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Protesters From New York and D.C. Were Bused In to Support Texas' Anti-Abortion Bills

As you've no doubt heard by now, a set of draconian anti-abortion measures have been winding their way through the Texas Legislature for the past couple weeks. (Last week we explained why you, sitting here in New York, should give a shit about that.) If they pass (and oh, they will), the twin bills ... More >>

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The Too-Much City Arts Options? Why, Yes—We Have a Few.

Live: George Thorogood Lights Up B.B. King's

George Thorogood & The Destroyers w/Tom Hambridge & The Rattlesnakes B.B. King Blues Club Wednesday, August 8 Better than: Jack White. The last time I was at B.B. King Blues Club in Times Square (right next to the Sanrio store, across from Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum), I saw Napalm Death. From the ... More >>

Janie Jones

What the Presidents Ate: Bill Clinton

Penn State ArchiveLike George Washington, President Clinton dug ice cream -- lots of it.​Nutritionist might sum up Bill Clinton's taste in food with a single expression: Junk Food. He was said to have gained 30 pounds during his first presidential compaign in 1992, topping out at over 200 pou ... More >>

Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet

March Madness Day 2: Obama Makes His Picks, Biden's Bookie Won't Accept His

via ESPN​ESPN released Barack Obama's March Madness bracket today, along with a video of the president making his picks. Depending on your political leanings, you think this is either a lighthearted exercise showing the president is a normal guy, or a potentially catastrophic waste of time whi ... More >>

March Madness Day 1: Check Your Local Listings For truTV

via​Big news! March Madness starts today! Well, the play-in games start today, which isn't very big news, but still: MARCH MADNESS! Tonight's juicy match-ups: UNC Asheville vs. Arkansas Little Rock at 6:30 p.m. and UAB vs. Clemson at 9 p.m. Both games will be airing on truTV, which used to be ... More >>

Dixie is So Gay: Surprising Census Info About Gay Parents in the South

The Times has a great piece today that defies a lot of the common stereotypes of what it means to be gay in America. Since 1990, the Census has been a gold mine of information about LGBT couples for creative demographers. Despite the lack of any question about sexual orientation (hence, no info on s ... More >>

Southwest Airlines Employee Finds Box of Human Heads on Plane; Is Probably Going to Need Some Therapy

​No, we are not kidding: A box reportedly filled with 40 to 60 human heads was discovered by an unwitting (and surely now nightmare-plagued) Southwest Airlines employee in Little Rock, Arkansas, last week. The problem with this is actually not with allowing human heads to fly -- presuming they ... More >>

Michael Jackson and Hip-Hop

Guess which one of those things didn't die this year

GOT MLK?

Dream, dream, dream at these two events

Possibly 4th Street: Bonerama Christmas Special (SFW)

Clip Job: The Menace of Folk Music

Clip Job: Martin Luther King on Integration

When Musicals Matured: Three Revivals Recall Another Age

South Pacific, Gypsy, and Juno show how 1950s Broadway got 'serious'

Sunday

GIRL TALK

A theater favorite returns with a starry lineup

Clip Job: The Russian Word for Know-How

Ugly, Dirty, Redundant, and Toxic

Tales of disgust, depression, and ballot regret we're already feeling

Bob, Barkley, and Beyond: The Top 20

The poll's upper echelons drive us crazy, or at least drive us to drink

Horoscope

Try Isn't Do

Musical drugs and shared secret codes abort the utopic mission

Top Ten Plus

Register behind me bird in Arular's Sunday Illinois woodz machine

Story of the Hurricane

They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away

Letters

Be Your Own Potter

Reassured scenesters navigate two make-believe worlds

Letters

Empty Dreams

Homeless 'canners' crushed by the system

Remembering To Think

Arendt's silent dialogue: How to fight the banality of evil

White House secrets: 'Ladies' reveal their hidden stresses

Pebbles at the Palace

Volunteer Now in Civilization's Battle Against George the Boy King

The Personals

Top Ten Plus

Hey Get Ya Mom a Crazy Milkshake in Da Club

'Don't Grieve After Me'

More Than Singing for Your Supper

God Goes Goth

50,000 Tears Under the Sea

Culture Clubs

Do as We Say, Not as We Do

NY Mirror

Low Friends in High Places

Sex Slaves! (and Other Tales From Hillary’s Campaign Finance Report)

Nation

Letters

Right Thinking

Want to Understand Conservatives? Read Them.

Sexgate North

Ready or Not, Here They Come

Nation

2004, Stupid

Starr's Strikes Forever

Trekkies

Anti-Rebel Yell

Wingers nail Veep

Old Man Rivers

Roadhouse Scholar