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Stoya, Pop Star of Porn

The Internet explodes for Brooklyn's own Stoya, America's sweetheart of smut

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Jon Hamm: Stop Talking About My Privates!

"They're called privates for a reason," the Mad Men star tells Rolling Stone, perturbed at the wave of gossip reports about the way his giant Hamm often seems to show through his pants. "When people feel the freedom to create Tumblr accounts about my cock, I feel like that wasn't part of the deal," ... More >>

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Q&A: Jami Attenberg on Her New Novel, The Middlesteins -- and What Is or Isn't Feminist Writing

Plus, a few words about Brooklyn

3 Good Things: Vintage Carving Manuals, Corn Butter

[See More 3 Good Things: Hamsters in the Kitchen | Universal Tea Machine | Lobster Dress] 1 This art historian's Tumblr focuses entirely on the odd pleasures of the early modern banquet. So, a lot of fun snippets from old European carving manuals and great illustrations. [Tumblr] 2 A cleverly desi ... More >>

3 Good Things: Cookbooks, Music, Leftovers

[See More 3 Good Things: Marijuana in the Kitchen | Anisette, Blueberries, Tumblr | Mackerel, Confetti, Crumbs] 1 The Bangor Museum and History Center is republishing The Sanitary Fair Cookbook, which contains recipes for 99 dishes sold at a three-day fair in Bangor back in 1864, including jellies, ... More >>

Selling a Newly Out Armed Forces

The Pentagon makes sure the public supports 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal

Live: Kitty Pryde Has A Graduation Party At The Knitting Factory

Kitty Pryde Knitting Factory Friday, June 15 Better than: Karmin. What do you want to know about Kitty Pryde's New York debut that you haven't already read? The Wall Street Journal told you Donald Glover was there somewhere taking pictures, as was Tao Lin, who was tweeting with Kitty backstage und ... More >>

New York Totally Prefers Hillary Clinton To Andrew Cuomo: Poll

New Yorkers heart Hil a lot more than their gov -- so much that they would pick her over Andrew Cuomo 60-25 percent in a presidential primary. In a new poll commissioned by the New York Daily News, 400 city Dems said that they would pick Clinton, who beat Barack Obama by 17 points in the state's 20 ... More >>

Q&A: Joey Bada$$ On Singing Biggie At Two, Tumblr Stalkers, And Finishing High School

Joey Bada$$ is perched over a Pac-Man tabletop arcade machine at a neighborhood bar in Flatbush. With a glass of Sprite resting on the video game's screen, he confesses that he's never played Pac-Man before, gives a laugh, and says, "I probably suck at this." Bada$$'s lack of experience at early-'8 ... More >>

City Unveils New Pothole Filling Machine; Mayor Watches as it Slowly Does the Job

Outdoor press conference! Taking a break from his typical indoor news conferences, Mayor Mike Bloomberg today took advantage of the absurdly beautiful March weather outside to unveil a new pothole filling machine and to launch "road paving season," when the city resurfaces streets across the five ... More >>

The Creator Of The Save Sue Simmons! Tumblr Explains His Campaign, Affection For Sue

This week New Yorkers learned that beloved foul-mouthed WNBC anchor Sue Simmons' contract would not be renewed. Now the whisperings as to who is going to be taking her place are already starting. But the reaction to the news of Simmons' impending departure was impassioned. The Times even chronicled ... More >>

How To Pretend You're At SXSW: A Brief Field Guide

Is your Twitter feed feeling a little extra insufferable today? Do you hear the sort of "I'm at a really cool event and you're not" echo running through the Internet? Are you suddenly craving Tex Mex and you're not sure why? That's because the South by Southwest Conference has begun! And you're not ... More >>

T-Minus Three Hours Until The Oscars: Some Hopes And Anticipations

via​Unless you've been living in a box, you're aware that the Oscars are tonight. While we won't be live-blogging the event like we did last year, we do have some hopes and anticipations for tonight's ceremony. So get in your gown (you do have one, don't you?), sit down in front of your laptop ... More >>

Orient Express' Sam Ziar on Romantic Cocktails

​ Sam Ziar tends the bar at Orient Express, one of the West Village's most romantic spots. Today, on Valentine's Day, he expects to be one busy man, but he took some time out to talk to Fork in the Road about his favorite winter ingredients and what makes a great Valentine's Day drink.  

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The Winners Of The 2011 Village Voice Web Awards

​It's finally here! The 2011 Web Awards winners have been chosen. Check em out after the jump, and check back tomorrow for highlights from the awards show, including our video for the lifetime achievement award!

Proposed Names for New Elements Released (They're Not Snappy at All)

​If the periodic table were an exclusive club, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry would be the overgrown doorman holding the clipboard. To extend this awkward analogy, over the summer, two new names were added onto the bouncer's list: element 114 and element 116. These two a ... More >>

Protester Would Like You to Pay His Bills For Duration of Occupy Wall Street

​An Occupy Wall Street organizer has found a creative solution that many hard-core protesters face: How do you Occupy full-time and pay the bills? In Dicey Troop's case, the answer is: Ask the Internet to send you money. Troop is one of the people who manages the @LibertySqGA account, which ... More >>

Live: Frank Ocean Returns To The Bowery Ballroom For The First Time

​Frank Ocean Bowery Ballroom Sunday, November 27 Better than: Canceling an hour before showtime. This March, Frank Ocean released the free mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra on Tumblr, and it was subsequently passed around like a sex tape, picking up steam with every like, every reblog, every retweet, ... More >>

Q&A: Pitchfork Reviews Reviews On Emailing Strangers And Publishing A Zine

​Almost a year and a half after starting a Tumblr dedicated to reviewing each of the five reviews that appear on Pitchfork every day, David Shapiro—colloquially known by the name of his blog, Pitchfork Reviews Reviews—is releasing The World's First Perfect Zine, a New York Times-ment ... More >>

Nominate Stuff For the Village Voice Web Awards!

​ The second Village Voice Web Awards are on December 7th, and that means you have plenty of time to cast your nominations. We want to know your favorite bloggers, Tumblr-ers, tweeters, etc, so that we can reward those people handsomely with our appreciation.

Q&A: Tanlines' Jesse Cohen On Winning The Best Band Twitter In NYC Award, Zucchini-Borne Controversies, And Comedy As Soccer

Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm of Tanlines. ​Giving the Best Local Music Twitter award in our Best of NYC issue to @tanlines was pretty much a no-brainer. The account, which is run by the duo's Jesse Cohen, is heavy on the wry observational humor and light on the "come see our band" or "here's someb ... More >>

New Tumblr 'Halloween or Williamsburg' Invites You To See If You Can Tell the Difference

​Dressed for the holiday, or wearing their normal attire? A new Tumblr called "Halloween or Williamsburg" chronicles the street dress of Billyburg, perhaps channeling the early website -- now extinct -- called "Gay or European," which invited the viewer to examine pictures of guys with funny ... More >>

Do You Own a Kindle? 2% of People Don't Know If They Do

​Amazon's Kindle is such a popular product, some people don't even know if they own one. The above picture, via Cord Jefferson's Tumblr, is from a poll conducted by the Puget Sound Business Journal. They found that 41% of their savvy readers own Kindles while 57% do not. 2% of respondents, how ... More >>

Are Cops Telling Women Not to Wear Skirts Because of the Brooklyn Rapist?

According to this piece in the Wall Street Journal, cops have been telling women in the areas affected by the Slope Sex Fiend (or whatever it is we're calling him/them) to avoid wearing skirts and shorts because it's "easy access." A young woman named Lauren is quoted saying that she and two friends ... More >>

Twitter's First Homepage Was a Bit Clunky

​ "If you have a cell and can txt, you'll never be bored again...EVER!" Keep in mind that this is from 2006.

Michele Bachmann's Book Cover Revealed; We Make It Steve Buscemi-y

​Michele Bachmann has had quite a week! Besides being on the cover of this week's Voice (where we reveal that we actually agree with her campaign against fluorescent light bulbs!) and causing a ruckus about HPV during national debates, and generally just staying in the news, as she is wont to ... More >>

What's on Steve Buscemi's Stoop? We Talk With the Guy Behind the Tumblr

​Have you heard of the Tumblr called What's on Steve Buscemi's Stoop? On it, a man who is not Steve Buscemi but happens to live near him chronicles the interesting, bizarre, and mundane miscellany placed out on Steve Buscemi's stoop by, it can generally be assumed, Steve Buscemi. He's been at ... More >>

Son Lux's We Are Rising: How To Make An Album In 28 Days

​Tonight at Public Assembly the Brooklyn musician Ryan Lott—d/b/a Son Lux—will perform in honor of the release of his new album We Are Rising. The album was created earlier this year as part of the RPM Challenge—it's like National Novel-Writing Month for records, only a bit m ... More >>

Artists Make Potholes Pretty

​Two photographers have turned at least two of New York City's potholes into bona fide works of art. In the world of married couple Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano, a pothole is no longer simply a menace that jolts you face first into the Taxi TV when you're riding in a cab. Instead it is Ali ... More >>

Guy Who Likes Fat Chicks Going to Be on the Radio Talking About Liking Fat Chicks

Sam Zide Dan Weiss, the self-described Guy Who Likes Fat Chicks recently profiled in the Voice, will be on the radio tomorrow morning at 6:20 a.m. EST, talking about liking fat chicks. Morning After is the show, 104.5 WSNX is the station, and West Michigan radio-jerk Broadway will be Weiss's inquisi ... More >>

Did Tumblr and 4chan Crash Each Other Again?

​Just like last November, the blogging platform Tumblr and the anarchic message board 4chan seem to have taken one another offline this afternoon. Both sites look like they've suffered from some sort of server meltdowns, possibly as a result of a DDos attacks, which bring down websites by send ... More >>

Sad Japanese Cat Is Reportedly Safe!

via​Yesterday we posted an image of a cat in Japan that seemed to be just hanging on with the most heart-wrenching of expressions above what we, given the timing, interpreted as tsunami water. We would like to correct ourselves. It turns out that the photo, which had been reblogged by WNYC's T ... More >>

This Weekend's NYC Rally Round-Up

LIFE.com ​With sparks flaring across the globe, from the Middle East to the Midwest and even our very own SoHo, what seems to be a moment for change is spreading rapidly. This weekend, New Yorkers will take to the streets in honor of two particularly relevant issues: women's health, and violen ... More >>

This is a Photo of Das Racist's Himanshu Suri Holding a Photo of Himself in the Village Voice

Nate "Igor" Smith And Nate "Igor" Smith took both photos. Your move, Fake Das Racist. [Driven By Boredom's Tumblr]

Women Building Bridge Over Media Gender Gap; NY Times Quotes Anonymous Commenter

​At the beginning of 2011, the writer and reader Anne Hays published a much-discussed open letter to The New Yorker, decrying the lack of female voices in recent issues and demanding a refund should the gender imbalance not at least move toward righting itself. In the weeks since, the women's ... More >>

The Daily Praises iPads With Gabrielle Giffords, Gets Bootlegged on Day Two

​It's day two of Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper, The Daily, which launched yesterday to many tweets. Already, they're dominating the online media conversation, in certain circles, but not just for the 360-degree photographs. This morning, the paper-less paper teased a "touching interview" wit ... More >>

Marty Markowitz Apparently Likes to Eat

Marty Markowitz Eating​Because there is no job too small for Tumblr, the world now has Marty Markowitz Eating to further its procrastination. It's just photos and the occasional video of the Brooklyn borough president with food. The only problem is that he's almost never actually eating; he's ... More >>

Four Loko is Dead: SNL, Social Networks and Street Corners; Let's Stop Talking About It

Consider the shark jumped. The $3 canned beverage, both caffeinated and alcoholic, has already been banned in New York, with distributors halting their local deliveries on Friday, and now we here at Runnin' Scared are moving to ban the drink from the internet. Our teeth are shivering from the sugar ... More >>

Media Moves: Doree Shafrir to Rolling Stone

​Doree Shafrir -- who was responsible for, among other things, being one-half of the author of the blog-to-book phenomenon that was Postcards from Yo Momma and being responsible for the "Hipster Grifter" story during her tenure at the New York Observer in addition to being among the few to sur ... More >>

Dear Rest-of-America: Take This Map, It's Why You're Wrong About the "Ground Zero Mosque"

​According to a recent Siena Research Institute poll, 50% of New Yorkers think that the "Ground Zero Mosque" will promote racial and religious tolerance. Yet: 68% of Americans oppose it, despite the endorsements of New York City's mayor and the President of the United States of America. But th ... More >>

Sesame Street: Your Social Media Success Story of the Day

​They have a Twitter. They are on Facebook. And as of yesterday, the 41 year-old children's television standard-bearer is now a part of the infamous media obsession, Tumblr. This is of course exclusive from the FUCK YEAH SESAME STREET Tumblr (?!), but is wonderful no less. Want to see what the ... More >>

Special Announcement: A Runnin' Scared Staffing Change, Or "Fly on, Albatross!"

​It's Friday, and we here at Runnin' Scared have an exciting, bittersweet staffing announcement to make to cap this week off with. One of our own is moving on.

The Worst Opening Sentence in a Novel Is Pretty Disgusting, But Real Life Is Worse

​Novelist Molly Ringle has been awarded the Bulwer-Lytton prize for the worst opening sentence of the year, and, well, here it is, folks, straight from her book, The Ghost Downstairs: "For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous wi ... More >>

10 Ways the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Newspaper War Could Get Uglier

The fight between the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times has started! And while we wait to find out if anyone actually gives a shit, we couldn't help but already notice just how ugly it's been so far. And now, the potential for dirty competition beyond this thing's current condition! Just ho ... More >>

Guerrilla Digital Billboard Launches in Brooklyn

​DoTank:Brooklyn calls itself "a public vessel for interdisciplinary exploration, engagement and enhancement of our urban environment through means that are outside of the formal urban planning process." Tonight, that means projecting user-contributed photos on a Tumblr-powered website from an ... More >>

Meet New York's Sex Bloggers

The 12 months of the internet’s sultriest sharers