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Q&A: Pizza Punkers Little Seizures On Their Old Bands, Good Parties, And The Power Of Vietnamese Sandwiches

Little Seizures are a one-yearish-old band populated by roughly 80%, uh, wizened local punk veterans. Their howling and chutzpah heave out like a bunch of brats, though, and it's especially evident on their brand-new 7" "Pizza Punk," which bounces around with Johnny Thunders-like riffs, Angry Samoan ... More >>

Rightbloggers Work on the Nixonization of Occupy Wall Street

The Occupy Wall Street movement has spread nationally and internationally, making it hard for even the American media to belittle it. This reality seems to have caught up to the rightbloggers who, as we saw a few weeks back, were at first eager to dismiss the phenomenon as a silly hippie effusion ... More >>

New Newsweek Discussion Same as the Old Newsweek Discussion: Lots of Dentist Jokes!

​Today is the day: the first issue of the new Newsweek is for sale, redesigned under editor-in-chief Tina Brown, whose website The Daily Beast paired off with the struggling weekly magazine after billionaire Sidney Harman bought it for $1. The issue has Hillary Clinton on the cover, just like ... More >>

Cool Food Culture Around the World

UNESCO created the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage as a means of recognizing significant local customs and traditions, and it recently added 46 new items, ranging from Peking opera in China to traditional skills of carpet weaving in Iran. Regarding food, the additions of the ... More >>

Fat Pants Friday: An Early Look at Lulu Cake Boutique

Lulu's chocolate-raspberry rugelach.​ Although our field research for Our 10 Best Bakery Desserts had by the middle of the week made us ready to swear off sugar until the next election, we were lured back into the hypoglycemic fray by Lulu Cake Boutique, which opened its doors on Wednesday. ... More >>

MetroNorth and the LIRR Have Spent $300,000 Repairing People's Pants

Howard Stevens leans on the same type of armrest that snagged his pocket a few months ago.​In 2002, the LIRR installed new train cars. Two years later, MetroNorth installed the same M-7 cars on the Hudson and Harlem lines. Everyone likes a shiny new train car, except...these "new" trains have ... More >>

Shelly Silver is 'the Enemy of Reform,' but his Law Firm's Cash is Still Good as Gold for Kathleen Rice

​File this one one away under the "Unsolved Mysteries" of this election season: Try to follow: Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver is the key symbol of Albany hypocrisy. Only yesterday, Ed Koch, the newly re-born reform banner waver, was declaiming him at City Hall. "He is the enemy of reform," ... More >>

Harry Wilson's War: Steve Rattner Credits Much of GM's Rescue to Obscure NY Comptroller Candidate

NY1​Harry Wilson, the Republican candidate for state comptroller, may not be preparing to turn the extraordinary praise he gets in Steve Rattner's new book, Overhaul, into a TV ad or mailer. But Rattner's remarkable account of Wilson's skillful and tireless contribution to the Obama auto-indus ... More >>

Chatting With Patricia Williams: Industry Sexism, Her Biggest Kitchen Mistake, and the Beauty of Spoons

Patricia Williams​Yesterday, we spoke with Patricia Williams about her latest gig at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club. Today, the veteran chef, who had a previous career as a ballet dancer, shares her views on topics ranging from industry sexism to her biggest kitchen mistake to the simple beauty of s ... More >>

New York's Ten Worst Landlords, Part 2

In a city of slumlords and broke-ass apartment buildings, these stand out.

NY Mirror

Pynchon Me, I'm Dreaming

A sprawling, overstuffed new novel brings us anarchy in the U.S.A.

Steven Kessner

'All I do is fix, and they damage'

New Lessons in Class

NEST school kerfuffle pits working class, one rich visionary against slightly privileged middle tier

Remote Patrol

Message in a Bottle: Homesteaders Rock the Lower East Side

The Tompkins Square Riots

Rudy Deflowers New York

Across the City, Communities Fight the Mayor's Garden Auction

Hipniks: Where Do They Bed-Down When the Sun Comes Up

A Murder Made for the Front Page

When Nicole duFresne died, man bit dog and ink flowed

The Best Votes Money Can Buy

Facts and figures of the most expensive election campaign in U.S. history

Million-Dollar Tax Dodge

We did it for you, senator: special care and handling for Velella's deadbeat pal

No Contributions, No Arbitrations

Teamster Fatigue

White Trash Whores!

Letters

Cleaning Lessons for Dirty Bosses

Mob Tapes Yield a How-to Guide on Stiffing Workers

NY Mirror

Crocodile Rock

One-Bedroom Apartment in Pre-War Six-Story Building

Sister My Sister

The Way We Shop Now

One Month Later

Desk Slaves

Listings

NY Mirror

The Cult of Lauersen

Why Patients Adore Embattled Fertility Doc

Wayne Check

Rudy Deflowers New York

Across the City, Communities Fight the Mayor's Garden Auction

Letters

Martha My Fear