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You Too Can Trade the Future of the Future with the New Psychic Friends Network
Remember the Psychic Friends Network? The company rode the boom in infomercials in the early-1990s, $3.99/minute charges and Dionne Warwick's mysterious allure to a $23 million profit in 1995. Three...
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One57 Gets Its Crown—But Who Really Designed It?
The king has his crown. (Matt Chaban) The finished product. (Extell) The MAS Summit has offered plenty of rousing discussions about design and architecture in the city, and cities around the globe, for...
View ArticleRumor Roundup: The World’s Most Cheapskate VC and 57 Is Spotify’s Unlucky Number
I’ll Take Stingy for $5, Alex We’ve heard of venture capitalists who drive a hard bargain when it comes to their term sheets, but not so much when they drive off Sand Hill Road. So we were dismayed to...
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Big Apple Idolatry: Tom Hank Swears, Timberlake Vows, and Katy Perry Waffles
Ruh-oh! (ABC) - Katy Perry doesn't want to be just another conquest to John Mayer. Hey lady, now you know how he felt dating Taylor Swift. -Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel were married in Italy and...
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Q&A: Dita von Teese, Burlesque Star and Fetish-er Extraordinaire, Talks About...
On Monday night, America’s classiest stripper, Dita von Teese, left little to the imagination at an intimate party hosted at La Maison Cointreau in the West Village. Later in the week she spoke to The...
View ArticleWhole Foods Opens, Inks Deal on Upper East Side
Whole Foods is set to open a new location on the Upper East Side. The natural and organic supermarket has inked a long-term deal for a 39,000-square-foot space at 1551 Third Avenue. The store will span...
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Five Things We Learned from the Tom Wolfe Interview
Tom Wolfe (Getty Images) New York has an interview with Tom Wolfe, the author of the new, Miami-set book Back to Blood, which The Observer described this way: "the novel ensures that the world of ideas...
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18 Gramercy Park Is Having the Best Fall Ever
Familiar interiors for the A.M. Stern fans. It appears we underestimated the appeal of a key to Gramercy Park. Although we expect there's probably more than access to a gated garden that's driving...
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Showtime Renews Homeland
Claire Danes and Damian Lewis (Getty Images) No surprise here: Showtime has renewed its Emmy juggernaut Homeland for a third season of twelve episodes. Last night's episode was the series's...
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AIG CEO Bob Benmosche Possibly Open to Some (Tax-Neutral) Female Companionship
Ladies, please meet our friend Bob. The CEO of a major insurance company, in his late-60s, some might say bullheaded, certainly outspoken, but there's a kindness to his eyes, and he summers in the...
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Even Superman is Getting Out of the Newspaper Biz
Superman is going to be his own boss. If there is one person we thought could handle the changing news industry, it's Superman. Print may be dying, but if even the Man of Steel can't hack it, well,...
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50 Shades of Republican: Tickle the Elephant Makes Conservative Erotica Sexy
Katharine Heller of Tickle the Elephant The other day, the Transom was sent a website by a coworker called Tickle the Elephant. "It's funny," we were promised. Although when we opened up the...
View ArticleSecretary Stole Millions From Salomon Brothers Icon With the Swipe of a Pen
An interesting thing about fraud is that it's not a difficult thing to do, at least mechanically: Once a would-be crook decides to make his move, ill-getting gains can be as simple as a color printer,...
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Al Qaeda Affiliated Group Posts London Terror Threat
Al-Shabaab Twitter avatar. Just in time for tonight's Presidential debate on foreign policy, Al-Shabaab, a Somali group which reportedly merged with al Qaeda in early 2012 has issued series of...
View ArticleDan Doctoroff Still Has Big Plans―Like Moving the Javits to Sunnyside Yards
It has been five years since Dan Doctoroff reported to City Hall for work, but the former deputy mayor and current CEO of Bloomberg LP still finds time to think up interesting, even outrageous visions...
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Creeping a Little Bit Closer to the Forgotten Borough
Once the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was built the Brooklyn Ferry, at 69th Street, was no longer the, "short route to New Jersey". (Museum of the City of New York) For New Yorkers interested in getting...
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The Broke Broker: He’s Got Keys to the Best Apartments, But Lacks One of His Own
Cawsey. (Photo: Jackson Waite) I was looking for an apartment, which in Manhattan means you have to sell your soul. Your W-2s are not signed in enough places; your hair does not make enough money. You...
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First They Came for Newsweek: Is a Second Media Winter Coming?
Brown. Is it happening again? The bad time went by many names: the meltdown ... the shakeout ... the reckoning ... the death of print... or sometimes, simply, “trying to freelance.” Old-timers can...
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Atlas, Drugged: This Colossal Misuse of Cast, Crew and Cash Unceremoniously...
Jim Broadbent and Hanks in Cloud Atlas. (Warner Bros. Pictures) Almost three hours long, a lugubrious sludge of mud soup called Cloud Atlas deserves a limp nod for pure guts, I suppose, but what I’d...
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Full Bloom: A Light Shines Through as The Black Tulip Blossoms Amidst Harsh...
A wedding at Lake Qarga, Kabul, in The Black Tulip. Afghanistan has no film industry, which makes a new movie called The Black Tulip, about good people seeking some kind of normal life in modern Kabul...
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