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Funny or Die's First Feature: iSteve, Shot in Five Days

Bloomberg's Sneaky Fix For All Those Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuits

The Strange Fate of Kim's Video

The best video collection in New York was shipped to a Sicilian town with a promise that it would be kept accessible to cinephiles. Here's what really happened to it.

CNN and Time Magazine Suspend Fareed Zakaria for Plagiarism

In journalism school, plagiarism is equivalent to life without parole: it is the bane of any writer's existence and an automatic halt on one's professional reputation. We are told over and over and over again to source everything, make sure all of your facts line up and that we'll be outcasted from ... More >>

Live: Blu Frustrates At S.O.B.'s

Blu w/ANTHM, Sene, Bryant Dope S.O.B.'s Wednesday, June 13 Better than: Being let down by someone you know personally. Last night, Blu hopped onstage at S.O.B.'s looking like the last bastion of backpack rap, with that accessory sitting firmly on his shoulders and his pants sagging like it was 200 ... More >>

Knicks' Point Guard Jeremy Lin Does the Impossible

Phenoms who come in under the sports radar are almost exclusively confined to baseball. There are so many examples of this that they almost defy counting -- a 19-year-old Dwight Gooden matures early, just a year out of high school and can suddenly throw a 97 mph fastball past experienced major leag ... More >>

Does Ron Paul Hate Hispanics?

Q&A: Cheetah Chrome On Going Back To Cleveland And Recording Rocket From The Tombs' First Proper Album

​It could be confidently argued that Rocket from the Tombs were the first American punk band. Formed in early 1974, in a long-abandoned Cleveland industrial hood that was rusting and crumbling like one giant sputtering axle factory, Rocket lasted barely a year, and left behind a small sampling ... More >>

Football vs. Baseball? The Same Old B.S. Argument.

​It's the time of year for that oddest subgenre of sportswriting, the "Football vs. Baseball" column. Pro football, of course, always wins in these debates, largely because they're argued along the only terms that sportswriters know: television ratings. First out of the gate is David Steele on A ... More >>

More High Schoolers Applying to Be Hated By Native New Yorkers

via collegelifestyles​Applications for Columbia and NYU reached new highs this year. NYU Local reports that NYU received "exactly 42,242 freshman applications this year, topping last year's record by 11 percent." The New York Post says that changes in the application process brought "the Mor ... More >>

Best of NYC: Thank Gay Party Promoter Josh Wood

Partytown, USA

Ronnie's Kids: The Bright Side of "Amnesty"

So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Crazy Yankee Chick: Where the Wild Things Are Not

​Maybe I was just oblivious to it all the other years, but for some reason, it seemed like whenever booth announcers were short on talking points, they defaulted to the current Wild Card playoff system. Everyone had an idea on how to best construct the postseason process so as to best preserve ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! Mexico Sucks

Why else do you think they're taking over the U.S.?

Papa Coppola's Tetro Returns, Successfully, to the Family Saga

Morning Joe's Willie Geist on the NCAA's Final Four

Knowing that our friend, Morning Joe's Willie Geist--"The Oracle of MSNBC"--is a big sports fan, we thought we'd check in with him about the NCAA's Final Four. Willie has fielded some questions from us before, so we're pleased he had time--between Indian-wrestling matches with co-host Mike Barnicle- ... More >>

Daily Flog: Edwards, faux Rockefeller both screwed; Olympic preening; a gated NYC; Bush's pardons list; defense of high gas prices

The Exiles: Soul and the City

The 1961 'lost' classic gets its long overdue theatrical debut

Paul Chan: A Light in April

Consensus pick projects his influence at the New Museum of Contemporary Art

Possibly 4th Street: Say Hi (f/k/a Say Hi To Your Mom)

Bless Their Little Hearts

L.A. Story

Charles Burnett's much revered, rarely seen South Central-set film finally gets its theatrical due

First Annual Jazz Poll Winners

From Ornette Coleman to Esperanza Spalding, it's the music you need to hear

Fractious Grammar

More fun with freshly revived old masters and wily young students

Quote Unquote

Homages, paraphrases, and glorious messes from Ornette, Sonny, and Mingus

"Hate Crimes" Trap

Extra prison time for what Nicholas Minucci said during physical assault with a bat

Best in Show

The Top 40 Picks of the Tribeca Film Festival

Video: Shop Local, Live Longer

In 'Twilight Becomes Night,' a filmmaker watches New York loses its mom-and-pop shops—and a piece of its soul

Back in Black

He lost it at the movies: Former Lethal wunderkind returns with adrenalized screwball comedy

Democrats, Rejoice: Right Says Wrong on Harriet Miers

Conservative disappointment at Bush’s Supreme Court pick

Body Politics

The wheel world: Is disability studies academia's next frontier?

Meet the Randalls

Tristan talks to a unique mother-daughter team of pornographers

Listings

Carter Hounded by Kwangju Massacre

Nobel Laureate's Clouded Role in Slaughter of Korean Dissidents

Taliban Killed the Radio Stars

In Afghanistan, Any Battle Over Music Is a Battle Over National Identity

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part II

The Missing and the Dead

Sports

Scrawler I.D.

A Literary Detective Shakes Spears at Hidden Authors

The Talking Cure

Adventures in Accent Reduction

Shoot Through the Heart

The New Math on Race

The Fight to End Campus Affirmative Action

Knockouts

Docs and Female Jocks in the Ring at Sundance

Spoilsports of the century

Jimmy Gronen & Robert Lange, Soap Box Derby Cheats, 1973

Star Struck

Sci-Fi Conventions Give Actors Eternal Life

Paper-Thin Reporting

East of Eden

The Posthuman Touch

A Pettibon Primer

Framing Diana

Setting Fire to Offensive Ideas

No Exceptions in the First Amendment for Bigotry and Racism