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The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck Joines Forces With Mr. and Mrs. Bourdain

Ottavia BourdainThe Bourdains, poolside.​Here's yet another reason to hope against hope that the goddamn skies finallyclear: tomorrow, from 4:30 until 6:30, the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck will be staffed in part by Ottavia Bourdain (who you can see here, accompanying her husband to a tattoo parlo ... More >>

Learn to Pickle and Help Out Japan

Brooklyn BrinePickle for a good cause​Many New York City restaurants are pitching in to assist with the crisis following Japan's tsunami and earthquake, and this week Brooklyn Brine will be holding a special pickling class, from which 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Bor ... More >>

Japan Fights to Avoid Nuclear Disaster; Death Toll From Tsunami Could Top 10,000

Reuters/Toru Hanai​Japan is facing what prime minister Naoto Kan called its "toughest and most difficult crisis" since World War II, as workers struggle to prevent meltdowns in two reactors at the Fukushima power plant. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said that a third reactor would possibly e ... More >>

Japan Quake Death Toll Could Rise to 1300; Nuclear Plant Explosion Causes Radiation Leak, Fear of Meltdown

Reuters via NYT​The death toll from yesterday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan could rise to more than 1300, government officials told Japanese news media. CNN is reporting that the number of deaths is 900 and is expected to rise. Half the population of one town, Minamisanr ... More >>

A High-Speed Bullet Train and a Cruise Ship Are Missing in Japan

​Details continue to come in about the aftermath of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan and the devastating tsunami that followed. The death toll, currently in the hundreds, is expected to increase dramatically. Google has launched a person-finder app to try to help people locate missing fri ... More >>

Doctors Without Borders, Living in Emergency

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: The Weekend In Nightlife

​The Arms Around Haiti event at Public Assembly kicks off our Friday evening with a reminder that just because there haven't been any telethons lately doesn't mean the situation isn't just as awful as it ever was. The event spans over both rooms of the venue and boasts a lineup of over ten dis ... More >>

'Arms Around Haiti'

More On Wyclef Jean and His Charity, Yele Haiti

So over the long weekend, Wyclef Jean gave both a press conference and a personal statement via YouTube, defending his foundation, Yele Haiti, and the fundraising it did in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck Haiti last Tuesday. In the video statement, Jean said he was "disgusted" with the ... More >>

Haiti: Even Your Neighborhood Bar Wants to Help

nypress.comGive at the bar.​The Washington Commons may not be a destination bar for anyone outside of Prospect Heights, but it's a go-to for the locals. And it, too, wants to help Haitians in need of aid following last week's devastating earthquake.

US takes over airport in haitian capital

Médecins Sans Frontières​At the request of the haitian government, the United States Army has taken over operation of the Port au Prince airport in Haiti's capital to unblock the delivery of supplies to what the UN is calling the worst disaster they've ever dealt with.

NY Restaurateurs Begin to Mobilize to Raise Money for Haiti

Getty ImagesA scene in Port au Prince.​ A day after Haiti was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, some local chefs and restaurateurs are trying to mobilize to raise money for the stricken country.

Animal Collective Engage In Real World Activity, Auction Test Presses for Charity

Note to band--retain this designer In what an internet judge might charitably deem second- or third-degree community blogger service, we direct you to the Animal Crack Box 3LP Animal Collective TEST PRESSING!! auction currently underway over at eBay. Catsup Plate, the auctioneer here, patiently exp ... More >>

Win one for the gyppers: Banks' current playoffs eerily like the NFL's

Pulp Fictions: I Live Here and Guy Delisle's Burma Chronicles

Pacifism Fails in the Face of Sovereign Evil

If the U.N. won't act on its own mandate, then we should use force to combat immutable evil

Darfur in Central Park

"Try to imagine that your whole way of life destroyed"

Rabbi Meets Genocide's General

A close-up of Sudan's chief mass murderer and his genteel, cultivated entourage

Remote Patrol

Morning Report 8/11/05
Bush Less Complex Than a Grain of Rice, Scientists Discover

U.N. to Investigate Alleged Haiti Massacre

Local Red Cross tells of handing out body bags and shovels

Famine in Niger? Let Them Eat Yellowcake.

Haitians Accuse the U.N. of Massacre

Demonstrators say peacekeepers fired on slum dwellers in Cite Soleil

Sea Change

In Sri Lanka, mothers' breasts ache for phantom children. What will it take to rebuild?

Conservatives on Parade

Capital preps for coronation of Republican king

Blame It on Rio

Humanitarian Rufin tries to put the story back in history

No More Neutral in Iraq

New consequences of a 'humanitarian' war

NY Mirror

Fine Young Communists

Uncle Sam Is Losing the War for Students in South Korea

Left Behind

'New York Times' Freelancer Languishes in Chinese Jail

In Sickness and in Stealth

Acting Up Again

AIDS Activism Goes Global

Dog Food for Justice

A Tribute to Art and a Tribute From the Heart

Turning Point

The International AIDS Conference Makes a Commitment to Saving Third-World Lives

Lost Opportunity

South African President Hedges on Cause of AIDS, Ignores Access to Medicine

Giving It Away

An American Pharmaceutical Giant Offers to Donate an AIDS Drug to South Africa

The War For Drugs

South Africa Organizes Against the High Price of AIDS Medicines

Part 7: South Africa Acts Up

Building a Movement on the Ruins of Apartheid