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Stop What You Are Doing and Go Audition for Annie
Everyone's least favorite musical to drag sticky children to (after Cats and RENT), is now filming in New York, and as of right this very second, you could be auditioning for the Jay-Z and Will...
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Friday Round Up: Inauguration Coverage
Bill de Blasio and his family on stage at the inauguration. (Photo: by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) I want to thank New York Observer readers for enjoying Politicker's Inauguration coverage in...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Threatens to Strip During Storm Briefing
Mayor Bill de Blasio sure knows how to make reporters pay attention to his winter snowstorm briefings. At the very end of a detailed press update this morning at a sanitation garage in Queens, the...
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Snubbing Mere Millionaires, Developers Court Elusive Billionaires with Urban...
The 50,000-square-foot-pius mansion will rise next to this massive office building. Not so long ago, developers focused their energies on building expansive condos for Wall Street executives and trust...
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Neetzan ‘Doesn’t Like to Be Called a Machine’ Zimmerman Leaving Gawker
Viral phenom Neetzan Zimmerman is leaving Gawker for an-as-yet unnamed start-up that doesn't compete with Gawker, Gawker editor John Cook announced this afternoon on Twitter. "WELP. Neetzan Zimmerman,...
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Comedian Natasha Leggero is Sorry/Not-Sorry About SpaghettiO-Gate
We love comedian Natasha Leggero, and not because she's a native New Yorker. She held her own at the boy's club that was James Franco's roast last year, and her whole drawling socialite shtick...
View ArticleBrooklyn Had Camels Before They Were Cool
Is it a traveling petting zoo? A runaway circus? A desert caravan that got very, very lost? Brooklyn residents were baffled when a flock of animals took to the wintery streets this Sunday. But these...
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Put a Bird on It! BK Boutique Seeker Drops Park Slope Condo for $1.75 M.
Ted Lazarus (PLI Institute) Brooklyn, as we all know, is not merely a place, but an idea, an image, a brand. The borough's most attractive and—depending on who you talk to—annoying qualities and...
View Article12 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before January 13
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 Opening: “Bad Fog” at Martos Artist Eddie Martinez, whose show of gargantuan paintings at Brooklyn’s Journal Gallery was one of the high points of last year, helms this group show...
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GQ Gets Into The Brooklyn Beard Biz
January's GQ Cover GQ is bringing branded content to another level by opening up a branded barbershop, because why just be a magazine if you can also be a lifestyle brand? And of course, the pop-up...
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Hush Little Burger: Inside the Mind of A Silent-Dinner Survivor
Silent yoga. (Photo: Astrid Stawiarz) This is the most Brooklyn thing I’ve ever done. I’m on my way to a yoga class and silent vegan dinner in Greenpoint, but I'm lost on the wrong Meserole. “Silent...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Says Thanks but No Thanks to State Pre-K Funding
Mayor Bill de Blasio today dismissed a report that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is planning to propose an alternate funding stream for Mr. de Blasio’s signature universal pre-K tax plan, and said any extra money...
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QUIZ: What Type of GIRLS Critic Are You?
The GIRLS are back in town! (HBO) With next week's premiere of the third season of HBO's critically acclaimed and culturally divisive meditation on millennials, GIRLS, the show's creator Lena Dunham...
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Rebecca Carroll Is New Managing Editor of XoJane
Rebecca Carroll It happened to her: writer and editor Rebecca Carroll has been hired as the new managing editor of xoJane, Jane Pratt's confessional women's website. "I'm so thrilled to be joining...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Makes Next Round of Appointments
Mayor Bill de Blasio made his latest round of appointments Monday, naming half-a-dozen advisers who will oversee community affairs, the Mayor’s Office of Operations and the Department of Youth and...
View ArticleRejected Culture Groups for Amy Chua’s Triple Package
In her new book The Triple Package, "Tiger Mom" Amy Chua describes the three character traits--superiority, insecurity and impulse control--that combine to make the ideal race group of humans. "That...
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Slacking Off: 12 Ways to Wear $1,170 Sweatpants in All Seriousness
They look deceptively like every other pair of sweatpants. Oh, no! Your maid has taken your python pants to the cleaners, and it's freezing outside. Maybe it's a good day to just kick back and relax...
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Dennis Rodman Defends North Korea Against Imminent Chris Cuomo Threat (Video)
Dennis Rodman on CNN. Have you ever had that thing, where you're trying to say something and it just won't come out right? Well, not Dennis Rodman, who is basically the Clarence Darrow of international...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio to Name Phil Walzak Press Secretary
Mayor Bill de Blasio will appoint Phil Walzak to serve as his press secretary, sources confirmed. Mr. Walzak, a longtime member of Mr. de Blasio’s campaign communications team, previously worked as a...
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The Doctor is Out: 740 Park’s Only Available Commercial Unit is on Offer for...
Gilded without. Why exactly the ground-floor Unit #C at 740 Park Avenue came to break off from the duplex just above it to become first a stand-alone two-bedroom apartment, and then a doctor's office,...
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