| | | FDNY's Black Firefighter Problem BY STEVEN THRASHER  How would you perform in a test of logic and reading comprehension, even if the terms used in the questions made no sense to you? Here’s what we mean: try to come up with the answer to the following strange question: Q: When operating in an exocraft which uses a multidefraction system, it is necessary for an exoditer to maintain adequate defraction at the combinator coupler of the exoditing ray. The correct defraction is calculated by adding 5 picograms of inert matter for each micrometer of additional aperture that is being used, to a constant starting base of 50 picograms. An exoditing team is operating with a multidefraction system and is in the process of using 4 additional micr... more >>
| | | | | | | | Diddy Goes Back to the Basement BY BRANDON SODERBERG  Diddy doesn’t need to make an album like Last Train to Paris. OK: Diddy doesn’t need to do anything, but in particular, no one was looking to the guy for an electro-influenced, house-tinged, avant-r&b concept album about heartbreak. “I wasn’t trying to be vulnerable for the sake of shock, or for the sake of people admiring my vulnerability,” he notes over the phone, one w... more >> | | | | | | | | Exploring the Montreal-New York Food Connection BY ROBERT SIETSEMA  A dozen years ago, Montreal’s most famous chef, Normand Laprise, arrived here to launch a restaurant in the Flatiron District. Cena didn’t last long, but it garnered three stars from Ruth Reichl in the Times. Since then, what was once a drip has turned into a flood, as influences and chefs have migrated in increasing numbers from our frosty French-Canadian counterpart 329 miles to the n... more >> | | | | | | | | Tron: Legacy and the Joys of the 3-D CGI Head Trip BY J. HOBERMAN  Jeff Bridges is God and, as image-captured from the original 1982 Tron, he’s also the devil in Disney’s mega-million-dollar reboot, Tron: Legacy. The notion of a tragically split persona might have been scripted to give the new movie a measure of emotional gravitas, but why bother with writing when Tron: Legacy is so intermittently stupendiferous in its 3-D sound-and-light show? In the ... more >> | | | | | | | | Black Swan Is "a Lezzie Wet Dream"! BY MICHAEL MUSTO  The Friars Club roast of Quentin Tarantino at the Hilton started with some hilarious jokes, like a four-dollar coat-check fee and salad with no dressing. But things picked up with an onslaught of swipes at Tarantino’s looks and oeuvre—though it seemed like absent Pulp Fiction star John Travolta was an even bigger target, so to speak. No fewer than four roasters lobbed cracks about Tra... more >> | | | | | | | | 2010's Best Comics and Graphic Novels BY R. C. BAKER  We’re sorry, but 2010 has been a dreary slog (Tea Party, anyone?), which is reflected in just about every graphic narrative that moved us this year. But we won’t let darkness visible obscure the intense artistry found in our picks of 2010’s best comics and other illustrated provocations. For starters, we now know what 1930s anti-Nazi collagist John Heartfield would have done with t... more >> | | | | | | Runnin' Scared Celebrities, getting hacked just like us! Unless Lindsay Lohan is tweeting out 50% discounts these days while in rehab at Betty Ford. But, it could be worse...like, acai berry worse. Lindsay -- u... Fork in the Road There's a rumble in the streets of the Upper East Side, and residents are saying they don't want any food trucks in their hood. ... La Daily Musto CLICK HERE for my yuletide potpourri of a column which goes from movie premieres to Florida sun frolicking to free buffets to casino culture and back to the free buffets! ... Sound of the City Four weeks ago, Kanye West stood on a Bowery Ballroom stage and, in a far ranging and now thoroughly documented speech, cited "perfect scores across the board" for his album, My Beautiful Dark ... Corporate For over a century, the California Supreme Court has interpreted antitrust law as protecting consumers from high prices, not the profits of entrenched market leaders who fear competition. The Su... | | | | |
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