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Christina Crawford Has More Stories, And Will Tell Them In NYC

In case you haven't heard (or maybe you did and blocked it out): Just in time for Mother's Day, Christina Crawford will descend upon the heart of Manhattan to tell even more harrowing stories about her late mama, the shoulder-padded menace Joan Crawford.

Pump the Brakes! This is About Health, Not Attacking or Supporting Soda Sizes

There's plenty of shit to dislike as well as like about the two parties involved in the lawsuit over the soda-size restriction set to go into effect in March. In the eyes of many New Yorkers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has come off as an obsessive control-freak during his three terms as mayor. So, whe ... More >>

And Our New President Is....

Neither of the above people. According to several major news channels, it's the same as the last President! And I haven't been so relieved since Snapple introduced Go Bananas! It means we won't have a leader who wants to overturn rights gained by women, gays, and gay women.

Occupy Wall Street Journalist Tim Pool Hit By Masked Man Last Night

Luke RudkowskiThis guy hit a journalist last night.​Hundreds of people marched through Manhattan last night to protest the mass arrests in Oakland the day before. In some ways, the action was a lot like many Occupy Wall Street marches that have come before -- chanting, weaving through neighbor ... More >>

New Drag Show In Times Square!

​Tina, Cher, Michael, Janet, Beyonce, Madonna, Gaga, Katy, and then some. They're all onstage at the Times Square Snapple Center (1627 Broadway at 50th Street), every Friday and Saturday at 11 PM. And they're men! Even Michael! Icons is the D'Angora Entertainment-produced drag show which wa ... More >>

Fastest Delivery In NYC!

Ever wait so long for a food delivery that you start wondering if you could have made the Peking duck faster yourself? Well, I've found a restaurant that zips your order over to you faster than lightning -- and they get it right, too.

Fourth Day of Occupy Wall Street Brings Arrests, Accusations of Excessive NYPD Force

David_ShankboneA protester sleeping in Zuccotti Park.​Police arrested protesters taking part in the Occupy Wall Street demonstration early this morning as the protest entered its fourth day. Participants said at least seven people were arrested, including several of the protest's leading spoke ... More >>

As Pop-Tarts World Prepares to Bow Out, Wonka Shop Opens in Times Square

Wanh-wanh: a Wonka shop opens.​Say it ain't so: Pop-Tarts World may not be much longer for this world. But fear not, kiddie-laden tourists in search of a completely corporatized snacking experience: the Wonka shop has made its debut in the Times Square Toys "R" Us.

Four Ads We Find More Offensive Than the Pulled Georgi Vodka Bikini Ads

Image via Daily News​The MTA has pulled ads featuring models' bikinied bottoms -- with the Georgi Vodka logo on them -- from some Brooklyn buses after members of the Hasidic community complained. Georgi Vodka producer Martin Silver was outraged, hiring Georgi bikini-clad models to protest in h ... More >>

Men's Health Hits the Bottle With Best and Worst Health Drinks

Eight teaspoons of sugar make the agave go down.​Although it's not one of the targets of his modified sugar-sweetened beverage tax, Governor Paterson may want to consider setting Smoothie King's Peanut Power Plus Grape "health" drink in his sights. The 40-ounce liquid gutbomb contains 1,498 ca ... More >>

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 >>

When Hipsters Move in on Chinese: It's Ugly

A Delancey Street displacement drama, in which both sides—Chinese families and new tenants—seem pretty clueless about each other.

"Drink Yourself Fat": City Grosses You Out for Your Health

Remember the "Pour on the Pounds" Department of Health ad warning New Yorkers that when they were pouring Coke and Snapple they were actually pouring fat? Well, DOH has followed through: now there's a TV ad showing a man drinking the fat. They also plop a repulsive mass on a plate to demonstrate ... More >>

Crazy Yankee Chick: And the World Series heads back to the Bronx...

​"When the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will...then it's time to break our necks for home."--Annie Dillard After last night's loss in Citizen's Bank Park that staved off elimination for the Phillies, I realized that ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg's School-Snack Bungle

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This Week in the Voice

​What may we expect of a third Mike Bloomberg term? Few people pay closer attention to city politics than Wayne Barrett, so he's your man for "A Bloomberg Score Card: The Mayor's Hits and Misses." He still thinks "the self-serving reversal of term limits was the greatest abuse of power I have ... More >>

City Agrees to Pay 250K to Wrongly-Arrested Bushwick Kids

The city agreed this weekend to pay a $250,000 settlement to 32 youngsters from Bushwick who, back in 2007, were rounded up and arrested while walking to a friend's funeral in broad daylight. The young people -- all Black and Hispanic, ranging from ages 13 to early twenties -- were walking peacefu ... More >>

Bloomberg Turns Over His Next Campaign to Blagojevich's Ex-Deputy

From Soup to Nuts: Rightbloggers Enraged By Obama-Themed Products

The Inauguration approacheth! Last time we had one of these things, liberals complained of the cost, and conservatives defended it. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and we must expect it to kick. When conservatives kick, though, they give the ball plenty of spin. Donors to this year's Presiden ... More >>

Drop a ball on Times Square! Drop a bomb on Gaza!

An agitprop video from the Israeli government. See the Forward's "YouTube Yanks Israeli Army Videos." Who would have guessed that, with the end of the disastrous Bush regime in sight, we would have been so gloomy on New Year's Eve 2008? You'd think this would be a time of celebration, or at lea ... More >>

Brooklyn's Industry City Forges A New Kind of Arts District

An art world sprouts near Sunset Park, DUMBO be damned

The Day I Made A Grown Yankee Fan Cry

My Blueberry Nights: Wong Kar Wai Tries American Pie

Wong's first English-language foray is a minor confection

Contract Killer: Laughs & Legal Threats

Beer as Cash

NY bag store takes brew instead of cash

NY Mirror

Dear Mr. President

Baby let's have a ficus leaf and a cranberry Snapple before Bush do something crazy

For Sale: City Sidewalks

A billion-dollar city deal looms, and the French are leading the pack

Recipe for Trouble

City schools' new food plan fails to deliver

The Half-Life of Celebrity

Let them eat stars: Pop-culture vultures circle the flesh of the semi-rich and famous on VH1

Snapple Town

Deals in the Dark

Snapple in the Apple

Gulp! How Mayor Bloomberg's business pros dribbled their marketing mission

Stearns & Foster, R.I.P.

Third Annual Sexy Gift Guide

The Havana Stat Kings

Cuba’s Baseball Geeks Somehow Manage Without DiamondVision

Focus Queens

Marketing Yourself to Marketers

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