| | | The Carpenters Union Lottery Offers a Shot at the Middle Class BY TESSA STUART  At the corner of Houston and Hudson, six blocks from the Soho bakery where ladies in expensive sandals queued up before the crack of dawnall summer to taste the Cronut, a different kind of line was forming. At first it was just a couple of burly men planted in lawn chairs outside the New York City District Council of Carpenters. A week later more than 1,000 others—security guards, welders, construction workers, and baby-faced kids fresh out of high school—had pitched tents and unfurled sleeping bags next to them. A passerby surveyed the crowd and guessed it was some sort of mixed martial arts ticket giveaway. It wasn't. Welcome to post-recession New York, where a middle-class ... more >>
| | | | | | Bun B and Shea Serrano's New Rap Coloring Book Is (Not Really) For the Children BY BRIAN MCMANUS  If you've spent any kind of time on the Internet, chances are something Shea Serrano has written, drawn, or created has made you smile. The 32-year-old inner-city teacher from Houston, Texas, writes and illustrates for several different outposts—our sister papers Houston Press and LA Weekly, Grantland, Complex's Four Pins, Myspace—and over the last year has managed to catch fire onlin... more >> | | | | | | Dough Loco Revamps the Neighborhood Doughnut Shop BY ZACHARY FELDMAN  Swap the Mormon Bible for a spatula and the short-sleeve shirt for chef's whites, and you could call them gastronomic missionaries. In the years since Michael Cesari tapped Corey Cova to helm Lilliputian palace of excess Earl's Beer & Cheese, the Vinyl Wine owner and his partners have helped to herald a sort of rallying cry for East Harlem dining that now includes ABV Wine Bar and petite cocktail... more >> | | | | | | Blue Caprice Finds Fresh Terror in the D.C. Sniper Case BY ALAN SCHERSTUHL  With so many violent movies, and lurid movies, and straight-up bad movies, most just so much murderous product, it's rare anymore to be seized by that feeling, as a film plays, that maybe there's no reason for this particular violent or lurid or bad movie to exist. They simply do, crafted to ensure a return on an investment, and it's left only to the naïve to expect from them something like... more >> | | | | | | | | Lens Crafted: MOMA Focuses on Walker Evans BY BRIENNE WALSH  Nestled in a central gallery on the fourth floor of the Museum of Modern Art, between rooms containing seminal works by the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol, "Walker Evans American Photographs" consists of approximately 60 photos Evans shot during the 1930s. Both the title and the location set the viewer up. These are not Walker Evans's American photographs; they are... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared To commemorate the twelfth anniversary of 9/11, Earth Cam, a Hacksensack, New Jersey-based webcam company, released a time-lapse video of the construction of the new World Trade Center. The nine y... Fork in the Road The harvest is peaking, but cheap drinks are always in season. Here's a look at a few places around town to get drinks for a steal this week. ... Sound of the City On Saturday nights, off the often grimy but consistently pulsating strip that is Canal Street, lives a world of neon, spandex and hairspray. Those evenings, Jessie's Girl, an '80s tribute band, ro... After Dark NY Got sexy problems? In this, Naked City's newest feature, I will attempt to help readers figure out matters of the heart and loins such that they might copulate without confusion. Today, we take u... | | | | | | | | | | | | | Coupons >> |
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