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  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Is Queen Latifah Inching Out Of The Closet?

    I'm tired of being the only queen who's out. So come on, Queen Latifah, why don't you join me out here in the grassy expanse, where it's fun and freeing and we can throw LGBT frisbees at each other? True, for a while, Latifah has done some mildly semi-out-ish things like playing lesbian roles and. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    TSA Admits Screwup in Shakedown of Old Ladies

    After months of intense internal debate, the TSA decided that mistakes were made when two elderly women -- who claim they were subject to strip searches (!) -- were examined at Kennedy Airport in November, The Associated Press reports (via USA Today). Homeland Security Officials, prompted by the wo ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 4, 2012

    Hombre Blanco Edition

    After months of intense internal debate, the TSA decided that mistakes were made when two elderly women -- who claim they were subject to strip searches (!) -- were examined at Kennedy Airport in November, The Associated Press reports (via USA Today). Homeland Security Officials, prompted by the wo ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 24, 2011

    SURFIN' NYC

    Pro surfers compete for a cool million

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Daniel Bobis, Missing Long Island Surfer, Found Dead in Indonesia

    ​Sad news: Daniel Bobis, the 32-year-old Long Island high school math teacher and surf coach who went missing this weekend while surfing in Indonesia, has been found dead. The Facebook page dedicated to alerting attention to the search and rescue efforts has now become a memorial page, with hu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Daniel Bobis, Long Beach High Math Teacher, Goes Missing While Surfing in Indonesia

    Facebook​Daniel Bobis, a 32-year-old math teacher and surf team coach at Long Beach High, has gone missing while surfing in West Lampung, Indonesia, on Sunday morning. Rachel, Bobis' wife of five years, remains in Indonesia, and says that the U.S. Consulate has "been no help thus far." His boa ... More >>

  • Film

    July 20, 2011

    Floating Along the L.A. River With Psychohydrography

    Facebook​Daniel Bobis, a 32-year-old math teacher and surf team coach at Long Beach High, has gone missing while surfing in West Lampung, Indonesia, on Sunday morning. Rachel, Bobis' wife of five years, remains in Indonesia, and says that the U.S. Consulate has "been no help thus far." His boa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    With One Crazy British Stunt Over, Another Begins

    ​As his country was trying to get some shut-eye last night before its big gay wedding in the morning, Jon Beeby had left London and was arriving in New York City for a very different kind of commitment. The tall, strapping young man, all six-foot-four of him, plans to start walking Sunday fro ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 23, 2011

    Tijuana Panthers

    ​As his country was trying to get some shut-eye last night before its big gay wedding in the morning, Jon Beeby had left London and was arriving in New York City for a very different kind of commitment. The tall, strapping young man, all six-foot-four of him, plans to start walking Sunday fro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Lotto Winner May Have to Share $8 Million With Husband Who Left Her

    ​How great would it be to win the lottery? How crappy would it be to have to share those lotto winnings with the d-bag who left you? Patricia Eisel, 40, an Irishwoman who was just barely making ends meet as a waitress in Long Beach, is battling with that conundrum after winning $8 million (aft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Never Have Your Photo Taken With a Sex Doll, and Other Lessons from Edward Kleiner, Allegedly Pervy Long Island Doc

    Kleiner, via CBS/law firm Leeds, Morelli & Brown, PC​Three former employees of Dr. Edward Kleiner, a doctor who runs Beach and Surf Medical in Long Beach, Long Island, have filed complaints against him with the New York State Division of Human Rights for allegedly pervy actions that put the P ... More >>

  • Theater

    September 8, 2010

    Veritas and The Twentieth-Century Way Look Back at the Gay Past

    Police entrapment and Harvard harassment in two FringeNYC shows

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Our 10 Best Food-Centric Day Trips

    Photo courtesy The Old FieldOld Field Vineyard is worth visiting for the grounds alone​ In honor of the upcoming Labor Day weekend, we devote our top 10 list this week to food-centric day trips. Our list contains a lot of good eating, most accessible by train or bus, all within range for low- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Food-Centric Day Trips

    Bigelow's Clams near Long Beach are worth a trip​Tomorrow, in honor of summer's last hurrah, we'll round up our favorite food-centric day trips. Whether it's grabbing the train into Jersey to eat your weight in Indian food, or heading out to Long Island's quiet North Fork to taste wine and buy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    The World's Largest Frying Pan - Er, Six of Them

    melaniehamlett.comImpersonating a strip of bacon in the World's Largest Frying Pan, Long Beach, WA​You'd think it'd be a simple thing to identify the world's largest frying pan, but there are six in the United States alone that make that audacious claim.

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    10 Simple Rules for Summer: #1. The Sun Is Hot

    ​On this hellishly hot of suddenly hot days, some lucky folks got to take off for Long Beach where, not so luckily, one swimmer may have drowned and a sunbather was run over by a police officer rushing to the scene of another rescue. Sadly, the swimmer is still missing and presumed dead, and t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Getting from Penn Station to Long Beach in Less Than Two Minutes? Priceless (Video)

    For those of you work-from-homers who every so often wax nostalgic of your old commute (or for those of you who, like us, just enjoy time elapsed things), here's a rather cool MTA video of the Long Island Railroad journey from Penn Station to Long Beach -- which normally takes 54 minutes -- in a min ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    The Dawn of the Food Truck Trend; A Guide to Flushing, Queens

    ​Whole Foods shares recently fell 8.6 percent after more than tripling over the past year. CEO John Mackey said he expects no "positive change in the economy over the short term," adding that 2010 sales should improve slightly. [Bloomberg] Kraft is expected to make its hostile takeover offer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2009

    Who's That Bloomberg Guy Knockin' On My Door?

    For a welcome break from campaign nastiness, check out the video of Mike Bloomberg knocking on door No. 1,000,018 in Williamsburg. It's the fourth day of Succoth, according to mayoral video DJ Barnett Zitron, and the door swings open to an impossibly crowded room of fully garbed and ecstatic Hasidi ... More >>

  • News

    July 28, 2009

    Class Action Listings

    For a welcome break from campaign nastiness, check out the video of Mike Bloomberg knocking on door No. 1,000,018 in Williamsburg. It's the fourth day of Succoth, according to mayoral video DJ Barnett Zitron, and the door swings open to an impossibly crowded room of fully garbed and ecstatic Hasidi ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 10, 2009

    Akitsa+Bone Awl+Ashdautus

    For a welcome break from campaign nastiness, check out the video of Mike Bloomberg knocking on door No. 1,000,018 in Williamsburg. It's the fourth day of Succoth, according to mayoral video DJ Barnett Zitron, and the door swings open to an impossibly crowded room of fully garbed and ecstatic Hasidi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    If You're Gonna Throw a Shot Glass at Crystal Antlers, Please Put a Shot in It, You Idiot from Last Night's Mercury Lounge Show

    To be reductive for a moment: If Crystal Castles are basement dance and Crystal Stilts are basement Warhol, then Crystal Antlers are basement psych--Hendrix and the Stooges played too loud in mildewed spaces too small to contain the band's throbbing sound. The band's debut release, 2008's EP, and ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 29, 2009

    Crystal Antlers

    To be reductive for a moment: If Crystal Castles are basement dance and Crystal Stilts are basement Warhol, then Crystal Antlers are basement psych--Hendrix and the Stooges played too loud in mildewed spaces too small to contain the band's throbbing sound. The band's debut release, 2008's EP, and ... More >>

  • Music

    January 21, 2009

    The Top 20 (and Far Beyond)

    Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

  • Film

    October 15, 2008

    Morning Light's Squeaky Clean Disney Agenda

    Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

  • News

    October 31, 2006

    Letters

    Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

  • Specials

    November 29, 2005

    Letters

    Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

  • News

    November 1, 2005

    Letters

    Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

  • News

    December 28, 2004

    Hiphop Turns 30

    Whatcha celebratin' for?

  • News

    October 26, 2004

    Laborers Looted

    A top officer of the Mason Tenders Union helps himself to the members' money

  • Specials

    January 6, 2004

    Letters

    A top officer of the Mason Tenders Union helps himself to the members' money

  • NYC Life

    December 30, 2003

    Swimming

    Wet Dreams

  • Music

    August 12, 2003

    Music

    Wet Dreams

  • Music

    June 10, 2003

    Rap Food Nation

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • Film

    September 3, 2002

    The Son Also Rises

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • Music

    September 11, 2001

    Minstrels All

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • NYC Life

    August 22, 2000

    Loft in Former Brewery

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • Long Island Voice

    November 23, 1999

    With Relish

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • Long Island Voice

    November 23, 1999

    Extra stuffing, please

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • Long Island Voice

    November 9, 1999

    Tickle me, Elmo

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • Long Island Voice

    November 2, 1999

    headline

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • Long Island Voice

    October 19, 1999

    Little engines that think they can

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • Long Island Voice

    October 12, 1999

    A Staggering Blow

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • Long Island Voice

    October 12, 1999

    Sacred Chow

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • Long Island Voice

    September 21, 1999

    Salts of the Earth

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • Long Island Voice

    August 24, 1999

    The Darkies

    Nice and Tender, Mixed in a Blender

  • NYC Life

    August 3, 1999

    Death Valley

    The Great Depression

  • NYC Life

    May 18, 1999

    Burn, Baby, Burn

    Flag Day

  • NYC Life

    March 9, 1999

    Scout Clout

    Girl Power vs. Domestic Violence

  • Film

    March 2, 1999

    Rock the Boat

    Girl Power vs. Domestic Violence

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