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Gawker Covers Heeb Politics Issue

Okay, not really. But our fall 2008 issue was spotted at the Gawker offices. Check out the background of this photo of their intern-for-a-day, Real Housewives of New York City star Jill Zarin. Ah, well. Better ...
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Albums of the Decade

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell Remember when taking the L train to Williamsburg was exciting? Like anything—anything—could happen? When that small neighborhood in Brooklyn was bursting with non-referential cre...
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Urban Kvetch: Bragging About Your Health

Now that it's cold season, please don't explain how you were "starting to get sick, but fought it off." You fought it off? Do you have so few accomplishments that you need to take credit for your God-...
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Why?

According to Susan Lukas, author of Where to Start and What to Ask, why is a "confrontational word,an antagonistic word that seeks accountability."So it's telling that Yoni Wolf, a Berkeley, California.eccentric chose Why? as his moniker—essentially, Yoni and his music are one big collective question posed to the indie rock scene. And with every record that he releases, we get closer and closer to a satisfying answer.
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Femme Retail

On the television series Mad Men, Rachel Menken is a second-generation Manhattan merchant who gives her father's department store an overhaul. In season one of the Eisenhower-era drama, which aired on AMC earli...