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To Do Sunday: Enter the Cassoulet Cook-Off
Cassoulet. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) Love to cook but don’t have anyone to feed? Eager to concoct a new recipe for the new year? Enter the Sixth Annual Cassoulet Cook-Off, where professional and...
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To Mr. Sarkozy’s House We Go: Cognac Heiress and Artiste Nab East Side Row...
Aaron Young and Laure Heriard Dubreuil (Patrick McMullan) Much was made in some quarters last year over the age difference between Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy—the middle-aged half-brother of...
View ArticleFeeling Charitable, Groupon Purchases Ideeli For $43 Million
Groupon has purchased flash sales site Ideeli for an appropriately deep discounted price. The Chicago-based website, which is pivoting away from its famous daily deal model, plopped down $43 million in...
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‘Just Count Yourself Lucky That You Got It’: NYPD Accidentally Releases...
NYPD logo The NYPD press office mistakenly sent out a memo to its press distribution list this afternoon listing the mentions that the police department got in the press today. "We just sent it out, it...
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MTV Pregnancy Shows Affecting Teen Birth Rate, One Way or Another
What MTV has wrought.You know how curmudgeonly "experts" have been trying for years to take away Farrah Abraham's thunder by claiming that shows like 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom glamorize teen...
View ArticleCheapskates Lindsay Lohan, Neil Patrick Harris Get $10 Every Time You Use...
We at Betabeat are avid followers of Lindsay Lohan’s Twitter feed. After all, you never know what you might find there. So when we saw a LiLo tweet promoting taxicab disrupter Uber’s services and...
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Employment Network Hopes to Fade East Side’s Development Scars
Essex Street parking garage getting all done up More than $1 billion dollars has been poured into giving the Lower East Side a face lift, but some residents are not fans of the surgery being performed...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio and Cardinal Dolan Join Forces to Try to Bring Pope to New York
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Cardinal Timothy Dolan today met for the first time since Mr. de Blasio’s election and vowed to join forces to try to bring Pope Francis to New York City. Emerging after a...
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#deBlasiosNewYork: Legendary Astor Place Newsstand Back In Business
Jerry Delakas, longtime newsstand operator. (via Save Jerry's Newsstand Facebook page) Finally some good news for a East Village newspaper vendor. Jerry Delakas, Astor Place's beloved newsstand...
View ArticleAssemblyman Stevenson Found Guilty on Corruption Charges
Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson has been convicted on corruption charges, a spokesperson for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara confirmed this evening. Mr. Stevenson was arrested on charges that he drafted...
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After a Fatal Fire, Councilman Presses for Mandatory Emergency Communication...
Officials say that an emergency alarm system may have saved Daniel McClung. When a fire broke out on the 20th floor of the Strand Condominium on January 5, some residents tried to escape by running...
View ArticleWow, Tech Nerds Take Dieting Really Seriously
Think you’re a dieting pro because you’ve tried everything from Atkins to Weight Watchers? Think again, because no matter how many pounds you’ve lost in your life, tech people are probably better at it...
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I Party, Therefore, I am
Andrew W.K. (Photo by Michael Bezjian/WireImage) Having come off a grueling, eight-month-long tour in 2013, Andrew W.K., the wildly extroverted singer and musician, is, for the moment at least,...
View ArticleOnce Again, Conn. Man Proves YouTubing Your Drug Haul Will Get You Busted
We can’t believe we have to explicitly sound this out for some of you dummies, but bragging about your expansive weed collection on YouTube isn’t going to lead to anything good. (Remember this guy?...
View ArticleTish James Hits Cuomo Tax Plan for Favoring ‘Corporations and the Wealthy’
The city’s new public advocate, Tish James, who had vowed to be a thorn in the side of fellow officials, is already making good on her promise. At a press conference early this morning demanding more...
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‘We Really Did Try to Make It’: Beautiful—The Carole King Musical Is Fun,...
The Shirelles in 'Beautiful.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) Where you lead, Carole, I will follow, anywhere that you tell me to. And if it happens that you lead me to a mediocre bioplay that combines your...
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An A-ffair to Remember: Toni Bentley Brings Her Anal Sex Memoir to the Stage
Laura Campbell in 'The Surrender.' (Photo by Paul Kolnik) The overwhelming success of Fifty Shades of Grey tells Toni Bentley something important about women today: They’re not having good sex. “If a...
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New—And Improved: In Paul’s Case, a Young Opera Festival Yields Its First...
'Paul's Case.' (Courtesy PROTOTYPE) New York’s newest opera festival, PROTOTYPE, a collaboration between Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, crams five local premieres and a galaxy of side events into...
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Killer Kale
Killer kale. (Wikipedia)Did you know that kale, superfood of the gods and your juicer, can kill you? Like literally, kill you? And not just in the "If I have to drink one more green juice, I will shoot...
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Want to Charm the Landmarks Commission? Replace Glass With Brick
Winning LPC approval could be as easy as swapping out glass for brick. (DDG) Are you a developer facing community opposition to your glassy new condo tower? Worse yet, have you been censured by the...
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