‘Bob Is Listening to Tube8.com:’ BlackBerry 10 Notifies Your BBM Contacts...
If you’re running the BlackBerry 10 operating system and tend to use your phone’s browser to view some rather NSFW content, listen up: Crackberry reports that a setting in the new OS could show your...
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The Way the Wind Blows
Robert Redford is back, as producer, director and star of The Company You Keep, and he must keep his talent preserved in a drawer with his old socks, because in the noxious ozone of today’s films, he...
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‘Boring’ Bushwick Residents Fight for Their Right Not to Party
Pearl's Social & Billy Club in Bushwick. (Facebook) Those pesky hipsters are at it again, with their subversive non-weekday work schedules and socially destructive late night PBR-drinking,...
View ArticleMalcolm Smith Stripped of Committee, Leadership Perks After Arrest
That was fast. Independent Democratic Conference leader Jeffrey Klein effectively booted Senator Malcolm Smith from his breakaway Democratic caucus this afternoon, stripping him of his leadership...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney: New York’s Corruption Cases ‘Feel Like a Scene From Groundhog...
“Today is another sad and disappointing day for every New Yorker,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced at his press conference this morning where he unsealed corruption charges against six...
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A Pretty Decent Proposal
Robert Redford (Photo: Ken Kurson) You know how you’re supposed to be suicidal when someone refers to Robert De Niro as “Bobby” because you know you’ll never be that intimate with someone so vitally...
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Changes to The New York Times Foreign Desk
In a game of internal musical chairs, The New York Times unveils a series of staffing changes in Europe. Let's see: Steve Erlanger will replace John Burns in as the London Bureau Chief. Alissa Rubin...
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Courtney Love’s E-Cig Commercial: ‘Relax, It’s a F**king NJOY!’
Relax. (NJOY) We've seen Stephen Dorff shill for E-Blu, but not one of the other very famous celebrities who vape have been willing to put their reputations on the line to be the face of electronic...
View ArticleOne Direction Gets Waxed
Forget performing at the Olympics' closing ceremony, having nearly eleven million Twitter followers or selling out massive concert venues. We argue that One Direction didn’t really achieve...
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Ann Hulbert Will Be The Atlantic‘s New Books And Culture Editor
Slate and The New Republic vet Ann Hulbert will be The Atlantic's new books and culture editor. The hire marks the magazines's attempt to beef up their culture coverage and help expand and re-envision...
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Zoe Cruz Drowns Her Sorrows in a $7.34 M. Fifth Avenue Co-op
It might not look like much, but 912 Fifth Avenue has park views and Lord Norman Foster's pied-à-terre on the eighth floor. Zoe Cruz has had a tough couple of years. Once the highest paid woman in...
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Where I Work: LinkedIn Series Plays To Our Obsession With Productivity
The desk of Steve Rubel, Chief Content Strategist at Edelman, as featured on LinkedIn. You know that you're in trouble when you start fantasizing about work, and not even work per se, but being more...
View ArticleFormer Friends of Michael Arrington Begin to Break the Silence on Alleged Abuse
On Monday, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington’s ex-girlfriend publicly accused him of physical abuse and followed up with accusations of rape. As yet, there’s absolutely no proof of Ms. Allen’s dark...
View ArticleManhattan GOP Chair Tells Supporters There’s Not ‘Another Shoe to Drop’
Manhattan GOP Chair Dan Isaacs assured his supporters in an email today that he has nothing to do with the alleged political bribery scheme that has already led to six arrests across the state....
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Ari Melber Will Co-Host MSNBC’s The Cycle Full Time
Ari Melber Ari Melber, a frequent television analyst and columnist for The Nation, has been named permanent co-host of The Cycle, where he will join conservative commentator S.E. Cupp, former Virginia...
View ArticleSmith Scandal Highlights Waning Influence of County Political Parties
“That’s politics in New York,” the New York Post‘s cover blared in stark black-and-white ink this morning. “It’s all about the f–king money.” The quote, allegedly made from Councilman Dan Halloran to a...
View ArticleInternet Commenters Help NYPD Track Down Brooklyn Subway Mugger
Yesterday a video of a 56-year-old woman being brutally mugged in the F train station in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood went viral. The video shows a woman descending the stairs into the station...
View ArticleCaught on Camera: Shocking Footage of Woman Beaten in Brooklyn Subway By...
Highly disturbing news today as the police released footage of a violent robbery which occurred earlier this month in a Brooklyn subway station. On Saturday, March 6th at 2:40 a.m., a 56-year-old woman...
View ArticleThe Cyprus Bitcoin Bubble Is Getting Ridiculous
If you’re looking for a secure investment, you usually go with something like gold, not a four-year-old, hacker-created online currency. But when your country basically shuts down all methods of...
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More Micro-Apartments! City Seeking Developers For New Sites
The winning proposal for the Kips Bay site, by Monadnock, Actors Fund Housing and nARCHITECTS. New York's first micro-apartment building hasn't even broken ground yet, but the city is already planning...
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