BECAUSE WINTER IS NIGH, REMINDING HIM THAT EVEN MEMORIES OF SOFT KISSES AT A CORNER TABLE IN A SOHO BAR CAN, IF NOT PROPERLY TENDED, WILT, Recharger wants to stare at a photo of Green Acres, a community garden at the intersection of Franklin and Greene Avenues in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn–the very intersection where Jake Gyllenhaal boinked Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain. Built by local residents with the help of GreenThumb— the largest community gardening program in the country–and Bette [...]
Posted in The City on October 31st, 2006 | 
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Vito Fossella, Staten Island’s pretty-boy right-wing congressman (Fossella’s full voting record), arch-enemy of public school education, and the third most conservative congressman in New York State (according to the American Conservative Union), has a campaign finance track record that would make any Hollywood villain envious. During his 2004 re-election campaign, the bull-necked Fossella spent $20,000 on meals and $53,000 in campaign funds on trips to luxury resorts in Las Vegas, tickets to a Jets playoff game in Pittsburgh, 18 holes [...]
Posted in The City on October 12th, 2006 | No Comments »
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RECHARGER WANTS TO HUG THE QUEENS WOMAN suing Starbucks because they wouldn’t honor her free drink coupon. When Kelly Coakley, 23, took the coupon to one of the coffee empire’s outlets in Queen, she was told it was no longer valid. So she did exactly what Starbucks did when it didn’t like a lowly cartoonist who, some years back, created a Starbucks logo parody—she sued, for $114 million—the approximate cost of one coffee a day for all the people [...]
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on September 21st, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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