Speaker Candidates Navigate New Red Sox Politics
For aspiring New York politicians, it’s harder to publicly slam the Red Sox these days. At a candidates forum last night, the contenders for City Council speaker were forced to publicly declare their...
View ArticleBill de Blasio’s Transition Team Highlights Break With Bloomberg
More than two weeks after being elected the city’s next mayor, Bill de Blasio yesterday announced the 60 names that will lead his transition team–names that underscore differences in the approaches of...
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Who Killed JFK? Roger Stone’s New Book Blames LBJ
Roger Stone, the sharp-dressed, right-wing political operative who is no fan of any Democrat, has it in for Lyndon Johnson. Mr. Stone says the architect of the War on Poverty and the Great Society is...
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News You Can Lose: Time Warner Cable’s Shabby Rebranding of NY1
Print's Charming: Pat Kiernan anchors the popular "In The Papers" segment (NY1) The Empire Mistake Building. The Statue of Lunacy. Crimes Square. Now that Time Warner Cable has renamed NY1 after its...
View ArticleAlec Baldwin Becomes Issue in Idaho Congressional Race
Actor Alec Baldwin, facing backlash over anti-gay remarks recently directed at a photographer, is now an attack line in Idaho politics. Earlier this morning, the conservative group Club for Growth sent...
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Bonfire of the (Insert Literary Pun): Tom Wolfe’s Papers Come to New York...
Tom Wolfe moves papers down the street for millions. (Getty)New Journalism is now Old Journalism, or at least Established Journalism (or maybe it's morphed into New New Journalism? Who can keep track)...
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Brooklyn Bar Raises Drinking Age to 25 Because Young People Are Annoying
Phil's Crummy Corner (Facebook) A Cobble Hill restaurant is upping its weekend drinking age to combat the presence of all those annoying, drunken young'uns. DNAinfo reports that Phil's Crummy Corner,...
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Home But Never Alone: Living in Your Childhood Bedroom Can Be Hazardous to...
Jasmine Lobe. (New York Observer photo illustration) As a born and raised New Yorker, I assumed that after a six-year hiatus in Los Angeles, I’d just slip back into my old life, like riding a bike. As...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg Announces de Blasio Will Inherit ‘Historic’ Balanced Budget
Mayor Michael Bloomberg today announced that his successor, Bill de Blasio, will become the first new mayor in modern history to inherit a balanced budget–but Mr. de Blasio’s team says he remains...
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Judge Rules You’re Never Too Drunk to Be Convicted of Murder
Drunkenness can be a valid excuse for a lot of things, but it's definitely not going to get you out of a murder charge in New York. On Thursday, New York's highest court upheld three defendants' murder...
View ArticleGood Guy Frank Bruni Returns Courtney Love’s Lost iPhone Via Twitter
Last night, presumably after leaving a séance with her coven of Instagram witches, Courtney Love left her iPhone in a yellow cab. Lucky for her, New York Times columnist and all around nice guy Frank...
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Nate Silver Avoids Talking About ‘Times Is in Trouble’ Narrative
Nate Silver, John Skipper and Peter Kafka, from left, at the Paley Center’s International Council Summit. Superstar statistician Nate Silver avoided addressing stories about departures at The New York...
View ArticleCatholic Group Slams de Blasio for Transition Team’s ‘Insult’
Bill de Blasio might need to say a few “Hail Marys” after his new transition team offended a Catholic group just a day after its announcement. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg Doesn’t Remember Criticizing Bill de Blasio
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been singing a very different tune since Bill de Blasio was elected his successor earlier this fall. Before November 5th, the mayor–and his staff–appeared barely able to...
View ArticleOn the Market: A Manhattan Gas Station Is Hard to Find; One Vandam Penthouse...
Manhattan drivers search far and wide for a fill-up as gas stations vanish. [WSJ]City demands that owners repair three decrepit Bed-Stuy townhouses. [DNAinfo]New York couple finds happiness with a move...
View Article‘I Liken It to Hemlines’: Mayor Bloomberg on Bill de Blasio’s Victory
Mayor Michael Bloomberg today compared the groundswell of support for change that propelled Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio to victory, to the fashion industry changing hemlines on clothing. Musing during...
View ArticleStartup Hopes to Make Your Steam Radiator Less Noisy, More Efficient
Now that winter is coming, there are a lot of annoying things that make us miserable (looking at you, slow-walking tourists), but perhaps there’s nothing more aggravating than the steam-heated...
View ArticleTo Do Friday: Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders
I am not sure why John Wesley Harding changed his name to Wesley Stace, but I am sure that his Cabinet of Wonders variety show, which features a rotating cast of performers, is a great idea. Joining...
View ArticleBloomberg Emerges Bite-Free From Staten Island Zoo
Mayor Michael Bloomberg emerged unscathed this morning from a visit to the Staten Island Zoo, where he was famously bitten by resident groundhog Staten Island Chuck on Groundhog Day back in 2009. Read...
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Fifty Years Ago This Minute: How the Assassination Story Broke
Word spread fast on Nov. 22, 1963, that horrible day 50 years ago. It was warm for late November – 64 degrees – and news broadcasts about John F. Kennedy’s assassination spilled through open windows to...
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