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Things We Forgot to Tell You in 2007 #1: McCarren Back Tattoos

Fork in the Road Loves Bussaco in Spite of Herself

Byte Me, Retail Boy

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ATP Rocks the Catskills

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

Grease Is Good!

Are lard, eggs, and fish tacos the new health foods?

Shibam!

Perfect winter food near the corner of Court and Atlantic

Don't Chew On It

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Brrrrrrrr!

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Road Rules

Teaching the carny set is no sideshow act

Anything Goes

Teaching the carny set is no sideshow act

Shutter Bugged

New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

Blow Up

New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

Horoscope

New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

Market Share

Statements and Strategies: Young Artists Negotiate Their Entry Into the Gallery Scene

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Statements and Strategies: Young Artists Negotiate Their Entry Into the Gallery Scene

Hangover Helpers

New pills promise to rid you of morning-after misery

Day of the Dosa

A toasted-cheese surrogate comes to life in Jersey City

Books

A toasted-cheese surrogate comes to life in Jersey City

Dumpling Ground

There's a new snack in town

Helloween

Why tricks and treats should only last one night, not four

Wild Turkeys

The Thanksgiving plans of clubland's most grateful—not to mention finest, sexiest, and gayest

Old Bars Meet Luxe Condos

The Thanksgiving plans of clubland's most grateful—not to mention finest, sexiest, and gayest

Sink and Swim

Hart & Berlin outlive a numbing Irish stew

A Design of the Times

You're the game-show champion at the Cooper-Hewitt's clowning triennial

The Foil Baron

Ballroom or bathroom? Rudolf Stingel's Whitney retrospective reveals an art of bulimic extremes

Fuerzabruta

The new extravaganza of Buenos Aires–based company De La Guarda

New York: In Every Kind of Light, the Rapture, and More

The new extravaganza of Buenos Aires–based company De La Guarda

Sex and the City: Plotless and Pointless

Despite the labels and levity, the big-screen SATC is a poor-man's knockoff

Trapped in Wedding Hell

A soiree that exists only to give you the business on your wedding day

States of Change

Life into death and death into whatever

Indian Mangoes Back in Stores

Every year about this time Indian mangoes appear in Queens South Asian grocery stores, including Patel Bros., and cause quite a stir. They're smaller, greener, sweeter, darker-fleshed, and creamier than the Mexican and Central American mangoes--which often have a red coloration--that you might ... More >>

Lunchtime Munch Time at Torrisi Italian Specialties and Despaña

Big heros and little tapas for your nooner

Alkaline Trio

Big heros and little tapas for your nooner

Street Food: Steamed Rice Cakes in Chinatown

​Yesterday, a petite woman sporting a smart blue cardigan and close-cropped salt-and-pepper hair sat on the south side of Grand Street between the Bowery and Elizabeth. A box propped up in front of her held bamboo-wrapped zongzi and Styrofoam dishes of these jiggly snacks.

Titus Andronicus and the Vivian Girls Prove Once and For All That Weezer Is How Every Human Under 25 Learned to Play Guitar

To review: Weezer's "Sweater Song" is your holy text; this howling, elemental singalong conducted by Titus Andronicus and the Vivian Girls's Cassie Ramone last night in Philadelphia will serve as your rites. That Titus's Patrick Stickles nails the solo note for note, and that he and Cassie are abl ... More >>

New York Happy Hours, All Around the Clock

20 Happy Hours for every legal drinking hour in town!

Farm and Blog Launched Sunday on Rooftop of Sixpoint Craft Ales, Red Hook, Brooklyn

​A bantam hen seems proud of her newly laid egg. Cathy Erway, author of The Art of Eating In, is launching a new blog Monday that will be the successor to her long-running noteatingoutinny.com. The url is lunchatsixpoint.com, and the subject matter will be her activities as one of Brooklyn's ... More >>

Papa John's 99-Cent Slice

​The 99-cent slice at Papa John's on West 28th Street In our coverage of the slice at 99 Cent Fresh Pizza and the superior, one-cent-more slice at 2 Bros., I neglected to mention that a national chain has jumped into the cheap-slice act.

Jeremy's Ale House: Fried Seafood, Beer in Styrofoam Cups, Off-Duty Firemen

​It's not that the fried seafood at Jeremy's Ale House near the South Street Seaport is the best you've ever had. It's more like an ideal version of boardwalk food--greasy, but also fresh-tasting and generous. Beer comes in giant Styrofoam cups in either 16- or 32-ounce servings ($4.75-$6.50), ... More >>

Food at Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing Meadows Mildly Disappointing

​Dragon Boat afloat in Flushing Meadows Pond. I went expecting to find a food scene something like the Red Hook soccer fields or the Labor Day parade in Brooklyn, and indeed there were tents, pavilions, and penants galore at the north end of the lake, like some medieval jousting match. Most o ... More >>

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​Dragon Boat afloat in Flushing Meadows Pond. I went expecting to find a food scene something like the Red Hook soccer fields or the Labor Day parade in Brooklyn, and indeed there were tents, pavilions, and penants galore at the north end of the lake, like some medieval jousting match. Most o ... More >>

Essex Street Market Soybean Sprouts Recalled Due to Listeria Contamination

Beware.​Government food recalls often seem to involve big, faceless industrial food monoliths, but here's one that feels a bit more personal: the New York State Agriculture Department has issued a recall for packaged soybean sprouts sold at Essex Farm, one of the produce vendors in the Essex S ... More >>

What We Talk About When We Talk About Yuengling

​ Some interesting facts we gleaned from The Wall Street Journal's profile of D.G. Yuengling & Son, the Pennsylvania-based brewer that last week announced its plans to buy a former Coors brewing facility in Memphis:

Bensonhurst's Dai Wah Yummy City Ain't So Itty-Bitty

Big and boxy—but pretty good Chinese

MTA Considers Banning Food, Spaghetti Fights on Subway

runx/Flickr​Although that video of two woman fighting over spaghetti on a crowded subway car was certainly a fun (if slightly unsettling) way to waste four minutes, the MTA is not amused.

Will the Real Macarons...er, Macaroons or Maakarons, Please Stand Up!

​One of these pastries is also called "macaron," but which one? We've spilled lots of ink lately on the difference between macaroons and macarons -- the former being sticky, coconut-based cookies popular for Passover, the latter cheerless-but-colorful sandwich cookies that taste something l ... More >>

Raffi Stepanian, NYC Treasure Hunter, Lives Off of Tweezers and a Butter Knife

Queens man Raffi Stepanian tells the New York Post exclusively today that, "The streets of 47th Street are literally paved with gold." With typical NYC street character (or nut job) enthusiasm, Stepanian spends his days crawling around on the pavement in the Diamond District, where he uses tweezers, ... More >>

Live: Fool's Gold Day Off Party Turns into a Relay Rave

Fools Gold Day Off City Winery Monday, September 5 Better than: Catching bullets at a parade. New York City empties out on Labor Day weekend, but for the past two years those who've stuck around have been able to see behind the curtain on what's next, on what's nexter-than-next, and the emerging ... More >>

Our Art Director John Dixon Is a Rugged Maniac

Rugged Maniacs mud race: Brooklyn, NY 2011 from Village Voice Media on Vimeo. The Village Voice's art director John Dixon, who regularly kills it with his covers, is a man of many talents. The video above is of a 5K "adventure race and music festival" called Rugged Maniac that took place in Floyd Be ... More >>