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Keeping Up With Joe Hynes
The Brooklyn D.A. gets his television show.
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See Urban Reinvention in Denver
Artisan eateries, revamped warehouse districts, and mixed-use studio spaces are bringing new life to the citys formerly industrial spaces.
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Male Gaze: We All Pine for Chris Pine
The latest Star Trek hit theaters today, but before you head out to watch Chris Pine (a.k.a. Captain Kirk) do everything from leap off a cliff, wear a mock-neck, and hurtle through space in the action-packed movie, we suggest you watch Ellen try to make the leading blue-eyed, blonde-haired man cry. It ... More »
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Cannes Day 3: Marion Cotillard, Eva Longoria, and an Extraordinary Dress Made of Biscuit Trays
The last 24 hours at Cannes have been remarkably eventful! First there was a post-Bling Ring jewelry theft, then a crazy gun-wielding man on the beach, followed by a lady wearing an enormous dress made of old biscuit packages (dark chocolate McVities, hopefully) to a screening of The Past. To compare, last ... More »
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A Del’s Frozen-Lemonade Truck Now Roams NYC
It'll look something like this. Gothamist made a major and crucial frozen-lemonade discovery just in time for summer: Apparently, Rhode Island's famous Del's Lemonade is now in New York. The soft, slushy, and drinkable stuff will be available at this weekend's Ninth Avenue Food Festival and at Brooklyn Bridge Park,...
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Tavern29 Celebrates Its Anniversary With an Open Bar; Good Eggs Brooklyn Launching Farm-to-Fridge...
Yes! Ducasse-endorsed Lafayette is launching brunch next week. [Bedford + Bowery/Twitter] On Wednesday, May 22, Tavern29 is celebrating its one-year anniversary with an open bar. Enjoy 24 craft beers on tap or small-batch bourbon and whiskey from 5 to 7 p.m. [Grub Street] Good Eggs Brooklyn is getting ready to...
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Reports: Aslaug Magnúsdóttir Out at Moda Operandi
The Post reports that Aslaug Magnúsdóttir has left her job as CEO of Moda Operandi, the chi-chi fashion e-tailer she co-founded with Vogue contributing editor and Perrier heiress Lauren Santo Domingo. This development comes just weeks after Moda bankrolled the Met Gala, with Santo Domingo serving as co-chair in...
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Galliano’s Latest Comeback Move: A TV Interview?
Galliano may be supplementing his momentous Vanity Fair tell-all with some sort of TV interview, reports WWD. Although his publicist said nothing's on the books "at this time," perhaps arrangements are just in the early stages. WWD had an inkling the interviewer might be Charlie Rose, who has hosted fashion people...
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Free Shake Shack ShackBurger Coupons Available Sunday in Soho
Fly with friendly fries. If you're excited about New York's newest Shake Shack, which opens May 24 at Terminal T4 at JFK Airport, you might want to stop by Delta’s T4X Soho pop-up at 376 West Broadway in Soho between Sunday May 19 and Wednesday May 22. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day - and certainly while supplies...
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First Looks: J.Crew’s CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Collection
For the third year in a row, J.Crew has collaborated on a capsule collection with the winner and runners-up of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. It's generally a win-win situation for everyone: The designers get national exposure from a huge retailer, customers get access to cool labels at more affordable prices, ... More »
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Looks Like the Blind Barber’s Also Planning a Williamsburg Expansion
Darlin', don't you go and cut your hair. Urban Outfitters isn't the only Williamsburg-bound business in search of a liquor license: Monday night's CB1 Brooklyn meeting also included an applicant listed as "Blind Barber Williamsburg LLC" going into the former Second Stop Café at 524 Lorimer Street, the four-year-old...
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Made in America: 18 National Treasures to Try
On top of our current unemployment rate and manufacturing tragedies abroad, the price of fast fashion is a steep one. We pay less, we buy more, but we have too much stuff, and our own economy and creativity seems stilted, if not stagnant. These days, our approach to buying for ... More »
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Zhang Ziyi’s Very Versatile Pixie Cut at Cannes
Actress Zhang Ziyi is one of the jurors for this year's Cannes Film Festival. Knowing that the event is filled with one red-carpet event after the other, she probably came prepared with an extensive wardrobe. But what's really impressive are all of the accoutrements her hairstylist had to bring in ... More »
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Cannes: Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, and a Very Wet Red Carpet
"This weather, what the fuck?" That was Rooney Mara's jovial and very appropriate greeting to Harvey Weinstein at Thursday night’s annual IFP- and Calvin Klein–sponsored celebration of Women in Film, usually one of the most reliably fun nights at the Cannes Film Festival. The combination of body-fat-deficient...
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This 25-Foot Glow-in-the-Dark Cake Will Be at GoogaMooga
Whoa, baby. When you're at the Great GoogaMooga this weekend, exchanging chef trading cards, eating Toro's snail paella, and jamming to the Flaming Lips, look out for this mammoth of a sculpture. "Sugar artist" Margaret Braun completed the 25-foot-tall cake at 3 a.m. this morning, after working on it for months....
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Fake the Bake With Twelve New Self-Tanners
You now have exactly seven days until Memorial Day weekend and the official start to sum-sum-summertime. If you live anywhere in the cold Northeast (or are smart and like to practice sun safety), then chances are your appendages are not ready to see the light of day. While makeup makes ... More »
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Beyoncé Really Is Pregnant, Says E!
Several unnamed "sources" have confirmed to E! News that Beyoncé is indeed pregnant! The announcement follows weeks of rumors that began with her awkwardly belted Met Gala dress and gained momentum when she canceled a performance in Antwerp, Belgium, on Tuesday, owing to "dehydration and exhaustion" (ahem, morning...
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The Creator of Gorton’s Fish Sticks Has Died
Kinney made fish sticks happen. Maine native E. Robert Kinney came from a small town north of Augusta and was the first in his family to graduate from college. During his time working for the Depression-era National Youth Administration, Kinney figured out that he could buy crabs for a penny each from the lobstermen...
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More Costata: Here Are Michael White’s Dinner and Dessert Menus
Meat is a must. Michael White's much-anticipated Italian steakhouse, Costata, officially opens tonight in a triplex on Spring Street. Dry-aged rib eye is the specialty here, but White and executive chef PJ Calapa (who also oversees Ai Fiori) are making lighter crudo dishes (there are nine!) and fresh pastas, which...
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Eben Freeman’s Cocktails for the Butterfly Include Some Greatest Hits
Light lunch. Rotary evaporators, liquid nitrogen, and centrifuges are used to make innovative cocktails at bars like Booker and Dax and the Aviary, but don't call those drinks "molecular," writes Bloomberg critic Ryan Sutton. If all that technology can be harnessed to produce the "best, cleanest-tasting brandy...
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Rooney Mara Finally Lands a Major Fashion Contract
The courtship between an actress and a major fashion label, now almost a rite of passage for starlets, is a long and complex process. For Rooney Mara and Calvin Klein, it's quite possible they've been flirting with each other for over a year; she's been wearing designer Francisco Costa's outfits ... More »
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Kim Kardashian’s Tortured, Swollen Feet: A Lament
Fly away, Kim. Fly away with the white wings that hang from your shoulders. Rise up in the air, where your swollen feet need no longer bear weight in those tortuous Givenchy heels.Givenchy, your torturer. Hobbler of feet, deformer of flesh, imaginary stealer of boyfriends. Givenchy has imprisoned your feet before....
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Komen’s Planned Parenthood Defunder Announces Georgia Senate Bid
Cutting off funding to Planned Parenthood isn't great for your career as a public policy executive for one of the world's largest women's health foundations, but it may kick-start your career as a Republican lawmaker. The AP reports that Karen Handel - who resigned from Susan G. Komen For the Cure amid the...
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Jean Paul Gaultier Explains the Eurovision Song Contest
Depending upon whom you ask, the Eurovision Song Contest is either an unbearable kaleidoscope of sequins, camp-as-you-like dance routines, and nonsense lyrics; or, for precisely these reasons, the single best Saturday of the year. Not familiar with this europop spectacular? Simply put, Eurovision is an annual...
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Michelle Obama Has Retired Her Bangs
Today the first lady revealed a new look for her commencement speech at Bowie State University in Maryland: Side-swept bangs. Gone are the blunt midlife crisis bangs she debuted in February, leaving behind only a poofy, angled trace of the controversial fringe action. Michelle weathered the most difficult part of...
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McDonald’s Staffer Catches Thief Cruising Drive-Thru in Her Stolen Car
An ill-fated joyride. When Virginia Maiden woke up on Tuesday, she realized that someone had stolen her 1995 Toyota 4-Runner. Shit. Maiden found a ride to her job at the McDonald’s in Kennewick, Washington, and while staffing the drive-thru, she noticed that a customer was cruising by in what looked exactly like her...
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Village Voice Fires Twenty-Year Veteran Restaurant Critic Robert Sietsema
He insists on the mask. Gawker reports that the embattled alt-weekly continued its ongoing series of brutal layoffs this morning by firing three of its most influential writers, New York legend Michael Musto, venerated theater critic Michael Feingold, and restaurant critic Robert Sietsema. During his twenty-year...
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Yale Fined for Underreporting Campus Rape
The Department of Education is fining Yale $165,000 for underreporting sexual assault on campus. The fine is the result of a seven-year federal investigation prompted by a Yale alumni magazine article. It found the school failed to report four “forcible sex offenses” to the DOE in 2001 and 2002, as the ... More »
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Street Style: Studied Cool at the ACNE Party
The folks at ACNE Studios are always up to something interesting, either in their semiannual ACNE Paper, or with their increasingly daring runway collections. Last night a fashion-forward crowd came out to celebrate the studio's release of Bruce of Los Angeles Rodeo, edited by Vince Aletti (photo critic for The ......
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Own the Remains of Ninth Street Bakery and Veselka Bowery
Good-bye forever. Shuttered Veselka Bowery and Ninth Street Bakery, which will close in June, are selling their equipment on Craigslist. You can purchase a Hobart dishwasher, chairs, bar stools, work tables, and hostess stands from the former, and two glass showcases from the latter for $1,500. Owning a part of a...
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