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Music Festivals Are Environmental Disasters

Andrew Carmellini's Lafayette Opened on Monday

Andrew Carmellini's new French restaurant, Lafayette, opened on Monday. He tweeted that the bakery opened at noon and dinner service was available at 5:30. Carmellini joined forces with his partners from Locanda Verde and the Dutch, Josh Pickard and Luke Ostrom, to run the bistro. Chef Damon Wise cr ... More >>

New York AG Takes On "Reciprocity" Gun Bill

As it currently stands, the Second Amendment guarantees U.S. citizens the right to own firearms. But each state is permitted to place its own restrictions on the types of firearms -- and the manner in which they're possessed -- that people are allowed to own.A bill making its way through Congress wo ... More >>

Three Good Things: Bagels, Thoreau, Crayfish

1 How Dan Graf looked to science to create a bagel with a blistered, crispy crust, a chewy interior, and a rich dough flavor. [Wired] 2 Did Henry David Thoreau really invent raisin bread? Lapham's Quarterly clears it up. [Tumblr]

Online Poker Kings Get Cashed Out

Killing livelihoods and a $2.5 billion industry, the feds attack Internet gambling

Donald Trump Takes Credit for Mitt Romney's Nevada Win

By now it's quite obvious to anyone paying attention that Donald Trump will do anything to stay in the spotlight during this election season, despite already calling it quits on his own candidacy. So after very publicly declaring his support for Mitt Romney, a move that caused many Americans to enga ... More >>

Mitt Romney Wins Nevada Caucuses; Giants To Play In The Super Bowl Today; Russia And China Put Stop To U.N. Syria Resolution

Mitt Romney won the Nevada caucuses Saturday night. As of 9:20 a.m. with 71 percent reporting, Romney had 47.6 percent of the vote. Newt Gingrich trailed him with 22.7 percent. "This is not the first time you gave me your vote of confidence, and this time I'm going to take it to the White House," Ro ... More >>

Avant-Garde January! It's Koltes, the TEAM, Toshiki Okada, and, er, Ira Glass

A critical dive into the Under the Radar, Other Forces, and Coil festivals

Free Will Astrology: December 14-20, 2011

Tonight is the Last Night Ever To Enjoy The Current Nevada Smiths

via Nevada Smith's FacebookGrown people excited about balls at Nevada SmithsIt's been known that Nevada Smiths, that lovable East Village soccer bar where grown men went at six am to watch mostly scoreless games, would have to vacate its current Third Avenue home. And as EV Grieve recently noted, th ... More >>

The Wassaic Project is Happening This Weekend

​The Wassaic Project, the third annual art festival that fills a meadow with campers, turns a barn into a movie theater, and stuffs and a seven story silo with art, is happening this weekend. We went last year, and had about as much fun as you can have at a camping/art festival this side of Bl ... More >>

New Yorkers: Miserable, Maybe, But Not Suicidal!

​According to a new joint study from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and England's University of Warwick, New Yorkers are the least likely of Americans to commit suicide. Even so, that does not mean we're particularly happy. Researchers determined that people's overall feelings of well- ... More >>

Nevada Election Decided by Card Game

​A deadlocked city council race in North Las Vegas was decided Thursday by a game of high card. Yahoo reports that Melinda Meisenheimer and Tanya Flanagan were tied for second place and neither had requested a recount to decide who would advance to June's general election. In accord with a 196 ... More >>

The Walk Across America for Mother Earth Would Make Ellen Stewart Smile

Taylor Mac and crew hoof it West in nice costumes

Republicans Win the Census; New York Loses Two Seats in House

​Numbers from the latest U.S. census are out! The U.S. population has reached a heady 308,745,538 people, which, though it seems like a lot, is actually the slowest growth we've had since the Great Depression. Of all the states, Nevada grew the most.

UFO Nuclear Missile-Obsessed Aliens Being Reported by U.S. Military Officials and Documents. Seriously.

​Take a bunch of former and retired U.S. generals testimony alongside a bunch of now declassified documents, throw the words "nuclear" and "UFO" in there, and what do you get? The strangest, scariest, weirdest, and most patently awesome national defense story in a while.

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 >>

This Week's Voice: The-Dream, Miley Cyrus, the Great Dancehall Freeze Out, Jazz Consumer Guide, and More

Courtesy Def-Jam Records In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla marvels at the brilliant stupidity of r&b lothario The-Dream. Theon Weber examines the calculated rebellion of Miley Cyrus. Jesse Serwer reports on the Great Dancehall Freeze-Out of 2010, during which many of Jamaica's biggest act ... More >>

Love Ranch, The Worst Little Whorehouse Movie in Nevada

Not nearly fit for a queen

Top Chef Season Seven Begins Tomorrow, and There's Now a Preview

BravoSo close, yet so far.​In a little more than 24 hours, the seventh season of Top Chef will be upon us. Eater has thoughtfully whetted our appetite for punishment with a couple of preview clips, which can be found here. Not much can be gleaned from the two brief videos, except that the con ... More >>

World Cup: U.S. vs England

Why Won't Taco Bell Cop to Cupcakes?

Nevada Tumbleweed/flickr​ According to Nation's Restaurant News, Taco Bell officials are denying last week's report that the chain is testing such sweet and market-saturating treats as Red Velvet cupcakes and smoothies in at least one location in Southern California. Could they be embarrassed ... More >>

Bloomberg Pulls Gun Show Sting; "No Fair," Say ACORN Sting Fans

Mayor Bloomberg brought his nannying touch to gun shows around Ohio, Nevada and Tennessee, where he found guns being sold to buyers -- or, rather, undercover agents pretending to be buyers -- who admit they probably couldn't pass a legally-required background check, which is sort of like a kid go ... More >>

MAN AS BABY

Growing up is for suckers

Video: Tea Party Peeps Do Anti-Obama Version of "New York, New York"

They had one of those Tea Parties in Ely, Nevada recently, and tea-partier laureate Lloyd Marcus, accompanied by some lady rebels in a kick-line, performed a version of "New York, New York" with some new lyrics. "Start spreading the news... we're taking back America/In 2010," he croons. "This soci ... More >>

CDC: New Yorkers' Sadness Only Mediocre

The Centers for Disease Control did a phone survey which they say reveals the state-by-state sadness levels of citizens, and surprise, New York did not win, place, or show. Kentucky -- yes, the home of bourbon and jes' settin' on the porch -- is the winner, with a frequent mental distress (FMD) occ ... More >>

Now Showing: The Repossessed

Now Showing: The Repossessed

The Go-Getter: Hipster Road-Trip Redux

With Jena Malone as Ad-Rock

Soccer Support Groups

Where to watch the World Cup—with people who actually care

Scrutiny on the Bounty: Scott's Chopped-Up, Moronic Romp

Outcast Ballots

Evil, mayhem strike early in the voting for 2004

Big Spam Hunter

In which our hero tracks the hairy beast behind a skeezy mortgage offer

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When Johnny Comes . . . Marching Home

Half-and-Half Off

Bright Lights, Fake Titties

Searching for the Porn Awards' Real Winners in Silicone Valley

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Listings

Next Stop, Nevada!

Feds to Move Nuclear Material From Los Alamos to Site Near Yucca Mountain

Nuclear Waste Makes Haste

The Hazardous Roads to Yucca Mountain

Deep Time, Short Sight

Bracing for Yucca Mountain's Nuclear Forever

Living in Oblivion

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Nation

Interior Secretary Nominee Pushed States' Rights During Heyday of Secessionist Groups

Norton's Remarks Not About Slavery, but Attacking Power of Feds

El Fanático

Scoop

Behind the White House Face-Lift