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May 25, 2012
Report: Long Islanders Love Drugs
If you live on Long Island, there's a pretty good chance that you absolutely love drugs -- and we're not talking about weed, we're talking about real drugs like heroin, Oxycontin, and other opiates.In response to last year's "Father's Day Pharmacy Massacre" -- during which a pill junky murdered four ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2012
Weed Wackiness: Here Are Common Drugs More Dangerous Than Marijuana
As the debate over medical marijuana continues in New York and the rest of the U.S., there's bound to be a lot of conflicting information out there. Opponents of medical marijuana tend to argue that it is dangerous and has no therapeutic qualities. We're not medical experts, so we're not going to d ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2012
New York City Really Has a Thing for Pain Pills
Not too long after data came out questioning whether America might be addicted to painkillers, additional details have been released about New York City's pill popping. From 2008 to 2010, prescriptions for opioid analgesics surged 22 percent, according to The Associated Press (via CBS). What's s ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Is America Addicted to Painkillers?
And now for some sad-making stats as we near the end of the week. Recent Associated Press reports suggest that America is really drugged up on prescription opioids -- and New York is certainly no exception. Receipts for two most popular painkiller scripts -- oxycodone and hydrocodone -- boomed fr ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2012
Sen. Chuck Schumer Pushes For Crackdown On Drugged Driving
In New York City, 357 drivers were arrested in 2011 for being under the influence of drugs -- up from 81 ten years prior. That's more than a 300 percent increase. That's why Sen. Chuck Schumer is making a funding push to crackdown on "drugged driving" through new on-site technologies that would id ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2011
Astoria Has a New Restaurant Row; New Yorkers Eating Double the Salt
A food fight has broken out between Modern Indian chefs in London and traditional Indian chefs in Mumbai and New Delhi, who say they are staying true to the spiciness of Indian food. [Wall Street Journal] Pachanga Patterson is the latest addition to the restaurant row in Astoria, which inclu ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2011
1 in 8 New Yorkers is on Oxy
If you were wondering why 13% of the commuters on your subway car this morning were drooling and looking into space, the Wall Street Journal may have a clue: prescriptions for oxycodone, the generic name of the powerful pain pill OxyContin, have doubled in New York City between 2007 and 2010. ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2011
America's Workplace: Slightly Less Coked Up, Still Stressin'
According to recently released stats, the number of Americans doing coke at work has taken a downward turn, falling nearly 30 percent from the apparently high-flying recession years of 2008 and 2009 to about ".29% of the population," reports Fortune. However, twice as many of us are now using ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2011
Rightbloggers Comfort the Real Victims of the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting: Themselves
After Saturday's shootings in Arizona -- which left Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords badly wounded and six people dead -- rightbloggers were swift to condemn... any possible criticism of themselves. You can understand their defensiveness. Back during the 2010 campaign, Sarah Palin had en ... More >>
Film
November 17, 2010
In The Next Three Days, Paul Haggis Will Show No Improvement
After Saturday's shootings in Arizona -- which left Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords badly wounded and six people dead -- rightbloggers were swift to condemn... any possible criticism of themselves. You can understand their defensiveness. Back during the 2010 campaign, Sarah Palin had en ... More >>
News
November 17, 2010
Ibogaine: Can it Cure Addiction Without the Hallucinogenic Trip?
The substance has helped addicts kick heroin, meth, and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?
Blogs
October 20, 2010
Your CMJ 2010 Panels, Cynically Summarized: Day 2 (Wednesday)
It continues. On the second day everyone wakes up a little late, a little hungover, a little cranky at having failed to get into Salem. Shake it off, though, at one of this afternoon's informative industry panels, which we've taken the liberty of crassly summarizing below.
Film
September 15, 2010
Ben Affleck, Caught Between Redemption, Action, and Boston in The Town
It continues. On the second day everyone wakes up a little late, a little hungover, a little cranky at having failed to get into Salem. Shake it off, though, at one of this afternoon's informative industry panels, which we've taken the liberty of crassly summarizing below.
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Download A Free El-P Camu Tao EP, Forever Frozen In Television Time
King of Hearts, the long-awaited posthumous solo debut from Def Jux rapper-producer Camu Tao (who died of cancer in 2008), is finally coming out August 17. To whet your appetite, the label's offering a free download of a 2005 EP called Forever Frozen in Television Time, credited to Central Se ... More >>
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June 7, 2010
Elton John Whored At Rush Limbaugh's Wedding
Anti-gay hatemonger Rush Limbaugh just married a woman who's 26 years younger in Palm Springs---in fact, she's 26 years younger everywhere--but that's not the vomity part. The vomity part is that lord queen Elton John sang at the wedding! Our out gay pal--who does so much for our cause when ... More >>
Music
April 27, 2010
Welcome Back, Courtney Love
The return of 'Hole' whether you like it or not, you little suck shits
Blogs
April 8, 2010
The iPhone 4.0 Presentation: A Photo Essay, With Perspective
Okay, honestly, owning an iPhone, working as a blogger, and being a human being and everything, I know I'm supposed to really, really care about whatever Steve Jobs is talking about right now. So I do! Here are pictures of Steve Jobs saying things. And! We! Are! Doing! It! Live! So! Keep! Ref ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2010
What Else Can the RNC Spend $1,946 on Besides Strip Clubs?
Politics: often tenuous. Money management in a turbulent economy: sometimes difficult! Money management in a turbulent economy, for a political organization representing a platform that revolves heavily around quote-unquote family values? A tough gig! And sometimes, mistakes -- like spending ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2010
Barrett: Larry Kudlow Sniffs Around For More Political Power
On the heels of Scott Brown's big win, Larry Kudlow, the CNBC rudderless anchor, is apparently considering a senate run against New York's Chuck Schumer, pushed by GOP and Tea Party allies and admirers. It would make Schumer the only incumbent known to be facing two reformed cokeheads in th ... More >>
Blogs
December 11, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Kennedy Airport. Twitpic via sawyerlex. War on Christmas season swung into full effect. In a holiday spirit, the Staten Island D.A. tried shame on shoplifters. A GOP Congressman moved to read a pro-Christmas resolution into the House record. Andrea Peyser denounced the godless Bloomingdales ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2009
Drug Dealer Yusef Shabazz Sent Sickle-Cell Patients to Docs to Get OxyContin; Nabbed by FBI, He Winds Up in Prison
The leader of a drug ring who recruited people suffering from sickle-cell anemia to obtain thousands of false prescriptions for OxyContin was sentenced in federal court to ten years in prison late Tuesday afternoon.
News
December 8, 2009
The Rise and Fall of Internet Sports Bookie and Poker Pro James Giordano
From Bluff magazine to court, James Giordano was wired for success until Queens prosecutors captured him in their web
Blogs
October 23, 2009
Freaks Of The Industry IV: Friday's CMJ Panels, Needlessly Derided
This is your last day to receive valuable music-industry advice at one of CMJ's myriad afternoon panels. Here, we'll help you pick one.
Blogs
May 11, 2009
That's Not Funny! Obama's Jokes Spur Hilarious Rightblogger Comedy Clinic
As we have seen, repeatedly, rightbloggers don't need much to set them off. This week, for example, they got a lot of mileage out of Obama asking for dijon mustard on his hamburger. When rightwing talking heads made a big deal of the President's condiment choice, lefties made mock of them. Righ ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2009
"The City" Toff, Golden Globes Get Ahead of Themselves
No, no, no -- you're supposed to get arrested for soliciting after you're famous, and announce the winners during the award ceremony. The Smoking Gun reveals that James Nevan Donahue, who plays a friend or something of "social" Olivia in the MTV car-wreck "The City," was arrested in 2007 for approa ... More >>
Blogs
August 4, 2008
Same Story, Different Day: Mary-Kate Olsen and the Ongoing Heath Ledger Investigation, Angelina Jolie's Twins and Snooks's Return
No, no, no -- you're supposed to get arrested for soliciting after you're famous, and announce the winners during the award ceremony. The Smoking Gun reveals that James Nevan Donahue, who plays a friend or something of "social" Olivia in the MTV car-wreck "The City," was arrested in 2007 for approa ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2008
TABLOIDED: Why is Lindsay Lohan on Today's Front Page?
No, no, no -- you're supposed to get arrested for soliciting after you're famous, and announce the winners during the award ceremony. The Smoking Gun reveals that James Nevan Donahue, who plays a friend or something of "social" Olivia in the MTV car-wreck "The City," was arrested in 2007 for approa ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2008
People I Hate...
No, no, no -- you're supposed to get arrested for soliciting after you're famous, and announce the winners during the award ceremony. The Smoking Gun reveals that James Nevan Donahue, who plays a friend or something of "social" Olivia in the MTV car-wreck "The City," was arrested in 2007 for approa ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2008
M.E.: Heath Ledger Accidently OD'd on Painkillers and Anxiety Meds
No, no, no -- you're supposed to get arrested for soliciting after you're famous, and announce the winners during the award ceremony. The Smoking Gun reveals that James Nevan Donahue, who plays a friend or something of "social" Olivia in the MTV car-wreck "The City," was arrested in 2007 for approa ... More >>
News
February 5, 2008
Dean Johnson’s E-Mails Shed New Light on His Strange Death
New York nightlife icon was the second person to die in the same D.C. apartment in four days
Blogs
January 31, 2008
(Doris) Duking it out with Rush Limbaugh!
New York nightlife icon was the second person to die in the same D.C. apartment in four days
Columns
January 29, 2008
A Gay Senate Candidate Revealed!
Double-wide-eyed by an opera trailer at Carnegie Hall and by a Senate race out North Carolina way
News
October 23, 2007
'No Skeletons in My Closet!'
Oh yeah? How Michael Mukasey and Bernie Kerik are haunting Rudy's run.
Music
August 8, 2006
Devils We Know
Serge Gainsbourg, Lara Croft, blue-collar rapper, Saharan exile—meet Cops
News
August 16, 2005
An OD Revival Story
What to do if your friend turns blue? Try Narcan.
Blogs
September 29, 2004
Harrumph Roast
What to do if your friend turns blue? Try Narcan.
Film
December 23, 2003
The Butcher Girl
White trash + lesbian + prostitute + serial killer = Oscar?
NYC Life
November 4, 2003
Dress You Up
White trash + lesbian + prostitute + serial killer = Oscar?
News
November 4, 2003
The DEA's War on Pain Doctors
White trash + lesbian + prostitute + serial killer = Oscar?
News
October 14, 2003
Go E-Mail the Doctor
Online Pharmacies Offer Relief to the Uninsured, Vulnerable, and Desperate
News
November 12, 2002
Vice Bust
Kicking the Jackass of the Magazine World

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