Salsa dancing is seeing a spike in popularity thanks to Giant’s wide receiver Victor Cruz, whose touchdown celebration dance has spawned a large collection of YouTube videos (even the Times is ON IT ). To celebrate the Giants big win last night why not learn the moves yourself? Not only will you look cool when you hit da club , it’s also a great form of exercise—gotta burn off those 35 chicken wings you scarfed down yesterday somehow . There are plenty of studios all over the city but we’ve picked a few to help you get started on your hot new salsa dancing career. [ more › ]
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Get Your Salsa On Like Victor Cruz At One Of These 5 Studios
Ads run by the New York City Health Department to combat smoking and obesity can be harsh, depending on whether or not you bruise like a banana in a stiff breeze. Following the relative failures of national anti-cigarette and anti-drug campaigns, the Times asks, do scare tactics work? And do the city’s ads qualify as “scary?” “The definition of a scare tactic is a non-credible risk message,” Steve Pasierb, the president of the Partnership at Drugfree.org says. Can someone please tell the people at Five Gum that? [ more › ]
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Do The Health Department’s Scary Ads Work?
Superman is currently atop the statue of George Washington in Union Square. And it appears that he needs a man bun. Twitter users and our handy police blotter note that a large crowd has gathered around Superman, who may or may not be shouting something about freeing humanity. Oh get a job, Superman! We know print media’s in a tough spot right now but if you send your resume to BuzzFeed Ben he may bite. [ more › ]
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Happening Now: Superman Mounts Horse At Union Square
There were lots of ads in last night’s Super Bowl—two that even stirred up some controversy —but only one that got our geeky hearts aflutter. Yup, we all got another look at Joss Whedon’s superhero spectacular, The Avengers : [ more › ]
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The Avengers Trailer, Now With More NYC Destruction!
In an article that confirms all of the suspicions about why the Susan G. Komen Foundation decided to defund breast cancer prevention programs at Planned Parenthood, the Huffington Post reports that a Komen source says vice president for public policy Karen Handel was the “main force behind the decision to defund Planned Parenthood and the attempt to make that decision look nonpolitical.” The source said, “Karen Handel was the prime instigator of this effort, and she herself personally came up with investigation criteria. She said, ‘If we just say it’s about investigations, we can defund Planned Parenthood and no one can blame us for being political.’” [ more › ]
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Komen Source: Pro-Life VP Karen Handel Gung-Ho About Defunding Planned Parenthood
We love few things at Gothamist as much as we love the OG Law & Order and maps (pretty much only one thing, in fact: Pandas ). So we’d be remiss not to mention Very Small Array’s latest bit of awesome : A map of all of the (non-fictional) street addresses listed in the first season of Law & Order . [ more › ]
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Mapping Law & Order’s First Season
Demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement interrupted a legislative budget hearing in Albany to make some noise about taxes. The protest interrupted testimony by Taxation & Finance Commissioner Thomas Mattox, who was being questioned about an agreement between T&F and the Inspector General’s office that enabled IG to look at tax returns of state employees. Here’s video: [ more › ]
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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Disrupt Albany Lawmakers’ Inertia
Do you have the shakes because your body is withdrawing from all of the sugary, fatty, high in calorie, fried, and alcohol-infused things you put into it yesterday? Then you’re going to need to ease into this thing while you readjust to a normal diet again. Lest you go into some sort of shock, head straight over to Sam’s Bakery in Bay Ridge, where they’re slingin’ some chicken wing cupcakes made by the Robicelli’s folk. Depending on your tastes, there are two options: the buffalo chicken wing cupcake, and the chicken & waffle cupcake. While yesterday they threatened this would be the last chance until April to get the winged treats, just this afternoon they confirmed they’re still at Sam’s (but you may want to call ahead). [ more › ]
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Where To Get Chicken Wing-Topped Cupcakes
The history of New York City is littered with neighborhood names that have stuck—South of Houston, SoHo; Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, DUMBO—and those that have not stuck nearly as well— Pro-Cro , Crown Heights; North of Madison Park, NoMad—so hopefully the latest one being proposed will be disposed of quickly. In the Times Real Estate section this weekend an enterprising Kips Bay resident wrote in to suggest that the small neighborhood next to Murray Hell Hill be renamed NoEVil. As in North of the East Village. Gag us with a spoon. [ more › ]
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Please, No! Somebody Wants To Rename Kips Bay NoEVil
As the New York Giants await their flight back to Newark today, mingling awkwardly with morose members of the New England Patriots , the city gets ready to clean up the dozens of tons of ticker-tape that will be bombarded upon the streets of Manhattan Tuesday. Cue up some 80′s cleaning montage music ! [ more › ]
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City Prepares For Super Bowl Ticker-Tape Mess-strava-ganza!