Musician Gil Scott-Heron, whose politically-charged spoken-word music paved the way for modern rap, died yesterday . The writer of the seminal “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” was 62 years old. Listen to a clip below. [ more › ]

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Pioneer Spoken-Word Musician Gil Scott-Heron Dead

Yesterday, it was discovered that Urban Outfitters had yet again ripped off the work of an independent designer, this time profiting disproportionately on the designs, descriptive copy and love for New York of Etsy seller Stevie Koerner , AKA Truche. Today, the story reached Miley Cyrus, and provoked her well-trained righteous indignation : “Not only [does Urban Outfitters] steal from artists,” she tweeted , “but every time you give them money you help finance a campaign against gay equality.” She followed up by quoting Rick Santorum, the “paleolithic” anti-Gay Republican senator to whom the CEO of Urban Outfitters has donated over $13,000 , a second reason for her rage. But now there’s a twist: Koerner is hardly the first jewelry maker to have the idea of slapping a heart shape on the silhouette of a U.S. state. [ more › ]

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Miley Cyrus Tweets Out Against Jewelry-Stealing Urban Outfitters

Gay porn star and producer Michael Lucas —who you might remember from such films as Piss!, Men in Stockings, Feet! and Farts! —is once again calling for a boycott of the NYC LGBT Center . Earlier this year the Center was persuaded, in part because of the fuss made by Lucas, to cancel an event for an anti-Israel group called Siege Busters Working Group but now the group has merged with another group, ” Queers Against Israeli Apartheid ,” and gotten space at the Center. And Lucas is livid . [ more › ]

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Gay Porn Star Doesn’t Have Hard-On For "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid"

Click on the film stills for more details and reviews of this week’s new releases and repertory screenings, which include: Tree of Life, Hangover 2, Kung Fu Panda, United Red Army, Tuesday, After Christmas, Dirty Old Town, Puzzle, We Are the Night, The Abduction of Zack Butterfield, Hello, Lonesome, Tied to a Chair, Spork, Tron, Moonstruck and The Silence of the Lambs . [ more › ]                            

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Weekend Movie Forecast: Tree Of Life Vs. Hangover 2

Jeff Conaway, the 60-year-old actor known to one generation for Grease and Taxi another for Celebrity Rehab , died today after being taken off of life support following a potential painkiller overdose. [ more › ]

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Grease, Taxi Star Jeff "Kenickie" Conaway Dies

Bryant Park’s Monday night summer movie series doesn’t kick off until June 20, but when it does boozehounds will be happy. After years of turning a blind eye to illegal drinking in the park during the popular outdoor screenings, and rumors of a policy change , DNAinfo is reporting that, pending approval from the SLA (which should happen), drinking will be allowed in the park during movies this summer. [ more › ]

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Drinking At Bryant Park Movies ThisClose To Being Legal!

Courtesy of the folks behind Girl Walk/All Day , comes this inspired pole dance routine which took place on the L train last night. [ more › ]

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Video: And Now, Enjoy This L Train Pole Dance

Fed up with Mayor Bloomberg’s aggressive marijuana arrest policies , a group of community leaders, City Council members, and other concerned citizens held a demonstration yesterday on the block where Mayor Bloomberg resides on the Upper East Side. As we’ve repeatedly noted , NYC is the “marijuana arrest capital of the world,” and the number of low-level pot arrests during the Bloomberg administration is greater than in the 12 years of Mayor Koch, plus the four years of Mayor Dinkins, plus the first two years of Mayor Giuliani combined. [ more › ]

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Protest Against Marijuana Arrests Can’t Smoke Bloomberg Out Of His Mansion

Believe it or not, when looked at in aggregate, groceries are cheaper in New York City—home of the $5 dollar bottle of Coke and $150 bowl of soup —than they are in other parts of the country, a new research paper reports . According to two Columbia University economists a “household that moved from Des Moines to New York and purchased goods from the same type of stores in the two cities would realize a 10% drop in the overall cost of its grocery purchases.” [ more › ]

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Groceries In NYC Are Cheaper Than In Most Of The Country?

At first, this video will probably tug on your heartstrings, and you may very well be filled with a hollow sadness, for the subway rider seen here does not seem to have all her wits about her (the videographer speculates she’s on heroin), and she’s dressed like Charlie Brown. But then, after about 20 seconds, the scene shifts from sad to mesmerizing and then something else entirely—an ode to the resiliency of the human spirit. All those fights about whether eating on the subway should be illegal become moot—this video is, above all things, a celebration of the five second rule. (And at least she wasn’t licking her shoe. ) [ more › ]

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Video: Five Second Rule Applies For Hot Dogs On The Subway!