Today is November 7, 2011. A full two years will go by before we vote for mayor, in 2013. But that vast expanse of time hasn't stopped Tom Allon, the publisher of a bunch of community newspapers, from running the mayoral campaign's first TV ad tomorrow, for one day only, on NY1. The ad focuses on the fact that Allon is not a career politician, except for his thumb, which is on loan from Bill Clinton.
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New Evidence on White House Contact With Aliens
By Noreen MaloneJust when we were ready to believe the White House's claim that they don't communicate with aliens, this very damning picture emerges. Explain this one, White House!
(No, really, explain this one?)
Cigarette Packs Won't Look Gross Just Yet
A federal judge sided with big tobacco today, granting a temporary injunction against the disgusting warning labels the Food and Drug Administration wants on every cigarette pack by September of 2012. The ruling indicates that the companies will likely win their lawsuit, which argues that the required graphics are unconstitutional on free-speech grounds. And so smoking stays cool for now, as long as you don't buy lights.
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Union Square Subway Groper Fingered by Brother
Froylan Andrade, the subway pervert who was recently photographed (and repeatedly punched) by college student Shyane DeJesus after he allegedly groped her on the Union Square 6 platform, was caught by the police over the weekend with the help of his estranged brother. Something tells us these two aren't going to get any less estranged in the near term.
Tell Us About Your Best First Date!
For our annual "Reasons to Love New York" issue, we want to hear about the best first dates you've had in New York City. Where did you go? What did you do? What made it special? Please tell us! Keep in mind, we're not looking for bad first-date stories (at least not this time). Only fun, happy, charming stories that will make the emotive among us go, "Awww!" If you can, be sure to include specific details about where you went and what you did/saw/ate/drank. Send your stories to nymag.Reasons@nymag.com, and you just might find it published in the pages of the magazine.
Conrad Murray Found Guilty in Death of Michael Jackson
By Joe CoscarelliA Los Angeles jury has found Dr. Conrad Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. After about nine hours of deliberation spread over two days, seven men and five women said Dr. Murray was criminally responsible for the role that the medication he administered played in Jackson's 2009 death. Conrad used the surgical anesthetic propofol to treat the singer's insomnia in what the prosecution called "a pharmaceutical experiment on Michael Jackson ... an obscene experiment." Murray faces up to four years in prison and could lose his medical license. His attorneys said the case should have been handled by the state medical board. "If it were anybody else but Michael Jackson, would this doctor be here today?" the defense argued. "He was just a little fish in a big, dirty pond."
Lots More Pot Busts in the Stop-and-Frisk Era
There are 50,000 arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana in New York City annually, making it the most common cause of arrest in the city. That number — which has been on the rise in recent years — doesn't have anything to do with some sort of official crackdown on weed. Nope, say critics, it's just a side effect of the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk policy. Also possibly a side effect of New Yorkers liking marijuana. [AP]
The Queer San Francisco Woman Having Group Sex in New York
By Rachel Kramer BusselOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek behind doors left slightly ajar. This week, the Queer San Francisco Woman Having Group Sex in New York: Female, writer, 30, San Francisco, queer, in an open relationship.
DAY ONE
10:15 p.m. I arrive home from a literary event to find twenty partially clothed friends in my apartment. It's a mini bon-voyage orgy thrown by my partner, S. In two days, we fly to New York. This journey back to his hometown is an annual ritual since we moved to San Francisco. A mix of business and pleasure, I'll be reading from my novel at a bookstore and wedging in as many dates with New York lovers as possible.
10:20 p.m. I drop my bag and my clothes. S. is delighted I ditched my event early and pulls me into a grouping with two other recent New York transplants. The three of them take turns eating me out, comparing my taste with their favorite Girl Scout cookies. I think they settle on Samoas. One of the girls straddles my face while my partner has sex with me. She tastes delicious. Her girlfriend lays on my partner's back, a sensation he enjoys.
Shockingly, White House Declines to Reveal Relationship With Aliens
By Dan AmiraBack in September, the Obama administration launched a website called "We the People," in which people could create and sign petitions directed at the White House, mostly about weed, and then hear back from someone in the executive branch if the petition was popular enough. It is in response to one such petition, Phil Larson, a member of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, insisted today that the government has no contact with extraterrestrial life, never has, and probably never will.
"The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet"
News Corp. Had Phone-Hacking Lawyers Spied On
By Joe CoscarelliA private investigator was hired by the now-shuttered News of the World tabloid to perform surveillance on two lawyers representing victims of the Murdoch company phone-hacking scandal. As if that's not grimy enough, the ex-cop investigator says he's snitching now because News International didn't pay him. Derek Webb claims he was hired to follow Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris, along with Lewis's ex-wife and teenage daughter, to uncover information that might stop them from taking on more phone-hacking cases.
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