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IAC Might Sell The Daily Beast
Barry Diller Barry Diller is considering selling The Daily Beast, Bloomberg reports. Yesterday's news of Tina Brown's departure from The Daily Beast, prompted speculation about the fate of the already...
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Fashion Week’s Finale Devours Two Standard Hotels
Paris and Nicky Hilton at the Boom Boom Room. An hour into the Purple magazine party at the Top of the Standard, Lindsay Lohan stepped down into our cluster of booths, and did a quick left-right scan...
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Saying Goodbye to Spider: New York’s Oldest Taxi Driver Dies at 94
Johnnie "Spider" Footman (YouTube) Johnnie "Spider" Footman, New York's oldest Taxi Driver, passed away yesterday age 94 after a brief illness. Mr. Footman began driving in 1937 and saw New York City...
View ArticleRebuilt Seaside Park, NJ Boardwalk Up in Flames
Firefighters are battling a massive fire that’s been burning for more than two-and-a-half hours on the Seaside Park, New Jersey boardwalk, which was rebuilt following extensive damage sustained during...
View ArticleThis Is Not a Drill: The Twitter IPO Is Happening
Unpack the sirens and start firing up the hype machine, because Twitter just confirmed that yes, the company is planning to go public, and today the mad dash for the stock exchange begins. Quick,...
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Rick Stengel Leaving Time For The State Department
Rick Stengel (photo via Twitter) Rick Stengel, the managing editor of Time, is leaving to go to The U.S. State Department, Politico/Capital reports. Mr. Stengel, who has helmed the newsweekly since...
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Lure Catches a Break: Beloved Soho Fishbar Inks a New Lease
Brant took the bait! Lure signs a new 10-year lease. (Amanda Cohen, The Observer.) Lure Fishbar, the subterranean Soho restaurant where media elites sup side-by-side with Hollywood celebrities, will...
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Good News, Everybody! Even More Bars Are Coming to Williamsburg
Get your booze on. (ambernambrose, flickr) At least locals upset about all the hipster trustfunders taking over Williamsburg may get some new places to drown their sorrows. More than 100 businesses...
View ArticleBill Thompson Says He’s Staying in the Race as Pressure Mounts
Despite mounting pressure to drop out of the mayor’s race, Bill Thompson emerged from a meeting with his highest-profile backers tonight and again refused to concede a runoff until more votes are...
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Surprise! Dina Lohan Arrested for Drunk Driving
Dina Lohan (Getty Images) Dina Lohan, mother of the completely stable, drug-free Lindsay Lohan (our generation's poster child for Adderall addiction) was arrested Thursday night in Nassau County for...
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NPR Offers Buyouts to Reduce Employee Count By 10 Percent
All the pledge drives in the world couldn't save National Public Radio. The non-profit news organization announced today that it will offer a voluntary buyout plan to aimed at reducing staff by 10...
View ArticleBill de Blasio: ‘Do I Look Like a Guy in Limbo?’
A confident Bill de Blasio brushed off suggestions that the Democratic nomination is in limbo, telling reporters this afternoon that he’s moving full steam ahead, regardless of the final outcome of the...
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$800 Room Available in Williamsburg for Someone Who Really, Really Wants to...
Urgh Mike, can you shut up? I'm working on my whittling. (YouTube) Do you ever get tired of your roommate talking about the same thing over and over again? Well, one Williamsburg resident certainly...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Touts ‘Clinton Family’ Status
Mayoral front-runner Bill de Blasio is getting some love from his old bosses: Bill and Hillary Clinton. Speaking to reporters at a rally celebrating a court ruling that will keep Long Island College...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen Has Some Thoughts About Technology He’d Like to Share With...
The tide of technology has advanced so far that even America’s literary novelists can’t avoid the subject. Take, for example, Gary Shteyngart, who recently roamed the city wearing Google Glass on...
View ArticleRumor Roundup: Kim Kardashian Might Have the New iPhone and Alexis Ohanian...
Selfie study Kim Kardashian could be in possession of the just-announced iPhone 5s, or sunlight could’ve just made her black iPhone look grey. Tech! Refinery29 spotted a photo uploaded to Ms....
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Two Trees Leasing Guru Markets a Unique Dumbo Property—Her Own
Ms. Pardo doesn't do residential. Except her own. Caroline Pardo knows a thing or two about selling square feet. For the past 10 years, the Two Trees director of commercial leasing has been largely...
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To Do Saturday: Ultimate Cooking and Feasting
Daniel Holzman. Turn flab into abs with male beefcake bible Men’s Health. The magazine for toned bods teams up with three popular chefs—Daniel Holzman of the Meatball Shop, Roberto Santibañez of the...
View ArticleAl Sharpton: Identity Politics Has Given Way to ‘Identity Politics of Policy’
Rev. Al Sharpton welcomed “presumptive” Democratic mayoral nominee Bill de Blasio to his Saturday National Action Network rally this morning, where he declared that the identity politics of 20 years...
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After Rudy, Before Bloomberg: Looking Back on a Mayoral Legacy
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani alongside outgoing New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. (David Handschuh/New York Daily News/POOL) Finding an unpublished George Gurley piece is like opening a...
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