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Guess What A Stripper Makes In One Night?

Well, one very long night anyway. (Over 15 hours in this case, so it's basically day and night). Including 30 table dances. And five onstage appearances. And she has to be fit, sexy, nimble, and have a healthy sense of rhythm and some powerful appeal. $3445!

The Top Eight Celebrity Tax Evaders

After clutching at the spotlight, a lot of stars learn how to evade things--like parapazzi, fans, and especially the IRS. Here's a very timely summation I was just sent which details the top celebrity tax evaders of all time. It's free, so don't even think of writing it off! Top Celebrity Tax Evad ... More >>

Pressing Thai, Tahitian, and Balinese Grapes: 5 New Latitude Wines

Welcome to the doldrums of winter. Unless you spend your weekends driving to the mountains, you're probably dreaming of warm, exotic locales to escape to during these blustery months. But don't imagine bland lagers and coconut cocktails -- the old drinks of tropical travels -- because more tourists ... More >>

Tips On How To Not Get Audited

I know people who know people who know people who've been audited, and it was such an unmitigated horror for them that they want the world to know how to avert that sweaty situation. Their tips can save you lots of time and energy, not to mention a whole bunch of money, plus penalty fees and aggrav ... More >>

Alexander Jentzsch, Son of Scientology's President, Memorialized At Sea

Yesterday, Karen de la Carriere memorialized her son, Alexander Jentzsch, who was found dead at a home in Los Angeles on the morning of July 3. He was only 27 years old. Because the Church of Scientology would not give her access to her son's ashes, Karen had rose petals cast on the Pacific Ocean a ... More >>

Reefer Roundup: Feds Arrest Six, Target Medical Marijuana Clinics' Bank Accounts

The Voice reported yesterday that the U.S. Department of Justice, backed by Barack Obama's administration, has started to crackdown on landlords who lease space to medical marijuana dispensaries -- and is threatening them with eviction. Now, news reports out of California indicate that federal auth ... More >>

Aw, the 1% Feels Poor

There's an UrbanBaby thread making its way around Internet circles, inspiring a sense of both depression and horror. It is about money, and how we feel about what we make, particularly in New York City, where we all seem to need a little bit more than people who live anywhere else. Despite the remin ... More >>

Fall Arts: Lydia Millet Turns the IRS Literary

I love the tax man

Miller High Life Will Save Yankee Fan From the Vicious Clutches of the IRS

​America is great, indeed! Remember how terrible we all felt when Christian Lopez, the lucky guy who caught the ball knocked out of the park in Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit, was maybe going to have to pay a bunch of money -- $5,000 to $14,000 -- to the IRS, just because he was coordinated enough ... More >>

Officials Investigate Upper East Side Synagogue Fire; IRS May Want Money From the Guy Who Caught Derek Jeter's 3,000th Hit

​• Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the four-alarm fire that ripped through the Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue, which had been under reconstruction, at East 85th Street last night. 170 firefighters responded, a few suffering minor injuries. No one was inside at the time of the ... More >>

Central Park Boathouse Management in Hot Water Following Sexual Harassment Charges

The Village Voice​Looks like the management of the Central Park Boathouse restaurant are some real d-bags. According to the New York Daily News, six current and former employees have brought charges against the famed spot, citing a hostile working environment and claiming they were fondled an ... More >>

Why I Hate Celebrities!

49 Furious Reasons!

You Forgot To Do Your Taxes! A Guide

​You've really stepped in it now, pal. The government gave you three whole days extra to file your taxes, but you were too busy eating Hot Pockets and playing Xbox to notice. Now most post offices are closed and you're frantically trying to figure out whether or not that upside-down tomato gar ... More >>

Government Shutdown Totally Messin' With Space Shuttle Launch

​The government will possibly shutdown tonight at midnight, and you've surely read about how this will affect your life. Tax refunds may be delayed, which is annoying, but the IRS is good for it, right? National parks will close, but everyone knows Yosemite doesn't get poppin' till late May. M ... More >>

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Eric Schneiderman Hoodwinks the New York Times (UPDATED)

​Campaigns test and reveal character, and we've learned a lot about Eric Schneiderman's character that we didn't know when he launched his "reform" candidacy for attorney general. The lessons of the last few days include: --Hoodwinking the New York Times into thinking he was the anti-Cuomo ca ... More >>

Is Pabst Blue Ribbon About to Become Bumble Bee Beer?

​The NPR website reports that counter-culture favorite Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer may be on the verge of being sold to C. Dean Metropoulos, the man responsible for developing such food brands as Vlassic Pickles and Bumble Bee Tuna. The sale, brokered by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, will reporte ... More >>

Graduates, Keep Going!

Invade your local college, young Mexican

Behind Each One Counts, the Bogus Charity Solar and His Wife Set Up in Guru from Gang Starr's Name

​Not surprising, but demoralizing nonetheless. When Guru, the erstwhile Gang Starr MC, passed last week, the news was accompanied by a very suspicious sounding letter. The missive, which began "I, Guru, am writing this letter to my fans, friends and loved ones around the world," purported to b ... More >>

Austin Plane Crasher: Is This His Suicide Note? (Updated: Looks Like It Is)

twitpic via jeff_lake​They're still trying to figure out why that guy stole took off in a plane and crashed it into an office building in Austin, Texas*. A suicide note is being circulated that some believe was written by the pilot, though. (Update: The admin has taken the site down "in com ... More >>

Rightbloggers Attack Left With, Defend Selves From Joe Stack Associations

​Joe Stack used to play bass in the Billy Ely Band and, if you want to check out some of his pre-mad-plane-crasher work, you can. (Here are more pictures of him.) The Internet at present is more interested in Stack's ideology than his bass playing. Rightbloggers hurried unto the breach with ... More >>

"Advocate" Tells Congress: Make Taxpayers Happier So They'll Pay More

​We didn't know there was such a thing as a National Taxpayer Advocate, but apparently her name is Nina E. Olson, and she has reported to Congress that the IRS has some customer service issues that should be corrected. That excited us, because our number one issue is that they take too much f ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! Wedding Bell Blues

Mexican parents apply full-court pressure

What's Happening This Week

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the hottest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! This week, we bring you a little tax day relief and a beery movie night. The newly opened pizza-by-the-inch joint Golosi (125 Park Avenue) will have a tax day ... More >>

Pols, Press Party with Sharpton and His Corrupt Network

The governor of New York is having lunch today with a tax dodger who owes the state nearly a million dollars. The mayor is chowing down, too. Tomorrow the vice president will wrap his arms around the same celebrity cheat who stiffed the IRS for nearly $2 million. David Paterson, Mike Bloomberg and ... More >>

Daschle Out at HHS

While new Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner owed $34,000 in taxes, he had an excuse, if not a good one, in his confusion over his salary arrangements with the World Bank, and it's not like a Treasury Secretary has that much to do with finance anyway. But Tom Daschle, Senate lion and proposed Health a ... More >>

E-mails Show City's Tricky Math in Yankee Stadium Deal

House to Ask: Was Spitzer a Patsy?

The Yanks on Trial: Liveblogging the Kucinich Hearings

Atlantic Yards Gets Tax Break, Or Not

Will Crash Doom Atlantic Yards?

Scientology's Crushing Defeat

A previously unpublished saga of an $8 million check

Taxpayer Cost of Yanks' Bond Demands: $82.9 Million

Yankees to City: What’s Another $350M Between Friends?

Death, Taxes, and Mexicans

Legal or illegal: Either way the IRS wins

Joe Bruno and the IRS

It's OK To Say Bruno and IRS in Same Breath: Spitzer Flack

Gentlemen, Start Your Bulldozers

Park Service Okays Yanks' Park Demolition

IRS Cracks Whip on Credit Counselors

Bloomberg on Stadium Bonds: It Depends What You Mean By 'Taxes'

Empirical news

The secret's out: Bush is overtaken by events—and overwhelmed

The Murder Inc. Trial: The Defense Rests

The GOP as Charity Case

Just the conventional tax break, please—helping out the republicans

The Tax Man Must Be Straight

Dollar Dissent

Tax Resisters Chip Away at Bush's War Chest

The $25 Million Man

The Real Reason Baseball Players Are So Rich

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