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Birth Control and Antibiotics: A Baby-Making Mix?

You have probably heard this before: The Pill doesn't work if you're on antibiotics. However, an item we encountered this morning has made us revisit this age-old misnomer.

Miami Cannibal Rudy Eugene Wasn't High On Bath Salts When He Ate A Homeless Man's Face

It turns out the "Miami Cannibal" who ate a homeless man's face in Florida last month wasn't under the influence of bath salts at the time of the attack. In fact, the only drug the medical examiner found in his system was marijuana, according to a report released today.This, in our humble opinion, m ... More >>

Weed Wackiness: Here Are Common Drugs More Dangerous Than Marijuana

As the debate over medical marijuana continues in New York and the rest of the U.S., there's bound to be a lot of conflicting information out there. Opponents of medical marijuana tend to argue that it is dangerous and has no therapeutic qualities. We're not medical experts, so we're not going to d ... More >>

This Weekend In New York: Wild Yaks, The Death Set, Woods, And Crystal Stilts Get No Sleep In Brooklyn

In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. This weekend, Waste Of Paint caught four rather different bands united by their status as beloved standbys of the Brooklyn DIY scene. It also marked the beginning of uncomf ... More >>

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Bowery Ballroom gets dark

Whitney Had a Third Nostril!

As with so many longtime cocaine users, Whitney Houston had a perforation in her nose as a result of the coke literally burning through her. It basically created a third (internal) nostril, burrowing through her flesh due to constant intake. At least we know she wasn't lying when she said she wish ... More >>

New York's Taxi of Tomorrow: What's Missing from The Cab of The Future

New York has supposedly stepped into the future with high-tech taxis which, sadly, are nothing like the vehicles in The Fifth Element. Anyway, the City will soon have a new official fleet of Nissan NV200 cabs, which will feature amenities such as sliding doors, skylights, USB cell phone chargers, ... More >>

Your Modern-Day Thanksgiving Guide to Getting Through the Holiday With Only Slightly Less Dignity Than You Started With

This is not your grandmother's "How to Survive Thanksgiving" guide. It's not even your spinster aunt's. This is far more about you and the troubles a modern-day busy and productive person with a job and responsibilities and a life, for the love of God -- even if that life is just DVRing TV shows you ... More >>

Uptight Moms Don't Like Schweddy Balls, Clearly Need Xanax to Calm Down

​Of all the world's problems, you'd think moms would focus their energies on, oh, improving literacy rates or fixing kids' school lunches, but no. For mothers -- at least those who belong to One Million Moms, a branch of the conservative Christian nonprofit organization American Family Associ ... More >>

The Weeknd Put Out A Mixtape Called Thursday Last Night

​ Late last night the Canadian R&B outfit The Weeknd (a.k.a. Drake pal Abel Tesfaye) released its second mixtape. Called Thursday, its release is clogging the official site's servers, although Google can help you find the back door. The basic facts: It's nine tracks, there's a Drake collab (ca ... More >>

Judy and Joseph Del Galdo, Mother and Son Team, Stole $16 Million, Splurged on iTunes

​Mother and son Judy, 66, and Joseph del Galdo, 46, have been charged with stealing more than $16 million from a textile business where Judy worked for over 20 years, according to the Manhattan DA's office. Judy forged the signature of the company's president on hundreds of checks that were de ... More >>

Gigi Jordan, Millionaire Who Allegedly Killed Her 8-Year-Old Son, Asks for House Arrest 'Like Dominique Strauss-Kahn'

​If you'll recall, back in early 2010 a woman named Gigi Jordan, who also happened to be a millionaire/socialite/former pharmaceutical company executive, was found in a $2,300 per night suite at the Penninsula Hotel in New York City, "foaming at the mouth" and "babbling incoherently" as her de ... More >>

Sleeping Pills: Which Are The Best?

​Lunesta, Ambien Halcion, Sonata... No, they're not the seven dwarves. They're popular sleeping pills that enable you to get your beauty rest and wake up a supermodel. I'm lucky I have no problem sleeping without help. In fact, it's my favorite thing to do and I'm really good at it! But ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: January 19 through 25, 2011

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Midwestern life intimately observed

Download: itsnotyouitsme, "Vanity Stays My Hand"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​New York's rumbling violin and guitar duo itsnotyouitsme create a doleful soundtrack for rainy days and crumbling cities. With just two men and an army of pedals, they cull the transcendent-yet-tang ... More >>

Drug-addled Model Driver Gypsy Porfirio Sued by Family of Jogger She Killed

Gypsy PorfirioAging wannabe model Gypsy Porfirio, who mowed down a Staten Island jogger in January on Hylan Boulevard while she was blitzed on Xanax, Ambien, and Percocet, has now been sued by the dead man's family. Teacher Daniel Kelley, 23, was killed when Porfirio's vehicle smacked into him. His ... More >>

Video: How To Dress Well, "Decisions"

The visual accompaniment to the audio we posted last week. Himanshu goes with "Maxwell on Xanax-esque"; Tom Krell, How To Dress Well's sole constant member, says keep the rap and R&B comparisons coming--The-Dream, Kanye, Wayne, he'll take it. Love how much care these dudes take with their entire a ... More >>

Staten Island teacher struck by stoned model dies in hospital

​Daniel Kelley, the special education teacher who was struck Tuesday by a car driven by a Brooklyn woman under the influence of painkillers, an anti-anxiety drug and a sleeping pill, died this morning in Staten Island University Hospital. He was 23 years old.

Drug-addled Wannabe Model Who Mowed Down Staten Island Joggers Sobs in Court

Gypsy, striking a typically vacuous model pose.Aging wannabe model Gypsy Porfirio, who ran down two Staten Island joggers on Tuesday, will likely need even more of the Xanax, Ambien, and Percocet that she took before the crash and were found on her afterwards. The Daily News reports that she sobbed ... More >>

What's Your Favorite Antidepressant or Anti-Anxiety Med?

​No one has to go through life with angst anymore, unless you're disturbed by co-pays, side effects, and an over-reliance on artifical highs. And I am, honey! A few years ago, I tried Zoloft and almost jumped out a window. It gave me aching fingers, headaches, dizzy spells, spasms, and no re ... More >>

Mike Judge Sides with Management in Extract

3 Staten Island Youths Beat, Bat Off-Duty Cop, Are Arrested

​Ah, Staten Island. On Saturday three young men -- allegedly Matthew Catanese, John T. Lafrancesca, and Wayne Laborante -- left a party in Rossville (whether by choice or force remains a matter of dispute) and went wandering the streets with voices raised, whether in song or rage we don't know ... More >>

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Ghosts and Spirits Roam the British Summer Stage

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

We know how you feel, kid. Via Craftser via urlesque. We suspect Obama got that Iranian-American reporter released, and he's certainly trying to help refugees and rescue us from financial criminals. But does he get credit? No -- because he he laughed at Wanda Sykes, just like all the newly-reclas ... More >>

Why Chimps Attack Humans

The big story last week was the one about that captive Connecticut chimp Travis going batty on a human lady, leading to her severe mauling, his own death at the hands of coppers, and most tragically of all, a bad New York Post cartoon. But can we at least learn from this horrid interspecies incide ... More >>

Celebrity Chimp Goes on Rampage, Is Shot Dead

The oddest story of the week, perhaps the month, is that of Travis, a chimpanzee who was unaccountably kept as a pet by a couple in Stamford, Connecticut. In 2003 he was riding in a car with his owners when, enraged by a young man who threw something at him, unbuckled his seat belt, got out of the c ... More >>

Indie Cribz 3: Amazing Baby's Will Roan Shows You His Greenpoint Apartment

A World War II Trauma Derails a Dutch Heart in Sunken Red

Mom's the word

OMG: McCain at the Grocery Store

The Gay Oscars Have Been Announced: What a Pill!

M.E.: Heath Ledger Accidently OD'd on Painkillers and Anxiety Meds

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Wintry Mix

Cold weather, warm hearts: Romantic vignettes from a town that's too nice—almost

Zombies, Monsters, and Steven Colbert

Sports Game Ushers In the Apocalypse

Page-Burners

Getting hot and bothered on the 'pork chop' of Manhattan and beyond

Maneuvers in the Dark

Minor major artist serves up his long-awaited two-CD complimentary hospitality suite

How I Learned to Love Deadwood—Cocksuckers, Whores, and All

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Go E-Mail the Doctor

Online Pharmacies Offer Relief to the Uninsured, Vulnerable, and Desperate

Against His Will

Notes on the New Gay Predator

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