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"Only in New York!" and Six Other New York Sayings That Are Completely False

New Yorkers love talking about New York. And why not? Despite the innumerable songs, poems, novels, plays, and movies that have been written about the city, there just don't seem to be enough words to pin it down. Despite the limitless inspiration, the same tired old clichés about this town get tos ... More >>

Current TV Dropped By Time Warner Now That Al Jazeera Has Bought It

Al Gore and cofounder Joel Hyatt have sold the politically minded Current TV to the Arab TV network Al Jazeera, which is thrilled to have a stronger foothold in the American market. But Time Warner--which showed Current in both NYC and L.A.--has terminated its agreement with them now that they've ... More >>

WikiLeaks... The Movie?

Yes, you read that correctly and, yes, it looks like it could happen. "The man who leaked the world" has Hollywood up in arms and it's not because there is a Cablegate in the works for Tinsel Town. Let's not get our hopes up.According to the Hollywood Reporter, big studio executives are dueling it o ... More >>

'Robert Johnson at 100'

MSG Leverages the Linsanity: Last Night's Chinatown Watching Party

​Oh MSG Network, you're milking this thing for all it's worth, aren't you? Now that Jeremy Lin has become the biggest sports story for casual and non-sports fans since Tiger Woods got his putter in a jam, the totally uncharacteristic love for the Knicks this city is suddenly gripped by couldn ... More >>

Large Sections of Lower Manhattan Left Without Cable or Internet Today [Updated]

We've been hearing reports from all over the East Village and the Lower East Side that basically no one has had cable or Internet for the last day or so. The conspiracy-minded among us might think that this has something to do with the crooked super holding Time Warner hostage on Second Avenue, but ... More >>

East Village Super Held Time Warner Cable Hostage For 24 Hours

A very different hostage situation.​EV Grieve had a bizarre story yesterday about a crooked super in the East Village who's been holding a cable box hostage. And not just any cable box, but a node that controls the cable and internet for multiple buildings in the East Village. The super was al ... More >>

Debt Deal Passes; Mailman arrested for Diamond District Theft; Anders Behring Breivik Reportedly had Plastic Surgery in America to Look More Aryan

​Last night, President Obama announced that congressional leaders and the White House had made a deal to raise the debt ceiling. The agreement, which is expected to be voted through today, raises the debt ceiling $900 billion to get the country through the year. A special congressional committ ... More >>

Conde Nast Neglecting Reddit; Social News Site Scrounging Pennies With Subscriptions

​Reddit, the social news website and Digg competitor, occupies a very specific and important niche in the blogosphere. The site works generally like a suped-up message board, where a very involved community can not only respond to posts, but vote every reply up or down, lending validity to mor ... More >>

Thomas Keller to Open a Second Bouchon Bakery at Rockefeller Center

Coming soon to Midtown.​Today brings excellent news for fans of Bouchon's monolithic and life-altering Nutter Butter: Thomas Keller will open a second location of the bakery in Rockefeller Center. Flo Fab reports that it will replace Dean & Deluca, and will have 45 outdoor tables and no waiter ... More >>

NY1's iPhone App Generating Considerable Amount of Excitement

​New Yorkers are passionate about NY1. And now they can be even more passionate about NY1.

Fox and Time Warner cut a deal

​After weeks of high-stakes brinksmanship and a last-minute extension, Time Warner Cable cut a deal Friday night to pay an unspecified per-viewer fee to transmit Fox programming from News Corporation-0wned stations broadcasting in New York, Los Angeles, and a number of other major cities. Fox ... More >>

Fox, Time-Warner Make Short-Term Deal; Corporate Bowl Games Not Blacked Out

​Huzzah! Fox and Time Warner, who had been locked in a death struggle over broadcast fees that threatened to black out Fox programming on the cable provider, have agreed to keep the argument going for some days. This means you'll be able to watch your bowl games -- including the (AT&T) Cotton ... More >>

'Dough!': Time Warner and Fox Still At Impasse in Money Dispute; New Yorkers' TV Habits Imperiled; John Kerry Steps In

Meeting of the minds: On the latest edition of Fox's most serious news show, Smartline, Fox owner Rupert Murdoch and Homer Simpson discuss the dispute with Time Warner that threatens to keep Simpson's reality show from being beamed to millions of New Yorkers. It's the 11th hour of Time Warner's fig ... More >>

Fox-Time Warner War Heads to Inevitable, Customer-Gouging Conclusion

​You may have seen ads in the papers and on TV -- one in the form of a ransom note -- warning you that Fox TV may go off the air, and that it's either Fox's fault or carrier Time Warner's, depending on who is paying for the advertising. Fox wants the cable company to pay a "retransmission co ... More >>

The Decade in Film: A Timeline

A lot can happen in 10 years. Here, the highlights.

Pat Kiernan Bares His Inner Burt Reynolds (UPDATED!)

​What a morning for Time Warner customers in Brooklyn and Queens to get their cable service knocked out by high winds! What you might have missed: citing a hard-hitting business expose utterly stupid trend piece in the Wall Street Rupert Murdoch Vanity Project that claims male cleavage is mak ... More >>

Bloomberg Keeps His Billions Separate From His Mayoral Obligations? Yeah, Right!

This Week in the Voice

​Mike Bloomberg has a deal with the city that keeps his mayoralty separate from the business he founded. But Bloomberg the company has a way of benefiting on local deals even without the help of Bloomberg the Mayor. You may have noticed, for instance, that the Yankees' cable network used to be ... More >>

Daily News: Richard Parsons Has Love Child with Philanthropist

After "a glamorous career in the New York City fashion world," says 32-year-old MacDella Cooper (pictured), she started the MacDella Cooper Foundation "with the mission of empowering Liberian youth, especially orphans and abandoned children." Their collections are modest in this regard, and GuideSta ... More >>

Massa, Schumer Force Time Warner to Drop Tiered Internet Pricing

We mentioned Monday that Congressman Eric Massa (pictured) has been pushing a bill to outlaw tiered internet service, inspired by Time Warner Cable's attempt to introduce higher rates for heavy users in Rochester, New York, part of Massa's district, and two other jurisdictions. It looks as if Time W ... More >>

Massa Pushes Bill to Kill Tiered Internet Pricing

New York Democratic Congressman Eric Massa (pictured) is grabbing headlines while the grabbing's good. The recent pirate story gave him a chance to talk about his "Days of Patroling for Pirates" as a sailor. And Time Warner's threat of tiered internet service -- offering lower prices to light users, ... More >>

How Was The Super Bowl Halftime Show?

Damned if I know! My cable strangely died while it was on and the screen went blank, almost as if it were a sign from God--or at least Time Warner--that I should go back to my life of gay debauchery and not try to enter the wondrous world of sports, even if just to see some sparkly entertainment. ... More >>

From Soup to Nuts: Rightbloggers Enraged By Obama-Themed Products

The Inauguration approacheth! Last time we had one of these things, liberals complained of the cost, and conservatives defended it. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and we must expect it to kick. When conservatives kick, though, they give the ball plenty of spin. Donors to this year's Presiden ... More >>

DOUBLE TROUBLE

Take a stroll with Nick Kroll and John Mulaney

Tips on Dealing With Customer Service

Our Man Sietsema: 'Does Hummus Really Come Out of the Bovine Teat?

Next Tel

The days of old-fashioned phones are numbered. People, it's time to VoIP.

Malled and Appalled

So Glittering, So Depressing

La vie en rose: A bar by any other name wouldn't be as sweet

Five to Three

Merger mania picks back up; a smaller Warner gives up

Circling the Wagons

Why iTunes Won't Save the RIAA From Pirates, Downloads, Lost Product, and Ill Will

Fowl Snip

Executive Bitch Slapping

The Widening Wage Gap Between Male and Female Managers Is a Corporate Equivalent of the Cultural Backlash

Ski Writers vs. Moguls

Freelancers Accuse AOL of a Rights Grab

Screen Savers

Publishers Scramble to Make Electronic Books a Reality

The Incredible Shrinking Internet

When Cable Monopolies Rule the Web, Everyone Loses

You've Got Porn!

Fresh-Faced AOL Feels Up Smut For Profit

Hollywood Babble On

Easy, Senators! There’s enough money for everybody.

Broadband for the Masses

Vermont Puts New York to Shame

Homeboys and Girls

Sex Crimes of the Hip Hop Generation

Vital Signs

New Media Savants Check the Pulse of Silicon Alley

China’s Brutal Police State

Fifty Years of State Terrorism

Genuflecting Before Jiang Zemin

Blood on CEOs’ Profits

Letters

Press Lords Bow to a Torturer

Time Warner and Human Rights

Chasing the Dragon

Time Warner Goes to China and Gets Shanghaied by Its Hosts

Take This

Cable-Ready or Not

Giuliani and the City Council Fight for Control Over Franchises

20 Questions