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Woman's House Burns Down, Martha Stewart Offers Condolences with a Free Juicer
Mike Byhoff · 12/14/09 11:34AMHomeless Spiderwoman Descending From Ceiling Will Haunt Your Dreams
Mike Byhoff · 12/09/09 05:37PMAmerica Scared to Tell Wife It's Unemployed, Just Sits in Park All Day
Hamilton Nolan · 10/29/09 01:44PMJonah Goldberg's Funny Joke About Affordable Housing
Pareene · 10/26/09 05:16PMColin Farrell: Hero of the Homeless
ian spiegelman · 08/31/08 10:27AMLast September a homeless alcoholic who goes by the name of Stress was walking past Toronto's InterContinental Hotel after having spent the night on the steps of a church when out popped overly good-looking Irishman Colin Farrell, who was in town to promote In Bruges at the city's annual Film Festival. Next thing Stress knew, he was tooling around town in the back of the actor's limo while Farrell treated him to a $3000 shopping spree and an anti-addiction pep talk.
Google chef in homeless shelter
Owen Thomas · 02/13/08 10:00PMGoogle's cafeterias are an arm of its PR machine. One can read endless paeans to their free, organic, locally-sourced, employee-engorging meals. But you'll never read about how they're serving up homelessness as a side dish. Google pays its chefs so little that at least one has ended up in a San Francisco homeless shelter, unable to find a $1,000/mo. studio he can afford.
Springtime in New York
Jessica · 03/30/06 03:00PMCelebrity Culture Trickles Down
Jesse · 03/29/06 09:57AMHomelessness Is the New Blogging
ndouglas · 01/24/06 02:43AMCyberpunk writer Paul di Filippo tells of the San Francisco of the future, in which a dozen named bloggers, most of whom have print gigs and none of whom actually hail from the city, wander around San Francisco's fugtastic Transamerica Pyramid. Filippo runs into BoingBoinger Cory Doctorow:
New York Is Mean to the Homeless
Jesse · 01/13/06 11:30AMA new study out today from a homeless-advocacy group ranks the 20 U.S. cities meanest to the homeless. New York ranks 14th. Though it's nice to know we're less mean than Little Rock, Atlanta, or Dallas, that we even made the list is at least moderately distressing news to everyone who likes to think of our fair city as a shining beacon of enlightened tolerance and old-school liberalism.