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The Walking Dead Might Actually Kill You Now

You don't want Rick Grimes as your boyfriend. (AMC) Have you noticed that in the last several years, most of the "brilliant" TV shows on AMC, Showtime and HBO star these dangerous, psychopathic...

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How Not to Skim Credit Cards to Purchase Apple Products at B&H

B&H. (Google) A sticky-fingered parking attendant, his band of five fake shoppers and a rogue cashier have been arrested for stealing customers' credit cards to purchase thousands of dollars of...

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Cory Booker: ‘I May Have to Be Hospitalized With Caffeine Withdrawal’

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, known for single-handedly protecting constituents from burning flames, blizzard obstructions and crime, is currently attempting to live on a limited budget to better...

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Anonymous Hacks HunterMoore.tv, Posts Everything Online

In response to Revenge Porn King Hunter Moore‘s new HunterMoore.tv, a site that might make it much easier to locate, stalk and even harm anyone whose images are published there, Anonymous recently...

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Beth Israel Hospital’s Clogged Emergency Room IS the Emergency

Beth Israel Hospital. (Violette79/Flickr) The sign at the entrance to Beth Israel Medical Center on First Avenue at 16th Street screams “EMERGENCY ROOM,” but five hours into her wait to be seen for...

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Stephen Baldwin Arrested For Alleged Tax Evasion

Stephen Baldwin Stephen Baldwin was arrested on Thursday for alleged repeated failures to file his New York state personal income tax. Mr. Baldwin, an actor, conservative Christian and younger brother...

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Sandy Gears: Despite Hurricane Damage, DOT Says Bike Share Will Launch In May

A bike share station at the Navy Yards, in sunnier days. (Brooklyn Spoke) One of the victims of Superstorm Sandy was the city's CitiBike bike share program. After the program was delayed last summer...

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As Illustrated: How to Turn a Gas Station Into a Top Retail Destination

The Meatpacking District had already seen rapid-fire gentrification when, in 2008, a Mobil station at the entrance to the neighborhood sold for $60 million and buzz circulated that it would go retail....

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There’s Art in the Sky Above Miami Beach

A few loud, low-flying planes pulling text banners just slowly rumbled along the beach near the Deauville. They’re part of an aerial group show curated by Adam Shopkorn that is supported by the Morgans...

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Male Half of Melodically Broken Up Hipster Couple Inundated With Marriage...

On the market! (YouTube) Breaking up is never easy, but Jonathan Mann, star of viral video "We’ve Got to Break Up," is having a smoother time than most—with fans so touched by his desire for...

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Francing With the Stars: It’s Paris at the Plaza as Tom Wolfe, Vanessa...

Wolfe. Our phone exploded with calls as we hurried, en retard, to the Plaza in a cab. The French, while not Swiss in their precision, are considerably more punctual than socially overwhelmed New...

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Longest-Serving U.S. Attorney Resigns After His Staffers Troll Newspaper...

Even powerful attorneys are not safe from the ridiculous behavior of Internet trolls. Jim Letten, a Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, resigned yesterday in the wake of...

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Almost 7,000 People Sign Petition Urging President Obama to Build a Death Star

Let’s start by saying you can make a petition for almost anything on WhiteHouse.gov, and we’re pretty sure the President never even glances at them. But apparently, over 6,800 people have signed a...

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Get Whale Soon! Money Rains From the Natural History Museum Balconies as Big...

When Shindigger brushes shoulders with Mayor Michael Bloomberg during our frolics about town, it’s generally a sign we’re in the right place. This was most certainly the case last Monday evening at the...

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Diary of Two Snapchat Addicts

Snapchat is one of those rare tech products, like Pinterest, that seems to have taken hold in suburbia and then migrated to New York, at least judging by the coastal buzz suddenly circling the...

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A Mall Grows in Bushwick?

For more than five years, an exodus of the young and hip from the aluminum-siding-studded homes of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has been flowing southeast into neighboring Bushwick. But now a nascent...

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Update: Which Lucky Reporter Slept with James Deen?

Mr. Deen and not the reporter he slept with. Update: This article misidentified the author from Vice.com as Daniel Stuckey. It was Kelly Bourdet. No, unfortunately it wasn't us. But The Canyon star and...

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Are These the Top Saturday Night Live Skits of the Year? (Video)

Big Bird: Best SNL sketch of the year? (NBC) The Huffington Post just put out a compilation of its top 15 Saturday Night Live videos of the year. Unsurprisingly, Stefon made the cut, as well as The...

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Mayoral Candidates Blast NY Post For Cartoon Mocking Bill de Blasio and...

A rally hosted by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network this morning that was ostensibly held to discuss the situation in the State Senate featured all of the likely Democratic mayoral candidates...

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‘Gatsbaby’ Tabber Benedict Pleads Guilty To Multiple DWI-Related Charges

Tabber Benedict (photo courtesy of Patrick McMullan) As November ended, Tabber Benedict, a "Gatsbaby" featured in a June, 2012 report in The Observer, pleaded guilty in a Suffolk County court to ten...

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