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Get Lost in the Virulent Tumblr Maelstrom of Lady Lamb the Beekeeper's Aly Spaltro

How best to tag the restless, reactive folk-pop of Lady Lamb the Beekeeper? So many ways, dude: rambunctious, precocious, invigorating, probing, sweet, exasperating, quirky, self-indulgent, lunging, crackers, too sane, even. The outfit led by Brooklyn's Aly Spaltro, 23 -- named after something she s ... More >>

Here's the NSFW Sex-Ed Book That Teaches Elementary Schoolers to Masturbate on the Tetherball Pole

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. The Playbook for Kids About Sex Author: Joani Blank (words); pictures by Marcia Quackenbush Date: 1980 Publisher: Down There Press Discovered at: Community Thrif ... More >>

Eight Musicians Who've Proved Themselves Damn Fine Authors

Thanks to Frankenstorm, a whole slate of concerts has been wiped out tonight and tomorrow, including this evening's Joshua Radin/A Fine Frenzy gig at Best Buy Theater--it's been rescheduled for Sunday, Nov. 4. As it turns out, Alison Sudol, the brainy beauty behind AFF, is about more than just music ... More >>

BEST OF NYC™
Bill Hader Did Not Write Carrie

The Voice's Eric Sundermann chats with Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader—our 2012 BEST OF NYC cover guy—about the actor's life here in the big city

Two Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Solange Lambert and Cosmo Salerno can't wait to take their love outside the walls of an adult home on Coney Island. But for now, they have to wait.

Rap Made Me Do It: Ten Books I Read Because Of Hip-Hop

​When rappers reference items they consume--whether Cristal, Clarks Wallabees, or chronic--listeners seek them out, either out of curiosity or a desire to be like their heroes. And thanks to hip-hop's tendency to occasionally serve as an educated, sound-advice-giving older sibling, those refer ... More >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz: How Well Do You Know Anthrax's Back Catalog?

​Get ready to be caught in a proverbial mosh, New York, because The Big 4 of thrash--that's Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax--are coming to Yankee Stadium, and tickets go on sale this morning! To all you non-headbanging SOTC readers, this event is essentially as important to metalheads ... More >>

Rikers Reading List: James Patterson, R. Pattinson in High Demand

Not on the Rikers Top 10 list.​New York Public Library book cart volunteers have gotten a look into Riker's that we mere Law and Order fan club members can only imagine. Turns out, it looks a bit like everywhere else reading-wise, except with more rules and nothing in hardcover (rarely worth t ... More >>

People! Look Where You're Going and Stop Getting Killed by Big NYC Vehicles! (UPDATED: And now a School Bus!)

​Hey, look where you're going! What is it with NYC pedestrians getting run over by big, ungainly vehicles in this young new year of a new decade? ​Today alone we lost two local women in Brooklyn, one to a fork lift and another to a fuel truck! Since Saturday, here's the depressing ru ... More >>

Rosanne Cash in A-Minor

On a country giant's favorite chords, songs, and Bob Dylan lines

Grisly Evidence from Matt Tratner, Party Promoter in Gotham Horror Story

I felt compelled to go to Matt Tratner's AIDS benefit bash at Aspen last night, partly to go face to face with Matt and find more evidence of the story I've been running here: You know, that while Matt was away, the friend who was housesitting for him went mental and destroyed eveything and tried to ... More >>

Pulp Fictions: Naoki Urasawa's Pluto and 20th Century Boys; Ari Folman and David Polonsky's Waltz With Bashir

Comics come out on Wednesday, and so does Richard Gehr's Pulp Fictions. Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka Volume One Naoki Urasawa and Osamu Tezuka Viz 20th Century Boys Volume 01 Naoki Urasawa Viz Someone is killing the great robots of Europe. In celebrated manga artist Naoki Urasawa's Pluto, manga god ... More >>

Bloggers Vs. an Author: No One Wins

Thoughts on book tours, literary self-promotion, and one published writer's blog spat

Deerhunter, Blowjob, Bro Job, Silent Barn

Music Dudes Do Art

Re-Issues

Jonathan Davis deposits a psychodramatic coil of Matricized industrial in your earhole

Top Shelf 2005

Our 25 favorite books of the year—from teen sex diseases and Aztec slaughterhouses to Kiss riffs and juvenile tambourinists

You Know You Want It

Gifts for addicts and fanatics

Through the Looking-Glass

On the trail of the crippled detectives

Good Mourning America: Presidential Assassination Folklore

Widow Treatment

Love—and death—on Long Island! Irving adaptation becomes Lands' End commercial

Despite Star's Best Efforts, Corny Thriller Goes off the Depp End

It's a Small World After All

The season's globe-trotting films bring mankind closer together, or at least pretend to on-screen

Pulp Friction

A New Hampshire Mill Town's Primary Concern: What Else but the Economy?

Coffee and a Muffin

What Every Student Needs to Know: How to Beat Writer's Block

Slavic Essayist Dreams of Communism and Joan Collins

The Broom of the System

Give 'Em Hell, Harry!

Urban Oases

Amazing Stories

Michael Chabon's Dime-Store Serenade

Taking Another Shot

'Hoop Dreams' Director Steve James Rebounds With 'Stevie'

The Dangerous Son

Mark Barnes Sits in a New York Jail, Accused of Murdering His Mother. Friends Back Home Think Steroids Made Him Do It.

Screen Savers

Publishers Scramble to Make Electronic Books a Reality

Slim-Fast Fiction

Tracking the Novella Trend

The Real McCain

Piss, Puke, and Prizes

Gross-Out Web Show Sickens Crowd in Tompkins Square Park

If a Cop Kills My Son

A Vow Born of Rage and Sorrow

Saving Captain Gatto

Bobby Kennedy Jr. Swears by Him, but Is the City’s Top Watershed Cop Washed Up?

Gore to the core

Brain Food

How Hannibal Lecter Gets Inside Our Heads

Fade to Black

Bewitched, Beloved, and Bewildered

Nazi Business

Where Were the Law Guardians?

When Cowardice Paralyzed a Town