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This Is How Much Snow We're Actually Getting This Weekend

Back away from the liquor aisle. After conflicting reports yesterday showed this year's first Nor'easter, inscrutably named Nemo, either splashing a little rain or dumping 38 inches of snow on us and, maybe, ending the world as we know it. The vast discrepancies come from three different weather m ... More >>

The Numbers Are In: More Than $400 Million Was Raised For Hurricane Sandy Relief

When all else (Congress) fails to raise monies for those devastated by Hurricane Sandy, it's rewarding to see ordinary citizens donate a little extra to the cause. And even more rewarding when that little extra amounts to nearly half a billion dollars.A month ago, we reported on Attorney Genera ... More >>

Watch SpacesTV Redesign the Financial District's Giardino D'Oro in Record Time Post-Sandy

Giardino D'Oro was deep in the heart of Zone A during Hurricane Sandy at 5 Gold Street. Even with 30 inches -- table height -- of flooding, they were able to redo the entire place after the devastating hurricane, and they reopened for business on December 3rd. But it took some help from SpacesTV.

Schneiderman's Sandy Clampdown Continues: Non-Profits Next On NYAG's List

Last week, we reported on the subpoenas sent out by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to thirteen different gas providers in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The intention was simple: these providers, according to Schneiderman, were targeted for price-gouging consumers to profit off of the ene ... More >>

"Please Don't Resign, LIPA CEO Michael Hervey," Said No One Ever

Long Island Power Authority CEO Michael Hervey will resign from his post as head of the utilities giant at the end of the year, which is music to the ears to just about everyone.Hervey's been with LIPA for about 12 years. Under heavy criticism from Long Island residents and politicians for his awful ... More >>

The Hurricane Actually Did Help Obama

The Republicans may well be right. Hurricane Sandy prompted a near blitz of Presidential politics on TV news the week before the election, helping to short circuit any attempt by Mitt Romney to create some kind of last-minute storm surge. What's more, Obama was included in a great deal of the hurr ... More >>

A Few Reasons Why Overhyping Hurricane Sandy Is Probably a Good Thing

The current situation in New York: The subways are closed; upon the Hozziner's request, Zone A has been forced to evacuate; Broadway shows have been cancelled; Bloomberg, Christie, and Cuomo are hosting storm watch conferences; my door keeps slamming by itself, even while locked; and the quieter-tha ... More >>

Snow Day! What Are You Going to Do With Your Time?

You are probably aware that snow has come to New York City. Considering you can't yet spend your snow days watching the city's online map that will track when salt spreaders or plows went down city streets (if you're intrigued you can watch Mayor Bloomberg discuss the tool at this morning's press c ... More >>

Snowstorm Pounds Northeast; White House Plans for Troop Presence in Middle East; 30 OWS Arrests in Oregon

​Millions of people lost power and at least three deaths were reported as a result of yesterday's snowstorm along the east coast. States in the Northeast were hit the hardest and CNN reports parts of New Jersey were buried in as much as 15.5 inches of snow. Airline cancellations stranded passe ... More >>

CIA Connection in Libya?; Tropical Storm Lee to Hit Gulf Coast; Government Sues Banks

​Documents tying the CIA to the Qaddafi-led Libyan government were found in an abandoned office in Tripoli, the New York Times reports. The findings, which have not been verified for authenticity, allude to the practice of the American intelligence agency handing over terror suspects to the Li ... More >>

Escape To New York Cancels Final Day; Music Festival Still "Looks Forward To Returning Next Year"

Rain, rain, go away, wash out the mimes another day. ​Because of storms and flooding over the course of last night and today, Escape To New York—the three-day festival on the Shinnecock Indian Nation Reservation in Southampton—has canceled its final day, during which of Montreal, M ... More >>

The Play About My Dad--A Father and Daughter Are the Eye of This Hurricane Katrina

59E59 Theaters hosts Boo Killebrew's family drama

Harry Shearer's The Big Uneasy: How N.O. Got So F'd Up

STORM WATCH

London’s Donmar Warehouse takes on King Lear

Chihuahua Survives Tornado

Giving the cat that survived being shot in the head with an arrow a run for his money, a tiny Chihuahua named Paco has survived a tornado (actually, two tornadoes) that hit Pulaski County, Virginia, causing more than eight million dollars in damage and much destruction to his owner's house. Paco wal ... More >>

NYC Cab Explodes in Snowstorm [Video]

Never take a cab in a snowstorm. This is advice we feel extremely strongly about. Best case scenario, it never goes well, and you will fear for your life more than once. Worst case scenario, your cab explodes. This happened last night.

City Will Be Super Prepared For Tomorrow's Wussy Snowfall

​Mayor Bloomberg, still facing the wrath of New Yorkers disgruntled with last week's snow clean-up, held a press conference today, reassuring panicked citizens that the city will be able to handle tomorrow's snowstorm.That's supposed to be reassuring, or something, but since there are only five in ... More >>

Have You Heard a Blizzard is Coming? NYC Braces For 2010 #Snowmageddon

via​According to those on the ground, the snow has started to fall in New York City, where blizzards are expected to drop at least a foot of snow on Sunday. Wind and white stuff have grounded flights in the Northeast, including out of New York's JFK and LaGuardia, in addition to neighboring Ne ... More >>

The Big Easy Indicts the Manmade Disasters of Katrina

Hurricane Earl May, in Fact, Rock You Like a Hurricane

​People are getting pretty geared up about this once-again-Category-4-storm otherwise known as Earl headed hell-and-high-water for the East Coast. There are hurricane warnings in North Carolina and tropical storm warnings in Virgina, Maryland, and New Jersey, while tropical storm watches are i ... More >>

NYC Wins Second Place in "Who's Next for a Hurricane?" Competition

​Guess who's overdue for a hurricane? Yep, we're lookin' at you, New York. So what if we didn't make the rich and single list? We're number 2 out of the Weather Channel's "Top 5 Hurricane Vulnerable & Overdue Cities"! Hurricane expert Dr. Rick Knabb says, "It is a matter of when, not if, these ... More >>

Scorched Jesus Statue to Pave Way for Bigger, Better Jesus

​So, a 62-foot-tall statue of Jesus Christ -- a/k/a, "Touchdown Jesus," a/k/a, "Big Butter Jesus" (it's yellow, okay?) positioned attractively outside of the Solid Rock Church in Monroe, Ohio, was struck by lightning and burst into flames on Monday night. And there is absolutely nothing to rea ... More >>

Parade Day Will Be Mostly Sunny

​The National Weather Service is promising a mostly sunny day in the mid seventies for the Easter Parade, the annual unorganized eight-block walk up 5th Avenue from 49th Street New Yorkers break out their most extravagant hats for. There isn't really a schedule, but people start walking at 10, ... More >>

Oh, Gawd, It's Still Raining: A List of Alternative Talking Points

​Despite having survived the Great Summer of Wetness '09, it seems we tri-staters are having a hard time with this recent spate of precipitation. Yes, we're only 2 inches away from the "wettest March on record" (in 1973, 10.5 inches). Yes, rivers have flooded, trees have fallen, power has be ... More >>

Not so 'Happy' Happy Hour / Ondoy Fundraiser

Raising money to aid Filipinos affected by Typhoon Ondoy

Stearns Matthews

Nazi Pentagon Experiments in Queens!

As Schizo Letters of the Week go, this one is in a league of its own. If only all crazy people wrote with such clarity and style... There is mounting evidence that the military is using aircraft that was outfitted with technology intended for warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan to conduct experimen ... More >>

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Odd Guy, Nice Pix in Disfarmer

Dan Hurlin's airborne child catches the shutter bug

Columbia Ignores Peril

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

U.S. Dams Iraq While Damning Iowa

U.S. Dams Iraq While Damning Iowa

Turning Up the Heat: Ashley Alexandra Dupre, The Puerto Rican Day Parade and the Heat Wave

Everything's Cool

A Mighty Wind in Brooklyn

More Blues in New Orleans

Out of Control

When air traffic control shares blame for fatal crashes

Water, Logged

Document by document, inquiry skewers Bush's Katrina cover-up

Mine Safety a Matter of Politics

Lax enforcement from Washington is no accident

Rita, Katrina: Religious Fringe Sees Apocalypse Now

You say global warming, they say wrath of God

CAFTA Meets Katrina

And more than the fiscal health of an American city hangs in the balance

Morning Report 9/10/05
The Bush Krewe

Morning Report 9/6/05
Bush Team Starts Image Cleanup

Morning Report 9/4/05
Rehnquist Death Gives Bush Chance to Deepen American Crisis

Morning Report 9/3/05
Rotten to the Corps

Perfect Storms

Perfect for wrecking any chance of economic recovery, that is

An Early Williams, Not Without Grit, Gets Turned Into Mush

La vie en rose: A bar by any other name wouldn't be as sweet

Into Thin Air

On the Scene of a Fruitless Search For a Friend