A dwarf bowling tournament planned for Staten Island bar Big Nose Kate’s has been cancelled after an unidentified scold alerted the media to the event, which was to be hosted Saturday by d-list celebrity dwarf minstrel Beetlejuice (pictured), an occasional guest on the Howard Stern show. In dwarf bowling, players take turns rolling a dwarf (wearing protective gear) on a skateboard down makeshift bowling alleys toward small pins. In exchange for his dignity, the dwarf/bowling......

An actress who insists her screaming orgasm was misrepresented in a web ad is suing Szul, the jewelry company who hired her. The 35-second spot depicts the 37-year-old woman – identified in court papers as Jane Doe – wearing a teal teddy while writhing and moaning in bed. When her ecstasy turns climactic, the ad’s slogan appears on the screen: “Rock Her World.” Genius, right?! According to her lawyer, the ad’s producers had pitched it......

Torontoist discovered their city's most ridiculous holiday lights setup, with 80,000 lights and two––two!––synchronized music routines. Naturally, they snagged a video. Chicago tragically loses one of its most recognizable neighborhood icons, the pigeon man of Lincoln Square. LAPD leaves body in car at crash scene, then tows it. Massachusetts plus mullet equals PR mayhem. Londonist sleeps in a Haunted plague pit. UC Berkeley students strip naked and race through campus, NSFW floppiness ensues. Phillyist......

We're really surprised no one thought of this sooner: vintage healthcare! Well, sort of. Jay Parkinson declares he is a "new kind of physician," and he is. Revolutionary, in fact. Based out of Williamsburg, he's bringing healthcare to those who wouldn't normally be able to receive it without breaking the bank...giving the uninsured masses a reason to breathe a sigh of relief. He's also mixing this idea with an old one: house calls! Back to......

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom......

A reader sent us this horrible but all-too-familiar story: I was on the 7 train riding from Flushing Main Street when a man sat across from me (a few stops before 82nd street Jackson Heights he got on) with a newspaper on his lap pretending to be sleeping. I glanced over and to my horror all his goods were in plain view. I did not react and I pulled out my cell phone and took......

Earlier this week, the FDNY Foundation, a non-profit that raises money for FDNY causes, released the 2008 edition of its popular Calendar of Heroes, featuring some of the Bravest's bare-chested hunks posing in all parts of New York City and thrilling many. But after the calendar crew appeared on the Today show, the eagle-eyed realized that cover boy Michael Biserta, of Ladder Co. 131 in Red Hook, was also featured in a Guys Gone Wild......

Studying for the LSATs is nothing compared to stripping down for Playboy TV! The Daily News reports that Adriana Dominguez is getting a lot of attention for a naked romp that is circulating on the Internet. Dominiguez posed for Playboy TV's "Naked Happy Girls" - episode, "Rock Star and the Lawyer" (here's a link - definitely NSFW) - where she gets spanked and poses with gavels among other things. Though the show aired in January,......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like......

The pseudonymous Lux Nightmare burst onto the alt porn scene as a college student at Columbia where she launched the naked-guy-and-girl site That Strange Girl, featuring stills and video of herself and numerous other models who looked like they could be her fellow classmates. At a time when Suicide Girls and Burning Angel were coming to prominence, That Strange Girl (who, full disclosure, this interviewer posed for) was a homegrown, indie entry in the genre.......

Michael Riedel has double-the-entendre fun with his rumor-laced news that the London revival of Equus – yes, that Equus starring the Harry Potter kid naked as a jaybird – is going to Broadway! According to Riedel’s sources, “one problem, though, is the length.” Wait for it... Wait for it... “Of the play, people, the play!” But producers seem cocksure, despite a couple small problems regarding young Daniel Radcliffe: “Where he comes up short (at least......

Today in the Gothamist Newsmap: a jumper up, two fall victims, and a shooting in the Bronx. Clever idea: make city agencies budget for all the free parking signs they give out to their staff-- thus encouraging them to cut down. Two more WTC victims were identified today-- both were on the first plane that hit. Their remains were not found in the recent searches. Silliest promotion this year: Ocean Spray constructed a giant......

Whoa-- that was quite a night. If, like us, you've just woken up with a pounding hangover and a foul sugar-coating covering your tongue, we sympathize. Here are some highlights to remind you of how you spent the night-- add yours in the comments if you want us to link to them. Parade: WhatISee, EyeinAstoria, InSunlight, Editrix, ImBrettJackson, AVC, BobbyLapointe, Rendomthoughts, *PhotobyMatt*, TunnelAngel, Gruban, Tozzer, Mercredis and the amazing phone costume, great Van Gogh......

+ Mayor Bloomberg hate cigs, but he doesn't want to raise the legal smoking age. + The feds have decided not to retry Junior Gotti-- apparently after losing three times, they've had enough. + Volunteers are collecting foliage from the High Line for replanting once the park is built. + The alleged child molestor killed by an angry Fairfield lawyer turns out to have been innocent-- apparently the child wasn't right. + NSFW Friday......

Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free t-shirt. And they might have the next YearlyKos in Philly. You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater. LAist's sex advice column on......

If Flickr hasn't already sucked away all your free time, you might want to check out the Selfportraitr (get it?! no E!) show at the Pace/MacGill gallery this week: The exhibition will not only rely on the Flickr community for content, but will also depend upon the activity of the site’s users for the organization and editing of what is anticipated to be thousands of images from the age-old genre of self-portraiture. Whether the......

Bucky at Animal has the scoop on an exhibit of photographs with the late Harold Hunter. A skateboarder and an actor, Hunter died in February, and these photographs will be sold in a silent auction to benefit the Harold Hunter Foundation, non-profit to promote skateboarding to underprivileged inner-city youth. Bucky has shots of some of the photographs which are "as diverse and as wild as Harold’s crazy ass was" (including ones with a "younger Rosario......

Fans of urban exploration photography and naked women, rejoice, for your day has finally arrived! Naked City Spleen features dozens of pictures of Miru Kim posing in front of various urban ruins, including but not limited to the recently destroyed Greenpoint Terminal Market and the very-soon-to-be-leveled Red Hook Sugar Factory. And lest you think this is just about cheap thrills, Miru has a long essay explaining the project: Photography then is one of my......

Marion's Continental, a longtime Bowery presence is revamping its annex -- where once shimmied the go-go boys (Avenue Q writer Jeff Whitty among them at one point) an old favorite bar and dining room is now reborn. When Michael Howett and Richard Bach first opened the place on Elizabeth Street, it was the first bar and dining room there and those who knew it remember the nude paintings, eccentricities, ancient wine bottles and tchotchkes well.......

Apparently we weren't the only one's pushing boundries today. While we only showed a photograph of the aftermath of an accident, a tipper points out that 1010 WINS has chosen to go full out snuff. Here's the story: Earlier today Marlon Fann of Corona, Queens pled guilty to second degree murder, possession of a weapon, endangering the welfare of a child and harrassment. The DA says on June 18th Fann went to his ex-girlfriend's home......

- An off-duty cop fighting with a group of "thugs" was shot early yesterday morning by another police officer. - The inevitable spread of children throughout the West Village is affecting local businesses. - One of the East Villages "last bohemians" passes on. - The Onion moved to New York five years ago, remains funny. - The Daily News reports that "Donald Trump, the Rockefeller Group and Ford Models were among the tycoons and......

One of our readers left us a link to the picture above on our Contribute page, along with this comment: Can you start a campaign encouraging coke whores like these to leave the homeless alone? Or at least call out these stupid girls like peter bruanstein or the subway flasher. Your wish is answered: we are calling these girls out to explain themselves. And come on-- to the nice people behind Last Night's Parties,......

Two men from Ghana were arresed yesterday after authorities discovered 136 pounds of heroin concealed in a shipment of pottery. Officials said the street value (we just love when they tell us the street value) of the heroin is more than $6 million and it's one of the largest shipments in recent memory. Clearly the two men should have thwarted the cops by saying that they intended to do all 136 pounds themselves with no......

Warning: all of the links in this post should be considered Not! Safe! For! Work! Do not click any of them if you are still at the office. Bob Coulter is one of our favorite NYC porn photographers (porntographers?)-- right up there with Terry Richardson. Coulter's seminal (get it!) book, Crazy Babe, was a tour-de-force of New York nakedness. His new book, Bad Girls Hotel, is also steeped in New York juices: What is......

There are many great photographers working online in NYC right now, but few are as viscerally disturbing as Boogie. He specializes in taking pictures of the hidden side of the city-- gangs, prostitutes, drug users, Hasidim. Sometimes the photos he puts up are hard to look at-- sometimes they sort of make us sick. To pick a few captions at random: "Martin and Ruben smoke crack in Martie's apartment; Bushwick, Brooklyn." "Perla, seconds after......

It's going to be a slow week in music. American Analog Set are playing Joe's Pub, but that sold out before it went on sale (download an AAS/Kelly Clarkson mashup). Sick of it All and The Bouncing Souls are playing CBGB benefits, but good luck getting in to those (see what it will likely look like inside). Louis XIV are at Irving Plaza. You're definitely too cool to go to that (watch a NSFW......

This morning, a protest group, Operation Sybil, had members rappel down the side of the Plaza Hotel and display a huge anti-Bush banner. Gothamist received some photos that the intrepid Lucie Eber took before the protesters were arrested. Hopefully more details will emerge on how this was orchestrated, because we're curious if they needed to reserve rooms or just walked into the hotel and made their way to the roof. It's just really stunning.......