Bro, the Lower East Side has finally arrived! Know how we know? There’s totally a bangin’ new rodeo themed bar/restaurant with a mechanical bull!!! We’re going to be getting so much sweet action once the hotties see us taming that bad boy. Plus there’s like 16 killer beers on tap, chicken fried stake and pork chops! So untuck that striped shirt and ramble on down here, cowbro! Oh, and since the place still hasn’t settled......

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a......

Yesterday afternoon, demonstrators protested the Queens grand jury indictments of three police officers in the November 2006 shooting of Sean Bell. Marchers, who walked from Union Square to 1 Police Plaza, were upset that only three of the five officers who shot at Bell and his two friends, all of them unarmed, were indicted. And there's a little dissonance between the coverage in the Daily News and Post about Detective Michael Oliver, who fired 31......

Hot on the heels of the shocking news that NYU disapproves of underage drinking comes another explosive expose from the Post on the "Waste Land" that is West 27th Street. What do Murdoch's kids have to tell us about those naughty youths this week? Brace yourselves. Sometimes party promoters will purposely seek out underage women to fill out nightclubs! One unidentified promoter even goes so far as to tell a reporter that "if they're......

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- The New York Daily News gives us something to chew on for V-day -- Hotties in the Kitchen. We call Dave Lieberman. - Andrea Strong checks out Tocqueville's new space. We saw it too (and would have shared the pictures if they hadn't come out horribly), but you can go see it yourself later this month. - Slashfood drools over 5 Ninth's Banh Mi, but at $12 we think it's a bit steep. -......

Hot on the heels of last week's LA Times piece about the Cobra Snake, the New York Times Sunday Styles section gives us a two-pager on Merlin Bronques, the wigged-out dude behind Last Night's Parties. Just in case you don't follow the hipster party scene, here's a basic summary: Merlin goes out to parties each night, snaps some hotties (preferably showing some nipple), and posts them on his website. Same goes for the Cobra......

- Scientists may have found the hangover gene, but this sentence caught our eye: "Other studies have revealed that people of Chinese, Japanese or Jewish descent often carry genes that ward off alcoholism by increasing nausea-producing liver enzymes that make drinking unpleasant." All we can say is, Thanks a lot, Mom and Dad! - The country's mass transit threat level has been lowered, but, don't worry kids, it's still high in NYC... - And......

The NY Times' Sunday Styles section should be retitled "Internets and Weddings"! One article looks at the multimillion dollar success of College Humor, and another piece is about Stephanie Klein's blog, proving that everyone loves a single girl in New York City. It would be a trifecta if the Modern Love column involved online dating; however, it was about date communications via text message. And don't forget to vote in Gawker's NY Times Hotties poll;......

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