About this time last year, the Whitney Museum announced their plans to open a downtown space in the Meatpacking District, and earlier this week, they held a high-flying groundbreaking ceremony for the new building, located at the foot of the High Line. And if you missed it, that’s okay, it’s really just a pile of dirt right now and you can go to the real museum tomorrow for free . [ more › ]

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Tomorrow: We Are All Members Of The Whitney

If you’re outraged by the “not guilty” verdict handed down today in the trial of two NYPD officers accused of raping a drunk East Village woman in her home, there will be a demonstration Friday outside the Manhattan Criminal Court building at 100 Centre Street. It’s set to take place from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and the organizers have posted this message on their Facebook page: [ more › ]

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Protest Planned Friday Against Acquittal Of Cops Charged With Rape

It’s always good fun catching the Gray Lady with her pants down…metaphorically speaking. Earlier this month, we chuckled heartily at the one NY Times correction to rule them all , and today, we noticed this gem of a correction…in an article about Charlie Sheen- substitute Ashton Kutcher, no less. [ more › ]

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NY Times "Fashion" Correction Takes A Totalitarian Turn

Last night, “Neil Young” stopped in for of his occasional guest appearances on Jimmy Fallon , warbling a slow, twangy version of Miley Cyrus’s “Party In The USA.” And just as Young/Fallon reaches the emotional climax of the song (“That’s when the taxi man turned on the radio/ And the Jay-Z song was on”), he’s joined by two very special guests: [ more › ]

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Video: Crosby, Nash & Fallon/Young Sing "Party In The USA"

In a boneheaded move to rival all his other boneheaded moves, former Giants star running back Tiki Barber made an incredibly ill-advised analogy between himself and Anne Frank in an interview in the latest Sports Illustrated . In it, he discussed the fallout from his new relationship with Traci Johnson, and moving into the house of his agent, where he said they were hiding out in his attic. “Lep’s Jewish, and it was like a reverse Anne Frank thing,” he said. [ more › ]

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Tiki Barber Fumbles An Awkward Anne Frank Comparison

Do you ever feel like your therapist just doesn’t do enough for you these days? Wish they could get a little more…experimental with your treatment? Well, does the Guggenheim have something for you! [ more › ]

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Guggenheim Installation Coming To Therapize All You Neurotic New Yorkers

SPIN Magazine has sent an Oregon man, Eric Rice, a cease & desist letter demanding that he give up his Twitter handle: @SPIN . They write that his Twitter account is causing a significant amount of confusion among their client’s customers, who are “redirected to @SPIN” (the magazine’s handle is @SPINmagazine—which is the first thing to come up if one Googles ” spin twitter “). [ more › ]

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SPIN Magazine Sends Cease & Desist To Twitter User @SPIN

Do these posters “rep Greenpoint and Williamsburg proper”? (Last time someone tried to visually interpret the neighborhood… the Russian Orthodox Cathedral folk didn’t take too kindly to it.) Greenpointers claim they are amazing, and are now selling these highly specified towards a certain demographic snapshots of the neighborhoods for just 30 bucks a piece. They note the Greenpoint version includes “the Rite-Aid disco ball leftover from the days of the roller rink, the G train, McCarren Park pool, graffiti, even our Polish pride water tower.” (But no digester eggs !) And of course, there’s a token beer bottle floating in Newtown Creek. [ more › ]

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Do These Posters Really Rep Greenpoint And Williamsburg "Proper"?

Last we heard ( in February , to be exact), Bill Murray didn’t seem too amped about this whole Ghostbusters III thing, saying, “There’s a script somewhere [on my desk], but I haven’t read it yet. I feel bad. You know, the studio gets excited every 10 years or so. What they’d really like to do is recreate the franchise. I remember when the new Ghostbusters was going to be Chris Rock, Chris Farley and… someone.” Other more recent rumors have included Seth Rogan and Paul Rudd being attached to it, and Judd Apatow being involved. And now, the rumor mill spits this out: filming is starting next month … in Chicago! [ more › ]

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More Ghostbusters III Rumors Hit The Internet

The Department of Education, meant to be one of the defining triumphs of Michael Bloomberg’s mayoral career, has become a “fiscal black hole” with a serious consultant problem to the tune of $982 million, according to Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. That title comes after yet another consultant-related financial scandal came out of the department. Turns out the former Chief Financial Officer of the DOE, George Raab, and several consultants used their time their to plot Raab’s exit to a private financial firm, according to a report [ PDF ] from Richard J. Condon, the special commissioner of investigation for the city schools. [ more › ]

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The DOE Has A $1 Billion Dollar Consultant Problem