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If the online footprint of the Lafayette shooter identified by police as John Russell Houser, who killed two and injured nine others during a Thursday night showing of Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck before then killing himself, is any indication, Obama has really outdone himself in the false flag department this time. What did Houser hate? Pretty much…
It’s been at least a few days since we’ve spun you a tale of a nightmarish morning commute, so it seems appropriate to conclude this week with a subway horror story. An “earlier incident” at Court Square in Long Island City halted service on the E, F, and M trains this morning, which made things…
Photo Outside the Grand Theater in Lafayette, La., where a man fired on people at a screening of “Trainwreck.” The gunman was one of the dead. Credit Lee Celano/Reuters LAFAYETTE, La. — Three people were killed and seven were injured when a man opened fire in a movie theater here on Thursday night, officials said….
A gunman in Lafayette, Louisiana, who has been identified as a 58-year-old white man, killed three, including himself, and injured at least seven others during a shooting at a movie theater Thursday night. The shooter, whose name has not been disclosed, opened fire at a 7 p.m. screening of Trainwreck. Louisiana State Police spokesman Sgt. Brian…
Courtesy @laurenpainter’s Instagram Vice’s new Williamsburg offices were robbed of $16K worth of laptops this week, proving again that one should never build a home on top of an Indian burial ground. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the magazine’s headquarters at South 2nd Street and Kent Avenue—once home to venerable institutions like 285 Kent, Death…
I am a freak for the American road trip. And I’m not alone, as some of this country’s best writers have taken a shot at describing that quintessentially American experience. “There is no such knowledge of the nation as comes of traveling in it, of seeing eye to eye its vast extent, its various and teeming…
After surviving one of the most high-profile and long-running school sex abuse scandals in history, a group of 32 men and women banded together to seek solace and justice — only to find that public outrage, a star attorney, and overwhelming evidence are no match for a legal process stacked against even the most privileged…
Photo The McDonald’s on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, between 34th and 35th Streets, is a throwback to a seedier era in New York City. Credit Hilary Swift/The New York Times Some customers pour beer into clear McCafé plastic cups and drink it right in the open. A man called Shamrock swills straight vodka from a…
You’ll no longer need to leave the city for a box of Munchkins and a cup of what some say is the best cheap coffee in the country. Dunkin’ Donuts announced today its bringing the beverage and pastry chain to the San Francisco Bay Area. Parent company Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc., based in Canton, Mass.,…
Anybody who spends time in a car or bus in Manhattan knows that traffic congestion isn’t getting better and, indeed, may be getting worse. The average daytime speed of cars in Manhattan’s business districts has fallen to just under 8 miles per hour this year, from about 9.15 miles per hour in 2009. City officials…