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13 Nov 2009

SAVE FASHION NYC: Refinery29

So yet again I am happy (sort of) to not be in NYC this weekend, because there is yet another amazing fashion event that I am far too poor to possibly take part in.  The wonderful people over at Refinery29 have once again partnered with an amazing set of independent

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13 Nov 2009

The Mauna Loa Club

So here’s the skinny.  This is one of those places that has the potential to be one of the great dives in the City, but then has one major shortcoming.  The Good:  The bartenders here are amazing at making drinks and being nice people.  The interior looks like someone was

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13 Nov 2009

M Shanghai Bistro is Majorly Tasty

My stomach has always been a pissy little bitch, and it keeps getting more intolerant as I get older. I can’t eat cake for breakfast like I could when I was 19. The magical combination of grease and salt in bad Chinese food makes me feel like I’m growing a

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12 Nov 2009

5 Tragic Career Trajectories

After last week’s Renee Zellweger-bashing, I thought to myself “Wow, that felt so great!”  Looking at the career of a celebrity I’ve never met, pointing out her flaws on the Internet for all to see and then laughing at her attempts to feel physically attractive was the best kind of

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12 Nov 2009

Movies to Watch When You’re Not Celebrating Holidays or Sick

I’m not a religious or particularly holiday-oriented person.  In fact, I might even be a little hostile to the idea that somehow, because it’s a specific time of the year, you should forgive & forget everything wrong in life, and just “be nice”.  Because, apparently, the other 364 days of

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12 Nov 2009

Honoring People Who Can’t Live Here – American Indian Heritage Ceremony at City Hall

Fetid tide rushes and sand dunes, are what the first settlers got when they first laid eyes on the city that scrapes the stars. Never the less they put on some furs, shucked a few mussels and made it work. A few eons later, some smelly, hairy guys wearing crosses

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11 Nov 2009

5 Great Songs About Being Broke

If you’ve been following the site lately, you’ve noticed that we’ve started doing some band interviews.  In the past month or so we’ve interviewed The Dodos, Sleepy Sun, and Girls in Trouble.  The reason for this is that pretty much everyone who is in a band was a broke-ass at

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