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May 23, 2012
Multiple AltWeekly Nominations For The Village Voice
Our piping hot alternative weekly publication nabbed no fewer than four AltWeekly awards, so I have to congratulate the whole organization--bravo, bravo--and applaud the nominees....
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December 17, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Protests at Duarte Square: Live Updates [UPDATE]
via @_rosiegrayOccupy Wall Street demonstrators are currently gathered in Duarte Square, protesting Trinity Episcopal Church's refusal to let them use the land as a campsite. Our own Rosie Gray, Nick Pinto, and photographer C.S. Muncy are there with the "about 300" protesters (Rosie's estimat ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Fauxcotti Park: OWS Visits Law & Order: SVU's Mock Zuccotti Park
Rosie GrayThe Law & Order: SVU fake Zuccotti set. Zuccotti Park was cleared by police over three weeks ago now, but the encampment was resurrected for a brief moment in Foley Square yesterday. Tents, tarps, signs, a library, even a kitchen fully stocked with food -- all the familiar objects w ... More >>
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December 5, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Protests Newt Gingrich Fundraiser; Newt, Fellow Fat Cats Unperturbed
Rosie GrayA small group of Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered outside the Union League Club on 37th and Park today to demonstrate against Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who was holding a fundraiser there. Gingrich famously told protesters to "go get a job right after you ... More >>
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November 22, 2011
10 Best 'Pepper-Spraying Cop' PhotoShops
peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com If you haven't seen the video of campus police officer Lt. John Pike pepper-spraying peaceful protesters at UC-Davis campus this weekend, we encourage you to watch--the satisfied expression on the campus police's face, amid audible student cries, is fairly harrowing. In ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Entertaining Video of Man in Suit Freaking Out at OWS Protesters
Never gets old! An unhinged (drunk) business-y guy loses his cool at some Occupy Wall Streeters who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The best part is when they start chanting "We love you!" at about 1:50 until about 2:30 when the guy smacks another dude's hat off his head.
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November 16, 2011
This Week in the Voice: Ray Kelly's Secret List, Boring Married People
This week in the Voice, out today: Graham Rayman reveals the existence of Ray Kelly's list of police officers who cannot be transferred without his personal approval. "The list, which the Voice obtained from an NYPD employee, is part of a 23-page spreadsheet that contains the names of 2,300 o ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
Rosie Gray Tweets from OWS Raid -- Me: 'I'm press!' Lady cop: 'Not tonight.'
Just talked to Rosie Gray, who has been covering this morning's NYPD raid of Zuccotti Park. At about 1 am, police showed up in huge numbers to begin a process of kicking Occupy Wall Street protesters out of the park. When reporters, including the Voice's Rosie Gray, showed up to cover the raid, the ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Friendly Cult Looking For Recruits at Occupy Wall Street!
Occupy Wall Street is almost two months old, but last night was the first time the Voice had noticed an odd-looking brown bus parked on Liberty across from Zuccotti Park. It kind of looked like a huge '70s-style RV. A sign on the door read "Welcome. Please come in!" We did as suggested and ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
This Week in the Voice: Lost Boys, Life Under Occupation
This week in the Voice, out today: Kristen Hinman explores new research on teenage sex workers. Rosie Gray discusses how the community around Zuccotti Park is reacting to Occupy Wall Street's continuous presence. Michael Musto gets personal with fading stars and is determined to get one deg ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Faile is Installing a New Mural on Houston and Bowery
Rosie Gray Say goodbye to French artist J.R.'s mural which was up on the corner of Bowery and Houston for four months, and hello to a new work that's currently being installed. The mural is by a duo called Faile (real names are Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller). More photos after the jump.
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October 19, 2011
'NYC Rapture Readiness Committee' Signs Prepare You For the World's End
The Rapture, which failed to occur back in May, has been re-scheduled for this Friday. Are you prepared? For whatever it's actually going to be? You can never be too ready! Runnin' Scared was walking down Third Avenue today and saw some signs that look like this: Rosie Gray
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October 6, 2011
Occupy Wall Street March Sullied By Violent Altercations With Police [Update: Ray Kelly's Response]
At the tail end of last night's Occupy Wall Street march from Foley Square to Zuccotti Park with major unions (and a guest appearance from Michael Moore), the facilitator of the Zuccotti rally announced a march on Wall Street. As it turned out, it was an unauthorized march, as we discovered when we ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Claims Radiohead Hoax; Rally and Critical Mass Ride Still On
The scene downtown continues to percolate after the announcement earlier today that Radiohead would be playing a surprise concert in support of Occupy Wall Street at 4 p.m. OWS says they were hoaxed and that Radiohead was never involved; via our Rosie Gray, Spokesman Patrick Bruner says he's ... More >>
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September 25, 2011
Occupy Wall Street Calm So Far in Ninth Day
Rosie GrayAfter a day of arrests and chaos, it is peaceful downtown at Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street protesters -- who call the location "Liberty Square" -- are stationed. Although police said there have been no arrests or summonses today, and Patrick Bruner, a member of Occupy Wall ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
The Pros and Cons of Seeing Exactly Who Has Unfriended You On Facebook
Prepare to get indignant at a bunch of people you did a summer program with in high school and friends of friends you had the first week of college. They have been unfriending you on Facebook, and thanks to the new Facebook Timeline, you can see exactly which people have unfriended you and wh ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
'Take Back Our Streets' Rally in Park Slope Attracts Hundreds
Last night, Park Slope and the surrounding areas responded to the recent string of sexual attacks with a good old-fashioned rally. Newly-formed local group Safe Slope organized the march, which in our estimate attracted about 300-400 people -- definitely more than the "Rape Cops" protest earl ... More >>
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July 29, 2011
Meet Rosie Gray, Your New Runnin' Scared Blogger
It is my pleasure to introduce the newest member of the Runnin' Scared team: Rosie Gray. Rosie has been our weekend blogger on the site since January, and she interned with us during the halcyon summer of 2010 (remember the old days)? She's done amazing work, scoring exclusive interviews with ... More >>
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July 24, 2011
Same-Sex Marriage Is Now Officially Legal in New York State [Breaking]
Goodbye to this graphic, retiring today. We'll miss you! (Not really.)Happy Same-Sex Sunday! As of this moment, same-sex marriage is legal in New York State. Right about now Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd just said "I do!" in front of Niagara Falls. In the next 24 hours, the City of New York ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
This Royal Wedding Will Be Live-Blogged...By Us
Since the world is holding its collective breath waiting for Wendy and Frank Jr. to tie the knot -- oh, you know who we're talking about -- we would hereby like to announce that the royal wedding will herewith be live-blogged by our own Runnin' Scareders -- royal wedding expert Rosie Gray, ou ... More >>
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February 27, 2011
Oscars 2011: The Official Runnin' Scared Red Carpet Live Blog! (We're Wearing Valentino.)
Let's get this party started! We have chocolate marshmallow cookies, and wine, and cheese and crackers, and maybe we'll get pizza. And, most importantly, we have CELEBRITIES CONGRATULATING THEMSELVES FOR BEING CELEBRITIES. And Billy Crystal. Whee! Herewith, Runnin' Scared's official live blog ... More >>
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February 6, 2011
Cairo Muslims to Protect Christians During Mass; Mystery Hero Saves Woman From Subway Tracks (Sunday Links)
via ReutersHey everyone. It's looking like a nice Sunday out there! Not that you're even reading this, because today's the Super Bowl. You morons. Today in Egypt: the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group long banned by Egyptian authorities, is joining other opposition groups in meeting with Vice P ... More >>
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February 6, 2011
Brooklyn Super Stabbed Over Rent
A building super trying to collect overdue rent was stabbed on Friday in Brooklyn, and police are still searching for his killer. 40-year-old Shayne Sinclair was collecting rent for the landlord at a building in Flatlands when the suspect stabbed him in the chest. He died later at the hospita ... More >>
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February 6, 2011
Corgis Doing Things (Video)
Corgis, the favored breed of the British royals, are versatile little dogs. They can run on treadmills; use Apple products; they can even play tetherball! Hopefully this will inspire you to watch the Puppy Bowl, which you should be doing.
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February 5, 2011
Egypt Protests Continue for 12th Day; NYC May Double Number of Failing Schools (Weekend Links)
via Al JazeeraMorning, sunshines! Today will be relatively warm with a high of 38, but we can't seem to get away from that wintry mix. Protests in Egypt are entering their 12th day today after yesterday's "Day of Departure." Al Jazeera reports that the morning has been peaceful, although the milita ... More >>
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February 5, 2011
Is Gramercy Really the Best NYC Neighborhood for Singles?
The Daily News has its finger on the pulse of what's hot in En-Why-See these days. It has anointed the Gramercy/Flatiron neighborhood as the best spot in the city for singles to live. Could this really be the case, especially with Gramercy's proximity to glorified frathouse Murray Hill? The ... More >>
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February 5, 2011
Man Arrested for Inserting Hardcore Porn into Super Bowl Broadcast
If you were in Tucson to watch the 2009 Super Bowl, you may have noticed that your broadcast was interrupted by 37 seconds of "Wild Cherries 5," a hardcore porn film. Reactions presumably varied between excitement and horror, but nonetheless, the man responsible for the prank -- which is tota ... More >>
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February 5, 2011
Kentucky Town Threatened by Cat Menace, Questionable Signage
There's a small town in Kentucky called Taylorsville that is infested with cats. Nobody knows how it happened (it happened because people need to spay and neuter their cats, is how it happened). The video from NBC News is rather charming in a Christopher Guest kind of way:
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January 30, 2011
The Rules of New York City Slush
Blind man followed by elderly lady: a high-risk slush situation. Snow is pretty. But its red-headed stepchild -- slush -- is gross and awful and makes you fall down, and it happens to be all over the sidewalks right now. We at Runnin' Scared have compiled some thoughts on slush to get you thr ... More >>
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January 30, 2011
Won't Someone Help This Sad Koala?
Eddie the koala is pensive. Contemplative. Depressed? Kinda down; in the dumps, that is. Feeling blue. Just a bit on the woebegone side. Thank goodness for that apple! I don't know, feeling kind of weepy. Lachrymose, really. Lugubrious, you could say. Melancholy. A small case of the doldrums. En ... More >>
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January 29, 2011
Drunk Men Think They're Hot, and Other Facts (Study)
Looking good, feeling good. An explosive new study out of Australia is showing that drunk men think they're more good-looking than they actually are. We've seen this phenomenon in action at every single social gathering we've attended, ever. The ones that involve alcohol, that is. Which is mo ... More >>
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January 29, 2011
Demon Cat is Definitely the Most Terrifying Thing You'll See Today
This must be fake, right? Please let it be fake.
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January 29, 2011
Rachelle Hruska is On Her New Age Health Nut Game
The new Prozac.Rachelle Hruska, founder of social gossip party site Guest of a Guest, is on some next-level Scientology-type new age shit. This morning she took to Twitter to stand up for cashews and niacin in place of antidepressants, and to scold Runnin' Scared paterfamilias Foster Kamer.
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January 24, 2011
Busted Mobsters' Real Crime: Fashion (Gallery)
The winningly-nicknamed mobsters arrested in this week's FBI bust are accused of the usual stuff, like murder and racketeering. But the New York Post finds them guilty of sartorial crimes as well. "Dapperless dons," cries the Post. (Dapperless is not a word.) These modern-day Capones were in "sor ... More >>
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January 23, 2011
Bed Bugs in Gramercy Park Hotel?
Bed bugs -- our indestructible nemeses who are biting more New Yorkers than ever -- may be causing issues in the super-swanky Gramercy Park Hotel. A disgruntled employee wrote to Gothamist, telling them that bed bugs had been found in guest rooms, employee lockers, and storage rooms -- and th ... More >>
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January 23, 2011
Walking Gorilla Heralds Imminent Human Obsolescence
We're through.
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January 16, 2011
Fox Shoots Man; Murdered Journalist's Ashes Poured into Times Square Subway Grate (Weekend Links)
Happy Sunday! Enjoy your brunches and precious, precious sleep while you still can. Today will be partly cloudy with a high of 33. There's a joke about "man bites dog" here that I'm not quite coming up with, but yesterday a fox managed to shoot its would-be hunter in Belarus. It escaped ... More >>
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January 16, 2011
Today in Ice Age News: New Woolly Mammoths in the Works, Neanderthals Ugly
He's back!The Telegraph has your pressing, timely Ice Age news covered this week. Not only could new woolly mammoths be cloned in four to five years, but new research shows that Neanderthals were not ugly because of the cold, but just because they were ugly.
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January 15, 2011
Long Island Mother and Daughter Apprehended as Squalid, Awful Animal Torturers
Inside their home. (via Wayne Carrington/NYP)In what sounds like an ideal Hoarders episode (just look at the picture of inside their house!), a mother and daughter on Long Island have been arrested on animal cruelty charges after police found 15 injured pets in their home -- and the remains o ... More >>
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January 9, 2011
Lunatics to Run Marathon in Antarctica
This has been a banner weekend for extreme exercise. As the Post puts it, "Ninety-nine maniacal marathoners" (it's like a Lewis Carroll poem), including several New Yorkers, will travel to Antarctica next month to compete in the Antarctica Marathon. For the privilege of trying to survive 26.2 ... More >>
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January 9, 2011
Arizona Shootings Barely Make Cover of New York Daily News
Hey, did you hear about the horrifying bloodbath that happened yesterday in Tucson, which left a congresswoman in critical condition, killed six others, and wounded 13? The shooting that some people are pointing to as a watershed moment in American politics reminiscent of the Oklahoma City bo ... More >>
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January 8, 2011
French Children Grapple with Vintage Gadgets (Video)
Today in You're Old: young French children try to figure out what the hell a Game Boy is (also: floppy discs and video game cartridges). One kid thinks an 8-track is a bomb. This blogger is 21 and remembers Game Boys and floppy discs, at least.
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August 22, 2010
Sunday Links: Toughest Sudoku of All Time, Police Arrest Teen in Bias Attack Case
No way are you gonna solve this sudoku.A Finnish man has created the toughest sudoku ever, which he says "will normally take days to solve by logic." If you're currently feeling lazy and hungover, just click the link on the Post article that says, "CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ANSWERS." [NYP]
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August 22, 2010
Ladies, If You Earn More than Your Man, He Will Cheat On You (Study)
This weekend has been full of interesting studies. First beer goggles, now this: some Cornell Ph.D candidate has concluded that "men who were completely dependent on their wives' incomes were five times likelier to cheat than those who contributed the same amount to the household finances." Back ... More >>
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August 22, 2010
Have You Seen This Strange-Meowing Cat?
"Lost Black Cat. Has no collar. Meows strangely." Have you seen a feline of this description? Also, how does a cat "meow strangely"? Suggestions, and gratuitous cat videos, after the jump.
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August 22, 2010
Intern Rosie Peaces Out
Today, I'm leaving New York for five months and embarking on a semester abroad. As such, I won't be able to write for Runnin' Scared anymore, or at least not till I'm back from Prague. So I just wanted to say, bye for now, see you later, and thank you very much.
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August 21, 2010
Weekend Links: "Bedbug Stigma," Julian Assange Accused/Un-Accused of Rape
The New York Times has a story about how bedbugs basically make people into pariahs. If you're afflicted, you may get treated like Brooklyn waitress Hilary Davis, whose "friends and even her boyfriend refused to take her in" while her apartment was being treated. [NYT]
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August 21, 2010
Hallucinogenic Plant Sprouting All Over New York City
If you've gotten bored of your regular everyday hallucinogens, there's a new option right in your backyard. Jimsonweed is a "strikingly gothic-looking plant" that makes you trip balls. And it can be found right here in New York!
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August 21, 2010
Breaking Revolutions in Science: Beer Goggles, Explained!
You know when you've had two or five gin and tonics, and that creepy guy next to you at the bar suddenly becomes funny and attractive, and then before you know it you're giving him your number? No? Well, that phenomenon is called "beer goggles," and it's now been explained by Science.
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August 20, 2010
So: What, Exactly, is Up with 20-Somethings? (Video)
The New York Times Magazine cover story this weekend: a mysterious, heretofore-unexplored life stage: the "twenties." Or "emerging adulthood," as it's described in Robin Marantz Henig's piece, "What is it About 20-Somethings?" We 21st century twenty-somethings are taking our own sweet time growin ... More >>
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