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This week's gallery openings feature a wide variety of styles and mediums. If you like candy, Polaroids, sculptures, and even video games, then you're in luck! So stop by and check out our top picks for the first full week of December. More»

A new Jazz club opens; Beer Gardens are taking over Manhattan (one has even sprung up in Bushwick!); Governors Island's first Brewers Pic went off with a few grumbles; Susanne Bartsch talks about her new party at Le Bain and more. Today's nightlife roundup is back to the daily grind, but with an added dose of German Beer! More»

First there is SantaCon. Then there is the No Pants Subway Ride. And finally, this past Saturday was the 8th annual Idiotarod, an event the Brooklyn Paper succinctly heralds as "the famed third jewel of the hipster Triple Crown." More»

The L Train, New York's most amorous subway line, won't run between Manhattan and Brooklyn this weekend. Party people, Motorino delivery boys and inter-borough booty callers (people still say booty call, right?) better start saving up for cab fare. More»

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On Saturday night the month of July literally went up in flames! Whispers and speculation that three of Brooklyn's cavernous warehouses would play host to an unashamed end of July bash turned out to be true via Life of Fire at the 3rd Ward. The forefathers of electro hip-hop, which included Afrika Bambaataa and the Egyptian Lover, shared a stage for the first time. Also in attendance: as many DJs as it took to keep a heavily tattooed crowd going for an exhilarating 12 hours! More»

The more neighborhoods slip away, the harder people try to pin them down. In NYC people cling to a past that maybe never really existed in the face of a hazy, inferior future. And since New Yorkers insist on comparing other cities to their own, it's tempting to do the same with Berlin. More»

A plunge into darkness can illuminate. The last two major blackouts in New York, in 2003 and 1977, were like flashlights shined on very different cities, one at peace and one in chaos. As the local media continuously predicts a recession regression to the bad old days, how would New Yorkers react to a blackout today? More»

It's been the best and worst and best of times for NYC's outdoor music scene. On Friday Sunday Best announced it'd been booted from its Gowanus home, again, but that organizers had found a solid, secure replacement. And today, P.S. 1 announced the lineup for its Warm Up dance series. More»

It's no secret that growing numbers of people are fed up with the increasingly boring mainstream nightlife in this town. And while there's no shortage of alternative local scenes, they seem to have come under threat recently. How many alternatives to alternatives to alternatives can New Yorkers burn through before burning out? More»

The newly single Snooki and The Situation made out in public. [TMZ]
Last minute deal narrowly averts doormen strike. Best news ever. [Post]
Parolee runs halfway house out of luxury condo. The condo is in Bushwick, so no one is surprised. [NYDN]
NY Parks Department's new mascot Pearl the Squirrel appears, city furries are joyous. [Gothamist]
Jon Stewart uses gospel choir to bash Fox News, once again saving their eternal feud from dullness. [NYMag]
Metro North bar cars may be missing from the new train models. Commuters: "But how will we imitate Don Draper now?" [NY Times]

The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off next week (more on that to come), but more adventurous moviegoers and flat out dissidents will be more interested in tonight's Anarchist Film Festival, which is attracting more attention than its glitzier sibling in certain quarters. Namely, the NYPD. More»