The Democrat & Chronicle reports that City Councilmember Lovely Warren will take control of the Rochester City Council as its president next year. Warren works for Democrat State Assemblyman David Gantt and will most likely take her lead on all matters coming before City Council from Gantt himself. That’s a very, [...]
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" [...]It’s bad enough that we live a dying, miserable city… can we really handle the fact that our state is the unhappiest in the entire union?
No, a new study reports the unhappiest state in the union is our very own Empire State.
Apparently, we don’t love New York.
The [...]
Bicyclists love griping about motorists parking in bike lanes with impunity, and we've made a cottage industry out of publishing photos of the best bike lane blocks. So, in the interest of fair and balanced reportage, here is' [...]
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" >
A 43-year-old married woman from West Philadelphia wasn't wearing underwear when she told an undercover cop, "I'm a whore. I love sex," in order to score World Series tickets, the officer testified yesterday. Susan Finkelstein of West Philadelphia, was arrested in late October [...]
Ninth Ward Councilman James Sano, also an active member of the Italian American Community Center, has introduced a non-binding resolution calling for the cancellation of the MTV’s controversial reality show “Jersey Shore.”
The show, set in the sophisticated enclave of Seaside Heights, concerns the lives, loves and barroom antics [...]
After freaking out street vendors and the bloggers who love them yesterday, the Health Department has emailed us to say it was all a big misunderstanding. A provision in the Health Department's new code [pdf] raised eyebrows by declaring that "no fish, shellfish," [...]
Earlier this week it was reported that Courtney Love had lost custody of her and Kurt Cobain's 17-year-old daughter Frances Bean. Reportedly Frances Bean said she preferred to live with her grandmother, and custody was handed over to her, Wendy O'Connor, as well as' [...]
Senator Chuck Schumer is doing damage control today after he was overheard calling a flight attendant a bitch. The Pool Party lover was sitting next to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand aboard a US Airways shuttle as the crew prepared to begin a flight from New [...]
Photo: TIen Mao Love 'em or hate 'em, 7-Eleven is here to stay. According to the Observer, the store will be a "recessionary scar" on this city for quite some time. The company will open 100 new Manhattan locations (up from [...]
Jeff Fisher The NYPD has not revealed any more details about a man who was charged over the weekend with ten felony counts of using Manhattan pay phones to make "terroristic threats" to kill Mayor Bloomberg. Jeffrey Fisher of Philadelphia (not [...]
