The Daily News reports on some personnel problems at The Union Club, the first social club in the United States. Seems that yesterday the all-boys, jackets-required club on Park Ave. canned an employee for using the N-word in front of a black food server. Back in early November Arnold Price, a 17-year-veteran of the club, was discussing a brand of lip balm with another employee when a manager cut in to say " all the big-lipped n------ use Blistex." [ MORE]  | Dancing With the Stars ended its season last week, but it just won't go away. To wit, former contestant Margaret Cho recently went on her blog to discuss third-place-finisher Bristol Palin's reason for joining the show: "The only reason Bristol was on the show was because Sarah Palin forced... [ MORE ] |  | Zoe Schlanger/Gothamist Yesterday the City Council passed legislation that will require the DOT to be more transparent as it goes about adding bike lanes, pedestrian islands, speed bumps, and any other significant changes intended to calm traffic and increase safety. As you may have noticed, there's been a bit... [ MORE ] |  | Morgan Freeman may play the voice of God and Bill Clinton may have rescued American reporters from North Korea... but they couldn't help the United States Soccer Federation's bid committee land the World Cup in 2022. FIFA just announced that the 2018 World Cup will be in Russia and... [ MORE ] |  | Fox 5 reports that two boys got into a fight outside a school on Long Island! And a classmate videotaped it! Dog Bites Man, right? But the twist here is that school administrators are not only punishing the fighters and the kid who videotaped it, but they're also going... [ MORE ] |  | Last week, graphic artist and Union Square anthropologist Normal Bob was put under the NY Times microscope for a closer look at the weird and woozy world of Union Square Park which he lovingly covers on his website. Now, you can see some of those strange characters without any... [ MORE ] |  | We just received a message from the NASA Solar System Ambassador for New York City, in preparation of NASA's big announcement tomorrow regarding an "astrobiology finding." And as anyone with Google knows, that pretty much means THE ALIENS ARE HERE. (Perhaps that is why the sky looked so creepy... [ MORE ] |  | Whenever we think there may be demons afoot, we do the sensible thing—call our local Roman Catholic bishop and see if the holy water special is still available. But not Jose Delcid: The Norwalk, CT man thought there were demons in a friends house, so he decided to perform... [ MORE ] | | |
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