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Hang Your Head and Wave That Towel, Lady Liberty

The moment you've all been waiting for since the clock ran out Sunday night in Pittsburgh: Which New York City landmark should be adorned with a Terrible Towel? As per a mayoral bet, since the Steelers beat the Jets, the... MORE >

By Matt Chaban | January 27, 2011 | 9:14 pm
Inside Tavern on the Green.

Could Tavern On The Green Be Saved?

Word got out yesterday that Tavern on the Green may be on the fast track for a new era of pond-side dinner opulence. The beloved Central Park restaurant has been closed for over a year since union and bankruptcy... MORE >

By Nate Freeman | January 27, 2011 | 6:36 pm

It's Free to Look: Watch the Snow Fall Over Riverside Park

This seven-room, $2.6 million prewar co-op boasts 15 oversized windows and views of the Hudson and Riverside Park to "let the sun shine into all rooms with no interior views," according to the Halstead listing. That would be great... MORE >

By Matt Coyne | January 27, 2011 | 5:52 pm
55 Thompson.

Did Carl Bernstein Just Move to Soho?

Following his Watergate days, Carl Bernstein became a fixture of New York society, living the uptown life with the likes of Nora Ephron, Bianca Jagger, Martha Stewart, and now his wife Christine Kuehbeck. Yet it seems the sometime rock... MORE >

By Matt Chaban | January 27, 2011 | 5:25 pm
Social studies.

Black Child Disenfranchised While Questioning President Obama About Disenfranchisement [Watch]

President Obama held a YouTube Q&A session today—one of the administration's creative, tech-savvy strategies for reaching voters without holding too many of those pesky press... MORE >

By Aaron Gell | January 27, 2011 | 4:56 pm
As if they weren't robotic enough.

Next Media Animation Looks Ahead to 'Jersey Shore' in Italy [WATCH]

This week, MTV announced that it would be sending the cast of "Jersey Shore" to Italy, to reconnect with the culture they have barely any connection to at this point. Naturally, Italian-American groups are less than pleased, and one... MORE >

By Nate Freeman | January 27, 2011 | 4:18 pm
We already know she uses a Macbook with Protools.

Nicki Minaj App Teaches Us How to Talk Like Nicki Minaj

Snooki has one, Oprah has one, Barack Obama has at least ten; even the Pope has one. IPhone apps, that is. Celebrity apps tend to be costly and self-indulgent. But you get to keep a famous friend in your pocket... MORE >

By Adrianne Jeffries | January 27, 2011 | 4:08 pm

Comcast and NBC Universal Give Employees Theme Park Tickets

To celebrate their sacred union, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and NBC Universal CEO Steve Burke gave all their new employees 25 Comcast shares, a book about the acquisition, and Universal theme park tickets, reports The... MORE >

By Kat Stoeffel | January 27, 2011 | 3:48 pm
A still from Monday's episode.

On Monday's 'Gossip Girl,' Blair and Dan Start Internships at W

Back in November, we learned that at some point during this season of "Gossip Girl," the pretty-faced cast members would crane their necks up at 4 Times Square, zip up the Conde Nast building in a silver elevator, and... MORE >

By Nate Freeman | January 27, 2011 | 2:53 pm
That's high all right.

They Want to Build WHAT In Washington Heights?

Just because they call it Washington Heights does not mean super-tall apartment buildings are welcome in the typically low-rise... MORE >

By Matt Chaban | January 27, 2011 | 2:27 pm

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