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A$AP Rocky Lights Up The City

Harlem's crack-slinging bad boy cleans up, puts New York rap back on the map

If the Department of Health Graded Racial Diversity

Last night, I saw one of these plastered on a Banana Republic advertisement on West Broadway. The sign looked very much like one issued by the Department of Health after one of its complicated, letter-graded inspections. But this B was awarded for "Believable Grouping with Ethnically-Mixed Individua ... More >>

Man Posts Epic Craigslist Missed Connection for Girl Who Held His iPhone Hostage

​The Lower East Side can be hellish on weekends, sure. Sometimes it can be really hellish, especially on Halloween, when some teenager holds your iPhone hostage and the night degenerates into an almost-brawl in a pizza parlor in which your friends are chasing the girl around, calling her a bit ... More >>

You Better Work: 21 Music-Heavy Fashion's Night Out Events

Nicki Minaj performs at Yves Saint Laurent tonight. ​Let's be honest: Shopping isn't really the main attraction of Fashion's Night Out. Who has time to sift through sales racks when there are so many parties to go to? Some events—Drake's DJ set at Versace, Neon Indian's invite-only gig a ... More >>

Fashion's Night Out Preview: Must-Go Spots

​Back in 2009 when Fashion's Night Out launched, Anna Wintour, the brainchild behind the event, aimed to celebrate the fashion industry and its consumers with an all-night party at shops and department stores throughout the city, in an attempt to spruce up retail sales in the wake of the marke ... More >>

Dov Charney Staring Down Chapter 11: American Apparel Still Facing Financial Woes

​Although Dov Charney told Runnin' Scared recently that he has the full confidence of the board that bailed out his company last year, the New York Post reports otherwise today. "My assessment of Lion Capital is that they're a very good financial partner and they would not lose confidence in m ... More >>

Top 10 Greatest Kool Keith Aliases

Schizophrenic rap oddballs come no more intriguing than Kool Keith. With a catalogue over 50 different personas and aliases--whether it be the kinky cape-wearing Spankmaster or the very familial John Clayborne Cousin of Jimmy Hicks--the Bronx-born Kool Keith leads the rap world in split-personalit ... More >>

Dov Charney Is Not Sweating 'Fraudulent' Sexual Abuse Claims, Bankruptcy: Q&A

​Troubled clothing company American Apparel is all over the news again. This time, though, the situation seems dire. CEO Dov Charney, who we've spoken to in the past, is being sued for an enormous sum of money by five former employees alleging sexual abuse. Stop us if you've heard this one bef ... More >>

The Top Ten Best Worst Singing Rappers

​These days, there's nothing attention grabbing about rappers who sing, whether it's Andre 3000's amped squawk, an Auto-Tune-enabled Kanye West, or Lil Wayne's upcoming Riker's Island shower room spirituals. This week the canon sees new album additions from one-time Goodie Mob member Cee-Lo Gr ... More >>

Magnolia Bakery Lampooned by Unison Fetish Dance

Residents of Bleecker Street ran to their windows on several weekends in September as a line of dancers clad in hot-pink dresses snaked their way up the thoroughfare singing in unison an odd ditty about consumerism.

Rating the Ridiculous Musical Performances of Fashion Week 2010 (So Far)

As much of the Boom Boom Room as you're ever likely to see. Twitpic via grekotv​Fashion Week is a biannual rite in New York, and with it comes another biannual rite--awkward, private late night performances from bands that are either at the center of the zeitgeist (Kanye West on the bar at the ... More >>

In California, the Happy Meal Goes the Way of the Dodo Bird; Donatella Arpaia Dons Chef's Whites

​Santa Clara County, south of San Francisco, has decided to ban Happy Meal and other promotional toys that often accompany kids' meals at fast-food chains. [NY Times] The recipe-testing battle between Food52.com and Cook's Illustrated continues, and the results will be posted on Slate. [ABC N ... More >>

Your Big, Honking Guide to Haiti Benefits and Valiantly Intentioned Fundraising Efforts, Non-Wyclef Musical Edition

If this doesn't say it all, don't know what does Wyclef's Yele charity has recently drawn a firestorm of criticism, but he's not the only musical figure trying to mobilize folks and funds on behalf of Haiti. There's also an impressive number of benefit concerts and music events happening in the cit ... More >>

IN THE NUDE

Before Photoshop, there was real perfection

Mrs. Seinfeld's Cookbook Does Not Rip Off Lapine's, Judge Rules

​A judge has ruled that a cookbook written by Jerry Seinfeld's wife Jessica does not infringe the copyright of a cookbook written by one Missy Chase Lapine. Lapine had charged that Seinfeld's book, Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food, ripped off her book, Th ... More >>

"Come Back Mickey Rourke!" Cries His Friend

Recession update: Cheapo bashes; home alone with Altoids.

Trash Talking with Harvey Weinstein

Juicy details plucked from the garbage of a movie mogul

There Goes the Bowery. . . Again

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

Coney Est Mort, Vive Coney!

Trapped in the Closet

The dubious highs and extreme lows of Fashion Week

The Birthday Party

Reminisces on last night's, last year's, and the last half-decade's parties as Fly Life turns five

What a Year That Was

NYC nightlife luminaries fondly recall what they can still remember from 2006

Axl Rose: Still Crazy

Me Old Bamboo

Tougher than oak, cooler than lino

Do You Want Fashion, or Do You Want the Truth?

An interview with Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll, our favorite candid designer

Come to Bed

Scents and Sensibility

Smelling Like a Tsar

Monumental Errors

Can the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Campaign Be Saved?

Rocks in the Shape of Billy Martin

The First Days of Baseball on the Eternal Diamond

Music

How Soon Is Now?

William Gibson's Present Tense

Hip-Hop Goes Commercial

Rappers Give Madison Avenue a Run for Its Money

'Tis the Season

An Afternoon on 14th Street

Dream Weavers

The Fall 2002 Fashion Shows

Fronting for the Enemy

Gay Men Who Make Homophobic Rappers Look Good

Island Captive

Life on the Outside

After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined

Life on the Outside

After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined

Blacktop Gods

The Pros Come to Run, but the Playground Legends Still Own Rucker

Redressing Chanel

Karl, Coco, and the Met

NY Mirror

Rock in a Hard Place

Style Slumps at the Met

Chris Paciello’s Double Life

Dr. Jekyll in Miami, Mr. Hyde in Manhattan

For Common Threads

The Spring 2000 Fashion Shows

Watching the Clothes Go Round

In Search of the Fashion Don't

A Season on the Brink

With Stephon Marbury, The Nets are on the verge of greatness . . . again

Cool and the Gang

The Fall '99 Collections

Sikh and You Shall Find

The American face of arranged marriage.

Out of Uniform

The Board of Education's ballyhooed school dress code may not be so smart