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narcissists
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be in the Media
Have you seen Mediaite's "Power Grid," that ridiculous thing ranking people in media, and maybe silently wondered, "What sort of blighted souls give a damn about any of this?" Well, one magazine is distributing PR statements touting their editor's ranking! More »
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thespians
Terrified Anne Hathaway Tackles Scary Shakespeare
Many Hollywood stars have come to New York thinking they could conquer the New York stage and many of them have failed miserably. Now here comes Anne Hathaway in her "first major theatrical production," playing Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. More » -
television
Letterman vs. Conan: Who Ya Got?
Tonight Conan O'Brien takes over the reins of the Tonight Show and he'll probably score huge ratings because it's his first show and everyone will be curious to see what the new show looks like. But who are you going to watch at 11:35 after all the hoopla dies down? More » -
Celebukids
Theo Spielberg, Student, Joins New York, as Intern
Celebrity spawn news! New York magazine has used a fair and impartial process to hire new interns, and one of them happens to be Steven Spielberg's son! Allow him to introduce himself [UPDATED below]:
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battery's up
Everyone's Poor But Happy In New York Today
Up there in the sky, look at that cloud, is that a silver lining we see? Sure the 'conomy's in the shitter, but let's focus on the positive. New York might be livable again! More »
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Comment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: i kind of always thought all the bklyn love was overcompensating for not being in manhattan 7 Responses | Other threads
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kids today
So Let's All Hate This Kid Now
Hey, New York wants you to know about this little budding interior designer kid, a senior at Drew College out in Jersey. He is a treat, if you're into really precocious youngsters. And aren't we? More »
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By PareeneComment by i'm a bottle: God, who wasn't utterly pretentious in college, in one way or another? -- Be it our hipsterish-ironic taste in music,... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Sean Hannity Has No Excuse Not to Get Waterboarded
In your inhumane Friday media column: Layoffs at NPR, another freakin' Dubya('s dad) book, newspapers burn as usual, New York mag has ad trouble, and Sean Hannity's waterboarding money appears! More »
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read this
New York has posted Gail Sheehy's impressive 1972 story "The Secret of Grey Gardens."
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image file
Luxury Kills New York
Remember the iconic New York Magazine sign on Madison and 49th? Now it's a Burberry sign. Metaphor contest! We say "The triumph of the fetish over the fetishist." Sad for history. [Racked; Click to enlarge.]
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Comment by Mount_Prion: "Burberk" sounds like the noise you make just before you heave up vomit. 4 Responses | Other threads
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sex wars
Talking Cougar Insemination Without Feeling Cheap
We were drawn in by New York's new article, "This Old Sperm: Do Cougars Have the Smartest Kids." Who would have thought it was lamentation against sensationalistic science journalism? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by BookishLookish: All kids are smart, some are just lucky. Economically independent women can provide that luck. End of story. 14 Responses | Other threads
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magazines
New York Lived the Dream. Now, the Nightmare
Item: We hear that New York Magazine recently called in its department heads and told them to prepare for more budget cuts. New York Magazine is the Gilded Age's demise, paper version. More »
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Comment by Nick Denton: A couple of years ago, I had lunch at The Modern with Adam Moss. We'd never met before, not properly,... 11 Responses | Other threads
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new york magazine
New York Asks: Has the Recession Hurt Your Power-Marriage?
The US lost 2 million jobs in the last three months. Unemployment hasn't been this high since 1983. So aren't you worried about how this is affecting New York marriages? A certain magazine is! More »
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By PareeneComment by badasscat: How about couples whose marriages haven't really been affected much by the recession at all? Yeah, boring story, but... 1 Responses | Other threads
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media
New York Magazine's Happiest Editorblogger
Hugo Lindgren was Adam Moss' first hire at New York magazine, following Moss over from the NYT magazine. Now Lindgren is one of New York's bloggers. They sure take this "blogging" thing seriously! More »
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magazines
New York Great For Hookers
Former alleged Spitzer hooker #2 Kristin Davis: "I got the best response to my escort ad's in New York magazine. They're expensive, but that's where many of my clients got my phone number." [Steppin Out]
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Comment by Mr.Fantastical: ummm..... that's got to be a dude.... she's making spitzer look worse and worse... ok.. gotta run to the bathroom and vomit... 4 Responses | Other threads
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moguls
Bruce Wasserstein Now Has a Better Pastime than Magazines
Being a media mogul can get tiring. Could the news that New York magazine owner Bruce Wasserstein is marrying a younger woman signal a bit of loss of interest in his marriage to the magazine? More »
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Comment by Mount_Prion: What is with media moguls and Asian women? I would go with a young Latin beauty, personally. 3 Responses | Other threads
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new york magazine
Most Amortizable of New York
In tough times we all need to cut back on frivolous expenditures. And no expenditures are more frivolous than the ones listed in New York's annual "Best of New York" issue. Except this year! More »
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By PareeneComment by TedSez: A $1.2-million apartment that will be worth $1.5 million by next ye-- Whoop, sorry -- that's from last year's list. 4 Responses | Other threads
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visionaries
Kurt Andersen Gives Up New York Column
Kurt Andersen is, at long last, giving up his column in New York, the magazine he edited 12 years ago. Now he has time for things that are, somehow, even less important. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ian spiegelman: Wow, there's a place at the LA Art Center for "Guys who ripped off Mad Magazine and said they were... 10 Responses | Other threads
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recessionomics
The Fall of the Almost-Rich
New York magazine, the bible of an entire class of affluent aspirationals, has already cut its masthead; now, it's instituting widespread pay cuts. In the "All New"economy, its audience is fading away. More »
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Comment by Aaron Altman: Other things that are "upwardly mobile": 1) Sir Edmund Hillary 2) Sherpas 3) Mountain goats 4) The person with the flugelhorn in the "Ricola"... 14 Responses | Other threads
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new things
New York Finds Enough 'All New' Stuff to Fill an Issue
Two months ago, New York magazine staffers were emailing friends seeking ideas about New things for the "All New" issue. Now that issue is here! It's just as totally contrived as you would expect. More »
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Comment by Kid Twist: Someone should do an all-nu issue, featuring items that fit the many variations of that word.Nu? Can you believe that... 2 Responses | Other threads
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glaring omissions
Tom Wolfe Writes a Letter to The New Yorker In the Third Person
Well, partly in the third person. The famous youth culture expert wrote to complain about critic Alex Ross. More »
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By PareeneComment by ifstone: Which is worse, Tom Wolfe's cartoonishness or Alex Ross's standard-issue classical music critic pretensions? Ross is smart, but his stuffy... 8 Responses | Other threads
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media
Jesse Oxfeld Out At New York Magazine
We hear that former Gawker editor Jesse Oxfeld has been let go from his position as a senior editor at New York magazine. More »
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new york magazine
The Nude Photos That Nearly Destroyed New York
Google somehow contrived to include full digital images of old New York magazines in its new magazine search service on Google Books. Sadly, the archive is missing key issues, containing such classics as "Radical Chic: That Party At Lenny's" and "Tribal Rights of the New Saturday Night." But both of those are available, albeit ripped from their original context, on nymag.com, and Google has one classic that isn't: Barbara Goldsmith's "La Dolce Viva," which revealed the seedy side of Andy Warhol's entourage through Viva, a shriveled one-name actress. "I had never seen anything like it," Tom Wolfe wrote of accompanying nude photos from Diane Arbus. But the article's appearance in the fourth debut standalone New York nearly ended Clay Felker's magazine.
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By Ryan TateComment by graceless: No offense, but does anybody find that woman attractive? 6 Responses | Other threads
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cat fight!
Anna Wintour To New York Magazine: 'Just Go Away'
NY mag's fashion blog The Cut ran into the Vogue editrix Wintour at the National Book Awards this week. They politely (we assume!) asked her about the rumors that she might retire. They are (sort of) substantive rumors and it's a question about her job, not her personal life, so you'd think that she'd respond as courteously as she could. Except, no she didn't. She gave 'em the ol' heave-ho: More »
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new york magazine
Does New York Have A Problem?
Yesterday New York magazine laid off Gael Greene, a food critic there for the past 40 years. Apparently the recession is hurting New York like everyone else—not as drastically as everyone else, of course, but enough to have to pare down their fat roster of restaurant reviewers. So is this just a longtime employee being pushed out, or a sign of something worse under the surface? More »
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Comment by jfk1624: Wow, that cover model looks a lot like Claire Danes before karma face got to her. She was so... 8 Responses | Other threads
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trends
The Next New Thing: The Next New Thing
New York magazine is looking for things—things that are New. For the "All New" issue! Because now that Obama has been elected, everything is New. They're looking for anything New, from architecture to food to music—"the idea," they write in an email to contacts, "is that we're heading into a new era with an opportunity for new thinking and new ways of doing things." Similar emails are circulating from at least two other magazines. And these desperate trend-chasers have unwittingly struck on an important question: Has our national craving for the Next New Thing now surpassed the supply of actual Next New Things? More »
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Comment by CodePink: Here are some new things: mint flavored soda raspberry hamburgers computers that can fit in your eyeball! rainbow colored babies Kansastana marrying my aunt1! 28 Responses | Other threads
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hsbc
HSBC Buys All Of New York's Ads: Good Timing Or Bad?
You may have noticed that a large percentage of flat surfaces in America are currently occupied by those vaguely enraging tri-panel HSBC ads, where identical images are given different captions to prove that—I suppose—HSBC does not believe in a Kantian sense of moral absolutism. "A child: Love. Responsibility. Welfare Fraud." Now the bank is sponsoring this week's entire issue of New York magazine, meaning you'll have more than a dozen new chances to soak in HSBC's triumvirates of relativism. But considering the timing, it's worthwhile to ask: "Banks sponsoring entire issues: Smart. The Future. Monumental Fuckup?" More »
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Comment by drunkexpatwriter: Not to get off on a rant but I hate HSBC and am sorta disappointed that they have not gone... 7 Responses | Other threads
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nouriel roubini
Journalists Are 'Bunch of Wimps' Blackmailed By Gawker, Says Dr. Meltdown
Some background: Nouriel Roubini is an economist known for his longstanding pessimism, at the peak of his professional reputation, vindicated by the financial crisis. The NYU academic, when he's not predicting another great depression, throws parties at his vagina-encrusted Tribeca loft for young Facebook ladies. Nothing wrong with that—but the Iranian-Jewish playboy-professor equates any comment by this site on his decadent personal life with anti-Semitism. In a late-night Facebook rant earlier this week he slammed "trashy junky" Gawker and its Nazi-minded editor. Now the deranged professor disappointed by the supposedly independent journalists who've failed to take up his cause. After the jump: an extraordinary email calling New York magazine's Jessica Pressler a "coward" with a "trashy column." (By the way, Roubini's prescient warnings about the financial plight of the US won him the nickname Dr. Doom. Given his unhinged rants of the last few days, a more appropriate moniker might be Dr. Meltdown.) More »
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By Nick DentonComment by Ogiri W Surie: He's taking all this waaay too cliterally. 26 Responses | Other threads
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feuds
Rolling Stone Writer Tells Off National Review Writer On Crash
New York magazine's daily online chats about the election are usually just mildly interesting, since the journalists involved tend to be overly polite to one another, because who knows who you're going to be sending a job application to someday? Even Gawker Media veterans and that Daily Kos maniac act all pleasant. But Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi has never been one for such fraternal niceties, and when nymag.com threw him a sparring partner from National Review, the predictably caustic lefty went to work with his fangs, at one point typing, "tell me you're not ashamed." It was awesome and just really uncomfortable at the same time. Highlights: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by MissNormaDesmond: What no one ever seems to mention is that many if not most people who defaulted lost their homes not... 4 Responses | Other threads
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celebrity science
Which "Big Stars" Were Grossed Out By Their Portraits In New York?
I sort of loved how most of the actors Dan Winters photographed for New York's "New York Actor" photo essay looked basically like hell. This is not freaking Santa Monica. If someone invented indulgences for all the sins we commit against our skin we'd be the Avignon Papacy. But enough wishful thinking: Liz Smith reports today "some big name stars" were "not amused" by the harsh realism of his portraiture, which Smith credits to his past shooting spreads for Texas Monthly, "where they like things rough and tough." (This assertion appears to have no basis in fact, but it was fun checking out his portfolio.) So: who's the vain aging diva/o who told Liz she wasn't the only one who was put off by Mr. Winters' verisimilitude schtick? Let's examine the evidence: More »
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By MoeComment by PrincessKashmir: Sorry to comment again, but if there really was an aging diva who was upset, it must have been Lauren... 10 Responses | Other threads
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history lessons
On Knowing Elizabeth Wurtzel Screwed David Foster Wallace
That Elizabeth Wurtzel had some thing with David Foster Wallace in the nineties is the type of news flash I'd like to have failed detecting this week. Namely because to blog about Elizabeth Wurtzel is to tempt oneself to unwind the various tranches of disquietude summoned when someone like me conducts a Wurtzel Google Image Search. There's the first tranche of familiarity; I've conducted this search before; the second: I remember quickly that I will invariably, though tempted by the grainy topless shots from Bitch, like Radar before me quickly settle on the hottest color photo available, the one she used for the cover of her 2001 addiction memoir More, Now, Again, even though Wurtzel has graciously offered us photographic evidence that she has, in the intervening (ohgod) seven and a half years, aged. For this is not a new asset, this story; the underlying episode dates back to the nineties, when Wurtzel was still dressing up her faculties and skills with too much blue eyeliner and too many mood-altering substances in lieu of the appropriate degree of risk management and/or clothes.
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the panic of '08
Lehman Traders Still Rich Enough To Totally Damage Their Spoiled Sons
This week's New York contains a brief story on the "sudden-onset poverty" — poverty, huh? — of an anonymous Lehman Brothers trader. There are million dollar mortgages and million dollar options packages gone to shit and wives who "can't" work and a sobbing nanny and mostly, lots and lots of blistering infinite anger in search of a target other than the indefensible practices and corrupted culture of an industry he bought into willingly. It's like, "Oh I'm so happy these guys get to stay home and spend time thinking about what's really important while instilling their own unique values systems in their kids!" Except the opposite: More »
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announcements
New York Founding Editor Clay Felker To Be Memorialized This Evening
You're invited, space permitting, to a memorial service this evening for the beloved New York magazine founding editor Clay Felker. It's at the New York Society for Ethical Culture and starts at six. Tom Wolfe, Gloria Steinem and Lesley Stahl will pay tribute to the man who taught a city to talk about itself at a celebration organized by New York and Gail Sheehy, the writer and widow of the late editor. Felker's legacy, which Wolfe in July described as nothing less than the restoration of vitality to a bloodless, disconnected New York media, is also honored less directly today in New York's excellent issue on the Great Shakeout. -
freakoutnomics
5 Market Crisis Plotlines Your "Gossip Girl" Bloggers Totally Saw Coming
I cannot say I expected a blog best beloved for its breathless Gossip Girl recaps* would be the blog whose archives I spent the most time raiding to read up on the collapse of capitalism. But this crisis has been full of surprises and one of them is that reading New York magazine's Daily Intel blog could have saved investors a shit ton of money, because they have been paying superclose attention to the saga of America's Crapital Structure and they take very good notes. They reeled me into their archived coverage of what they call the "White Men With Money" beat when they ingeniously dubbed Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein the "Lila Fowler of Wall Street" after the moneyed alpha girl of the Sweet Valley High series. It wasn't a connection I'd think to make, but maybe that's because I'm not as savvy at parsing rumors… More »
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By MoeComment by therealgoogle: @Moe: I like the way you frame these sources (it bounces nice off the project buildings ala KRS One). As a... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Highbrow BBQ
New York Magazine's "Highbrow" Barbecue: A Big Ripoff?
New York magazine should know that it's setting itself up by sponsoring an event called a "Highbrow BBQ." I mean, really. The cookout yesterday offered the public food from Top Chef contestant CJ Jacobson, along with a concert, for $25. And for that price, one could at least expect a big piece of chicken. But a disgruntled tipster tells us that all she got out of the experience was a bit of watermelon, some nasty taco sauce soup, and an apology from a bourbon-swilling CJ. Overblown ripoff, or just a griping, overly entitled guest? You be the judge! The full report: More »
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memos
New York's E-Mail to Certain Staffers: Behave, OK?
So the "really angry" e-mail sent out to New York magazine's freelancers and others—warning them to stop using their New York associations to get into events—wasn't so mean after all. It's just that "at least one party crasher and one overly ambitious editor" have been getting, well, a bit overly ambitious! Click for the memo. Update: we think we know who the party crasher is! More » -
In Brief
New York Mag Yells At Freeloading Freelancers
From a tipster: "Jada Yuan sent out a really angry email to New York magazine freelancers yesterday saying from now on, she wouldn't be sending out party info over email because too many people on her list were crashing events and saying they were NY mag reporters when really they're just freelancers who want free(lance) drinks." Hey, does anybody have a copy of this e-mail? We'll keep you anonymous. -
fuckups
How New York Burned Its Plastic-Surgery Source
Anonymous sources can usually put some faith in the journalistic principle, that the anonymity of a source is a sacred thing, to be protected even at the risk of jail. But they should have less faith in a reporter's competence. Last week, a New York Times reporter withheld the name of a critic of the Chinese government but gave him away accidentally by mentioning the restaurant he owned. And there's an equally moronic slip in this week's cover story on plastic surgery in New York magazine.
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joe scarborough
Tim Russert's Departing Words On Joe Scarborough
As predicted, New York magazine's profile of Joe Scarborough was much like its predecessor in the Times, recounting the MSNBC personality's trip from a scripted right-wing blowhard to a charming, inventive morning show host who even sympathizes with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. But the endorsements! The MSNBC hosts' colleagues are positively effusive. And no doubt the most powerful quote is this one from former Meet The Press anchor Tim Russert, collected two weeks before his death: More » -
punditry
'New York' is Scarborough Country
Did you enjoy the lengthy "in defense of" Rush Limbaugh profile in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine? Then you'll love the friendly profile of MSNBC token independent conservative Joe Scarborough in Monday's New York Magazine! We haven't read the piece, but we imagine it will explore his crazy trip from Gingrichian Congressional Republican to funny conservative that liberals love, all because he took over Don Imus' TV slot, started doing an entertaining morning show, and basically revealed himself to be totally in the bag for Obama. (As we learned last month in the Times.)
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By PareeneComment by OliverTwist: His show was fantastic for the couple of weeks he wasn't on it recently. more » | Other threads
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