"Let's Celebrate" After Last Weekend's Overdose Deaths, Says Flavorpill
Last weekend, the Electric Zoo music festival in New York was cut short after two young attendees died of drug overdoses. This calls for a party!
Media Bubble: Yeah, We're Gonna Stick With 'Douchebags,' Thanks
• LAT editor sticks it to The Man; refuses to make cuts requested by Tribune overlords. [NYT]
• Member of CBS Evening News' elderly demographic likes Katie Couric. [AP]
• City claims recycling has declined because no one buys newspapers anymore, but that fails to explain where people are putting the eight million …
Media Bubble: Still Going For That Suri Traffic
• Blogs: worse than the sixties. [NYT]
• Walter Scott, Walt Whitman also guilty of "sock puppetry." [NYT]
• Joe Hagan throws pretty much everything but the revelation that Bill Keller loves "The Wire" into this profile. [NYM]
• New magazine to battle Portfolio for that all-important douchebag demographic. [NYT]
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WWW Dodgeball glamour shots
Oh, they badass. Matt Spangler from thehappycorp sends photos from the WWW Dodgeball Tournament (if you can dodge a VC takeover, you can dodge a ball), mercifully leaving out the action shots.
"Ever-amusing" — Flavorpill
Seven days a week the editor of Gawker, a weblog magazine, trolls through the crush of NYC media and brings the most interesting or despicable or (most likely) interestingly despicable new items to her readers' attention. With an addictively snarky tone, Gawker collects and cuts down to size the latest on urban dating…
Hangover cures
Asks Flavorpill: What better way to nurse a New Year's Day hangover than with a downtown dose of spoken word from the city's celebrated poetry community? Alternatively, go back to bed.
New Year's Day Marathon Reading [Flavorpill]
