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Sleep Tight, Don’t Let The Doorman Bite: This Everyday Joe Will Have You...
Tosar in Sleep Tight. Sleep Tight is a creepy—but highly effective and superbly made—horror movie from Spain in which the monster is spine-tinglingly human. The logo in the ads reads “Someone Is...
View ArticleGillibrand for Senate
Kirsten Gillibrand was an obscure U.S. representative from upstate when then-Governor David Paterson selected her to fill Hillary Clinton’s old Senate seat in 2009. In the years since, Ms. Gillibrand...
View ArticleBloomberg’s Super PAC
When it comes to political action committees, nothing less than the equivalent of a Big Gulp will do for Mike Bloomberg. And that’s just fine. Through his own super PAC, the mayor is trying to...
View ArticleLast Night’s Girls Who Code Gala Proves Beyonce’s Thesis: Who Runs the World?...
There are precious few tech events for which Betabeat would agree to wear high heels. But if there was ever a worthy cause, it’s Girls Who Code. Thus between subway transfers, we swapped out our...
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Letting It All Hang Out: These Paintings Aren’t Averse to Showing a Little...
Liev Schreiber. (Liam McMullan, Patrick McMullan) “Nudes, ladies and dudes! Welcome to the 21st annual Take Home a Nude art auction and party benefiting the New York Academy of Art.” It was 7 p.m. on...
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Tom Hanks Slams Full House (Video)
Slam Hank. (YouTube) Tom Hanks is continuing what can only be described as an "apology tour" after blowing up ABC's spot with a big F-bomb on Good Morning America while promoting Cloud Atlas last week....
View ArticleChristine Quinn’s Spokesman Denies Report the Speaker Gets Spray Tans
In a BuzzFeed report discussing presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tan, Anna Stankiewicz, owner of the New York-based spray tan company Suvara, discussed her political clients. Among them, she said,...
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Simon & Schuster Reshuffles, Lays Off Editors at Free Press Imprint
Publisher Simon & Schuster announced a major restructuring plan that will bring together all its imprints into four groups. As part of the new plan, Free Press will be folded into the Simon &...
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Former McKinsey & Co. CEO Rajat Gupta Gets Two Years Prison Time for Insider...
World Economic Forum/Michael Wuertenberg Rajat Gupta, the former chief executive officer of McKinsey & Co., was sentenced to two years imprisonment for insider trading this afternoon during a...
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An Urban Parent’s Guide to Raising Cultured Children
With all the distractions of the city, it seems there’s never really time for much of anything—particularly not for enjoying those very distractions. You and your kids have your hands in this and that,...
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Is One57 a Bummer Or a Boon for Nearby Condo Towers?
More money for the neighboring towers? It has been, thus far, a year of almost incandescent hopes for the Manhattan luxury market. The $88 million sale at 15 CPW, the $70 million sale at the Ritz...
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Mise en Abyme: Robert Lepage’s Concept-Production of Thomas Adès’s Tempest at...
'The Tempest.' (Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) And now, as they say, for something completely different. Just nine months after finishing up his woeful production of Wagner’s Ring cycleat the...
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How Deep is Your Web? the National Archives Opens A New Branch on Bowling Green
I'm about to get archival on your... (Wikimedia Commons) Yesterday a room of sharp dressed archivists, librarians and book conservators, burst into laughter at a joke about mildew. They’re a funny...
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Harper’s Embraces the Internet, Relaunches Website
Harper's Magazine officially relaunched their website yesterday, despite publisher Rick MacArthur's earlier public misgivings on the whole Internet thing. "This redesign is overdue, we realize—a delay...
View ArticleAfter Significant Layoffs, Zynga Officially Rolls the Dice on Real Money...
After two big blows in succession–downgraded earnings forecasts, followed by 5 percent layoffs and the end of its studios in Boston, Japan, and the UK–Zynga’s third quarter earnings report exceeded the...
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Sirio Maccioni and Sons Host Splashy Resto Opening without Feeding The Observer
Sirio Maccioni, Susan Bennett and Tony Bennett (Photo - Dustin Wayne Harris/Patrick McMullan) A restaurant opening in the chandeliered halls of The Pierre, flagship of Taj hotels, held much promise for...
View ArticleRomney Campaign Issues Memo Disputing Obama’s Ohio Poll Lead
For presidential contests, Ohio is important. Every politico knows that. This year’s race between President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney is proving to be no exception. Just a...
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Domingo Zapata’s New Collection Books a Room at The Bowery Hotel
Zapata and Vergara. (Eugene Mim/Patrick McMullan) “I turned the penthouse of The Bowery in to my studio ... I have a studios in Paris and L.A., so I go back and forth,” Domingo Zapata said as he moved...
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Hudson Yards Will Be Taller Than the Empire State Building, Including a...
What're you lookin' at? (Visualhouse/Related) Party on the skyline. (Visualhouse/Related) Earlier this week, the Related Companies announced it had found backers to begin building the first tower of...
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Batman Endorses This Message: Well-Heeled New Yorkers Honor Barefoot Lawyer...
Guangcheng and Bale. (Michael Stewart/Getty Images) Standing in a Manhattan event space with cocktails and views of the Hudson, Chen Guangcheng was far removed from the countryside house that confined...
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