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Media Crack
White Supremacists Mock Your College Newspaper Articles
In your modernist Monday media column: Print porn gets desperate, Metro leaves America, reporters now work in coffee shops, and your dumb college newspaper articles are all on your permanent record: More »
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publicity stunts
Arianna Huffington Guest-Edits Metro, Any Other Outlet That Will Have Her
Arianna Huffington is guest-editing the Metro free throwaway newspaper today. It's unclear why, exactly, but the "Arianna Says" commentary bubbles are hilarious. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Aaron Altman: Seeing that grinning face, it's hard not to single in on the words "inspire such outrage", "boggles the mind" and... 3 Responses | Other threads
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metro
Maple Syrup Smell Mystery Solved!
In an astonishing feat of detective work worthy of the Hardy Boys, Mayor Bloomberg has announced the source of that mystery maple syrup smell. Click for the answer! More »
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Comment by Kari's Favorite Mark: In the United States, where maple syrup is popular, fenugreek is widely used as a substitute for maple syrup flavoring.... 12 Responses | Other threads
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metro
At 11am Bloomberg will announce source of NYC syrup smell
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metro
Metro: Fooled By Racist Designer, Now Sponsoring His Show
Sometimes we come across a PR item so ignorant, misguided, and inexplicable that we just have to shake our heads back and forth and sigh in a dramatic manner. We have one such item right here. If you ran a newspaper that had been terribly embarrassed for treating a racist publicity stunt as front page news just weeks ago—so embarrassed, in fact, that the editor responsible was quietly fired—would you not, in the future, do everything possible to distance yourself from the bad designer who fooled you with with the stunt? Metro NY decided: instead of that, why don't we just sponsor this guy's next fashion show? More »
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Comment by notthatpopular: See this really makes me sick. How can we have come to this point, where people are dumb enough... more » | Other threads
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Mark Bulliet
Source: Metro Editor Fired For "Obama Is My Slave" Publicity Stunt Story
A tipster tells us that Mark Bulliet, an editor at NYC's throwaway free morning paper Metro, has been fired. The reason: Bulliet was the editor who oversaw Metro's embarrassing front-page story last Thursday about a girl who was supposedly attacked by four black girls because she was wearing a t-shirt reading "OBAMA IS MY SLAVE." As we told you last week, that story's only source was the crappy designer who had sold the t-shirt, and it's likely the whole thing was a tasteless, racist publicity stunt that Metro fell for. A source tells us that Bulliet had an intern do the story despite its incredibly poor sourcing. We've emailed Metro for a response. If you know more about the fallout, email us. [Previously]
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Comment by chris48b: The Metro is owned by the NY Times. This reflects badly on the parent company's own journalistic standards. more » | Other threads
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hoaxes
Race-Baiting Media Whore Is A Credible Source To One Dumb Paper
Metro, the free paper best known for causing track fires on the NYC subways, ran a cover story yesterday that is totally indefensible, even by the lowly journalism standards of free morning papers. Radar spotted it: a front page splash about an innocent grad student girl who was supposedly attacked by four wild young black females because she was wearing a t-shirt with the slogan, "OBAMA IS MY SLAVE." The paper's one and only source? The untalented media whore designer who sold the mystery girl the shirt. (We would feel dirty giving him more PR than necessary, but it was this prick). But guess what, Metro: we got that press release too. And if this whole story isn't a hoax, I will personally buy one of those shitty shirts. More »
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Comment by T-RO: Listen, i had the unfortunate luck to meet this guy before he did anything about four years ago. He was... more » | Other threads
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parochial news
Maple Syrup Smell is Back!
Oh, God! It's back. The maple syrup smell that has occasionally made appearances in NYC over the last couple years is back! We can smell it in the office right now. "NY1 has been receiving calls from as far south as Lower Manhattan and as far north as Harlem." [NY1]
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By SheilaComment by Ummwhat: When my baby pees himself he smells like maple syrup. Then my husband and I put him over our pancakes.... 1 Responses | Other threads
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media wars
Bluffing The Competition
Is the New York Times Company trying to buy Metro, the city's freebie daily and the rest of Boston's? Silly rabbits. Running Bill Kristol and buying yet another flagging property isn't going to scare off Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal. Don't lets look too desperate and flail-y. [FishbowlNY] -
the decade in review
What Happened To New York: A History Of The 00's So Far
All those people—such as myself!—who complain about what New York City is like today? Too much anecdote, not enough fact. What really happened to New York City? I thought of one way to find out. Over the last month, I have read the Metro section from each issue of the New York Times—starting in mid-2000 and ending with today's paper. Here's what I learned.
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how things work
How To Get Rich: Real Advice From A Hedge Funder
It's comforting to know that no matter how much money you make—like, if you work at a hedge fund, for instance—you will still be hanging out in the same rotten Times Square bars, drinking Coors Light. This is how I met "Charlie" The Hedge Fund Manager and tried my best to learn how they work, in order to make the Real Money some day. Here is his advice: "You don't hafta study the European markets, you just gotta buy a bunch of good stocks and hold onto them." Advice: "Some guys work long hours, but not me." Finally, the moment of reckoning: "I don't know what I'm doing here!" he moaned, looking out onto Eighth Avenue, where some dude was puking in the middle of the street. "I'm a fuckin' billionaire." -
damn girl
Um, ALERT! Still new-ish Times badass Ellen Barry is back with a blockbuster Metro read. What can we say? This is how it's done. [NYT]
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By ChoireComment by Imogen Quest (was Percy Bishounen Shelley): This is like a dispatch from some alternate universe where the NYT reports real stories. Amazing! more » | Other threads
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you can't fight city hall or nyu or the parks department
City Finally Fixing Washington Square
The fourth lawsuit against the Parks Department's plan to DESTROY THE CHARACTER of Washington Square Park was thrown out of court yesterday, so bring on the bulldozers. The city will move the fountain over 23 feet to line it up with the arch, because that's been bugging them for 130 years now. Thankfully community activists saved the weird concrete mounds. More » -
that smell
Stench Of Decay Blankets Brooklyn
Bay Ridge smells like shit. Ever since a mysterious $6.9 million sewer project was completed in 2006, "a stretch of Fort Hamilton Parkway between Marine Ave. and 99th St." has been blanketed with the unmistakable stench of human waste, according to the Daily News. Which has Bay Ridge's old and cranky residents upset! More »
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By PareeneComment by WhatsMyNameAgain: :::refraining from any "close your legs, barbra streisand" comments::: Maybe it's a snuke? more » | Other threads
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crime
According to cops in the 78th Precinct, Park Slope has had its first reported iPhone theft! A woman who lives on Union Street was the victim—she was walking home from the subway when two perps approached her and one of them filched the device from her jacket pocket. There goes the neighborhood. [Brooklyn Paper]
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protests
Reactions to the MTA's proposed fare hike ($2.25/ride, unspecified increases to monthly and weekly metrocards, and higher prices for LIRR and Metro-North tix): "Hell no," "I find it ridiculous," and "Ladies and gentlemen, fuhgeddaboutit!" (that last from Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. Does he have any other purpose?). The increase will most likely happen anyway, starting early next year. Because you don't matter. [NYP]
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By Emily GouldComment by little.ms.sunshine: Because unlike the French rioters, NYers have jobs. Jobs. more » | Other threads
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strippers
How To Tell The Real Strippers From The Fakes
"Stripper" is the styling-of-choice for so many non-stripping ladies these days. So what's the difference between an actual pole-dancer and, say, classily "branding" yourself as a young, sex-positive lass? (Heck, even the housewives of New Jersey have stripper-pole workout sessions in their own homes.) Can anybody tell the different between a strip club and the basement of Happy Ending on Tuesday nights anymore? This weekend, I went deep into Brooklyn to a neighborhood strip bar to find out if it felt just like the playgrounds of Manhattan. It didn't!
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By SheilaComment by lolatheshowgirl: I need to know where to get that desk-sized little stripper, pronto. more » | Other threads
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By abalkComment by maevemealone: I looked at a share in Soho 8 years ago, $1600 for a japanese sleeping space, everything was built in,... more » | Other threads
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towering semiferno
"164 KENT AVE & NORTH 5TH ST| ALL FIRE HAS BEEN XTGH'ED, PRIMARY SEARCH ON THE TOP FLOOR(S) IS (-)." Hot. [Gothamist]
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By ChoireComment by GorgeousGeorge: @artynimue1: Acronym, contraction, bleh. Whatevs, IMO. more » | Other threads
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i have to take this
Subway Cell Nightmare Coming "Soon"
Good news for crazed narcissists who think the world should be able to reach them AT ALL TIMES because they're just that important: The MTA is set to announce a deal to wire all 277 subway stations over the next six years. Sadly, your cellphone will only work in the stations, but hey, at least that time you spend sweating on the platform waiting for a 6 train that never comes will now be scored to a soundtrack of, "So then I was all, 'Why won't you tell your friends we're dating?' and he was like, 'Let's not cheapen it with labels,' which kind of makes sense?" Even better, the terrorists will only be able to remote-detonate their bombs in the station, so you can kick back and relax while you're cruising through the tunnels at 3 miles per hour. More »
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By abalkComment by DorothyMantooth: @concerned citizen: Wheeeee! I'll be the one walking past you as if I don't even know you. more » | Other threads
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someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets
"I live on Mulberry Street. Every morning as I walk to work during the disgusting San Gennaro Festival, people are pouring what seems to be bleach on the street in an effort to 'clean' the street. Just another example of how the San Gennaro festival is a parasite on this neighborhood." [Scott Kidder] -
conflagration
From the mailbag: "Holy crap. I was having lunch at Rock Center with pasta on my lap when this car explodes right outside of Anthropologie about 20 min ago. I'm back at my desk now having a diet coke— wishing it was scotch. People rushed towards the scene to take cell phone pics. A second boom. Not funny stuff. People were saying it was a taxi." And: "There was some car fire coming out of 5th Avenue near Rockefeller Center. The fire guy is saying at was on 50th St." And: "A cab blew up on 51st between 6th and 7th. At first the rumor was that 30 rock blew up. It didn't. and now nobody here cares."
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By ChoireComment by irishbreakfast: Wannabes, all of you. DC did this first, and long ago: the Duck Tourmobiles regularly burst into flames--one in front... more » | Other threads
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gossip girl
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE from our special correspondent at the Madison Square Park-adjacent shooting area for Gossip Girl: "Um, there's a big crane parked there now. That is all. -
the metro desk
What You Need To Know About The San Gennaro Festival
So, because we have a problem with alcohol and we desperately needed something to quell the tremors, we just stopped by Shark Bar, which is on the corner of Mulberry Street. Guess what we noticed? The San Gennaro Festival has started! If you've never heard of the festival, you should know that it's the greatest street fair in New York, because it lasts eleven days and it sells all the same crap as every other goddamn street fair but likes to pretend that it's Italian-themed! It celebrates some saint from Naples or whatever. Anyway, if you haven't gone, you should go, but we want to make something clear: The people you see at the feast are NOT REAL ITALIANS. They are street fair people, and two weeks from now they'll be setting up their sausage stands in some other location, where they will wave "Hi" to the guy who sells the $2 socks and the lady with the grilled corn covered in farm cheese. REAL ITALIANS do not work street fairs. More » -
the parent crap
Help Name 'Times' Twins!
Capitalization-averse Times Metro head Joe Sexton has shared the happy news: Times reporter Jodi Rudoren and her comedian husband Gary are the proud new parents of twins! Sexton notes in the office memo that he doesn't think "they have settled on names. but i believe jodi has backed off her naked effort at career advancement and decided not to go with bill and jill." (That's Times boss-folk Bill Keller and Jill Abramson. Funny, creepy, or funny-creepy? Hard to tell!) Anyway, while we know that the Rudorens have plenty of expertise when it comes to choosing names, we thought we'd all pitch in and put together a list of suggestions? We'll go with Dillinger and Gingerly. Your thoughts? Full memo follows. More »
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By abalkComment by BadenBaden: @jse82: you beat me to it! I was all, Heidi and Spencer! HEIDI AND SPENCER! more » | Other threads
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new hires
Hip hop mogul Damon Dash is writing a weekly business column for subway handout Metro. Expect horoscopes from L.A. Reid in A.M. New York any day now. [WWD] -
wtf
Today In New York Criminal Court: Meet "Demolition Freedom"
While cruising today's docket for criminal court—we're looking for something!—we came across this utter weirdness. Today, Demolition Freedom, born 1968, will be arraigned for one count of like, not having a tax sticker on his (her???) car or something. Sorry, what? Did someone go and name her baby Demolition Freedom just so he could get arraigned on 9/11 and freak me out?
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By ChoireComment by Products Will Save Me: @PimpMyCouch: I sort of want to call my mom and have her do some recon, but at the same time... more » | Other threads
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up is down, but so is down
"New York can't in any stretch of the imagination be called a literary city. Other than a few staid events at chain bookstores, there are few literary happenings. The two major "alternative" papers, Village Voice and New York Press, on the day I was there, contained no information about poetry open mics." We kind of love that, but then again we're not literary crusaders or whatever. [ AttackingtheDemi-Puppets] -
tribes
Which Borough Has Better Hipsters?
"The early-20s hipsters left in Manhattan are a more dance-club oriented crowd. People who are paying Manhattan rents are interested in glamour, not rock 'n' roll." The knives are out: It's a war between Manhattan and Brooklyn hipsters. More »
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By abalkComment by DonPardoCalrissian: @SavingJeebus: True, all too true, but don't you mean anywhere that Chloe is BJ-ing? more » | Other threads
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ground hero
Larry Silverstein Wins
This weekend's Financial Times contained an absolutely mammoth article about Larry Silverstein, and the developer, who took over a 99-year lease on the Twin Towers a scant two months before they were brought down, could not have hoped for a more glowing profile.
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By abalkComment by Dusty in the Wind: I liked "pull it" better as his catchphrase... You know, for when WTC 7--home of Rudy's command center, the one experts... more » | Other threads
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old pros
There Are Hookers On 42nd Street
Yesterday we wondered if the prostitution industry still has a presence on 42nd Street. If one of our readers is to be believed, it does! Bonus seventies nostalgia included free! More »
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By abalkComment by Auntie_Meme is outta here: @Koala325: I don't know, big boy...can you? more » | Other threads
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crazytown
From the mailbag: "I work in Columbus Circle and just now there were just what appeared to be a bunch of open-deck tour buses full of people synchronized-screaming going around and around the circle. It was extremely loud and scary! They were just going 'AHHHHHHHHHH!' Everyone in the office agrees that this is what the Apocalypse is going to sound like." If you can elucidate any further, please do, but at this point nothing about this fucking city surprises us anymore. -
taxing times
Sorta Taxi Strike Sorta Inconvenient
So some taxi drivers are on strike? And some aren't? Live from the carnage:The taxi strike is having a noticeable affect on Manhattan streets. During the morning rush hour there have been a lot fewer cabs at the Port Authority Terminal on Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street. Uusually there are a line of cabs to pick up passengers. But this morning there was a line of people waiting. People have been sharing cabs — two and three passengers at a time.
Did you read that? Two and three at a time! It's like the goddamn Blitz out there, people! We need to pull together and show our fighting spirit during these trying times. Stick together, and we'll make it through. If sharing a cab is what's required of you, do your patriotic duty as a New Yorker and share a cab. Or, you know, TAKE THE FUCKING SUBWAY. More »
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By abalkComment by demetria23: A random guy offered to pay for a cab for me at 40th and 8th today. I should've taken him... more » | Other threads
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our crumbling infrastructure
Union Square Sucks
Two from the mailbag! "I live by Union Square and have been serenaded by helicopters (sounds like 3 or 4) for the past half hour or so - doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon. What the hell is going on??? I'm used to the sirens and helicopters 24/7 but usually they come and go...they're hovering right over Union Square it looks like." Asked and answered! "A sinkhole seems to be swallowing the backend of a dept of sanitation garbage truck on w17th st btw 5th and 6th. BLTFish customers are shuffling by nonchalantly, still intent on their roasted halibut." Yep, it's official, the city is falling apart.
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By abalkComment by TVAddendum: @HENIFER_HLOPES- I EAT TACOS Y BURRITOS: About to vote Hillary Clinton out of office? more » | Other threads
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boomtown
Pipe Bomb Explodes In Chelsea, Possibly 'Sopranos' Related
Finally, an explosion we can't blame on Con Ed (yet):A blast believed to have been caused by a pipe bomb rocked a Chelsea street early this morning, police sources and witnesses said.
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By abalkComment by AndIAmTellingYou: @GorgeousGeorge: Fallujah, Karachi, Chelsea... U.S.Americans aren't safe anywhere. more » | Other threads
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the dog ate my homework
Detective With Thoughtful Wife Still Fired
"The Police Department has fired a veteran counterterrorism detective who failed a drug test, finding that his claim that his wife had served him marijuana-spiked meatballs was not credible, Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, said yesterday." Dude totes should have said pesto. Duh! [AP]
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By Emily GouldComment by gawker_dude: Now they just need to discipline the rest of the NYPD. I once saw a couple officers trying to... more » | Other threads
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not a peep
Stupid City To End Nightmare Of People Ogling People
The Nanny State that is modern-day New York City is trying to insert its wagging finger even further up our already crammed anuses: "Council Member Peter Vallone Jr. of Queens is proposing to outlaw voyeurism by extending a state law that forbids non-consensual peeping with cameras to peeping with the naked eye." More » -
an inconvenient truth
Metro's humor columnist Elliott Kalan fired for admitting that the only way to get people to read the paper is to shove it into their unsuspecting hands as they fumble for their MetroCard. [NYM]
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By abalkComment by BottomOnTop: No making fun at Metro; it saved my subway entrance from flooding. Soaking up contempt is a hard job. more » | Other threads
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