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Holy Ship!! Day One: A Surprise Guest Whose Name Rhymes With Drillex

By Katie Bain On Friday afternoon, nearly 3,000 raver chicks, dude guys, scenesters, club kids and DJs assembled at a port in Fort Lauderdale and boarded the MSC Poesia, a.k.a. Holy Ship!! (There are two exclamation points because this is the second edition of the EDM party cruise put on by L.A.'s ... More >>

Fuel Rationing Now Called "Temporary Gasoline Management Plan" -- And It Will Be in Full Effect Tomorrow

The term "fuel rationing" has a certain apocalyptic, Carter-esque connotation. But don't worry, we're not doing that here in New York City. Starting tomorrow, the Big Apple and surrounding counties won't be rationing fuel; they will be implementing their "temporary gasoline management plan" (read: f ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street's Anniversary

For those who have been tracking Occupy Wall Street since its earliest days, yesterday's anniversary often felt familiar to the point of deja vu. Lower Manhattan was once again transformed into a city under siege, with metal barricades at almost every intersection, police trucks, vans, scooters, ho ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street: (Buckets Of) Shit Happens at Downtown ATM. Occupiers Blamed *VIDEO*

​A Philadelphia man was arrested on Friday after police say he dumped buckets of feces and urine at two separate downtown locations -- the stairs of an open-air plaza, and inside an ATM vestibule.The good news is we've got video of each dumping, which you can see after the jump.The NYPD is crediti ... More >>

Beware of the Burning, Scarring, Blindness-Causing Giant Hogweed

ny.govBehold the menace​Ladies and gentlemen, New York is at war. The enemy is Giant Hogweed, by all accounts the most terrifying and malevolent plant in the universe. Specimens can grow as tall as 21 feet, and toxins in their sap, combined with exposure to sunlight, can cause blistering so s ... More >>

Probers Lucky That Nassau County's Scandal-Ridden Crime Lab Already Shut Down

​When the grisly coastal search for victims of a possible Long Island serial killer moved westward from Suffolk County to Nassau County, law enforcement and the public finally caught a break: It looks as if the scandal-ridden, corrupt Nassau County Police crime lab will not be involved in the case ... More >>

Cabbie Sting Reveals Well-Known New York Fact: Drivers Hate Leaving Manhattan

Take these people to Brooklyn!​Because it's not enough to take the word of a bunch of Brooklynites or Bronx-goers, the city has employed a sting operation to prove that cabbies frequently refuse to go to boroughs other than Manhattan. They enlisted four college students after becoming concerne ... More >>

Stinkbugs: Now Coming to a New York City Location Near You

​Just when blood-sucking bedbugs and rabid raccoons had us pretty much bored to tears, we can give thanks to a new entry in New York City's animal-vermin kingdom. Stinkbugs! Aren't they cute? They've been found "in small numbers" in the city, western Suffolk, and Nassau counties since January, ... More >>

Carl Paladino vs. The Tea Party: No Love Lost

​Third party politics in New York is so byzantine most voters turn off when it comes up. But Rudy Giuliani wouldn't have been mayor without the now-defunct Liberal line and George Pataki's margin over Mario Cuomo in 1994 was provided by the State Conservative Party. So the swing this week ... More >>

First Tornado Hits the Bronx in 36 Years

via Daily News​On Friday night, for a 15-minute period, we were hunkered down in our windowless bathroom (just in case!) as our Twitter flashed "Tornado WARNING" from New York's Office of Emergency Management, NotifyNYC, and, of course, the National Weather Service. (A warning, for future refe ... More >>

TO RIDE OR NOT TO RIDE?

Cycling activists remember their fallen comrades

Bedford Avenue Bike Lane Protest Modest; Lane Revival Not Looking Good, Either

​Last week's bike lane tsimmis on Bedford Avenue had a sad denouement yesterday, reports the Brooklyn Paper: A small band of activists braved the rain to protest the scrubbing of the markers New Orleans-style, parading and playing "When the Bikes Go Marching In," "Taps," and other popular fav ... More >>

Considering the Alternative, New York Holds Onto Its Old-Fashioned Voting Machines

New York City, Nassau, and Westchester Counties have refused to participate in a state pilot program to test out optical scan voting machines. While the rest of the country continues to adopt electronic voting machines -- even though they've been

Assembly Expands Red-Light-Camera Rip-Off

Use of red light cameras -- which advocates say promotes safety, but is really just another way of shaking down motorists for money -- is being hugely expanded by the state legislature. The lawmakers approved them for use in Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties, and allowed ... More >>

Clip Job: Mailer's Solution to JFK's A-Bomb Jitters -- Jackie as Hostage

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 20, 1962, Vol. VIII, No. 9An Open Letter to JFK From Norman MailerDear Mr. President:For a few days I thought I might be going to the conference you will have in Nassau with Prime Minister Macmillan on December 19 and December 20. Then a ... More >>

Team Robespierre Vs. MTV: This Is Where the Magic Happens

Photo by Rebecca SmeyneTy and Mike House at the Silent Barn in 2007 Not sure what's the most unfortunate part about this Team Robespierre and MTV2 mini-saga that's detailed in play-by-play over at the Tripwire: that some drunk stooge flipping off the videocamera at the Chicken Hut last year both co ... More >>

NY1: Albany Dems Dish Out Fat Raises to Aides

These days, when many people are seeing their salaries cut, it seems there are only two jobs in which you can reasonably expect to make more money in the New Depression: as failed executives of bailed-out corporations, and in politics. We previously saw NY1 reveals that dozens of Democratic aides ... More >>

Jersey Beats New York in Median Property Tax List

Edible News Roundup

Another Old Bar Goes Down: The Kingsland Tavern

Reasons to Be Ungrateful: Mumbai, Mall Violence, Parking Tickets

Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice = Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch

Duel Personalities

Price Your Pork

New Terror Plot, Same Old Money Problem

Protection Racket

Questions about Albany's cut of New York's homeland security money

Man and His Bottle Caps

'My Parents Would Stick a Pen in My Hand and Say, Go Meet Colonel Sanders'

Gang Planks

Pols Push Tougher Policing for City's Gang Problem

Close Up On: Greenpoint

Tumbling Dice

'New York Press' Backer Linked to Bahamas Lawsuit

Smiling Assassins

Road Kill

The Numbers Racket

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EMERGENCY

Let the games begin

Station to station

Here come the machine's judges

Minority report

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Give until it hurts

Mex and match

This Land Was Made For You and Me...

The ins and outs of college

A Change Is Gonna Come

Eating Reform For Lunch

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File This Fetish

The Royal We

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Grace Jones appeared in rainbow-colored wings to address us as 'my subjects' while Lee Majors danced wildly with the ballsy puppets.