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Taste of Long Island City, Meat Tour, All-You-Can-Drink Craft Beer: What To Do This Week

So you're back from spending the first official weekend of summer in the Hamptons/Rockaways/Jersey Shore, and you're trying to cope with your awkward sunburn. Here's a look at some fun food events this week to help soothe your skin -- or at least settle your stomach:

FUNNY PEOPLE

It’s ok to laugh at this Sandy fundraiser

Nightlifey Doings For Y'all To Drink In

As usual, I do the partying so you don't have to. And here's what's been going on in after-midnight-land lately: *On Top!, the Tuesday night rooftop party at the Standard, put on by Ms. Susanne Bartsch, is back and has had to face a run of bad weather, plus some new competition (parties like the ... More >>

Asian-American Advocacy Groups: New Congressional Maps Are Pretty Good

Asian Americans in New York City may actually have the voting power they deserve in Congress if the lines drawn this week by a judge become reality, advocates said today. If you haven't been following the redistricting drama closely, here's what you need to know: Since state legislators, stuck in ... More >>

Download: Wet Witch's Pummeling "New Ways"

Radioactive industrial-punk mutants Wet Witch slither from the Burn Books label, the same sludgehurlers who got us Pregnant this time last year. Part Jersey Shore wash-up, part Brooklyn crust-over, Wet Witch's four-song, one-sided 12" (out now, limited to 500) comes complete with the band's name mel ... More >>

BEAT THE BEAT

The couple that fist pumps together, stays together

Melvin's Juice Box: Juiceheads Get Their Fix in Soho

​There was a time when juicing was associated with pumped-up dudes on steroids, muscles oozing out of their tank tops and veins popping out of their foreheads. Sammy Sosa. The Jersey Shore. Not anymore. With the prevalence of juice fasts, and bottles of green liquid replacing the ubiquitous giant ... More >>

Everyone Loves Dolphins Except Me!

Dolphin Tale is a big hit, and every time a dolphin appears on cable, the ratings go higher than Jersey Shore. And if it's a dolphin on the Jersey Shore, forgetaboutit! Everyone simply adores dolphins, lining up for a chance to see them jump and splash and indulge in belly-to-belly copulation and ... More >>

SWANS' WAY

Michael Gira puts the fear into his fans again

Enrique Iglesias+Pitbull

Resident Advisor, Under Wraps

The website's blowout is about good vibrations, not big names

33 Reasons We Can't Help Loving Summer in the City

Even when it doesn't love us

What a Trip: Beach Party Gone Wrong in Vacation!

The Weather Is Much Improved: Five Places to Take Advantage in NYC

​This weather is really something! For everyone besides weekend bloggers. You're probably out frolicking already, aren't you. But if you're not -- if you're hungover and melting into a blob in front of Jersey Shore, mired in an existential crisis about what you're doing with your life -- it's ... More >>

American Idol Season 10: Comfortably Banal Down In "N'awlins"

Way less of dudes like this, at least. Photo by Michael Becker/FOX.​Tonight's American Idol starts off with two bits of welcome news. First off, Bones is on tonight. That means Idol is only an hour long and I don't have to wait all goddamn night to watch Community. (They dressed Malcolm Jamal- ... More >>

2011 In Review!

​Why wait all the way till the end of the year for all those inevitable-2011-in-review stories? As always, I'm wildly ahead of the curve and on top of the trend. So how has the year been so far? Well, as pop culture's most avid observer, I'm totally your man for the wrapup:

The 114 Most Important Lessons I've Learned at The Village Voice (Or: "2010, The Year I Ruined Your Media Outlet")

​After a 285-day stint, I am abdicating my post here at The Village Voice. I'm going to work for Esquire.com, so I may -- as one commenter noted -- continue my work as a "a twentysomething angel of death." Yet, while I was here, I learned some very important things, and had some very memorable mom ... More >>

10 Halloween Costumes You Should Really Avoid Wearing if You're Single and Female

​Dear Single Ladies, Halloween is a time to show your true inner beauty, your wisdom and intelligence, your creativity and strength of character. Remember, leaving something to the imagination is always preferred to letting it all hang out. Desperation smells a lot like fake tanner and cheap ... More >>

Drag Star Gives Middle Finger To Logo's A-List

​Sweetie, a long time staple of drag performing in this town, thinks Logo's reality show The A-List: New York is Z list. As Sweetie wrote on Facebook:

Carl Paladino And The Speedo Boys

​Dear Carl, Yesterday, I took apart your biblical hate against gay people, spewed in the wake of a horrifying batch of bullying, suicides, and torture that have millions of sensible adults breaking down doors to try and make the world safer for young gays. Your choice--supposedly ordained by ... More >>

"The Situation" Is a Hetero Trapped in a Gay Man's Body

​As he himself has joked. But judging from this brand-new National Enquirer piece, maybe the opposite is a little true, too.

Introducing: The Situation T-Shirt, and 10 Other Hideous Ways to Clothe Your Upper Half

​So, horror of horrors, this happened. The vile interbreeding of clothing species, mixed with the mad-ad-genius of one Jersey Shore-ist, has resulted in the abdominal-revealing Situation T-shirt. Your eyes may never be the same. And, yes, those are Photoshopped flames. But to our great surpris ... More >>

Will Hurricane Earl "Smoosh" with Jersey Shore?

Hurricane "Snooks."​Labor Day weekend isn't looking to be the last-hurray-of-summer-sunshine affair its supposed to be, with Hurricane Earl ready to very literally rain on the plans of anyone about to have one last blowout before calling the summer off. And it looks like the Jersey Shore -- wh ... More >>

Taco Bell Linked to Salmonella Outbreak; Thomas' English Muffins Go to Court

​Some people in L.A., where restaurant letter grades have existed for some time, apparently seek out eateries with a B or C grade, as that usually means great, authentic ethnic food. [NY Daily News] Just as Taco Bell launches its new Carnitos Tacos, the chain is being linked to two multi-stat ... More >>

Charles Rangel: Distinguished Politician, Ethicist, Village Voice Reader

Image via Cary Conover/Getty Images. Click to enlarge.​And we thought it was a big deal on hearing that the Jersey Shore guys know what a Village Voice is. Behold! Ethics chages schmethics charges. We know a good fellow when we see one, like this guy. Granted, if Rangel can make it to Congress ... More >>

At Tales of the Cocktail, a Funeral for the Sex on the Beach

Here lies a bad drink.​ First, they killed off the Appletini, then they killed off the Redheaded Slut. This year, at Tales of the Cocktails in New Orleans, the bartenders of the world (or at least those of this country) will say goodbye to the Sex on the Beach.

Real Estate+Kurt Vile

New York Post Braves Velvet Ropes at Boom Boom Room, 1Oak and Other Circles of Hell

​Last weekend the New York Post made a game of underage drinking, either wasting money (and alcohol) or breaking the law. This weekend, the name of the game is clubbing, and it stars "a cougar, a guido and a nerd," like some bizarre Jersey Shore/A Night at the Roxbury/She's All That/Never Been ... More >>

Shake Shack on Alleged Jersey Shore Location: No Comment on 'Rumors'

​Now that the Shake Shack has colonized the Middle East and Miami, is New Jersey next?

Gossip Folks: The Oprah-Rielle-Blowjobs-DMB Connection

​Consider this column still "in beta" or whatever, but we're gonna start rounding up some of our local gossip for you. We don't have a better title for it right now, and if you have one, we'd love to hear your ideas. In the meantime, we've got Oprah's big "get," Cindy Adams and Her War at Home ... More >>

Welcome to the Mixed-Up, Dialed-Down 2010 Whitney Biennial

Bye-bye bling! The new realists win out this year

Ousted NY Governor Eliot Spitzer Finally Earns Hipster Cred

Is posing with Terry Richardson the new Make A Guest Appearance on Sesame Street Yo Gabba Gabba?

Jerzify Your Favorite Indie Stars: Thom Yorke, Feist, Hipster Runoff, and More

Leslie "The Opportunity" Feist This isn't the dumbest way we've ever spent an hour in the workplace, but it's certainly up there. The most idiotically laughable meme of the past few days goes to Jerzify Yourself, the inevitable Jersey Shore personal-transformation site in the glute vein of such pop ... More >>

Faux Cast of 'Jersey Shore' Eat Pickles and Ham in Hilarious Parody on CBS's Craig Ferguson Show

Last week, the Craig Ferguson Show featured a fake trailer for "Jersey Shore: The Movie," starring Mila Kunis as Snooki, and Ferguson as Mario.

Perhaps You Are a Singer-Songwriter, and Would Like to Be Part of the New Reality TV Show The Scene...L.E.S.?

​That the Lower East Side is a place totally inimical to struggling artists of any kind is probably the least of the ironies of The Scene...L.E.S., the new in-the-works reality TV show from Jimmy Lloyd Productions. As per the above Craigslist ad:

Live: Real Estate And The Babies Go Bowling

Same place awhile back. Possibly same outfit. Real Estate/The Babies Brooklyn Bowl Tuesday, January 5 It's not until I explain to someone that tonight I'm going to see a band called Real Estate that I truly reflect on how ludicrous it is that a band called Real Estate exists. That is the anti-b ... More >>

A Parody of "Jersey Shore"!

​Yes, it was as inevitable as the fact that the pomade on my teenage hairdo would eventually grow into a separate person. So here comes Greg Scarnici's spoof of Jersey Shore, complete with wacky characters like Mike "The Situation," "Snickers," and "Snickers' Motha."

Why This Decade Sucked, Reason #7: Guilty Pleasures Without Guilt

​ We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. Previous reasons here, here, and here. ​If you had told us, at the beginning of this awful decade, that intelligent people would one day be writing essays -- serial essays, yet -- on reality ... More >>

Quick hits

A pajama-clad Manhattan woman who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday is recovering from hypothermia in Bellevue today after Police Department divers jumped from a helicopter and pulled her out of the East River. The Times has an interview with the divers -- The Arbeit Macht Frei (Work wil ... More >>

Italian-American groups, Jerseyans object to MTV's Jersey Shore "guidos"

​Italian-American heritage groups and residents of the Jersey shore are threatening boycotts over a new reality series, Jersey Shore, which MTV is promoting as a look at nine of the "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos" displaying big hair, good abs, and various forms of lack of continence in a ... More >>

Quick Hits

​ Avenue D and 10th Street ca. 1937. h/t The Bowery Boys. Four men dressed as the Super Mario Brothers beat up and robbed a cabbie in Staten Island on Halloween. The Staten Island Advance has the story and some bizarre footage. A mysterious powder was found on the floor of a New Jersey Tra ... More >>

This Summer's Watering Holes

The Voice turns its sunglass-clad eyes on local waters and watering holes

Cred Sheet

Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Cultural Ostracism

Joisey Summer Nights!

In which the author goes back to her guidette roots on the Jersey boardwalk

Your Labor Day Gonna Suck, Too?

Recreating a vacation, while never leaving the city

The Staggering Significance of a Manhattan Puzzle Hunt

Books

What Suits You

We pick this year's best and worst swimsuit options

Music