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The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 2/18/13

Here are the 10 best concerts to check out around the city this week, in no particular order.

Tame Impala

Tame Impala - Music Hall of Williamsburg - 11/7/2012

Better Than: Watching Fox News coverage of the election over and over on your Tivo, in a kind of schadenfreude blitz. Easy enough to reflect on the beauty of a snowy New York night once safely inside the Music Hall of Williamsburg, where the Australian band Tame Impala played a scorching set last ... More >>

The Raveonettes - Webster Hall - 10/5/2012

Better than: One of your livelier dinner parties. "I hope we gave you guys a good start to the night. Thank you for coming. Now go out and have some fun," said Sharin Foo, the female half of the dark, Danish pop-rock duo The Raveonettes, after closing out a sleepy set at Webster Hall on Friday n ... More >>

Brooklyn Pols Ask Andrew Cuomo For SUNY Downstate Loan

As SUNY Downstate Medical Center reels from recent management changes and layoffs, area pols are demanding that Gov. Andrew Cuomo help the hospital. Today, a group of Brooklyn electeds sent a letter to Cuomo asking for immediate assistance so that critical services and medical training could conti ... More >>

State Government Sets the Stage for Police Oversight Showdown

​Despite the fact that NYPD is one of the largest police forces in the country, neither the city nor state governments currently exercise any significant oversight over the police department. Now, a new bill introduced in the state legislature aims to change that, by creating an inspector ge ... More >>

Brooklyn State Senator Kevin Parker Gets Probation For Photographer Fight

​The notoriously hot-headed Brooklyn state senator Kevin Parker, who punched a cop in 2005, can finally chill out and move on today, as he's been sentenced to three years probation for a May 2009 fight with a New York Post photographer. Parker pleaded not guilty to the charges back in the spri ... More >>

Live: Tame Impala Inspire Hundreds Of One-Man Dance Parties At Bowery Ballroom

Go ahead and zone out. Pic by Puja.​Tame Impala Bowery Ballroom Thursday, November 18 Better Than: Buying weed. "There's a party in my head, and no one's invited," sings Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker, early into last night's sold-out show. It's a line that resonates for these psychedelic ... More >>

They All Look Alike: Daily News, Minority Politicians Division

​ "Throw the Bums Out!" is the lead battle cry of the front page of the Daily News' Web site this morning, and it has pix of those rascals we should all be voting against today -- a quartet of black and Hispanic politicians: state senators Pedro Espada, Kevin Parker, Assemblyman Adriano Espail ... More >>

It's Justice Delayed in Trial of State Sen. Kevin Parker in Post Fotog-Bash Case

​The trial of Brooklyn state Senator Kevin Parker for assaulting a New York Post photographer last year was supposed to get underway Monday morning, in plenty of time for a verdict before the Sept. 14th Democratic primary. There, Parker is facing a challenge from health care businessman Wellin ... More >>

Sen. Kevin Parker, "The Flatbush Firecracker," Faces Assault Trial Aug. 16

​Brooklyn's battling state senator, Kevin Parker, faces dual headaches this month. One is a primary challenge by perennial candidate Wellington Sharpe who is making his second bid to take Parker's job away. Headache Number Two considerably complicates Headache Number One: On August 16, Parker ... More >>

Hiram Monserrate Returns to Bring Us All Hope

​"They haven't seen the last of Hiram Monserrate" says the defenestrated senator like an old movie villain. Monserrate, who was kicked out last night for his misdemeanor assault on his girlfriend, plans to legally challenge the senate vote that drove him out -- just as soon as the snow clears ... More >>

Hiram Monserrate Expelled, 53-8

​The State Senate just voted 53-8 to expel Hiram Monserrate immediately. Eric Adams, Ruben Diaz Sr., Martin Malave Dilan, Carl Kruger, Pedro Espada Jr., Kevin Parker, John Sampson, and Monserrate himself were the only no votes; Thomas Morahan was excused. Monserrate gave the final vote and t ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​Kennedy Airport. Twitpic via sawyerlex. War on Christmas season swung into full effect. In a holiday spirit, the Staten Island D.A. tried shame on shoplifters. A GOP Congressman moved to read a pro-Christmas resolution into the House record. Andrea Peyser denounced the godless Bloomingdales ... More >>

Ruben Diaz Asks: If Hiram Monserrate Rates an Investigation, Why Not Kevin Parker?

​You may recall that in Hiram Monserrate's darkest days -- back before the judge in his assault case let him off with probation -- fellow state senator and member of the "Gang of Three" (which muscled the senate for favors last year) Ruben Diaz Sr. complained that there was a racist component ... More >>

State Legislators Double-Dip Salaries, Pensions; Lone Holdout Honored

​If voters are unhappy with the state legislature now, wait'll they hear that four members are collecting both salaries and pensions for their service to the state. The New York Times finds that assembly members Harvey Weisenberg, Rhoda Jacobs, John J. McEneny and William L. Parment, all Democ ... More >>

Coup in Review: Habemus Quorum! -- Briefly; All Senators Arrive, Fight, Then Recess Till Noon

The Post reported this morning that the Democrats had locked themselves into the state senate chambers, but it appears the Republicans eventually joined them for the full session court-ordered yesterday. Only Kevin Parker was absent. But after some haggling over who got to run the session, they adjo ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Twitpic by moises. The spectre of death stalked the nation. We were all shocked by the death of a great American musician: Sky Saxon. Also, Michael Jackson. We looked at his fans, press reactions, his good works and his weird headlines. And let's not forget Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon. Presid ... More >>

Coup in Review: Dems, GOP Do Quickie, Dems Honor Dead Celebs, Parker Apologizes

Michael Jackson madness met Albany madness today as the Republicans-plus-Espada and the Democrats enacted their now customary ritual of holding separate sessions: the Democrats had a moment of silence for Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, while the GOP-plus-E, perhaps worried about political fallout, just ... More >>

Coup in Review: Another Bogus Special Session; Parker Calls Paterson Fan of Coke, "Banging"

We get sick of telling you and you get sick of hearing it, but the state senate didn't accomplish anything today. Each party came in, stunk the place up, and left. The Democrats win because they took an extra minute to pander, reading a proclamation on the anniversary of the death of Chabad-Lubovitc ... More >>

State Senator Kevin Parker Up on Felony Charges for Camera Smash

A few weeks back Brooklyn state senator Kevin Parker pleaded not guilty to charges related to his unfriendly encounter with a New York Post photographer, but the Brooklyn D.A.'s office has just upped the ante by bringing second- and third-degree assault charges against him -- felonies that could get ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

We know how you feel, kid. Via Craftser via urlesque. We suspect Obama got that Iranian-American reporter released, and he's certainly trying to help refugees and rescue us from financial criminals. But does he get credit? No -- because he he laughed at Wanda Sykes, just like all the newly-reclas ... More >>

State Senator Pleads Not Guilty in Camera Smash

As you may have heard, Brooklyn-based state senator Kevin Parker is in trouble for grabbing a New York Post photographer's camera and ripping a panel out of the photog's car door. (Parker is thought to have been made uptight by the Post's investigation of his long-unpaid mortgage in Flatbush; Parker ... More >>

"Spitzer" Joins "Paterson" on SNL

Are we awful for enjoying the Saturday Night Live Paterson gags? They're certainly dopey, focusing as they do on Paterson's blindness, drug and sex history, and epochal unpopularity. And New Jersey! But we like dopey sketches, and are pleased that Fred Armisen has found a political character that ... More >>

Bloomberg's Double Deal

As term-limits fight raged, a hush-hush $1.2 million campaign

State Senate Committee Approves Referenda for Term Limits

The state senate elections committee just approved a bill requiring any "abolition or modification of term limits" to be approved by referenda. No Republicans on the committee cooperated, causing senator Kevin Parker to declare they are "in the pocket" of Mayor Bloomberg, whose recent overturn of te ... More >>

Albany Ready to Referendum Bloomberg's Term-Limits Plan

At Election Night Party, NY Dems Cheer, Pump Fists, Boo Palin

Primary: Silver Stays, Connor Out, Espada Beats Gonzalez, More

Last-Minute Primary Bon Mots from Parker, Schnorrer

His Dear Friends

Tricks of the trade among the big givers and big takers of political campaign cash

Close-Up on Borough Park

Which Third Way?

Greens and the Working Families Party Try to Make Progressive Votes Count

Green for Mayor

Public Advocate Is the Best Choice