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Free Will Astrology: March 27-April 2, 2013

Why Not Mate?

The mate (pronounced "mah-tay") service at Cucharamama. Cold? Tired? Not fond of coffee but crave the caffeine? Maybe mate is your beverage. More properly known as yerba mate, the hot drink is made from the dried leaves of a shrub related to holly that grows in the northern reaches of Argentina. I ... More >>

Our Restaurant Fantasies, Revealed

After reading this fun restaurant wish-list over on Diner's Journal, the Fork team started wishing and hoping for some of our own fantasy places to open. I'd love for a truck to drive around in the winter serving cups of really good, hot cassoulet. If there's a line, there will be nips of brandy w ... More >>

The Top 20 12-Inches Of 2011

The debate between digital digging and its analog analogue is the same useless arguing as the one pitting digital playback against the analog kind. In 2011, if it sounded good, it was worth listening to. The resulting stew was a mix of past and present where classic house met nu-disco and created a ... More >>

Begging Your Pardon, President Obama!

White House turns back on clemency, including reduced sentences

Soccer Fans Say NYPD Used Excessive Force After Uruguay Win

​After Uruguay defeated Paraguay in the finals of the Copa America on Sunday, ecstatic fans flooded the streets of Jackson Heights. Minutes later, dozens of police officers arrived at 37th Avenue and 84th Street and began pushing back the crowd. This led to scuffles between the soccer fans and ... More >>

NYC Is No Longer The City That Never Sleeps

​In fact, it didn't even rank in the top 10 of badoo.com's survey of the world's most nocturnal, jazzing-till-dawn cities. Number 10 was Buenos Aires 9--Seville 8--Valencia 7--Barcelona

SMALL WORLD

Nine new films showcase a diverse range of international filmmakers

Pablo Airaldi, the Immigrant Detainee on This Week's Cover, Is Out of Jail (Updated)

And just like that, the Kafka novel ends. ​ Pablo Airaldi, the subject of this week's cover profile, was scheduled for another deportation hearing this morning at Varick Street Immigration Court. He would've been escorted before the judge in shackles, a gaggle of his friends would've been the ... More >>

Portrait of an Immigrant Detainee as a Young Man

Meet New York bike-scene fixture Pablo Airaldi. He made friends with everyone—except ICE officials.

Jerry Robinson, Creator of the Joker, Dishes on Superman

​By R.C. Baker It turns out that the Joker -- pop culture's pre-eminent villain -- was created by one of the good guys. N.C. Christopher Couch's new book, Jerry Robinson: Ambassador of Comics (Abrams ComicArts, 224 pp., $35.00), recounts how, in 1939, Robinson, then a 17-year-old preparing t ... More >>

Where Can Gays Marry and Adopt?

​Watchdog reporter Rex Wockner knows, and he's put it all down in one handy list for future husbears and bear-ents: "Same-sex marriage is legal in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Mexico City, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Sweet Talk on New York Beekeeping; A Fungus-Filled Mushroom Class

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! The Secret Lives of (NYC) Bees The Elixir Bar at ABC Kitchen Tuesday, July 20 at 5 p.m. Jean-Georges Vongerichten's newest darling of the culinary world, with its s ... More >>

Checking in on Desnuda, the Craziest Cevicheria in Town

​When I reviewed Desnuda, the avant-garde cevicheria in the East Village, over a year ago, the place had a pleasant sense of anarchy about it. There was no real menu, just executive chef, Christian Zammas puttering around behind the bar (there's no kitchen) armed with a sushi-bar-style cooler ... More >>

Holiday Weekend Morning Links: Congo Oil Tanker Blows, Paris Hilton's World Cup Weed

​• The world knows all too well the potential for destruction surrounding gigantic oil tankers and unfortunately it was demonstrated again when at least 230 people were killed, and nearly 200 more injured, when an oil tanker flipped and exploded in the Democratic Republic of Congo. According ... More >>

Buka Gets a Liquor License in Time for the Big Ghana-Uruguay Match

Chantal MartineauBuka gets booze.​ It may be positioning itself as "the most authentic Nigerian restaurant" in the city, or so say the business cards, but Buka in Clinton Hill actually has more of a Brooklyn bar feel. Instead of your usual African restaurant accoutrements -- masks, colorful p ... More >>

World Cup Fever Isn't Over

Who are you cheering for?

World Cup Prediction: The Same Old Thing, Like Always

​Here's my World Cup prediction: every game will be 1-1, 1-0, or 2-1. (There was once a game between, I think it was, Cameroon and New Zealand where the final score was 3-1, but that's only because the Cameroon's team was involved in a bus accident before the game and could only field two play ... More >>

The Castello Plan Opens in Ditmas Park This Friday

Brownstoner.comThe Castello Plan (right) in its plywood infancy.​ The Mimi's family is about to get a little bigger. This Friday, Ben Heemskerk will partner with Avi Shuker, one of the owners of Ditmas Park hummus restaurant, to open the Castello Plan. The wine bar will be located two storefro ... More >>

The World Is Flat at MOMA's Global Lens Festival

A lot of this-movie-looks-like-that-movie at this series

Latest Thing to Be Afraid Of: Ground Beef

​Good morning! Thinking you might have a burger for lunch? Probably not after reading the Sunday Times story of 22-year-old Stephanie Smith, who got bloody diarrhea, seizure, a coma, and paralyzed from E. coli traced to a hamburger her mother made for her from a pack of frozen "American Chef's ... More >>

World Food Situation Dire; School Bake Sales Now a No-no

​An Australian scientist says that the world's food situation is so bad that we will have to produce more food in the next 50 years than we ever have in history. A growing population and climate change will make the task more difficult. [ABC News] Small farms are all the rage, according to a ... More >>

Feds Say Hams Were for Homeless; New York Fast Food Fries Lower in Fat

A Drudge Report story about the government spending millions of stimulus dollars on pork products has earned itself an angry rebuttal from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who said that some 760,000 pounds of ham were for soup kitchens and homeless shelters. [NY Daily News] French fries at New Yo ... More >>

LATIN QUARTERS

Stage works from all of the Americas

¡Ask a Mexican! Heading South?

Give up those dreams of sleepy good times in Old Mexico, dumbass

Lucrecia Martel's A Headless Woman: Enigmatic Psychology, Damning Implications

Latinbeat, Now With More Movies and More Chile

Don't cry for Argentina

The Vanishing

Torture, execution, disappearance-—grappling with the horrors of totalitarianism

'Goodbye, Momo'

Top Shelf

Our 25 Favorite Books of 2006

Archaeological Hunter

Tough images, tougher truth in Seeing Insanity

Forking Paths

Labyrinths: Borges haunts the pages of new books from three Latin American maestros

Apocalypse Porn

Rack Focus

Horoscope

Hungarian Rhapsody

Traveling Film Festival Brings Third-World Movies to U.S.

Film

Perfect Setting

Phone Sexy

Should I Buy a Snazzy New Cell Phone?

Music

On Balance

Lingua Cranka

Star Trek

Adrian at the Met

Sports

Warming Up to Soccer

The U.S. Finally Shakes Off Its Cold War Prejudices

City Sickness

Contra Iran

Jafar Panahi’s INS Trial

Desperate Dotcoms

Sunny Slogans Mask Huge Losses