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Cheap Shuck: New York's Oyster Happy Hour Specials

New York can be cruel. Long workdays, unpredictable commutes, exorbitant prices--it feels like we must be gluttons for punishment. But don't fret you tired, you poor, you huddled masses! With the abundance of oyster happy hour specials around the city, we can now indulge in another form of gluttony. ... More >>

Live: tUnE-yArDs Gets The Panties Flying At Terminal 5

tUnE-yArDs w/Micachu & the Shapes, Delicate Steve Terminal 5 Friday, June 1 Better than: Seeing the "Naked Cowgirl." Merrill Garbus was vamping on "Powa," one of the sexier tracks off tUnE-yArDs' w h o k i l l, when a sudden synthesizer malfunction interrupted her banshee wail with a country swing ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Would Probably Like to Host SNL; Seth Meyers Makes No Serious Promises

Forget the cast of Gossip Girl, Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, and Lady Gaga. Mayor Mike Bloomberg brought in some serious entertainment power to really spice up his press conference this afternoon: Saturday Night Live. Well actually, it was just Seth Meyers. But he got to use the whole stage of S ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Things to Eat on MacDougal Street

​The Naked Cowboy: You'll love his cheap bivalves at Mermaid Oyster Bar -- but will that establishment make our top 10? You may think of the three-block stretch of MacDougal between Washington Square and Houston as the recondite refuge of aging Beats, Hippies, and chess players, along with N ... More >>

The Week in Food Blogs: Beloved Egg Dishes, Hot Iced Coffee Blends, Racy Oysters

neilconway/flickrHot iced coffees, you say?​ This week in food blogs... Eater found out how the boys from Mexicue are faring, one year into their business. Grub Street examined the issue of drinking in public, the right way. Serious Eats rounded up nine great egg dishes. And, yes, the truff ... More >>

Joshua Long, 'Weed Man' of Times Square, Defends Right to Beg for Weed, Doesn't Smoke Weed

​Joshua Long is a 30-something guy you may have seen around Times Square, carrying a large sign with green lettering bearing the words "HELP! I need money for WEED!" It is a sign that sort of demands to be noticed, even in the visual glut of Times Square. And it has been noticed, by groups of ... More >>

Naked Cowboy Robert Burck Will Marry Gay Couples in Times Square for Free on July 3

​Ever-ready for publicity, the Naked Cowboy, Robert Burck, has thrown his support behind the movement for marriage equality in New York and declared July 3rd "Gay Marriage Day." To celebrate the holiday, Burck, who happens to be an ordained minister, will be performing free same-sex wedding ce ... More >>

Black Hebrew Israelites: New York's Most Obnoxious Prophets

Why do they scream and curse at you?

The John Dory Oyster Bar Resurrection

A noted seafood restaurant returns from the deep

Battle of the Oyster Pan Roast: The John Dory Oyster Bar vs. The Grand Central Oyster Bar

Lauren ShockeyThe John Dory Oyster Bar's Pan Roast​Ah, the oyster pan roast, a timeless dish of decadence in which oysters swim in a pool of cream sauce. Equal parts deliciousness and heart attack in a bowl. April Bloomfield's version of the dish has been reprised at The John Dory 2.0 (havin ... More >>

POTUS 2012: Sarah Palin or Donald Trump, Take Your Pick

​There have been a number of times throughout the year when yelling "Ohhh hell nah!" has been rather appropriate. None more so than recently, however, when Donald Trump announced he would consider running in the 2012 Presidential election. Sure, he's contemplated running before. But this time ... More >>

No Longer Naked Cowboy Announces 2012 Bid for President

​"America, you can count on me to be conservative through and through!" announced an unusually clothed Robert Burck in Times Square today. Burck, in case somehow you don't know, is better known as the Times Square tourist fixture "The Naked Cowboy" -- a gig for which he dons only a cowboy hat, ... More >>

Mr. Trump 'Considers' Going to Washington

​Brace yourselves. New York real estate mogul/resident and shameless attention whore Donald Trump has announced (yet again) that he's "absolutely thinking" about throwing his comb-over into the ring and running for office in 2012.

The Naked Cowboy, that Half-Nude Guy Who Hangs Out in Times Square, Would Like to Be Your Next President

Why wouldn't this guy run for president?​In news that somehow should not even be the slightest bit surprising, Times Square's one and only Mr. Naked Cowboy, a/k/a, Robert Burck, will be announcing his plans to enter the 2012 presidential race this coming Wednesday. We'll be there reporting fro ... More >>

Gail Kasper Bikini Photos for Troops: New Jersey Woman Gives Soldiers a Boost

​Hmm...what will sex-starved soldiers ever use these photos for? Supportive and super-fit New Jersey woman Gail Kasper is doing her part for American troops in an untraditional but nonetheless humanitarian way, sending autographed posters of herself in a bikini in partnership with Soldier's ... More >>

The Escalade Is the Most-Stolen Car, But Whose Would You Jack?

​In the choice between going big or going home, if you're stealing a car, you've already opted to go pretty big. With that in mind, it's not surprising that car thieves don't chintz -- they go straight for the Cadillac Escalade SUV, the most likely vehicle to be stolen, according to an insuran ... More >>

Naked Cowboy Vs. Naked Cowgirl: A Draw of Drawers

​The Naked Cowboy is sticking 'em up and pointing 'em directly at his female (unaffiliated) counterpart, the Naked Cowgirl, a/k/a Sandy Kane. After already delivering her a cease-and-desist letter, the New York Post reports the scantily clad male busker and his lawyer are now seeking a court o ... More >>

INDECENT EXPOSURE

Does running in your underwear make you go faster?

Why Can't Accomplished Stripper and Copy-Cat Cowgirl Sandy Kane Be a Little More Creative?

via People.com​It's a showdown in Times Square. The Naked Cowboy, Robert Burck, has flexed his legal muscles, sending a cease-and-desist letter to Sandy Kane (a former stripper famous for closing her act by lighting her breasts on fire), the New York Post has reported. But why does Kane, a pyr ... More >>

David Blaine Turning Tricks in Times Square

​Magician David Blaine will be busking in Times Square for the next three days near the Army Recruitment Center. With a slightly more explicable goal in mind than the last time he appeared in Times Square, Blaine will be performing tricks around the clock to raise money for the American Red Cr ... More >>

Monty Burns wins mayoral write-in vote

​It turns out there's a constituency for selling Staten Island after all. If you spot him the votes for C Montgomery Burns, Charles Montgomery Bunrs and CM Burns, fictional billionaire Charles Montgomery Burns ran away with the write-in vote in last month's mayoral election with 27 votes (pdf) ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Dancers from InSpirit beckon passers-by to enter a new store on Broadway near 13th Street. Labor Day, with its West Indian American Day Parade, was the high point of the week. The low point was, let's see... the rest of it. 9/11 was a popular topic. It was oddly related to a Twitter Festiv ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic by iamawizard. The week started with an underwear run and went downhill from there. President Obama's Supreme Court pick, Sonia Sotomayor, rocked the Judiciary Committee. He felt so good about that he released unexpected stimulus money for New York cops, and announced Medal of ... More >>

Post Exposé: Naked Cowboy Lives in Jersey, Works Out

The New York Post civic-mindedly presents readers with "The Truth About the Naked Cowboy," which comes in the form of an at-home profile of the recently-announced mayoral candidate. We are told that Robert Burck, as he is known away from his work, rises early, exercises, quotes motivational authors ... More >>

Central Park Underwear Run Breaks World Record

The video from nyctriathlon2009 reveals that last night's 1.7-mile Underwear Run in Central Park had prizes: for instance, Jet Blue tickets to Jamaica with a 4-day, 3-night stay in Montego Bay, and free entry into Jamaica's Rose Hall Triathlon. These were given for the most imaginative Jamaica-the ... More >>

Naked Cowboy Holds First Mayoral Campaign Event: Underwear Run

Having just announced his candidacy for Mayor of New York City, Times Square entertainer The Naked Cowboy is not wasting any time getting his campaign off the ground. He will serve as Grand Marshall of an underwear run in Central Park tonight. The 1.7 mile event, which is apparently an annual trad ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

  Twitpic by tedsink. Last weekend's Siren Festival left many of us groggy, and a good thing too, as the week that followed was best seen in soft focus. President Obama and Henry Louis Gates were the comedy team of the week. Mayor Bloomberg, angry about the way mayoral school control ... More >>

Naked Cowboy to Announce for Mayor's Race Today

We have done more than most to let you know about the New York mayoral candidates from minor parties such as the Green Party (Reverend Billy), the Rent Is Too Damn High Party (Jimmy McMillan), and the Democrats (Bill Thompson, Tony Avella). We hope to provide coverage in the near future of Libertari ... More >>

Life Is Short. Have an Affair, New York.

What adultery site Ashley Madison was thinking when it scandalized Times Square

TABLOIDED: The Legal and Ethical Quandaries of the "East Side Butcher" Case

TABLOIDED: Sex, Sports & Murder

Urban Resolutions

New Yorkers revisit last year's promises and share hopes for 2006