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We Hung Out With Some Crazy Marines Drinking Their Asses Off at Coachella

In full grips of the dry desert heat, the fine art of day drinking at Coachella becomes a game of survival of the fittest. Sweltering temperatures in the high 90s aren't necessarily ideal conditions to bombard your liver with alcohol. And unless you've been used to trekking through sand in the Middl ... More >>

After Batman Theater Shooting, Rightbloggers Rush to Defend What's Important: Guns, Themselves

Last week's terrible incident in Aurora, Colorado in which 70 people were shot, 12 fatally, at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises made many of us think about how awful these episodes of senseless violence are, how precious and fragile life is, and that we should stay close and be good to ou ... More >>

10 Food Product Mascots That Give Us Nightmares

10. Little Debbie -- You ought to have the face of an angel, Little Debbie; instead your visage is wrinkly and witchy. You are your own grandmother, and you're wearing her clothes, too: plaid shirt with collar that lies perfectly flat and strange white straw hat trimmed in sky blue.

Live: Akron/Family Lead The Crowd In Noisemaking At 285 Kent

Akron/Family w/Bad Weather California, Dustin Wong 285 Kent Saturday, January 21 Better than: A rock show. The fourth wall was breached long before Akron/Family hit the stage at 285 Kent on Saturday, the frothing, all-ages, sellout inventing polyrhythmic clap-alongs to opening acts Bad Weather C ... More >>

Intrigue Drowns Out Argument in Political Thriller Ides of March

The Ten Best Young Jeezy Tracks Released Since He "Fell Off"

​You guys drank the Kool-Aid, didn't you? Now all you can rave about is Rick Ross. Tsk, tsk. The guy told you himself, in no uncertain terms, that he's caught up in a fantasy. Yeah, he's got a talent for picking huge, cinematic beats, and he strings words together nicely from time to time. Pro ... More >>

Live: Curren$y Cruises Through Irving Plaza

Curren$y Irving Plaza Monday, June 6 Better than: "Dude, I'm so high right now." There are few ways to describe a Curren$y show without it sounding like a meeting of a cult, or an extremist political party. The place is packed, overflowing into the hallways of Irving Plaza. Giant flags proclaimin ... More >>

Top Chef: 'We Just Gotta Keep Evolving Our Food'

Evolving.​Are we there yet? Alas, no, we are not. There's still one last hurrah for this season of Top Chef, but now that we've suffered through the sight of Mike Isabella diving topless for conch, it should be all downhill from here.

The Daily Kill Dossier, Part 2: Another Hit List of News Corp's Freshest Poaches

​Previously, on Lost: we revealed the names of a bunch of people who fate landed in the News Corp. building to go work on Rupert Murdoch's Dharma Initiative, a daily newspaper for the iPad called The Daily. Now we know who some of The Others are. Press Clips, Day 25, The News Corp Daily iPad Kill ... More >>

Bloomberg's Schools No. 2 Pick: Test-Prep Principals Are "Weak"

​So now that it looks like Cathie Black will become chief publisher of the New York City Department of Education, so long as Mayor Bloomberg appoints longtime school administrator Shael Polakow-Suransky as her editorial director, what do we know about her prospective sidekick?

The Daily Kill Dossier: A Hit List of News Corp's Freshest Poaches

​As it's been noted, News Corp's daily newspaper built just for the iPad -- The Daily -- is on the way. It is Rupert Murdoch's newest child, the Draco Malfoy to his Voldemort. As such, they're hiring or trying to hire every editorial staffer this side of the Bangkok Bugle Tribune, which I just inv ... More >>

A First Look Inside Foodparc, NYC

​Foodparc is not quite as big and grandiose as it looks from the outside. If this era coming up has a theme, it might be the Era of Food Courts. They seem to be popping up everywhere.

AOL TechCrunch Deal Is Done, So What Does This Mean for Everyone Else?

​Well, when we're wrong, we're wrong: I didn't think AOL was going to pull the trigger, but they just did. Apparently, at TechCrunch Disrupt -- Michael Arrington's cuddlefest of sycophantic entrepreneurs, wannabes, and the Real McCoy, who mostly attend to have their asses kissed -- Michael Arr ... More >>

Regent Media Is Holding My New Book Hostage

I know I wrote one, but I can't find it anywhere

Newsweek Editor-in-Chief Jon Meacham Reportedly Out, Newsweek-C.I.A. Conspiracy Theory Reportedly In

​Keith Kelly reports in the New York Post, like, a few minutes ago that Newsweek editor-in-chief Jon Meacham is supposedly out once the magazine's sale to Sidney Harmon is complete. Politico's Mike Allen just reported what's all but a confirmation. And Michael Calderone of Yahoo just Tweeted o ... More >>

The goofy highlights of 4 A-Team novels PLUS: Tender A-Team YouTube tributes

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ A-Team novelizations Small But Deadly Wars; When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?; Old ... More >>

Talking Points Preview: Early Notes on New York Magazine's "Life is Tweet" Start-Up Guide

​Every week, as the clock strikes midnight and Monday begins, New York magazine releases its new issue online. Because the April 26 issue is about the internet, I went to the corner magazine store and bought it, hours before it's available for free. For some reason, though counterintuitive, th ... More >>

Incredibly Cheap Eats: Kielbasa Dinner at Happy End in Greenpoint

​The bill of fare at Happy End beckons from a chalk board right outside the front door. Once long ago it was a corner tavern, and a mirrored bar with masses of dark wood remains a fixture in the front room, only now set meals are dispensed across it, and various juices and sodas. When I first ... More >>

Live from the Converse Band of Ballers: Mad Decent Loses, Fool's Gold Wins, and Jim Jones Takes Home A Golden (Spraypainted) Trophy

all photos by Puja PatelThe Brooklyn Crew's aggressive (and we suspect, inebriated) group of fans Converse Band of Ballers Wednesday, August 12 Yesterday's Converse Band of Ballers was as much of a shit-talking contest as it was a three-on-three tournament. The invite-only event went down at the C ... More >>

The Best Books of 2008

Creepy Earth Mothers! Portuguese drag queens! Voice writers pick their favorites of the year.

Signature Foods of the 1980’s

Letters

Letters

Kill One for the Gipper

20 years later, our bandanna’d national treasure is still kicking ass and taking names

End Run

How a few black publishers are making a play for the Maxim man

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Michael Moore's Sicko and To Each His Own Cinema at Cannes

Blood Work

Jungle Fevers

Werner Herzog's sui generis Amazon fever dream and an oral history of Jonestown

2006 Jazz Supplement Listings

NY Mirror

"Why I Didn't Win The Spelling Bee"

Talking with Project Runway bad boy Santino Rice

The Voltaic Yoo-Hoo Acid Test

A half-forgotten mystery writer's cranium-busting novel tantalizes and antagonizes

NY Mirror

Sixty Feet Under

Germany's first mainstream Hitler movie provides catharsis, if only for a German audience

Morning Report 12/28/04
You can't spell 'investors' without 'vests'

The Adults' Hour

Shanley's Doubt builds suspense out of the best material available: Fair-mindedness

Come to Bed

NY Mirror

The West Wingman

Clinton Aide Sidney Blumenthal Testifies Again

Tomb Raiders

Bush's Secret Society Hits the Mainstream

Music

Letters

Hand Me the Jam

Rich Men, Pour Men

Yankee Stadium Beer Vendors’ Cups Runneth Over—So Tip ’Em Already

Roaming Rikers

Stun Shields, Stray Cats, Buck-Fifties, Boofing: The Top Brass’s Tour of America’s Largest Penal Colony

A-OK

Multi-Personalities on the mic, all shook up

The missing link between Sun Ra and Zapp?

A Season on the Brink

With Stephon Marbury, The Nets are on the verge of greatness . . . again

Cast Party

Fishing in Prospect Park Lake

Sadistic Disc