The United Homeless Organization -- the non-profit group which, since 1993, has been setting up tables on street corners throughout the city and soliciting money with those ubiquitous plastic UHO ...
Continue reading "United Homeless Organization a Scam, Says Cuomo" > [...]Who knows if James Perry has any chance to be elected Mayor of New Orleans? But we like his style. The executive director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center sued Ray Nagin for...
Continue reading "Video: New Orleans Mayoral Candidate's "Are You Shitting' [...]That Adam Lambert AMA phoney-baloney outrage thing is working! Good Morning America has cancelled the free Hudson Theatre performance they were going to sponsor. "Given his controversial America...
Continue reading "Adam Lambert Outrage Strategy Working, Gets Him Bounced from GMA" >Well, at last, after all the "Why Won't My Parakeet Eat My Diarrhea" nonsense, we're seeing a Google Trend "On Fire" item that speaks well of the readership: "charles i insulted by cromwell s sold...
Continue reading "Latest Google Trend Surprisingly Cultural" >Sick of the legislature doing nothing about the budget during what were supposed to be special sessions, Governor Paterson is asking for special powers to make his own damn cuts. "Cut this defici...
Continue reading "Paterson: OK, Let Me Cut the Budget Myself " > " [...]The latest Google Bomb is apparently this awful Photoshop of Michelle Obama, which comes up first when you look for her on Google Images. Google, being devoted to free exchange of ideas (void in C...
Continue reading "Google Apologizes for Michelle Obama Image Bomb" > [...]It's the magical holiday season, and you know what that means: drunk driving crackdowns! On Staten Island, D.A. Daniel Donovan hopes to scare the many hard-drinking readers of the Staten Island Ad...
Continue reading "Staten Island D.A. Turns to Shame to Halt Drunk Driving" > ' [...]You may remember the death of census worker Bill Sparkman in September, in which he was found hanging with the word "FED" scrawled across his chest. As he worked in a rural section of Kentucky, wh...
Continue reading "Troopers: Hanging Census Worker Was Suicide, Not Murdered" [...]Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy made a public showing of reconciliation today. As we wrote last month, Gillibrand is hardly the raging conservative the left initially...
Continue reading "Gillibrand and McCarthy Are Now Like Two Bullets In a Revolver" > [...]Maybe by scaling back his demand for over $600 million in cuts to school aid by half was the fatal sign of weakness that invited the counterattack, but the state senators who have been remarkably ...
Continue reading "Senate GOP, Dem Leaders Unite to Oppose Paterson's'" [...]
Lakers 100 Knicks 90: They hung in there for the first half, but they were simply outclassed in the second half. Los Angeles really blew things open by dominating on the boards, outrebounding the Knicks 60-36. Kobe Bryant “only” scored 34, a down night [...]
It’s nice to have local success.
We have been following Sirota for quite some time and frankly were pleasantly surprised when the D&C announced they were considering adding him to their stable of syndicated columnists. A month or so lapsed with no news from that announcement so I emailed D&C [...]
As the United Federation of Teachers heads toward our fiftieth anniversary in 2010, we find ourselves facing a challenge greater than any we confronted in the last half-century of our history. Our union has been tempered by many extraordinary struggles over these last five decades, but never have we seen [...]
If you haven’t already seen Chris’ post about the Buffalo Niagara Partnership from earlier today, please do.
What do you do with a half-assed, unaccountable chamber of commerce that bleats endlessly about excessive taxes and government spending on the one hand, but demands $500 million in government [...]
From HuffPo:
A group called the Chicago Tea Party Patriots publicly heckled a grieving family and suggested that the couple fabricated their tragic story.
At a town hall held by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Nov. 14,, Dan and Midge Hough spoke about how they believed the death of their [...]
Cops busted a Clinton Hill crack and marijuana ring and nabbed 11 individuals suspected of selling drugs on the street, from an apartment building at the corner Putnam and Grand Avenue avenues, and out of a barbershop and [...]
FishbowlDC: Meet the new FishbowlDC editor, former gossip columnist at The Hill, Betsy Rothstein.
Bloomberg: Some newspaper publishers, including Tribune Co., E.W. Scripps Co. and MediaNews Group, plan to charge Sunday prices for their Thanksgiving papers.
Variety: Disney Channel Latin America executive Carolina [...]
A judge announced on Monday that he will likely throw out the conviction and dismiss the indictment of a Bronx man who was incarcerated for four years on rape charges that his accuser has admitted were made-up. Though he didn't immediately clear William McCaffrey's name,' [...]
It's not quite the media bailout some of us were hoping for, but the State Department is asking magazines for their help with holiday decor.
Today, Nina Link of the Magazine Publishers of America stood with State Protocol Ambassador Capricia Penavic Marshall and announced that [...]
MTV is readying to roll out their latest reality show, Jersey Shore, with promos already airing that describe their latest round of reality robots as keeping "their hair high, their muscles juiced and their fists pumping all summer long!" They also depict their Italian-American beach-going [...]
When false reports of the deaths of Lady Gaga or Jeff Goldblum get blasted all over Twitter, it becomes a trend piece in The New York Times. "The Internet Who Cried Wolf" serves as a gentle reminder that not everything you [...]
More than a week into deliberation on the fourth racketeering trial against one-time Gambino boss John Gotti Jr., the jury still hasn't come up with a verdict — and one of its members wants a vacation.
Eight days after lawyers rested their cases, the jurors' [...]
Are city cabbies making "sun tea" in their vehicles? Of the 44,000 TLC drivers on the streets, most working 12 hour days, you can imagine how difficult it is for them to find a place they can relieve themselves. So many allegedly "resort to" [...]
On a day when layoffs are hitting across the company, Time Inc. has decided to shutter its InStyle wedding spin-off.
The last issue of InStyle Weddings, a quarterly that launched as a special issue in 2000, will be on newsstands on December [...]
Brooklyn's Joe Tiralosi doesn't remember much about that day in August when he went to New York Presbyterian Hospital feeling sick and disoriented, then collapsed. But last week the 56-year-old father of two visited the hospital to thank doctors for not giving up on him' [...]
Vada Vasquez The 15-year-old Bronx girl who was put in a medically-induced coma after taking a stray bullet to the skull has spoken for the first time since the incident, eight days ago. A source tells the Daily News that Vada [...]
Hate all you want on Jimmy Fallon, but the guy does the best impersonation of Neil Young covering Will Smith's "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." That is a fact.
And good luck getting that song out of your head. To help out, ponder this: What else should Neil-llon cover?
A nonprofit organization accused of serving as a "front for the Iranian government" donated $100,000 to Columbia University just months before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a controversial appearance at the school.
The Times reports that the embattled Alavi [...]
As you may have read in our newsletter, on this day in 1966 New York City experienced the smoggiest day in the city's history... and the details read like a horror movie. After 9/11, the NY Times touched upon three [...]
Two weeks ago, news leaked that Playboy Enterprises was in talks to sell their holdings to London Fog owner Iconix Brand Group Inc. Hugh Hefner's publishing empire's stock has fallen drastically in the last five years, [...]
Here is the official announcement from the D&C:
For the past couple of months, we've been occasionally running David' [...]
Midtown Lunch's Flickr Escolar, a fish famous for causing diarrhea and anal leakage, has been found masquerading as tuna at sushi restaurants, according to a DNA research study recently published by a group of scientists. The escolar was found five [...]
If you missed the American Music Awards this past Sunday night, and you probably did, then you didn't see ex-American Idol singer Adam Lambert's S&M charged performance. To catch you up: at about 1:18 in this video you'll see Lambert grind a male dancer's [...]
According to Swing State Project, the New York state senate race in SD40 has taken an interesting turn.
Looks like the other ball has dropped:
Republicans could be getting a break in upstate New York, where state Assemblyman Greg Ball (R) says he will run for state Senate rather than [...]
It's that time again—time for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. And one of the fun traditions to watching the balloons being blown up the night before. This year's Thanksgiving parade balloon inflation begins tomorrow at 3 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m., with the [...]
Try not to think about bed bugs next time you watch a movie.
There's a classic he said/she said playing out at a Park Slope cinema, where moviegoers and theater management are arguing over allegations that the multiplex is infested with bed bugs. [...]
It was NY parks commissioner Thomas P. F. Hoving who dubbed pigeons "rats with wings," a term that fourteen years later was popularized by Woody Allen in his 1980 flick “Stardust Memories.” So surely there's some blood on their hands in the war on the [...]
One month after officially filing charges against its president, Dan Totten, The Boston Globe's biggest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, has turned in a petition signed by nearly 150 members seeking to oust Totten. The union prez is set to appear before a union [...]
One of the undercover cops involved in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old who was pointing a gun at officers fired eight rounds, according to the Post. Three officers contributed to the 15-bullet salvo (up from 14 in yesterday's' [...]
[Editor's note: miss brave is the pseudonym for a third-year elementary school teacher in Queens in her first year as a classroom teacher. She blogs at miss brave teaches nyc, where this post originally appeared.]
In response to my last post, in which I confessed to jumping up [...]
I often ask people, "What would you pick as the most outrageous scandal on the part of the NYS Senate during the past year?"
Most folks initially say, "Do I have to pick just one?" . After a few minutes of derisive laughter and disgust, they come up with [...]
Emil Henry, Jr., a former assistant Treasury secretary under George W. Bush and executive at Lehman Brothers, has been in discussions with state Republican officials about the possibility of running for governor next year, according to people with knowledge [...]
It was a year ago that 50 Cent filed a lawsuit against Taco Bell for using his name without permission. The company's president, Greg Creed, had asked the rapper in an open letter to press outlets "to change his name to 79 Cent, 89" [...]
The subway passenger who pulled the emergency brake during a grisly murder over a seat on the D train claims the attacker was unprovoked. Denouncing previous reports that victim Dwight Johnson had struck suspect Gerardo Sanchez during their dispute, witness Vincent Martinez said the [...]
After weeks of speculation over how long the layoffs would stretch out at Time Inc., FishbowlNY has heard that another round of cuts is underway right now at the Time Warner-owned magazine publisher.
A Time Inc. spokesperson confirmed that layoffs were taking [...]
Designed to evoke the kind of joint where you'd plant a revolver in the men's room in order to shoot a corrupt [...]
We're bringing Pencil This In to you earlier with our new newsletter, GothamList. Sign up below for the daily scoop on concerts, readings, performances, and other events, which will arrive in your inbox first thing every morning Monday through Friday. You can get today's newsletter when you sign' [...]
From the Daily News's Michael Daly: The great state of South Carolina is putting its own sick twist on Black Friday with a tax holiday on firearm purchases. Not cars. Not clothes. [...]
Other media companies are looking to follow the lead of Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp., which has been in talks with Microsoft to feature its content exclusively on its Bing search engine, thus removing links to its news stories from Google.
Ambers and husband during a TV interview; inset shows them leaving their building. The hand and foot model suing her UES co-op for $10 million for allegedly ostracizing her because she married a former doorman has been all too happy to [...]
The New York Observer has revealed the supposed political ambitions of our favorite 911 NYC mayor, Rudy Giuliani. Being at the middle-to-upper age of 65, Rudy really couldn’t get too far within his short years as a senator. The Observer believes this is just a stepping stone on [...]
