• new york times

    Pinch Sulzberger Loves Snark?

    For some strange reason, the Post's Page Six today published a long item on the book Black & White And Dead All Over, a newsroom roman a clef by a 40-year Timesman. The timing is a bit odd because this book was reviewed in the Post in late July, around the time we posted our second item on it, and according to Amazon it's been on sale since July 29. But Page Six does reveal the book contains a hard-to-believe interaction we somehow missed, between elder Arhur "Punch" Sulzberger and his son Arthur Jr.: More »
    09/05/08
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    Comment by Mike Jahn: I prefer to read about the breakups and breakdowns of third-rate presidents. 1 Responses | Other threads

  • new york times

    This Times Headline Is Not An Error

    Thank you, everyone who is awake right now, for emailing us about the nytimes.com headline pictured at left. I hope you don't feel bad when I tell you that it's not a "major fuck up," as one tipster put it. The headline is, in fact, "[headline about unlikely broadway musical]", which is kind of meta, un-Times-ian joke title for a story about a real play called "[title of show]." Even one Gawker editor, who IMed me, hysterical, was briefly fooled. Please, Times, it unnerves and confuses everyone when you put on these airs. It's like an old person trying to talk like a teenager. [additional point about Times trading onetime air of unimpeachability for presumption of error!] [Times]
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  • bloglash

    Comments Closed On Emily Gould's Times Piece

    Times editors are apparently tired of people saying mean things about Emily Gould and about their own decision to publish her meditation on blogging, because they've shut down the comments section attached to Gould's magazine piece. Some 727 responses flooded in before the shutdown, even though the article won't be physically published until the Sunday issue. Many called the former Gawker editor narcissistic, self-indulgent and a bad writer and said her story was a waste of space; there were supporters, including people who praised Gould for having moved on from vicious, inconsequential Gawker and for pushing them to reexamine their own online personas. Whatever was said, the decision to shut down comments is bizarre, because just yesterday Times Magazine editor Gerry Marzorati told FishbowlNY the story was worthy of his cover precisely because of the discussion it would spark: More »
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    Comment by PinkPundit: @Mike_Jahn:Yeah, analysis has something to do with it. There was also all that confessional poetry in the 1970s, and the... more » | Other threads

  • the new york times is just a fancy blog

    Times Managing Editor Blogs

    Jill Abramson, managing editor for news at the Times, finally has a way to share with the world the information she finds most interesting and relevant. Abramson began blogging tonight, apparently for the first time, if you set aside a structured panel discussion last December on a Times Book Review site. Her post to Times blog The Caucus was about comments from Michelle Obama on charges of elitism against her husband, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Writes a snarky Times staffer: More »
    04/15/08
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    Comment by 8Millionth: Can the word "blog" be dead now? Singing it to the tune of Monty Python's Spam song clearly reveals the word... more » | Other threads

  • you've come a long way, baby

    When Did the 'Times' Get Tabloidy?

    Back in more civilized times, the New York Times never once mentioned the name Jennifer Fitzgerald. That name, Times vet R.W. Apple famously explained in Spy, was "known everywhere, and it is not used." Fitzgerald was the woman who supposedly had a lengthy affair with former President George H. W. Bush. The Times never even looked into the story. "All you've got is sordid gossipy bits," explained another reporter. The first reports of Bill Clinton's alleged extramartial affair didn't name the "Arkansas employee" who made the allegations herself. (Not until the tabloid The Star used her name was it safe to also do so.) Before the Post broke the story of Judith Nathan, the Times coverage of the end of then-mayor Rudy Giulaini's marriage to Donna Hanover was obnoxiously winking. Elisabeth Bumiller only named the mayor's good friend after Rudy and the Post beat them to it. Basically, how insane is it that the Times broke the story of Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the hooker who took down Eliot Spitzer? And how insane was the story that broke it, what with its links to her MySpace profile and bizarre criticism of her "rhythm and blues" music? Arthur Suzlberger truly is "the prophet of the high church of journalism."
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    By Pareene

    Comment by StabbyFerosh: Around the same time Murray's Hill & Gramercy's park shat in Kip's Bay. more » | Other threads

  • new york times

    Rest of Media Shamed 'Times' Into Running McCain Story

    The New Republic's story-of-the-story of the New York Times' story of how John McCain might've fucked lobbyist Vicki Iseman is up, and, as could probably be predicted, it's the story of Bill Keller being a total pussy and not letting his reporters go with all the awesome juicy stuff they were totally sure they had nailed down, provable or not. It's also the story of how now, basically, the standard for publication at the Times has slipped measurably closer to, say, ours. More »
    02/21/08
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    By Pareene

    Comment by hercules q. einstein: She's lying about her age, right? She looks older than 40 to me, especially in other photos I've seen. more » | Other threads

  • neediest cases need cases

    Craven Fashion Mag Eds' Crazed Beggings For Flashy Crap!

    The blogfest that is T magazine's website has taken a turn for the greedy, as the staff has begun posting "holiday wish lists" that might as well be coded solicitations for publicists! "Fashion magazine editors may have it worse than the general population. Every day we find ourselves surrounded by beautiful objects," say the supposedly tongue-in-cheek bloggers, before going on to solicit Brunello Cucinelli wool flannel travel jackets and the More »
    12/19/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by lululemming: @Choire: Honest to God, Choire. You buy teh shooz before you quit your job. When I was a freelancer I... more » | Other threads

  • the new york times is just a fancy blog

    The Fastest Ways To Get NYTimes.com To Delete You

    How should one behave in the comments section of the New York Times? The way you did in kindergarten, mostly. "No name-calling and no personal abuse," heads up a list of commenting no-no's penned for your edification by Times metro deputy editor, Patrick LaForge. Absolutely positively no swearing: "If you wouldn't say it in front of your mother, a minister or a 5-year-old, think twice about saying it here." LaForge overestimates his readers; we have no compunction about swearing in front of, or about, our mothers. Also, because "this is not a blog about The Times," there is to be no criticizing the Times itself. You will also be stripped of your commenting rights if you "pretended to be someone you aren't and used a fake email." Did somebody find out the hard way that Craigslist hookups aren't all they're cracked up to be?
    11/15/07
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    By Maggie

    Comment by TimeWarnerRhymeAnaheim: Just make sure you sound like the verbal equivalent of the well-intentioned dweebs on NPR (not sure if looking like... more » | Other threads

  • the olds

    'Times' Creepy Mom Sends Her Kids Naughty Facebook Gifts

    Oh noes: Fortune executive editor Josh Quittner's wife Michelle Slatalla is still writing her column about 'computers: who knew!' for the Times. Today, she revisits well-worn territory: How much her daughters hate her for cramping their style on Facebook. But she's upped the ante considerably now that she's discovered something called "apps." "The discovery of the existence of Naughty Gifts proved I was, once again, out of touch," Michelle writes. How to remedy? Adding as many apps as possible, starting "poo fights" with her husband, and sending her teenage daughters virtual rubber blow-up dolls. "Oh, my God, you are so creepy," one of them told her, before hanging up the phone on her. Heartwarming! More »
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    Comment by JeannieGrrl: My kids are on my facebook friend list and they think its cool that I'm not a pink sweatsuit wearing,... more » | Other threads

  • the new york times is just a fancy blog

    'New York Times' Rolling Out Moderated Comments On Articles

    The New York Times is now carefully allowing comments on some articles, not just blog posts. According to an in-house email from NYT.com general manager Vivian Schiller and deputy managing editor Jonathan Landman, "This week we rolled out some new technology for commentary on articles. It's more discriminating than the blog-comment platform and it gives readers more control. For instance, readers can recommend comments and view them in rank order starting with the ones with the most recommendations. Editors can choose an interesting selection for readers with time to read just a few.... You'll notice that we're only putting comments on a handful of articles at first. That's because we're still building our moderation force and the tools for automated moderation. There are some important features built into the system that you can't see and that we're not using yet. For example, producers and editors will be able to designate certain users as 'trusted,' potentially allowing some comments to bypass moderation. We're excited about the chance to experiment."
    11/02/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by mathnet: @rod: towards becoming!! more » | Other threads

  • the new york times is just a fancy blog

    Each Friday, NYT.com General Manager Vivian Schiller and 'Times' deputy managing editor Jonathan Landman write an in-house email on the subject of The Future and The Internet and The Newsroom. Today: "[T]hink about the compulsive clickster. She returns three times in an hour, finds a new headline, clicks, thinks, 'Wait, didn't I read that before? The red thing says, "10:12 AM." But I already read some of this at 7:43 AM. Where's the new stuff?' Kind of confusing. Not so satisfying. Think of what a blog can do for her. It clearly demarcates the new stuff. It links to things we don't have, exposing layers of perspective in real time. It is fast, rich and deep. For the person in search of one-stop comprehensiveness, it might be an unpleasant adventure in ADD. [...] We actually maintain about 100 blogs now, about half of them active. Classy new ones roll out of the factory like Mercedes SUV's in Tuscaloosa."
    10/26/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by DorothyMantooth: I'm shocked that "fast, rich and deep" wasn't made a tag for this one. I'm positively shuddering thinking of all... more » | Other threads

  • the new new new journalism

    Must Every Journalist Act Like A Blogger?

    "The journalistic culture in which columnists were the only ones allowed to have a personality, and everyone else's bylines were practically interchangeable, is practically gone," wrote Doree Shafrir in the New York Observer yesterday about how "personal branding" has infected even that holiest of holies, the New York Times. She uses the success of former 'TV Newser' turned Times blogger Brian Stelter as an example of the reversal of protocol that's recently taken place—reporters must now market themselves as specialists from the jump, instead of spending time working different beats until finding a comfortable "sincecure" later in life, in order to prevent themselves from being seen as interchangeable and therefore, redundant. The piece is exactly the kind of thinky, finger-on-pulse thing we've come to expect from Doree Shafrir, who also really likes 'The Hills'! More »
    10/25/07
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    Comment by Trackback: GUHL POWAH U BETCHES! by Molly Lambert In honor of the Spice Girls reunion, We’d like to officially declare 2008... more » | Other threads

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    Each Friday, New York Times General Manager Vivian Schiller and deputy managing editor Jonathan Landman write an in-house email on webby advances at the paper. This week, reporters file stories from these things called BlackBerries! "Ben Shpigel made the best out of a ridiculous situation. While staking out the Yankees complex in Tampa, Ben sent short updates from the scene on his Blackberry as he and dozens of other reporters and photographers waited for a glimpse of Yankees executives (any Yankees executive) there to discuss Joe Torre's future.... In truth, there wasn't much news. And Ben was without a functioning More »
    10/19/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by TheBigDoggy: Keeping bored people "informed and entertained" when "there wasn't much news" is what minstrel shows and vaudeville acts used to... more » | Other threads

  • help a blogger out already

    Listen, Kelefa Sanneh and Ben Sisario and Jon Pareles are out at CMJ shows every night and blogging about it for the New York Times and none of you care! There's not a comment on the Arts Beat blog. Go on over! Today they taught me that I had to go buy both the new Dragons of Zynth ("frenetic"!) and the new White Williams (hello, "like a color Xerox of an old Tom Tom Club song"), and that was useful. Although: When you compare Idolator's coverage with theirs, where's the famous Times innovation web crew influence? Where's the videos—heck, where's the photography? [NYT]
    10/18/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by TimeWarnerRhymeAnaheim: And even Sasha didn't show up? more » | Other threads

  • rebrandings

    Virginia Heffernan's Internet-watching New York Times blog "Screens" has become "The Medium" and is sort of about the same thing but maybe not entirely? It is not about the show where that Arquette lady is a psychic and solves crimes with her mind. [The Medium]
    10/17/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by mathnet: @oovy: @superannuated_grad_student: Hee hee! more » | Other threads

  • the new york times is just a fancy blog

    Trend story queen Jenny 8. Lee joins her Hunter College High School chum Sewell Chan on the Times City Room blog. God they must be sick of each other—first high school, then Harvard, then the Times? Their fellow schoolboy Nick Confessore had better stick tight to his Albany beat, else he gets shuffled over too and is also forced to reenact high school again. Except this time as a blogger. Heh. [NYO]
    10/01/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by TheBigDoggy: Sewell Chan won't be outdone. Since J-8's arrival, he's changed his byline to Sewell 9.99 Chan. more » | Other threads

  • the new model

    Newspapers Now Stuffed Full Of Blogs, But No Clue Where To Put Them

    This week, motorcycle enthusiast Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor of the New York Times, said that his department is starting a new blog, "The Board." It'll join the paper's 14 other Opinion section blogs, including the Opinionator, which discusses the op-ed pages of other newspapers and will benefit from being freed from the Times now-dead paywall, TimesSelect. The Times looks to be the newspaper blog leader—they have 40 active blogs, not counting seasonal blogs like David Carr's movie awards season craziness, beating the Guardian with 18, the New York Daily News with 22, the Wall Street Journal with 16 active blogs, the Los Angeles Times with 27, the San Francisco Chronicle with 26, the Miami Herald with 31, and the Chicago Tribune with 33, for a random sampling. But. Do you read any of these blogs? More »
    09/27/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by Aatom: @newtojezebel: If you're real, I don't get it. If you're a prank....I still don't get it. more » | Other threads

  • the new york times is just a fancy blog

    Unless Apple and Treo get their respective acts together, David Carr and Joe Nocera are going to go elsewhere for their MP3 player/smartphone needs. And then write about it. [NYT]
    09/10/07
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    By abalk

    Comment by freshnesst: And Katie Hafner woke up from a long summer's nap to learn that some people got $3,000 iPhone bills, a... more » | Other threads

  • you can't be a pimp and a prostitute too

    Hey Everybody! Curtis Pesman Is Hanging Out With His Ex!

    Dear Paula DuPre, More »
    08/13/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by Smirk: @ Raincoaster: Ok, whoa! Maybe I was misreading the article but it never said that he had sex with his... more » | Other threads

  • renzo piano's gold star motel

    'New York Times' Commenters Are A Surly Bunch

    What sort of person reads the New York Times? The comments section from a post about this morning's commuting issues on the paper's City Room blog might provide a clue. Since the Times doesn't seem to do it, we've gone ahead and picked out Gold Star recipients from the wealth of worthy insights the paper's readership provides. Enjoy!
    Its a good thing we've spent all that money after 9/11 to fix up the communication system on the subways.Nobody at Atlantic Ave. knew what was being said.Were they speaking Chinese,its a joke !
    Oh,yes, plenty more where that came from. More »
    08/08/07
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    By abalk

    Comment by supastah: were any of the people walking over the bridges doing so with their "free roger toussant!" t-shirts? more » | Other threads

  • strategies against architecture

    How Would You Blow Up America?

    The Times' new Freakonomics blog just launched today, and boy did it come in with a bang! Steven D. Levitt wants to know what you would do to maximize terror if you were a terrorist with limited resources. Don't worry, though: "Consider that posting them could be a form of public service: I presume that a lot more folks who oppose and fight terror read this blog than actual terrorists. So by getting these ideas out in the open, it gives terror fighters a chance to consider and plan for these scenarios before they occur." Okay, Steve! Hmm... we would start by making Maureen Dowd's content completely free to everyone on the Internet. That or just wait for a short yet intense rainstorm. More »
    08/08/07
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    By abalk

    Comment by Trai_Dep: Allow commenting on that new interweb site put out by that kid Nick Denton. more » | Other threads

  • the new york times is just a fancy blog

    Front page user-submitted photo captions, ladies and gentlemen! It's Arthur Sulzberger's LiveJournal!

    08/02/07
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  • whistleblowers

    'Times' Dining Editor Reveals Complete Lack Of Staff

    This week, New York Times Dining section editor Pete Wells is being forced to answer the questions of Times readers in Talk of the Newsroom. Wells—a relative newbie to the paper, as he arrived from Details in October, 2006—apparently hasn't learned about the Times' code of omerta. In response to a reader's inquiry as to how large the Dining section staff is, Pete does the unthinkable. He answers. More »
    07/26/07
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    Comment by lizzybennet: Kat, I tried. But I'm old and a computer idiot. The bacon...the bacon... I'm Catholic,so only on Fridays, I nibble... more » | Other threads

  • the new york times is just a fancy blog

    Theater critic Ben Brantley is unwell: "I came down with food poisoning yesterday afternoon. I'll spare you the cause and consequences." All we need now is for Dwight Garner to run a photo of himself in a Speedo and we're declaring victory on behalf of blogland. [NYT]
    07/25/07
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    By abalk

    Comment by ellagood: see. told you they serve up nothing but SHIT on broadway. more » | Other threads

  • the new york times is just a fancy blog

    We just love it when Times-folk become bloggers, because they get so damn bloggy. Dwight Garner, the Book Review editor who blogs about books 'n' stuff, says he thinks that Time and Newsweek now run fewer book reviews. We bet they do too! But who knows? Someday maybe one of us will get an intern to go through some back issues and actually count or something. [Paper Cuts]
    07/17/07
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    By Choire

    Comment by plkbvt: Now, don't be silly about Dwight. He has an IMPOSSIBLE job, and I suppose he could quit it any time... more » | Other threads

  • the new york times is just a fancy blog

    'New York Times' City Room editor gets huffy when journo-novelist Pete Hamill says that bloggers aren't journalists. [NYT/City Room]
    06/26/07
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    Comment by ShillForTheTimes: The Times' distinguished foreign affairs expert Tom Friedman had some interesting things to say about bloggers and journalism in his... more » | Other threads

  • the new york times is just a fancy blog

    'Times' Columnists Cry On Each Others' Shoulders

    Judith Warner's 'Domestic Disturbances' TimesSelect blog-column grows increasingly, well, disturbing. Buckling under the stress of "two grade-parent cocktail parties, one all-school gala, a Spring Fling, three music recitals" and other trials, she offers this confession: "I have, there's no question, gone off my gourd." Luckily for her, colleague David Brooks is perfectly willing to be her ad-hoc therapist. More »
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    Comment by lawyergay: The die is cast. All the neuroses of Judith Warner cannot stave off the inevitable: Her children, assembled like a... more » | Other threads

  • the new york times is just a fancy blog

    Michelle Slatalla Will Keep Teaching You To Google

    Times columnist Michelle Slatalla and Business 2.0 editor Josh Quittner live together in wedded bliss, but according to an announcement in today's paper, they also "live in I.M. windows on each other's screens." That's why Michelle's "Online Shopper" column is now called "Cyberfamilias." From now on, she's going to write about how Information Superhighway has changed "almost every chapter of family life." Her inaugural column examines how sometimes kids search for medical information online, leading to humorous misdiagnoses like "strip throat" and "sick as hell anemia." Nothing, oddly, about homespun saccharine folksiness-borne diabetes. Also, some experts weigh in: "'Now more than ever, search engines are absolutely central to how people search,' said Susannah Fox, associate director at the Pew Internet and American Life Project." OH FOR PETE'S SAKE. More »
    05/24/07
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    Comment by Diglett: Now more than ever, search engines reveal the mindblowingly retarded ubiquity of the phrase 'Now more than ever' in trend... more » | Other threads

  • how hard could it be?

    Where Neal Pollack Gets His Inspiration

    Did this week's Timesian True Life Tale by self-styled Alternadad Neal Pollack whet your appetite for more of Neal's unique brand of rigorous introspection? You're in luck! We've obtained an early draft of Neal's next installment. More »
    05/14/07
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    Comment by ellagood: @superba: thank you. got the first page of the baby book now. more » | Other threads

  • sketchy nights out with

    Fred Durst Can't Make Bloggy 'Times' Say "Porn"

    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. She proposed a toast: 'To never seeing each other again.' It was now Mr. Durst's turn to laugh." Nailed that one! But what of the difficulty of alluding somewhat obliquely to the fact that Durst is perhaps best known for his deeeesgusting sex tape? Simple: Be a blog! "'I learned not to kiss and tell,' [Durst] said. (He has told plenty; see Google.)" Let's try that again: "'I learned not to kiss and tell,' [Durst] said. (He has told plenty; see Google.)" Ah, that's more like it. —Emily More »
    04/30/07
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    Comment by Clarence Rosario: Jesus. The guy's so irrelevant that he can't even score one of the decent-looking Russian pros. I bet she's from... more » | Other threads

  • rob walker

    Dying of Consumption: 'Consumed' by Rob Walker

    Every weekend, Gawker will analyze a consumer product in a sufficiently probing—that is, harder probing than Chuck Klosterman but gentler probing than Malcolm Gladwell—way. We will describe it a little bit, then write a few "on one hand"/"on the other hand" statements, then call it a day. With apologies to Moli re, Chekhov, and sad-eyed whores the world over, we will call it "Dying of Consumption." Someone will pay us for it. More »
    04/07/07
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    By jliu

    Comment by holmessmc: Rob Walker's reading from the book this Wednesday (June 11) in NYC, with a Q/A session and free cocktail reception... more » | Other threads

  • chumley's

    Must be Saturday: 'Times' Reports About Chumley's Wall Collapse, Own Blog Posts

    Turns out rumors of West Village speakeasy Chumley's demise were rather premature. According to today's Times the bar's owners claim it'll be back up and running in a month or two. But what's auspicious for the ghosts of literary Chum-scrubbers Hemingway, Eliot, Fitzgerald, and Steinbeck posed a problem for Times scribbler James Barron: How to pad what amounts to a report on a business putting up a "be back in 5" sign? It's the nineties, silly—turn to AOL:
    Chumley's is a relic of the Roaring Twenties, but the memories are being shared the 21st-century way, over the Internet. Yesterday, after reports of the wall collapse, more than 30 people posted anecdotes about Chumley's on nytimes.com, some wondering about its future.
    But if you thought reporting on your own website is innovative, its gets so much better, Gawker-style, after the jump... More »
    04/07/07
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