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A Stiff Upper Lip

Written by Josh Saul on August 8, 2007. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Nothing is more inspiring than a man who devotes his life to a cause or ideal: men like Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Now, another hero joins their ranks. But instead of equality or freedom, filmmaker Jay Della Valle works tirelessly to save the elusive mustache—that much-maligned mouth muff usually associated with pedophiles and porn stars.
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TGIW: New Comics Hit The Docks

Written by Josh Saul on August 1, 2007. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

It’s that time of the week again, and today some exciting titles smashed onto shelves. World War Hulk is a relatively new series that follows Hulk as he’s banished to outer space by Earth’s heroes. Long-awaited World War Hulk #3 hit stands today, chronicling the big green guy’s return to Earth and his epic battle
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TGIW! New Comics Hit The Docks

Written by Josh Saul on July 25, 2007. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

Another Wednesday is here, which means this week’s new comics hit shelves this morning. As we speak, excited nerds clog the aisles of comic book shops the city over to collect their favorite titles, arguing the virtues of the new Invincible cover the whole time. (I’m a huge fan, but I don’t like the new
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Pineapple So Cheap It’ll Make You Giddy

Written by Josh Saul on July 19, 2007. Posted in Eat & Drink, Posts

Produce takes too much effort. Who has time to spend 40 minutes in line at Whole Foods, and then pay $3 for an onion? Slightly sketchy street stand to the rescue! On the East side of Seventh Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets, a man named Patty rules over a stand selling fruit and vegetables
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Jews at Woodstock?

Written by Josh Saul on July 19, 2007. Posted in Music, Posts

It’s been 40 years since the summer of love, and Heeb magazine is ringing in the anniversary with its Diamond Days Festival—a four-day indie extravaganza that starts tonight at Rock Star Bar in the ’Burg. Heeb was launched in 2001 to provides Jewish hipsters with investigative reporting into such lofty topics as Bob Saget’s trip
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$1,100 for an iPhone?

Written by Josh Saul on June 27, 2007. Posted in Posts, Technology

The first iPhones will go on sale tomorrow, but the lines at Apple stores started forming on Monday. They must be pretty long by now, since there’s a Craigslist ad selling a prime spot (Thom is seventh in line at the SoHo Apple store!) for $500, cash only. Thom says you’ll need to show up
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Bloomy Is Carnegie’s Mystery Man

Written by Josh Saul on June 27, 2007. Posted in Posts

Mayor Bloomberg is the 44th richest man in the country, but at this rate, he won’t stay there for long. Yesterday, the Carnegie Corporation announced that “somebody” gave them $30 million to distribute among 500-plus charitable groups, but almost every paper in the city has reported that the “anonymous donor” is definitely Bloomy. Since 2002,
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Cash for Construction Workers

Written by Josh Saul on June 22, 2007. Posted in Posts

The city and one of its construction unions announced a deal that will give the union $90 million to split among its 1,000 workers. The back-pay settlement will mean that every worker will be getting an average pay-off of $90,000, and the workers will also receive large hourly pay increases to equalize their wages with
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Journal for Sale?

Written by Josh Saul on June 21, 2007. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Rupert Murdoch is trying to buy The Wall Street Journal, and starting today he can negotiate directly with the paper’s board of directors. For almost two months now, Murdoch has been hoping to make a deal with the Bancroft family, which controls 64 percent of the paper’s voting shares, but the deal had been held
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‘The Office’: The Game

Written by Josh Saul on June 20, 2007. Posted in Arts & Film, Posts

If you’ve watched every episode of “The Office” and even read Dwight’s blog, there’s not much else you can do to feed your Michael Scott addiction. At least there wasn’t until NBC sold the show’s video-game rights to a company that’s making a game out of the show. In the game, the show’s characters will
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