August 2011
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“I have to say, if we’re going to be stuck inside for 48 hours, I was hoping for...”
– Wow. Interesting, huh? That’s Carly Fraser Doria, complaining that big fat storm Irene was not big and bad enough for her. She later goes on to complain about all the bars being closed in DUMBO (note: there are bars in DUMBO?) and how she couldn’t find a cocktail that night or coffee the...
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The Hurricane on Twitter. There is a woman out there named Irene who didn’t think anything of using her first name—and only her first name—as a Twitter handle when she first signed up. But when the Hurricane that shared her name came up the East Coast, people started Tweeting at her. And since this hurricane was threatening places like New York and Washington D.C, there was...
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“Yes, we will be doing the movie and hopefully with Mr. Murray,” he says, “That...”
– That’s Dan Aykroyd, again telling everyone that “Ghostbusters 3” is going to start shooting, like, right away in a thinly-veiled attempt to get Bill Murray to finally agree to join the project. And all this dillydallying by Aykroyd just proves that Murray really IS bigger than “Ghostbusters.” ...
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Drunken State. People living in New York City often get a bad rap for the amount of socialization done at bars. But let’s not feel so bad: A new study finds the biggest binge drinkers in the state don’t live in boozy NYC— they live in Western New York. From the Buffalo News: “Nearly 22 percent of all adults in Western New York reported binge drinking at least once within a...
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“It’s like Burger King and McDonald’s, they’re right next to...”
– There’s a war brewing, and a legendary pizza place — and the joint stealing it’s slice recipe— are in the middle of it. Eugene Lombardo used to work at L&B Spumoni Garden, one of the best pizza places in the city. He got beat up outside his new Staten Island place for...
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The Greatest FarmVille Farms. Slate’s culture blog browbeat has a slideshow of the most elaborate farms people have built on FarmVille, the Facebook game that has ended internet friendships and made many lose respect for their old high school pals. I’ve never played Farmville so I don’t know how long this might have taken to create. But I’m sure many (if not all) IRL...
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“I don’t think anybody in the city can beat her right-handed…She wins every...”
– That’s Gene Camp, the founder and president of the New York Arm Wrestling Association, talking about Joyce Boone. Boone is one of the best female arm wrestlers in the state, and her boyfriend Harry Wilson also happens to be one of the best male wrestlers here, too. They’ll be battling...
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“‘I told the trainer, I have to go to the bathroom,’ says Pagan, who...”
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A Mets-Phillies game was delayed Monday night when Mets centerfielder Angel Pagan failed to show up for an at-bat—because he was in the bathroom.
I…I can’t even.
[DailyBeast]
(via sportsnetny)
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IHOP Coming to Union Square, Times Square →
It’s kind of like craving White Castle when you’re surrounded by the countless specialty burger joints of New York City. It’s inexplicable and slightly gross during the day, but so right and fitting in the dark of the night. By the end of this month, when you’re jonesing for some syrup-drenched chain-produced pancakes after, say, an extended happy hour with friends (even...
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“No, no…We wear one-piece suits, with the little skirt sometimes.”
– That’s Sister James Dolores, one of the Sisters who summers at Nun’s Beach south of Atlantic City, discussing what they wear in the ocean. The one-block strip is attached to a facility owned by the Sister Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, full of mostly school teachers from...
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Controversia. An Italian immigrant is accusing Lidia Bastianich, the woman who taught Americans how to properly pronounce Manicotti long before we’d even heard of Giada, of luring her to the country with the promise of a kitchen job that turned into something different. Maria Carmela Farina is suing the woman who has brought us Becco and is partially responsible for tourist-trap Eataly for...
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‘Cyberbullying’ Now An Official Word. So is ‘retweet’ and ‘sexting’ (thanks, Anthony Weiner?) The Concise Oxford English Dictionary has added 400 new entries of slang into it’s big list of words. They include the above, as well as:
Mankini
Jeggings
OMG
I look forward to the future, when nobody ever makes any sense.
-KH
[TIME]
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Crazy Cat Lady. People who like cats are actually suffering from a vicious parasite inside their brains. At least that’s what one study says! Many cat owners site their independent nature, and ability to provide company without requiring early-morning walks in the rain. Turns out they just might be sick, sick people:
Bizarrely, new research raises that question, finding that the...
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“Christie privately lambasted Bloomberg as ‘Napoleon,’ ‘a...”
– With less than a month before the ten-year commemorations of the 9/11 attacks, many politicians are on the attack against each other over invitations and billing at planned services. Gov. Christie is mad, sources tell the Post, that ex-Gov. Donald DiFrancesco, who was the acting governor when...
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“The Onion’s prevalence over real news outlets on Twitter, even when it comes to...”
– The folks at Mashable have done a brief exploration into why The Onion has amassed a much larger following on Twitter than several legitimate news outlets. And I imagine the number one reason why is because all you need from The Onion is the headline. It’s much less stressful than having to click...
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“Our fans’ passion and enthusiasm has challenged us to raise our game. We...”
– That’s the spokesperson for Oreo, which just unveiled the new TRIPLE DOUBLE OREO COOKIE which has a layer of chocolate and vanilla creme separated by a chocolate wafer. Just imagine an Oreo Big Mac. Doesn’t that sound delicious?!
-KH
[ChiTrib]
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WatchSteve Kornacki, the news editor for Salon and a member of NBC New York’s The 20, sat down with David Ushery to talk about the biggest political stories of the week.
[NBC New York, @SteveKornacki]
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“I cried more for my guitar than for my grandfather’s funeral.”
– That’s musician Foster McGinty, who left his 15-year-old Fender Squire on the L train in July and has been desperately searching for it since. McGinty was riding back to Manhattan after a photo shoot in Canarsie—just kidding, Williamsburg—when a service change forced him and his...
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“Four new University of Buffalo studies have found that when a lady wants to be...”
– That’s from this post from Jen Doll at the Village Voice, and the key word there is “considered,” because it means that this is merely a perception some women have, and not necessarily an accurate one. So hold off on worrying that you have to twirl your hair and snap your gum more often, ladies. ...
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Most Eligible. In case you didn’t already feel inferior living in New York City and trying to make a living off of your words, the New York Observer’s compiled a list of the most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes in media. Chances are you didn’t make the list—unless you’re Jen Doll, who is great and deserves the love!— and are left just to wonder where it all...
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“Don’t: Unless you are a family of four, and plan to travel under an umbrella as...”
– That’s Village Voice writer Jen Doll outlining one of many rules for using an umbrella in New York City, and as someone who has been firmly anti-umbrella his whole life, I applaud these rules. Bumping into someone with your stupid golf umbrella and spilling five gallons of runoff onto them should...
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“You have to be a 24-year-old bachelor,” he says, “with the means to do anything,...”
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That’s some wisdom from Mark Sanchez, QB1 for the New York Jets, in a GQ article - well, actually slide-show for the article, but whatever. Football!
[joshsternberg]
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“Wouldn’t you be pissed if you were selling something and someone opens up...”
– Over the weekend, a vendor at a coffee stand in Manhattan took to Reddit to answer questions about running his operation. He discussed turf wars above, but also cleanliness (it’s very hard to keep things clean, as you can imagine); his favorite customer’s habit of asking him to put...
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“The Staten Island Ferry is the third most popular tourist attraction in New York...”
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NYCEDC: Mayor Bloomberg Announces the City is Seeking to Redevelop More Than 14 Acres of Staten Island Waterfront (via nycedc)
A very nice, very free tourist attraction, we might add.
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“The people you will see there for him at the induction are the same ones who...”
– That’s Mark Jackson, who played with Mullin at St. John’s University in the 80s, leading the team to the Final Four and into the hearts of New York City basketball fans for what seems to be forever. Mullin, the Brooklyn kid who dissed a school like Duke and others for the Catholic school...
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“If you go to Wikipedia, you will find that crawfish in many parts of the country...”
– That’s Saul Zabar, owner of the Upper West Side supermarket that bears his name, after the discovery by some foodies that the lobster salad sold in the store does not actually have lobster in it. The main ingredient is wild crawfish, which has fooled many people who pay top-dollar for the...
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Living Green. For those who already feel better than everybody else because they take the bus or subway to work, even if they don’t have any other options, you now have a way to track how great you are. HopStop has included a carbon footprints calculator, so you can tell all your friends how green you were this morning taking the subway to work. Isn’t living in New York City a wonder?
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Watch“You’re Like A Cartographer Of The Female Form.” Most celebrity comic web shorts are dreadful, but this John Stamos Guide To Cuddling (featuring Bob Saget as the demonstration model) is actually pretty darn funny. And as a bonus, some of the cuddling techniques demonstrated are actually quite helpful. Saget will adore it when you “s’touch” him like that.
-DM [College Humor, via the20s]
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“I don’t think what he did was fair. She did all the leg work finding the...”
– That’s a friend of Adriana Ferreyr, the ex-GF of billionaire George Soros who is now suing for an apartment she says was promised by Soros. Ferreyr, 28, and Soros, 80, dated for five years before splitting up over the apartment. The jilted young lover is suing for $50 million, although her...
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“I’m not arguing that Hubert Keller is responsible for the worst restaurant...”
– That’s Slate writer Farhad Manjoo lamenting the terribleness of restaurant websites, sites that seemingly go out of their way to prevent you from viewing menus, making reservations, and getting proper directions. But if you think restaurant websites are awful, they’re amateur hour compared to the...
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CHILDREN/TEENS/CRIMINALS BEWARE! The fuzz are now on Facebook and Twitter and they’re looking for trouble! The Daily News writes about the new NYPD unit that monitors social media to find those people who commit a crime and then brag about it online. This happens a lot, actually. There’s even an assistant commissioner assigned to this “juvenile justice” unit, who will spend...
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Scheming Gadget Cases. Looking to wrap your new iPad with a case made out of the clothes of history’s biggest swindler? Thankfully, it’s 2011, and everything you imagine is real! A tech entrepreneur purchased some of Bernie Madoff’s clothing at auction, and instead of saving them for his Rich Wall Street Banker Halloween costume, he’s turned them into iPad cases.
John...
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