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Saturday, February 4, 2012
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Fancypants Cat Couture + Amazing Latte Art = Eight Items Or Less
1. Check out this amazing latte art made by a barista at The Breslin in New York City. [Smith Ratliff]2. Apparently Adam Lambert is going to replace Freddie Mercury as the new lead singer in Queen. [Rolling Stone]3. An Etsy shop called CatAtelier makes fancypants cat couture. We're partial to… Read Full Story
Preemptively Grading This Year's Super Bowl Commercials
Though the Giants-Patriots rematch is pretty exciting, thank god for Super Bowl commercials to liven things up when football time is keeping the action at a snail's pace. Several have already leaked, including the return…
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No Smooth Jazz Allowed at Nate Smith's Gastropub Allswell
Nate Smith changes the menu every day at Allswell, his cozy, quirky pub in Williamsburg, and archives each bill of fare on Tumblr. After several years at the Spotted Pig, the chef has really come…
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Win a #FashionWeekProblems T-Shirt by Sophomore for K-Mart
Chrissie Miller is now working with K-Mart? Who would've thunk! Miller, who designs downtown cool-girl line Sophomore, has teamed with the mega-chain retailer to make a "Fashion Week Problems" T-shirt, featuring a pump with a…
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Jon Glaser's Delocated Premiere Party, Complete With Ice Cream and Goosing
Being the professional, very driven journalists that we are, we left the season 3 launch party for Jon Glaser's hilarious Adult Swim show Delocated before Paul Rudd, Janeane Garofalo, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader arrived.…
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Erin Courtney on Her New Play A Map of Virtue
Playwright Erin Courtney is the 12th of the original 13 playwrights, aka the 13P, who decided about 10 years ago to work together to help each one get a full-scale production. In the ensuing decade,…
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Super Bowl-Bound This Weekend? Here's Where to Party.
Since the NFL decided to let Indianapolis host the Super Bowl (as opposed to a warm weather city like Miami or New Orleans), it's now the Hoosier State's time to shine. By the way, did…
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Karl Lagerfeld Pops-Up In the West Village
Just in time for fashion week, a Karl Lagerfeld pop-up shop has opened in the West Village. For the month of February, the shop will sell select women's items from Net-a-Porter's collaboration with Kaiser Karl…
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Michael Cera Has a Mustache + Willow Smith Shaved Her Head in Today's Celebrity Hair News
Two celebrity hair-related bits of news for your Friday afternoon: 1. Michael Cera has proven he can grow a mustache. [via Buzzfeed]2. Willow Smith shaved her head. [via New York Daily News]We are rocked. ROCKED.…
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The Magnetic Fields's "Andrew In Drag" Video Is No Drag!
Finally, Stephin Merritt and his Magnetic Fields have released a video to go along to the insanely catchy and wonderful song, "Andrew in Drag," off their forthcoming album Love at the Bottom of the…
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The Morning Funnies: A Susan G. Komen-Branded Gun & Pizza in a Jar
1. This does not appear to be a joke, but is so insane that it is almost funny: In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation (which famously…
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