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Electric Zoo Gives Randall’s Island a Positive Charge

On a recent Sunday, The Observer stood on a vacant lot neighboring the East River. While wistfully admiring Manhattan’s picturesque Eastern skyline, we soaked in the park’s halcyon beauty. Turning back to face the body of the Randall’s Island, we tried to visualize this site swarming with thousands of sweaty, painted, and dust-covered beings.

The next time The Observer will be here the scene will be much different. In less than one month, this site will be filled with a crowd—twice the size of a packed-house at Madison Square Garden—moshing to the most celebrated deejays in house and electronic music. Read More

Cult Classics

From left, T-Bone Burnett, John Turturro, Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman and Steve Buscemi. (Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Universal Studios Home Entertainment).

Lebowski Fest, Dude

White Russians were flowing by the pre-made bottle at last night’s Lebowski Fest at the Hammerstein Ballroom on 34th Street.

“I’m not sure why we are even offering a full bar,” the bartender told The Observer. As we took our creamy libations from her, an unshaven man donning a bathrobe, jellies and sunglasses pushed by Read More

Peep Show

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Les Catacombes de Paris. (Miru Kim)

Naked Artist Shares Exclusive Photos

Imagine exploring an industrial hog farm. Now imagine doing this in the nude. Now imagine having photographs taken of yourself while you are doing this.

“I was covered in their saliva, urine, and feces,” Ms. Kim, 30, writes in the statement that accompanies her most recent photo series, “The Pig Therefore I Am.” The photographs Read More

Anti-Ffiti Legislation

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War on Graffiti Rages On

On July 1st, Councilman Peter Vallone’s newest piece of anti-graffiti legislation went into effect. The new bill, which prohibits the purchase and installation of new roll-down security gates (a classic canvas for graffiti) on city storefronts, took the Councilman five years to get passed. “This bill is one of the things I am most proud Read More

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Tonight’s Game Plan? Get Poggled.

In the past few months, The Observer and the rest of the online community has witnessed a whirlwind rise in popularity of mobile, app-based deal companies. Well, here is yet another one claiming to offer you a good deal.

New York has now been “Poggled.”

Though the brainchild of the Groupon family, “Poggled Read More

Opening Day

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Wall Street’s New Duane Reade Is All Business

Yesterday afternoon The Observer got wind of a grandiose affair to take place at the The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street the following morning. The grand opening of Duane Reade there is the company’s newest effort to tailor a pharmacy to its neighborhood.

The official Facebook event boasted 41 Duane Reade diehards planning to attend the opening. Curiosity got the better of us, and we thought we’d pop down to 40 Wall to see what the fuss was about. Read More