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Santa Is Real, Track His Location Around The World All Day

​If you're alone this Christmas Eve and you have a bit of an obsessive streak, then it's time to plant yourself behind your computer with a gallon of eggnog and study the NORAD Santa Tracker. Wondering where Santa is right now? He's hovering around the Philippines and steadily moving westward. ... More >>

Santa Claus Is From Chelsea

​Everything you thought you knew about Santa may be a lie! According to the New York Historical Society, Santa is not, despite all of our assumptions, a native North Pole-ian, complete with North Pole-like ideologies, politics, and annoying habits. He's actually a sophisticated New Yorker hail ... More >>

Kids Learn Truth About Santa the Hard Way (His Phone Number Is Not 911)

Here's our lesson in phone etiquette today. If you're looking for Santa, even if you need to speak to him rather desperately, don't call 911 to reach him. Don't call 311, either -- he's not there. Your best bet for reaching Santa is to do it the old-fashioned way: Write him a letter and wait for it ... More >>

Arthur Christmas

Here's our lesson in phone etiquette today. If you're looking for Santa, even if you need to speak to him rather desperately, don't call 911 to reach him. Don't call 311, either -- he's not there. Your best bet for reaching Santa is to do it the old-fashioned way: Write him a letter and wait for it ... More >>

SHAKE YOUR BOOTY

Take the ARRRR train

This Year's Letters to Santa Kind of a Buzz Kill

​We can blame the recession for a lot of things, but one of the lesser expected ramifications is that children are no longer writing their id-driven "ME ME ME!" missives requiring flat-screen plasmas and XBoxes and Shetland ponies from the man at the North Pole. Now, they're asking for educati ... More >>

Black Swan Is "a Lezzie Wet Dream"!

Friars do Quentin Tarantino to a turn; Miami's pretty hot, too

Operation Santa Program Kicks Off; Letters Heart Wrenching, Adorable, Improperly Addressed

​What's the saddest thing in the entire world? An earnest, semi-legible letter to Santa from a child. What's even sadder? When Santa ignores the letter (see also: "8-year-old girl says she and her little brother were sad last year when Santa 'flew right over our house and didn't stop.'") Oof.

The MTA Could Really Use a Copy Editor

photo by Angela Riechers​When it comes to spelling, the MTA sometimes reminds us of what it was like to be an unfocused third grader -- same with balancing a budget, but that's another story, and it's not as funny. We showed you the FML sign at 14th Street a couple weeks ago, and a year before ... More >>

Big Art Group Celebrates 10 Years of Multimedia Weird

photo by Angela Riechers​When it comes to spelling, the MTA sometimes reminds us of what it was like to be an unfocused third grader -- same with balancing a budget, but that's another story, and it's not as funny. We showed you the FML sign at 14th Street a couple weeks ago, and a year before ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: January 13 through 19, 2010

photo by Angela Riechers​When it comes to spelling, the MTA sometimes reminds us of what it was like to be an unfocused third grader -- same with balancing a budget, but that's another story, and it's not as funny. We showed you the FML sign at 14th Street a couple weeks ago, and a year before ... More >>

Chatting with Mrs. Claus About Eating Rudolph, the Tyranny of Pies & Feeding the Big Guy

​If you think feeding your family at Christmastime is tough, imagine what poor Mrs. Claus has to go through. St. Nick's spouse opens up about what The Jolly One likes to eat, why elves are bad cooks, and the dining scene at the North Pole. Pardon me for saying it, but you look a lot younger t ... More >>

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​Model trains travel from New York to the North Pole at Grand Central Station. Sadly, the bizarre holiday laser light show on the reverse zodiac roof of the main hall doesn't start until Monday. The holiday market is already going on.

Madoff Makes News with Cellmate, Cocaine, Mets, and Pizza

Kudos to Bernie Madoff's publicists; he gets more press in prison than most criminals get while they're walking around free. The Post breathlessly reports that at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex Madoff takes the lower bunk while "a 21-year-old inmate convicted of drug crimes" gets the penth ... More >>

Janelle Monáe, Space Cowgirl

On the daffy sci-fi audacity of a fledgling r&b superstar

Conrad Shawcross Sails the Gowanus!

Brave brit will not be deterred by PCBs or anti-terror squad

MLK Observed

Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>

Santa Gets a Parking Ticket in Bay Ridge

Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>

IN THE NUDE

Naked Holidays NYC is not what it sounds like

Last Rites: Robert Bolaño's 2666

The departed author follows up his acclaimed The Savage Detectives with a final epic

Daily Flog: The Wall Street bear, the Capitol Hill bull; Kucinich irrelevant but his bailout plan isn't

The departed author follows up his acclaimed The Savage Detectives with a final epic

Performa 07's Share Package

Cultures and cutting-edge art forms mingle in a citywide festival

The Big Clean-Up

Has performance art lost its edge? Is that a bad thing? A visit to Performa 07.

Fred Claus

Has performance art lost its edge? Is that a bad thing? A visit to Performa 07.

Through a Glass Darkly

Smug penguins and bitchy snowflakes: An opinionated tour of the season's department store windows

'The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause'

Smug penguins and bitchy snowflakes: An opinionated tour of the season's department store windows

A Thorn Tree in the Garden

Robinson Crusoe and Mad Max by way of Walden Pond, St. Augustine, and Greenpeace

Close-Up on Bushwick, Brooklyn

Robinson Crusoe and Mad Max by way of Walden Pond, St. Augustine, and Greenpeace

Polar Eclipse

Hey, remember when climate change was a swell idea? Coconuts were in the offing.

Art

Hey, remember when climate change was a swell idea? Coconuts were in the offing.

Baby Madness

How one young woman's delusions cost her years of freedom

Strangers on a Train: Wobbly Cartoon Spectacle Lacks Human Element

How one young woman's delusions cost her years of freedom

Divine Inspiration

The president blesses storm victims, calls forth wrath against Kerry

Ongoing

The president blesses storm victims, calls forth wrath against Kerry

Tracking Shots

The president blesses storm victims, calls forth wrath against Kerry

From Ear to Eternity

Goebbels's Aural Pleasures; Transmissions Projects' Artic Visions

Listings

Goebbels's Aural Pleasures; Transmissions Projects' Artic Visions

MOMA's Boys

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

Film

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

Hystorical Fiction

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

Let There Be Light

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

Sports

Friendship + Rivalry = Great Radical Art

Bi-Polar and Loving It

Two New Yorkers Are on Top of the World

Nation

Two New Yorkers Are on Top of the World

Two-Story 19th-Century Backhouse

Two New Yorkers Are on Top of the World

Screams and Visions

Two New Yorkers Are on Top of the World

Sons of Frankenstein

Two New Yorkers Are on Top of the World

Song of My Elf

One-Bedroom Apartment in Six-Story Tenement