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Billy Ray Cyrus & HomeTown Buffet: A Track-by-Track Menu

Shut up, everybody, because I have HUGE news: Billy Ray Cyrus is teaming up with HomeTown Buffet! Buffets, Inc.® is proud to announce its latest tie-in with country music, this time with the singer/songwriter/actor Billy Ray Cyrus and his 13th studio album, Change My Mind. Beginning April 11, gue ... More >>

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AMERICAN PRINCESS

A fresh look at the Pocahontas legend

Starlet

The 20 Best Things About "Hot Cheetos And Takis"

Surely you've heard of "Hot Cheetos and Takis," the banger from the Y.N.RichKids, by now? The song, a product of the Minneapolis North Community YMCA's Beats and Rhymes Program, is as infectious as its titular snacks are artificially flavored, with what appears to be a bunch of community school-educ ... More >>

Q&A: Black Bananas' Jennifer Herrema On Rad Times Express, Neil Hagerty, Royal Trux, And The Curse Of Opening For The Stones

Jennifer Herrema has helped define the underground rock scene since the 1980s, thanks to her constant pushing forward of both music and style. In her youth, Herrema cavorted with the straight-edge hardcore rascals in D.C. (she felt more at home with the stoners); she scurried off to New York City at ... More >>

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The easy way to play volleyball

SHAKE IT

Learn the art of belly dancing

Q&A: Yeasayer's Chris Keating On USB-Stick Mixes, Bonding Over Weezer, And Why He Loves 'YMCA'

​ The past two years have been good to Brooklyn-based band Yeasayer. While they released their second album Odd Blood a little over a year ago, "Ambling Alp" and "O.N.E." shot them to stardom in the blogosphere and mainstream music circles in the fall of 2009. Their popularity was, in large pa ... More >>

Don't Ask Don't Tell Repealed by House, Again

​The U.S. House of Representatives today voted 250 to 175 (almost straight down party lines) to repeal the ban on openly gay and lesbian soldiers in the U.S. military. This is the second time a repeal has been approved by the House. Previously it was repealed in connection with a defense spend ... More >>

Aimee Angle-Zahn, Missing Med Student, Sought by NYPD UPDATED: Found

​The NYPD is asking for help locating Aimee Angle-Zahn, 34, of 990 6th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Angle-Zahn, who's from Detroit and is in medical school in New York City, suffers from an epileptic seizure disorder. She was last seen at her apartment on November 11. UPDATED: Angle-Zahn was f ... More >>

The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights

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Nutrition Advocate and Pain in the Ass MeMe Roth Profiled in Times

Remember that council bill proposing that fast food places be "zoned" away from schools? Councilmember Eric Gioia was assisted in that crusade by National Action Against Obesity, which we noted at the time was also campaigning against girl scout cookies. And that's what rang a bell when we were read ... More >>

Morning Joe's Willie Geist on the NCAA's Final Four

Knowing that our friend, Morning Joe's Willie Geist--"The Oracle of MSNBC"--is a big sports fan, we thought we'd check in with him about the NCAA's Final Four. Willie has fielded some questions from us before, so we're pleased he had time--between Indian-wrestling matches with co-host Mike Barnicle- ... More >>

Weiner Does 5-Borough Tour, Proposes GPS for Sex Offenders

Congressman and mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner stepped up his game this weekend. On Saturday he put out a release complaining that there are "109 Sex Offenders Living within 10 Blocks" of local YMCAs, YWCAs, YMHAs and YWHAs. His proposed solution is $100 million in federal funds for GPS tracking t ... More >>

Disco Stud Takes It Off For Playgirl (NSFW)

The Election Has Its Own J-Pop "YMCA," "Obama Is Beautiful World"

Joshua Lutz's Meadowlands; 'Art of the Royal Court' at the Met; 'Frick's Vermeers Reunited'

NYC RFD: Celeb Swim Class, DWI, Cab-Robber, Hair Loss

The Teen Commandments

Acht, the wild cliques! Jon Savage documents the pre-history of youth subculture

NY Mirror

'Deeper Than Y'

"Nostalgia = Death: Gay Pride, Gay Shame"

Podcast with special guest Jennifer O'Connor

Cool Enough for James Frey and Nan Talese

The Last Days of Loserville

Once home to hustlers, drunks, and bohemians, America's slummiest street has turned into a new millionaire's row

NY Mirror

Sleep on This

Where to stay for dirt cheap, or even free

The City as Spa

Surviving New York in summer—and fall, winter, and spring— without blowing your budget

Born To Be Wild

Lost boys: Feral children symbolize deeply held social beliefs, inspire scouting movement

Public Spaces

Cementing Relationships

Sweep of Faith

Detained Muslim Faced Mosque Raid, INS Secrecy

His Backhand Needs Work

No, McEnroe Can't Beat Venus or Serena. Even If He Could, So What?

Second Floor of 1886 Carriage House

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Project Girls

Five Veterans of the City’s Public Housing Tell Their Tales

Life on the Outside

After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined

Come As You Are

The Incredible Shrinking Internet

When Cable Monopolies Rule the Web, Everyone Loses

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Pride Guide

Event Listings

Below the Rim

Whiteball Lives in the NCAA

Features

Interviews by Dave Kihara, Sharon Lerner & Coco McPherson. Photographs by Hiroyuki Ito, Mayita Mendez, Michael Schmelling & Michael Sofronski

A guru smolders

Smack Attack

Heroin Deaths Rattle The East Village

A Wounded Mayor

Diallo Deconstructs Rudy's Racial Rule

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Uprooted

The City Yanks More Gardens Out of Harlem

Swede Thing

Two-bedroom apartment in two-story brick house

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