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Prong - The Star of Palm Beach @ Rocks Off Boat Cruise - 10/19/2012

Better Than: Watching Titanic while "I'm sailing away / Set an open course for the virgin seas..." (sung by South Park's Cartman, of course) runs through your head. Setting sail for a metal show on the not-so-open seas, concessions must be made. Booze du nuit: Seven (Seagram's) and Seven's (7-up), ... More >>

Frank Ocean, Hannibal Buress, Lee Ranaldo - All Tomorrow's Parties - 9/21 -9/23

Better than: That cousin of yours who has fantastic taste and knows he has fantastic taste coming to your house and playing you fantastic music and showing you a great time, and every so often you catch him looking at you in a condescending way and you want to enjoy yourself less but you just can't ... More >>

Live: Mamma Mia! Superchunk Bring The Heat To Times Square

Superchunk, Duff McKagan's Loaded, Upper West, Zulu Wave Times Square Saturday, July 7 Better than: The matinee showing of Sister Act. Originally slated to play a headlining gig at Beekman Beer Garden as part of the CBGB Festival, word went out early last week that Superchunk instead would play ... More >>

Space Shuttle Enterprise Will Be Sailing Around the City Today

Remember when we told you guys that the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on the Hudson was being blessed with NASA's non-flight space shuttle, Enterprise? And then remember when fellow Voice-naut Steven Thrasher and photographer C.S. Muncy saw it being flown in over New York? &nbs ... More >>

Rick Perry: There is Not One Non-White Person in America. (Also, Rick Santorum is a Pig!)

Usually, the advisors of even the most aging white male Republican candidate will pay some crude lip service to the idea of a multi-culti America. Not Rick Perry, though; we've watched his latest video "America is Caling" through a couple of times, and from what we can see, there is not one non-whit ... More >>

The Statue of Liberty Is 125 Today; Tell Her She Looks Good for Her Age

Look: No turkey neck!​Happy birthday to our very own Lady Liberty, whose 125 years of standing alone in New York Harbor we mark this very Friday. If you'll recall, the French gave us the statue to pay tribute to American liberty back on October 28, 1886. Now they've ruled against kids eating k ... More >>

4 Great Places to Watch the Fireworks on the Fourth

​Since 1958, the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks display has been a New York City tradition. The fireworks were originally set off on the Hudson, but in 1976 they moved to the East River. Last year, they returned to the Hudson to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's exploration of ... More >>

IT'S WAR!

Bring your armor for the Battle of Agincourt

Man Enjoys Pleasuring Himself to Lady Liberty

​There is a man in Arizona who has a certain liking for the famous statue that welcomes the world's tired and weary into New York City. At least, in its human form. Arizona man Kevin Robert Theriault (why do public masturbators always have three names?) "repeatedly exposed himself and masturba ... More >>

Remembering Ariel Panero: Damon Dash, These Are Powers, Grooms, and More on the Man Behind Less Artists More Condos

Ariel Panero, doing what he did. Photo via Facebook.​The news began to circulate on Tuesday--Ariel Panero, the audacious NYC promoter behind Less Artists More Condos, had passed away suddenly, at the age of 25. Two days later, the details of what exactly happened are still in part unknown. But ... More >>

Dock Strike Creates a Harbor Still-Life as Boats and Barges Wait it Out

​If you can find a good high view, New York harbor is a pretty interesting sight right now. Thanks to the wildcat sympathy strike that began yesterday, there are a dozen loaded barges and at least ten freighters sitting idle between Staten Island and the Statue of Liberty. Over on the Bayonne ... More >>

Weather in New York Going CRAZY: Mayhem, Tornado Warning, Loud Scary Noises

*Not in New York, at least not yet...​Ahh, you guys, did you hear that thunder and see that lightening? Were you shaking in the corner of your cubicle under your desk, scared to leave your office? And without an umbrella or rain boots? US TOO! Now, sirens are zooming past our office, and peop ... More >>

Poll: New York City Has the Worst Airports in America. Related: Sky Often Blue.

​Things every New Yorker just knows: New York City's airports suck. You practically need a visa just to get there, the process of getting there is terrible, the people who work there are pissed off and hate you, flights never leave on time, with few exceptions there's nothing particularly rema ... More >>

As Polls Go Against the Mosque, Bloomberg Preaches Religious Liberty

The Mayor stands tall

New York Rappers Talk Their Worst Summer Jobs

Image via Darrell Bell​Hip-hop is the world's most brazenly capitalist genre of music. If Jay-Z's not talking about playing Monopoly with real cash, then Kanye West's tweeting about the cherub-motifed Persian rugs and golden goblets he's just scored at Fishs Eddy. But while certain rotund rap ... More >>

Our 10 Best Things to Eat on St. Marks Place in the East Village, NYC

​Like the sign says: New York's Best Egg Cream St. Marks Place is only three blocks long, but packs an astonishing 63 places to eat along its truncated and colorful length, some of them nearly invisible. It constitutes one of the city's foremost tourist destinations for the under-40 crowd, th ... More >>

Our 10 Best Red Hook Restaurants

The Washington PostThe dogs of Red Hook await their next tasty meal.​ Red Hook -- along with the Rockaways -- is perhaps the city neighborhood most defined by its proximity to the water. It's been a working port for hundreds of years, its docks curving out into the southern part of the East Ri ... More >>

After Crash, FAA Makes New Rules for Hudson River Flights

​After a mid-air collision between a small charter plane and a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River this summer killed nine people, observers were quick to blame the Federal Aviation Administration for poorly regulating the airspace, letting it become clogged with private planes. Toda ... More >>

Latest anti-Bloomberg ad: It's 2021 and Guess Who's in City Hall

The latest anti-Bloomberg cable TV ad from Communications Workers Local 1180 takes place in the not too distant future and it's All-Bloomberg, All the Time World. Here's the script, against a star-streaked night sky: "The year is 2021. We are entering Michael Bloomberg's 6th term as Mayor of ... More >>

CMJ Farewell: Pig Destroyer, Eyehategod, and Goatwhore, On a Boat (Where Else?)

All photos by yr brave correspondent, who writes: "I got punched in the face but I gave it back worse."​Eyehategod, Pig Destroyer, Goatwhore Rocks Off Concert Cruise, Hudson River Saturday, October 24 The kid in the Suicidal Tendencies t-shirt went down hard, his spindly dark form an inverse ... More >>

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​Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty are opening for evening visits on September 24 and 25 (this, essentially, does not happen). Visitors will also see a preview of Ken Burns' national park documentary for PBS.As likely as not, since this was announced a few hours ago, tickets are already gone, ... More >>

ATP Rocks the Catskills

Reporting live from Kutsher's, starring a loud-as-hell My Bloody Valentine

All Points West Festival: Totally Worth It

Radiohead (and a picturesque ferry ride) make Jersey tolerable

All Points West Day 1: Grizzly Bear, The New Pornographers, The Go! Team

Please Stop Belittling Toby Keith

He may be the greatest artist of the '00s. Don't tell the Dixie Chicks.

Footloose Food Tours Through Brooklyn and the Bronx

This stomach's made for walking

No Context: John Varvatos Store Opens to Protesters at 315 Bowery

Sailin' On

Bad Brains on a boat—as absurd as it sounds, but thankfully much better, too

The Poop on Being 'Illegal'

Answering your burning questions about the cabrones on your block

Fashion Weak

Tales of fatigue, confusion, and humility from the runways and celeb-choked after-parties

Reprint: City of Ghosts

100 minutes of tragedy that will haunt us all

Women's Work

The Bush Doctrine: 'No Illegal Alien Left Behind'

A counter-rally in Dallas sends a different message on immigration reform

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