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Hey Techies, Start Your Businesses in New York City. We Promise We're Cool.

Reading from the same playbook as Texas Governor Rick Perry, Mayor Bloomberg toured the Bay Area this weekend trying to lure tech investors and young grads back east with promises of good times and pretty girls. As if San Francisco was just one extended sequence of Revenge of the Nerds.

Gay Porn Biggie Talks About How The Industry Has Been Decimated

David Forest vows to bring back gay porn stars

Bloomberg Donates $350M To Alma Mater, Becomes Largest Living Donor To Education

Yes, you read that correctly. Yesterday, it was discovered in a New York Times exclusive that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg would be making a $350 million donation to John Hopkins University - the Hizzoner's alma mater where he apparently ruled the frat circuit. With this amount, Mr. Bloomberg has don ... More >>

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Vs. NJ Governor Chris Christie in 2013? It Could Happen

Next week, the Democratic National Convention gets underway in Charlotte, North Carolina. As most of these things go, the three-day extravaganza will be a rallying call to the party's base. Along with business leaders and Democratic figures, one of the keynote speakers will be Corey Booker, the Mayo ... More >>

The Story of Kolaches

The apricot version at Brooklyn Kolache Co. After high school in Dallas I went to college in Austin, so for the first couple of years I hitched rides between the two places several times a year. For UT students, there were several popular stopovers on the four-hour ride, including a little bakery ... More >>

A Note to the NCAA: Here's Why College Basketball Attendance Is Down

It's the time of year for office pools and for articles about what's wrong with college basketball in general and the March NCAA tournament in particular.  Most of the arguments for both are covered by Steve Wieberg in Friday's USA Today. "Attendance, a key vital sign in any sport, is slipping in c ... More >>

How Happy Is Your Subway Stop?

The L train = happy by day, happier at night. ​Making us happy today is a project called HappyStance, recent winner of Hack Day and "a mashup of Twitter geo-location API data and sentiment analysis research," reports the New York Times. Essentially, it's an app, created by Jeff Larson, Al Shaw ... More >>

Pelosi, Boehner, Bachus, Hastert, Other Congressional Reps Traded Stock On Inside Tips, But It's All Legal (!?!)

​Ever wonder why Congress seems so willing to help bail out the financial industry? Well, a 60 Minutes report on Sunday says that lawmakers purchased stock in companies while involved in debates on Capitol Hill about bills that would affect those companies. Conflict of interest? Just a teensy ... More >>

NYFF: Life is (Alexander) Payne

Q&A: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. On Detroit, Mike Love's Yacht, And Their Google Juice

​At first glance, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. might seem like a gimmick--two guys in racing suits capitalizing on a name-brand stock-car-racing dynasty. Upon listening, however, it's clear their particular type of indie pop is anything but a stunt; the Detroit duo of Josh Epstein and Daniel Zott co ... More >>

David Epstein, Columbia Professor, Charged for Sleeping With Daughter for Three Years

via Columbia.edu​It's a bad week for Columbia University, what with the bust of five of its students for selling $11,000 worth of drugs to undercover cops, and now...this. Via DNA Info, poly-sci professor David Epstein was charged yesterday for having a three-year sexual relationship with his ... More >>

Google Alert: Google's Devilish Tax Deals Detailed in Bloomberg News Scoop

​The motto for those good Google guys out in Mountain View, CA. is "Don't be evil," but Bloomberg News today details how that pledge stops somewhere short of their tax returns. Bloomberg's Jesse Drucker explains how the world's most successful Internet search engine manages to cut its tax rate ... More >>

Going the Distance Is a Not-Very-Good Romantic Comedy

The Internet: Making Love Happen Since, Like, at Least the Late '90s

​For real, we're not even kidding: According to groundbreaking new research from Stanford and City University, adults who have Internet access are "much more likely to be in romantic relationships" than adults without Internet access. Good to know. Also, good for Craiglisting your Missed Conne ... More >>

Summer Guide: Pulitzer Winner Jonathan Weiner Follows the Search for Immortality

Long for This World examines the scientific battle against aging

Stan Getz: Improving on Perfection

The seven-disc People Time offers endless, heartbreaking felicities

'Sex and the City 2' Gay Dish!

At newest Chelsea gay bar, baseball and beer. Plus: Broadway and bears

Joan Didion's Brooklyn Book Fest Essay Published: McCain, Obama Eviscerated

Racial Tension, Above and Below the Surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace

Your friends and neighbors, and Samuel L. Jackson

Sex and the City Spoilers: A Sneak Preview of What Really Happens to Carrie and the Girls

Plus Samantha, Miranda, Charlotte, and the rest

Smart People: Deeply Ordinary

Intellectualism goes soft in this more obvious than smart romantic comedy

The Slow-Burning Ascendance of Ssion

A perpetual Next Big Thing takes another shot by crossing over to the light side

Watson's Double-Helix Double-Bind Double-Reverse

Summer Books: That's Not Fair

As the memoir boom winds down, authors are training their sights on sis and bro.

The Dark Side of Summer

Turn off your air conditioners. Take a cue from a camel. Lay off the ice cream. And other advice for surviving a 'heat island'

Ahab is Rad

Seeming rap prankster bleeds earnestness despite his jokes

Code Warriors

Free culture takes flight at NYU

Playing Ball in D.C.

Film

Straight Stories

In hard-edged doc, parolees struggle with life after prison

Timeline of Tragedy

Picking up the pieces of 9-11, putting them in order, trying to make sense

Music

Make Robots Not War

Some Scientists Refuse to Get Paid for Killer Ideas

Outing Abe

Also Adolf, Jesus, Eleanor, Robin Hood, and Other Historic Greats

Stop Time

Eadweard Muybridge and the Age of the Image

Bride's Head Revisited

There's Something About Marry

Hoop Dreams

Imagine It: Tim Duncan as a Net, and LeBron James as a Knick

The ACLU on the Ramparts

Who’s Afraid of John Ashcroft?

Sexy Beasts and Sweet Nothings

Jock Lit

Need Relief? Summon the Pen.

Letters

Spirit Lifters

Graduate Studies

AFL-CIO Chief Sweeney Rallies NYU's Organizers

Below the Rim

Whiteball Lives in the NCAA

The Year of Living Pseudonymously

Of Mugger, Masher, Donna Johnson and . . . Calendar Boy

Strained Days

Stalk Options

If you get sued in Ruthless.Com, does it hurt in real life?

Cracking the Code of Ethics

Upstart Computer Pranksters Scramble Hacker Unity

Upstart Start-Ups

The First Daughter and the Press

Writing About Chelsea Cost a Stanford Daily Reporter His Job