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The Best (and Cheapest) NYC Alt and Indie Comedy Shows This Week

It's an all-nerd pick this week, as the city prepares to welcome New York Comic Con. We have all manner of geeked-out funny people for you, from rapping improv dorks and Merrie Melody fans, to Texan history enthusiasts and men who name stand-up albums after Founding Fathers of American Commerce. Gra ... More >>

Benjamin Lawsky: The Man Who Picked a Fight With Wall Street

Meet the state’s top banking regulator

Rightbloggers Not Having a Great "Happy 10th Anniversary Iraq War" Party

Last week was the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War. For friends and family members of the thousands of Americans and allies killed or wounded in that struggle, or of the tens of thousands of Iraqis killed, wounded or displaced, it probably wasn't a happy one. We don't know whether these ... More >>

Buy This Old Mafia File, Found in a New York City Taxi, For $10,000

P. 460: Carlo Gambino​An old Mafia file found in a black bag in the back of a New York City cab in the early '90s containing mug shots, criminal histories, lists of associates, kids' and wives' names, and the favorite hangouts of 843 Mafia members in the '50s and '60s -- a trove of fascinating ... More >>

Sidney Harman Dead at 92: Does His Politician Wife Own Newsweek Now?

​Sidney Harman, the audio equipment billionaire, philanthropist and Executive Chairman of Newsweek since purchasing the struggling weekly magazine about six months ago, died on Tuesday after a brief fight with acute myeloid leukemia, his family announced today in a brief statement. He was 92. ... More >>

Sidebar: Whose Dole Is It Anyway?

Morning Links: Chinese Dissident Awarded Nobel Peace Prize; More Jobs Lost in September; Stinkbugs in Staten Island

​• The 2010 Nobel Peace prize has been awarded to Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident, political essayist, literary critic, and democracy advocate who is currently serving 11 years in jail on subversion charges. Unsurprisingly, the Chinese Foreign Ministry did not appreciate this news one bit, a ... More >>

A Brief History of Vijay Iyer

The jazz pianist's new Solo details a lifetime of out-of-body experiences

Kim Jong-il and Respective Homies Having "Baller Status" Targeted by U.S. Sanctions

​Kim Jong-il does not, by any New York City standard at least, put the "Ill" in "il." In other words, he as an unhip a dictator as they come. Even Iran's pretty evil Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks like he could get "into the clurrb" in comparison. North Korean dictatorships? Kinda lacking in the "c ... More >>

Rightbloggers Stick It To The Man With Groovy Rightwing Revolution

Psst, brother! Are you down with the revolution? No, we don't mean the revolution of the Sixties -- though some of the star players in this one do dress like Paul Revere and the Raiders (and most of them are old enough that -- who knows? -- they may have have gotten stoned and marched on the Penta ... More >>

Allen Ginsberg Explains Timothy Leary

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 12, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 9 Remarks on Leary's Politics of Ecstasy by Allen Ginsberg By the late '40s of this memory Century the people I knew best and loved the most had already broken through the crust of old Reason & were dow ... More >>

U.S. Unveils New $100 Bill — It's All About the Benjamins Blankfeins

News item: "U.S. Government Unveils New Design for the $100 Note." The U.S. Treasury announced today a redesigned $100 bill, aimed at stopping counterfeiters. We have our own suggested redesign, replacing Ben Franklin with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

Sanction-busting Investigation Could Threaten Nets Deal, Atlantic Yards

​Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-NJ) tells the Post that he's requesting a Treasury Department investigation to see if Mikhail Prokhorov, the russian investor who's trying to buy stakes in both the Nets and the planned Nets Arena in Brooklyn, has violated Bush-era sanctions against doing business wi ... More >>

The Rise and Fall of Internet Sports Bookie and Poker Pro James Giordano

From Bluff magazine to court, James Giordano was wired for success until Queens prosecutors captured him in their web

We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?

Sports Betting on Newspaper Websites? It Could Happen

​In this week's cover story about the state of local daily newspapers, we mentioned New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman's idea to allow sports gambling on his newspaper's website. In an interview with Forbes business magazine earlier this year, Mort said, "There is something that can be ... More >>

Chinese Arms Shipper to Iran Indicted -- But Maybe Untouchable

Evidently New York banks aren't just good for imploding the world economy and then sucking up taxpayer money in order to rebuild. They're also a good way to send and receive illegal payments. Chinese citizen Li Fang Wei, the manager of Chinese company LIMMT, has just been indicted by the Manh ... More >>

Feds to Peddle Bad Bank Assets to Private Sources

The Treasury Department has pushed from Monday to Tuesday its planned announcement of further bank bailout measures, and Obama economic advisor Larry Summers suggested Sunday that some of the banks' devalued assets -- referred to variously as "toxic," "bad," and (at the Times) "contaminating" -- mig ... More >>

Could the Feds Cash In on Citi's Mets Stadium Deal?

Given that construction of the Mets' new stadium began under a cloud of controversy about its name, it's probably fitting that that's all anyone can talk about as its first Opening Day approaches. So far, we've had Congressmen and newspaper columnists demanding that the Treasury Department force C ... More >>

Real motherfuckers: AIG still hands out bonuses

American kids' college plans face auto-destruct

Bernanke supposedly panicky? What else is new.

Shelved in fiction: 'Henry Paulson and the Toxic Assets'

Daily Flog: Banks. You're welcome.

Passing the bucks

Daily Flog: Frantic banks make a run on us; automakers drive up to Treasury's ATM

Grim before the storm

Daily Flog II: U.S. Moves Toward Nationalizing Banks

Taxpayer Cost of Yanks' Bond Demands: $82.9 Million

Danger of a Pull-Out -- of the Dollar

Still Preppin' for Prison

Horoscope

Sweet Relief

You asked the politicians for help with student debt. And maybe, just maybe, you're about to get it.

'Real-life Mexicans not only don't care about those stereotypes, they embrace them'

Shady Sallie

An inside look at what Bush has done to your student loan

Weiner Bangs Arab Bucks

Morning Report 6/12/05
Charity Begins at Home

Greed Aid

Big banks do billions in student loans—and that means less money for you

Buy the Numbers

Letters

Yes, Protect the U.S. Treasury! Please!

My Big Fat Funky Queer Marriage

Forget the rice. (We're on Atkins.) No his-and-his towels. (Nothing matches in our house.) Just give us Viagra—and wish us well

Did America Abandon Vietnam War P.O.W.'s? Part 2

A closer look at an ugly issue

Road Scholars

Continuing-Ed Students Have Chances to Study Abroad

The Tax Man Must Be Straight

The Humanitarian Aid Crisis

What Gives? Not the U.S.

Dollars and Nonsense

It's the Post-War Economy, Stupid!

The Great Gadfly

Nation

The Nose Knows

The Bombing of the Al Shifa Pharmaceutical Plant in Sudan is one of Clinton's lamest lies— but who cares?