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Plum Sykes Saps Our Good Will Towards Striking Writers

In Gandhi's 1929 autobiography The Story of My Experiments in Truth, the founder of modern-day non-violent resistance wrote:
During the Satyagraha in South Africa I had altered my style of dress so as to make it more in keeping with that of the indentured labourers....I regarded the scarf and the cloak as too much of an incumbrance, so I shed them and invested in an eight-to-ten-annas Kashmiri cap. One dressed in that fashion was sure to pass muster as a poor man.
Nearly 80 years later, Vogue gal and screenwriter Plum Sykes isn't going to make the same mistake. More »

1:45 PM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Joshua Stein
9,535 views, 88 comments

Latest by BritneysBaldHoohoo: Heinous, no-talent, skank who parlayed her faux posh accent and easy virtue into a career. Of sorts. more »

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'The Atlantic' Attempts A New York Party, Bombs


Last night, the D.C.-based Atlantic magazine celebrated 150 years of thought at the Kimmel Center Loading Dock at N.Y.U. In a striking display of awful judgment, the VIPs (Arianna Huffington, Moby, the Mayor) were allowed (forced) to mingle on stage. The poors sat in chairs in the auditorium and watched. Jared Kushner was either wryly funny or a dick. Porn queen Robyn Bird went unrecognized by Robert DeNiro and Boykin Curry claimed he doesn't rent his island paradise to whores. God, 'Ad Age' even turned against local goddess Patti Smith. Richard Blakeley was there to tell us what social apartheid looks like. That's satirist P.J. O'Rourke trashing the party from the stage, by the way. Welcome to the social disaster of the season!

12:40 PM on Fri Nov 9 2007
By Joshua Stein
12,101 views, 32 comments

Latest by Trackback: Say what you will about Gothamist—their punctuation stinks, they cater to hipsters, they’re too heartfelt to blog—but they really do love this city. And so do we. Also, we might be hipsters with bad grammar. more »