None but the Brave
Let’s be clear about this: the Fire Department of New York is the finest force of its kind in the world. The courage of New York’s firefighters is beyond all understanding, something we all witnessed...
View ArticleA Union Shill
Some time ago, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott formed an organization called the Chancellor’s Parent Advisory Council, a group designed to provide Mr. Walcott with important input from the front...
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Tie One On: Bonding Over Bow Ties With Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Mr. Mikita and Mr. Ferguson, in ties, with ties. Along the wall at Chelsea hot spot Avenue one recent late-winter evening, a nattily dressed man stood with a cocktail in hand and a vague, far-off look...
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Techno Bubble: Grimy Clubs Rebuke Brooklyn’s Kale-Obsessed Preciousness
Joy Orbison delivers a techno groove. It’s just past 4 a.m. on Ten Eyck Street in East Williamsburg, and the only traces of contemporary twee Brooklyn are a pair of vintage bikes and sticker shock. A...
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Ready to Mingle
Minglers at the Mingle. More than a thousand people had RSVPed on Facebook. The wait outside of The Dalloway—the lipstick lesbian hot spot that opened last December—was 30-plus minutes. What the fuss!...
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Long Live the Written Word!
Members of the Algonquin Round Table. If you fear that book culture is vanishing, it helps to attend the National Book Critics Circle’s yearly awards ceremony, as OTR did last week at The New School’s...
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Odd Couples: Led by Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson, WWII-Era Love Story...
Burstein and Paulson in 'Talley's Folly.' (Joan Marcus) “If everything goes well for me tonight, this should be a waltz—one-two-three, one-two-three—a no-holds-barred romantic story,” Danny Burstein,...
View ArticlePath Commercial Accidentally Confirms That Only People You’d Hate Use Path
Path, the social networking app cofounded by Facebook mafioso Dave Morin, has a new commercial entitled, “Bringing People Closer Together.” But you’re gonna wanna keep your distance from the...
View ArticleMe and You and Everyone We Know: The Many (Many, Many) Faces of Internet...
In a bustling Starbucks at the Stamford Town Center in picturesque Connecticut, a tall woman swaddled in a gray sweater and an ankle-length skirt appeared in the doorway. Her chestnut hair was pulled...
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Update: Author of Wired’s Finger Hashtag Article Denies Making Up Trend (Video)
Nimrod Kamer displays a "finger hashtag." (Photo credit: Nimrod Kamer for Wired UK) Yesterday we shed some doubt over whether social media satirist Nimrod Kamer's "finger hashtag" story for Wired.uk...
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Will Ferrell, Bob Odenkirk and Ben Stiller All Get New IFC Shows (Video)
Main: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay/ Insert: Bob Odenkirk and Ben Stiller (Getty Images/The Ben Stiller Show IFC clearly knows what it is doing. The network that brought you Portlandia (and also Comedy...
View ArticleFor Just $105,000, the Virginity of This Brazilian Sex Doll Can Be Yours
Incapable of finding an actual human woman to touch your genitals? Eagerly awaiting the coming of longevity orgasms but have no one to practice with ever since your carpal tunnel diagnosis? Fear not:...
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Today Is the 50th Anniversary of the Greatest Record Ever Made
That would be John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, recorded on this day in 1963. Before you furrow your brow, you should know that a lot of people feel this way, Daniel Okrent among them. In 1990 Okrent...
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Finish the Job: Joe Lhota Wants to End Moses’s Triborough Legacy
Robert Moses may be dead, but the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority lives on. Joe Lhota, it seems, wants to finish the job that Governor Nelson Rockefeller started. Speaking to the Staten Island...
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Hudson Square On Hold: City Council Postpones Vote, Could a Landmarking...
A re-imagined Hudson Square. Hudson Square has, by and large, been a largely uncontentious rezoning (despite being the largest private rezoning in the city's history). In comparison to the bitter...
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Columbia Students May Be Stealing Nutella, But at Least They Aren’t Writing...
Oberlin vs. Columbia (Tumblr) Gasp! Shock! Quelle horreur! Did you know that Columbia University students--those fine, Ivy League men and women who only occasionally offer to have sex for money on...
View ArticleGregory Meeks to Represent U.S. at Hugo Chávez’s Funeral
The funeral for former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will be held tomorrow and a New Yorker will be representing the United States at the event–Queens Congressman Gregory Meeks. “I am honored to be...
View ArticleAereo Suing Barrydriller.com Founder Again, This Time for Using the Name ‘Aero’
It wouldn’t be the end to another week in tech without another copyright lawsuit. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Aereo board member and IAC chairman Barry Diller is once again taking FilmOn CEO...
View ArticleProposed Florida Law Would Make Publishing Revenge Porn Without Victim’s...
Though revenge porn–the practice of posting pornographic photos of someone without their consent–still largely exists within a legal grey area, lawyers, hackers and victim’s rights advocates are...
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James Frey Sells Hudson Square Combo For 3.9 Million Little Pieces
505 Greenwich Street: Not a bad place to retreat to after a humiliating Oprah interview. All the shame that James Frey endured when his non-fiction memoir on addiction was revealed to be largely...
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