Christians Pole Dance in the Name of Jesus [Video]
Trend watch! There's a fun new way to celebrate your body, which, after all, God made, which means that celebrating your body is really celebrating God, and are you a Christian or are you a Christian?...
View ArticleNew York Times Discovers 'Poor People' Who Golf
Corey Kilgannon is outdoing himself over at the New York Times City Room blog! Yesterday, he wrote of a real-life hobo he discovered roaming about Central Park, a cowboy-faced "ramblin' man" named...
View Article'Japanese Hipsters' Love the MTA's Hip-Hop Style
One man's abhorred commuting method is another man's most stylish possession, or something like that. So we shouldn't be surprised to learn that the MTA is a huge hit in Japan, particularly among...
View ArticleNovembeards and Movembers: A November Series on Facial Hair
No Shave Novembeard is upon us! Soon, the streets of New York will be filled with dudes growing out their stubble not just to look like attractive lumberjacks, but rather, to celebrate puns. There are...
View ArticleIt's The Most Wonderful Time of the Beard: A November Series on Facial Hair
The second week of November is upon us! And thus the fine gentlemen participating in Movember have developed their creepy facial hair even further. Moustaches that were once wisps reminiscent of an...
View ArticleFYI: It Is 'Have Sex With a Guy With a Mustache Day'
Guys: It's November 18. Do you know where your mustache is? Coincidentally (or very much not), November (Movember) happens to include a special holiday also known as "Have Sex With a Guy With a...
View ArticleMo Staches Mo Problems: A November Series on Facial Hair, Continued
We're hitting the tail end of Movember. After weeks of growth, each moustache is full and proud, like that of a walrus. We hit up the office of travel startup Wanderfly to check on their Movember...
View ArticleHow To Pretend You're At SXSW: A Brief Field Guide
Is your Twitter feed feeling a little extra insufferable today? Do you hear the sort of "I'm at a really cool event and you're not" echo running through the Internet? Are you suddenly craving Tex Mex...
View ArticleSkaters Bomb Broadway Despite Fear of NYPD Crackdown
About 500 longboard skaters raced down Broadway from West 116th Street to the Charging Bull statue in the Financial District on Saturday, in the annual Broadway Bomb. Founded by two longboarding...
View ArticleNYC Hosts Massive Ebola Training Session for Health Workers
#457601372 / gettyimages.comNew York City is running point in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's defense against Ebola. As part of its efforts to revise its Ebola response protocol, the...
View ArticleBronx Barnes & Noble Will Remain Open for at Least 2 More Years [Updated]
#177045780 / gettyimages.comBarnes & Noble will be shutting down its retail store in Bay Plaza at Co-op City in the Bronx after more than a decade of serving the borough. Or as the Daily News aptly...
View ArticleDoctor With Ebola-like Symptoms Rushed to Hospital in NYC
Paramedics rushed a doctor in West Harlem to Bellevue Hospital on Thursday after he started showing Ebola-like symptoms. Craig Spencer, 33, a physician with Doctors Without Borders, treated Ebola...
View ArticleYoung Mexican Designer Achieves Dream of Showcasing Works at New York Fashion...
Yalary Fuentes's life as a fashion designer started at age six in her native Mexico. She wasn't necessarily making clothes from scratch, but she became quite adept at acting out dressmaking scenes from...
View ArticleThirty Useful Emoji for New Yorkers
New Yorkers encounter situations and moments each day that defy words — most of them are totally gross or breathtakingly beautiful or so baffling you’ll never forget about them. It all amounts to a...
View ArticleNext Up in Food Trends: Rainbow Pizza Dough
New Yorkers appear to be over the rainbow for multicolored foodstuffs right now — cake pops, milkshakes and bagels have all turned Technicolor, appearing in vibrant splashes against the gray doldrums...
View ArticleMMA Is Here to Stay and It's Time for New York to Legalize and Regulate It
Talk about your unlikely scenarios. For one thing, it's a Saturday night in late February, and I, who know less about sports than any other American male — I who, pretentious wuss that I am, would...
View ArticleOne of Spring’s Least Likely Ingredients Requires a High Tolerance for Pain
You have to respect a plant that fights back. Try handling common nettle any other way than "with extreme caution" and you're liable to wind up in a heap of pain, so immediate and piercing is its...
View ArticleGooseneck Barnacles Are Winning Over American Chefs (and Diners)
Let's face it: Some of the dishes we cherish the most are downright ugly. Still, even in these Instagram-happy days, there's something about the pull of caviar's slick, beady saline pops or the...
View ArticleThe Offal Truth: Six NYC Chefs Redeem Six Gnarly Ingredients
Lamb's head Elise Kornack, owner and head chef at Take Root "I think some people are put off by facial meat because there is recognition of the animal as a sentient being. A piece of beef tenderloin...
View ArticleA Fry Bread Furor Hits New York City’s Restaurants
Suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere, New York is in the middle of a fried-bread renaissance. This has, of course, always been a doughnut-loving town (lore has it that America's first doughnuts were...
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