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1 By Drew Grant 1/23 4:12pm

Craigslist

Get paid to vandalize! (Getty Images)

Signs We’re Over the Recession: ‘Freelance Graffiti Artist’ Now An Actual Job Title

Remember the good old days, when Mayor Giuliani would have you arrested just for keeping spray paint cans in your backpack? When "tagging" buildings and underpasses were used to connote different gang areas? Of course, galleries have been promoting graffiti as "outsider art" since the 80s, but it really took Banksy and Bomb the System to turn elevate the expression of juvenile delinquents into haute couture.

Now that everyone and their grandma has seen Exit Through the Gift Shop, we guess it was inevitable for "Graffiti Artist" to start appearing under the special skills portion of resumes.

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2 By Drew Grant 1/16 2:02pm

Craigslist

What you'll be saying about your new Craigslist friend!

Craigslist Creeper Targeting NYC’s Rich, Married Women On Missed Connections

Gross guys on Craigslist are nothing new...it's basically why Craigslist was invented by Jimmy Wales. (Well that, and to halt SOPA. And to clarify, yes we know that Mr. Wales founded Wikipedia, not Craigslist, but our sense of humor might not be translating as well after a 24-hour Golden Globes binge.) But today's listings have led us to a guy who could Mike the Investment Banker look sane. Or maybe it is Mike the Investment Banker?? Read More

By Steve Huff 1/15 1:11pm

SOPA Opera

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Craigslist Comes Out Against SOPA

We can add Craigslist to the growing roster of popular websites that have come out against the Stop Online Piracy and Protect IP Acts. The online community/seedy Wal Mart of classified ads giant emphatically states "SOPA and PIPA are too dangerous to revise" and "must be killed entirely." Why? Read More

1 By Drew Grant 1/11 1:50pm

The Dark Knight Rises

How much would you pay to see justice served?

Midnight Tickets for The Dark Knight Rises Sell Out Six Months in Advance, Already Going for $100 on Craigslist

Sorry fan boys (and girls!): If you want to see the third installment in Christopher Nolan's gritty Batman reboot, you're going to have to wait until after opening night. The midnight screenings for the July 19th premiere of The Dark Knight Rises have already sold out in select cities. How is that possible, you ask, since the movie is still six months away? And how much are greedy Craigslist scalpers already charging for their coveted golden tickets online?
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1 By Drew Grant 10/07/11 12:34pm

Occupy Wall Street

All you need is love.

10 More Craigslist Personals About Occupy Wall Street (Now With More Ladies!)

Earlier this week we posted our favorite Craigslist "missed connections" and "casual encounters" at Occupy Wall Street. Has anyone made a love connection down on Wall Street this month? Some star-crossed lovers, perhaps: Like a banker and a protester that's been sleeping in the park for twenty days straight? We'd love to hear about it.

In the meantime, the post-Megamarch crowd on Craigslist is a lot more diverse: some women, some guy-on-guy love. And this one employer who happened to catch one his workers on the news...

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9 By Foster Kamer 8/31/11 11:46am

SEX AND THE RAINY CITY

GO GET HER!

Hurricane Irene’s ‘Missed Connections’ Craigslist Yield: We’re Alive, And We’re In Love

Of all the various ways people could come together over Hurricane Irene's mopey, rainy tour through New York City—or the fervent preparations in its lead-up—romance was of course inevitable. Following that logic, the 'Missed Connections' section of Craigslist would generate a few moments of Sliding Doors-esque romance as well. Naturally, it doesn't disappoint.  Read More

1 By Kat Stoeffel 4/26/11 11:42pm

Media

Village Voice Media Getting Down and Dirty with Escort Ads

Last week, deputies in Polk County, Fla., arrested 60 people--including a Disney employee, a man with breast implants, a 15-year-old runaway with a 2-year-old infant, and her pimp--in an online prostitution bust dubbed Operation Curtain Call. A year ago the sensational sting would likely have been the next in a long litany of tabloid-friendly Craigslist Read More

By Gillian Reagan 6/30/09 4:15pm

Jeff Jarvis: ‘Give Government Permission to Fail’

Two years ago, at Davos, the annual summit of great technological and economic minds, a media scion of one of the most powerful journalistic voices in the world was demanding answers from Facebook's co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

"He said, Mark, how do we get a community like you? Tell me how!" remembered Jeff Jarvis, the Read More

By and 3/26/09 1:52pm

Wood War! Who Wins Today’s Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs?

The New York Post: In a story that seems ripped from a Law & Order storyboard, the Post this morning tackles the incredibly sad story of the death of ABC News Radio's George Weber. Police say that 16-year-old John Katehis admits to stabbing the newsman in the course of a meeting at his house that Read More


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