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10 Things You Should Know About Summer Reading

Summer reading is as beloved a seasonal tradition as splashing in broken fire hydrants, playing on sidewalk slip-and-slides, barbecuing on fire escapes, and watching Fourth of July fireworks from a tenement rooftop. Teachers and librarians say the practice is integral in preventing what's called "su ... More >>

Black Market's Reynolds on Rocking Chairs

Reynolds, who tends bar at Black Market and Lovers of Today, has had a long journey to New York. The Nebraska native worked in low-profile Vancouver watering holes for years, building furniture as a side job. But he got tired of mixing G&Ts, and moved to the city two years ago. Reynolds, who only go ... More >>

Vincente Minnelli, Master of Style and Substance

The director's Hollywood spectacular at BAM

Lady Gaga's "Yoü And I" Video: Ten Pounds Of NEBRASKAAAAAAAA! In A Five-Pound Sack Of Corn

​The video for "Yoü And I," the big, gooshy ballad on Lady Gaga's Born This Way, has leaked two days in advance of its scheduled Thursday premiere on MTV and Logo. The clip was shot in Nebraska—which gets copious shoutouts in the song, and which is the ancestral land of her "friend" Lu ... More >>

Babes in Bosnia: Hollywood's Take on Sex Trafficking in The Whistleblower

Manhattan Bar Throws Birthday Bash for Really, Really Old Urinals

via Asylum/Taylor Derwin​Old Town Bar on East 18th Street -- whose website proudly proclaims that they've served New York since 1892 -- is celebrating the "birth" of their first flushing urinals tonight. The urinals are officially 100 years old, which means that for 18 years of the bar's life, ... More >>

Morning Links: Egg Recall Now Massive; Miners Trapped Underground in Chile Are Alive; Gator Sighting in Astoria

​• Half a billion eggs are now being recalled in 17 states (Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin) due to a salmonella outbreak traced back to two Iowa egg producers, Hi ... More >>

Summer Guide: Hit the Arts Road!

Weekend trips to cultured places

Trend Watch: Snakes Are Not Your Playthings, People

​There's a recurring theme that keeps popping up on our radar, and we're going to have to go ahead and mention it for all sorts of reasons, but mostly because, after thinking about it long and hard and engaging in a vigorous session of Rock-Paper-Scissors with Foster to finally settle the issu ... More >>

Hispanic Kids 48% of U.S. Population Growth: Report

​America's going non-white! It's been long reported that the U.S. is projected to be minority-majority by 2042. Now researchers from Cornell and the University of New Hampshire say, "for America's children and youth, that future is here already": In the Census year that ended in July of 2008, ... More >>

Horror Legend Wes Craven: Guest of a Guest Fan?

​ As a memorable character in the great, crucial American film canon of movies designed to scare the shit out of you, Freddy Krueger has kept under-supervised children and adults alike worried about sleeping without pissing their pants or being clawed in the face by a creepy leather-skinned mo ... More >>

Eco-Scandal: Compostable Greenware Is Made from Genetically Modified Corn

​Follow the arrow to the compostable plastic made from corn being used at Bark Hot Dogs, among other environmentally conscious places around town. Eco-conscious diners have been patting themselves on the back recently for patronizing places that use environmentally-friendly "Greenware," but m ... More >>

Chuck Schumer and Ben Nelson Go Hunting, Bring Back Health Care Reform

​Politico has an interesting piece about a hunting trip Senator Schumer took with Senator Ben Nelson in Nebraska last month. They note that the trip went surprisingly well, given how poorly political hunting trips can turn out for Democrats (and Republicans, too). When we heard that the Brook ... More >>

New Plan to Defeat Health Care Bill: GOP Lawsuits!

​It looks like the Democrats might pass some sort of health care bill after all, so the badly outnumbered Republicans are looking at new strategy to block it: make pork illegal. "Attorneys general in at least 10 states" of a mostly reddish hue, the Times reports, have discussed a legal strat ... More >>

World Food Situation Dire; School Bake Sales Now a No-no

​An Australian scientist says that the world's food situation is so bad that we will have to produce more food in the next 50 years than we ever have in history. A growing population and climate change will make the task more difficult. [ABC News] Small farms are all the rage, according to a ... More >>

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 >>

Vegetarian Dishes for Meat Lovers by Meat Lovers; Alain Ducasse Opens a Cooking School for Locals & Tourists

For carnivores trying to reduce their meat consumption for the greater good (ie., sustainability reasons), vegetarian recipes from meat lovers may be the answer, such as Bill Niman, of Niman Ranch's, Three-Bean Chili and barbecue expert Steven Raichlen's Malaysian Grilled Tofu with Chilli Peanut Sau ... More >>

In Defense of Joba Chamberlain, Cornhusker

Say you're a famous New York Yankee pitcher, pulled over for suspected DWI in fucking Nebraska. While it helps that you're actually from Nebraska, you haven't been around much in recent years, and maybe the troopers will think you've gotten a little big for your britches and may decide you were so d ... More >>

Citizen Ruth

Midday Mash-Up: Dolls, Death, Drunk, etc.

Asian American International Film Festival

Christine Choy's Long Story Short, John Wootak Kwon's Always Be Boyz, and more

THURSDAY | 5.29

The National's Anthems

If Springsteen is right, the glory days for Brooklyn's best rock band may lie just ahead

Flabby White Guys Wrestling With Racism

Marriage Equality, State by State

Marriage of Two Minds

Gay nups may have become inevitable, but for now it's a world of pain

Black and Blue and Red

Tech-metal tyros revel in brattiness, blood, colors, and guns

R. Crumb, Joyce Carol Oates, Et Al., Get Behind the Music

Erratic Erotic Nebraska Electro-Rockers Shape Their Chaos

Horoscope

The Big Flinch

Bones of a Blimp: How the loss of military virtues fosters a politics of militarism

It's Alive!

Zombies, opium smokers, and Tupperware ladies, oh my!

The Student Loan Blues

The Inception Deception

'Partial-Birth' Ploy Threatens Abortions, Forces Legal Challenges

Music

The Exile Files

Dances in the Dark

Road Warriors

Access of Evil

Letters

Accidentally on Purpose

Emo Pluribus Unum

Detainees Equal Dollars

The Rise in Immigrant Incarcerations drives a prison boom

Theater

Greyhound

My Way on the Highway

Pass the Remote: Fifty Percent of Voters Stayed Home

Even Close Races Fail to Draw Big

Nation

A Real Man

Brooklyn girl grows hair on her chest

Man and Ape

A Controversy Evolves

Just Between Friends

Fanning the Fame