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Lisa Giffen is Maison Premiere's Everything Girl

When Lisa Giffen joined the team at Maison Premiere two months ago, she was given the official title of executive chef, but she prefers to call herself the Everything Girl. "Did the linens come in? No? Well I guess I'll deal with that," she says. "The toilet's backed up? I'm on it. We're missing a s ... More >>

Amor y Amargo's Sother Teague Explains Bitters and Divulges a Recipe

There is no out-talking, outsmarting, or out-mixologizing Sother Teague. Ask a question about bitters, and Teague has not just an answer but a tome, an in-depth dialogue of distillation, history, and flavor. That he's writing a book is a confusing notion; this man should be on TV with a captivated a ... More >>

wd-50 Holds a Reunion for Friends and Family

At 8 p.m., the only clue that something big was happening at wd-50 was the methuselah of champagne that was touring the quietly buzzing room, a six-liter megabottle that was poured at every table. It set the tone for the once-in-a-lifetime reunion of family members--and lucky hangers-on--that was ac ... More >>

Dogfish Head Chicory Stout: A Morning Beer?

Style: American Stout Serving style: Bottle poured into glass Location: My apartment with a cat on my lap Cost: $15 six-pack ABV: 5.2% [See More: Hey Alelitists: Let's All Stop Being Assholes About Beer]

A HAIRY SITUATION

The Moustache Man Tells All

Breckenridge Brewery's Vanilla Porter: Weathering a Nor'easter with a Beer from the West

Style: American Porter Serving style: Bottle poured into glass Location: My apartment during Nor'easter Cost: $14 for a six-pack from the local bodega ABV: 4.7 percent [See More: Getting Drunk in the Rain in the Catskills | Great Lakes Burning River]

These Album Covers > Death Grips' Dick Pic

Jesus Frankenchrist, here we go again! Sacramento cacopho-rap outfit Death Grips--whose music roughly approximates the sensation of ramming your head through a plaster wall while on bath salts and blue meth, then flailing around for 45 minutes (but with bassbeats!)--put a big hairy boner on the cove ... More >>

Meet Venus, The Two-Faced Cat

I never run shots of cute animals from the Internet because that's a bottomless well of adorable weirdness to plumb from, and besides, I don't want this blog to turn into a feature from the old Saturday Evening Post. But don't you just worship Venus the Two-Faced Cat?

Sorella, House of Pleasure

A wine bar keeps lighting up Allen Street

Kathleen Hanna Is The Set Designer for an Insane Clown Posse-Inspired Performance Piece

It's not the first place we'd expect to find Kathleen Hanna's name, but there it is, subtly tacked onto the credits for Neal Medlyn's Wicked Clown Love, a 2012 experimental work "built around the music and culture of hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse, their devoted fan base the Juggalos, and other form ... More >>

Interview with Dee Rees, Director of Pariah

A One-man Show of Mexican Cartel Horror Stories in El Sicario, Room 164

COOL INK

Get a tattoo from David Shrigley

Why Do Cholos Look So Spic & Span?

New York Post Defines 'Hamptons House Ho'

​Should you not know, now you do: A "Hamptons house ho" is a young lady of perhaps working-class means who escapes her dull workaday life and embarks on a jaunt to Long Island's narrow beach-dappled sections during the months in which sun shines down on all of us, swapping her white Reebok hig ... More >>

Trig Palin Is Sarah Palin's Son: Birther Conspiracy Is Bullshit

​We'd rather just not write about Sarah Palin. Occasionally, though, the media angle on the frustratingly evil ex-politician is too good to ignore, like yesterday when her rabid supporters joined forces with reasonable people to condemn and ultimately cream the political blog Wonkette for thei ... More >>

Donald Trump Reads Vanity Fair's Blog (About Himself); Google, New York Times Team Up

​"From the office of Donald J. Trump" reads the accompanying card clipped to a printed-out blog post from VanityFair.com, mailed to that magazine's editor-in-chief Graydon Carter. A veteran of covering (and mocking) the rich and famous, some his friends and some less so, Carter and Trump go wa ... More >>

East Village Braces for Impact: 35 Cooper Sq. Will Be Torn Down Soon

​When we first approached the now closed Asian Pub, known officially as Cooper 35, we were confused as to why everyone was standing outside protesting -- holding various signs written in Sharpie -- instead of inside getting drunk, but maybe that was just us wishfully needing a stiff cocktail a ... More >>

X and the City, on Orchard Street

Someone with a Sharpie is not too happy about the new Sex and the City movie, and we can't really blame them -- that trailer looks ridicu-olous. Carrie, we have grown weary of your "problems," and for once and for all, leave Aiden alone!

Live From the Bamboozle, Where the Most Emo Act Was A Rapper, and the Only Grownups in Sight Were the Five Kids in Paramore

The Bamboozle Meadowlands Parking Lot Saturday, May 1 The Bamboozle is the circus-themed mainstream punk/pop/whatever blowout where the line for Mrs. Field's ice cream and cookies dwarfs the one for $10 Miller Lites. It's the sunburn factory with a kid sporting an irony-free Snapple tattoo. A mor ... More >>

Gobot Cosplay & Those Sad Homemade Cabbage Patch Kids : Studies in Crap on the '80s Most Disappointing Toys

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Doll Baby Pattern Book Author: Martha Nelson Thomas with Marla Strecker Date: 1 ... More >>

Maria Alaimo's Bad Boob Jobs Go to Trial in Staten Island

​Breast implants gone wrong are a tragedy no matter where they strike, but today's big BIGW story is close to home in Staten Island, where Maria Alaimo, 47, is suing over the "'double-bubble' deformities" allegedly visited upon her by Dr. Keith Berman. Seven years ago Alaimo went to Berman for ... More >>

10 Most Unsettling Twilight Crafts: Underpants, Onesies, and More

​ A new film about death and sexual restraint comes out this month. You may have heard of it--Twilight? The second installment in the vampire series, New Moon, features a meaty werewolf constantly busting out of his clothes, and the ongoing unrequited lust--excuse us, love--of undead teen Edwa ... More >>

Risk-Taking with Vampire Weekend, Wells Tower, John Wray, and the Happy Ending Series at Joe's Pub

The official theme of last night's Happy Ending Music and Reading Series at Joe's Pub was "taking risks." Host Amanda Stern credited this idea to musical guests Vampire Weekend, claiming that she'd polled disparate subjects (her landlord, a 311 operator, a physicist, novelists John Wray and Arthur ... More >>

I Had a Facial Dot On Keith Olbermann Last Night!

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Interview: Jonathan Franzen on New York City

Bones' Beat: Aleksandra Mir at Mary Boone

PLUG Awards: The Nominees You Didn't See

Legos in Outer Space? Again?

Warning: Highly Addictive Game Too Cute to Stop!

Cubicle Salvation: Casual Game Sites

'Cartoons: No Laughing Matter?'

Don't Stop

Two unlikely DJs, Womanmaker and Fancypants, spin hip-hop at the unlikeliest venue

Body Double

Seeing doubles at Casey Spooner's splashy birthday bash

Loser on a Roll

Jon Langford Makes Friends and Influences People

Red Marks

Carnal Knowledge

The Sexual Life of James S.

Search and Rescue Operations

Losing the Plot at Sundance

Where Have You Gone, Derek Jeter?

Before We Enshrine the Local Hero, Let’s Take a Look at Some Cold Facts