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Million Dollar Listing Broker Michael Lorber Sells Own Apartment for Slightly...
Mr. Lorber has managed the difficult task of selling his own condo. When real estate scion and broker Michael S. Lorber signed on to star in Million Dollar Listing, many thought the move...
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The Bechdel Test Proves Hollywood is a Boys’ Town
Before launching into a feminist rant, I must confess I would rather watch Daniel Craig wiping a Monte Carlo hotel lobby floor with a villain, or Robert Downey Jr.’s wry visage being snapped into a...
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What Eastbound & Down’s Finale Taught Us About Having it All
The original K-P. (HBO)It's been four seasons and a wild jet ski ride with former major league pitcher Kenny Powers, who finally gave up his dreams of fame and fortune last night on HBO's finale of one...
View ArticleState Lawmakers Push Albany to ‘Walk the Walk’ on Progressive Agenda
Emboldened by Democrat Bill de Blasio’s decisive win in the mayor’s race, the state’s Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus today rolled out a new agenda and pushed Albany to...
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Come Hill or High Water: Former Secretary of State Clinton Takes Over NYC’s...
Hillary Clinton at Malaria No More's gala. Like an express A train moving through the city—nonstop, surrounded by diversity, covering New York from top to bottom—Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former...
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Kanye West Talks Slavery, Kim Kardashian on Debut Bret Easton Ellis Podcast
Battle of the super-ego.When you think about it, obviously. Obviously, Bret Easton Ellis deserves a podcast for all his hard work fighting with Nikke Finke and making The Canyons. And obviously, the...
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Layoffs at Bloomberg News Show Shift in Priorities
Bloomberg News laid off dozens of staffers and eliminated some positions today in an effort to shift resources within the company. "One lesson we learned was that we must have the courage to say no to...
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Times Reporter Ravi Somaiya Joins Media Desk
Ravi Somaiya (Twitter) Ravi Somaiya is joining the Times media desk, he announced on Twitter this evening. https://twitter.com/ravisomaiya/status/402572817301909504 Last year, Mr. Somaiya returned to...
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Smoke ‘Em While You Got ‘Em: NYC Becomes First City/State to Raise Smoking...
Up in smoke. (Getty Images) As someone in the office just put it: "You can die for your country, but you can't smoke a cigarette." That line, usually just applicable to drinking throughout the United...
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Being August Wilson: Ruben Santiago-Hudson Is Getting Into Character as the...
Ruben Santiago-Hudson in'How I Learned What I Learned.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) Back in October 1984, the playwright and actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson, then new to New York and unplugged professionally,...
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Harry Potter Looks for Hogwarts Express in Penn Station (Video)
Business as usual. (YouTube)This just proves that spending too long in Penn Station will smother your soul so completely that even goddamn magic can't bring it back. "Sorry, Platform 9? No, I don't...
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Lap-Dancing With Adult Mag and Chinx Drugz
Sarah Nicole Prickett and Chinx Drugz. This past weekend, erotic literary mag Adult threw a party at Sapphire Lounge, an infamous Midtown strip club previously known as Scores. It was weird to see a...
View ArticleEditorial: Big Intentions Aren’t Enough
The fiasco that has become Obamacare should remind all of us, particularly the mayor-elect of New York, of the perils of big ideas and good intentions. None of it matters if you don’t know how to get...
View ArticleEditorial: East Side Retreat
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided to scrap his ambitious proposal to rezone east Midtown. That’s unfortunate but for the best. The plan was doomed anyway: Incoming Mayor Bill de Blasio opposed the...
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Family Circus: Taking Care of Baby Is a Taut, Chilling Mystery
'Taking Care of Baby.' (Photo by Joan Marcus) “The following has been taken word for word from interviews and correspondence,” says an offstage voice just after the actors have taken their chairs,...
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To Do Wednesday: Summoning Literary Paris
If New York has any city to rival it for capturing the literary imagination, it’s Paris, and Ideasmyth delves deep into this love affair with Franco-Foodie Lit: 3 Women Writers in Paris. Find out why...
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To Do Wednesday: Catch a Show by Lady Rizo
Lady Rizo. If you’ve never been to a Lady Rizo show, you are in for a treat. If you have, you know the she goes all out to seduce the crowd with her gorgeous voice, fun banter and charismatic charm....
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Morning Media Mix
(Illustration by Lauren Payne.) Have you heard? Video is really big right now. The New York Times launched “The New York Times Minute,” a one-minute video news report that will come out three times a...
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Morning Media Mix
(Illustration by Lauren Payne.) New York Times political editor Carolyn Ryan is set to become the paper's new Washington bureau chief, replacing David Leonhardt. Mr. Leonhardt—apparently known as "next...
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Gilmore Girls’ Comedy-Writing Couple Acquire Cobble Hill Townhouse for $1.4 M.
Gilmore Girls (Flickr, marcando ponto seriados) Born to to a Jewish father from the Bronx and a Baptist mother from Gulfport, Mississippi, Amy Sherman-Palladino is best known for creating Gilmore...
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