I don't often blog about video games because I know my readers probably won't be too interested in violence and bloodshed in the virtual world. However, I cannot keep from at least mentioning this game (which contains no violence or bloodshed). First of all, since a picture is worth a thousand words...

Forbes checks in with hotel developer Sam Chang, who's not going to let a little financing meltdown and $50 million loss in Trump Entertainment Resorts stop him from opening up 20 new hotels in the next 20 months. The McSam boss misses the days of the sliver hotels that made him rich ("That 18-feet-...

New isht! Drops April 10. To some extent, all music is storytelling. It's kind of the premise, really. We listen to our favorite music--even that without lyrics--because it tells us something. Maybe we import our own ideas, but we do so with prompting as the notes come at us. Rap music, of course, h...

If you have’t listened yet, Urban Jacksonville Weekly Episode #6 is a good place to start. This is the best episode we’ve recorded to date in my opinion. An “Um” free episode! Episode #6 topics Mayoral race and possible candidates First Wednesday Art Walk project Springfield ...

Tell 'em why you mad, son! The Commission, Uncle Paulie, et al.... Do you know what beef is? What's beef? Beef is when the fans decide to go to sleep Beef is when your label says your profile's too discreet Beef is when rap hits YouTube Guaranteed to just be much ado... One more time What's beef? Be...

Holy crap, it's 60 degrees out! And so, the play is clear: Central Park, Greenmarkets, and open houses, open houses, OPEN HOUSES! In fact, it's time to open a thread for a discussion of those very open house visits. If you're out and about in the New York City real estate market this weekend, let us...

We can't expect many new skyscrapers to break ground in NYC for a while, so for some rendering porn, we head to...Boston ? Check out One Congress Street, a four-million-square-foot office/residential/retail development designed by Cook + Fox set to enter the public review process. Writes the Archpap...

["Spring In Williamsburg," April 27, 2006, by rsguskind] This is the first photograph taken by Robert Guskind published on Curbed. Within weeks of this photo's publication, he'd begin nearly three years of regular blogging for this site—a span that saw him write 4,662 posts—and launch hi...

According to Scouting NY, this camper has been parked in the same area of the West Village for years. It's even pictured on Google Street View (top right corner), and amongst its piles of assorted junk are a dog crate, shelves, a lawn chair and other items that give the scout an inkling that maybe s...

Click the image above to view the full photogallery. [Photos via Flickr/raulistic] The end is nigh for 231 Duffield Street, one of several houses on this Downtown Brooklyn block linked to the Underground Railroad. Yesterday, Brownstoner alerted us that the dirty deed had begun following the recent a...