Step aside, public editor Clark Hoyt! The Times's impulse for self-assessment takes a more material(ist) turn today with architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff's review of the new Renzo Piano-designed Times HQ on Eighth Ave. and 41st Street. Ouroussoff—as far as architecture critics go, really an unimpeachable guy who…
Last night saw New York's geekiest gather at something called NYC Tech Meet-Up, an event which we will not even pretend to understand. Or care about—save for the fact that Thomas Plunkett, Gawker Media's tech master, made some sort of presentation about something or other that he and his army of supergay IT warriors…
Every week, and now sometimes every day, we single especially funny commenters out and stroke them until they're gratified.
Out editor Aaron Hicklin invited the gays to celebrate the mag's June issue Hot List last night at the West Village seamen hang-out Anchor Bar. Since we're more N+Butt type of guys, we thought the list was of the 100 hottest gays—but in reality it catalogs hot gay things like gastropubs (#13) and sandwiches (#5). Of…
"Paris Hilton might be going back to jail following a furious backlash to her early release that included several Los Angeles officials and hundreds of Lede commenters." Yes. Good job, New York Times blog commenters! [The Lede]
Over the weekend, friends of former Oddjack editor A.J. Daulerio gathered at popular internet-person bar Lolita to roast the young man. Despite having been canned when that Gawker Media gambling site was shuttered, Daulerio contributes to sports site Deadspin. He is perhaps best known as the superstud of the New York…
Because it's a holiday, we're loopy, and a bit bored-anxious. Maybe a little lonely! Definitely cold. Those are the circumstances which lead us to now publishing what we like to think of as The Most Useless Internal Email Thread In The History Of Gawker, In Which We Learn Who Is Efficient And Who Is A Complete…
We just finishing yawning our way through Chris Shott's tour of the purported constant blogfucky networking party that is the L.E.S., which features tour stops at "Blogger Peach Pit" The Magician and a nod to "the babe-hopping habits of BlackTable.com editor A.J. Daulerio." The Black Table, like everything else about…
