De Blasio Names Barrios-Paoli Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has appointed Lilliam Barrios-Paoli to be his next Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services. Ms. Barrios-Paoli, who currently is commissioner of the Department for the...
View ArticleDe Blasio Going to Washington With Mayors ‘Anxious to Put Our Stamp on the...
Bill de Blasio is going to Washington tomorrow. New York City’s mayor-elect announced today that he’ll be meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, along with other newly-elected mayors....
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Amy Poehler Accosts Wary New Yorkers With Christmas Carols (Video)
Billy Eichner and Amy Poehler (FunnyOrDie.com) Ah, this kind of stuff never happens to us. We're never the people on the street just minding our own business, and all of a sudden a celebrity pops up...
View ArticleBusiness Insider Inks 150 Fifth Avenue Sublease
Business Insider, master of the slideshow, has signed a 20,646-square-foot sublease of the entire eighth floor at 150 Fifth Avenue, The Commercial Observer has learned. The subtenant will pay rent in...
View ArticleDe Blasio Invokes Dasani in Vow to Change City’s Approach to Its Homeless
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and his newly-appointed Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services today vowed to change the way the city treats its poor and to address the homeless crisis in a city where...
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Very à la Mod: Atlantic Yards Places First Modular Units for B2 Tower
A rendering of B2 Reporters, PR men and honchos from Forest City Ratner and modular manufacturer Skanska gathered today in the cold and considerable shadow of Barclay's Center to witness the hoisting...
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Susan Orlean on Blogs, Twitter and Writing
Susan Orlean. (Photo by Getty Images) "I'm trying to remember what we did to procrastinate before Twitter," Susan Orlean tweeted yesterday. "Anyone?" If you listened to her interview with the literary...
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Grand Illusion: American Hustle Is an Essay on the Brilliance of Corruption
Left to right: Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle. We’re all con artists, see. Everyone is conning someone else in order to survive....
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If Nannies Could Fly: On the 50th Anniversary of Mary Poppins, a Look Back at...
Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emme Thompson as P. L. Travers in Saving Mr. Banks. Hollywood rarely sends itself a valentine, much less a Christmas card, but Saving Mr. Banks, a mouthful of cotton candy...
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Night and Day: In Some Velvet Morning, Nothing Is as It Seems
Stanley Tucci not-so-subtly courts Alive Eve in Some Velvet Morning. The first 80 minutes or so of this long-winded, 82-minute two-hander, written and directed by playwright Neil LaBute, finds the...
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What to Get the Luddite on Your List
Time (to say nothing of technology) marches on, but there are some who refuse to succumb to the rewiring of the world, and they need gifts too. In a holiday season saturated with deals on everything...
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Stoner Rock Royals: Queens of the Stone Age Play Brooklyn on Saturday
QOTSA on Dec. 7. (Photo: Getty) "If life is but a dream, then wake me up," Josh Homme croons on the dark opening track of Queens of the Stone Age's sixth full length album, ...Like Clockwork....
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Happy Holidays: Steve Harvey Is Interviewing President Obama
Steve Harvey (Getty) Nobody needs to buy us any holiday presents this year, because Steve Harvey is interviewing President Obama and it's going to be on TV. According to Politico, Mr. Harvey's PR rep...
View ArticleBlouin Media, Publisher of Art+Auction and Modern Painters, Terminates Most...
On Wednesday, Dec. 4, the heads of the international bureaus of Blouin Artinfo received an email from Louise Blouin Media Vice Chairman Bruce Ferguson, who joined the company in September and whom many...
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Debate of the Year: SantaCon
Badass Santa. (Flickr, IstoletheTV) There have been a lot of things to argue about in 2013: Should we raise the debt ceiling? Should our government shut down? How should we reopen the government? Is...
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The 1 Percent Meets Other 99: Buzzfeed and DuJour Team Up for Celebrity...
When DuJour magazine launched last summer, founder and CEO Jason Binn made the glossy's missive clear: It was a luxury publication, in every sense of the word. The print edition would only be sent to...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Walks Away From White House Meeting With Sweeping National Hopes
WASHINGTON — Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio went down to Washington, D.C. today to meet with President Barack Obama, emerging emboldened that a “progressive movement” was sweeping the nation. Speaking to...
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To Do Saturday: Math and Word Nerds, Unite!
MoMath entrance. Math and word nerds, it’s time to unite for Dimensions: the MoMath Puzzle Hunt, part of the Museum of Mathematics one-year anniversary celebration. This year’s event, featuring work by...
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To Do Sunday: Michael Malice Discusses North Korea
Earlier this year, author Michael Malice told The Observer of Kim Jong-Il, “He was painfully aware that when the people cheered for him, it was fake. And he’s an evil, horrible man with the blood of...
View ArticleOn the Market: East River Ferry Will Ride Into the Future; UWS Freaks Out...
Bloomberg announces five year extension of East River ferry service. [Crain's]Thank god! There's now an "affordable" luxury alternative to super luxury. [NYT]Promotional video for their San Francisco...
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