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Weprin's Republican opponent, Bob Friedrich, is a registered Democrat, and is often described as a "civic leader," which means he's never won anything, though he has served as "president of the board of Glen Oaks Village, New York City's largest garden-apartment cooperative development" for 15 years.

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It's too late to bring the fences in, but the Mets have given up on neutrality and are cutting down the centerfield wall from sixteen feet to eight.

Unfortunately the wall can't be raised for opposing teams, who actually hit more homers at Citi Field than they did at Shea the year before. But at least when opponents tee off on one of the Mets' many injured pitchers, it'll make for a lively, high-scoring event, which is about the best we can hope for, as we no longer expect the Mets to win games.

YMMV and maybe it's a shade long, but we liked this dance animation made from objets d'art at the Met Museum by one Nina Paley.

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Today the Times reports that Seabrook is expected to turn himself in to face 13 federal counts of money laundering, extortion fraud, receipt of an unlawful gratuity. …More >>

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The Boys' headline is "New York governor resigns in disgrace (in 1913)!" though Sulzer, a former Speaker of the New York state assembly and U.S. Congressman from the Lower East Side, was actually removed by vote of the legislature for filching campaign funds for his own personal use.

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Prosecutors cite a chunk of a July, 1999 email in which Kerik's fine whine includes a nice poetic touch, telling his then-high flying buddy, Larry Ray, about having to "beg, borrow and suck dick" to buy and rehab his new Riverdale apartment...

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New York magazine had reviewed Bloomberg's prodigious giving in 2005, and it gets brought up from time to time -- as when Bloomberg met with a bunch of other rich people to discuss philanthropic strategies, which some observers considered an Illuminati plot. Bloomberg received a Carnegie Medal for his giving last October.

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The local epidemic is thought to have originated in a Jewish summer camp in August, where a kid brought it over from England. It has since spread among Orthodox Jews in Rockland and Orange County.

Update: Our own Julia had the lowdown on this back in December.

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Texas A&M students used to get attacked by wolves, but that was in the 19th Century and they were in the middle of a prairie.

We warned you and warned you and warned you and warned you and warned you and warned you and warned you and warned you and warned you...

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
April 13, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 26

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By Richard Goldstein

A good album, like those long lasting cold remedies, is filled with tiny time capsules which burst open at their own speed. Cuts that astound at first fade as subtle ballads emerge. Great blasts of noise vanish as haunting melodies appear. A line suddenly hits home...a phrase...a shade of meaning, and the whole album becomes something else again.

The shape of a good album changes constantly. A review can never be anything more than a synthesis of moments. When technical trickery wears thin, and novelty loses its appeal is the time to evaluate a piece of work. The test of time doesn't mean very much; repetition is all. The good albums stick; the great ones transmigrate.