Sure, we may be done with the Girl Walk // All Day film premiere, but this dance party just got extended! Here's an outtake of John Doyle, who played "The Creep," dancing in Central Park in between takes for the film. This one doesn't include any music by Girl Talk, rather a Hood Internet mix of DMX and The XX. Like the moves you see here? Doyle just added a second Skillshare class of Hip Hop for Beginners on February 12th, which you can sign up for here more ›

Gallagher's 2000 in Long Island City has been under the microscope in federal court by prosecutors who think the club has been sketchy with paying their taxes. But as "pistol-packing" owner Robert Potenza testified, "They didn't seem like they knew much about my business." And thus, some trade secrets of the strip club game were revealed in court as Potenza defended his legitimate business. more ›

It's not a totally new idea, but how has this not become a thing yet? Why aren't we all rushing off to jazzercise after work? Camille Eroy-Reveles, owner of a Williamsburg-based fitness training company called The L Trainer, tells us she's currently hosting a free '80s aerobics class every Tuesday night from 8 to 9 p.m. in (where else) Williamsburg. The next session is tomorrow, and Eroy-Reveles suggests you drop by in your spandex and legwarmers, because '80s gear is encouraged! (Luckily American Apparel has been mass producing '80s aerobics gear for years; Dov Charney, prepare for a spike in sales if this thing takes off!) more ›

Columbia... College of Hollywood is offering a class on Columbia University grad James Franco. According to GOOD, the actor/artist/everyman designed the college course himself (of course he did!), and here's the deal: more ›

This just in (therefore it didn't make it into our newsletter): tonight the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is going to school New Yorkers on how to manage the city's ratdemic! They say, "for centuries, humans and rats have contentiously shared our city, competing for prime real estate in subways, apartment buildings and green spaces. From traps to toxins, New Yorkers are known to use extreme measures to banish these unwanted rodents." more ›

You know that photo of James Franco sleeping in class? Once it hit TMZ it made its way to every corner of the internet, and now the actor fears falling asleep in public. Put your cameraphones down and let James Franco get his beauty rest, people! more ›

If you saw Man On Wire then you know that Philippe Petit is one of the more interesting, quirky characters to walk the earth—and that he's the only man to ever have walked a wire between the Twin Towers. Now you have a rare chance to spend two days with him at his Action Maverick Master Class at STREB Lab For Action Mechanics in Williamsburg (which is run by Petit's friend, the amazing Elizabeth Streb). more ›

According to Rihanna Buff (your ultimate online Rihanna news source?), the singer was in the East Village yesterday getting tattoo lessons at East Side Ink. The fan blog reports, "All the black she’s been wearing is getting kind of repetitive, but I can deal with it." So understanding. Anyway, she was allegedly there for a sketching class; could Rihanna be looking for a second career? You know what...Rihanna says, "Just live your life/ay ay ay/Intead of chasing that paper." However, she does have an $18,000 a month rental in SoHo to pay for. UPDATE: TMZ went and ruined the fun, they posted about the illegality of Rihanna touching a needle without a license, and now the NYC Health Dept. are sending someone down to the shop. Meanwhile, the singer could be charged with three misdemeanors. more ›

Perhaps now more than ever, New York City residents create homes for themselves in vastly different ways. Are there any bad neighborhoods anymore? Or are there just places that immigrants and long-time residents subsist next to high-rise hotels and luxury condos? more ›

Last September three women filed a lawsuit against Mayor Bloomberg’s company, Bloomberg LP, accusing Bloomberg of being personally responsible for creating a "systemic, top-down culture of discrimination," and accusing Bloomberg LP CEO Lex Fenwick of firing two pregnant employees with this gangsta riposte: “I'm not having any pregnant bitches working for me.” more ›

"About halfway through, I bit in and felt something hard and crunchy." That’s what NYU senior Benjamin Jarosch declared after eating part of a found muffin, and he wasn’t talking about a walnut: his innocuous-looking blueberry muffin was stuffed with three razorblades. Jarosch and his buddies had discovered the muffin, along with four others, wrapped in tin foil, upon arriving in the classroom. more ›

Controversy is swirling around a course offered at Hunter College that an untenured professor says he was pressured to “teach.” The course was paid for last year by the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition [IACC], an industry group combating the proliferation of cheap counterfeit clothes, jewelry, accessories, etc. more ›