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April 13, 2011
The Next Food Network Stars? Not Quite.
WikipediaThe one "real" starBeing the Next Food Network Star is kind of like being Top Chef, Minus the chef aspect. But ultimately it can be much more lucrative than winning the $100,000 on the Bravo show, since it's an opportunity to build a brand...or is it?
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April 11, 2011
Top Chef Shilling Doesn't End! Angelo Sosa to Rep Porsche
Twitter/AngeloASosaAngelo Sosa, Chef of Social Eatz. Lover of Carz.Richard Blais isn't the only Top Chef contestant lending his good looks and culinary cred (or, now, lack thereof) to major companies. Now word comes that Angelo Sosa has teamed up with Porsche to cook a "series of performanc ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Food Trucks Mark Onset of Spring With Turf Wars
Ben Heine/FlickrSeasonal rebirth. Handcuffs not pictured.It's not even really warm yet, and already, we're getting flashbacks to last summer's food truck turf wars.
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April 3, 2011
Bronx Zoo Cobra Name Contest Disappointing So Far
It's time for us to get serious about naming the Bronx Zoo cobra. The submissions are rolling in and they're terrible. The Houdini theme is popular (get it -- because she escaped out of her cage): "Bronxdini," "Zoodini," etc. Jesus -- Bronxdini? "Twitter" is also an early front-runner.
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March 21, 2011
Souvlaki GR Is Opening Today, Schnitzel & Things Is Not
Rebecca MarxA few days after we remarked upon the flowers bedecking its facade, Souvlaki GR has opened to the public.
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March 21, 2011
Happy 5th Birthday, Twitter!
Twitter, what would we do without you? Thank goodness we don't have to consider that a possible reality. The very first tweet in the history of tweets was sent five years ago today, on March 21, 2006. It has since been improved upon, mightily. Via CBS: McGinnis reports that Twitter launched ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Q&A: Neko Case On The Charity Drawing For Her 1967 Mercury Cougar, Her Poor Twitter Etiquette, And The Beastmaster
"My hugest goal was to get a Retweet from Questlove, because he has all these followers and he's so great. And he totally gave me one! I was like, 'This is a Twitter victory!'" Act now and all this (well, the car at least) could be yoursThe cover of Neko Case's 2009 album, Middle Cyclone, fe ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Enough With the Kiddie Chefs, Already
Having already chewed up and spit out Greg Grossman, the media has started in on a second course of the little Andrews sisters.
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March 15, 2011
The Stupidest Things Said About Japan on the Internet
viaWe always love to say that "tragedy brings out the best in people." Unfortunately, that's not always the case. As we documented earlier, people flocked to Twitter and Facebook in droves to celebrate the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami, which have been responsible for thousands u ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
The Charlie Sheen Internship Program: This Is What Happens If You Get to Round Two
Before we all unfollowed Charlie Sheen on Twitter (we did, didn't we?), we learned that he was looking for an intern. Congrats to Runnin' Scared reader Alec Jacobs for making the cut out of the initial 82,148 applicants! He got this email, subject line TeamSheen #TigerBloodIntern Next Round this ver ... More >>
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March 11, 2011
Did CNN Anchor Rosemary Church Make a Godzilla Joke About the Earthquake in Japan?
Twitter's angry faceSurprise: Twitter is outraged about something that probably never happened. The day's horrible events in Japan and worldwide have resulted in a huge outcry of support for the victims online, but one that's been punctuated by the strange Twitter trending of the term "Godzil ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Unfollow Charlie Sheen on Twitter on Friday! Voices From the Movement
Have you unfollowed Charlie Sheen on Twitter yet? If not, are you prepared to? You have two more days to decide before Worldwide Global Unfollow Charlie Sheen on Twitter Day, a day of reckoning, a day of justice, a day to end enabling. We've given you our reasons for unfollowing (spelling "Ko ... More >>
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March 8, 2011
15 People You Should Follow on Twitter Instead of @CharlieSheen
It's not that we want to take all the joy out of your life, really it's not! It's just that freedom from Charlie Sheen will be better for all of us, him included. And, really, the world (and Twitter) is chock-full of other people saying funny, even hilarious), informative, not abusive-to-wome ... More >>
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March 1, 2011
Kings County Jerky Co. Now Has a Home in Bushwick
Rebecca MarxThe Kings County Jerky Co., the Brooklyn beef jerky concern we first told you about more than a year ago, now has a permanent home.
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February 25, 2011
Jeff Mangum at Town Hall Tickets Sell Out Instantly, And a Twitter Nation Laments
At 11 a.m., New Yorkers got their long awaited, announced in advance, ticketed-and-everything, first official Neutral Milk Hotel show (slated for October 29th) in a long, long time. And at 11:01 a.m., perhaps unsurprisingly, it was already over--if LCD Soundsystem can sell out Madison Square Garde ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
LCD Soundsystem Shows Take Longer Than 15 Seconds To Sell Out, As Twitter Rejoices
LCD Soundsystem have finally succeeded at getting tickets into the hands of people other than scalpers. The group's four warm-up gigs at Terminal 5 went on sale this morning at 9 A.M. and, to the delight of many a James Murphy fan, took almost an hour to sell out completely. While this may seem li ... More >>
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February 21, 2011
Snow, Snow, Snow, Etc.; Beloved Twitter Apps Return; Man Finds Wallet After 40 Years
• Happy Presidents Day! In case you haven't noticed yet, it snowed. Central Park was reporting 2.5 inches as of this morning. There's a chance of more snow over the afternoon, and again tonight. [Weather, NY1] • Protests in Libya against Muammar Qaddafi's totalitarian rule are spreading, ... More >>
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February 15, 2011
Did Twitter Crash Today? No, But Your 3rd-Party Twitter Client Probably Did
Logging onto Twitter today and seeing a white screen titled "@anywhere boosh" was not uncommon for millions of Twitter users. Screams across the Village Voice offices were heard as our TweetDecks mysteriously just stopped updating themselves automatically. Whatever would we do with the ineffi ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
The Rageful Tweets of A Nation of LCD Soundsystem Fans Defeated By Ticketmaster
It's official: LCD Soundsystem will say farewell on April 2, 2011, at Madison Square Garden, to an audience comprised entirely of ticket scalpers and StubHub captcha bots. It was a grim scene this morning on Ticketmaster and Twitter, where LCD fans went first to one and then the other, crying out ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
How Much Are Your Tweets Worth? Nicki Minaj Defies the Math
Now that Justin Bieber has his own movie, it's clear that he's more important than you are. But have you ever wondered how much better he is at Twitter than you are? Luckily, our friends at Esquire have come up with the perfect way of calculating just that. They've developed a formula to dete ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
Best Coast Cat-Lady Stats Update: Check The Tweets
So yesterday we conducted an in-depth analysis of Best Coast's lyrics, to chart the frequency with which she sings the words "boy," "love," "summer," "weed," and "cat," as compared to the frequency with which her critics/admirers use those same words to describe her. General findings: The general pu ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Top Five Train-Wreck Rappers
The Berkley-based rapper Lil B plays the Highline Ballroom on Thursday; for curious New York gawkers, it's a chance to see the world's foremost proponent of a new movement you could kindly term train-wreck rappers -- those artists whose every youthful indiscretion, ill-advised comment, physic ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Twitter Language Differs Regionally, Except When It Doesn't, According to Real Research
The least conclusive (but most fun!) study of the day is probably the one from Carnegie Mellon University, which says that Twitter has "geographical dialects," but only sometimes. Researchers dug through 380,000 messages from one week back in March 2010, and concluded that you could sort of s ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Bristol Palin Did Not Call Sarah Palin "Lame" on Twitter, Unfortunately
A mysteriously inflammatory tweet appeared yesterday by @Bristol_Palin criticizing Sarah Palin's Twitter use. Unfortunately the real Bristol Palin does not use Twitter, as evidenced by the fact that if Bristol Palin really wrote that, it would already be deleted and she would be on Fox News d ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
Rhett Miller
A mysteriously inflammatory tweet appeared yesterday by @Bristol_Palin criticizing Sarah Palin's Twitter use. Unfortunately the real Bristol Palin does not use Twitter, as evidenced by the fact that if Bristol Palin really wrote that, it would already be deleted and she would be on Fox News d ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
New Yorkers Eating Worse, With More Denial; Sidewalk Sinkhole on Delancey; Fires Break Out in East Village
• New Yorkers (and Americans in general) are eating worse than they think they are, according to a new Consumer Reports poll. 90 percent said their diets were healthy, and yet ate a bunch of crap. And then there are those of us who know full well our diets are not healthy. Two slices of col ... More >>
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January 3, 2011
Andrew Cuomo Hazed With Fake Twitter
In his inaugural address on Saturday, Governor Andrew Cuomo called the New York state government "a national punchline." And "the joke's on us," he said. Over the weekend, the joke was actually just on the new Gov. Cuomo as his fresh official website, which went live this weekend, unveiled hi ... More >>
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December 5, 2010
Columbia University Warns Students Against Mentioning WikiLeaks in Public
Not a Columbia gradThe School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University sent out an email warning students not to talk about WikiLeaks on the internet if they hope to ever work in the State Department. The school, which aims to construct new diplomats from scraps of old diplo ... More >>
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November 29, 2010
Sound of the City Is Now on Facebook!
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we've finally joined the 21st Century--please like us on Facebook, where we've just signed up, after seeing a little movie called The Social Network. And, as always, you can follow us on Twitter too, at @soundofthecity. If you don't, we'll shoot this adorable baby p ... More >>
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November 29, 2010
Taïm Mobile Will Probably Hit Midtown Tomorrow
Taï's superb sabich.At long last, and just in time for Hanukkah, Taïm Mobile will hit the road tomorrow. According to the truck's Twitter feed, it's "hoping to be out 2morrow" following an "exciting soft-opening over the weekend." And like every other four-wheeled food venture, it w ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
Marco Canora Talks Turkey and Twitter: Interview Part 2
Food NetworkDoes Marco Canora use this knife to cut turkey sandwiches? Yesterday we chatted with Marco Canora about his appearing on The Next Iron Chef. Today, the Hearth chef and co-owner of Terroir and Terroir Tribeca predicts the next big trends in dining.
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November 16, 2010
The Best Of The #beatlesasMP3s Hashtag
So Beatles-on-iTunes day is almost over. We all survived. No sales records were broken -- in fact, Dr. Luke would like to point out that Ke$ha remains atop the charts. And yet the day was a rousing success in terms of Twitter Comedy -- join us now as we survey the best of the #beatlesasMP3s hashta ... More >>
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October 30, 2010
The Village Voice Guide to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
ViaIf there's a possibility that you care, then you already know: today is Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall in Washington D.C. A bunch of liberals and reporters are currently making their way to our nation's capital by any means necess ... More >>
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October 27, 2010
New York Landmarks Continue Social Media Revolution: The New York Public Library, Empire State Building
It seems like everyone is "joining" Twitter or "getting" a Tumblr these days. Especially in the case of certain New York City landmarks, who are taking to social networking like digitized screen-saver fish to a watery stream of information.
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October 25, 2010
Press Clips: Do Not Let Robert Thomson Behead Anyone This Week, Please
VICTORY! for a New York City newspaper, while the rest are going down, down, in an earlier round. A new, familiar byline at New York's Vulture, and a new, familiar byline at AgencySpy. The iPad is still just The iPad, but Twitter is definitely still Twitter. Howard Kurtz at The Daily Beast is sti ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
Lindsay Lohan Undergoing Rehab for Tweet-diction
Poor LiLo is now cut off from not only drugs, booze, and any number of bad-influencing enablers, but also from email and Twitter, which, apparently, she has an compulsion toward as well, addictive personalities being what they are. Sources say that she can only use the phone for two hours a d ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Malcolm Gladwell Officially Loses Battle with Twitter
Let us all take a moment in honor of irony, that cute little concept that makes awkward things so funny, like when Outliers author Malcolm Gladwell takes a giant crap on Twitter in his recent New Yorker interview and blog post, and shortly thereafter, has his working methodology outed by Jo ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
The Further Adventures Of 50 Cent's Twitter Account
Here he is with the flight attendant who allegedly had a lot to say about Puffy's bathroom regimen50 Cent's Twitter page is going to get someone arrested. Possibly him. Possibly you. It's no surprise, of course, in this age of the Twitter-obsessed rapper, that 50 would take to the format with ... More >>
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September 9, 2010
A Pop Star's Guide to Making Music on Twitter
A couple days ago, zeitgeisty rapper B.o.B stopped by Chelsea Handler's talk show. There, he disclosed an interesting detail: despite the fact that he and Paramore's Hayley Williams share dual billing on what is far and away the biggest song of his career, "Airplanes," the two have never met ... More >>
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September 7, 2010
Imprisoned Journalist Tweets from Afghanistan while Astronaut Tweets from Space
via the Committee to Protect Journalists Kosuke Tsuneoka, free from Afghanistan prison after five monthsAfter five months of imprisonment in Afghanistan, Japanese journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka is a free man. His captors, an Islamic militant group, set him free this weekend, and while the exact r ... More >>
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August 27, 2010
Week in Review: You Rejected the Youth
Goodbye to all that. Photo by Sam Horine.In the week one of our team successfully transitioned into the "expert" phase of her juggalo fascination, the rest of us just kind of got silly. Hence: the top ten songs named "Fuck You" or the immediate equivalent; Jay-Z's ten most shameful rock and r ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
Dictionary's Attempt to Capture Groovy Hip-Speak of Our Time Proves a Buzzkill
The Oxford Dictionary of English really, really, really wants to be cool. Its latest edition, out now, includes 200 new phrases, from chill pill to staycation and more! This is not the Oxford English Dictionary, by the way, which presumably would never deign to include "chillax" on its pages, ... More >>
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August 15, 2010
Fat Tweets: Twitter Bug Allows Way Over 140 Characters, Gone in a Flash
On Saturday, a bug with a new Twitter URL-shortener shook the fabric of the universe, allowing tweets to go well over 140 characters if you were nerdy enough to a) be at home and online during the small window of time and b) get it to work. Scrambling on weekend hours, the good folks at Twitt ... More >>
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August 3, 2010
Kanye West Will Spend Your Annual Income In A Week And Terrorize Your Child Via Twitter
Kanye's teeth next to Steven Holme's former profile pic. Coincidence? We think not. Kanye West joined Twitter last week. Elaborate Web Shenanigans ensued. Here are our favorites.
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July 30, 2010
Week in Review: Bootcut Shorts
May we all look this relaxed in this situation. Photo by Sam Horine.In the week the words "Kanye West" became synonymous with social media, the rapper performed at Facebook while dissing Twitter, performed at Twitter while dissing his mother's old boyfriends, then joined Twitter, a thing he t ... More >>
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July 28, 2010
Kanye West Performs at Facebook, Disses Twitter
Yesterday, Kanye West traveled to tech world, baffling a crowd of cellphone-toting Facebook employees by performing in their Palo Alto cafeteria, a cappella, in a sharp suit and matching scarf. Why they couldn't get him some sort of beat-delivery apparatus is unclear, though these raps sound more ... More >>
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July 26, 2010
First Tornado Hits the Bronx in 36 Years
via Daily NewsOn Friday night, for a 15-minute period, we were hunkered down in our windowless bathroom (just in case!) as our Twitter flashed "Tornado WARNING" from New York's Office of Emergency Management, NotifyNYC, and, of course, the National Weather Service. (A warning, for future refe ... More >>
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July 13, 2010
On the Matter of Cranky Peter Kaplan, Wise Peter Kaplan, and Real Peter Kaplan, The Greatest Show on Twitter
Yesterday, much to this blogger's shock, a Twitter account claiming to be much-revered former New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan made its presence known to me. This is funny, because I've closely followed two other iterations of Kaplan on Twitter, @CrankyKaplan and @WiseKaplan since early Marc ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
Nets Owners Mikhail Prokhorov and Jay-Z, Lording Over Madison Square Garden: A Gallery of New York's Most Awesome Billboard
Hey! Have you seen or heard about this awesome new mural of the New Jersey (soon to be Brooklyn) Nets' quirky Russian owner Mikhail Prokhorov and smaller-shareholder-but-nonetheless-awesome co-owner Jay-Z? It's right above Madison Square Garden, where the New York Knicks play! Know what both teams h ... More >>
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