New York beauty queen, proved it on Thanksgiving when she hopped on the Macy's parade float of Miss ... More >>

Cathie Black is Coming, But Only With Someone Who Can Actually Do Her Job

​Cathie Black, Mayor Bloomberg's choice to become New York City's Schools Chancellor, was in danger this week of having quit her job as the president of Hearst Magazines for nothing. A wave of discontent engulfed her nomination, including a "thumbs down" by the panel meant to approve her. (Eve ... More >>

Gay Teenager Shames Adults With Public Showing of Intelligence, Compassion

Graeme Taylor, a fourteen-year-old high school student, took the podium at a school board meeting in Michigan to speak out in favor of Jay McDowell, a teacher suspended after a heated exchange with two students over the Confederate flag and gay rights. After hearing Taylor's speech, which you can wa ... More >>

Even Meghan McCain Hates Christine O'Donnell

Beer Laptop = Real Talk​Political commentator, Dirty, Sexy Politics author and John McCain's daughter Meghan McCain likes to represent herself as some sort of down home Republican realist -- the young person shaking the wacky, old party crusties and screaming, "Gay people get to vote, too, y ... More >>

Madonna's Publicist Will Make a Bitch of You

Madonna and Reporter​You don't get to be a publicist for one of the world's most famous people without biting off a few heads, letting the blood dribble down your chin and trampling on the lifeless body. Madonna's longtime right-hand lady Liz Rosenberg showed a glimmer of this necessary evil w ... More >>

Man Pushes Woman Into Subway, Works at Cipriani, Claims to Be Osama Bin Laden

The Subway of Your Nightmares​The cool weather last night might have indicated that New York City's summer is coming to an end, but there's still a fair amount of homicidal crazy in the air. Take, for instance, Jose Rojas, a 25-year-old man from the Bronx, who shoved a woman into an oncoming s ... More >>

Criminal Mistakes Her Danger Zone for a Secret Hiding Place

​When you're thinking about stealing some cash, why don't you try dressing up like Darth Vader? Or handing the teller a bouquet of flowers? Or being old? There are many creative ways to deceive law enforcement, but this morning Nakia Shaw of the Bronx decided to go a different route, through t ... More >>

Capital New York: First Exciting Web Launch in Way Too Long, Peeks Head Out via Twitter

​Not since Gawker acquired and then did basically nothing with CityFile The Awl came along last April has an editorial unveiling been so anticipated! Capital New York -- the brainchild of former New York Observer editors Tom McGeveran and Josh Benson -- is basically going to be the New Order t ... More >>

Cheap-Ass Bastard Moves Apartment Via Subway, Loses Friends and Alienates Everyone

via New York Magazine​New York Magazine's Daily Intel shares a quintessential, amazing "Only in New York" tale of a man with an ill-advised dream involving the subway and all of his paltry belongings. It seems that 24-year-old Young Min has attempted to do what even the cheapest of New Yorkers ... More >>

The New York Post's Exile Insanity (Updated)

​Reports today surfaced from Gawker that the New York Post is having some staffing issues. And by "staffing issues" we mean "are losing high-profile reporters due to the crumbling civility of the volatile Post management and competing offers." The report included big Post names like Page Six g ... More >>

Video: Paul Krugman's Rock Star Turn in "Get Him to the Greek"

​We noted last week that Nobel prize-winning "rock star" economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman had a cameo in Get Him to the Greek, a movie starring hysterical Jewish fatty Jonah Hill, hysterical Limey sex addict Russell Brand, and New York's own hysterically omniscient rapper/pr ... More >>

The Week of the Yalien Invasion: A Reaction Rundown and Why They Win

​Maybe you've noticed the assault. No, not the hipsters abusing the Chinese people, though maybe there is some overlap. The real issue is more extraterrestrial than entitled NYU students, who are practically native at this point. It's the Yaliens -- they're everywhere, taking over New York Cit ... More >>

Raj Rajaratnam Faces More Charges in Galleon Scandal; Wharton B-School Alums Are Dropping Like Flies

With even more criminal charges now piled up against beleaguered hedge-fund wheeler-dealer Raj Rajaratnam, let's go back to last October, when the Galleon insider-trading scandal broke. Who else to size up Rajaratnam at that moment but Nassim Nicholas Taleb — author of The Black Swan and one ... More >>

Cuomo Gets $500K, Change in Advertising from Tagged

This summer fighting attorney general Andrew Cuomo went after Tagged.com, claiming it suckered people into joining its site -- and uploading their address books -- with deceptive solicitations. Tagged changed its practices and denied intent to defraud, but Cuomo kept the heat on. Now the AG announce ... More >>

Bailout Thoughts from Megan McArdle

Shelved in fiction: 'Henry Paulson and the Toxic Assets'

Daily Blog: Shock and awe; you just lost at Monopoly; Al Jazeera talks to a Jewish banker

Arab Government Bites Off a Big Chunk of G.E.

Bob Shaye's New Line

Everyone's favorite money-minting, Hobbit-crushing movie mogul taps into his inner child

Day of Rage

Behind the scenes of the NYPD crackdown at the GOP convention

Plasmatazz

Will Plasma TVs Ever Be Affordable?

Listings

Inside New York's Foster Care System

34,000 Kids Trying to Catch a Break

Freedom Fighters

Will Groundbreaking New Privacy Software Restore Anonymity to the Net?

Fortune Teller

An Interview With Silicon Valley Voyeur Po Bronson

Doctor Who?

Diagnosing Medical Fraud May Require a Second Opinion

Tender Mercies

Letters

Die, Yuppie Scam

Fanning the Fame

Totally New York

Upstart Start-Ups