http://www.overheardinnewyork.com

Much like Shanghai, the Big Apple is an astonishing mélange of cultures from around the world; a city where anything can happen, and anything and everything can be said – and heard. Established in July 2003, overheardinnewyork.com shows New York at its coarsest and weirdest, by presenting everyday street conversations in the form of anecdotal quotes. This hugely entertaining blog is run by contributors S. Morgan Friedman and Jenny Weiss, supported by various friends, street spies, and a city of eight million eavesdroppers. It delivers quirky, surrealistic and irreverent wisecracks on race, sex, fashion, relationships and NY life, voiced in tones the rawer the better by people who live there: white collar workers, hip girls, beggars, kids, tourists, drunkards and the rest. Here’s an appetizer: “The quality of life here is so bad ... I mean, if you enjoy drinking all night and having random sex, you’ll like living in New York.” Sounds just like home.

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Chief editor: Steven Crane
July 2006 issue