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Barnacles! Counterfeiters Importing Lead-Laden Toy Knockoffs From China Busted By The Feds

Can marketing counterfeit versions of Sponge Bob Square Pants (actual cartoon at right) and Dora the Explorer filled with lead, other dangerous chemicals and choking hazards to children make you rich? Yes, boys and girls, it sure can. The feds reported today they seized a Porsche and a Lexus, alon ... More >>

Willard Lanham, Former DOE Consultant Who Stole Millions, Hit With Three-Year Prison Sentence

Willard "Ross" Lanham, 58, learned yesterday that embezzling millions of dollars in funds meant to bring Internet access to kids is not only a despicable thing to do, but it will also earn you more than three years in prison. A Manhattan federal court judge sentenced Lanham to 37 months in jail fo ... More >>

Brooklyn Couple Pockets $108K In Welfare Coin. They Also Own Three BMWs And A Lexus

Rivka Baror, 51, and her husband Avraham Baror, 64, have been living pretty high on the hog -- aside from owning not one but three BMWs, the couple also owns a Lexus, a comfortable two-bedroom home in Brooklyn, and drops a lot of cash at places like Victoria's Secret and Home Depot. Oh, yeah -- they ... More >>

William Bratton, Former NYPD Commissioner, Gets Free Parking; Exclusive NY Post Jokes Ensue

The Post reports this morning on William Bratton, a former NYPD commissioner who apparently has a permit that lets him park anywhere in the city. For free! So what's up? Bratton was spotted Wednesday parking his Lexus SUV in a "no standing zone" for an hour, and is said to have had a permit "for o ... More >>

Oscars Live Blog: Finally, Some Attention for Our Nation's Celebrities

​Tonight, we'll be covering the 84th Annual Academy Awards, live from a computer. Stay here on Runnin' Scared for exclusive insight and commentary from a Hollywood insider who has seen THREE movies this year (not including a two-part episode of The Mentalist that looked pretty big-budget). Who ... More >>

Scientology Scuffle Over Xenu: When a Protester is Attacked!

Getting a face full of unhappy Scientologist​Tommy Gorman has a pretty in-your-face way of protesting the Church of Scientology. He positions himself outside the entrance to San Francisco's Scientology "org" holding a video camera and another device that plays an audio recording. As workers a ... More >>

Amazon Probably Going To Announce Tablet This Week

​Amazon is going to have a press conference in the city Wednesday, which probably means it's going to show the world a new tablet, the New York Times reports today. But the question that looms is: will everyone be dying to have an Amazon tablet when there's already the iPad?

Rap Made Me Do It: Ten Books I Read Because Of Hip-Hop

​When rappers reference items they consume--whether Cristal, Clarks Wallabees, or chronic--listeners seek them out, either out of curiosity or a desire to be like their heroes. And thanks to hip-hop's tendency to occasionally serve as an educated, sound-advice-giving older sibling, those refer ... More >>

There Are Six Lexus Taxi Cabs in New York City, But They're Only For the Cool Kids

​New York City has just six Lexus taxis. That's out of over 13,000 cars, with most being Ford Crown Victorias. The Lexus RX 400h or RX 450h hybirds cost over $40,000, with a typical cab hovering around $28,000 -- but there's actually no financial incentive for having a nicer yellow car. "But c ... More >>

Meet The One Man In New York Who Successfully Bought Tickets To Kanye West's Show at the Bowery Ballroom

Many tried but few succeeded when, at 11:58 a.m. or 11:59 a.m., we all started frantically hitting our refresh buttons, typing Captchas in as fast as we could, and generally doing everything in our power to get into tonight's "private" Kanye West show at the Bowery Ballroom. None of it worked, so ... More >>

Waka Flocka Flame Is Yelling at You for a Reason

Why Flockaveli is hard to listen to and even harder to not listen to

Top Chef Coming to New York, With Possible All-Stars Line-Up

​ We may still be choking down the current season, but reports are already abounding of who will star in the next season of Top Chef, and where.

Free Will Astrology: July 28 through August 3, 2010

Chris Verene Welcomes You to Another America

David Paterson Had State Workers Work on His Aide's Accuser: Times

Life gets no easier for Governor Paterson. The Times finds sources who say that, even as the paper was preparing its story on Paterson aide David Johnson -- whose aggressive break-up tactics appear to have been the last straw for Paterson 2010 -- the Governor had his press secretary Marissa Shorenst ... More >>

Crime is down (Times), But it's bloody in Staten Island (News)

​There are dramatically dueling macro and micro takes on the state of crime in the city this morning. The big picture, of course, comes from the Times which reports that, despite growing local poverty and economic woes, crime stats are still trending lower. "Murder, considered the bellwether ... More >>

Somebody Got Murdered: A Second Weekend Homicide in Staten Island

View Larger Map DATE: Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 12:27 a.m. LOCATION: In front of 44 Yale Street, Staten Island. In the second of two weekend murders in Staten Island, two men were shot, one of them fatally, while they sat in a Lexus outside the above address early Monday. One victim, a male, 24, was ... More >>

Ciao, Manhattans: Tracy Westmoreland Needs a New Investor

​It's only 11 weeks old, but Tracy Westmoreland's Prospect Heights bar, Manhattans, is in danger of ending up in a place even more chilly than a certain region of the Russian Federation. As Brooklyn the Borough originally reported, Westmoreland's newest dive has found itself on tenuous ground sinc ... More >>

Don't Buy the New Welfare-Queen Myth

Live: Cat Power's Shitty Night

The Million-Dollar Jackpot

A Brooklyn dope dealer hid it in a closet. A robbery crew found it. One gangster got screwdrivered to death. Another one just got screwed.

Status Ain't Hood's Favorite Live Shows of 2006

Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt Anniversary Show at Radio City: Really That Good

Awards for Awards

Fashionable highlights and lowlights from last night's Golden Globes

An Army of None

If counter-recruiters succeed and enlistees flee, a draft could be next.

'Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus'

Horoscope

Film

Milk It

About a girl: Did Courtney Love really kill Kurt? Ten years later, we may or may not care.

NY Mirror

Playa Hating

The Review of Video Games

Sports

I Met Jenna Jameson!

Dance This Mess Around

Throw Your Hands in the Air

Why They Hate Us

Voices From Pakistan

The Black Book

At a Literary Retreat, Authors Debate the Mainstreaming of African American Lit

Expired Ham

Nation

Daddy Under the Gun

Publicly, Rap Mogul Won’t Beg; Quietly, He Pleads

The Main Event

Boxing’s Middle Weights Save the Sport Again

Sports

Earth Mother of the Gridiron

Wylia Slade Says Men Are a Pain in the Ass, but She Coaches Them Anyway

Seeds and Stems Again

Portraits in Racial Profiling

When Clothes Make the Suspect

Lester Bowie 1941–1999

The Avant-Garde’s Tireless Trumpeter Goes Out Swinging

Germ Warfare

Donald Trump Is So Phobic He Won’t Shake Hands With Strangers. Is It Catching?

B Is For Bistro

The Bittersweet Transformation of Avenue B

Old People Got No Reason

Culture Crackdown

The mayor unveils a new weapon for the war on arts funding