A few months ago, the Times decided to ramp up some of their more lucrative "verticals" on their website—including Fashion and Style. They had lots of ideas, which they put on the company wiki for everyone to read and comment on. But did all of their plans come to fruition? Well, let's just say we were spared the…
First rule of biweekly fight club at St. Paul the Apostle on Columbus Ave.? Tell every reporter you see! Gym proprietor Justin Blair's "Friday Night Fights" finally makes it to Sunday Styles today, and everybody, patrons and writers alike, is on talking-point message.
They're tall. They think that pink, kelly, and cordovan are primary colors. They pluralize the word "philanthropy" and still insist that Trinity and Haverford are prestigious colleges. And now, after decades of wining, dining, and murdering at lame-not-lamé Upper East Side haunts like Dorrian's Red Hand, the preppies…
Tasked with writing about his Night Out With Limp Bizkit frontman and director Fred Durst, Mickey Rapkin had to overcome a host of challenges. How to be subtle and Times-y about Durst's decision to pick up a Russian maybe-hooker and bring her along on their outing, for instance? "Ms. Valevich let out a hearty laugh.…
We've often pondered what goes on inside NYT Styles editor Trip Gabriel's head. Like, when Stephanie Rosenbloom says she has a great trend piece on people holding hands, or some random freelancer pitches something about a hot new "underground" bar, does he just automatically nod, like a little Trip Gabriel bobblehead?…
We've been staring at this Sunday Styles article on the resurgence (ha! pun!) of the kaffiyeh, those oh-so-kicky Arab-land scarves, for like five hours now. It contains this gem:
Live from the pages of The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life, we invited everyone's favorite frenemy to chime in from time to time on various hot topics. That's right, The Underminer has a Gawker column now. But keep trying! You'll get one someday! You trouper!
In his highly entertaining Daily Nightly blog (from which Katie Couric could learn a thing or two about a thing or two), NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams today waxes poetic about various topics, including retiring NY Giant Tiki Barber, who has announced he wants to become a news anchor (Williams: "Later this…
You know, sometimes when we read about the fabulous new Google office in Chelsea, with its free cafeteria and ping pong tables and lava lamps and rockin' Thank God It's Almost Friday soir es and cutely-nicknamed internecine cliques (Gayglers!), we have a momentary pang of jealousy.
After Times culture reporter Lola Ogunnaike was suspended in October for appearing as a guest host on The View without her editors' permission, we wondered whether this meant fewer fawning profiles of Scott Storch and Flavor Flav. But after a nearly monthlong break, Ogunnaike's been back with a vengeance—and it…
So it's the week after Thanksgiving, and you're still feeling bloated. In a combined effort to keep your mouth full so that you couldn't be expected to answer your relatives' annoying questions and to make the schlep home to Buttfuck worthwhile, you gorged yourself on turkey, etc. and now you feel like a giant…
• We didn't realize anyone gave this much of a shit about Vibe, even the people who work(ed) there. [HuffPo]
• Apparently it's Vogue Editor Anna Wintour's fault that rich folks aren't buying million dollar boats the way they used to. Well, her or Meryl Streep, it's hard to tell, since the premise of this article is so…
Oh, the things we've missed in the Sunday Times. It's not just showers and deodorant anymore; by not reading yesterday's Sunday Styles — we were on vacation; give us a break — we missed yet another important life lesson. It's a bit of wisdom from Pat Lillis, who, according to her frontpage style-section profile, is…
This morning we called your attention to a Sunday Styles piece on the increasing popularity of fitness clubs — who knew? — and the interesting selective anonymity granted within the article. Writer Guy Trebay purported to spend 24 hours at the Crunch on Lafayette Street, and he proudly mentioned among its clientele…
Did you see Sunday Styles yesterday? If not, you missed the big news, carried over thousands of words jumping from the top of the front page, with lots of art and graphics and philosophical musing, that — and we hope you're sitting down — more people go to gyms now than did 20 years ago. (Who knew?) To commemorate…
Oxfeld: did you know, before the sunday times told you, that "poseidon adventure" was a big gay movie?
Coen: i had no idea. but once i read that, i assumed you had watched it during your pubescent years and have since associated tidal waves with the tidal wave of emotion in realizing you liked boys.
Oxfeld: i had no…
Have a burning desire to label "new" trends that have been around for months, if not years? Like looking at Bill Cunningham's fancy pictures of fancy people at really boring fancy parties? Yearn to find a new essay each week about why modern love sucks? Then today, folks, is your lucky day. Luisita Torregrosa, the…
An Editor's Note in yesterday's Sunday Styles:
An article in yesterday's Times:
"These 'Housewives,' en Espa ol, Are Heard but Never Seen," by Mireya Navarro, The New York Times, Sunday Styles, yesterday:
