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TED Conference Hosts Best Coffee Pop-Up in the World and More Morning Links

The coffee set-up at this year's TED conference includes eight roasters and 38 baristas, and the coffee geeks at Sprudge say it might well be "the best multi-roaster pop-up in the world." The conference kicked off yesterday in Long Beach with a day of presentations from TED fellows (including one by ... More >>

Ivo van Hove Blends Up Shakepeare in Roman Tragedies

And you can join his crowd, at BAM

Furniture Steals The Show at Republican Convention!

The centerpiece of the convention last night was a chair--a perfectly ordinary looking one, mind you--which Clint Eastwood talked to in a bizarre, stammering speech that must have been inspired by the works of Samuel Beckett. The Oscar winning actor/director kept glancing at the empty chair and say ... More >>

What Celebrities Had To Say About Clint Eastwood's Chair Routine

At the Republican convention last night, Clint Eastwood made jaws drop by talking to an empty chair--no, not one of the ones from the theater for his last movie. It was supposed to represent Obama, who was invisible (though I'm pretty sure I heard him cackling from miles away) as the Oscar winner t ... More >>

I Made Keith Olbermann Laugh!

On last night's Countdown show, Keith and I had tons of fun dissecting the Republicans' pledge to ban "hard-core, offensive porn" and -- on a whole other plane -- we also managed to chew over their probable Valentine's Day plans. Among my HILARIOUS outbursts:

Q&A: Hospitality's Amber Papini On Competing with NYC Noise-Rock, Signing with Merge, And The Red Hook Scene

​As the Billyburg/Bushwick/Greenpoint underground overloads itself with crude art-noize slop, the clean-cut, pop-obsessive whizzes in the Red Hook-based Hospitality are quite the welcome anomaly. With an indiepop aesthetic as charming as their band name, singer/songwriter/guitarist Amber Papin ... More >>

IKEA Is Hosting a Nordic Crayfish Party. Put On Those Elastic Pants!

WikipediaGet ready to suck some crayfish head juice!​Summertime eating might mean burgers and Popsicles to us Americans, but over in Sweden, a highlight of summer eating is the kräftskiva, or crayfish party, when the fair Nordic races consume bucketfuls of the bright red crustaceans, swilling ... More >>

Tales From a Buffalo Exchange Reject...and How Not to Get Rejected This Summer

​One morning, with a sudden burst of determination, you excavate your closet. Goodbye to the pants you hoped would fit again some day, the funky necklace you only wore once, the precariously high heels still nestled in their box. You throw it all into a big duffel bag or two, then haul it over ... More >>

Spring Arts Guide: Juliette Mapp Mashes Up Day Care and Gertrude Stein

Plus Paradigm, Karole Armitage, and other spring dance picks

The Week in Food Blogs: Super Bowl Snacks; Chicken 'Wyngz' Controversy

This week in food blogs... Eater kicked off its Third Annual Hottest Chef competition. Serious Eats posted its top 10 Super Bowl Snacks. Six-foot DIY pizza bianca hero from Sullivan Street Bakery, anyone? Grub Street also offered up its picks for what to eat this Super Bowl Sunday. With a map, no ... More >>

Ambisexual Hotties Go Sky-High in Kaboom

Getting Where You Want to Go Costs More Now!

​Yes, your Metrocard is now more expensive. That's not the only thing. The New York Times has summarized the numerous annoying increased costs of travel in the city, noting that not only is the subway going to cost you more, but so will parking (as of today), bridge and tunnel tolls, license p ... More >>

New York Gets a Chocolate Library and a "Chocolate" Distillery

Cacao: bold, beautiful, botanical.​Here's a bit more news of indulgence on this week of indulgence: Over on St. Marks Place, the Chocolate Library has opened. Per EV Grieve, the place is lined with rows of Ikea shelving stocked with numerous varieties of chocolate, all of which are begging to ... More >>

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Don the red cap in Red Hook

Big Win for Satan: Heavy Metal Addict Wins Disability Benefits

​If you think your union's solid, think again. Satan's apparently in the labor law business these days, and he's making your lawyer look like My Cousin Vinny.

The Bounty Hunter of Mismatched Couple Clichés

Our 10 Best Meals Under $6

Prosperity Dumpling's sesame pancake with beef is so cheap ($1.75) that you can also afford an order of dumplings​ ​The principal lure of the cheap eat is, of course, its cheapness. But ultra-affordable food often has more going for it than thriftiness. The best are found in interesting ... More >>

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A Razor, A Shiny Knife's Michael Cirino Wants You to Eat Like a Local. But Not in The Way You're Thinking.

Sally Ryan/Chicago DeciderA Razor, A Shiny Knife's Michael Cirino (R), hard at work.​Michael Cirino is "pretty big into the local food thing." His uncle, after all, owns a farm in upstate New York where Cirino once took a group of people to create an eight-course wild boar meal from scratch. B ... More >>

Jill Sigman Goes to ZsaZsaLand; Yvonne Meier’s Homemade Magic

Put Down Your Lethem Novel and Join Us: Recapping MTV's Real World: Brooklyn Episode 1

We already met the Real World Brooklyn cast members (twice, [cough] three times.) Here's what happened in the first hour-long episode. LtR: Devyn, JD, Sarah, Katelynn, Scott, Baya, Chet, Ryan The new season of that inebriated, emotional, disease-bag-sharing The Real World-ok, fine, the reality s ... More >>

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amNY: If You're Thinking of Living in Red Hook...

Fro-Yo With a Side of Virtue

You shouldn't need a doctor's note to eat dessert

Reality Czech in Aisle Nine

Doc dupes entire nation, makes trenchant case against consumer culture

'I Live on Seaman, Just After Cumming'

Pervy streets at Manhattan's dirty northern end

Yellow Fever

They got it bad, and that ain't good.

All in the Family

Confused teens, confused thirtysomethings, and old jazz guys enjoying their dotage

Urban Outfitter

Talking with Julia Solis, creative preservationist of abandoned environments

Close-Up on Egbertville, Staten Island

Curry in a Hurry

Global adventures, packaged for the microwave 'cook'

NY Mirror

Cozy Jersey Fluffstress Offers Affordable Solutions for Better Living

Close-Up on the Columbia Street Waterfront District

The Urge to Purge

Television's many cleaning experts poke their noses into other people's beloved trash

Dorm Chasers

R.J. Cutler Goes to College; Artists Get Some Airtime

God Must Be Crazy: The Fight Over an Idiot Boxer's Soul

The Passion of Ulrika

Maidens and Big Balls in Midtown

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Theater

Suspended Animation

A Greenwich Village of the Mind

Looking for Suzuki Beane

Renovated Loft in Former Textile Factory

Paranoia Jumps Deep

It's My Party and I'll Catfight If I Want Candy

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One-Bedroom Apartment in Prewar Building

A bunch of slugs

City Limits

I'm More Wired Than You!

Gadgetry Is Not Just an Obsession— It's a Way of Life