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30-Minute Set? Pffft! The Bottom Dollars GO HARD, Play 90-Minutes or All Night!

This Saturday night, emerging Brooklyn rock darlings the Bottom Dollars play a late night show at Mercury Lounge with brothers-in-rock the Nuclears. Known for the party-marathon atmosphere of their performances, the Bottom Dollars have amassed a following dedicated enough to effectively crowd-source ... More >>

Is This the End of the Culture War? Nah -- Too Much Money In It.

Recently at The Week, rightwing author Michael K. Lewis penned a provocative column called "The culture war is over, and conservatives lost." He was echoing what many rightbloggers have been saying since the recent election -- that after two consecutive victories by the Kenyan Pretender, conservativ ... More >>

The Numbers Are In: More Than $400 Million Was Raised For Hurricane Sandy Relief

When all else (Congress) fails to raise monies for those devastated by Hurricane Sandy, it's rewarding to see ordinary citizens donate a little extra to the cause. And even more rewarding when that little extra amounts to nearly half a billion dollars.A month ago, we reported on Attorney Genera ... More >>

Whole Earth Bakery Uses Crowdfunding to Stay Afloat

Peter Silvestri started Whole Earth Bakery with his mother back in 1978. Together they ran an all-vegan bakery, and served sweet and savory goods out of a storefront on Spring Street. "That was before SoHo became 'SoHo,'" said Silvestri. After Hurricane Sandy, the loss of goods combined with mounti ... More >>

With the Rolling Jubilee, Debt Activists Strike a Nerve

Long before the curtain goes up on the Rolling Jubilee's kick-off telethon tonight, it was clear that the event's organizers have struck a nerve. The Rolling Jubilee, a project of the debt-activist group Strike Debt, an outgrowth of Occupy Wall Street and the people behind the Debt Resistors Operat ... More >>

Q&A: Jason Crane Takes The Jazz Session On the Road With The "Jazz Or Bust" Tour

Jason Crane is the creator, producer, distributor and host of The Jazz Session, an excellent in-depth interview show. This summer, Crane's taking the show on the road with the "Jazz or Bust" tour, a jaunt that, he told SOTC, was inspired by his wandering spirit, his desire to see jazz musicians in t ... More >>

If You Ever Become a CEO, Make Sure Your Resume Is Flawless

The art of resume-writing is exaggeration; we are all taught to transform "filing" into "transferral of paper entities" and "job" into "duties and responsibilities." Our listed activities and interests are always hobbies we dream of doing on our free time ("fly-fishing," "biking up mountains," etc.) ... More >>

Bullyville Has Taken Over Hunter Moore's Is Anyone Up? (Updated)

As of noon EST, Hunter Moore's revenge-porn site Is Anyone Up?, the subject of our recent cover story, has been shut down after being taken over by the website "Bullyville." The letter below is what's currently posted to the domain formerly known as Is Anyone Up:

Politician Market, a New Website, Lets Ordinary Americans Buy Off Congress

​Do you ever get upset that, as an ordinary American, you cannot simply pay Congress to pass the bills you support? If so, you're in luck. A new website, created by Natan Yellin, a programmer from Israel, plans to do just that! Politician Market aims to level the playing field for monetary don ... More >>

Paypal Kills Christmas for Regretsy, Needy Families

via​Just in time for the holidays, here's your Internet beef (it concerns charity this time): On one side, there's Paypal, your go-to method for paying for things online without using a credit card. On the other, there's Regretsy, the hilarious "fail blog of hand crafts." To get everyone up to ... More >>

Q&A: El-P On "Rush Over BKLYN" And His Friend Mr. Dibbs

One of the most respected turntable artists in the independent hip-hop world, Brad Forste's fierce, punk-like approach to scratching always pushed each set he DJed right up to the line of pandemonium. On more than one occasion I have seen Forste, apparently unsatisfied with the crowd's energy, cut u ... More >>

Q&A: The Sucklord on Graffiti, His Work of Art Failures, and Why He's Like Darth Vader

The SucklordEarlier this year, New York magazine's culture blog, Vulture, asked Work of Art co-producer Sarah Jessica Parker, after this season's shooting had started, if she foresaw any breakout characters. She laughed. "Um, I suspect there might be one." The one is Sucklord, who went from the de ... More >>

The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 7: Mark Bunker

​On August 5, we started a countdown that will give credit -- or blame -- to the people who have contributed most to the sad current state of Scientology. From its greatest expansion in the 1980s, the church is a shell of what it once was and is mired in countless controversies around the worl ... More >>

David Horvitz Wants to Fill Sallie Mae's Mailbox With 100,000 Checks for 58 Cents

​David Horvitz is $58,412.10 in debt after getting an MFA from Bard College. A Brooklyn-based artist who's currently "not working," he has a grand plan that might also count as a crowd-sourced experimental art project, a project that he has recently released to the Internet: Help repay his stu ... More >>

The Best Male Hustlers In Movies: A Montage

Tony Ward, Hustler White​It's the guys' turn. These are the studs who sold it to their audience as persuasively as they did to their screen clients. Get out your PayPal accounts.

Phone Hacking: A Guide to Journalistic Jackassery

​Each week, Death by Science sends out an all-points bulletin for the latest science and technology news, tracks it down and beats a confession out of it. This week, we dive into the seedy world of phone hacking. Beware, it is a process so treacherous, so disgusting and so complex that you may ... More >>

Anonymous Members Raided by FBI; Hacker Group Claims to Have News Corp. Emails

​A day after the online sect LulzSecurity pulled their own hack on Rupert Murdoch, members of the most the widely-known hacking collective Anonymous, from which LulzSec spun off, have been raided by the FBI. (There doesn't seem to be a direct connection other than the media attention currently ... More >>

The Hookie Awards Brought Together The Urination

​Rentboy.com's Hookie Awards at Roseland celebrated the male equivalent of the people Charlie Sheen likes to call friend--though these hookers don't tend to lock themselves in the bathroom and call the cops. They chain you to the bedroom and call out for more lube! And it turns out they can ... More >>

Anonymous Exposed: Hacker Group Infiltrated, Chat Logs Leaked

​Late last week Gawker posted a story outing correspondence between users thought to be "leadership" members of the internet hacker and activist group Anonymous, one previously referred to in the press as non-hierarchical. In the chat logs, a clear chief can be seen giving orders to his fellow ... More >>

Bank of America Drops WikiLeaks Payments

via​Bank of America has announced it will no longer process transactions for the website WikiLeaks, which trades in the release of secret government documents. WikiLeaks has teased coming after a financial institution next and in a 2009 interview founder Julian Assange mentioned "sitting on fi ... More >>

WikiLeaks Betrayed by Amazon, Visa, Mastercard -- and, Worst of All, the Media

Credit: Kyle T. Webster The outrageous behavior of Amazon, Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal directed at WikiLeaks represents a much greater threat to America than any of the alleged security breaches from Julian Assange. These companies moved to cut off WikiLeaks' ability to collect donations and dist ... More >>

Gawker Refuses to Post Correction on WikiLeaks DNS Screw-Up, Trades Threats With Company Asking For Apology

​The last week's political and media hoopla over the latest WikiLeaks document dump has had the internet going nuts. Things got so wild online that Julian Assange's official website spent hours over the span of a few days crashed after a series of DDOS attacks. Amazon.com kicked WikiLeaks off ... More >>

Jim Power, the East Village Mosaic Man, Teams Up With 23-Year-Old Apprentice to "Keep the Arts Alive"

Mosaic Man Jim Power and his dog, Jessie Jane​"Wake up, New York! Are we kidding? I will be the #1 tourist attraction in this place, and that includes the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty," boasts Jim Power -- a/k/a, New York's Mosaic Man (so dubbed in a 1988 Voice article) -- who has ... More >>

Yelp's Extortion Attempts: Buy Advertising or Get Negative Reviews, Lawsuit Alleges

​Since it was founded in 2004 by a couple of PayPal employees, Yelp has grown exponentially, featuring reviews of restaurants and other businesses written by users. But beginning last year, reports began to surface of Yelp employees pressuring businesses to buy "memberships" or see negative r ... More >>

What Would You Do for Five Bucks? Apparently A Lot: The Top 10 Goods and Gigs Available for $5 at e-commerce site Fiverr.com

Apparently a green sheep will talk for just $5. What would you do for five bucks? More importantly, what would you pay someone else to do for five bucks? The e-commerce site Fiverr.com allows registered users to buy and sell services, or "gigs," that range from useful (graphic design, programming h ... More >>

New York's Best Escort!

Straining at the ropes at the International Escort Awards.

The Campaign to Save Ray's Has Taken to Twitter

​A few days ago, some major news outlets gave some coverage to the ongoing saga to save Ray's Candy Store from oblivion.

5 Things Conan O'Brien Can Do Besides Fight/Accept the Jay Leno Putsch

​The Jay Leno-Conan O'Brien thing is all over the place, with Leno being invited to move his underwatched show from 10 to 11 p.m. and Tonight Show host O'Brien, facing a later start and feeling the squeeze, reportedly in talks with Fox. Should O'Brien jump ship? Or sit tight, and pick up whate ... More >>

News Roundup: Kanye a No-Show at the BET Awards, Roc Raida Tribute Set for CMJ, Lightning Bolt Premiere "Flooded Chamber"

​-- Kanye West did not manage to appear at last night's BET Awards, despite being nominated for nine awards. Is this news? More so, apparently, than any of the awards themselves, which went to some people, who rap. Allegedly. Meanwhile, Hip Hop Wired comes through with the bold theory that Yee ... More >>

Which One of You Jerks Spilled Whiskey on Mika Miko's Amp in Brooklyn?

One of you out there owes no-wave ladymen Mika Miko $300 for dumping whiskey on their amp in Brooklyn, weekend before last. They had no idea you'd gotten all drunk and tilt-a-whirly and poured liquor on their gear, so they turned it on, and KABLOOEY. Since you weren't wo/man enough to fess up when ... More >>

Behind the Scenes of that Hetero Sex Club!

Plus the Hookies, contrary Mary, and Jerry's real kids.

Autolux Cancels All Tomorrow's Parties NY Appearance

The Harrowing Adventures of President Obama

Looking back on his first term

Zivity.com: Updates from a Topless Laundromat Madonna

Following up with the site that promised alternative bodies and female-empowering cash

Heavy Metal in Baghdad: Masters of War

A new documentary tracks a brave band's tumultuous quest to rock out

Bye, Bye, Boobies

Fundraising parties for trans surgery are all the rage, but don't tell Kerry Downey that.

Best and Worst of Sex 2006

From creepy sexin' to tofu-bashing to liquid pussy, Tristan gives her 12-month roundup

NY Mirror

Ignoring Sincerity

Atlanta's Roy Owens Jr. just can't click-start

Hermès Bag for $200?

Rules for protecting yourself on eBay

Pay You, Pay Me

The Matt Lauer of the blogoshphere quits his day job, relying on micropatrons to bring home bacon

Hang a Black Ribbon, Raise a Clenched Fist

Inauguration Protest: Washington, D.C., and New York City

Phish Bait

How to Stay on Top of E-Mail Scams

Renter Be Aware

Satirical Web Site Offers to Rent Out an African American Companion

The Wagers of War

Web Site Takes Bets on When Iraq Attack Will Start

Cache Your Chips

Outside Chance

Meet the Thinkers Who'd Help Uncle Sam—If Only He'd Bring Them In