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The lycans of 'Hemlock 
Grove' get unleashed

The Upper West Side's Strangest Sandwich?

Wrap your lips around this meaty strangeness. A fixture right on Broadway on the Upper West Side, Big Nick's Burger Joint has been around since 1962 -- just about the time West Side Story came out as a movie, immortalizing the neighborhood for the nation. Big Nick's is a product of that merging of ... More >>

Ask Fan Landers: Either She's Your Girlfriend or Your Roadie, Not Both

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you stop doing it wro ... More >>

FLIGHT SCHOOL

Wiz Khalifa helps Jones Beach get young, wild, and free

HELLO, NASTY

Mac Miller returns to Best Buy Theater

Fast-Food Chains to Offer Healthier Kids' Meals; Radiation-Contaminated Beef Eaten in Japan

​Nineteen fast food chains, including Burger King, Chili's, IHOP, and Friendly's, plan to start offering healthy food options in their kids' meals. [ABC News] Beat the summer heat with Mark Bittman's four takes on icy pop -- that's Popsicles to the plebes -- including fruity, savory, creamy, ... More >>

Hofbrau Bierhaus Is a Real Brew-haha

Noisy-ass beer garden blasts into Midtown from Munich

This Week in the Voice: Kicking Back With the Black Hebrew Israelites

​This week in the Voice, Steven Thrasher enters the wild world of Black Hebrew Israelites, or as they are more commonly referred, "those guys who yell at everybody on the street." They tell him they "are the Ambassadors of Christ," but others have differing views. One of their ex-girlfriends, ... More >>

Rich People Love Fast-Food; It's Been a Good Year for Maine Lobster

​A U.S. Appeals Court upheld a lower court ruling allowing Starbucks to end its distribution agreement with Kraft. [BusinessWeek] Rich people are eating out more at fast-food restaurants. It turns out some people with six-figure salaries would rather spend their money on Jimmy Choos than dinn ... More >>

Beer for Harlem, Beer and Dirndls for Midtown

Coming right atcha, Third Avenue.​Today's weather lends itself to thoughts of heavy drinking, making it a good time to spread some alcohol-related developments.

Missing Again: Mohammed Saleem, 24, Deaf, Mute, Mentally Challenged

Where is Mohammed Saleem?​Mohammed Saleem, a 24-year-old guy who is deaf, mute, and suffers from either autism or Down syndrome (news accounts differ), has gone missing from the Kew Gardens area of Queens. It's believed that this is at least the fourth time Saleem has gone missing in just the past ... More >>

James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Semifinalists Announced

opentable.comThe product of blood, sweat, and tears​It's almost time for the Oscars. That is, the Oscars of the food world: the James Beard Foundation Awards. Today marked the announcement of the restaurant and chef semifinalists, who were chosen from a record 28,000 online entries. Finalists ... More >>

Odd Future, Wiz Khalifa, and the Internet-Rap Atomization

Lil B et al. build tiny kingdoms, and rule them

Twitter Language Differs Regionally, Except When It Doesn't, According to Real Research

​The least conclusive (but most fun!) study of the day is probably the one from Carnegie Mellon University, which says that Twitter has "geographical dialects," but only sometimes. Researchers dug through 380,000 messages from one week back in March 2010, and concluded that you could sort of s ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: October 6 through 12, 2010

Tranny Clown Unsuccessful in Attempt to Rob Bank

​Okay, this is getting out of hand, people. Hot on the shitkickers of Long Island's Darth Vader robber, we have a man in Pittsburgh who robbed a bank wearing a blonde lady's wig and fake boobs. And, um, "clown pants." He used a toy BB gun he had shoplifted from a store to hold up the bank. Als ... More >>

IT’S A DRAW

Brooklyn animators get a feature-length forum

This Weekend! Oneida, Judas Priestess, Kill The Alarm, Psychedelic Horseshit, And The Bellmer Dolls

​If there's any chance your reckless behavior will be rewarded with a shiner this weekend, it's gotta be tonight. Oneida (to your left), with (thoughtfully) abrasive rock and destructive, amped-up guitars, will make all gentle souls within a 100-foot radius of the Knitting Factory shake in th ... More >>

The Hold Steady Announce New Record: Heaven Is Whenever, Due in May

Judson Baker​Here's to ending the longest drought between Hold Steady albums, ever. In the two years since the Brooklyn band released the hardcore revival moment Stay Positive, the former five piece toured endlessly and, at the tail end of last month, bade farewell to keyboardist and chief mou ... More >>

ZOMBI

An Interview with the Tweeting Anarchist, Elliot Madison

Elliot Madison on a recent episode of Democracy Now!​When Jackson Heights resident Elliot Madison learned last week that charges against him had been dropped by the Allegheny County District Attorney in Pennsylvania, he had little reason to celebrate. The 41-year-old Queens social worker was a ... More >>

Booze News: Custom Ice Abounds; Booze Hounds Healthier Mentally & Physically

​A new breed of mixologist is obsessed with ice, using enormous cubes custom made by ice sculpture suppliers, ice balls the size of oranges, and long ice tubes for highballs. Dilution has become a dirty word. [NY Times] With a new Whole Foods in the space formerly occupied by the legendary ja ... More >>

News Roundup: Lupe Fiasco, Elliott Smith, Brooklyn Bowl, Late Night TV

-- Lupe Fiasco released the first single from his upcoming album, Lasers. The track is the spacey "Shining Down," which has Lupe taking a dig at autotune by using it. It leaked last month to the rapper's dismay. He plays Governors Island on Sept 11 (tickets go on sale Friday at noon) and SUNY's Dewa ... More >>

Mets Meet Furries on the Road, Announcer Freaks Out

The Mets pulled one out last night despite scoring only one run, but God still hates them and sent a plague of furries to throw them off before their upcoming series with the Pirates. Thus far only Mets announcer Kevin Burkhardt is known to have been affected. He was disturbed to find that the Pitts ... More >>

I Should Have Had A Nose Job Years Ago!

I was looking through some old photos of myself in that Norma Desmond-y way I have, and found one where I looked almost cute except for a honker the size of Pittsburgh exploding through my face. If I had only had it chopped off back then, my whole life would have been different! I would have been a ... More >>

City Offers Laid-Off Finance Types Cheap Offices, Internships

The city is going to suffer greatly from the loss of financial services jobs, says the Mayor -- not only do those jobs represent a third of our private sector payroll (!), they also reflect "a range of incomes." (He explains: "More than half of the people working in the City's financial services se ... More >>

Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Potato and Egg Hero

The little treat I like to call the "Fuck You Dr.  Atkins" sandwich The Italian-American potato-and-egg and pepper-and-egg heroes are the stuff of culinary legend, roughly equivalent to the sainted New Orleans po' boy that comes stuffed only with french fries. Or t ... More >>

Win one for the gyppers: Banks' current playoffs eerily like the NFL's

Interview: Yeasayer's Chris Keating

The Yanks' Suite Deal With Bloomberg

Rightbloggers Pay Solemn Tribute to HuffPo Writer's Murder/Suicide

Disastrous Disco

No-wave noise begets all-new catastrophies

Accidental Tourists

Doc treats Sudanese lost boys as feel-good fodder, ignoring their plight and their history

Morning Report 8/25/05
Fucked by the Abstinence Crowd

Film

Unquiet Spirits

In the first play of August Wilson's cycle, familiar patterns take on newly articulate flesh

Theater

Local Nerds Threaten to Veer off Rails, Incite Road Rage

The Dead Zones

NY Mirror

Sports

Meet The Mets, Greet The Mets

One-Bedroom Apartment in Prewar Building

NY Mirror

Sweet Home Buttholesville

Sweet Home Buttholesvill

Much Too Vulgar a Display of Power

Through the Carpal Tunnel

Tired of Typing? Slip on Some Cyborg Gloves.

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