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Ultra 2013: Top Seven Fashion Statements, From Bras as Shirts to Sexist Tees

With the rise of the ubiquitous Internet, street fashion trends rolled in, heavy and dark like a storm cloud, over the style world. Instead of dressing sorta like supermodels on the catwalk, we had to start wearing exactly whatever some fashion editor in Italy was sporting. There's something so li ... More >>

50 Things To Know About Austin Before SXSW

I love Austin. It's simultaneously wonderful and totally infuriating. The city meets every cliché about it almost effortlessly, to the point where the onslaught of weirdness can be almost numbing. I once saw a unicycle brigade spin down the street, and it honestly took like 15 minutes until I reali ... More >>

Meet Mexican Summer's Jess Rotter, Whose Art You've Probably Already Enjoyed

Jess Rotter truly racked up the frequent flyer miles this year. The long-time in-house publicist and marketing wiz for Brooklyn-based indie record label Mexican Summer practically lived in airplanes, repeatedly jetting out west and back to handle her duties repping Best Coast--the label's biggest su ... More >>

Woods - Music Hall of Williamsburg - 11/3/2012

In "Is It Honest?," the fourth track of the most recent record from Woods, Bend Beyond, lead singer Jeremy Earl uses his haunting falsetto to ask an aggressive, straightforward question about things in our lives -- relationships, friendships, opinions, etc. -- that might seem healthy and positive on ... More >>

Kendrick Lamar Wants Us All To Say "Bitch"

Last week, Kendrick Lamar had the whole world calling each other a bitch. You may know young Kendrick from his good kid m.A.A.d. city album, which was executive produced by Dr. Dre and is apparently so wondrous a body of work that it was magically certified as a classic even before it was released. ... More >>

A Bite With The Band: Earthquake Party! Munch On Ground-Moving Tacos At Los Hermanos

It's true: fuzzy pop trio Earthquake Party! doesn't have the flashiest origin story. Yes, they are yet another one of those bands that started in a living room as an excuse to dick around and have fun. Yes, for the past three years, they've been hopping from basement show to local venue to basement ... More >>

Tonight You're Mine

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 >>

Did Starbucks Steal From Artist Ophelia Chong?

​It's not unusual for big companies to be accused of stealing from the little guys. (Remember that whole Urban Outfitters drama earlier this year?) And we're the first to admit that sometimes really good ideas happen to come to different people at the same time. But it's hard to imagine that t ... More >>

Fall Arts: Zana Bayne Harnesses Her Talents

The young designer takes us shopping for fall

Is Zappos Ripping Off This Naked Lady?

Simone's photo​Erica Simone is a French photographer who recently published a Not Exactly Safe for Work photo collection called Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen, in which she does average daily New York City things totally nude -- jogging, riding the subway, riding a motorcycle ... More >>

Jimmy Webb, Trash and Vaudeville Buyer, Speaks About the Old Neighborhood

Esther Zuckerman​Jimmy Webb leads us out of Trash and Vaudeville -- the famed St. Mark's store where he works as buyer and manager -- to a spot across the street. Over the buildings he points to a white wall that has the word "Muerte" written in block letters at its top. That's where there use ... More >>

TO MARKET, TO MARKET

One-of-a-kind items for you, your home, and even your garage

Live: JEFF The Brotherhood Smoke Out Santos, Screaming Females Wail, Snarl, Continue To Be Badass

all photos by Rebecca SmeyneThe boys are back in town JEFF the Brotherhood Screaming Females Juiceboxxx Thursday, March 31 Santos Party House Last night at Santos, Nashville's JEFF the Brotherhood reunited with frequent New York (via New Jersey) bill-mates Screaming Females. In April 2009, the two ... More >>

Hipster Trap in NYC Uses PBR, American Spirits to Lure Laughs We Had Years Ago

​A street artist rendered a big bear trap out of cardboard and locked it to a New York City sign, according to a post on Reddit yesterday, using pink neon wayfarers, a pack of American Spirits, a fixed gear bike chain and a Pabst Blue Ribbon as bait. Maybe the piece is supposed to be considere ... More >>

Regifting Advice For The Dirt-Cheap and Practical

​*Don't hand the package over with any self-consciousness whatsoever because that would give away the fact that it's a shameful regifting. Offer it with pride, like you can't wait for them to see what it is! *You should even come up with a back story about where you bought it in case that com ... More >>

The UCLA Hipster Panel Discussion: A Field Report

Via Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter.​Last night, a discussion panel regarding hipsters entitled Look at This F*cking Panel: A Sociological Investigation of the Hipster took place at UCLA's Ackerman Grand Ballroom. We dispatched author, blogger, and Friend of Runnin' Scared, Tess Lynch, to documen ... More >>

Making Fun of Hipsters Now More Unfunny Than Ever (Video)

​Even using the word "hipster" is a slight in and of itself, in some regard: it shows the need to pigeonhole a group of people who may have very little in common under one generally misanthropic label. That obviously hasn't stopped anyone -- certainly not us -- from using it, but the "making f ... More >>

Live: Best Coast And Free Energy Sweat It Out At South Street Seaport

​Bethany Cosentino (above) and Paul Sprangers, attracting yet more adoration. Pics by Liz, more below.​Free Energy/Best Coast/Loose Limbs South Street Seaport Friday, July 23 Tonight, as with pretty much every outdoor show these days, you had a choice: melt in the sun or drown in the ra ... More >>

Another Fire in the East Village Scorches Commercial Building

via EV Grieve​Smoke was pouring out of 628 Broadway this morning, and downtown bloggers were all over that fire beat even before NotifyNYC gave anyone the low-down. The fire's reportedly been put out, but there are several businesses in the East Village commercial building that may be out of c ... More >>

The Most Epic Hipster Break-Up Text Message, Ever: The Interview!

​A week or so ago, we found something fairly legendary as far as Texts From Last Night -- or any night, or time of the week -- are concerned: a breakup text so absurd, so superficially cruel, we couldn't not invoke The Sacred H-Word. It was -- and still remains -- The Most Epic Hipster Breakup ... More >>

Scott Caan's Vanity Project, Mercy

An Apple Seed is Planted in Brooklyn

An Apple Store Grows in Brooklyn from Marty Markowitz on Vimeo. Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz really wants to see Apple set up camp in Brooklyn. What this being the epicenter of Mac worship and all, Marty thought it would be a swell idea to pitch the idea to Steve Jobs via this ridiculo ... More >>

DEAR DIARY

Sarah Silverman shares her secrets

John Travolta's Cowboy Diplomacy in From Paris With Love

Yippee ki yay, fils de pute

2009, The Year of the Snuggie: A Handy Timeline From "The WTF Blanket" to Weezer's Wuggies

The people behind the Snuggie know they are bugging the crap out of you, and it's working out pretty well for them. The cultural impact of the sleeved blanket, largely due to those unbelievably campy commercials by Allstar Marketing Group, might've exceeded that of any other "As seen on TV" produc ... More >>

The Gregory Brothers/Auto-Tune the News Back in the News, As Avatars of the Internet, or Something

​Maybe you didn't make it to the second page of this Times piece, in which out of nowhere the Gregory Brothers--i.e., the dudes from Auto-Tune the News--show up to make a point about New York becoming the internet, and also dying, or killing creatives, or something? No longer, seems the gist, ... More >>

Live: Cansei de Ser Sexy at Webster Hall

Good-Enough Gifts For These Recessionary Times

Hate Us or Love Us

The Makeup Test

Lil Mama's 'Lip Gloss' boosts both her self-esteem and her burgeoning rap career

Letters

A Frothy Spanish Singer-Songwriter Establishes her Bona Fides

Is Bebe the New Ani DiFranco?

BCBG Max Azria: Sitting Next to Lord & Taylor's CEO

Grandma Godsend

Hand-knitted scarves—minus the knitting

Sail Away

X-Girl goes nautical for spring

It's Just a Book

How a 'pro-marijuana' children's story found its way to Congress

Bazaar on Aisle Nine

Target gives shoppers the world

Close-Up on Rego Park

Soho Subverted

Shopping Downtown With $10

Vice Bust

Kicking the Jackass of the Magazine World

'Tis the Season

An Afternoon on 14th Street

Copy Shops

Wretched Excess on the Cheap

A Buyer's Market