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Werner Herzog’s Kickstarter Video Is the Best Thing You’ll Watch All Day
Werner Herzog with what may or may not be a large salt shaker. (Getty) With so many Kickstarter projects popping up every day, it’s getting almost impossible to make yours stand out. Luckily for one...
View Article‘This Campaign Is Moving to Another Level’: Thompson Takes His Mayoral Bid...
Bill Thompson’s mayoral campaign shifted into high gear yesterday, embarking on a dizzying five-borough, 24-hour tour that took him from the Staten Island ferry to Bronx meat freezers into the wee...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner Takes His Policy Pitches to Asian Leaders in Queens
Anthony Weiner seemed quite comfortable in rather claustrophobic surroundings this morning, trying to focus on wonky policy issues as if he were a more typical mayoral candidate–rather than one trying...
View ArticleNew Yorker Lands Position as Obama’s Chief Economic Adviser
Manhattanite Jason Furman earned Senate confirmation on Thursday, becoming the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Read More
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Crown Heights vs. Bushwick: Whose Anti-Gentrification Fight Is More Futile?
Crown Heights may be gentrifying faster than any other neighborhood. (untitled name) In recent years, Brooklyn's defining characteristic has increasingly become the class warfare that has spread,...
View ArticleJohn Liu’s Campaign Battling to Get Its Matching Funds
City Comptroller John Liu’s campaign is still holding out hope that it will qualify for the more than $3.5 million in public matching funds it needs to have any chance at being competitive in the...
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The Newspaper Guild On The Cleveland Plain Dealer Layoffs
A print edition of the The Plain Dealer (Getty Images) On Wednesday, nearly a third of the journalists at Cleveland's main daily newspaper, The Plain Dealer, were laid off. The Northeast Ohio Newspaper...
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Shvoverload! Michael Shvo Closes on Chelsea Development Site for $23.5 M.
The very expensive site. Never one to play it safe, Michael Shvo, that showy relic of the last cycle's boom years, has dropped a record sum on the site of a gas station in West Chelsea. The deal, which...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner’s Last Sexting Date Keeps Changing
A defiant Anthony Weiner hit the airwaves for another round of TV interviews this evening, as he tries desperately to shift the conversation away from his latest sexting scandal and toward policy...
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To Do Saturday: Sugar With Spice
AndrewAndrew Downtown’s style bible Paper magazine presents its second annual Super (Duper) Market, a three-day pop-up store of trendy food purveyors and innovators. Expect artisanal gourmet grub from...
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To Do Sunday: Seoul of the Party
They say Seoul is the new Tokyo, and thus a city of the future. School yourself in Seoul’s artistic history and Korean music at “The S(e)oul of Korea,” a concert featuring traditional Korean dance...
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Money Never Sleeps at Screenwriter’s Hell’s Kitchen Co-op
RIP cornice. Journalism has never been the most remunerative field, but Stephen Schiff figured out a way to make it work for him: write a Hollywood screenplay. Lolita and Wall Street: Money Never...
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Time Hires Ryan Sager, Callie Schweitzer and Chris Wilson
Time started the week with some hiring news. The weekly news mag has hired Ryan Sager, who has been at The Wall Street Journal, to be the editorial director of Time ideas. Callie Schweitzer, Vox...
View ArticleJohn Liu Denied Matching Funds
The city’s Campaign Finance Board has ruled to deny more than $3.5 million in public matching funds to City Comptroller John Liu, putting his election prospects into serious turmoil. Citing evidence of...
View ArticleTech Exec Found Guilty of Using Nerd Trick to Steal Legos from Target
Back in May, SAP executive Thomas Langenbach was charged with stealing and reselling thousands of dollars worth of Legos. The Valley hotshot used technology developed at SAP to create new barcodes,...
View Article9 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before August 12
MONDAY, AUGUST 5 Screening: The Town at MoMA AAAAAAFFFFFFFLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEE CCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!! —Michael H. Miller Read More
View ArticleTech Elite Avoid Looming BART Strike by Just Sailing to Work Instead
Starting today, thousands of New York’s outer borough residents who work in Manhattan are commuting via ferry instead, because some clever person decided, YEAH IT’S TOTALLY FINE IF WE SHUT DOWN THE R...
View ArticleThe CEO of Cablevision Says Even His Own Kids Prefer Netflix
Maybe Internet won’t kill cable any time soon, but there’s no question change is coming. The Wall Street Journal recently sat down with legendarily irascible Cablevision exec James Dolan and, as part...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner Unsuccessfully Tries to Shame Media Into Discussing Policy
Anthony Weiner tried to clear the air Friday evening, giving a whirlwind round of interviews to various local news outlets. Free of the chaotic press scrums that have dominated his mayoral campaign...
View ArticleLondon’s National Portrait Gallery Plans Bob Dylan Show
Bob Dylan, an up-and-coming artist best known for his paintings of Asian people and fake magazine cover collages, will have a solo exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery. The show is called...
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