The Home Depot Inc.

Brooklyn Couple Pockets $108K In Welfare Coin. They Also Own Three BMWs And A Lexus

Rivka Baror, 51, and her husband Avraham Baror, 64, have been living pretty high on the hog -- aside from owning not one but three BMWs, the couple also owns a Lexus, a comfortable two-bedroom home in Brooklyn, and drops a lot of cash at places like Victoria's Secret and Home Depot. Oh, yeah -- they ... More >>

The Wild Brew Yonder at Birreria

Eataly opens a beer garden high in the sky

Susan Marshall Gets Intimate

The veteran choreographer brings Frame Dances and Adamantine to the Baryshnikov Arts Center

Neo-Burlesque Can't Be Killed!

Photo by Lynette Astaire for Bust magazine​It's just too irresistible, with its blend of genders and genitals, saucy humor and body parts. Straights get off on the risque entertainment, and gays like it too--in fact, it's the only time they've been known to applaud stripping females. And so, ... More >>

Chains Change Alcohol Policy After Drunk Toddler Incidents, Inadvertently Make Better Drinks

​In addition to changing its decor to emulate the Home Depots farmhouses of Tuscany, Olive Garden is altering its beverage policy following an incident last month where a toddler was served sangria instead of orange juice. And the chain isn't alone: as Nation's Restaurant News reports, in the ... More >>

Huge Email Hack Reveals Customer Info From Target, JP Morgan and 50 More Big Brands

​The digital marketing firm Epsilon told its clients on Friday of "an unauthorized entry into Epsilon's email system," insisting it "was limited to email addresses and/or customer names only" and that no other information was at risk, but it's only now becoming clear just how widespread the ha ... More >>

Rightbloggers Counter Eco-Nazis' "Earth Hour" by Patriotically Wasting Electricity

This weekend, an unknown number of people worldwide participated in the fifth annual "Earth Hour" sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund. They turned off electricity to "take a stand against climate change." Landmarks were dimmed, but the effect on either energy consumption or awareness is unknown an ... More >>

Tomorrow's 'Supermoon' Will Be Super, Moon

via davedehetre​Watch your head tomorrow (Saturday) night: our moon will be closer to Earth than it has been in 18 years. It has been dubbed a "supermoon," and will only be 221,565 miles (roughly 1,871,781,120 VHS copies of Teen Wolf) from us. Due to the timing of its perigee -- space talk for ... More >>

The Queens Loft of Lush-Pop Band Sherlock's Daughter Is the Same Size As The World's Smallest Wal-Mart

all photos by Paul QuitorianoGuitarist Tim Maybury and singer Tanya Horo of Sherlock's Daughter, at their Queens kitchen table Last April, Sherlock's Daughter frontwoman Tanya Horo told YIMBY columnist Christopher Weingarten that she resided in "an Olympic swimming pool in Long Island City." That w ... More >>

Q&A: East River Pipe On His Sweet Merge Records Deal, Not Falling Off The Wagon, And How Working At Home Depot Is The Shit

"There are always exceptions -- black swans, lone wolves, whatever. And I'm one of those exceptions." Pic by Barbara Powers​As the rest of the indie-rock throng find success by getting in the van, crashing on icky floors, and playing an endless string of shows from one coast to the other, the ... More >>

More Glenn Beck Outrage: Right-wing Ranter Attacks Co-op City, the Bronx; Natives Up in Arms

​ "Well, there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade." This fine free advice, first offered by Humphrey Bogart to Nazi swill in Casablanca, is here offered to Glenn Beck who -- after offending almost all of America's rabbi's, as reported by our Jo ... More >>

The Haute Horror of Red White & Blue

Is It Possible to Sell Out in 2010?

​Today's New York Times brings a startling bit of news: the sneaker company Converse is opening a recording studio in the heart of Williamsburg, to be called Converse Rubber Tracks, where bands "deemed dedicated and needy enough" will be able to record for free. Artists selected to use the spa ... More >>

Sarah Sze's Return of the Real

The sculptor conjures a low-budget cosmos. Plus, Alejandro Almanza Pereda's concrete cascade.

Today in Depressing Trends: People Getting Married in T.J. Maxx, Home Depot

​Has society finally fallen into decadence, like the late Roman Empire? If this new "trend" is to be believed, then yes, indeed it has. Instead of the traditional church/City Hall route, people are now getting married in our new temples: retail stores and shitty chain restaurants.

Carl Kruger's Russian Secrets

State senator's big stash attracts the FBI

The Catio (Cat Patio) is a Must for Modern Cat Ladies and Gents

via The New York Times​The catio trend, introduced in The New York Times, is sure to explode in New York because we're all suckers for a good neologism. The same people who live in Nolita, Soho, or Tribeca, wear jeggings, and request Pomtinis at bars will not be able to resist a properly enclo ... More >>

Eataly, Chock Full o' Nuts Take Shape on 23rd Street

Oh, how coy.​ The north side of 23rd Street is alive with the rumblings of food-based commerce: just a few storefronts down from the monolithic Eataly space, "New York's Coffee Shop....Since 1932" coyly asks passersby, "Guess who's coming back?"

The City's Best (And Not So Best) Progressive Theater

En garde, avant-garde!

Booze News: A Rum Rebellion; Repeal Day Celebrations

​ A "rum rebellion" may be starting in the cocktail world, says the Times. As rum drinks gain popularity, rum bars are opening around the country, serving well-crafted sugar cane distillates, which are a bargain when compared with high-end whiskies and brandies. [NY Times] Distilling without ... More >>

Love Happens—A Male Weepie

¡Ask a Mexican! 'How Do I Explain a Dead Mexican in My Bed?'

Sign of Summer: Fireworks Busts

It may not feel like summer, but the season officially starts Sunday. There are a few harbingers: The cops have already made several fireworks arrests. On Staten Island on June 12, they stung Patrick McGraner of Atlantic Highlands, N.J. with an online ad. McGraner met his prospective buyer in a Ho ... More >>

Brad Paisley Salutes Great Women, Guitarists, Puns

A White Southern Family's Alterna-History Meets Reality in Moving Midway

Guess who's coming to dinner?

James Kerry Marshall, Black on Black

Defiant kitsch, at Jack Shainman

WEDNESDAY | 6.4

There Goes the Bowery. . . Again

Where did everything go? They're messin' with my frockin' town.

Press 1 for English, Pendejo

And boycott Absolut for caving like craven Swedes!

Special Year-End Edición

A grateful Mexican explains why your question is taking so long

Damien Hirst's Shark, Georges Seurat's Drawings, Scott Hug's Celebrity Silkscreens

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Night of the Exuberant Chuckleheads

No amount of dorky, proggy wankery can squash the joy of a Police reunion

Who Are I?

Theatre Askew plays the same-name game

Exiles From Main Street

Spaced out: The collective costs of suburban sprawl

Waiting for Reinforcements

The fighting won't end: Gearing up for another wave of homeless vets

Crafts Bizarre

Duct tape totes? Etsy's eBay-style craft community makes everyone a potential artisan

Oral Fixation: Mouths Wide Open at Splashy Pride Poetry Slam

Border Rapper's Got a Squeezebox; Baby Mamas Miss Osama at Night

Music

Power Vacuum

'Unmitigated Disaster' at the 50th Venice Biennale

Great Gatsby Dumplings

Northern Chinese in the Valley of Ashes

Boxed In

Networking at the New Museum

One-Bedroom Apartment in Art Deco Building

The Shops Around the Corner

Harvard's Shopping Guide; Prada; Century 21

I'll Cut the Fence, You Grab the Plutonium

Three-Bedroom Row House

Like, Zoiks!

Will the Citi Ever Weep?

The Bunker Brigade

How Survivalists Will Endure Y2K

Joe Rose in Spanish Harlem

Planning Commissioner Weighs Options for Factory Site