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second cities

How To Grow Microcelebrities In The Comfort Of Your Own Second-Tier City!

Do you live in one of those "second-tier" cities that seems woefully bereft of despicable and/or overprivileged and whatever the case self-promoting social climbing youngs? Ever find yourself reading, say, a blog…and feeling just a twinge or a pang or whatever of envy for New York's thriving industry of microcelebrity manufacture? [JUST SAY NO.] But Kate Carraway, a writer in Toronto reflecting on that lofty matter of Jessica Roy, actually claims she does. "We have no Julia Allison, the current Wired cover star, and centre of much debate on media celebrity; no Sloane Crossley…" [sic] she laments. Nor do they have a Keith Gessen nor an Emily Gould nor even much, like, blow! "The NY media circus is ordered and replenished by an anxious, aggressive, semi-twisted sense of value, but value nonetheless," she writes, calling for "a collective pursuit of something better and more worthwhile." Well, Kate Carraway, if this is what you deem "better and more worthwhile," allow me to get service-y with you for a minute and and share with you an abridged and hastily-told tale of a group of anxious, semi-twisted twentysomethings who tried to do exactly what you aspire to do in their own "lesser" city.

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8:07 PM on Mon Aug 25 2008
By Moe
9,178 views, 253 comments

Latest by [::] gorichgo: Fuck this. Fuck NY. Philly will eat your babies. more »

the sick borough

Blogger Finds Culprit For Death Of Newspapers: Capitalism!

A Columbia grad student using Philadelphia newspapers as a lens through which to view the collapse of the industry has reached a startling realization: the whole time the (once-respected!) Philadelphia Inquirer and (once slightly less respected) (I can say that because I used to work there!) Philadelphia Daily News were grappling with declining circulation and unending job cuts, someone was making a lot of money off that! (Most notably this guy and a few south Floridian clients.) In fact, the smaller the newsroom staff got, the higher profit margins soared! By 2000 margins reached 19%. So then-owner Knight-Ridder cut some more jobs and got even higher! More »

7:34 PM on Thu Aug 21 2008
By Moe
2,279 views, 37 comments

Latest by The Standard Deviant: @The Standard Deviant: Dagnabit: In graf 2, ln 8, for "revenues," substitute "revenue growth". I have fired my proofreader. more »

intern horror stories

What Not To Do When Anna Wintour Falls On Her Face

Shortly after hearing the scuttlebutt (yeah) yesterday about the summer intern who took her new TV network employers and shat all over them (no literally shat all over them) yesterday we put a call out to some of our most cherished sources for "nightmare intern" stories that might gratuitously expand upon the "Kids today: My they are insubordinate and entitled in just that infuriatingly unabashed way that will probably totally work in their favor!" meme. And wow, did the stories we heard totally play to our stereotypes in ways we could not even ourselves imagine! But they also helped to contour our cartoonish notions of "clueless lazy entitled youth" with hints of "well, their parents' generation is obviously to blame"-ism. Take the case of this hapless Vogue-ette!
One of my old [Conde Nast publication redacted] interns had a nightmare herself - she moved up to Vogue and was passing Anna in the hall on her first day. Knew she wasn't supposed to look at her. As they passed, Anna tripped and fell, just bit it. Intern freaked out. she didn't know what to do. So she ran.
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5:01 PM on Fri Aug 15 2008
By Moe
32,941 views, 69 comments

Latest by unicorns-exist: @IShouldBeFamous: Interns are supposed to work hard for nothing. An internship is something people do to get real life experience, and in real life people will (for the most part) not pamper your ass regardless of who you are, or where you go to school. This is a good lesson. more »

gossip

Did Email-Spying Newsman Hate His Punchy Co-Anchor?

Page Six has a "DARK THEORY" (or, if you prefer, a "bizarre scenario that seems possible") about why former Access Hollywood host Larry Mendte would want to read the email of Alycia Lane, his cop-slugging former co-anchor at the CBS station in Philly. Yammering coworkers say that Mendte was jealous of Lane's success, and "worked hard to take Alycia down." The clear implication is that Mendte may also have been responsible for leaking past gossip items about Lane's personal life. It certainly qualifies as a dark theory, but is it true? Nobody knows yet, so here's an anonymous coworker's gratuitous quote about Mendte's wife: "She's an older version of Alycia, which I find a little freaky." [P6]

12:09 PM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
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Latest by Triborough: Interesting theory about how his wife is "an older version of Alycia". I would say they are sort of similar looking. Here is a then and now of Larry's current wife from the TV station in Cleveland in the 90s. As you can see she is sort of a generic Midwestern more »

the gays

Chelsea Clinton in Gay Philly Bar Romp

"'I grabbed her ass,' one young woman exclaimed to her friends after snapping a picture with her arm around the former first daughter." More »

1:42 PM on Sun Apr 20 2008
By ian spiegelman
7,319 views, 25 comments

Latest by kokotaylor: @timbnyc44: That she did not. I debated with her about her mother's commitment to fiscal responsibility. She referred me to her website and then cited a number of votes of her mother that didn't really tell me anything. At this point, I'm really more concerned with this more »

sixth borough

Crime Doesn't Pay, But Neither Does Gay Porn

As Fleshbot reported earlier this week, big trouble for gay porn stars in Philly! A pair of twins, those adorable scamps, got into a pinch of mischief: arrested for rooftop robberies! Fun fact: "The twins are the focus of a tristate Rooftop Burglary Task force, led by New Jersey investigators, the state where many of the 40-some rooftop burglaries have been committed over the last 18 months," reports the Philadelphia Daily News. After the jump: Keyontyli Goffney's modeling portfolio. (His brother, bad seed Taleon, mainly has a rap sheet a mile long. He once escaped from cops by swimming across a pond, yelling, "You can't catch me!") More »

6:29 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Sheila
4,296 views, 25 comments

Latest by Gilmour316: Since when could someone from Georgia speak French?! more »

anger woman

The Alycia Lane Story

Do you want to read ten tragic pages about the life of mixed-up cop-slugging former fucking reporter you fucking dyke Alycia Lane? It's got everything—crying to Dr. Phil, emailing bikini photos to Rich Eisen's wife, and, yes, slugging a lady cop. In Philadelphia those three actions basically make you the equivalent of Britney Spears, public meltdown-wise. [Philadelphia Mag]

6:14 PM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By Pareene
4,520 views, 17 comments

Latest by SuperBien: @bettycrocker: Well, we've booted her out of Philly as well. Her uber-swank condo here is on the block and expected to fetch over a mil. Quite the nice wrongful termination suit war chest she's building up . . . more »

Cop-Slug Anchor Ankles Sixth Boro Cop-slugging Philly anchor woman Alycia Lane—fired from her affiliate and reportedly contemplating a wrongful dismissal suit against them—is selling her luxury Philadelphia condo. There's no word yet on where she's moving (besides HOT LADIES' PRISON). [NYP]

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Cop-slug anger-woman Alycia Lane's Philly CBS affiliate sorta apologized to the Philadelphia Gay News for their employee's alleged use of an anti-lesbian slur when she punched that cop. CBS3 also pointed out that they are "one of two stations in Philadelphia to employ openly gay on-camera people." Some of their best on-camera friends are dyke bitches! [Philly.com]

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philly fox phones friend

Hot Hack Begs Guv Ed For Help

'COP-SLUG' ANGER-WOMAN Alycia Lane's jail phone call was made to Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. Why? Because he is a very influential person who would assist her in getting her side of the story out, not so that he could try to spring her from jail! All good journalists know that the best way to get a story out is by going through a politician, so that he can tell some journalists about it. Like Governor Ed did morning, when he called up a Philly morning show to explain that the whole thing has been a misunderstanding. More »

1:40 PM on Wed Dec 19 2007
By Pareene
3,010 views, 25 comments

Latest by JackieTreehorn: Fundraisers, huh? She must handle all the policemen's balls. more »