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Bill Banning Tattooing and Piercing Dogs and Cats Passes Unanimously
New bill keeps pets out from under the needle. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) No more I Heart Mom tats for Fido. A bill banning tattooing and piercing in companion animals has passed unanimously in...
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New York Mom Uses Her Spidey Senses in Court
Times Square is full of wanna-be Spideys. (Photo by Mike Pont/Getty Images) She would’ve made the front page of the Daily Bugle for sure. Upstate New York mom Victoria Goreaciuc used her sense of smell...
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Pols Rally Against the Salvation Army’s Sale of Senior Residence
Public Advocate Tish James and other elected officials rallying on the Upper West Side today. (Photo: Paula Duran) Public Advocate Tish James, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Manhattan...
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RHONY Episode 6×15: Rude Ranch
Kristen has gotten the bright idea to take all the ladies to Montana for Labor Day Weekend, a proposition she discusses with Carole while they’re getting bikini waxes. They also rehash the rumor from...
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Frankenfood Comes to NYC, is Not as Weird as Expected
This “Frankenfood” food truck is all over Midtown West today (Photo: Esti Jungreis) Spike TV’s “Frankenfood” truck, in the city until June 20, is bringing an assortment of wacky food items to New...
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Chinese Billionaire to Treat Poor New Yorkers to Lunch and a Show
Mr. Guangbio’s event will be held at the Central Park Boathouse. (Observer) Just call him Daddy Warbucks. According to the New York Post, Chen Guangbiao, a 45-year-old Chinese billionaire, will open up...
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Johnny Utah’s Sued by Former Employees for Sexual Abuse
Johnny Utah’s mechanical bull that former employees were allegedly made to ride topless and kiss each other while doing so. (Photo: Alexandra Sternlicht) Johnny Utah’s self-proclaimed title as the...
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Better Call Saul: When Comedians Do Drama
After just ten episodes of darkness, intensity and a whole lot of violence, the Fargo mini-series wrapped up last night. While I won’t give anything away about the finale, I will say the show had some...
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Queens Council Members Attack Public Wi-fi ‘Monopoly’ Plan
Old-fashioned New York City payphones are on their way to being converted into wi-fi hotspots (Photo: Twitter). A couple of council members ripped a Department of Information Technology and...
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Step Right Up! Park Ave. Co-op of Late Big Apple Circus Founder Sells for...
911 Park Avenue. Park Avenue—at least the part of it in Manhattan—perhaps more so than any other street in the world, brings to mind certain anti-egalitarian notions. And the building at 911 Park,...
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‘Lizzie Bennet Diaries’ Web Series Gets Starz Treatment (Video)
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a web series in possession of a good concept, must be in want of a network. Or at least, that’s how the en vogue thinking goes. I...
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Balls Just Hang Out in VH1′s First Clip of ‘Dating Naked’ (Video)
I’ll just come right out and say it: the first teaser from VH1′s Dating Naked is the best 13 seconds of nudity I’ve experienced since high school. It just packs so much into such a small package. And...
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Cherry Jones Moves Gracefully Through ‘When We Were Young and Unafraid’
Cherry Jones, left, and Cherise Boothe in When Were Young and Unafraid. (Photo by joan Marcus) Cherry Jones is the only reason to see When We Were Young and Unafraid, a load of time-wasting tedium by...
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Clint Eastwood’s Musical Biopic Looks Back on Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
From left: John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Vincent Piazza and Michael Lomenda. Jazz aficionado Clint Eastwood hates the bubblegum pop-rock noise of all those ’50s groups like The Four Seasons as much...
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‘Third Person’ Is a Puzzling Triptych of Stories Folded Every Which Way
Olivia Wilde and Liam Neeson in Third Person. Paul Haggis is a Canadian writer-director who specializes in long-winded bores that bind together multiple parallel stories with chewing gum. The fact that...
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Brad Lander Dusts Up Car Wash Industry Panel
Councilman Brad Lander collided with a trade association of car wash owners. (Photo: William Alatriste/NYC Council) Councilman Brad Lander blasted the leaders of the Association Car Wash Owners in a...
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Manny Kirchheimer Reveals the Hypnotic Appeal of New York in the Seventies
Manny Kirchheimer filming Short Circuit (1973) in his Upper West Side apartment. (Courtesy Jake Perlin) In the muddy backyard of a Williamsburg theater, plaid-claid filmgoers wait for Manny Kirchheimer...
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All Eyez on Kenny Leon: The Director Is Bringing Tupac’s Music to the Palace
Tonya Pinkins and Christoper Jackson in ‘Holler If Ya Hear Me.’ A week before the recent revival of A Raisin in the Sun ended its Broadway run at the Barrymore, it pulled this year’s biggest Tony upset...
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It’s Not Alright: Lifetime Planning ‘Saved by the Bell’ Biopic
You know what I don’t need? I don’t need The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story, the tell-all Lifetime biopic set to divulge what it was really like behind the scenes on Saved by the Bell. I didn’t...
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Pols Call for Industrial Revolution in New York Real Estate
ANHD executive director Benjamin Dulchin rallies with pols outside City Hall (Twitter/Pratt Center). Elected officials, academics and community advocates gathered at City Hall today to call for the...
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