Parks
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Good Things
d double u's Flickr PageLast Saturday marked Record Store Day, a global celebration that encourages folks to head down to their local record store and buy some vinyl. Pleasantly, the...
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FBI
This afternoon, the FBI held a press conference where they presented pictures of their two Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Suspect one is on the left in the black hat, and...
Photos
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Nick Greene
After sending in your taxes today, you're probably pretty steamed. You watched your hard-earned cash get sucked away by the government, never to be seen again. But what if we...
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Nick Greene
It has recently come to my attention that some people don't enjoy watching golf on television. "It's boring," adrenaline junkies say. "I need high-octane action to satiate my lust for...
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Nick Greene
Former Congressman Anthony Weiner is back in the news as he ramps up his plans for a potential mayoral run. If you have forgotten, Anthony Weiner resigned two years ago...
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Power
We live in a civil society. This is a bad thing. Opportunities to flex our muscles and demonstrate our awesome power have become rarer and rarer. Power itself is marginalized,...
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Sports
Tonight in Atlanta, the Michigan Wolverines and the Louisville Cardinals will play to find out who is the greatest college basketball team in all the land. Will it be the...
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Advice
It's finally over: The longest winter in memory (which doesn't go back further than last spring) has ended. Forecasts for New York are in the 60s and life is good....
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Facebook
Facebook can be a tricky place. Home to over-sharers and extroverts, the social network can get pretty weird for the rest of us. It seems as if no one ever...
Bugs
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Make It Stop
Did you know there was once a time when products were just products? Of course, now products are powerful things that decide your gender for you. Why else would companies...
The Doors
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Make It Stop
April Fools' Day has become, for lack of a better word, a shitshow. A day of pranks played on and by friends has metastasized into overblown theater perpetrated by news...
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The Old New York
Close your eyes and think back to a time over one hundred years ago. Wait--don't close your eyes; you won't be able to read this. Shit, have you already closed...
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Things You Should Know
We write so many e-mails nowadays, it's easy to just go through the motions (It wouldn't be surprising if the term "phone it in" is replaced by "e-mail it in"...
Rudy Giuliani
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Facebook
Late last month, Facebook announced that it will begin targeting users for advertising with information gained from outside the site. In the past, the social network would only pick up...
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Only in New York
New Yorkers love talking about New York. And why not? Despite the innumerable songs, poems, novels, plays, and movies that have been written about the city, there just don't seem...
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Twitter
Today, Time magazine published its annual list of the 140 Best Twitter Feeds (in the world!). The list is full of cultural tastemakers, newshounds and celebrities--but it seems to missing...
Brooklyn
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Nick Greene
You have a problem: You love watching college hoops, but you also love being employed so you can pay rent and feed your freeloading family. Every March, these two loves...
Donald Trump
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