Paul Ryan’s Aides Deny Rumors As V.P. Speculation Heats Up
With Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan considered to be a leading contender to be Mitt Romney’s running mate, readers of the veepstakes tea leaves took note when he pulled out of a planned speech this...
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Nasdaq Sees More Costs Coming From Botched Facebook IPO
Nasdaq said in a regulatory filing today that it expects to incur "significant additional expenses" as a result of a technical glitch at the exchange during Facebook's initial public offering, which in...
View ArticleMedia Briefs: Editor-in-Chief Out at BlackBook
BlackBook's editor is out. Buzzfeed's got a new vertical. And The Observer has a softball game against a Foer Brother to get to, so let's get on with this. Here are your Friday Afternoon Media Briefs:...
View ArticleSwank or Rank? Frank Sinatra’s Former Penthouse Hits the Market for $7.7 M.
When we heard that Frank Sinatra's old rat pack party pad at 530 East 72nd Street was coming to market for $7.7 million, as reported earlier this week by the New York Post, we were excited to catch a...
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Just How Desperate Is Walmart to Open in New York—And Have They Lost All...
Walmart strikes out once again. (Related Companies) The press release came in even before The Observer had seen the initial report that prompted it. "We have not had any talks with Walmart about a...
View ArticleRoundup: A History of Barroom Brawling
BREAKING: There are new pictures of Michael Grimm’s dog Sebastian. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office has an interesting way of responding to FOIL requests. Reid Pillifant profiled Eric Schneiderman’s...
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Reactions to Thought Catalog Writer’s Fake Craigslist Job ‘Experiment’
Adjunct professor burn Eric Auld is 26-year-old with a Master's in English, a couple lists on McSweeney's, and a job as an "Adjunct Lecturer in English." And yet, like a male version of the characters...
View ArticleBe Here Now! Former Oasis Frontman Liam Gallagher Rocks Essex House In $2.5...
As the frontman for quintessential British rockers Oasis, Liam Gallagher made no secret of his dislike for the U.S. He even went so far as to describe American gigs as soul destroying, telling website...
View ArticleIn Extremely Animated Speech, Sanders Makes His Pitch to South Asian Voters
“So Sanders, what are you going to different? All you guys come up here, what are you going to different?” an audience member asked Councilman James Sanders Friday night at a Democratic club in...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: Katz for Queens; Cooling on Quinn; Too Many Obama Emails
Melinda Katz is planning a run for Queens Borough President. The Queens Tribune laid out which races to watch on September 13th. Lawmakers, especially those not facing competitive reelections, still...
View ArticleBad Faith, Fido! Was Boo the Dog a Facebook Marketing Ploy This Entire Time?
In a shocking revelation that rocked the internet today, AllThingsD exclusively reported that Boo the Dog, the internet’s most beloved pup, is embroiled in a brutal nepotism scandal that calls his...
View ArticleNYPD Unveils Creepy New Surveillance System Developed with Microsoft
Just last week, news broke that the NYPD would soon begin rolling out new tech that brings together information streams like CCTV footage and criminal databases. Developed in partnership with...
View ArticleHow Exactly Do You Cram Nine Ice Rinks Into a 95-Year-Old Armory, Even One as...
Easy—just stack them on top of each other. When Mark Messier first announced his intentions to build a new skating complex inside the Kingsbridge Armory, it sounded crazy. This is the Bronx, after all....
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You Better Work?: What Marissa Mayer’s Micro-Maternity Leave Means for...
Can you have it all? I don’t think anyone would mistake me for Marissa Mayer—the newly-appointed 37-year-old CEO of Yahoo who’s raising hackles all over town with her very public promise to return to...
View ArticleStartup Promises to Give You Authentic Fifty Shades of Grey Sexxxperience
Home life starting to get a little, well, predictable? Wishing you could find a way to spice things up like that kinky duo from the repackaged Twilight fanfic series Fifty Shades of Grey? Introducing...
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Rogue Herring: Leave Ben Lawsky Alone
Is this man a rogue? When we left for the day yesterday, we thought that the notion that Benjamin Lawsky—the New York State Department of Financial Services chief whose agency had filed an order...
View ArticleTrue Love: Artistic Renaissance Man Andrew Levitas Finds Perfect Match in...
Expecting the unexpected can be exhilarating and all, but there is something oddly satisfying when people behave in wholly predictable ways. Thus, we felt a sensation bordering on delight when we...
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Media Briefs: New York’s New Site, The Nation Goes Gossip Girl
New York is launching a new site (or "channel"), and media reporters got a gander at it today. It has a very impressive technological feature that isn't "It writes itself." Elsewhere, Gossip Girl’s...
View ArticleRoundup: Delivered by a Stork
No, George Pataki won’t be Mitt Romney’s V.P. pick. He said Republicans in New York need to develop a “connection” to the state’s families in order to win again. Memo to Andrew Cuomo: Eric Schneiderman...
View ArticleLooking Back at L.A. MOCA via Calvin Tomkins
With the recent developments at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art set off by the departure of long-time curator Paul Schimmel, the direction of the museum has never seemed more uncertain. We...
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