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The Daily WTF: Pizza Pinups
Are you a pizzasexual? Then L’asso‘s 2012 Pizza Is My Lover calendar is for you. More »
Occupy Wall Street Occupies The Law & Order: SVU Film Set Based On Them
Last night, Occupy Wall Street called to its members to #mockupy: They took over the Law & Order: SVU film set made to look like Zuccotti Park. Some were upset that NBC was profiting off their story with a “ripped from the headlines” episode; others just wanted to party. More »
Lady Gaga’s Barneys Workshop Sells Bejeweled Press-On Nails And Ring Pops
The following is a guest post from our friends at Luckymag.com.
Readers, if you haven’t yet been to check out the recently-opened Gaga’s Workshop at Barneys New York, now’s the time. With its larger-than-life art installations, chic sweets, and jaw-dropping jewelry, the pop-up’s a definite holiday-season highlight here in NYC. More »
Ryan Gosling’s Fans Are Protesting Outside Of People Magazine’s Offices
With custom masks and cheers of “1, 2, 3, 4, Bradley Cooper is a bore; 5, 6, 7, 8, Ryan Gosling‘s super great,” this protest (nicknamed #occupypeople on Twitter) is at least sweeter than Occupy Wall Street. More »
Halloween Horror Story: Celebrities Get Trapped In Plummeting Elevator
Remember that great scene in Final Destination 2 when the kids are trapped in an elevator and one of the girls gets decapitated? Now imagine the scene re-enacted with a bunch of lesser-known actors, like that guy from The Good Wife, and a less gruesome ending. That’s what happened to Josh Charles, Alessandro Nivola (Howl), and other partygoers at a movie premiere last week. More »
Zombie Steve Jobs — Too Soon!
We love witty street art, but c’mon guys–it hasn’t even been two weeks. Save that irreverence for someone who deserves it, like Osama bin Laden! More »
Crushable Quotable: The Room‘s Tommy Wiseau Thinks We’re Like the Egyptians
Tommy Wiseau‘s interview from a recent New York screening of cult hit The Room provides us with a fresh batch of bizarre Wiseau-isms. The best part is, his answers sound exactly like his unplaceable European accent. More »
Boardwalk Empire Rolls Out Cool Vintage Subway Cars in New York City
This is advertising we can get behind — especially since it’s in our city! To promote the second season of Boardwalk Empire, HBO went above and beyond just posters in the subway station: They’ve got a vintage 1920s subway train that will run along the 2/3 stop throughout New York City on weekends in September. More »
Alec Baldwin Is Not Running For Mayor Of NYC…Yet
Alec Baldwin, of the can-do-anything Baldwins, seems like a shoo-in for mayor of New York. After all, he’s got everything required of a New York mayor: he’s rich and famous, he heads a multinational corporation, and he’s already an iconic part of the New York City zeitgeist. Yes, I am conflating him with Jack Donaghy. What of it? He might even be able to trick some Republicans into voting for him because they can’t tell the difference between reality and TV, either. More »
Snap This: Marvel Superheroes’ New York City Digs
Sure, the latest trend is to remake famous comic book heroes’ origin stories, but have you ever stopped to think about where they literally come from? The New York Post points out that we can beam with hometown pride for quite a few of Marvel’s superpowered crimefighters, who can trace their humble beginnings to Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. (Plus a few not-so humble childhoods in Westchester… but it’s still New York!) Click through for the full map. More »
Made in Manhattan: The New York City Bucket List
Hey everyone! This is a video about me, Paige. I’m from Pennsylvania, and I go to a small-town college there (you may have seen that in my previous series, Paige Presents). This summer, I have an internship with b5media (the company that owns Crushable and its sister sites), and have moved out to New York City. Throughout the rest of the summer, I will be producing videos about making it in The Big Apple on my own. More »
STD Week: Interview with Museum of Sex Curator Sarah Forbes
New York City’s Museum of Sex opened in what used to be the city’s red light district — not that they knew it! — in 2002, and curator Sarah Forbes has been there since 2004. An anthropology major with a focus in gender, Forbes began working with the museum by doing research, and worked up to where she is now, overseeing the museum’s varied exhibitions: Kink: Geography of the Erotic Imagination; The Sex Lives of Animals; Action: Sex and the Moving Image.
In 2010, the museum presented RUBBERS: The Life, History, & Struggle of the Condom, which traced the condom’s origins and identity as a contraceptive, but also featured literature and artwork inspired by the rubber. Sadly, the exhibit lasted only until late 2010, but we spoke with Forbes about what inspired this deconstruction, and what we have yet to learn. More »
The “♥” Symbol Makes Its Way into the Oxford English Dictionary
I don’t know who’s more responsible for this — the maker of the “I ♥ NY” T-shirts/various merchandise, or the hordes of Justin Bieber fans. I’m tempted to say the latter, since the young popstar seems to have taken a symbol that I remember my friends making in photos in high school, and made it suddenly popular for the younger generation. When I went to see Never Say Never, every girl in the audience had her hands raised up to the screen. More »
New Meme: “Mila Kunis is Bored”
Earlier this week, Liana stumbled upon some inexplicable graffiti: “Mila Kunis” spray-painted in red on a brick wall. We doubt that the Black Swan star is going around New York tagging property, so one of her many admirers must be responsible. Then, two nights ago I found this similar piece of street art. More »
1,000 Las Vegas Tunnel People Live Better Than We Do
There are certain degrading things that you have to deal with when you live in New York. Like the time I took the tour at Alcatraz only to realized that their inmates had more space than I did in Manhattan at the time. Meanwhile, I had committed no crimes and paid $400 for the privilege to live on 105th Street. Plus, they had sinks in their rooms! And now, The Daily Mail has made us feel the same way once again, with a story about 1,000 people who live in makeshift homes in Las Vegas, carved out of a labyrinth of tunnels underneath the Las Vegas strip.
The article is pretty fascinating, but the first thing that came to mind when we saw the pics? Ooh… Spacious! More »
CMJ Artist: Lily & the Parlour Tricks
Last night I developed a massive crush (real, not boredom induced) on the lead singer of Lily & the Parlour Tricks. I went out for what I thought would just be a quick drink with my roommates to Williamsburg’s charming whiskey bar, the Lovin’ Cup Cafe. Lucky for us, a quick drink turned into a few drinks so we got to witness a miracle. Lily & the Parlour Tricks were playing that night for CMJ Week!! Usually at the Lovin’ Cup, everyone focuses most if not all of their attention on the people with whom their sharing a table. But when Lily & the Parlours took the stage, the bar went from cliques to Tricks. Everyone in the room was captivated by the lead singer – whose name is, oddly enough, Lily Claire. She was the kind of artist who had everyone in the room convinced that she was singing directly to them. More »
Two Adrien/Adrians, One City - Spotted this weekend: Adrien Brody looking annoyed Friday evening on Houston and Bowery, while Adrian Grenier partied it up at the RE:FORM School’s gallery opening, promoting education reform.
Crushable’s Picks for CMJ 2010
One of the things we always get excited about in October is the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival. In just over two weeks, we’ll be covering all sorts of shows for you. This year, we’re looking forward to shows fromThe Blow, Ghostface Killah, GZA, DeVotchKa, Phoenix, and returning guests School of Seven Bells. More »
Patti Stanger To Recruit ‘Daters’ At Open Casting Call In New York
Wanna marry a millionaire? Hurry up, because your last chance is TOMORROW.
That’s right, Patti Stanger is holding an open casting call for “daters” only at the Carlton Hotel in New York, where the upcoming season of Millionaire Matchmaker will be held. A source close to production tells Crushable that there are a lot more millionairesses in the Big Apple, and so there are openings for more straight men to vie for their affection.
Here’s the the invite, below!
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