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Here is the Harbor Seal Pup That Beach-Goers Found on Long Island This Weekend

A three-day-old harbor seal pup was found on the beach at Sands, a Long Island beach club, this past weekend, reports the Associated Press. But it wasn't clear whether humans separated the pup from mama seal, or whether she wandered astray, according to the Riverhead Foundation for Research and Pres ... More >>

Spring Arts Guide Picks: Books

Read All About It: Glowing Cats, Prince, and This Week's 5 Book Events

Kristopher Jansma PowerHouse Arena Thursday, 8 p.m., free Jansma, a New Jersey native and first-time novelist, seems to have constructed his debut around a pretty familiar and eye-twitchingly postmodern concept: namely, the curious propensity of writers to devote a whole lot more time to identifying ... More >>

The Good Book: 5 Great Readings This Week

Jonathan Lethem and Jessica Hagedorn 
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Wednesday, 7:30pm, Free A quick word on Jonathan Lethem--he's awesome. That's it. Because this guy is one of our favorite native sons. The author of Motherless Brooklyn (Vintage) and The Fortress of Solitude (Vintage) has the ability to ... More >>

Bon Voyage: Our Five Book Events Worth the Trip

Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson The Strand Tonight, 7pm, $10 Marriage is a tricky subject in film. This is probably because unlike, say, the central themes of Citizen Kane or many of the Terminators, the "marriage movie" concerns a topic that's close to what many viewers either have, or will experie ... More >>

Book It: Our Five Can't-Miss Readings This Week

Dina Nayeri & Julia Fierro Book Court Tonight, 7pm, Free When one considers radical literature, old issues of Life magazine with Molly Ringwald and Barbara Streisand on the cover might not immediately come to mind. But for the 11-year-old twin sisters who are the protagonists of Dina Nayeri's new no ... More >>

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Spring Guide 2012: Granta Eyes the African Short Story

Continental rift

Whelks Crawl Into the NYC Greenmarkets

The whelks surround the scale, waiting to be purchased (actually, just the shells). Three weeks ago, Fork in the Road welcomed the whelks (a/k/a sea snails) to the menu of newly opened Bowery Diner, which we considered quite a stroke of genius on the restaurant's part. They're served raw, and also ... More >>

David Laffer, Alleged Long Island Pill Killer, Is Worried About Missing Jury Duty

Laffer's mugshot​While in jail for allegedly killing four people at a pharmacy in Medford, Long Island, last month, David Laffer, who hit the pharmacy in search of pills for himself and his wife, Melinda Brady, became concerned about his upcoming jury duty -- he'd been called to serve starting ... More >>

Summer Guide: Don't Shrug This Atlas--The Real State of America Atlas, That Is

Yes, charts can be beach reading. Plus, summer books picks.

Spring Arts Guide: 10 Semi-Erudite Choices for Spring Literature

Rimbaud, meet Betty White. Plus David Foster Wallace, Tayari Jones, and other spring books picks.

Guess What, New York? We Have Bison Farms, Too!

Moo-ve over, beef.​Bison farming: Doesn't it just sound like something done in Montana? Well, it is. But it's also a New York thing. Food Curated takes a tour of North Quarter Farm in Riverhead, Long Island, which has been raising bison for some 30 years. As has recently been reported, bison m ... More >>

Food Curated Has Your Locally Sourced Feast of the Seven Fishes Right Here

Keeping Afloat: Why Supporting Small, Local Commercial Fishermen is Important from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo. Whether you're cooking seven fishes or just one, Food Curated has the 411 on why you should source your swimmers locally. They get on an effing boat (!) to film this mini doc with PE & DD Seafood ... More >>

Virgin Seal Gets a Taste of Romance, First Kiss, and Maybe More...

via the PostGo ahead, click to enlarge. Even make it your background, we won't tell.​I mean, really, given our adorable animal obsession, how could we not blog about this? Bernie, the New York Aquarium's only harbor seal, has a new girlfriend, Coral, who moved to his exhibit this month from At ... More >>

Shark Tank Weddings Becoming Commoner Than Dirt These Days

​You know, it's hard to have a truly original wedding nowadays. Even the Long Island couple who thought they had the brilliant, truly original idea of getting hitched in a shark tank ... well, turns out they're totally derivative, just like everyone else. According to NBC New York, April Pigna ... More >>

From Moscow to Riverhead, Twisted Sisters at Large

​Every now and again, it seems like there's an open competition going on for best example of mass derangement -- an opportunity for those colossally bent out of shape to vent their real or imagined demons on the rest of us. The leading example is Moscow, which witnessed the apparent return of ... More >>

The GOP's Newest Immigrant: Governor Hopeful Steve Levy

The two-term executive of Suffolk County faces sniping on the home front

Fall Guide: George Packer Chronicles a Turbulent 21st Century

Lit Seen: Momus, Joe Pernice, and Nick Cave Trade Guitar Picks for Pens

On the improbable return of the rock-star novel

Spring Guide: Wells Tower Offers A Strange Way To Squeeze A Dog

The dark menagerie of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

NYC RFD: Water Park DWI Charged, Swimmer Hauled In, Pol Protests, Cartoon Wins

The Problem with Ray Kelly, the NYPD and Tasers

The Best of 2007

Voice writers pick their favorite 20 books of the year

The Fine Print

Brooklyn's indie publishers turn the page

VLS Bestsellers

Sweet Sounds of Home

Bringing musicians back to New Orleans

A Mechanized Culture and its Equally Mechanical Population Meet

VLS Bestsellers List

Beach Lit 101

Savvy reading for spring and summer

Let Libeskind be Libeskind

Full of ghosts, ground zero's like that hotel in The Shining—and maybe that's OK

Doll Parts

Write What You Know

Making Meta-Books in the Age of Multimedia Conglomerates and Copyright Oligarchs

Music

Territorial Pissings

VLS Beach Blanket Books

On Comics, Thrillers, and the Bodily Arts

Books

Listings

Guess Who’s Coming to Dharma

Black Women Embrace Western Buddhism

Mindful Walking

Meditative Paths in Manhattan

Road Kill

A Man Among Boys

Attention, All You Simply Marvelous Shoppers!

The Charlatans

Ethnic Mysteries Revealed

Getting the Business

Meltdown Over BNL Evacuation

How Did Flight 800 Blow Up