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An Original Classic: Adam Guettel’s Musical Lines Run Deep, But For This...
Adam Guettel. (The Guardian) You wouldn’t call him a chip off the old block, but Adam Guettel’s musical genes are unmistakable. Yes, his grandfather was the great Richard Rodgers, and his mother was...
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To Do Thursday: Five of One Hundred
David N. Dinkins. The One Hundred Black Men Inc. Annual Benefit Gala is honoring five civic and business leaders: the Honorable David N. Dinkins, the former New York City mayor and One Hundred Black...
View ArticleHail Corporate: The Increasingly Insufferable Fakery of Brands on Reddit
The best kind of marketing messages are the ones that don’t seem like marketing messages. Because it means that the viewers’ defenses are down. That may be why the front page of Reddit has become an...
View ArticleGoogle Reportedly Enlists Warby Parker to Make Glass Look More Hipster, Less...
Google Glass certainly isn’t lacking in the whiz-bang factor. The gadget was publicly introduced with a skydiving stunt; just yesterday, the company released a video from the point of view of a user,...
View ArticleThese Temporary Tats Could Let You Move Objects With Your Mind
Remember how jealous you were that the title character in the movie Matilda could move stuff with her mind? She could float candy to her mouth and turn the record player on and off and exact elementary...
View ArticleOn the Market: Chinatown Ain’t Cheap; LICH Land Worth $500 M.; Delta to Pave...
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Young Adults Flock to Brooklyn to Escape Mundanity of Suburbs: A Trend Story
The good people of Brooklyn, with Mayor Rufio. Thanks to Kim Velsey's brilliant response to The New York Times’s highly blog-troversial Sunday Styles article "Creating Hipsturbia," we know that just an...
View ArticleFBI to Employees: Please Stop Using Your Official BlackBerry to Send Dick Pics
It turns out that even top secret agents aren’t immune to the sexting craze. CNN reports that according to confidential disciplinary reports it obtained, the FBI is fighting a “rash of sexting” among...
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To Do Friday: Kung Pao, Right in the Kisser
Mission Chinese Food food. Already a sensation in San Francisco, a city where locals worship at farmer’s markets and pray to the image of chef Alice Waters, Mission Chinese Food has become the most...
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That Losing Feeling: Stringer’s Quest for 900 Continues
Coach Vivian Stringer A picture of Coach Vivian Stringer hangs high in the Rutgers basketball arena, the only face in the RAC rafters, looming near the ceiling like some stained-glass window of a saint...
View ArticleHomeland Security Took Mike Arrington’s Boat :(
Mike Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, is not having a good week. That’s because Homeland Security, that most reviled of federal bureaus, has taken his boat. We know this because he has taken to his...
View ArticleOn the Market: Queens Condo Record; Condos Edge Out Rentals; Oldest Fifth...
NJ Transit's preventable train losses from Sandy rise to $450 million. [Record] Oldest UES building on Fifth Ave. is on the chopping block. [TRD] The View breaks Queens condo record with $3.1 million...
View ArticleGoogle’s Mountain View Headquarters Are Under Attack From Toxic Vapors!
Google’s Mountain View campus is home to a beach volleyball court, a bowling alley, a climbing wall, seven fitness centers, “more than 100 micro-kitchens” and, it seems, toxic vapors. CBS says readings...
View ArticleCongratulations, Neckbeards: Oxford Adds ‘Friend Zone’ to the Dictionary
Congratulations to every Redditor who has complained about a female friend not giving him the sexual attention to which his penis entitles him: Oxford Dictionaries has immortalized your horrifying...
View ArticleTrio of NYC House Members Warn Obama They Won’t Back Cut-Based Sequester Bargain
Three members of New York City’s congressional delegation have signed on to a letter vowing not to back any White House bargain to avoid the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts known as the sequester...
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Quartz Publishes Super Secret List Of Pulitzer Prize Judges
The mysterious deliberation process to decide which journalists and publications are going to be able to add "Pulitzer Prize winning" to their name began today up at Columbia University. And to...
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Celebrity Chef Michael Symon Bounces From Balazs to Barely-Gramercy
Not much of a downgrade. When The Epoch Times reviewed celebrity chef Michael Symon's new Greek restaurant in the Flatiron District, Parea, in 2006, it wrote that it "might improve after Mr. Symon gets...
View ArticleHave YOU Been Injured by a Robot Surgeon?: Robot Malpractice Suits Are Now a...
Robots are frequently relied on in the medical community to perform complex, invasive surgeries that require a dexterous touch. But like any person (or thing!) with a medical degree, robots are now...
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If These Men Were Cats, and This Train Was a Giant Cardboard Box, This Video...
This is why you never sleep on a subway going through the aurora borealis. (YouTube) TGIF, right? Sometimes you need to just take a giant nap on the floor of the subway because it's late at night and...
View ArticleNew York Artists Now: A Special Issue of The New York Observer
Click through to read The New York Observer‘s special issue, New York Artists Now: – The Establishment, – The Next Generation [coming Monday], – Anthony Haden-Guest considers the phenomenon of the art...
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