Link: http://www.tnr.com/article/westboro-b...

The New Republic has video of a fairly cataclysmic showdown between the good folks at Westboro Baptist Church (i.e., those lunatics who hate everything and feel compelled to be vocal/unpleasant about it) and a neighborhood full of gay-friendly, Jewish New Yorkers.

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1. They Also Protested Sasha and Malia at Their Middle School Last Week

Midtown NYC is reportedly full of these strip-cycles as a promotion for some stripper TV show. Didn't know stripper TV shows even needed stunt promotions like this but OK!

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1. Pictures! Midtown Full of Pole Dancers!

Link: http://curbed.com/archives/2009/08/13...

This article was meant to be a scathing indictment for a common problem in New York City, people getting handjobs in massage parlors. But judging by the comments, she missed her mark. Some examples: “i wish she had mentioned the pricing in her post.” and “If I were married to this broad, I'd know the address of every hand-jobbin' parlor in the City.”

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CULTURE BUZZ: What would it feel like to walk amongst New York City's skyscrapers? Today marks the opening of “The High Line,” a park built atop an old elevated freight railway on Manhattan's West Side. I've been looking forward to this for years. Best. Park. Ever.

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1. The High Line
2. Surprise! The High Line is Open
3. Promenade Plantée in Paris, France
4. High Line @ Wikipedia

The June 1st New Yorker cover was finger-painted by artist Jorge Colombo using the Brushes app on his iPhone. Overall it took him just an hour to draw the scene outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square, and for the process nuts, there's a corresponding video that shows every streak - from start to finish.

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1. Cover Story: Finger Painting
2. June 1st New Yorker Cover Drawn Entirely on the iPhone
3. Jorge Colombo iPhone Cover Video
4. Brushes App on iPhone
5. Wax Obama Terrorizes Baby
6. New Yorker Covers on BuzzFeed

TV BUZZ: New York's Upper East Side can officially prepare for a tourist stampede, as the neighborhood will now be trapzed upon by denizens expecting to spot the stomping grounds of Chuck Bass and friends. Unlike the Sex and the City tour, visitors will be pointed less to cupcake shops and more toward STD hotspots.

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1. Join the Tour
2. Carrie, Meet Your Match

Everyday items in New York City dispense stories and anecdotes about growing up here. Fey public phones and French speaking sewer grates? That's old school , you guys.

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Link: http://asleeponthesubway.tumblr.com/

Good luck falling asleep on the subway now, suckers! A new Tumblr has sprouted up full of pictures taken of people sleeping on the subway. They're just exposing the dozing.

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1. Asleep on the Subway
2. Caught Sleeping on the Subway

Come, hear the song of Agent Pubit, the Anonymous agent who stormed Scientology's NYC headquarters greased up in Vaseline, his friends' pubes and nail clippings. He was charged with a hate crime for desecrating the Church of Scientology. Reeeally? Not for desecrating himself?

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1. When Hairy Met Scientology
2. Greasy Vandal in Hate Crime Vs. Scientology
3. The Ballad of Agent Pubit (With Lyrics)
4. Anonymous Member Arrested For “Pubic Hair Raid” On Church Of Scientology
5. An Unusual Crime (Video)

Some guy was caught getting naked in the subway, and for no particular reason at all! Once the train came….clothes back on. And that was that. Sometimes New York actually impresses me. This is one of those times.

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1. Naked NYC Subway
2. Naked Subway Guy
3. Only in NYC

CULTURE BUZZ: Artist Mina Karimi is organizing a recreation of the “Twist and Shout” scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in time for New York’s famed Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. Participants can choose any character from the original scene to impersonate, finally giving some of us a reason to borrow our mom’s shoulder-padded, triangular business suits.

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1. Parade Scene From Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - Pick Your Character
2. Ferris Bueller Parade Reenactment, Gives Me Chance to Relive High School Dreams, Angst
3. Dress Like ‘Working Girl’ Without Being Ironic!
4. Bueller’s Back!

Before Carrie Bradshaw and Gossip Girl , New York had its sh*t years, ridden with crime, bankruptcy, and violence. This vintage subway sticker, which warns commuters against the use of knives, guns, and bombs (!), brings to mind a simpler time when anyone with a vagina carried Mace, which - inevitably - had to be used it at least once. In an era where the worst thing you can do on the subway is drink a cup of coffee , traveling underground can still be a nightmare when the most rancid-smelling hobo in town decides to take a nap in the seat right next to you. For twenty minutes. In rush hour.

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CELEBRITY BUZZ: After Josh Hartnett was caught having hot library sex with some lucky lady, the celebrity sex tape clearing house Red Light District announced it’s offering $500,000 for the copy. It all happened in a SoHo hotel, which adds to my constant curiosity of the little New York City enclave. Does SoHo have anything else besides gourmet sandwiches and celebrities being naughty?

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1. Oops! Hartnett Accidentally Stars in Sex Tape
2. No ‘The Virgin Suicides’ Please, We’re British
3. Josh Hartnett Still Boring
4. No One Knew Where To Look?!
5. Drunken Sex With A Stranger Not Needed
6. Harnett to Star in Rain Man
7. Caught Getting His Freak On
8. Sex Tapes on BuzzFeed

CULTURE BUZZ: The Talking Heads frontman designed 9 ridiculous looking bike racks for NYC streets. With names like “The Hipster”, “The Coffee Cup” and “Olde Times Square”, Byrne’s bike racks are meant to capture the essence of New York City neighborhoods and encourage people to ride their bikes.

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1. New Bike Racks Courtesy of David Byrne
2. More Than A Legacy Act
3. Based Around The Personalities Of Each Neighborhood
4. Stick To Music, With Love
5. Crazy Enough It Just Might Work
6. Public Art or Public Transportation
7. David Byrne on Wikipedia

STYLE BUZZ: MOMA’s cute collection of lifestyle products from Japan. Here’s a roundup of cute yet slightly pointless favorites from the collection.

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1. A Treasure Trove of Useless but Cute Things - See Lots of Pics
2. Some Picks Include the Hands-Free Umbrella and a Ramen Dish Set
3. Mochi, the New Mascot of Cuteness
4. Some of Our Favorite Picks
5. Those Japanese Are So Creative!
6. Get Some of the Stuff Online
7. Ooh, a Color-Changing Scarf

SPORTS BUZZ: As New York and other large cities prepare to construct (or at least mark off) more bike lanes, a debate is brewing about their efficacy. Lax enforcement and a slew of fatal accidents are leading many cyclists to the conclusion that bike lanes are merely a token effort on the part of urban planners and city officials.

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1. Good Intentions, Questionable Results
2. The Case For Physically-Seperated Bike Lanes
3. Bike Lane of Death
4. Nice Ad, Idiots
5. An Unofficial Violator Database
6. “Gridlock” Sam Schwartz Says Lane Seperation is a Must
7. 22 Year Old is Struck and Dies on the West Side Highway Bike Path
8. There Are Some Who Disagree…
9. The Original Promise
10. A Sixth Avenue Bike Lane Death
11. A Double-Parking Fatality

CULTURE BUZZ: The New Yorker delves into the secret lives of elevators, including the story of a man who was stuck inside one for 41 hours (and it was all caught on tape!). We don’t know about you, but after reading this piece, we’ll take the stairs. See you in the lobby.

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1. Michelle Collins Interviews the Guy Who Got Stuck in an Elevator for 41 Hours
2. The New Yorker’s Nick Paumgarten Tackles Elevators
3. Security Camera Footage: 41 Hours Stuck In An Elevator
4. Max Silvestri, Trapped in an Elevator
5. The Art and Science of ‘elevatoring’ - an Analytics Point of View.
6. An Illustrated Retelling, With Video
7. “Let This Be a Cautionary Tale to All of You Who May Find Yourself Similarly Ensared in This Most Primal of New York Office Drone Nightmares!”
8. Listen to an Interview With “New Yorker” Writer Nick Paumgarten
9. 41 Hours and Not One Bathroom Break?
10. Excellent Flickr Collection Of Elevators

MOVIE BUZZ: With a new trailer, a new official site (plus several new viral marketing sites), buzz for the secret J.J. Abrams Movie is building steadily. As long as it’s better than Snakes On A Plane , we’ll all be happy. Update: Cloverfield reviews have been great so far!

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1. LAist Interview: Matt Reeves, Director of Cloverfield
2. Watch 5 Minutes of “Cloverfield”
3. Secrets of the SNAFU Behind the Name “Cloverfield”
4. ‘Cloverfield’ Monster Gets its Own Toy - Cinematical
5. Theories on the Whisper at the End of Cloverfield
6. “They Have Created a Classic”
7. Will her role in Cloverfield make Odette Yustman a star?
8. Cloverfield Reviews on Mahalo
9. The Cloverfield Monster Is…Manhattan?
10. Tracking All the Cloverfield Clues
11. TAGRUATO CORP.
12. Slusho! You Can’t Drink Just Six
13. T.I.D.O. WAVE
14. Massive Fan Forum on All Things Cloverfield
15. The Cloverfield Teaser
16. CLOVERFIELD: 1-18-08
17. Early, Possibly Planted Cloverfield Reviews (Slight Spoilers)
18. One Cast Member: The Speculation Is Way Off…
19. Rearrange the Photos (And Try Flipping Them…)
20. Trolling The Teaser For Clues
21. Interview With Cloverfield Star TJ Miller
22. Nevermind the Monster - Cloverfield Is All About 9/11
23. 25 Production Photos
24. Cameraman T.J. Miller Talks Monsters, Manohla Dargis, Underpants