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Bob Marley Wants You to CHILL!

Legal (except in New Jersey schools) tranquilizers? Peeking out from among the Malta cans and bottles of kola champagne and ginger beer in bodega refrigerator cases in neighborhoods like Flatbush, Bed-Stuy, and Clinton Hill, beverages bearing a likeness of Wailers lead singer (and prodigious pothe ... More >>

BOYCOTT! Like Rick Ross, These Product-Endorsing Artists Have Said Vile Things

Yesterday activists protested Reebok's flagship store to put pressure on the company to cut its ties with rapper Rick Ross, who recently ... well you already know this story. Whether or not the more than 71,000 signatures collected to get Ross fired will work remains to be seen, but Big Corporations ... More >>

10 Best Dive Bars in New York, 2013 Edition

Everyone has a favorite dive bar. The best ones are cheap, sticky, and unpretentious, with questionable bathrooms and a rogues' gallery of regulars. They make perfect spots to talk to strangers, get in fights, or bury a broken heart. Some of the greatest holes-in-the-wall have been shuttered -- Mars ... More >>

Top 6 Food Memes of 2012: #LiteraryRestaurants and Guys with Fries

Everything was a meme this year. Olympic gold winners were not impressed. Capitol Hill got some very mean girls. There was a ridiculously photogenic man and a ridiculously photogenic corgi. Let's not even discuss election season. But food memes had some gems this year too. Check out the six that got ... More >>

Fellow Republicans: A Five-Point to Stop Our Asses From Getting Kicked

To: Lovers of America From: The Republican National Committee RE: Emergency platform changes Dear Patriots: It seems that 47 percent was somewhat larger than we anticipated in last week's election. Henceforth, we urgeall Republicans to adopt these immediate policy changes. 1. Our new platform on ... More >>

Mountain Dew, Doritos, And Candyland: How Pepsi And Wal-Mart Are Helping New Yorkers Recover

Nobody tell Mike Bloomberg, but hurricane-ravaged New Yorkers are drinking free Mountain Dew right now -- and probably more than the allotted 16 ounces of which he approves.Wal-Mart and Pepsi Co. are amongst the first big-time corporations to donate a large amount of supplies to aid in the Hurricane ... More >>

You Can Get A 1,200-Calorie Burger At Barclays Center. But You Can't Get A 20-Ounce Soda

Mayor Mike Bloomberg's ban on big-boy cups for non-diet sodas at New York City restaurants, theaters, and sports venues is yet to take effect. However, the new Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn already is voluntarily adhering to the new guidelines, which limit cup sizes for "sugary drinks" to 16 oun ... More >>

5 Great Sodas in NYC

Now that the days of dropping five bucks on a jumbo, movie theater Coke will be going the way of smoking in bars, New Yorkers might want to consider a carbonation contingency plan. Despite Mayor Bloomberg's approved soda ban, plenty of NYC restaurants are crafting their own sodas in-house. Although ... More >>

Hooters in Queens Calls Customer "Chinx"

[See More Edible News: Mountain Dew Wants You To Continue Doing the Dew Despite Bloomberg's Proposed Soda Ban | Buy Your Candy Corn Oreos At Target] A customer is suing Hooters after an employee of the chain labeled him "Chinx" on a receipt. Kisuk Cha was dining with his girlfriend in Fresh Meado ... More >>

Mountain Dew Wants You To Continue Doing The Dew Despite Bloomberg's Proposed Soda Ban

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed soda ban has been a recent source of controversy that has generated a lot of community backlash. Mountain Dew, in partnership with the New York Art Department, has challenged the recent discussion with a series of prohibition posters that have been installed on var ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg, Soda Cop: 60 Percent Of New Yorkers Hate Proposed Big-Gulp Ban

There's good news and bad news regarding Mayor Mike Bloomberg's proposed "Big-Gulp" ban. First the good news: a new poll shows that even fewer New Yorkers support Hizzonor's idiotic plan now than they did when it initially was proposed.The bad news: it's no skin off Bloomberg's ass -- he's not runni ... More >>

Lil Wayne Hits The Decks With The Deweezy Videos

Last night at recently reopened Greenhouse, Lil Wayne the rapper welcomed Lil Wayne the skater to the world via the premiere of DeWeezy. Maybe it's because he started rapping professionally at an age when most kids where still learning their multiplication tables, but Wayne has always seemed to have ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg On Chick-Fil-A: Banning Soda Is OK. Banning Homophobic Chicken Peddlers Is Un-American

For a guy who's hell-bent on imposing his will on just about everyone, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has taken a rather uncharacteristic stance in the ongoing flap over the outrage stemming from homophobic comments made by Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy -- especially for a guy who claims to be a sta ... More >>

New York Olympians In London 2012 Summer Games: Volleyball and Cycling

One of today's Olympians is a first timer and the other is hoping that a third return will bring Olympic gold. Both have shown incredible promise from early on in their athletic careers, dominating the volleyball and cycling scenes as a senior in high school and a freshman in college. Name: Todd We ... More >>

Gun Bully Mike Bloomberg To Host Fundraiser For NRA Darling Scott Brown

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has made it explicitly clear that he hates guns. For example, he recently urged cops across the country to go on strike in protest of the nation's lax gun laws. Additionally, he founded the organization Mayors Against Illegal Guns in an effort to get rid of loophol ... More >>

Mike "Everything In Moderation" Bloomberg To Preside Over Hot Dog Contest Weigh-In

What was that thing Mayor Mike Bloomberg said about eating in "moderation?" If we're not mistaken, it went a little something like this: the mayor's proposed ban on big-boy cups for sugary drinks like soda is just "encouragement to do things in moderation."That said, food-bully Bloomberg this mornin ... More >>

The Worst Moments From SXSW 2012

Over the last few days, Village Voice Media's music editors have been regaling you with stories of the best from Austin's South By Southwest Festival. But with the best must come the worst, and our critics unfortunately came across the following borefests, technical problems, and insults to their in ... More >>

Lil Wayne, Skrillex, And Others Fire Up Austin On Day Two Of SXSW

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in this planet's many happenings, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. To break down the chaos, a few of Village ... More >>

Man Who Wrote About Suicide on Mountain Dew's Facebook Page Says 'It Was a Joke'

​The above screengrab (via Reddit) from Mountain Dew's Facebook page shows a man's apparent cry for help. Naturally, this has spread around the internet, and people have found it anywhere from hilarious to disturbing and offensive. Runnin' Scared got in contact with Michael Abraham, the man wh ... More >>

I Want My 18-34 Demographic: MTV's Research-Heavy (And Kinda Unhip) Approach To Melding Radio And TV

MTV turns 30 today. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. via Tacky and KitschSend a self-addressed stamped envelope to the above address, and you could have your own Dial Sticker. ​ The first 59 minutes of MTV—12:01 a.m. to 1 a.m., ex ... More >>

How to Attract Millenials to Your Restaurant; Why Restaurant Week Bites

​Want to know how to attract "millennials" to your restaurant, (that's customers aged 16-34)? Well, try introducing small plates -- they love to snack -- and new technology and healthy food. [Nation's Restaurant News] Big Green Eggs, the original brand of ceramic kamados available in the U.S. ... More >>

Human Penises Used to Have Spikes, Wait, Used to Have?

One of them has a spine-covered penis​Researchers have discovered the molecular workings that caused human penises to evolve and shed their prickly spines, which chimps and some other animals still have to this day. Scientific American describes how Stanford scientists went through the DNA seq ... More >>

A Music Fan's New Year's Resolution: Let's All Not Use The Word 'Indie' For An Entire Year, Okay?

Arcade Fire, the most famous "indie" band ever?​Ever made a New Year's resolution vowing to improve your communication skills? To more forcefully assert yourself, perhaps, and stop passively equivocating on important matters? In an offhand way, that's what Panos Panay, the CEO of Sonicbids (th ... More >>

The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck Will Throw a Good-Bye Party Next Friday

Bea you next year...​"Ice cream trucks," Doug Quint once told us, "are meant to go away for the winter." So on Oct. 31, he's closing up the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck for the season.

Is It Possible to Sell Out in 2010?

​Today's New York Times brings a startling bit of news: the sneaker company Converse is opening a recording studio in the heart of Williamsburg, to be called Converse Rubber Tracks, where bands "deemed dedicated and needy enough" will be able to record for free. Artists selected to use the spa ... More >>

Fringe (Festival) Benefits

A play or two from outer space, but some hit closer to home

I am the body, I am the blood, I am dessert: 1970's most astonishing cakes

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ A stack of Mail Box News magazines Date: 1970 Publisher: Maid of Scandinavi ... More >>

American Idol Season 9: Top 10 Results

Diddy, please never let that white suit go. Photo by Michael Becker / FOX. ​Are the results shows always this bad? This padded out with product placements and movie tie-ins and Seacrest/Cowell banter that seems one barb away from a loogie to the face? Just kidding--I know they're always this b ... More >>

How Fucked Up's Savvy SXSW Post About Artist Exploitation Applies to Other Venues (Like, Um, the Internet) Too

​Very smart post up today written by guitarist Mike Haliechuk at the Canadian band Fucked Up's blog, talking about the economics of Austin's South By Southwest music conference. The gist of it is an attempt to answer a simple question, one that a person could easily ask about CMJ or other, sim ... More >>

The Amazing Baby Single "Supreme Being" Now Available Without the Words "Faggot," "Stoned," or "Stonerman"

Mountain Dew's MP3-as-single imprint Green Label Sound has an exclusive download of the Amazing Baby single "Supreme Being." The psych-pop track was a shimmering stand-out from the Brooklyn band's 2008 four-song EP Infinite Fucking Cross, so it was surprising when the moony floater didn't make th ... More >>

Live: Marcus Roberts Trio at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola

Marcus Roberts Trio Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Wednesday, July 22 You should see this place, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, up yonder at Lincoln Center, first of all just to behold the not-too-distant future of venue-naming (five years from now Tiny Masters of Today will be headlining Kurt Cobain Drink Moun ... More >>

Interview: Jay Reatard on Failures, Canada, Hot Dogs, and His Worst New York City Gig

"Most of the time, what's wrong with you is more interesting that what's right. What's right with you is fucking boring." Jay Lindsey started making music at 15 and has since played in a zillion different bands, releasing a zillion different recordings on what would seem like a zillion differen ... More >>

SXSW 2009: The Fader Fort as Economic Indicator

This pic is tagged "Andrew Peeing on Fader Fort," FYI. CREDIT. I was intrigued to see this year's iteration of the Fader Fort, generally one of the most elaborate "unofficial" SXSW entities, wherein the trendsetting mag takes over some disused warehouse space or whatnot and runs a four-day alterna ... More >>

Matt and Kim Fight Cute, Fail Miserably

The Brooklyn duo giddily save their beloved borough's soul, just in time

There, There

In which glamorous pop stars deign to comfort you

Stuff You Need to Know This Week to Avoid Ostracism

Notes on Girl Power

The Selling of Softcore Feminism

Four Shame! New Marvel Movie All Doom and Gloom

Love Letters Extra

NY Mirror

Despite Star's Best Efforts, Corny Thriller Goes off the Depp End

Brainsucking Power

Alien

Dream of a Miner’s Child

The Soft Boys

Animal Magnets

Super Bowl Ads Attract Viewers with Unnatural Nature

I Believe That Children Are The Future.

Spy Commerce

The Surveillance Society: Part Three

The Outsiders

Skateboarders bring their half-pipe dreams to New Jersey's city of last resort

The Consumer as a Fan

I'm With the Brand