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Billy Dee Williams Ruins Your Childhood ‘Star Wars’ Memories on ‘DWTS’ (Video)
Billy Dee Williams on Dancing With the Stars. For my birthday, I found myself in a small Chicago theater, watching a young woman with yellow paint on her pasties do an elaborate performance as C3PO as...
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Brand Vegas: SXSW Ain’t What It Used to Be—and Neither Is Austin
Lady Gaga promotes Doritos—or vice versa—on stage at South by Southwest. (Photo via Getty Images) On the first Friday afternoon of South by Southwest, I was walking to the Convention Center to pick up...
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Goodbye Blue Monday … for Real?
Goodbye Blue Monday won’t say farewell just yet. Goodbye Blue Monday, a Bushwick watering hole, art, antiques and gig space, is rallying to stay open by asking their patrons for cash. The bar has...
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Night Court Is New York’s New Tourist Trap
The hottest spot in NYC is NIGHT COURT! (Photo by SNL/NBC). The hottest spot in New York City is…night court! [insert "SNL's" Stefon voice here]. A staggering number of tourists are adding night court...
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Ill Communication at The Little Elm
Fine dining, flawless elements: The Little Elm in Williamsburg.(Photo: Michael Weber) Last year, when the Elm opened at the King & Grove Hotel in Williamsburg, I wrote that while chef Paul...
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Editorial: Working on the Railroad
While some city residents hate to admit it, New York gets no small amount of its energy, creativity and talent from people who—gasp!—don’t actually live in one of the five boroughs. And the city’s...
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Editorial: Hard Core
The New York State Assembly approved a bill last week that would delay full implementation of the new Common Core education standards and assessments. A delay is inevitable, as Governor Andrew Cuomo...
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‘RHONY’ Season 6, Episode 2: #BOOKGATE
It’s greatest intellectual property battle of our time. Photo via Bravo I’d like to start out by saying that I feel so much closer to these women than ever before. Last Wednesday, I had the great honor...
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Not Just Shells: Older Ladies Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin Land Netflix Comedy
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, together again. Congrats, ladies over 35! It turns out you can find yourself represented on television … well, at least premium and streaming content. From that weird...
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How ‘Journalism Crack’ Conquered the Internet
In the cutthroat world of British tabloids, where the explosive Fleet Street editor is a stock character, Martin Clarke still stood out as a particularly fearsome newsroom presence. Even more so when...
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Francophobia: ‘Maladies’ Is a Sickening Display of Cinematic Ineptitude
James Franco in Maladies. Overrated, overexposed and overindulgent, James Franco is all over the place, like cow chips in the abandoned pasture of a derelict farm. With nine movies currently in release...
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Bad Cop: ‘McCanick’ Features Cory Monteith in His Last Film Role
David Morse as a worn-out Philadelphia cop named McCanick. The only reason to suffer through a grim wack job called McCanick is to see the late Cory Monteith in his last film role. Because of his...
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A Vibrant Catherine Deneuve Stars in Long and Winding Road-trip Flick
Catherine Deneuve in On My Way. Disappointingly tedious, On My Way is a contrived vehicle for Gallic icon Catherine Deneuve. At 70, she’s still the embodiment of placid ripeness we know and love, but...
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‘Game of Thrones’ Gives Shout-Out to Goldman Sachs, Bush Administration, Dad
We didn’t know Game of Thrones was such a fan of the Bush administration. For a show that exposes the darkly political wheelings and dealings of a fantasy world, Game of Thrones kind of hid the ball...
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Your New York Above and Below Ground Ad Report
This week’s report starts in Times Square. Most people cheer the “new” Times Square with its lack of sex dens and addition of Elmo and entire corporate buildings that are video ads for said corporation...
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Celebrity Divorces and the Dream Homes They Duked It Out Over
For the mere mortals among us, a break-up entails fights over favorite chairs and copies of dog-eared books, disagreements over the number of months left on the lease or discussions of whether one...
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The $4.25 M. Fixer Upper: Historic Brooklyn Heights Townhouse Hits the Market
Stately, if slightly worn. Home over the years to a leather merchant by the name of Kumble, an inn keeper-cum-detective known as Mrs. Brown and a larcenous maid named Hoyle—who had a taste for...
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Alec Baldwin Ain’t Done Skewering the Media on ‘SVU’
Die-hard fans might have known that last night’s SVU episode was going to feature celebrity guest-star/Cranky King of NYC Alec Baldwin, if only because a) It was in the previews and b) Ice-T...
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Young Man on Wire? The New New York’s Response to the Same Tight Rope
Justin Casquejo dreaming of his eventual ascent? (PHOTO: Justin Casquejo/Facebook) On the night of August 6, 1974, French high-wire artist Phillippe Petit snuck into the south tower of the uncompleted...
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Flips Without Flops: Condo at 15 CPW Last Listed for $13.9 M. Enters Contract
The living room, naturally, is “generous.” According to the journalist Michael Gross’ new book House of Outrageous Fortune, a chronicle of the majestic—albeit parking-challenged—15 Central Park West,...
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