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Runaway Success-Train Donald Trump Knows What's Wrong With America

At CPAC (that's "Conservative Political Action Conference" for those of you who don't trust the liberal bias of acronyms) this morning, Donald Trump told the gathered audience of Email chain letter–forwarders that "Our Country is in very, very serious trouble." Luckily, Trump let everyone know ... More >>

Q&A: Raekwon Recovers Some Lost Jewelry

Raekwon is the mayor of fly shit. Snow Beach pullovers to Cuban links, his oft-imitated style and slang have been referenced for the past 20 years -- as Cappadonna once put it, "Half the East Coast sound just like Rae"). In the past, he's accused Frank White of biting his visual style. Today, if he ... More >>

NYC's 'Stealth' Starbucks Will Serve Beer and Wine

A 'stealth' Starbucks is an unbranded Starbucks location devoid of their usual mermaid decal, furnishings and overall look and feel. Grub Street broke the news that Macy's Square will be getting one called The Herald Square Cafe: From Grub Street: "Pastries are sourced from local bakeries, not ship ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: January 18 through 24, 2011

Is Nestle Targeting Bronx Latinos?; Macy's Plans New Restos in $400M Overhaul

​Food and beverage giant Nestle is accused of targeting Latinos in the Bronx in its Pure Life water campaign. [NY Daily News] After saying "I do," it's good to learn, "I won't," as marriage is not always good for the waistline. [Seattle Times] Allen Bernstein, who helped build Morton's of Ch ... More >>

Fourth of July Fireworks in Time-Lapse

Fireworks in Five Seconds--NYC from John Huntington on Vimeo.Already feeling nostalgic for the Fourth of July as you reach the end of your first day back to work? Watch this 20-second time lapse made of the sunset and Macy's fireworks over the Hudson River. It will make you long for a hamburger and ... More >>

4 Great Places to Watch the Fireworks on the Fourth

​Since 1958, the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks display has been a New York City tradition. The fireworks were originally set off on the Hudson, but in 1976 they moved to the East River. Last year, they returned to the Hudson to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration of ... More >>

Man Loses Weight By Living In Mall For 30 Days, Now Returning To Wild Suburbia

​Scott Jorgenson, a Minneapolis man, has completed a 30-day stint of living inside The Mall Of America. Unfortunately for him, he didn't get to spend his days browsing the black light posters and fart machines Spencer's Gifts -- he lived inside a glass box and learned how to eat and live bette ... More >>

Ho! and Looking at Christmas Stuff New York's Stockings

New pieces by Brian Dykstra and Steven Banks join a Yule-logged season

Macy's Is Using An AIDS Song To Sell Jewelry

​That's right, kids. Rent has finally become so depoliticized and mainstreamed that its tunes are being used to hawk merchandise on the telly.

Project Runway: Draw, Baby, Draw

​Finally, there is some rest for the wicked on Project Runway. This season has been as wham-bam as any, with one-day challenges the norm and the designs often running unrealized as a result; then again, as we all know, Michelangelo's David was carved over a long lunch break (hold the prosciutt ... More >>

Italian-American groups, Jerseyans object to MTV's Jersey Shore "guidos"

​Italian-American heritage groups and residents of the Jersey shore are threatening boycotts over a new reality series, Jersey Shore, which MTV is promoting as a look at nine of the "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos" displaying big hair, good abs, and various forms of lack of continence in a ... More >>

Why I'm Mad About The Carrie Prejean Sex Tape

​Yesterday, the bombshell dropped that dethroned Miss Calfornia Carrie Prejean has a sex tape floating around, one that the ever sensitive TMZ.com won't publish because it's just too tit-iliciously racy. But just the fact that a tape like that exists makes my own chest swell with fury!

'Top Chef': Consider the Spot Prawn

Bravo​After a week's hiatus, Top Chef was back in all its lurid glory, injecting viewers with its characteristic dose of pre-fabricated drama, grown-up babies with sleeve tattoos, and ill-prepared seafood. Last night's episode also gave us what was possibly Padma's worst choice of apparel yet ... More >>

In "Really Lame" News: Top Chef Masters Winner Leaked

Photo borrowed from Bravo We're week two into Bravo's Top Chef Masters and the winner has already been leaked. SF-based food writer Grace Ann Walden has apparently revealed the winner in her Yummy Newsletter, and MenuPages Chicago confirmed the tip. Quoth the chef's publicist: "You want my comment ... More >>

Giant Blimps, Kites Hailed as New York's Energy Solution

Mayor Bloomberg's always looking for green energy stuff for the city, and now this "High-Altitude Wind Machines Could Power New York City" story is making the rounds. The technology dates back to the 1970s, the last time people were taking this seriously. If you get these proposed devices (some of w ... More >>

Gambino Crime Big Had an American Blast!

Say what you will about him, John Gotti considered himself a bona fide red-white-and-blue patriot. Back in the day, the dearly departed Dapper Don mounted a 4th of July fireworks show for his Ozone Park nabe that was the biggest and best thing east of Macy's barges. And maybe that was the inspiratio ... More >>

Former Health Commish, Surgeon General Charged With Using State Workers to Shop, Move Statue

Former New York health commissioner Antonia Novello has been charged with defrauding the government by using state employees for personal business. She has pleaded not guilty. This, you may remember, was how they got former controller Alan Hevesi, but at least he was having state drivers chauffeur a ... More >>

Drop a ball on Times Square! Drop a bomb on Gaza!

An agitprop video from the Israeli government. See the Forward's "YouTube Yanks Israeli Army Videos." Who would have guessed that, with the end of the disastrous Bush regime in sight, we would have been so gloomy on New Year's Eve 2008? You'd think this would be a time of celebration, or at lea ... More >>

Holiday Storefronts: A Window Shopper's Guide

The season's big-store displays include the artful and artless, plus Mike the Snowflake

Reverend Billy Leads Buy Nothing Day Service in Union Square

Sorry, Pops: NY Firms Fail to Crack Older-Worker Top 25

Clip Job: What Would Jesus Bomb? Part 2

Was Car- Free NYC a Flop?

Philip Guston: Galumphing Master

Socially conscious drawings evolve at the Morgan Library

Fashion Week Recap: Toilet Paper Huge at Sean John

A Moveable Beast

Beware the hair-dryer throne! The Art Parade returns for its third year.

MTA's Lowball Offer Could Cost City More Than a Strike

Giant Ape Movies Finally Released

Ad Infinitum

Lost anvils, fallen women, misplaced prosthetics, and other old classifieds

1976

83 Years Here

'Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, I'm going to love one man till I die'

Ordinary People

From a lingering case of boarding school nerves to quirky pleasures of the middle ages

Close-Up on Elmhurst

Trick and Treat

A creepy diptych showcases McCormack's Canadian gothic

Yo Mama: Radical Moms Rise Up and Reclaim Mother's Day

Close-Up on the Fashion District

Quartet

Sports

A Short History of Fruitcake

Environmental Hazards

A Time to Refrain From Embracing

Oozing Pus, Monster Trucks, Bleeding Brains, Broken Glass, and Beaver

The Joker

Proving His Metal

Life's Rich Pageant

Docked

NY Mirror

''How can you dislike a Barbara Walters co-anchor who had a birthday party at Hooters?''

The Hill Is Alive

Spycam City

The Surveillance Society: Part One