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Good Enough to Read: Our Five Can't Miss Book Events

'Dragons in Space Redux' Housing Works Bookstore Cafe Mar. 6, 7pm, Free And here we are, rounding off Housing Works' Geek Week, or as any respectable frat guy might know it--every other week of the year. At tonight's panel discussion, science fiction and fantasy--sorry, we mean SF/F--writers Peter B ... More >>

NYFW: Move Over K-Pop, Here Comes K-Fashion at Concept Korea

Despite debuting right off the heels of the K-Pop phenomenon "Gangnam Style," Fashion Week's Concept Korea 2013 collective held its own on Thursday night with five new buzzworthy designers...and thankfully, they didn't play Psy's freaking song over the speakers. As the show was running late and the ... More >>

Pazz & Jop: Taylor Swift, Grimes, and Lana Del Rey: The Year in Blond Ambition

How dare they have an image

A Quick Guide To Broadway Nights At Gay Bars

Monday is the big night for weekly Broadway-related bar events at gay bars because most shows are dark that night, and the boites hope the customers and performers are available to straggle in. Mixing Broadway and booze, these parties tend to attract theater-queens and their friends who thrill to a ... More >>

Blue Point Blueberry Ale: Did Somebody Forget to Add the Beer?

[See More Beer UP: Dogfish Head Raison D'être | Firestone Walker Double Jack IPA | Wolaver's India Pale Ale] Have beers you want me to try? Sound off in the comments! Blue Point Brewing Company Blueberry Ale from New York, New York Serving style: Bottle, poured into glass Location: My apartment ... More >>

Gawker Scribe Drew Magary Suffers Case Of Fussiness While Supporting Mike Bloomberg's Treating Adults Like Babies

As the rest of us rolled our eyes in disgust Wednesday when Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced his proposal to ban big-kid cups for sugary drinks like soda, Gawker blogger Drew Magary penned a lengthy "rant" about how upset he is that the media isn't applauding Bloomberg for treating adults like babies. ... More >>

Kool-Aid Silkscreens and Bee-Emulsion Photography

Artist Matthew Brandt will have his first solo show in New York starting tomorrow. Look for Taste Tests in Color, a series of multi-layered silkscreens made with edible inks of cotton candy, Kool-Aid, mouthwash, and pills.

Black Folks, Fried Chicken, Mary J. Blige, and Voice Alum Chloé Hilliard [VIDEO]

Black folks have been in the news a lot recently and, despite the fact that an African American is in the White House (and according to recent polls stands likely to stay there for the next five years), a lot of that news has been extremely depressing in the past month. From "Stand Your Ground" to w ... More >>

Last Night: Vice Goes To The Dogs To Celebrate Fashion Week

Vice's Fashion Week Party Westway Wednesday, February 8 Better than: Not getting into the secret Skrillex show. Last night, the line to get into West Village's middle-of-nowhere dance club Westway wrapped around one block in one direction of the door and down two blocks in the other. The strip clu ... More >>

Chipsy Opened, Deep-Fried Oreo Lovers Cheer

Lauren ShockeyMmmm, fried​ What can we say, we're suckers for anything fried: fried pizza, fried green beans, fried bunny rabbit. Submerging food in vats of bubbling oil just adds to the deliciousness factor, hence the trend at county fairs of frying anything edible (even Kool-Aid balls and s ... More >>

'Wavy Gravy's 75th Birthday'

Robert Sietsema at Coppelia; Lauren Shockey at The Brooklyn Star

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema finds that "the food runs from inspired to terrible" at Coppelia; Lauren Shockey drinks the Kool-Aid at the Brooklyn Star. Sam Sifton awards The National Bar and Dining Rooms one star: "[The décor] is appetizing, as it happens: it is the sort of restaurant w ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Eric Bellucci's Madness and Murder of Mom and Dad

​In our weekly edition, Elizabeth Dwoskin's cover story "Killing Mom and Dad" tells a horrific, but humanizing tale about Eric Bellucci, whose slip into schizophrenia culminated in the stabbing deaths of his mother and father late last year. For the first time, the surviving children of the Be ... More >>

Battle of Birtherism: Rightbloggers Divide on Whether Obama is Foreign-Born or Merely Un-American

Despite fresh pushback from some top conservatives, the longstanding rightblogger obsession with Barack Obama's birth certificate has not abated. Even as prominent rightwing columnists and politicians tried to talk down the birther surge exacerbated by the Donald Trump campaign, the notion that O ... More >>

Your iPhone Records Where You've Been; What Are You Going To Do About It, Chump?

​The tech world is having itself a little freak-out over the news that iPhones using iOS4 (the latest operating system) have been saving users' location data whenever they make a cell call. Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden discovered a hidden file in the phone's operating system that keeps track ... More >>

Four Loko Now Causing NY State Government to Shut Down Restaurants (Or: Long Live General Loko)

​And to think people were worried about what The Kids would do drunk on Four Loko! It would appear the State Liquor Authority drank so much Four Loko (or so much of the Four-Loko-as-Reefer-Madness craze-flavored Kool-Aid) that they raided accomplished restaurateur, chef, blogger, and boozing r ... More >>

84th Thanksgiving Day Parade Will Be As Cheesy As Usual

​Charlie Brown will have a few new friends to hang out with as he floats down Sixth Avenue this Thanksgiving. Macy's has announced the lineup for this year's parade, which will include performances by Kanye West, Jessica Simpson, and Gladys Knight, helium-filled versions of Po from Kung-Fu Pan ... More >>

New York Landmarks Continue Social Media Revolution: The New York Public Library, Empire State Building

​It seems like everyone is "joining" Twitter or "getting" a Tumblr these days. Especially in the case of certain New York City landmarks, who are taking to social networking like digitized screen-saver fish to a watery stream of information.

Chilean Miner Gets Offer to Endorse Cheating Website; Plus, 5 Truly Unfortunate Endorsements

Barrios and his lyin' eyes.​So, our Chilean miner with the mistress -- Yonni Barrios -- whose wife and "lady on the side" found out about one another while he was stuck underground (and whose wife subsequently failed to meet him on the day of his ascent) has been offered a $100,000 endorsement ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: White America Has Lost Its Mind

​From Glenn Beck to Breitbart, Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh, from sea to shining sea, from their mere followers to their Kool-Aid drinkers, the rage, motives, and manners all lend themselves to a certain composite picture developing quite neatly in this country, that's really, more than anythi ... More >>

The Sad List of Lil Wayne's Prison Provisions

TMZ.com​Via TMZ, chief ghouls of this particular game: 20 $.44 US postage stamps; 20 envelopes; 10 Nacho Cheese Doritos; 5 Cool Ranch Doritos; 5 Hershey Bars; 5 Hall's; 10 Ruffles; 2 "chocolate chip"; 2 Kool-Aid Punch, 6 Oz. each; 2 Kool-Aid Cherry; 1 "VISTACHEWYCHOCHIPS"; 50 Sugar in Raw; 5 R ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Hypnotic Appeal

​Even when Lady Gaga comes out with a song that doesn't initially seem up to her standard, it ends up ingratiating itself into my system and proving to be a wowser. I didn't think much of "Paparazzi" when I first heard it, but ever since the woman performed it on the VMAs, it drilled into my ... More >>

Week in Review: We Forgot "Rad Bromance"

The highlight of our week, for good or ill.​ In case Lady Gaga's monstrous fame-monster antics weren't over-the-top enough, the bubble-dress-wearing, bloody-heart- ripping Gaga monster's out-of-this-planet-to-Jupiter-and-back diva status may have officially been cemented in stone this week. We ... More >>

The Planet-Obliterating Joys of Sleigh Bells

Listen to the Brooklyn duo's simply enormous Treats on headphones at your own risk

Andrew Breitbart vs. Oh No They Didn't: A Media Spat with Epic Potential

​The Internet has been especially testy as of late! Of course, it always is, but just in the last month or so:

City's New Bake Sale Regulations OK Vending Machine Food, Prohibit Anything Made by Human Hands

Chow.comContraband materials, according to the city.​Perhaps not as radically mean-spirited as penalizing a street vendor for a bathroom break nor as mind-blowingly stupid as the demand for a redesigned hot dog, the city's nine-month-old ban on fund-raising foods is still something of a buzz-k ... More >>

"Undiluted Maleness": Studies in Crap Presents the Hunks of Harlequin Romances!

​Forget the spicy pirates of the Fabio days! Today's lover of paperback romances demands men of today! Men as wealthy as Warren Buffet, as jet-setting as Aristotle Onassis, and as Tea-Party wholesome as Scott Brown, whose Cosmo spread is just a cowboy hat away from making a perfect cover for H ... More >>

On the Haunting Songs of Chuck Prophet

Crazy Yankee Chick: When Will Baseball Stop Using History as Performance Barometer?

​After slicing through the Red Sox like they were a middle school softball team, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of the greater state of California as part of the United States, Eastern Hemisphere of Earth within the Milky Way, will face the Bronx Bombers in the first game of the ALCS this F ... More >>

My Annual 'Most Annoying Phrases on Earth' Update

Let's please spray egg creams in the face of anyone who dares to still articulate such worn-out cliches as: "Suck it up" "We're on the same page"

Bourdain Gets Hardcore

Last night on No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain focused on food porn and had one of the "best meals of his life" at Momofuku Ssam Bar. Yes, Tony drank the David Chang Kool-Aid, but he also had some amusing thoughts on the "food porn industry," saying:How did the simple act of eating become so twist ... More >>

Vacation Alert! Not That I'm Going Anywhere!

Bold Grammy 2008 Predictions!

I Knew M.I.A. Was Pregnant Before You

Ass-Baring Parties Conquer Nightlife!

These are hairy times, but you can still enjoy yourself, if Bingo is your game-o

Over the GW

Glossing Big-Tymers

Touré indulges his writerly ego to insightful effect.

A Hit-and-Miss Pop Odyssey

A Cacophonous Affair

From the austerely documentary to the resolutely fabulist

'End of the Spear'

NY Mirror

'Short Attention Span Cinema: An Evening With Jeff Scher'

Love Letters Extra

Growing Up

Pop-punk opera leaves mindless self-destruction behind

Last Resort

Teen and Not Heard

Catharsis or Collapse

Did Cancer or Character Kill Rudy's Run for the Senate?

The Way the Cracker Crumbles

NY Mirror

Advice from the ball circuit: 'This category is about your face, not your booty. Now ride your broomstick out of here, baby gorilla.'

Sugar High

Have It Your Way

Cuckoo for Cou-Cou