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Miami Connection Is the Kung Fu '80s Electro-funk Flick of Your Dreams

So good it's good

Welcome Back, Jim Crow

New laws in dozens of states could take out Barack Obama this fall

OWS Resurges In Zuccotti Only To Face Eviction and Arrests; Floor Collapses At St. Patty's Day Party; Two Arrested In Chelsea Murder

Occupy Wall Street roared back to life yesterday, as protesters marched and attempted to re-occupy Zuccotti Park. They were met by police who closed the park and violently arrested occupiers. Head over to the account by the Voice's Nick Pinto, who was on the scene, along with photographer C.S. Muncy ... More >>

Disney World Sucks, Actually

Some years ago, I got to finally live my lifelong dream of going to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. I was horrified. I knew the place was going to be blandly generic, but it didn't know it was going to be that blandly generic.

Four Top Five Lists From The Spits

Ever-touring, ever-spazzing, ever-wig-donning punk rock nutsos The Spits have a brand-new album out on In the Red, their fifth. It's called, as all their albums are, The Spits, and it's another buzzy blast of freaky fun, if a tad darker than the rest of their gonzoid garage catalog. To celebrate its ... More >>

New York City May Get a Vegan Bodega

Bondidwhat / FlickrLike this, but vegan​For many, the whole point of a bodega is that you can get Doritos, cigarettes, and Gatorade all at once, but photographer Eric Hopf is looking to change that in the near future, setting his sights on opening what would be the city's first vegan bodega.

Brooklyn Supermarket Resorting to Olfactory Mind Control

​A chain of supermarkets in Brooklyn and Staten Island has started piping in food scents to their stores in an effort to subliminally encourage customers to buy stuff. Scents you might smell in NetCost Market include "Lindt Chocolate," "Smoky Bacon," and "Rosemary Focaccia." A shopper in Sheepshea ... More >>

New York City Lost the Tourist Game to Orlando

Disclosure: I'm from here (not the castle)​Apparently Mayor Michael Bloomberg wanted New York City to be the first city in America to annoy its permanent residents with 50 million tourists in one year. In 2010, Bloomberg said NYC had 48.7 million visitors, while Orlando, Florida had 48.6 milli ... More >>

Hip, Edgy Evangelicals Come to Godless East Village

​The East Village isn't a neighborhood one would normally associate with Bible-thumping evangelical Christianity, but here we are. The Times has a feature on Trinity Grace Church, a "hip" church that just opened up a new branch in the godless, immoral wasteland of the East Village. Trinity Grace i ... More >>

Behold, Britney Spears Is Coming To The Tri-State Area in August

It's been some time now since Britney Spears was plucked from her pleasant Louisiana life and transformed into the world's foremost pop-robot. The seductive ...Baby One More Time came out twelve years ago, it's success crowning Britney as the prototypical, twenty-first century pop star. In the years ... More >>

Crocodiles, Dum Dum Girls Cancel Their Tours

​Alas. Crocodiles (left) had a show at Maxwell's in Hoboken tonight; Dum Dum Girls were set for Music Hall of Williamsburg with Frankie Rose and the Outs on November 1. Both shows/tours have been scrapped entirely, per a family emergency (Brandon Welchez from the Crocs and Dee Dee from the Dum ... More >>

Courageous Bomb Squad Blows Stuffed Horsey to Smithereens (Video)

​The nation's children are weeping! On the deceptively innocent-sounding "Whisper Glen Court" in Orlando, Florida, a stuffed pony of the sort we always wanted for our birthdays and never received was noticed standing suspiciously alone in a park near an elementary school. These days being what ... More >>

Chatting With Baohaus' Eddie Huang About Crackhaus, Cheeto-Fried Chicken, and "Chefs Slapping Each Other on the Ass in the Press"

Tasty ChompsEddie Huang lifts the lid on some steamed pork belly.​In the scant few months since he opened Baohaus on Rivington Street, Eddie Huang has established himself as (a) one of the city's most gifted purveyors of Taiwanese gua bao (steamed buns) and (b) one of the most outspoken member ... More >>

The James Beard Awards Semi-Finalists Have Been Announced

Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?​The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>

GOP Purge Continues with Graham Censure, Conservative Challengers

​It looks like the call by Erick Erickson of RedState to "purge" the Republican Party in the wake of the NY-23 loss is getting some traction: the Charleston County, South Carolina GOP has actually censured Republican Senator Lindsey Graham for cooperating with the enemy, that is, the Democrat ... More >>

Ghosts and Spirits Roam the British Summer Stage

Jockbeat: Barra Bemoans Shrinking (Print) Sports Sections; Ortega Tells Him To Stop Whining

​For many years, there's been a feeling that SportsBusiness Journal is a publication only for insiders. Well, the web has changed the definition of "insiders," expanding it to heretofore unthought of numbers, and I can't think of any sportswriter, editor or fan who doesn't need to see and absorb B ... More >>

Pulp Fictions: David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp, Brian Fies's Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow, and More Comics Galore

Former Health Commish, Surgeon General Charged With Using State Workers to Shop, Move Statue

Former New York health commissioner Antonia Novello has been charged with defrauding the government by using state employees for personal business. She has pleaded not guilty. This, you may remember, was how they got former controller Alan Hevesi, but at least he was having state drivers chauffeur a ... More >>

Saturday's Headlines: Madoff to plead guilty on Thursday

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]Your Saturday New York headlines... Madoff to plead guilty on Thursday. Court struggling with how to keep so many victims informed of proceedings.Dwyer: Two "mafia cops" continue to draw pensions even after life sentences upheld.Bloomberg doesn't like the ... More >>

This Town Deserves a Better Class of Idiot, and MTV's Gonna Give It To 'Em in Red Hook

Does A-Rod Swing "That Way"?

Next year in Orlando! Nailing Florida's born-again theme park. Back here, the usual unholier- than-thou experiences.

Never Back Down: Better Than It Needs to Be

Throwdown would be proud

Clip Job: Jack Kerouac's Personal Favorite Book

Letters

Flo Rida, Lil Boosie, and the New Mechanics of Rap Stardom

Rocky Sullivan's Last Night in Manhattan

The Motormouth of the South

DJ Khaled is taking over, 200 words a minute and one guest-star at a time

Letters

CGI Joe

How the military and private tech contractors are training a new generation of soldiers

Outcast Ballots

Evil, mayhem strike early in the voting for 2004

The Ground War

Hanging with the Florida troops out to win—and keep—a Kerry victory

Letters

Vote Early! Vote Often!

The Right to Kill

Mention Death, and Fights Break Out

NY Mirror

Tween-Pop Suppressed!

Five-Girl Armies and Finnish Martians Fall Through the Cracks

It's in Her Kiss

Sports

Letters

What Becomes a Legend Most?

Selling King's Papers; Reclaiming Malcolm X's

Mel Blank

Bush’s Housing Secretary Martinez Is a Great Unknown

Sports

Motorbooty Techno

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Pitch Battle

Broadcasting a Bit-Stream War

Boys and Girls of Summer

Sells Like Teen Spirit

Cole Comfort