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Pittsburgh

  • Voice Choices

    November 23, 2011

    HELLO, NASTY

    Mac Miller returns to Best Buy Theater

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Dining

    April 27, 2011

    Hofbrau Bierhaus Is a Real Brew-haha

    Noisy-ass beer garden blasts into Midtown from Munich

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Mohammed Saleem, Wandering Guy, Found Safe and Unharmed

    Missing for a week. Found unharmed.​Good news, for a change. Cops and/or relatives found Mohammed Saleem, a 24-year-old guy who is deaf, mute, and suffers from either autism or Down syndrome (news accounts differ) and who had gone missing February 15, wandering off from a relative's home in Kew G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    January 19, 2011

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

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

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Columns

    October 6, 2010

    Free Will Astrology: October 6 through 12, 2010

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    Remembering the Sad Story of Elizabeth Hartman

    ​Freckle-faced beauty Elizabeth Hartman debuted in 1965's A Patch of Blue, earning an Oscar nomination as the blind girl who's tortured by her mother (Shelley Winters) but learns about the brighter side of human nature when she's befriended by the nice black man in the park, Sidney Poitier. H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Heinz's Curry Beanz

    ​Leave it to the British to invent baked beans with raisins.

  • Blogs

    July 26, 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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 4, 2010

    IT’S A DRAW

    Brooklyn animators get a feature-length forum

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 15, 2009

    ZOMBI

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 4, 2009

    'Detroit Loves New York. Hard’

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    Interview: Yeasayer's Chris Keating

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2008

    The Yanks' Suite Deal With Bloomberg

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Music

    February 6, 2007

    Disastrous Disco

    No-wave noise begets all-new catastrophies

  • Film

    January 2, 2007

    Accidental Tourists

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

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2005

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

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

  • Film

    April 5, 2005

    Film

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

  • Theater

    December 7, 2004

    Unquiet Spirits

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

  • Theater

    September 9, 2003

    Theater

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

  • Music

    September 9, 2003

    Local Nerds Threaten to Veer off Rails, Incite Road Rage

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

  • Film

    January 7, 2003

    The Dead Zones

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

  • Columns

    January 22, 2002

    NY Mirror

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

  • News

    January 15, 2002

    Sports

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

  • News

    September 25, 2001

    Meet The Mets, Greet The Mets

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

  • NYC Life

    October 3, 2000

    One-Bedroom Apartment in Prewar Building

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

  • Columns

    July 4, 2000

    NY Mirror

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

  • Long Island Voice

    December 28, 1999

    Sweet Home Buttholesville

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

  • Music

    December 21, 1999

    Sweet Home Buttholesvill

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

  • Film

    September 14, 1999

    Much Too Vulgar a Display of Power

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

  • News

    June 8, 1999

    Through the Carpal Tunnel

    Tired of Typing? Slip on Some Cyborg Gloves.

  • Music

    March 16, 1999

    20 Centuries of Hits

    Tired of Typing? Slip on Some Cyborg Gloves.

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