While the city council debates the naming of a street after Sean Bell, several other black people shot at by cops are turning up in the news. The New York Civil Liberties Union has been asking the...
Continue reading "Judge: NYPD Must Give Up Race Data" [...]And the new Fire Commissioner is -- Salvatore Cassano! Awright, we win the pool! Cassano is 64, FDNY's Chief of Department (highest ranked uniformed officer), a 40-year veteran, and a former sol...
Continue reading "Fire Chief Salvatore Cassano is New FDNY Commissioner" >We were surprised that 42 percent of respondents to the new Pew Research poll found the 60s "neither" positive nor negative, with positive (34 percent) and negative (15) impressions trailing. We ...
Continue reading "Survey Sez: Decade Sucked! Pew Poll Finds '00s Most Hated " > ' [...]Our long national nightmare is over: Anthony Marshall, heir to the Astor fortune, has been sentenced to one to three years in prison for defrauding his mom, Brooke Astor, of millions of dollars....
Continue reading "Anthony Marshall Gets 1 to 3 Years for Astor Fraud" > [...]The Times used the term "cool nerds" in an article, and seems at first to have been taken to task for it by psychology professor David Anderegg. Under the headline, "'Nerd' and 'Geek' Should Be Ba...
Continue reading "Professor Denounces Use of "Nerd" and "Geek"; Banning, [...]The Pink Tea Cup, offering simple, inexpensive, and generous servings of down-home cooking on Grove Street since 1954, is scheduled to close on January 3 after 55 years. Owner Lisa Ford cites, wh...
Continue reading "To Save The Pink Tea Cup from Closing, Manager Seeks Donations" [...]We have been following with less than our full attention the progress of the health care bill, but we surmise it has just made a great gain in the Senate -- not because of anything the Democra...
Continue reading "Democrats Poised for Disastrous Health Care" [...]A study by economists Andrew J. Oswald and Stephen Wu charted the happiness levels of Americans over three years and found that New Yorkers are the unhappiest people in the country. The happiest...
Continue reading "Study: New Yorkers Unhappiest People in America (Because We Work Hard" [...]Developer Joe Sitt and his Thor Equitiies closed that deal with the city they set up in November that gives New York 6.9 acres of beachfront property and Sitt $95.6 million which, as Neil de Mause...
Continue reading "Sitt, City Close Coney Island Deal: About 7" [...]While our state senators tripped over their own dicks and lost the gay marriage bill, DC has been a churning gay-marriage-sanctifying machine. They got the second read of their marriage equality b...
Continue reading "D.C. Mayor Signs Gay Marriage Bill; Congress Next" >Everyone, even if they don't care about bike lanes, seems to be looking forward to the naked bike ride scheduled for Saturday. The spectacle is meant to draw attention to the bikers' plight in ...
Continue reading "Transportation Alternatives Denounces Tomorrow's Naked Bedford Bike Ride" > [...]We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked, starting from the bottom. Remember back in the 90s, when you loved the internet? When you saw it th...
Continue reading "Why This Decade Sucked, Reason #10: Social Media" [...]Maja Cruz (left), 12, was all bundled up in a brown wool hat, camouflage waist length coat, and brown knee high boots when she left her Wyona Street home in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning. She ha...
Continue reading "Missing Persons: Maja Cruz, 12; Dashaunta Ravizee, 21" > [...]Finally, a little good news to brighten our holiday-- and from the Census Bureau, yet. (Love the optimistic spin at the LA Times: "White Americans' majority to continue until 2050." Let the late...
Continue reading "Report: White Minority in U.S. by 2050" >Big shooting at 492 Amsterdam Avenue, Apartment 3-S: Four men believed dead. Location is between West 83rd and 84th Streets, same builiding as Darryl's Boutique. 911 was called at about 2 p.m. b...
Continue reading "Reports: Four Shot Dead on Amsterdam Avenue (Updated)" >Which of the today's internet political shrieks wins the battle of Depressing Indicator of Our Discourse of the Day -- Sarah Palin's un-McCain hat, or the continuing uproar over Chuck Schumer sayi...
Continue reading "Today's Battle of Political Outrages: Sarah Palin's Hat vs. Chuck Schumer's Bitch" [...]The fight to keep homes and businesses from being eminent-domained for the Bruce Ratner Atlantic Yards boondoggle goes badly. So the management at Freddy's Bar -- the fun watering hole and longtim...
Continue reading "Freddy's Bar To Install Chains for When Bruce Ratner Tries to Evict" [...]Hooray, recession over! New York City unemployment went down point-three percent in November. It had been 10.3 percent, and is now a flat 10. And New York State unemployment dropped too -- from 9....
Continue reading "New York Unemployment Goes Down, a Little! " > [...]Everyone who's ever worked in one knows that restauranteurs are assholes, and the recent revelation that the owner of Paradou is one didn't shock us. Neither are we shocked to learn the chef at th...
Continue reading "$15 Million Suit Charges Russian Tea Room Chef "Pinched' [...]Everyone's beating up on Athlete of the Decade Tiger Woods -- his wife's allegedly divorcing him, Accenture dropped him, his dad and Jessica Simpson are getting dragged into it, etc. But some cel...
Continue reading "Rudy Giuliani Tells Tiger Woods "Hang In There"" > [...]As previously noted, the feds have sent subpoenas to local politicians in furtherance of their investigation of the Working Families Party and Data and Field Services, who have been accused of fi...
Continue reading "Post: Staten Island DA Does "Preliminary" Probe of Working Families Party, Debi" [...]Hot on the heels of the big critics' awards and the Golden Globe nominations, the Screen Actors Guild has unveiled its annual award nominations for films and television. SAG has been handing these...
Continue reading "SAG Award Nominations Heat Up Movie Prize Fever" >Nadya Suleman, better known as Octomom for her famous multiple birth/publicity stunt, wishes readers of Life & Style a Merry Christmas in this festive spread, posing "with her eight profitable ki...
Continue reading "Christmas Greetings from Octomom" >Just a few days back cops arrested a man who allegedly phoned death threats to Mayor Bloomberg and Ray Kelly. Now 45-year-old Jack Geoghan of Inter County Appraisers of Bayport, New York, is accus...
Continue reading "Latest Death Threat Against New York Official: Jack Geoghan vs." [...]This week Governor Paterson withheld 10 percent of state payments to schools, hospitals, and municipalities because the state is broke and the legislature hasn't done anything about it. The word ...
Continue reading "School Groups Sue Paterson for Not Sending Them Money" >Each year the Holy Childhood Association, a Catholic pontifical mission, holds a Christmas Artwork Contest in which children may submit holiday-related drawings and paintings, with the grand prize...
Continue reading "Local Child Wins Prize in National Christmas Art Competition" >We close tonight's proceedings with a spectacular display of both Republican sex-criminality and poor public relations. You may recall that former South Dakota state representative Ted Klaudt was...
Continue reading "Double Fun: GOP Rapist Legislator Tries to Copyright Own Name" > [...]If, God forbid, we should be killed in a terrorist attack, and our remains scattered to Kingdom Come and even Staten Island, we request that our relatives and friends not attempt to have the ton o...
Continue reading "9/11 Kin Want Landfill With Attack Victims' Remains'" [...]Former Merchant Marine Kerry Sullivan runs the Natural Resources Protective Association, an environmental group advocating for a cleaner Staten Island, and has vocally opposed Borough President Ja...
Continue reading "Staten Islander Says He Was Arrested for Making "Enemies Upstairs"; NYCLU Sues City" >Thanks to Wired we now know that Lou Reed has an iPhone app. Designed by Reed and Ben Syverson, it takes the names from your contact list and puts them in various sizes of Helvetica Neue; tap one...
Continue reading "Lou Reed App Makes Your Stuffy" [...]In the Senate today Vermont Socialist (we're not using it in the normal pejorative sense -- that's what he calls himself) Bernie Sanders has introduced an amendment to the health care bill providi...
Continue reading "Health Care Update: Bernie Sanders Introduces Single-Payer Amendment; GOP Forces Endless'" [...]The MTA board just voted to pass that new budget with service cuts. MTA Chairman Jay Walder "stressed the preliminary nature of this proposal," says Second Avenue Sagas, which live-tweeted the me...
Continue reading "MTA Passes New Doomsday Budget (Updated)" > [...]Akeedo Nyron Fisher (left), 18, of Blake Avenue in Brooklyn left the Brooklyn Transition School on Ellery Street yesterday afternoon and disappeared. Fisher has Downs Syndrome, a speech impedime...
Continue reading "Missing Persons: Akeedo Nyron Fisher, 18; Diamond Morales, 15" > [...]Chuck Schumer's really getting into his gangsta lean. Having spit in defense of "the Jelly concerts" in Williamsburg, he is today reported to have called a flight attendant a bitch. He was even si...
Continue reading "Chuck Schumer Says "Bitch," Apologizes; Should Have Stepped, Thrown" > [...]There's no B or D service into Manhattan because of a sick passenger, and the MTA board is preparing to vote on service cuts to pull the Authority out of the red ($400 million) -- into which it s...
Continue reading "MTA Considers Cuts; Parents, Disabled" [...]"Ben Bernanke is a nerd," says Time magazine. "He just happens to be the most powerful nerd on the planet," and thus the 2009 Man of the Year "Those green bills featuring dead Presidents," Time i...
Continue reading "Ben Bernanke Named Time Man of the Year, in" [...]The webcast we mentioned earlier, by colleagues at Melodream Entertainment of Raymond Martinez -- aka Ready, the man who pulled a gun on cops at Times Square last week and was shot to death -- has...
Continue reading "Friends of Times Square Shooter: "He Left as [...]On Sunday around 4 in the morning, this guy came up to a woman as she came out of the 31st Street subway station in Astoria, knocked her down, took her cellphone, and then tried to rape her. Faili...
Continue reading "Have You Seen... Astoria Mugger," [...]Three robbers, surveilled above, staked out the 205th Street-Norwood D train station on the afternoon of November 25th and strong-armed a 65-year-old woman and an 11-year-old boy for their prope...
Continue reading "Have You Seen... Norwood Subway Muggers" > [...]Sailors used to roll around the city like Gene Kelly, but security concerns and technology have changed things, and now they mostly stay on the ships or, if they're lucky, at rare havens like the ...
Continue reading "This Week in the Voice" >We were told to withhold our applause when the Washington, DC city council voted to recognize gay marriages in the District: the process required another vote. Well, they had it today, and it pass...
Continue reading "Gay Marriage D.C. a Go; Fenty to Sign, Congress Unlikely" [...]Evangelist Oral Roberts once announced that if he did not receive eight million dollars in donations by a certain date, God would "call me home." You will hear this mentioned a lot today, as Rob...
Continue reading "Oral Roberts "Called Home" at 91" > [...]The Stooges, who patiently rocked behind Iggy while beer bottles flew at the Michigan Theater in the late 60s and early 70s, have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rendering the h...
Continue reading "Riot, Girls! Stooges Enter Rock Hall of Fame;" [...]We were wondering, when we saw a guy manning a United Homeless Organization table near Union Square this weekend, if the recent attorney general finding that UHO is a scam was affecting their busi...
Continue reading "UHO Tables Shut Down by Judge, Assets Frozen" > [...]This morning's Quinnipiac poll showing Senator Kirsten Gillibrand trailing former Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, 41-28 percent in a prospective 2010 race is somewhat countered by the new Siena P...
Continue reading "Polls: Kirsten Gillibrand Loses to Bill Thompson, Does Better in Split Field" > [...]The Department of Health invites you to design the next New York City condom. Yes, those rebranded LifeStyles condoms the city has been handing out like parking tickets for decades are getting a m...
Continue reading "Take the NYC Condom Wrapper Challenge! City Seeks Designs" > [...]Movie awards fever proceeds apace with the Golden Globes nominations. The once-derided Hollywood Foreign Press Association prizes are now considered legit and a predictor of Oscar behavior, so the...
Continue reading "Golden Globe Nominations Favor Up in The Air, Hurt Locker" > [...]WCBS' Lou Young tweets that a "decapitated body" has been found near High Bridge Park along the Harlem River Drive. WABC says there's a head, though -- part of an assemblage of "decomposing body p...
Continue reading "Tweets Breaking: Body Parts Found in Washington Heights" > '" [...]On the afternoon of November 19, cops say this guy grabbed a woman's property on the G train platform in Williamsburg and split. The video shows him in flight. They describe him as 15 to 18 yea...
Continue reading "Have You Seen... Snatcher on the G" [...]We mentioned earlier that New York is holding a BigApps competition, for which developers were granted access to public info so they could make phone and computer applications to improve city life...
Continue reading "Voting Starts Today in City's "BigApps" Contest: Restaurant Violation Apps Lead Pack" [...]Remember the "Pour on the Pounds" Department of Health ad warning New Yorkers that when they were pouring Coke and Snapple they were actually pouring fat? Well, DOH has followed through: now the...
Continue reading ""Drink Yourself Fat": City Grosses You Out for Your Health" > [...]Jeffrey Fisher is accused of making unambiguous threats (e.g. "there are bullets now aimed at the mayor's head everywhere," "Tell Commissioner Kelly he is dead") on the lives of Mayor Bloomberg an...
Continue reading "Is 9/11 Truther the Man Who Threatened the Mayor?" > [...]The White House and two nonprofit groups announced a settlement Monday in a long-running lawsuit over more than 22 million e-mails that were missing during the Bush administration because of poor ...
Continue reading "Missing White House E-Mails: 6 Leaked" > [...]If you're interested in the life and work of Raymond Martinez -- aka Ready, the man who pulled a Mac-10 on cops in Times Square last week and was shot dead -- you can go to Melodream Entertainment...
Continue reading "Colleague of Times Square Shooter Talks'" [...]As you probably know, the New York Post has brought aboard Spitzer scandal centerpiece Ashley Dupre as an advice columnist. So far she has limited her counsel to relationship matters ("Are there ...
Continue reading "Post's "Ask Ashley" Will Take On Job Issues: Excerpts Leaked "'" [...]Julia told you this weekend about an enterprising thief who'd been tied to a series of Manhattan robberies -- 22 in all, targets ranging from a Ranch One on West 46th to a yoga studio at East 86...
Continue reading "Burglary Suspect Linked to 22 Break-Ins'" [...]We had a couple of guys playing with themselves on the subway this summer, and figured we'd see less of them when the weather turned cold. But it was a mild fall, and now NYPD tells us that on Nov...
Continue reading "Have You Seen... the'" [...]What a relief -- the 2009 movie awards are rolling out, drawing our attention away from tedious realities and toward tinsel dreams of Oscar Night. The New York Film Critics Circle has just stepped...
Continue reading "LA, NY Film Critics Launch Award Season, Favor Hurt Locker" [...]Last week's bike lane tsimmis on Bedford Avenue had a sad denouement yesterday, reports the Brooklyn Paper: A small band of activists braved the rain to protest the scrubbing of the markers New O...
Continue reading "Bedford Avenue Bike Lane Protest Modest; Lane Revival Not Looking" [...]Is blogging journalism? Who cares? If you call the Nestle Crunch Hotline at 800-295-0051, you will be given the opportunity, after the English and Spanish prompts, to choose Pig Latin. Thereafter ...
Continue reading "Nestle Crunch Info Line Joke is Fun" > [...]Those of us who bike Nassau Avenue know the intersection at busy McGuinness Boulevard is fraught with peril and festooned with floral tributes, presumably for persons who have perished there. So...
Continue reading "Williamsburg DJ Solange Raulston Killed by Truck While Cycling" >And the Voice has the slideshow. Not everyone approves -- Jeremiah's Vanishing New York, for example, disdains the "endless pub crawl" that "begins in the morning and overwhelms my neighborhood...
Continue reading "Santacon Happened! " > " [...]We are deep into War on Christmas season (following hard upon the War on Thanksgiving season), and have noted some encouraging portents for the Jesus team. But as with the War in Vietnam, vict...
Continue reading "War on Christmas Not As Warlike This Year: Obama to" [...]"I drank apple martinis. I don't remember how many," cops say Jennifer Rivas, 25, of Staten Island told them when her Maxima crashed into a U-Store Self Storage at South Avenue Wednesday around 11...
Continue reading "Today's Alleged Drunk Driving Mother with Kids in Car" > ' [...]"Bloomingdales' windows have a family-friendly, wholesome classic Christmas charm," says Haute Living Magazine, including a "'Dynamic Duos' window, where famous couples wait to greet Mr. and Mrs. ...
Continue reading "Andrea Peyser Denounces Bloomingdales' War on Christmas" >Kennedy Airport. Twitpic via sawyerlex. War on Christmas season swung into full effect. In a holiday spirit, the Staten Island D.A. tried shame on shoplifters. A GOP Congressman moved to read a ...
Continue reading "Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared" >Just a heads up: Tomorrow is Santacon. That's when all the madcap lads and lasses dress as Santa and hit the streets, flash-mobbing and binge-drinking and posing for group photos at landmarks. Sq...
Continue reading "Santacon Tomorrow" > [...]This morning's Times rounds up some of the further-out holiday-themed entertainments playing in New York now ("Come On, Santa, Put Your Clothes Back On"). Among these is Jeffrey Solomon's Santa Cl...
Continue reading "Q&A with Jeffrey Solomon (Santa Claus Is Coming Out): on GLSEN and Gay" [...]This Christmas season, the MTA is planning a treat for all of us: service cuts! These were threatened during the last "Doomsday Budget" tsimmis, but relinquished when the fares went up. Now MTA is...
Continue reading "MTA Stocking Stuffer? May Shut M and Z Trains, "Dozens"" [...]DeWayne Alexander, 31, was remanded to the psych ward of the Metropolitan Hospital on First Avenue near 97th last weekend. On Wednesday he pushed past an attending nurse and found an unlocked door...
Continue reading "Have You Seen... Escaped Upper East Side Mental Patient" > [...]Looks like Jenny Sanford has had enough. "The dissolution of any marriage is a sad and painful process," she says in a statement. But she's up for it: "I am now filing for divorce." "About ti...
Continue reading "Jenny Sanford Announces Divorce from Cheating Governor" > " [...]People are frequently shot in New York, but in this instance the victim was allegedly a peddler with a gun, he was shot by cops, and this all took place in the guest drop-off zone of the Marriott ...
Continue reading "CD Peddler Shoots, Is Shot" [...]Looks like one of the growth industries in our New Depression is stealing stuff from work -- not your own work, someone else's. Last month NYPD put out an APB on a laptop stealer robbing offices i...
Continue reading "Have You Seen... Office Laptop, iPhone Thief"' [...]The Unkechaug Indian Nation, gathered on the Poospatuck Indian Reservation on Long Island, maintains it has treaty rights to sell tax-free smokes, but the Bloomberg Administration has been battlin...
Continue reading "Bloomberg Resumes Indian Smoke War on Long Island Reservation" > [...]Rightblogger reactions to Obama's Nobel Prize Speech are coming in: Since the President forthrightly defended his Afghanistan surge before the Peaceniks, they all loved it. Ha! Just kidding. They...
Continue reading "Rightbloggers Agree With, Denounce Obama Nobel Speech" > [...]Editor & Publisher, for 108 years the trade publication of the publication trade, is being closed by Nielsen Business Media. So is Nielsen's 76-year-old pre-publication book-review service Kirkus...
Continue reading "Au Revoir, Editor & Publisher, Kirkus Reviews; AJR Scales Back" > [...]Jennifer 8. Lee, who does many of the more enjoyable stories at the New York Times, has taken the buyout offered by the Times to veterans whose salary requirements they now consider onerous. It is...
Continue reading "Jenny 8. Lee @ NYT RIP" > [...]The Post announces that "the Gowanus Canal has finally joined the 21st century: The fetid waterway has its own group on Facebook." They mean the EPA has started a GC discussion group at its page,...
Continue reading "Gowanus Canal Now on Facebook, in More Than One Place" [...]We know nobody cares, but New York State is out of money. Or so the Governor says. Governor Paterson and his budget director warned over a week ago that we were about to go into the deep red, but...
Continue reading "Paterson Says New York's Broke, Stops" [...]The holidays just aren't complete without a giant floral menorah. Mayor Bloomberg had his Annual Hanukkah party at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park last night, to which florist Moni...
Continue reading "Mayor Celebrates Hanukkah With Giant Floral Menorah" > ' [...]If you want to see Tavern of the Green in all its Tiffany splendor, you better do it before or during the big New Year's Eve Party they're holding: Gordon Von Broock of NYEVE, the party's organize...
Continue reading "Organizers: New Year's Party Definitely Tavern on'" [...]When 36-year-old Jamaica Smith, recently moved to Queens from Memphis, Tennessee, went missing in late November, it was all very mysterious. Family members allegedly told police about an "unidenti...
Continue reading "Man Arrested in Strangled Queens Mom's Death; Said to Be Father of Her Child" > " [...]OK, this is the weirdest Downfall parody we've seen so far. Maybe it's because we're all fascists now, but Adolf Hitler is getting a lot of ink these day. A Hitler art book -- not a Taschen th...
Continue reading "Hitler's Back in the News!" > [...]We hope the PC scolds out there are happy. For years they've clucked their tongues every time a female teacher was found having sex with a male student. And now look what's happened: the frustrate...
Continue reading "Daily News Enlivens Morning with Lesbian Sex Teacher Story"' [...]Image (cc) shalf. Andrew Breitbart of Big Government, the web site that ran the ACORN pimp/prostitute videos, leading to the investigation that cleared ACORN of illegal activity in the events t...
Continue reading "Andrew Breitbart Responds to Our Coverage (and the Whole, Rotten MSM's) of the ACORN'" [...]Like to gamble online? Political odd couples like Barney Frank and Al D'Amato are fighting for your right to do so. Meanwhile James Giordano made millions via internet gambling, and wound up in pr...
Continue reading "This Week in the Voice" > ' [...]We thought Lindsay Lohan had retired from show business or taken an extended break to go to Yale like Jodie Foster, but here she is in a Muse magazine photo shoot, not only appearing topless but...
Continue reading "Lindsay Lohan Nude Comeback Improved with Simulated Sex" [...]You may recall the ACORN video scandal, whereby agents of Andrew Breitbart's Big Government site went out dressed as a prostitute and a pimp to con ACORN employees of into giving them advice on ho...
Continue reading "Report Clears ACORN; Pimp & Hooker Tapes "Edited," Used" [...]Activists want the proposed Kingsbridge Armory shopping center in The Bronx to mandate a "living wage" ($10 an hour with benefits, $11.50 without) for workers there. Sympathetic city councilmember...
Continue reading "Report: Kingsbridge Mall Deal a Loser for the City Without "Living Wage"" > [...]Staten Island gets a bum rap and God knows we try to show the Forgotten Borough in a positive light. But japes like SNL's Gossip Girl: Staten Island threaten to undo all our good work. (See Isl...
Continue reading "Staten Island Movie Unlike to Lift Borough's'" [...]Last Christmas season, Staten Island D.A. Daniel Donovan cracked down on shoplifting at the Staten Island Mall by putting pictures of offenders in an attractive video display. This year he's doi...
Continue reading "Staten Island D.A. Tries Shame to Stop Christmas Shoplifters, Again" > [...]In his West Point speech on Tuesday, President Obama announced 30,000 fresh troops would be delivered to Afghanistan early next year. He also said that "after 18 months, our troops will begin t...
Continue reading "Obama's Afghan Surge Proves He's Trying to Lose, Say Rightbloggers" > " [...]"I thought these only existed in cartoons." Twitpic by nataliemorales. Well, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are done and the War on Christmas is getting closer! How's that going? On the one han...
Continue reading "Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared" >While he's deciding whether to run for anything and if so what -- word is, "no" and "the Senate" -- former Mayor Giuliani's taken a gig as a safety consultant to the city of Rio, which recently wo...
Continue reading "Giuliani Will Advise City of Rio" [...]This Mayor Bloomberg pitch in support of the US bid for the World Cup is only slightly weird -- alternately forced-casual and fake-intense -- until the very end, when he promises "the most memor...
Continue reading "Video: Mayor Bloomberg's Eerie, Alien Cry" >That the campaign of mayoral candidate Bill Thompson would be fined heavily for illegal postering makes sense -- such campaigns cover a lot of city property. But the city wants out of Susan Hager,...
Continue reading "Thousands in Fines for One Poster Only the Latest Sanitation" [...]"Hello, people of Earth! I have come to your world..." Wait a minute, we thought -- is that Antenna Man? Turns out it was. We hadn't seen him on the L train for years. He was slightly less eccen...
Continue reading "Catching Up with the Antenna Man"' [...]Job-seekers: The skill in the third sentence is the sort of thing you may be tempted to lie about, but we have a hunch that if you do, this employer will ask you to spar. Don't be afraid to say...
Continue reading "Craigslist Help Wanted Highlights:'" [...]We believe it was Rudolph Giulliani, in one of his rare flashes of genuine wit, who called OTB the only bookie in the world that didn't make money. As state auditors predicted this summer, OTB has...
Continue reading "OTB Goes Bankrupt, But Will Remain Open" > ' [...]We have to admit, we laughed when we read the Advance headline, "Staten Island senator faces backlash over same-sex marriage vote." Backlash? In Staten Island? Where "the first openly gay club i...
Continue reading "Advance Sees Gay Marriage Backlash; From Where? We Ask" >
