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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: F the F Word]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Ecstacy with Herra*C Club kids are a dime a dozen.  A fuchsia-colored wig, some glitter, a pre-made costume from Ricky&rsquo;s&mdash;that&rsquo;s no club kid, that&rsquo;s a mall rat slumming it. Herra*C is different. Partying since he was a tween from the Bronx, he faked IDed his way into the Tunnel and Twilo in their heyday. Now he&rsquo;s a party promoter paid to go and get his freak on.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Anne Getting Serious]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The Public Theater&rsquo;s Twelfth Night wins with star power It turns out The Princess Diaries may not be such horrible preparation for Shakespeare. Anne Hathaway, starring in the Shakespeare in the Park&rsquo;s rendition of Twelfth Night (Anne Hathaway was also the name of Shakespeare&rsquo;s wife, for those interested in cosmic coincidences), was the show&rsquo;s biggest draw&mdash;and greatest potential liability, but she gives an impressive performance as Viola, a shipwrecked aristocrat posing as a male servant.
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Dunn Deal]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Jancee Dunn's Book Soiree When Jancee Dunn&rsquo;s mom got her first tattoo, she wasn&rsquo;t fucking around. &ldquo;[She got] a big black raven on her wrist,&rdquo; Dunn said. &ldquo;It doesn't go with her pink sweaters."
I was part of the small but dedicated crowd that filed into Greenpoint's Word Bookstore Tuesday night for a launch party celebrating Dunn's new book, Why Is My Mom Getting a Tattoo? And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Answer.
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    <title><![CDATA[Out of Site]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Lower Manhattan Cultural Council brings dance Downtown There are myriad unpredictable elements to take into account when performances take place outside a traditional theatrical setting. For Untitled Corner, the site-specific collaboration between Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer and Judith Sanchez Ruiz, one such consideration was the fact that office workers from the 60 stories looming over the space, One Chase Manhattan Plaza, might be viewing the performance. At the same time, for the four lunch-hour performances, there is likely to be the interaction of a steady stream of traffic through the revolving doors at the front of the 1964 Gordon Bunshaft skyscraper.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Ring My Buell]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Bebe Buell (and her daughter Liv Tyler) at Hiro Ballroom Bebe Buell has been famous as a Playboy Playmate, the first lady of 1970s groupies and Liv Tyler&rsquo;s mom. Now, at age 56, she wants to be Tina Turner&mdash;a big star who succeeded against all the odds. But first she had to convince the audience gathered in a nightclub in the basement of the Maritime Hotel, that her act can move downloads.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[In MJ's Shadow]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ARMOND WHITE remembers Michael Jackson&rsquo;s pop open-mindedness Michael Jackson made the best cinema of 1991 with the music video &ldquo;Black or White,&rdquo; which was easily superior to any short or feature-length film released to the public that year. To find a comparable example of visual montage, you have to go back to one of Alain Resnais&rsquo; time-shifting &eacute;tudes, the marriage scherzo in Citizen Kane or the chase-trial fugue in D.W. Griffith&rsquo;s Intolerance. I combine musical and filmic values because &ldquo;Black or White&rdquo; &rsquo;s visionary approach to egalitarianism&mdash;ending with a still-miraculous sequence of genetic morphing and counter-balanced by a solo dance of frustration and rage&mdash;was a singular feat: Its constant rhythm was accompanied by a stacking-up of thrilling, provocative ideas.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Pleasure & Pain]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Getting Pierced with Elayne Angel Have you pierced your labia yet or did you wimp out with a little diamond in your bellybutton? One in seven Americans between the ages of 18 and 50 has a piercing somewhere other than the earlobes. Feel like getting your mojo cranked up a notch? Try getting pierced in one of the pleasure zones. Of course, you may feel an intense pinch or maybe even some real pain. But you can also get a rush of adrenaline from the process.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[LES Heatwave]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Break out the waterproof mascara, things are getting HOT! Downtown EARL DAX THOUGHT he was through with the HOT! Festival. After helming the annual queer theater event in 2006, the ubiquitous Downtown culture guru had moved on to events like Weimar New York and Tingle Tangle, plus a seemingly endless amount of globetrottingin the last few weeks, he jetted from the U.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Speed Freaks Take Soho!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[New exhibit exposes the alchemy of American counterculture DON&rsquo;T BOTHER WITH the back room at Caf&eacute; Select. Forget the basement of La Esquina.The new place to be in Soho is the burnt out meth lab on Wooster Street.

Beginning July 2 at the Deitch Projects annex on Wooster Street, you&rsquo;ll find an artistic mishmash so thought provoking and racy that it will give the neighborhood&rsquo;s usual debauched haunts a run for their (rolled up) money. I&rsquo;m talking jars of mystery meat and faux fetuses, strewn kitty litter, a library, visual and auditory deconstruction, Chinese herbs, astrological pelts, the aforementioned meth lab, a blown up RV, aquarium rocks and a replicated penthouse art gallery. Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, two New York-based artists completing their third collaboration, are the architects and alchemists behind this secret world.Welcome to the Black Acid Co-op. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Airport Lust]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL enjoyed a bumpy ride without ever leaving the ground Last year, I managed to miss five flights, out of probably three times as many total, due to lateness, transportation errors and general disorganization. Most of them weren&rsquo;t such a big deal; I could take the next one out, or pay a fee and wait around a few hours. I don&rsquo;t tend to mind, since it gives me time to catch up on the gossip magazines in the airport bookstore. I&rsquo;ve come to the conclusion that when it comes to flying, I&rsquo;m just not very good at it. Maybe it&rsquo;s my squeamishness about air travel that comes out via tardiness, or the fact that while I like going away, I always feel like I&rsquo;m missing something back home while I&rsquo;m gone.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Zine Teens]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ Billy Cheer is that boy at the party who you really resent because you either want to be him or fuck him.You know? That guy. And Max Steele, a Leo with Cancer rising and Sagittarius moon, a performance artist, writer and singer, has become Billy, too. Hes a rock n roll go-go boy who dances in his underwear at Queers, Beers & Rears, the monthly homopunk party at Cake Shop.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: My Man Moose]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Animal attraction only took MARGOT LEITMAN so far SOMEWHERE DEEP BENEATH my thin Manhattan exterior, there is a Jersey slut just waiting to win a wet T-shirt contest at Club Abyss. Six years ago, the last time I was single, friends invited me for a vacation at a Jersey Shore beach house.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Homegrown Talent]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Newest Brooklyn film fest puts new New York onscreen The local selections in BAMcinemaFEST would deserve the title &ldquo;New York Film Festival&rdquo; if the name weren&rsquo;t already taken. Instead, these works by younger, emerging filmmakers from the area ought to be grouped as the &ldquo;New New York Film Festival,&rdquo; for their collective status as an emerging crowd.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dog Day Afternoons]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Party brunches aren&rsquo;t just for a-holes anymore The expensive daytime excess of the Meatpacking scene$750 magnums of champagne, as much as $20,000 spent at a tableis gluttony that would give Marie Antoinette pause, but some city venues, many within the past few weeks, have stripped away the ostentation and high cost of the party brunch and added their own flavor.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Maysles' Magical Mystery Movie Theater]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s no surprise that quirky local characters are the driving force behind the little movie house that documentarian Albert Maysles built in Harlem. But what ties them all together remains a bit of a mystery. A multiracial group mills about, sipping Haitian rum from plastic cups inside a four-story building on Lenox Avenue. The humid spring night marks the first evening of the second run of the &ldquo;Haiti in Harlem&rdquo; film series at the Maysles Cinema and Film Institute, and the eclectic gathering includes Harlemites, Haitians, cinephiles young and old and Aboudja, a voodoo priest and drummer who&rsquo;s been tapped to lead a concert after the film in the downstairs lounge of the pint-sized theater.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Taking of Pelham 123]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Tony Scott hijacks urban anxiety for box office entertainment TONY SCOTT&rsquo;S FILMS start from the premise that Americans are bored&mdash;and secretly resentful&mdash;of their lives. He specializes in violent, fragmented spectacle that feeds this boredom by drowning out subtlety and complexity. Yet, he&rsquo;s the good Scott; brother Ridley is merely a pretentious windowdresser of big themes. Tony&rsquo;s best movies (Spy Games, Domino) match hyperactive style to intricate storytelling, which suggests he could probably make a good film if he shook the super-cynical hucksterism out of his system.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Prime Meat]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[After 30 years, The Meat Puppets still give listeners something to chew on The first time I saw The Meat Puppets was in the mid-90s with Joan Jett, playing a &ldquo;Taste of D.C.&rdquo; festival in our nation&rsquo;s capital, and even then the band seemed ancient; not exactly old, just sort of eternal. As a kid deeply affected by grunge, I was blown away by the heavy sounds that had dented the heads of my own Seattle-based idols. Even now, when those idols are all dead or dethroned, The Meat Puppets&mdash;comprising brothers Cris and Curt Kirkwood and drummer Ted Marcus&mdash;still play regularly, and in May the band released a new LP, Sewn Together. New York Press caught up with Curt Kirkwood to talk in advance of the group&rsquo;s two New York shows this week.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Electric Rock Therapy]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Next to Normal sizzles with energy and brains After an Off-Broadway production and then a stint in Washington, D.C., why isn&rsquo;t Next to Normal next to perfect?]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Obsessed]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Beyonc&eacute; proves she&rsquo;s no diva in &lsquo;Obsessed' Beyonc&eacute; doesn&rsquo;t waste a good lyric. As the wife of a man stalked by a crazed woman in Obsessed, Beyonc&eacute; gives musical measure to these lines: &ldquo;You come into my house/You touch/My child!&rdquo; She&rsquo;s an &ldquo;actress who sings&rdquo; (as Streisand always says) but with a homegirl&rsquo;s special audience rapport, not diva aloofness. Beyonc&eacute;&rsquo;s Sharon Charles, a young black middle-class homemaker, protects her domicile, child and her man, Derek (Idris Elba) from strangely maniacal harassment by Lisa (Ali Larter), an unhinged, almost comically sexualized white interloper.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Carr Show]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[David Carr's paperback launch party Last night in front of the Barnes and Noble on Union Square, a crowd of curiosity seekers gawked at two winos anxiously trying to rouse a grizzled white man in his late 50s from pill and booze-induced unconsciousness. It&rsquo;s the type of ignominy that Times reporter and author David Carr barely escaped.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Hymn, A Revelation]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Celebrates Its 50th With so much to celebrate in connection with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre&rsquo;s 50th anniversary, it&rsquo;s great news that New Yorkers get a second, very different opportunity to view the company this season. Its annual December City Center season is a longstanding tradition, but this is only the second time around for their on-the-eve-of-summer week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It serves as a festive coda to the company&rsquo;s extensive 26-city tour, which launched in January in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center, with the entire first family in attendance.
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    <title><![CDATA[Welcome To Dadhattan]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[How the recession created a new breed of stay-at-home dads (and why that's cramping my style). For me, the economic crisis began last April 2nd. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re letting you go,&rdquo; the office manager announced while standing in my doorway, on his way to another, more important meeting. Had it been a day earlier, I would&rsquo;ve thought he was kidding.


Actually, I wasn&rsquo;t all that surprised. I&rsquo;d been expecting it. Please don&rsquo;t confuse that with dreading it: I hated my job. In this particular job&rsquo;s defense, I&rsquo;ve hated all my jobs. As an advertising copywriter&mdash;&ldquo;With 14 vitamins and minerals, you can trust Cheerios for a lifetime of wholesome goodness for your whole family!&rdquo;&mdash;that comes with the territory.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Woody's Wet Dream]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Larry David tries to parlay his HBO shtick to the big screen Ten years after his great expectoration of bile in Deconstructing Harry, Woody Allen comes up with Whatever Works&mdash;the most shameless, cynically titled Hollywood con job since the days of Billy Wilder. Having lost his originality, Allen here reboots the acerbic Deconstructing Harry by mixing in the rancid, misogynistic Mighty Aphrodite. It&rsquo;s another of his old-goat/younggirl fantasies, but with TV&rsquo;s Larry David in the know-it-all lecher role and Evan Rachel Wood as the bimbo sexpot. Only this time, Allen&rsquo;s wet dream is primarily bile, adding little wit and then an avalanche of sentimentality.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Pubic Air]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Stupid white people tricks at the Air Sex World Championships Driven by humor, exhibitionism and sweaty-palmed horniness, the Air Sex World Championships steamed up the Highline Ballroom with many energetic air couplings Friday night. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gut Instinct: Feeling Butch]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Fearful of losing his meat supply, JOSH BERNSTEIN meets a butcher after his own heart Back in frigid February, the news hit like a razor-covered sledgehammer. My favorite butcher shop, Coney Island&rsquo;s Major Prime Meat Market, was shuttering. Septuagenarian flesh monger Jimmy Prince was closeting his cleavers and trademark neckties. This meant no more dry-aged steaks and fresh-ground &ldquo;murder&rdquo; burgers.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Martha Cool Girl]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ADAM WADE lost the girl who passed the bar but found another who would actually go to one On a Friday night in March, my hopeless, 31-year-old body lay on my futon. The futon embarrassed me, along with the countless water bugs scaling the walls, the extremely low ceilings and the basement apartment itself.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Hopping To It]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Hip-hop is 30 and starting to act its age It was never intended to be in Brooklyn, for Brooklyn, by Brooklyn, he says. Its not about celebrating Brooklyn artists exclusively. Its about everyone from the world coming to Brooklyn to celebrate.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Vera Was a Punk Rocker]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Hey ho, let&rsquo;s go: Dee Dee Ramone&rsquo;s widow pens memoir of woe In the black and-white photos that captured Dee Dee and Vera Ramone&rsquo;s 1978 church wedding, life looks like punk rock&rsquo;s answer to I Love Lucy. Ex-teen runaway Vera Boldis lovingly eyes her mop-topped man-child from beneath a pinned-up lace veil. The Ramones bassist and main songwriter, wearing a wide-lapelled white tux instead of his usual rough trade leather and torn Levi&rsquo;s, smiles back at her. More than 30 years later,Vera Ramone King has penned a vague but emotionally wrought memoir, Poisoned Heart, about her tumultuous time with the idiot savant behind &ldquo;53rd and 3rd&rdquo; and &ldquo;Rockaway Beach.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Every Rose Has Its Thorn]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[IFC's Hot Rocker Moms contest Before the start of the Independent Film Channel&rsquo;s Hot Rocker Moms contest to promote, well, something less interesting than skanky moms in the traffic island at the corner of 23rd and 5th, the rent-a-cops were taking more pictures of celebrity judge Sebastian Bach than they were of the heavy metal madonnas. And for good reason&mdash;Bach, as used-up, snaggle-toothed and double-chinned as he was, still made a hotter chick than any of the contestants we were able to glimpse.
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    <title><![CDATA[We're Finally 21!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[ These days, every year a newspaper survives seems like reason enough to celebrate. And the past 21 years of the New York Press certainly have been filled with plenty of growing pains. We&rsquo;ve been eager and stupid. We&rsquo;ve been juvenile and radical. We&rsquo;ve been spoiled and churlish. We&rsquo;ve been asinine and charming. But throughout it all, we&rsquo;ve had fun. So we thought it would be great to have some of our writers, readers and favorite people tell us about a truly American rite of passage: the 21st birthday.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[One Day It Will Please Us To Remember This Too]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The new New York Dolls do number two My two year-old son&acute;s  first concert was the New York Dolls. He wouldn&rsquo;t let me take him away from the front of the stage. His second concert was the exceptionally talented kiddie artist Laurie Berkner&mdash;as then regularly seen on TV. We went backstage, and I mentioned the Dolls to Berkner.

&ldquo;He danced around more at that one,&rdquo; I said. &ldquo;He mainly spent your show staring in amazement. He looked like all the adults at the New York Dolls concert.&rdquo;

Berkner laughed, and made the same perfect face of awe and disbelief. She&rsquo;s seen that look on a lot of kids. Or maybe she&rsquo;d been to one of those New York Dolls concerts.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[8 Million Stories: We're Not in the Bronx Anymore]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[LORI MOONEY&rsquo;s Manhattan didn&rsquo;t taste quite the way she expected I had always wanted to work in Manhattan. With its bright lights and busy streets, the Big City called out to me like a John to a hooker, and as a child growing up in a smaller neighborhood, I wanted nothing more than to get in on the action. Big things happened in the Big City, I was told, and I needed big things to happen. Because I wasn&rsquo;t from the Big City&mdash;I was from the Bronx.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Joy Economy]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Despite the serious times, under-the-radar comedy clubs are having the last laugh Keemo, a smooth - talking guy with a friendly smile, spends his Friday nights on the corner of West 43rd Street and Broadway wearing a blue shirt and carrying a yellow sign. He might ask if you like stand-up comedy. If you say yes, he&rsquo;ll whisk you three busy blocks west&mdash;dodging tourists and hurtling past the corpse of the Virgin Megastore&mdash;before ushering you down a dingy flight of stairs under Sweet Caroline&rsquo;s Dueling Pianos.

The club down there&mdash;Ha! Comedy Club NYC&mdash;is anonymous and unheralded.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Scammed, Conned and (Almost) Blinded by Love]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[DAWN TURZIO thought she had hit the jackpot, but all she got was Dick Men who protect and serve. This was my addiction. From firefighters in their big, red, speeding trucks to sailors during fleet week, men in uniform, to me, oozed sex. After years of &ldquo;no strings attached&rdquo; relationships with FDNY calendar pin-ups, Marines deployed to Iraq and cops who were perfectly happy with bachelorhood, though, this 28-year-old brunette from Staten Island went on the hunt-and-click for someone who didn&rsquo;t wear his pride on his sleeve.

After days of deleting unwanted dating requests, I spotted a picture of a beautiful man whose profile displayed words of promise and respect. I scrolled down to his occupation and saw that he was in finance. Jackpot! Richard was his name, Dick for short.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Amazing views, great grub and fun times beyond gambling 1. TEPLITZKY&rsquo;S, THE CHELSEA HOTEL Feel like you&rsquo;ve stepped into a Brady Bunch episode. The diner is located in The Chelsea, and the authenticity is frightening&mdash;with waitresses looking like something out of Twin Peaks.While the menu offers healthier stuff for breakfast (a protein shake), you can also gobble down chocolate French toast, Belgian waffles or pickled herring on a bagel with a strong black coffee in retro-cool pitchers. It&rsquo;s probably the most comfortable place to nurse your hangover&mdash;far from the ching-ching of the slot machines.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Museum's Special Events Team Talks About Upcoming Party in the Garden For its annual Party in the Garden fundraiser this coming Tuesday, MoMA is lowering the posh event&rsquo;s after party ticket price to $100 from $250 in hopes of bringing in a younger crowd. To help lure even more young&rsquo;uns, hip-hop star Estelle and DJ Cassidy are slated to take the stage. New York Press had a chat with Elizabeth Pizzo, Assistant Director of Special Programming and Events at MoMA, to chat about young people, art and just how crazy museum parties can get.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[JOSH BERNSTEIN escapes to Atlantic City to look for danger&mdash;and artery-hardening greasy grub. Are you taking us to the bar surrounded by police caution tape?&rdquo; my friend Kelly asks, pulling on a Camel Light in the cool, salt-breezed Atlantic City night.
&ldquo;Umm&hellip;&rdquo; I mumble, transfixed by the dark bar bathed in flashing red-and-blue cop lights. &ldquo;Nice choice, bar writer,&rdquo; says Kelly, a compatriot who&rsquo;ll soon be betrothed. Our adventure to Atlantic City was planned as one last hurrah, a rampage on Las Vegas by the sea: quarter peepshows, stale-beer dives, all-night pawnshops eager to exchange gold for cash. Let zombie-eyed grandparents pump quarters into the slots&mdash;we craved rough trade.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON joins the dreamers that believe quick money can be found amidst the real estate rubble. My path to real estate riches began on the subway, when I grabbed a copy of a free daily rag one morning to read on the way to work. On the same day that Bernie Madoff pled guilty to the biggest investment fraud in Wall Street history, I was intrigued to find a full-page ad with the blaring headline: "HOW TO GET YOUR SHARE OF TODAY'S TRILLION DOLLAR RECOVERY."]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[James Toback examines Tyson&rsquo;s intellect, while Dito Montiel develops the boxing metaphor to further his own autobiography Tobacks film is an act of bravura empathy.Without faking hipster identification,Toback implies soul-appreciation of the Other-as-brother that Montiel mucks up in white boy Shawns relationship with his black mentor Harvey (Terrence Howard).]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[RAYMOND CAVANAUGH JR.admits he doesn&rsquo;t have much to work with, but he&rsquo;s learned how to rise above (and below) with an undersized member I want to do porno. Not backwoods smut with some &ldquo;cocktail waitress&rdquo; and her donkey, I want to do respectable porn, the kind that appears on premium cable channels. I want to tap lines off USC Cheerleader tits before sacking it from behind like a blitzing Lawrence Taylor. As most of us know, however, men of mind-blowing stature dominate the adult film industry. Men who, while thrusting from the hallway, can penetrate a girl in the shower. As much as I enjoy watching these achievements, the brutal truth is that I have an undersized member. Yes, I have what some call the Irish Curse.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is no Black Metal scene in New York I started talking to myself on the Pulaski Bridge to keep the words of Pat Murano from Malkuth drilled into my Schaefer-woozy head. &ldquo;You consider them to be black metal?&rdquo; I kept repeating.This was his reply when I told him about my digging into New York black metal and a couple bands I liked.To me, the answer was obvious. I should have screamed in his face: &ldquo;Fuck yeah I do!&rdquo; But I held it in and later screamed to the blackness surrounding me as I walked across the shaky tin bridge from Brooklyn to Queens.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Norwegians don&rsquo;t know much about craft beer, but JOSH BERNSTEIN finds one that&rsquo;s a master. It's a sunny, breezy spring afternoon, the sort of flawless day that amnesias you into forgetting winter and loving New York City again. But in lieu of flinging Frisbees in Prospect Park or sipping Gowanus Yacht Club&rsquo;s icy Pabst, I&rsquo;ve slunk into subterranean beer hall Jimmy&rsquo;s No. 43 to meet Norwegian giants&mdash; of brewing, that is. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Despite the strangeness of its Webster Hall location, Trashs Burning Angel anniversary bash was every bit as fabulously promiscuous as the hallowed weekly once was at Rififi. Although Trash happens each Friday, this night was special because it celebrated the seventh anniversary of New Yorks homegrown altporn empire, Burning Angel.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Playboys, Endangered No More]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The premiere of The Last International Playboy By the title of The Last International Playboy, an indie movie that premiered on Wednesday night, you would think leggy supermodels have become hard for a high-class man to find. But, thankfully, the party after the film&rsquo;s Times Square screening showed high-class macking is still alive and well. The film fete was chock full of sexy models, many who had cameos in the film.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A sci-fi film that feels right&mdash;despite being made of recycled parts Co-writer/director Duncan Jones&rsquo; debut feature Moon is a modest but nonetheless exciting bit of (derivative) speculative fiction. As the film&rsquo;s vision of the future is obviously cobbled together from a myriad of sources&mdash;most importantly 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris&mdash;it only really becomes involving after the first half hour has given us sufficient set-up. Although Jones and co-writer Nathan Parker add nothing novel to the mythic canon they&rsquo;re working in,  they do provide a very satisfying bit of genre falderal, albeit one that&rsquo;s a little too literal-minded.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Two new plays ignore the vibrant present for stale history lessons The hippies are long gone, but you&rsquo;d never know it from The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, now playing at P.S. 122. A painfully prolonged look at four young activists living rent-free in exchange for running a vegan caf&eacute;, the entire show is a mass of contradictions and implausible characters.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Time for gays to stop this minstrel show for the pretty blondes Just when you thought it was safe to be gay, along comes Carrie Prejean, the runner-up in the Miss USA contest, who may have totally destroyed all hope of ever achieving full equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community when she so astutely stated, &ldquo;We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman.&rdquo;]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The new kid under the bridge puts Grimaldi's in the hot seat Donning a kilt for comfort as he cooks, Bensonhurst native Louis Termini is happy to be preparing pizzas at Ignazio&rsquo;s, his brand new brick oven-style pizzeria under the Brooklyn Bridge. After years spent managing his chain of seven pizza shops in Hartford, he&rsquo;s made his way back into the kitchen to practice the trade his Sicilian grandmother first taught him.   
But why has he opened around the corner from New York&rsquo;s thin-crust benchmark, the legendary Grimaldi&rsquo;s? &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; Termini explains, &ldquo;for the view , the rent&rsquo;s not bad.&rdquo; But forget the rent, how&rsquo;s the pizza?]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The most exciting dish at Hummus Place&mdash;the local chickpea chain, now with four locations&mdash;isn&rsquo;t the hummus at all.There are three tasty versions of the spread, but all of them are outdone by Shakshuka ($6.95), an Israeli dish made of stewed tomatoes, peppers, spices, organic eggs and (for a well-spent $2 more) Halumi cheese.

On previous visits to the restaurant, I&rsquo;d avoided the Shakshuka. Sure, it looked good, but why settle for one dish when you can make a meal of all of the tiny plates like falafel, lebna or a dish of the namesake hummus (I like the Masabacha variety, served warm with whole chickpeas and olive oil)? Then I tried it and found out why: It blows them all away.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Taco Bell meets Argentinean Malbec and deliciousness ensues A couple weeks ago, I talked a bit about the basics of matching wine with cheese. I am going to assume that not everyone who read this has a plate full of $30-a-pound artisanal cheese hanging out in the fridge.


Because of this, I am prepared to give you some more practical options for wine and food pairing, using the same ideas I set forth for matching wine and cheese. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Former Knit Space Goes Gay For Summer There are plenty of animals associated with gay nightlife. Bears, who would go to the Dugout, otters, known to flock to Metropolitan, and chickens, constantly clucking at Rush. Beginning in May, nightlife promoter Josh Wood, known for numerous parties, including Bootleg at (le) poisson rouge, will welcome a whole new breed to the former Knitting Factory space on Leonard Street with the latest beast to hit town, Gorilla Club.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Broadway&rsquo;s shameful problem with resurrection dysfunction What the hell did audiences do to the Roundabout and Manhattan Theater Company to deserve the last season? Hot on the heels of a dry-as-dust Man for All Seasons, the tonally-schizophrenic Hedda Gabler, a sweaty Pal Joey and the abysmal To Be or Not to Be (remember that?), the Roundabout and MTC have opened The Philanthropist and Accent on Youth, respectively, two startlingly dull period pieces.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Welcome to new deli! SARAH PORTLOCK checks out Khim&rsquo;s Millennium Markets in Williamsburg and Bushwick to determine what is lost when Brooklyn&rsquo;s corner delis undergo an organic facelift. The smell of bacon and bleach fill most bodegas around the city. Scuffed wooden floors are proof of years of traffic. Cold cuts, 99-cent bags of plantain chips and greasy grilled cheeses are available at any hour, along with cold bottles of water and beer. But now the organic greens and perfect, shiny apples are replacing the crusty shops as they creep farther, expanding where there used to just be musty, dusty reliability.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[JOSH BERNSTEIN finds himself grilling atop Flushtopia, a man-made island floating near Queens The recent heat  wave stoked my meat lust. Youve got that crazy look, my girlfriend says, retreating backward into our blue living room wall. Ineedto grill, I reply. I clench my eyes and envision flesh sizzling, my arm hairs singeing to stubble.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[WARREN RIDGE&rsquo;s girl hated his job until he brought work home with him Inmates send me the best letters. Almost all of them are aspiring stars, equipped with huge cocks and endless stamina. They all have one other thing in common&mdash;they are all innocent of their crimes, and finishing their &ldquo;bit&rdquo; soon.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Fischerspooner channels 2025 by way of 2001 FISCHERSPOONER,THE HATE-IT-OR-LOVE-IT art pop duo, is back just in time to respond to yet another potential apocalypse. After coming of age as a decadent counterpoint to Y2K and achieving fame in the midst of our post-9/11 party cause were gonna die paranoia, Fischerspooner releases its third record, Entertainment,.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Star Trek and X-Men Origins teach audiences to watch movies like teenagers Bow down to Hollywood season is upon us. If the line, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to make you indestructible, but first we&rsquo;re going to destroy you,&rdquo; seems awesome, you&rsquo;re probably male and more than likely a child&mdash; at least emotionally.That consumer-oriented line is from X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which, like the new Star Trek movie, is designed for adolescent awe.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Bob Powers and the grown-up Choose Your Own Adventure books The Terrible Horrible Temp-to-Perm Debacle begins with the anti-hero, a 33 year-old, barely functional alcoholic and failing writer, waking up in bed next to a dead woman with no recollection of what happened the night before. To make matters worse, he&rsquo;s late for his temp job.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[At the Manifesto Group Art Show Freaks and club kids are art. That&rsquo;s the whole point. They wear it, they perform it, but can they draw? And I&rsquo;m not just talking about pretty pictures. That was my question.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[DANIEL MCCARTHY was grateful for his unemployment benefits&mdash;until he had to enter into the labyrinth to retrieve it from the maw of bureaucracy The economic crisis hit the city like a fat kid belly flopping in the kiddie pool, and I, like many, have been surviving under a cheery banner of strife. In November, I was briefly hired (then fired) as a staff writer for a publishing house in Manhattan. Ever since then, unemployment checks have been my sole source of income.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[During auditions for a new chef at a strip club steakhouse, JOSH BERNSTEIN doesn&rsquo;t get the meat he bargained for The underwear-dampening downpour begins right after I depart Midtown&rsquo;s urine-scented Port Authority subway station. I&rsquo;m not the one who&rsquo;s supposed to look like a wet T-shirt contestant, I think, as I walk on water toward distant Hell&rsquo;s Kitchen&rsquo;s Headquarters Gentleman&rsquo;s Club. Though I typically abstain from visiting flesh markets during daylight, today is special: I was invited to attend Headquarters&rsquo; open call for its forthcoming upstairs steakhouse, Bianca&rsquo;s Triple Ds&mdash;dinner, drinks and dances, in whatever order a man desires. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[When REBECCA MAZIN jumped into a new job, she went headfirst Getting to a job interview can be stressful, but it shouldnt be dangerous. I was prepared to describe my strengths and weaknesses; instead I was responding to quizzical looks at every stop in a hospital triage route.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Annual noise rock event lightens up, but just a bit What was once the showcase for upcoming and legendary noise acts, the five-year-old No Fun Fest has evolved&mdash;or devolved, if you aren&rsquo;t into melody&mdash;into a different kind of beast.

It&rsquo;s still three days long and filled with many noise bands, and the Music Hall of Williamsburg will definitely be crammed with sweaty dudes in tight jeans on May 15, 16 and 17, but there are a few subtle differences this year, one being&mdash;gasp!&mdash; rock and pop bands.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Next Day Air is more profound than most art-house fare Foreign-language art films like Jerichow, by German writer-director Christian Petzold, Three Monkeys by Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Cary Fukunaga&rsquo;s Sin Nombre come pre-sold with film festival approval.That only means they appeal to the personal preferences of our cultural gatekeepers who predictably dismiss a pop-culture surprise like Next Day Air. Opening without fanfare or official validation, Next Day Air displays more creativity and relevance to our ways of thinking (about money and relationships) than movies that pose as art.]]></description>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19802-real-politikin-of-photo-ops-and-false-choices.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Or, how I learned to stop defending sadists and embrace federal prosecution It shouldn&rsquo;t take a genius to point out that getting a new publicity photo is not a good reason to conduct a low altitude flight of Air Force One&mdash;complete with a F-16 fighter jet in hot pursuit&mdash;over the skyscrapers and monuments of New York City. But there you have it, on April 27; officials at the White House proving that sense ain&rsquo;t always so common after all.  And while most New Yorkers experienced a collective feeling of &lsquo;here we go again, more in-flight drama in the skies above Manhattan,&rsquo; my particular d&eacute;ją vu skewed more toward the realization that I had seen this kind of bureaucratic bullshit before.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Making a monkey out of Mike Edison Outlaw writer and provocateur Mike Edison lit up Bowery Electric Wednesday with his signature blend of literature, punk rock and mayhem to celebrate the release of both paper and spoken-word versions of his book, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Ron Howard continues his attempt to imitate Spielberg&mdash;and fails Vatican City police in Angels and Demons greet American debunker Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) with sarcasm: "The Symbologist is here!" That&rsquo;s a clever line since simple-minded director Ron Howard has no talent for symbols--nor any feeling for the meaning of images, art, ritual. This overwrought chase/final-countdown movie is as banal as the genre comes. It&rsquo;s not a well-made action film; it&rsquo;s just expensively made. Howard&rsquo;s incompetence hides behind high-priced collaborators and goofy F/X.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Catching Up with Linfinity's Dylan Von Wagner During the month of May, two incredible local bands will have residencies at Pianos. Wednesdays will belong to the critically praised Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers. Sharing a common bass player (Nick Hundley), Linfinity will own Tuesday nights.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Sam Worthington saves McG's boyish sequel from the sci-fi scrap heap. All Terminator movies are the same: junk. But McG&rsquo;s Terminator Salvation has an important new element: humanity. In the opening scene, terminally ill scientist Dr. Serena Kogan (Helena Bonham Carter) poignantly addresses Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a convicted murderer on Death Row. Her odd request that he donate his organs to science could be sinister, but Carter&rsquo;s humble, needful manner has an undercurrent of suffering, far beyond the expected sci-fi villainy. She looks at Wright sympathetically, even when he insults her&mdash;and that&rsquo;s the hook.Worthington&rsquo;s hard-assed response is complex.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ CATHERINE PEARSON discovers the true meaning of real-estate porn We first heard it a few months ago, a soft moan coming from somewhere beyond our Park Slope apartment. &ldquo;There must be another new baby in the building,&rdquo; shrugged my 28-year-old live-in boyfriend Ben. But the next day it was back and this time in the form of lusty, staccato yelps&mdash;male and female&mdash;that continued for well over an hour.There was no mistaking it:We were living next door to the loud sex people.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[How desperate are we for illusions of hope these days? BRIAN O&rsquo;CONNOR visits Yankee Stadium to experience Joel Osteen&rsquo;s New York-style evangelism. While evangelical Christians might claim there&rsquo;s only one path to getting on God&rsquo;s guest list&mdash;repent your sins and accept Jesus as your savior&mdash;I found an easier way, without the repenting and the accepting and the fear of relapse: I&rsquo;m a New York Yankee season-ticket holder.


That&rsquo;s how I discovered Joel Osteen&rsquo;s &ldquo;A Night of Hope&rdquo; would be barnstorming at the Stadium last month, anchored at second base, flanked by a full-throated choir and televised worldwide. As a secular New Yorker whose phone number was long ago discarded by the faithful fold, I have no interest in disparaging those who seek the comforts of Christian Fellowship, but a worm of wonder did crawl into my consciousness when I received an email from the Yankees announcing the event. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The next nightlife destination in Go-Go-Gowanus Just west of Fourth Avenues longshuttered Brooklyn Tile Supply Corp., along the shores of the Gowanus Canal sits a neighborhood that seems to be waking from its grimy, industrial slumber. Flanked from the east by an expanding Park Slope and from the west by the Smith Street renaissance, signs of change have lately arrived to Gowanus in the form of summertime kayakers who are committed to the revitalization of its murky inland waterway.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Soderbergh creates recession porn with 'The Girlfriend Experience' The system rewards Steven Soderbergh and he pays his Faustian debt with haughty judgments. Soderbergh&rsquo;s new film The Girlfriend Experience is the most unironic celebration of materialist privilege since Woody Allen&rsquo;s Reagan-era heralds Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters. Already proclaimed, even in the alternative media, The Girlfriend Experience paints a gaudy face on the whoredom to which every powerful person in New York, it sometimes seems, has consented. Narcissistic media can&rsquo;t even resist its fun-house mirror reflection. Problem is: The Girlfriend Experience really isn&rsquo;t fun (or funny, as Manhattan and Hannah occasionally were).]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Liberace's birthday celebrated by the gang at Westbeth In the fluorescent-lit community room of Westbeth Artist&rsquo;s Community&mdash;an affordable haven for creatives in the West Village&mdash;a woman was cutting candelabra out of cardboard for the birthday party of the late Liberace. The over-the-top piano man would have been 90 on May 17, and what better excuse to get the old gang together?]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Alannah Starr shines brightly at her new party Goddamn Vandamn! For those not in the know, that&rsquo;s the weekly Sunday night party at the Greenhouse. We&rsquo;re all getting a bit tired of Susanne Bartsch prancing out on the floor of Vandam dressed like a goddess but acting like a mere mortal, a bitchy one at that. Two new parties to get your freak out are Alannah Starr&rsquo;s monthly Vamp at Element and Dina Marie Delicious and King Ralphie&rsquo;s Friday night Breakout at Rush. ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A documentary about the NY designer refuses to ask difficult questions Milton Glaser, the designer and artist, has shaped our perception of modern New York City more than any other single individual. Yes, he&rsquo;s the man behind the simple, yet effectual, I &hearts; NY campaign from the 1970s, but he&rsquo;s also responsible for countless other brand identities and was the co-founder of New York magazine with Clay Felker (they owe him for that iconic logo). Unfortunately, the portrait first-time director Wendy Keys paints of the 80-year-old is more about myth building than anything else.        ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Kitchen's Spring Gala Benefit I&rsquo;m no starfucker. OK, I threw myself at Jim Morrison once. But there were some pretty big names attached to The Kitchen Spring Gala 2009 on Wednesday night. Mary-Kate Olsen? OMG! Iman and David Bowie? Yowie, let&rsquo;s get that party started quickly! And what about that ubiquitous art-star team, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. I see them out so goddamned often I now know Lou&rsquo;s favorite pair of shoes.
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    <description><![CDATA[ Summer is the worst thing about New York. Summer is the best thing about New York. Since you&rsquo;re probably not going to be spending time in some exotic locale this year,or sharing a cottage on some spit of land,we provide an essential guide to the concerts,movies,restaurants and more outdoor doings that make the sweltering months ahead bearable. We check in with the locals who will add new sounds and tastes to the scene, as well as funny ladies,talented boys and girls and dedicated cultural curators. But you won&rsquo;t find everything you desire: Despite our vigilance,some of the folks in charge of our favorite events still haven&rsquo;t re-leased schedules or refuse to fess up to the truth about their anticipated programming. So take this as a starting point,mark your calendars (or tear out our handy ones showing events taking place every day from June1 to August 31) and remember: If you can&rsquo;t have fun this summer,it&rsquo;s not the heat, it&rsquo;s the stupidity. (P.S.summer scarves suck.) ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The magnetic world of &lsquo;Coraline&rsquo; Off-Broadway Being strange, stupendously superstitious creatures, theater makers rarely offer predictions about new work. Distinctly averse to terror, they take pains not to irk those fickle goblins, critics. As they value their lives, they know it won&rsquo;t behoove them to speculate how those essential varmints, the audience, will react.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[ With the June 9 release of its latest album (and first for local indie Matador) quickly approaching, Sonic Youthone of the most influential New York rock bands of all timeseems to be coming home to roost.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[KEITH BLAKELY gets up close,but not personal,at a dirty movie shoot What do you wear to a porn shoot? After a little consideration, I went for the doofus hipster shirt, black jeans and black Converse. It seemed appropriate enough for a Burning Angel set.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The ScentOpera wafts into town IT'S ALMOST NEVER a good thing when, sitting among hundreds in a theater, a strong and distinct aroma fills the room. However, entrepreneur Stewart Matthew and veteran perfumer Christophe Laudamiel mean to do precisely that with 23 scents as part of a 40-minute &ldquo;operatic&rdquo; work that bucks genre classification and aims to pioneer new forms of artistic expression.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Pixar&rsquo;s rote whimsy ruins animation Pixar rules pop media like nothing since mid-20th century General Motors held sway as the preeminent American corporation (and the bane of grassroots individualism).The adage &ldquo;What&rsquo;s good for General Motors is good for the U.S.A.&rdquo; inspired cartoonist Al Capp to spoof: &ldquo;What&rsquo;s good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.,&rdquo; satirizing the military industrial complex.Today, nobody dares mock Pixar. Critics don&rsquo;t merely salute this bullmoose animation studio, they genuflect. Every Pixar film&mdash;including the new Up, gushed over by Cannes Film Festival shills&mdash;is greeted with nearly patriotic fervor.This absurdity clarifies contemporary news media&rsquo;s unprincipled collusion with Hollywood capitalism.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Welcome to Shredtopia]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Celebrate the Pre-Apocalypse with Children The apocalypse is coming. That's obvious. Hollywood says so. Religion says so. Crazy people in the 42nd Street subway station say so. What the hell are we going to do about it? Dude, let's start a band. And that's how Children&mdash;playing tonight at the Shangri-La in Greenpoint&mdash;was formed.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bash Compactor: Soho Nostra]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Tom Folsom's Mobbed-Up Book Party The New York literati spent Monday night celebrating the same gangster that their forbears from the 1960s and &rsquo;70s couldn&rsquo;t get enough of. In Soho, the Accompanied Literary Society brought actors Steve Buscemi and Matthew Modine to read from The Mad Ones, Tom Folsom&rsquo;s biography of New York gangster Joey Gallo. &ldquo;Crazy&rdquo; Joe was heavily influenced by Beat-generation Greenwich Village. He read Camus and Sartre and garnered accolades from intellectuals and artists like Susan Sontag and Bob Dylan.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Totally Stumped]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Duane Sorenson has been called a             &lsquo;coffee messiah&rsquo; because of his Stumptown beans. On the eve of the caf&eacute;&rsquo;s New York City opening,  ETHAN EPSTEIN implores us all to wake up&mdash;before it&rsquo;s too late. Wake up, New York! You&rsquo;re supposed to be the city that doesn&rsquo;t take any bullshit, the city that chews up the phonies and spits &lsquo;em out! Are you really going to be bamboozled by a bunch of pseudo-hipsters from Portland, Oregon? Are you really going to fall for Stumptown Coffee?


I&rsquo;m an East Coast refugee myself, having just finished up four years of college here in Portland. I&rsquo;ve been indoctrinated into its style and, more importantly, its most popular coffee roaster and chain of caf&eacute;s, Stumptown. Since owner and self-styled coffee guru Duane Sorenson opened his first Portland roastery in 1999, he has overseen a massive expansion throughout the hipper zips of the Pacific Northwest.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Pienus in the Sky]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19896-flavor-of-the-week-pienus-in-the-sky.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[SARA BARRON uncovers champagne-soaked teenage desire Several years ago I went home for Thanksgiving dinner only to resign myself&mdash;after having argued with my grandmother about my boyfriend, the MTA employee/spoken word poet&mdash;to spending the night in my bedroom. Seeing as how my father had converted it into a study, however, there wasn&rsquo;t much there in the way of entertainment save for a do-it-yourself guide to Rug Weaving and a biography on Howard Taft, so I opted instead to dig through a box in the back of my closet. On its side my dad had written, &ldquo;Old Sara Bits,&rdquo; and on the top I found a tattered spiral notebook.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Sam Mendes teams with Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida to try to impress indieland Likable TV actors Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski stress their charm to the limit in Away We Go. As Verona and Burt, an unmarried, mixed-race couple expecting their first child, Rudolph&rsquo;s warm coloring and freckly, smiling placidity contrasts Krasinki&rsquo;s lanky, unfazed, bigboy goofiness.They represent an Obama-era ideal, born of the media&rsquo;s predominant middle-class tenets: casual affluence, social mobility and the amazing self-possession of...TV stars.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Other 23 Hours]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Freshkills in England, a tour diary A rottweiler perches  on the roof of the Brixton Windmill like an oversized gargoyle. It snarls as we approach, a sound that seems to originate not from its throat or belly but from the Ninth Circle of Hell. Entering the club will involve crossing into his strike zone, and I can&rsquo;t imagine that he would hesitate to leap off the roof and bury his thick teeth into one of our soft white necks.]]></description>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19986-year-one.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Apatow's gang of cavemen pander to an insipid form of liberal sarcasm Judd Apatow&rsquo;s raunchiness may go too far but it never goes deep. That&rsquo;s the problem with Year One, which starts out spoofing prehistory but quickly veers into ridiculing religion. Its prehistoric and Biblical jokes don&rsquo;t necessarily go together, but the mash-up assumes a derisive attitude toward religious historical belief no different than Apatow&rsquo;s childish, self-serving, unprincipled approach to sex.
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    <title><![CDATA[Over the Rainbow]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19987-over-the-rainbow.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Anika Larsen&rsquo;s autobiographical musical never finds its voice Broadway performer Anika Larsen (All Shook Up, Xanadu) has written a musical valentine to her multi-cultural family in Shafrika, The White Girl, but good intentions aren&rsquo;t enough to prevent Shafrika from feeling overblown and overwritten.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[What's Up With Spinnerette's Brody Dalle It&rsquo;s been six years since Brody Dalle put out an album, but tonight the former Distillers frontwoman will hit the Bowery Ballroom with her new band Spinnerette. 
New York Press&rsquo; Rebecca Wallace spoke to Dalle about the new band, motherhood and Twitter.  ]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Marriage may have its benefits, but SETH MICHAEL DONSKY wonders whether the struggle for same-sex marriage is really about equal rights&mdash;or just validation. THE CAST OF Hair was late. Instead of palpable political unrest, the tardy Broadway belters caused more anxiety in the crowd than anything else.When the young, attractive cast of men and women did arrive, they sang &ldquo;Let the Sunshine In.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s got to be the first time in history that a free-love anthem was used to endorse the institution of marriage. That&rsquo;s right: Instead of angry, fist-pumping protest, the love that dare not speak its name now holds concert rallies in the middle of Midtown.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Books, Quiche  Rock 'N' Roll]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Is a small Soho bookstore the most exciting new venue in town? AMANDA PALMER WAS fresh off a sold-out show for 700 at the Highline Ballroom in Chelsea. And author Neil Gaiman, his best-selling novella Coraline having been adapted into a feature film, could have sold just as many tickets on his own.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Hurt Locker]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow's latest joins the short list of great Iraq War films ALTHOUGH BRIAN DE PALMA lost his artistic bearings on the anti&ndash;Iraq War bandwagon, director Kathryn Bigelow found her perfect subject.That&rsquo;s the difference between De Palma&rsquo;s confused, preachy Redacted and Bigelow&rsquo;s The Hurt Locker. Bigelow (working from a script by Mark Boal) stays focused on the personalities of soldiers during Bravo company&rsquo;s last 39 days of rotation in 2004 Baghdad.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Flavor of the Week: Making a Comeback]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/article-19993-flavor-of-the-week-making-a-comeback.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[KATE WALTER burns sage to get laid After suffering through the break up of my 26-year relationship, I emerged from the darkness a different person. Once a cranky journalist, I became a New Age optimist. Now here I was walking through my studio apartment twirling a lit smudge stick, making sure the pungent scent got into every corner.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[On top of the world at Ali Baba&rsquo;s Terrace SECOND AVENUE IN the East 40s is not someplace you&rsquo;re likely to find me. So imagine my surprise when, on a recent evening that wasn&rsquo;t marred by rain, a companion who rarely ventures north of Delancey and I were barely in a cab back Downtown before we started planning a return visit.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[For those of you smart enough not to watch the fireworks (really just a way to mess with people who have PTSD), the Press has scoped out some drink specials around town. Go ahead, make us proud, and, more importantly, make America proud.
  Whistlin' Dixie's Texas Tavern (714 West 11th Ave. 212-349-4370) 
  $4 &quot;Monster Margaritas and Crononas, among other specials. Free drinks and appetizers...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Love Today, Tonight & This Weekend: Conor Oberst, Chicha Libre, Sonic Youth, Dum Dum Girls]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Fuck the fourth, there will be fireworks in Washington Heights tonight when
Sonic Youth plays with The Entrance Band at United Palace Theater, 4140
Broadway (at W. 175th St.), 212-307-7171; 8, $35 and up. ---
   
  This afternoon the Woodsist / Captured Tracks Festival kicks off with  Crystal
Stilts, Blank Dogs, Psychedelic Horseshit, caUSE co-MOTION!, the
Mayfair Set, Gary War, Little Girls, Kid ...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Exactly 
a year after the band reunited at Maxwell&rsquo;s, its longtime Hoboken 
haunt, the Feelies took the stage at the small, narrow venue last night, 
once again sating the desires of diehard followers. --- 
  Lead 
singer Glenn Mercer mused that this time fans only had to wait a year 
for a return. It was a nod to the decade-plus period during which many 
younger fans longed to see one of th...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Memo to Gary Coleman's Wife: Pick on Someone Your Own Size!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Police were called to the home of infamous man-boy Gary Coleman last night where his wife, Shannon Price was allegedly arrested for domestic violence and disorderly conduct. ---  TMZ reported that the police said that she was breaking things, and thankfully, Coleman remained unscathed.  Coleman secretly married the 5'7&quot; redhead in 2007.  The couple seemed doomed from the start: she was half h...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Live Tonight: Forro in the Dark, The Feelies, Golden Triangle]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Who says all the fireworks are happening tomorrow? Check out Screaming Females with Jay Reatard and TV Smith at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. 6th St. (betw. Kent &amp; Wythe Aves.), B&rsquo;klyn, 718-486-5400; 9, $15 ---
  The Feelies continue bringing us back at Maxwell's, 1039 Washington St. (at 11th St.), Hoboken, 201-653-1703; 8:30, $25 
  Get punk as fuck with The Oh Sees, Golden Triangle...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Mo&rsquo; Corn Mo&rsquo; Problems]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Corn Mo, who can rock the accordion like no other, has toured with Ben Folds and the Polyphonic Spree, as well as jugglers and a sideshow circus. His band .357 Lover is performing tonight at (le) poisson rouge. Corn Mo took some time to tell the Press about life, Corn Mo style. --- 
  When did you discover the accordion was your calling?A year after high school. My high school bands were mostly me...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Bronx Man Reinstates Free Nuts Policy on Airlines]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Sometimes those pressurized airplane cabins make us all do wacky things. --- Gothamist reports that a 50-year-old passenger on a US Airways flight
headed to Los Angeles from Charlotte stripped all of his clothing off
mid-flight. The exhibitionist refused a scratchy blanket from flight
attendants before being handcuffed by two off-duty police officers. The story reads like a bad porno set in the wa...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Twitter Whoring!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Feel like your tweets are under-appreciated? Everyone else seems to get tweet followers so easily, but you just aren't getting any. Well, pay for it. --- The Australian advertising company uSocial is selling Twitter followers. For $87, they promise to bring you 1,000 followers. If a 140-character recap of your dog walk is just too important for a measly 1,000 people, the company sells blocks of up...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: BREAKING: Jonas Brother set to Lose Virginity]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[The eldest of the chaste pop trio, Kevin Jonas, 21, proposed Wednesday
to his longtime girlfriend Danielle Deleasa, according to People
Magazine. ---&nbsp; Third-grader girls nationwide are expected to suffer from a
collective heartbreak, while older fans are finally understanding the
hidden meaning behind their #1 hit, &quot;A Little Bit Longer.&quot;&nbsp;...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Michael Jackson Pub Crawl&mdash;I'll Be There!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Mere days after the sudden death of the eccentric pop
legend, Grub Street reports that bars in the East Village are already planning a way to
celebrate his legacy with binge drinking. --- The &quot;King of Pop Pub Crawl&quot;
will begin at the Village Pourhouse at 11 (a.m.!) on July 11.&nbsp; The
seven hour marathon includes a nauseating series of drinks from &quot;Black
and White&quot; cocktails ...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Summer might not feel like its here yet, but it's already July, folks, and there hasn't been a single music-filled, beer-soaked, fun-but-slightly-horrifying outdoor concert in Williamsburg yet. That's all about the change! --- The party elves over at Jelly NYC have finally announced their summer concert schedule, and it looks like it was worth waiting for. Fucked Up, Ponytail, Dirty Projectors, No...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: No More Need for Gay Media? NY Blade 'Suspends']]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/blog-4498-no-more-need-for-gay-media-ny-blade-suspends.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Earlier this week we reported on HX being sold to undisclosed buyers. Now Matthew Bank has officially &quot;suspended&quot; publication of New York Blade. It really doesn't seem to matter: the pub has been a sad shell of its former self for some time. That means the only official gay newspaper in NYC at the moment is Gay City News, published byVillager Media (who also publish The Villager, Chelsea...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Live Tonight: MGMT, Harlem Shakes, Linfinity, Kiss Kiss]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[
 Sure it's sold out, but you can go eavesdrop on MGMT at Prospect Park Bandshell, enter part at Prospect Park West &amp; 9th St., Brooklyn; 5:30, $30---
  Harlem Shakes return home after a tour with Passion Pit and play tonight with the excellent Motel Motel at Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St. (betw. Bowery &amp; Chrystie St.), 212-533-2111; 8, $13 
  Electric violin loving duo Kiss Kiss plays wit...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Run Over Run DMC]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[City Room reports that a street corner at 205th and Hollis Ave. in Queens is going to be named in honor of the rap group Run DMC. --- The new name? Run DMC JMJ Way, which is quite a mouthful. The JMJ is for recently-killed member of the group Jam Master Jay. Run DMC just keeps giving us reasons to visit Hollis.  
  Photo via The Animal....]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Vibe Magazine Saved By Creator?]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Every day it seems like another magazinee goes down the drain, but it looks like maybe Vibe won&rsquo;t! --- The 16-year-old hip-hop and R&amp;B
publication announced its closure yesterday, and quickly received information
that creator Quincy Jones would be taking measures to save the magazine. Ownership
was taken away from Jones in 2006, when Wicks Media Group bought the rights; now
that the maga...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[The documentary Food, Inc., a jeremiad against the corporate food complex, has gotten a strange bedfellow: a food corporation. Stonyfield Farm, an organic foods maker, has been advertising for the film on its yogurt lids and on the front page of its website. Oh, by the way, the CEO of Stonyfield is interviewed in the film, and it makes him look pretty damn good. ---
  Great idea: They should adver...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: God Tells Joe the Plumber Not to Run for Office]]></title>

    <link><![CDATA[http://www.nypress.com/blog-4492-god-tells-joe-the-plumber-not-to-run-for-office.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Joe the Plumber, aka Samuel Wurzelbacher, that superstar of the 2008 campaign, will not be running for elected office. ---  
  Thank you to Think Progress for directing us to an interview Joe gave to the conservative WorldNetDaily where he dismissed a possible career in politics. Before Joe made this decision, though, he wanted some expert advice so he turned to somebody who knows a thing or two a...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Model Sanctuary]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[Are you and your model friends always having trouble finding a place to go? Do you feel like an outsider? Are the doors too heavy to open and the lines too tiring to stand in? I understand, it&rsquo;s not easy being a model, believe me I know. Don&rsquo;t worry because the kind people at Delicatessen are opening their doors to the frail and the famished. With hearts filled with love and charity, t...]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blogs: Gimme Shelter or Gimme Sushi!]]></title>

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    <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s not difficult to see how quickly the Bowery is becoming gentrified. The past few years have seen new restaurants, bars, salons, apartments and oh, the giant luxury Bowery Hotel that sits almost on top of tenements. If the latter isn&rsquo;t a clear enough sign of gentrification, try this on for size. ---The Salvation Army Homeless Shelter at Bowery and Second Street might soon become an...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Nothing can change the King of
Pop&rsquo;s death, but for those who want to see him one more time, a public
viewing of his body will be held at the Neverland Ranch on Friday, July 3. --- 
   
  
  
  
   The 2,800-acre Santa Barbara property,
bought by Jackson in 1987, was a fantasy land for children until 2005. In
recent years he failed to pay insurance bills and last November the estate was part...]]></description>
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