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Promotional Nightmares: ‘Jersey Belle’ And ‘Off the Boat’ (Video)
Randall Park in Off the Boat. (ABC)There are two ways to promote a show, as far as I can tell. One way, you spend your money on creating a sizzle reel for the press, bring it to the up fronts, spend...
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Your Can’t-Miss Sample Sales This Week
We’ve compiled a list of the best sample sales floating throughout the city this week. Happy shopping, and let us know what you find. La Perla: luxury Italian lingerie, sleepwear, swimwear and...
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Goldman Sachs Interns Victimized by Yik Yak Users Because Goldman Sachs
A screenshot of the Goldman hate on New York’s Yik Yak. “GS interns post their resumes in their Tinder bios.” This is a line from one of the many attacks on Goldman Sachs summer interns on Yik Yak, the...
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A Cyber Security Consultant Reviews Last Night’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’
Halt & Catch Fire. (AMC) Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt or FUD is a term used to describe an act of competitive aggression between two parties. The tactic, and the title for Halt and Catch Fire’s...
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Frizz Fear – New York’s Top Stylists Take on the F Word
It’s all about straight and sleek hair (Riccardo S. Savi/Getty Images for Shu Uemura Art of Hair) It’s that time of year again. When the unwelcome F-word makes it way back into the conversation. We’re...
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Hudson Eats, the Food Fetishist’s Food Court, Debuts Downtown
Like a lunch version of The Dirty Dozen. (Photo by A. De VOS/PatrickMcMullan.com) In the quarters of Manhattan where most of the work gets done, lunch hour can be a terrifying mob. Midtown floods with...
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New York-Based Sketch Show Aims to Redefine the Term Low-Budget (video)
As we enter in to the Golden Age of the Web-Series, which is something I just made up, the term “low budget” is quickly becoming a negative. Having a low budget is sort’ve becoming synonymous with...
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Urban Outfitters Opens NYC Mega-Store with a Hair Salon
57,000 square feet of hipsterdom and festival wear. (Meredith Carey) Urban Outfitters has just opened an absurdly large store in Herald Square, where one can not only get dressed, but get a haircut and...
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Prospect Heights Marijuana Farm Goes to Pot After Blaze
NYC’s favorite plant (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images) This may just be the biggest waste of weed ever. Antonio Dow, 45, accidentally lit up his pot farm in his Prospect Heights building at 577...
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Bungalow 69: A(nother) Letter to James Franco
James Franco. (Getty Images) One time, I was Googling pictures of the Chateau Marmont and masturbating to my own reflection when a certain young actor called me. “Hey,” said the actor. “Let me in your...
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Vintage Cars Ride Again
The vintage Redbird pulls into Times Square. Vintage trains glided down the city’s tracks this weekend in a throwback so rad, it couldn’t even wait until Thursday. To celebrate both the return of...
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Day Two of Shake Shack’s 10th Anniversary Celebration Draws Largest Crowd Yet
#Basic (for this week only, that is) (Observer) A panoramic photo likely couldn’t capture the vastness of the line at Shake Shack today. It stretched around the entire perimeter of Madison Square Park,...
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No One Gets Lena Dunham’s SIA Impression and That’s Okay (Video)
Last night on Late Night With Seth Meyers, Lena Dunham pretended to be SIA during the musical number “Chandeliers,” and it totally went over the audiences’s head. Look: I’ve been in the Late Night...
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California Tenure Ruling Makes Waves in New York Education Scene
A ruling in California today struck a blow to teachers unions and their supporters. (Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images) A California court ruling striking down teacher tenure laws as unconstitutional...
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Brazilian Decorator Renata Seripieri Buys at 530 Park Avenue for $9.69 M.
The model unit at 530 Park Avenue, fuzzy chairs optional. One wonders whether, sensing hostility among New Yorkers to increasing numbers of foreign investors in their midst, said investors might grow...
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Time Inc. Staffers Celebrated Spinoff With GIFS
Time Inc. Spinoff Celebration, a.k.a. the best office party ever (Screenshot) Ever since March 2013, when Time Warner announced that it would spinoff Time Inc., the less lucrative magazine arm into a...
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The Queen Takes a Bow: Eve Queler Brought Devia to ‘Devereux’—and Wowed...
Mariella Devia in ‘Roberto Devereux.’ (Photo by Stephanie Berger) At Carnegie Hall last Thursday, a capacity crowd witnessed what might be the final official act of a monarch who has reigned for more...
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The Case Against Summer Tech Camps
Illustration by Monika Aichele Summer camp. For me, the words conjure up actual camping on an island by the small lake in Michigan where I grew up. On summer afternoons, we used to row over to it in...
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Well Done, Mr. Tierney
Robert Tierney stepped down the other day after serving 11 years as chairman of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Nobody has ever held that position for so long. Few, if any, have made such a...
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House of Barbs: Jan Maxwell Plays a Washington Hostess at War With Her...
Barbara Garrick, John Aylward and Jan Maxwell in ‘The City of Conversation.’ (Photo by Stephanie Berger) With Robert Schenkkan’s Lyndon Johnson bioplay, All the Way, having just flown off with 2014’s...
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