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Watch Will Ferrell's Secret Old Milwaukee Super Bowl Commercial

FYI, New Yorkers: you probably haven't seen the greatest Super Bowl commercial -- ever. Last night, football fans in Glendive, Montana, Sherman, Texas, and Ardmore, Oklahoma, saw Will Ferrell's latest spot for Old Milwaukee. The comedian has previously shot ads for the Midwestern beer brand and, ea ... More >>

What's the Drunkest City in the U.S.? (Hint: It's Not New York)

Sure, New Yorkers like booze. But, according to a list composed by The Daily Beast, Bostonians like it a lot more. Boston continues its reign as the drunkest city in America with 20.1% of the population identified as "binge drinkers." New York, on the other hand, doesn't even rank in the top twenty. ... More >>

Those Who Prey: Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

Alex Gibney rages against the church's cover-up of abuse

Q&A: Braid's Bob Nanna On Frame And Canvas, The Meaning Of "Emo," And Making People Appreciate Weird Time Signatures

The rock subgenre known as "emo"—or at least a watered-down version of it—got kind of big in the early 2000s. But before then, a slew of bands were crafting post-hardcore with twisting time signatures, dynamic shifts in tempo and loudness, and alternatingly sung/screamed vocals. Braid wa ... More >>

BREAKING: Shooting at Sikh Temple in Milwaukee

This is the last bit of news we want to hear today.The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel is now reporting that a distress call at 10:26am came in to the Oak Creek Police Department - a town just outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Apparently, a white man with two handguns attacked a service at the S ... More >>

Cardinal Timothy Dolan's Pervert Priest Payoff: What Does This Mean for U.S. Catholics?

When Cardinal Timothy Dolan ran the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, he said OK to paying pervert priests up to 20 grand as "incentive" to get them to leave their posts. A report in the New York Times, using info from that Archdiocese's recent bankruptcy filings, notes that Dolan gave the greenlight for p ... More >>

Gold-Medal Cheese Sells for $8,400 at Wisconsin Auction

How much would you be willing to pay for the world's best cheese? As part of an auction held in Milwaukee to raise money for cheese producers, an Illinois company, Hoogwegt US Inc., paid $8,400 for a 24-pound wheel of Dutch cheese, according to the AP (via Bloomberg).

Casa de Mi Padre

Are the Islanders Moving to Brooklyn Now or What?

​So Nassau County held its vote on the $400 million New York Islanders arena plan yesterday, and for team owner Charles Wang things went about as well as ... it's tempting to say "as well as a typical Islanders game," but that'd be cruel. In any case, the final vote was 57-43% against funding ... More >>

Ooga Booga: Rightbloggers Warn America of a Non-Existent Black Crime Wave

You probably know that, over the past few decades, crime rates in America's major cities have dropped sharply. New York, which was once a symbol of urban menace, is particularly safe, and tourists freely roam Bed-Stuy and Central Park at night. Even historically troubled Oakland has recently seen it ... More >>

Hofbrau Bierhaus Is a Real Brew-haha

Noisy-ass beer garden blasts into Midtown from Munich

American Idol, Season 10: A Few People We Like, A Lot Of People We Hate

At least Beatlesmania is over. Credit: Ray Mickshaw/FOX.​A quick word of advice: By all means, watch Still Bill, the new documentary about Bill Withers. It's great, and it's on Netflix Instant and everything. Just don't watch it immediately before watching American Idol. If you do, you'll find ... More >>

Obama's Super Bowl Party Sounds Like a Nightmare

​It sounds like President Barack Obama is going to have the worst Superbowl ever. His beloved Bears didn't make the cut for the big game so he said he's "remaining neutral." Watching a game and not rooting for either team? Who do you cheer for then, the Black Eyed Peas? His horrible situation ... More >>

American Idol, Season 10: Not Heartwarming-Sad, Just Sad-Sad

Beware of this dude's absolutely appalling sincere faces. Photo by Michael Becker/FOX.​Tonight, we see the new American Idol judging cadre venture to Milwaukee, I place I don't consider a real city because I can't name any rappers from there. (Bon Iver doesn't count.) We open with Steven Tyler ... More >>

New Yorkers Must Wait to Be Ogled by TSA

​Sorry, New York. Those full body scanners promised "for September" at Newark, JFK, and LaGuardia airports back in August are still not available. Turns out the installation of -- like the public's reaction to -- the machinery is a bit "complex."

For National Coming Out Day, Tales of Coming Out

​Happy National Coming Out Day! Since October 11, 1988, the first anniversary of the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, this date has been celebrated as a day for LGBT people to live openly. Runnin' Scared asked a few gay and lesbian New Yorkers around town (and ... More >>

Introducing Frankie Latina's Badass Exploitation in Modus Operandi

In the U.S. Senate, A Hearing on Downgrading Rape Complaints; In Our City Council, Crickets (Update)

While elected officials here in the city are reticent to hold public hearings on allegations published in the Village Voice on the downgrading of criminal complaints by the NYPD, the United States Senate has no such qualms about looking at the practice across the country. Senator Arlen Specter, a d ... More >>

Brian from Wisconsin Dishes on 30 Dates in 30 Days: Today is Date #1

​Brian Moore, a Milwaukee-raised 23-year-old, is like the modern-day version of sweetheart Cory Matthews from Boy Meets World (albeit lankier and blonder), and he's seeking his Topanga. The Emerson '09 grad moved to New York four months ago, and having spent most of his entire adult life in a ... More >>

Is Pabst Blue Ribbon About to Become Bumble Bee Beer?

​The NPR website reports that counter-culture favorite Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer may be on the verge of being sold to C. Dean Metropoulos, the man responsible for developing such food brands as Vlassic Pickles and Bumble Bee Tuna. The sale, brokered by Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, will reporte ... More >>

Crystal Head Vodka Banned in Ontario; Shocker: French Study Shows Wine is Good

​Dan Aykroyd's Crystal Head Vodka has been banned in Ontario because the bottle looks like such a lifelike skull. Oddly, Canadian-born Aykroyd thinks the decision "kind of makes the product more appealing." [Globe and Mail] Meanwhile, Crystal Head Vodka has reached the one millionth bottle ma ... More >>

Chinatown Counterfeiters Settle Up With City, Live to Counterfeit Another Day

Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press​The owners of the "Counterfeit Triangle"--a single triangular block in Chinatown bounded by Canal, Centre, and Walker Streets--have agreed to pay $800,000 to the city, thereby reopening the block for "legitimate purposes." The settlement comes after a 2008 raid ... More >>

Tonight! Fang Island, Juiceboxxx, And Des Roar

You're probably not getting into Roseland for the Thom Yorke/Atoms for Peace spectacular, but no sourpusses allowed: Fang Island's exuberant instrumental tunes could quite possibly make the band's self-described aesthetic of "everyone high-fiving everyone" a reality tonight at the Knitting Factory ... More >>

New York Times' Renewed Sense of Competition with New Funding Strategy: Satan

​Genius. Is there a better investment opportunity out there for a media outlet? The New York Times has apparently uncovered the answer to all of their fiscal issues of recent: Satan.

The Review of Phantom Menace You Didn't Even Know You Were Waiting For

Finally, a reason for the existence of George Lucas -- so that he and his horrible film, The Phantom Menace, could be taken apart so entertainingly in this genius series of videos posted to YouTube by a man in Milwaukee. Just hit play on that first one -- we guarantee you won't be able to keep fro ... More >>

Mac 'n' Cheese Revolution; Beef Tongues Recalled

​Mac 'n' cheese is the new hipster food around New York and Los Angeles, and has even spawned a couple mac-'n'-cheese boutiques: S'MAC in the East Village and its newish rival, Macbar in Soho. [Wall Street Journal] Restaurateurs who once kept close tabs on Frank Bruni will be doing the same w ... More >>

A Steady Rain Displays Two Celebs; Tosca and Othello Display Directorial Muddle

Today Is Les Paul's Final Day in New York City

​Les Paul, the technologically innovative and resolutely virtuosic guitarist who died last week at the age of 94, will have his New York sendoff today in a private ceremony. Paul's manager, Michael K. Braunstein, told the A.P. that after the service and a reception in the Gibson showroom today ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! Taco Hell

An East Coast Chicano suffers

Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, ... More >>

Photos from USAISAMONSTER's "Last Show Ever" Featuring Awesome Color, a Shirtless Juiceboxxx, and A Sweaty Mass of Spectators

Justin F. Farrar gushed his respects last week to Brooklyn prog-noise stalwarts USAISAMONSTER, who after 10 years, four full-lengths, two EPs, a stack of CD-Rs, and a zillion cold floors around the globe, are ending their long-revered band. Last Saturday at the Market Hotel was billed as their "La ... More >>

Monday's Headlines: Murdoch Too In Love With Newspapers

HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart AssetYour Monday New York headlines...Struggling Times says Wall Street Journal and NY Post are dragging down News Corp because of Rupe's stubbornness. Also, Journal management now thoroughly Murdochian: "Memos are for wimps."Sharpton, meanwhile, wants Rupe to pa ... More >>

The Pool

This Bud's for Tu

Greenpoint's New Bowling Alley: Time-Warp Look and Prices to Match

Old Milwaukee chandeliers, but Sixpoint in the pitchers

Valerie Harper Is Not Jewish. You'd Never Know it Here.

Golda's Balcony

A Level Field

1,500 up-and-coming acts take the music-biz mat in Austin

Horoscope

Happy Days

Coney Island's former specialty takes hold in the Midwest

Boccie, Beer Cheese, and Deer Heads Meet Brooklyn Hip

Higher Calling

Why Do Airlines Ban Midflight Cell Phone Calls?

Jew Eye for the Black Guy: Odd Couple Swap Stereotypes

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Move Over, Janet Malcolm

Ex-Journos Paint Reporters as Artful Liars

Circular Logic

NY Mirror

Shirts

Two T's, One Buttondown, and a Plaid Flannel

Giuliani vs. Thomas Jefferson

God Will Be the Curriculum

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