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  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    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 >>

  • News

    October 12, 2011

    Begging Your Pardon, President Obama!

    White House turns back on clemency, including reduced sentences

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Radio Hits One: Raising The Bar For "YouTube Platinum"

    Justin Bieber and Ludacris: Congratulations. A lot of people watched your video.​On August 28, MTV will throw the 2011 installment of its Video Music Awards, honoring achievements in the art form that used to make up the majority of its programming. While it's all too tempting to note the iron ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    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

  • Voice Choices

    January 12, 2011

    SMALL WORLD

    Nine new films showcase a diverse range of international filmmakers

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    January 5, 2011

    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.

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 22, 2010

    World Cup Fever Isn't Over

    Who are you cheering for?

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Film

    January 12, 2010

    The World Is Flat at MOMA's Global Lens Festival

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

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 10, 2009

    LATIN QUARTERS

    Stage works from all of the Americas

  • Columns

    May 13, 2009

    ¡Ask a Mexican! Heading South?

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

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2008

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

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

  • Film

    September 3, 2008

    Latinbeat, Now With More Movies and More Chile

    Don't cry for Argentina

  • Art

    April 10, 2007

    The Vanishing

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

  • Film

    April 10, 2007

    'Goodbye, Momo'

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

  • Books

    December 19, 2006

    Top Shelf

    Our 25 Favorite Books of 2006

  • NYC Life

    October 3, 2006

    Archaeological Hunter

    Tough images, tougher truth in Seeing Insanity

  • Books

    July 4, 2006

    Forking Paths

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

  • Art

    April 25, 2006

    Apocalypse Porn

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

  • Screens

    March 21, 2006

    Rack Focus

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

  • Columns

    January 17, 2006

    Horoscope

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

  • Books

    May 3, 2005

    Hungarian Rhapsody

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

  • Film

    February 22, 2005

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

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

  • Film

    November 23, 2004

    Film

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

  • NYC Life

    June 10, 2003

    Perfect Setting

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

  • News

    February 18, 2003

    Phone Sexy

    Should I Buy a Snazzy New Cell Phone?

  • Music

    January 28, 2003

    Music

    Should I Buy a Snazzy New Cell Phone?

  • News

    December 3, 2002

    On Balance

    Should I Buy a Snazzy New Cell Phone?

  • News

    September 3, 2002

    Lingua Cranka

    Should I Buy a Snazzy New Cell Phone?

  • NYC Life

    June 25, 2002

    Star Trek

    Adrian at the Met

  • News

    June 18, 2002

    Sports

    Adrian at the Met

  • News

    May 28, 2002

    Warming Up to Soccer

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

  • Film

    August 7, 2001

    City Sickness

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

  • Film

    May 15, 2001

    Contra Iran

    Jafar Panahi’s INS Trial

  • Books

    November 28, 2000

    Conscientious Objector

    A Conversation With Eduardo Galeano

  • News

    August 22, 2000

    Desperate Dotcoms

    Sunny Slogans Mask Huge Losses

  • Specials

    April 25, 2000

    Letters

    Sunny Slogans Mask Huge Losses

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