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  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Andrew Cuomo's Still Talking About Redistricting (Sort of); New Data to Be Presented Next Week

    ​This week, the redistricting drama continues. In case you forgot, redistricting is that complicated process every 10 years when states across the country redraw congressional and state legislative boundaries based on Census data. Well, there's been a lot of controversy in New York this time ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Port Stages a Comeback; Pumpkin Beer Season Returns

    ​Port has made a steady decline in the past decade with 12 million fewer bottles sold last year. But producers are hoping for a comeback. [AP] Dan Aykroyd is now allowed to drink at home. His Crystal Head vodka, once banned, is now being sold in the actor's native Ontario, Canada. [Brandchann ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Live: Vex Ruffin Helps Stones Throw Take Its Next Step

    ​CMJ, Day Four: Vex Ruffin, The Stepkids, Jonti Better than: Listening to Stones Throw's present rap roster. The day before his first CMJ show, Vex Ruffin sat in a bar called Ontario in Williamsburg, wearing a t-shirt with the Seinfeld logo on it and quietly nerding out by giving the Stones ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Drake's Album Gets The Push-Back (But It's All For You, Baby)

    Over the weekend the sad-sack MC Drake put up a sad blog post announcing that Take Care, his long-in-the-works second album, would be coming out on November 15, and not in time for his 25th birthday on October 24. "So I have completed 19 songs (17 on physical and 2 on bonus), and have run into a roa ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 21, 2011

    Free Will Astrology: September 21-27, 2011

    Over the weekend the sad-sack MC Drake put up a sad blog post announcing that Take Care, his long-in-the-works second album, would be coming out on November 15, and not in time for his 25th birthday on October 24. "So I have completed 19 songs (17 on physical and 2 on bonus), and have run into a roa ... More >>

  • Film

    June 29, 2011

    Small Town Murder Songs: Doing Justice to the Cop Movie

    Over the weekend the sad-sack MC Drake put up a sad blog post announcing that Take Care, his long-in-the-works second album, would be coming out on November 15, and not in time for his 25th birthday on October 24. "So I have completed 19 songs (17 on physical and 2 on bonus), and have run into a roa ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 13, 2011

    Hollerado

    Over the weekend the sad-sack MC Drake put up a sad blog post announcing that Take Care, his long-in-the-works second album, would be coming out on November 15, and not in time for his 25th birthday on October 24. "So I have completed 19 songs (17 on physical and 2 on bonus), and have run into a roa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Study Finds Foods Labeled 'Organic' Seem Tastier; Parents Parade Their Foodie Tots

    ​A recent study suggests that consumers thinks foods labeled 'organic' are tastier, higher in fiber, and lower in fat and calories. [LA Times] Wendy's is hoping its natural sea salt fries will take a bite out of McDonald's market share. It reported that in a blind taste test, 56 percent respo ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 12, 2011

    POLICE ON YOUR BACK

    The Canadian army returns

  • Voice Choices

    October 20, 2010

    Mouse Tracks

    Mickey was just the beginning

  • Voice Choices

    September 22, 2010
  • Voice Choices

    August 18, 2010

    Justin Bieber

    Mickey was just the beginning

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Crystal Head Vodka Banned in Ontario; Shocker: French Study Shows Wine is Good

    ​Dan Aykroyd's Crystal Head Vodka has been banned in Ontario because the bottle looks like such a lifelike skull. Oddly, Canadian-born Aykroyd thinks the decision "kind of makes the product more appealing." [Globe and Mail] Meanwhile, Crystal Head Vodka has reached the one millionth bottle ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    Canadian Burrito Chain Invades U.S.; Grand Hyatt Launches DIY Room Service

    ​The Grand Hyatt's new Market allows guests to grab what they want and go, a do-it-yourself approach to room service that the hotel hopes to implement in other locations. [NY Times] A new fresh-Mex chain from Canada is opening its first U.S. location in mid-May. Mucho Burrito, based in Missis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    G-Unit's Lloyd Banks Arrested After Canadian Crime Spree

    ​Months after G-Unit affiliate Lodi Mack was gunned down after taking an assault charge for his boss, Tony Yayo, 50 Cent's rap crew is in trouble with the law again--this time up north, in Ontario, Canada, where Lloyd Banks is being held on assault and robbery charges. Banks and three goons ap ... More >>

  • Film

    December 22, 2009

    10th Annual Film Critics' Poll: The Abridged Results

    94 critics voted. The results are in.

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Sitter Arrested in Baby Bucket Drowning; Kid Care Biz Was Unlicensed

    Kristal Khan, 28, a former teacher from Trinidad and Tobago who runs the child care center where that kid drowned in a bucket yesterday, has been arrested on charges of endangering the welfare of a child. Her operation appears to be unlicensed, though it is thought to have cared for only two childre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    Mountain Goats at the Society for Ethical Culture Now Available for Download

    Photo courtesy of Doc Acula's photostream Our famously particular hopes for solo, primitive Mountain Goats shows were amply fulfilled last Friday night, when John Darnielle took the stage in the high school auditorium that is the NYC Society for Ethical Culture. For purposes of extreme standom, no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    DEC Stings Poachers, Smugglers of Turtles, Snakes, and Salamanders

    Today the state department of environmental conservation got to play Elliot Ness, announcing charges against 18 people nabbed in "Operation Shellshock," a sting on illegal poaching, transportation and sales of protected reptiles, specifically turtles, rattlesnakes and salamanders. The Times repo ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 11, 2009

    Black Names+Hollerado

    Today the state department of environmental conservation got to play Elliot Ness, announcing charges against 18 people nabbed in "Operation Shellshock," a sting on illegal poaching, transportation and sales of protected reptiles, specifically turtles, rattlesnakes and salamanders. The Times repo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Blogger Says Upstate NY Should Secede from City; RS Approves

    Today the state department of environmental conservation got to play Elliot Ness, announcing charges against 18 people nabbed in "Operation Shellshock," a sting on illegal poaching, transportation and sales of protected reptiles, specifically turtles, rattlesnakes and salamanders. The Times repo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2008

    POP Montreal Day 4: The D'Urbervilles, Adam & His Amethysts, PUCE Pop

    Today the state department of environmental conservation got to play Elliot Ness, announcing charges against 18 people nabbed in "Operation Shellshock," a sting on illegal poaching, transportation and sales of protected reptiles, specifically turtles, rattlesnakes and salamanders. The Times repo ... More >>

  • Music

    April 15, 2008

    The Constantines' Kensington Heights

    Canadian workhorses run gloriously free

  • Voice Choices

    March 18, 2008

    HEALTH

    Canadian workhorses run gloriously free

  • Unknown

    January 15, 2008

    That Which We Cranked

    Charting our myriad obsessions, amusements, and confusions

  • Film

    October 16, 2007

    Good Luck, Sarkozy

    New French films bring out the mad, obsessed, and generally demented

  • News

    September 4, 2007

    Letters

    New French films bring out the mad, obsessed, and generally demented

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2007

    Canadian Soldiers' Closed Door Policy

    New French films bring out the mad, obsessed, and generally demented

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    I'm My Favorite Game

    Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    Top Ten Plus

    Register behind me bird in Arular's Sunday Illinois woodz machine

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    Boxing Day

    Register behind me bird in Arular's Sunday Illinois woodz machine

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    Press Bitching

    Register behind me bird in Arular's Sunday Illinois woodz machine

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    The Personals

    Falling in love for different reasons

  • Specials

    October 12, 2004

    Letters

    Falling in love for different reasons

  • Film

    September 14, 2004

    Preaching to the Perverted

    Shame Canada: Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask

  • Books

    June 15, 2004

    Trick and Treat

    A creepy diptych showcases McCormack's Canadian gothic

  • Music

    May 25, 2004

    Step by Step

    Up in Canada, sk8ing away on the thin strife of a new day

  • Specials

    May 25, 2004

    Letters

    Up in Canada, sk8ing away on the thin strife of a new day

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    On Da Corner Worldwide

    Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People

  • Specials

    September 9, 2003

    Letters

    Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People

  • Theater

    July 1, 2003

    Summer Clearance

    You're on Vacation, and for Some Reason the Theater Isn't

  • Music

    May 20, 2003

    Music

    You're on Vacation, and for Some Reason the Theater Isn't

  • Film

    April 15, 2003

    Pow and Zen

    Voguing Punks and Felonious Monks

  • News

    April 15, 2003

    Healing Science

    Therapists Meet Physicists in a Quantum World

  • Music

    April 9, 2002

    Music

    Therapists Meet Physicists in a Quantum World

  • Theater

    February 5, 2002

    Theater

    Therapists Meet Physicists in a Quantum World

  • News

    August 21, 2001

    Inside Eric's Brain

    Therapists Meet Physicists in a Quantum World

  • News

    January 30, 2001

    The Year In Pot

    Twelve Months in the Life of Marijuana Prohibition

  • Film

    September 19, 2000

    Trailer Flash and Female Trouble

    Toronto Divides and Conquers

  • News

    November 30, 1999

    Nation

    Toronto Divides and Conquers

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