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No Post-Mortem Bounce for 'Koch'

Koch, the new documentary about the life of the eponymous former New York City mayor, opened at the Angelika and Lincoln Plaza cinemas on Friday. Up until then, the movie's prospects for a box office bonanza might have been slim. How many people would want to drop $13 on watching 90 minutes about a ... More >>

City Advocates Shine National Spotlight on Bloomberg's Reign of School Closure

New York City education advocates, along with activists from 17 other cities, are bringing their fight against school closures to the U.S. Department of Education today. The advocates have filed complaints with the Office of Civil Rights arguing that school closure policies in their cities have dis ... More >>

Mark Zuckerberg Will Fundraise For (Facebook Friend) Chris Christie's Re-Election

It's good to have someone with over 17 million Facebook friends on your side, especially when it involves a political campaign. According to Buzzfeed, Mark Zuckerberg, the social network billionaire, will hold a fundraiser next month for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie out in Palo Alto, Californ ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Neil Young, John Cale, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen Lead the Fogeycore Invasion

The lures and snare of following Rock Gods

5 Reasons Why Touré Is Wrong On Blacks, Gay Marriage and Obama

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy We like the idea of Touré, but as a person and concept, he's got two sides. There's the Good Touré, who writes beautifully, gave us a nice shout out once, and frolics around the Brooklyn neighborhood we both live in with ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg On Muslim Surveillance Critics: 'It's a Made-For-Television Thing'

The loud critics of the New York Police Department's practice of spying on Muslims are speaking out because it's good publicity. That's what Mayor Mike Bloomberg said this morning on his weekly radio show with John Gambling. "You know, it's a made-for-television thing. It gets you publicity. If ... More >>

Paul Simon (2) Takes On Slick Rick (15) As Round One Of Our Quintessential New York Musician Tournament Continues

The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—is under way, and you get to help choose who makes it to Round Two. Today we pit Garfunkel's better half Paul Simon ... More >>

Will the NYPD's Muslim Spy Scheme Threaten Investigations?

No surprise here: Spying on Islamic communities might make Muslims mistrust police, creating difficulties in gathering intel, the FBI's top cop in New Jersey says. Religion News Service (via Washington Post) reports that Muslims are now wary of law enforcement after reports revealed that the NYPD ... More >>

Whitney Houston Mourned; P.S. 87 Aide Arrested In Sexual Abuse Case Arraigned; NYU Expansion Protested

As we noted last night, singer Whitney Houston died yesterday at the age of 48. She was found dead of unknown causes in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Beverly Hills police Lt. Mark Rosen told the Associated Press that "there were no obvious signs of any criminal intent." The death of t ... More >>

New York Airports Are Good At Making People Late

​It wasn't too long ago we brought you the latest report on how New York's airports suck. Well, today we have some more good news from the New York Times . The paper reports that the airspace that includes JFK, LaGuardia and Newark (as well as Jersey's Teterboro Airport and Philadelphia Intern ... More >>

Mark Malkoff's 14-Hour Cab Ride Cost $468.10

A few weeks ago, we posted on comedian Mark Malkoff and his attempt to give out free cab rides to New Yorkers. Malkoff ended up driving around in that cab for 14 hours, and he filmed the entire day. "You can imagine how long of a shower I needed," he said. In addition to regular old cab rides (one ... More >>

Robert Sayegh, Brooklyn Brute, Booted From Plane for F-Word

​On his way from the Detroit Metro Airport (home of legendary swearer Eminem) to Newark, New Jersey (no goddamn introduction necessary), Robert Sayegh was kicked off a flight like a middle-schooler gets asked to leave the classroom. "What's taking so fucking long to close the overhead compartm ... More >>

Summer Guide: Don't Take Brad Paisley to the Airport Strip Club

The country star likes six strings, not G-strings. Plus, summer music picks

Varla Jean Merman: Exclusive Interview!

​ Varla Jean Merman is a lucky guy -- I mean Varla Jean Merman is starring in Lucky Guy. It's an old-style camp musical with Varla and Leslie Jordan (above), dealing with people who put the trash back in Nashville dreams. Varla, by the way, is the drag character of Jeffrey Roberson, who kin ... More >>

Today in El Diario: Fighting Deportation

​A woman fights deportation  Norma Cordon, 35, emigrated from Morales Izabal, Guatemala, in 1997, crossing the border with two small children in tow and, after paying thousands of dollars and facing numerous difficulties, she finally arrived in Newark, where she's lived for 10 years, El Dia ... More >>

NJ Lawmakers Petitioned for Harsher Animal Abuse Laws After Pit Bull Found in Trash Chute

​We have a rather serious adorable animals in trouble for you today. Did you hear about the 1-year-old pit bull, now named Patrick, who was cruelly thrown 19 stories down an apartment trash chute in Newark and left for dead? He was rescued by Humane Society workers the day before St. Patrick's ... More >>

Obama Takes Firmer Stance on Libya; Radiation Found in Food Near Fukushima Nuclear Plant

via AP​Following a shift by Hillary Clinton, President Obama spoke from the White House yesterday to take somewhat of a harder line on U.S. intervention in Libya: "If Colonel Qaddafi does not comply with the resolution, the international community will impose consequences. The resolution will be e ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Is the Second Most Philanthropic American

​This year our own New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg gave away $279.2 million in charitable donations to 970 nonprofit groups, more than two-thirds of which were in New York. This beats the $254 million he donated last year. (Each year he gives away a bit more.) In doing so, Bloomberg moves f ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Extremely Cranky About Snow, Despite His Street Having Been Plowed Since Yesterday

​Everyone's mad at Mayor Bloomberg, who has the AUDACITY to have a snow-plowed street, in front of New Yorkers and God and the rest of us. Meanwhile, commuters have to walk in traffic, or hurdle the piles left at the edges of sidewalks like mountain goats, or, at the very least, like active pe ... More >>

New TV Fad: Bagging on Public Education

After the "Race to the Top" results caused so much buzz this summer and the release of Waiting for Superman seems to have parents fuming this fall, NBC news has been the latest outlet to get on the education bandwagon, with its sprawling "Education Nation" mutli-platform line-up. NBC has already ... More >>

Paging Budd Schulberg: Wildcat Strike Shuts Down Waterfront

​For the first time in at least 30 years, the port of New York and New Jersey was shut down today by a wildcat strike. Several hundred workers have walked off the job in a sympathy strike after pickets from a Philadelphia longshoremen's union local showed up at work sites throughout the metro ... More >>

Nets Billboard Really Is Unnerving Knicks Brass, Reportedly

​We woke up this morning and saw the first item on eTrueSports' "Sports Shorts" and thought it was real before we realized we were being spoofed again by sports prankster supreme Frank Coffey: "This is like a belt in the Borscht," said Knicks colorful owner James Dolan in his first comments ... More >>

News Roundup: Peter King vs. Michael Jackson, Courtney Love, Panic at the Disco, Rihanna

--One King to another: New York congressman Peter King released a YouTube video in which he calls Michael Jackson a "pervert" and a "low life." Released on the Fourth of July, King begins by praising "cops, firefighters and teachers," but quickly moves to his less-than-remorseful point: "Let's kn ... More >>

Duh: NY Fails to Make Most Literate Cities List

Track 18 Wins Again

Major-label hip-hop records in burying-best-track shocker!

Hope Floats

Wet hot American bummer: Chris Adrian's post-flood Magic Mountain

Dumping on Everyone Else

Trash plan relieves our neighborhoods, but west of the Hudson, it's just more of the same old garbage from New York City

Labor War in Chelsea

For the first time, non-union immigrants are building Manhattan's high-rise towers

NY Mirror

Letters

Bush Tries on Jersey

Lusting after neighboring Pennsylvania, he gives the freedom speech

Tracks of Your Tears

Don't cry when an iPod breaks a big house mix into a jillion pieces

400 Grams and a Mule

Grace and will: Assured debut feature treats a tabloid premise with restraint and intelligence

New York's Real Poorest

Cops and teachers cry poverty, but it's minority day care workers who feel the pinch

Who Knew?

The 9-11 Commission will face towering questions in visit to the city

Rap, Rage, REDvolution

As hip-hop emerges as an empowering voice for indigenous youth, mainstream rappers still objectify Indian country

Listings

Close-Up on Elizabeth, New Jersey

Letters

Event Horizon

What Would it Cost the City to Host the Olympics in 2012?

Abstinence Scofflaws

Louisiana Court Slaps Religion-Based No-Sex Programs

Almost Peas in a Pod

Sarah Vaughan and Tony Bennett Fight for the Right

Sacred Spaces

Nation

America's Air Defense in Question

Air Controllers Recount a Hijack

Amazing Grace

Why Louis Farrakhan is Desperate to Meet Joe Lieberman

Sports

Cocaine and Conspiracy

Were the Deaths in Custody of Two Suspected Drug Users ‘Accidental’ or Police Brutality?

Sports

Sticks & Stones