U.S. Dollar

Silver Circle Writes a Crude Valentine to Ron Paul

The Rolling Jubilee Mails its First Debt Forgiveness Letters

When the debt activism group Strike Debt began planning its Rolling Jubilee, the goal was relatively modest: They would raise $50,000, use it to buy distressed medical debt on secondary debt markets, and then, rather than hounding the debtors like the collection agencies that buy most of this sort o ... More >>

Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, Virgil Goode, Rocky Anderson, et. al: How Did They Do?

So how are the other candidates doing? Other candidates? No, not the senate or house folks, but the other presidential candidates. Yes, there are actually people who aren't in the two main parties who have their own ideas about fixing this country, who had the courage to run for president. Number ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street, Year Two

Approaching its anniversary, the movement isn't dead. It's growing up.

Marty Rathbun: Scientology's Attorney "Supervised" Destruction of Records in Lisa McPherson Death

For the last year or more, Mark Bunker has been releasing short excerpts from his upcoming Scientology documentary Knowledge Report, and yesterday, he released a doozy. Bunker had told me that he'd interviewed former church executive Marty Rathbun, and in this excerpt, we see Rathbun addressing the ... More >>

Kristen Christian, Who Created 'Bank Transfer Day,' the November 5 Bank Boycott, Tells Us Why

Earlier today we wrote of what appeared to be an Occupy Wall Street-related bank boycott planned for November 5th. We've spoken to Kristen Christian, the 27-year-old creator of the event, who has clarified some things. For one, it's not an Occupy Wall Street-organized event, though members of the Oc ... More >>

OBIES 2011: Take This Job and Fill It

The theater is missing some major figures. Who'll step up now?

Jared Loughner: A Character Sketch Emerges

​Just two days after Jared Lee Loughner fired at least 31 shots in front of an Arizona grocery store, killing six, including federal judge John Roll, while attempting to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a frightening, if scattered portrait has already formed via the media of a disturbed yo ... More >>

Tourists Love New York City, and Especially Brooklyn

​​​Oh, goody. The New York Times' City Room reports that tourism in New York City hit a new high last year, raking in a record 48.7 million slow-walking, skyscraper-gazing, sidewalk-congesting, Century 21-shopping visitors.

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Week in Review: May Day

Salute. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week we finally got to unleash the initial Siren Festival details on the world (July 17! 10th anniversary! Matt & Kim, Ted Leo, Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Harlem! Totally free!), we celebrated Cinco De Mayo like Anna Wintour, Pharrell, a ... More >>

The 'Nirvana Baby' Chasing the Dollar on the Nevermind Cover Works for Shepard Fairey. Fitting, No?

The last time we saw Spencer Elden, the chubby swimming baby on Nirvana's unforgettable Nevermind cover, he was the 14-year-old side-hatted skater boy above talking about his unwitting role in musical history. Now he's all grown up and living in Los Angeles, where he is working for OBEY. This is n ... More >>

The Forthcoming Bailout of Greece: Now Would Be a Good Time to Take That Last-Minute Trip to Europe

​Oh, Europe. All that time of your currency condescending the dollar has come to fruition, as you ponder whether or not to bail Greece out of their current debt with a 110B Euro package.

Raw Foodist's Father Bakes Latvian-Style Rye Bread in Brooklyn

Jenny MillerJohn Melngailis' Latvian-style rye.​John Melngailis, an engineering professor at the University of Maryland (and the father of Sarma Melngailis of Pure Food & Wine), missed the dense, dark, sourdough rye bread he ate growing up in Latvia.

Market Hotel Is Shut Down Until Further Notice

Wavves at Market Hotel in happier times (for Market Hotel) "So...Market Hotel got into some police trouble," noted Todd P over the weekend. "What does this mean? Hard to tell." But for now, thanks to a visit from the cops Saturday night, the Bushwick spot is going dark indefinitely, with two and a ... More >>

From Baby Ebert to Survivalist Sheep: Studies in Crap's First Terrible Coloring Book Round Up

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ Helping With Bike Safety Author/Illustrator: Betsey Douglas MacDonald Date: None gi ... More >>

Super Secret 'Nduja Hits the Sausage Big Time; Food TV Is Prime Time's Darling

​Tabla is among a number of restaurants using psychological principles to overhaul their menus, such as dropping the dollar sign from prices or naming a dish after the chef's mom. [NY Times] 2009 was the year 'nduja, the spicy smoked meat with a cult following, became the "Lady Gaga of pork ... More >>

Morgy's Parting $268M Gift Gets Another Shrug From City Hall

Exiting with class, something Bloomberg was unable to do.​Outgoing Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau gave New Yorkers a $268 million present yesterday -- their share of a huge, $536 million deal reached with a very rich Swiss bank that admitted having illegally routed Iranian funds through the U. ... More >>

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

An Unlikely Rescuer from the Jaws of Debt

Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie

How the youngest Housing and Urban Development secretary in history gave birth to the mortgage crisis

A Delicate Balance at Caren Golden Gallery

Brik House

Our Wookie goes down on some flaky warka in the East Village

What's the Deal With Ben Bernanke?

Bush’s pick to succeed Greenspan is a resident 'free thinker'

Flee Market

Chelsea's weekend bazaar hangs on for dear life

Hammered

Auctions are like stripteases, relying on the audience being enticed by what’s out of reach

Following the Money

CGI Joe

How the military and private tech contractors are training a new generation of soldiers

The Eve of Destruction

George Bush is getting four more years to remake the world in his image. (Too bad for us, he already started.)

Despondent Diva

Choreographer Sarah Michelson's in the dark before Daylight

Black Friday and Bills and (Snow)Balls, Oh My!

Bully for Us

You talkin' to me, world? You talkin' to me? I'm the only empire around.

Bonfire of the Humanities

A legendary editor at Harvard University Press asks, What good are books?

I'll Take (Dutch) Manhattan

A scholar's trove shows even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Party on!

Open and Shut

No Defense for Rumsfeld

Won't Anyone Make Him Get Out of the Driver's Seat?

Flea-Bitten

Haggling in Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea

Dollars and Nonsense

It's the Post-War Economy, Stupid!

Virtually Helpless

The threat of cyberwar looms large. Our best homeland defense may be surprisingly small

Sports

Blue Cross Hijacked

How the Governor and the State's Most Powerful Union Shortchanged Health Consumers

The Goldbug Variations

Island Captive

Show Me the Money

Landlord Rep Tried to Keep Public Info Private

Not Only Built 4 Cuban Bronx

La Revolución embraces Hip-Hop—with Fidel’s blessing

Baseball's New Pitch

The National Pastime Finally Reaches Out To Its International Fan Base

Anti-Rebel Yell

Wingers nail Veep

Bear Markets

Scenes from Russia's ruble crisis