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You–Yes You!–Could be Playing Wonder Woman on the CW!
Insert your face here. (DC Comics)Good news for everyone who was saddened by the aborted Tara-from-Friday-Night-Lights (Adrianne Palicki) reboot of Wonder Woman on NBC: The CW has tentatively...
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Witnesses Say Man Was Pushed in Front of Midtown Subway Train
(Getty) Reports from the scene indicate a man struck by the N train in Midtown on Monday may have been pushed. The incident occurred in the 49th Street and 7th Avenue subway station around 12:30 p.m.,...
View ArticleSoulCycle Opens First Location in Brooklyn
SoulCycle will be opening their first Brooklyn location at 184 Kent Avenue. The luxury indoor cycling boutique, a subsidiary of Equinox, has inked a fifteen year deal for 4,300 square feet on the...
View ArticleJohn McAfee Is in Guatemala, Suckers
Today, Vice announced that it had managed to track down antivirus king John McAfee after he’d safely escaped Belize while wanted for questioning related to the murder of his neighbor. In smug hipster...
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New Owner of Townhouse Duo on East 78th Street Is Also Buying the Ackerman...
A nice row of brownstones or a nice, big building site? Is there a new housing development in the works for East 78th Street? We can't say for sure, but it definitely looks like some funny business is...
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Private Equity: Warburg Pincus Honcho David Coulter Bets on UES Co-op
All the pre-war goodies. David A. Coulter has made some impressive deals and some not-so-stellar ones: from a much maligned merger with NationsBank when he was Bank America CEO to a turn at JP Morgan...
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Media Winter Redux: The Daily Dies; Downsizing at The New York Times
It didn't feel much like winter. It was balmy: 60 degrees and sunny. The holiday decorations felt out of place in the mild breeze. But the frost was creeping in—media winter (as foreshadowed in October...
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Cliff Hanger: Fiscal Fight Makes for Lousy Politics But Killer TV
For three consecutive days last week, I woke up before 9 a.m. without the use of an alarm. This has never happened before. It’s not because I’m bright-eyed and looking to seize a brand-new day’s worth...
View ArticleThe Battle Over Revenge Porn: Can Hunter Moore, the Web’s Vilest...
The king of revenge porn had just slept with a girl on her 18th birthday at an inconspicuous hotel in Chinatown, and he claimed he had the cell phone snap of her driver’s license to prove it. Though he...
View ArticleWhite House Accidentally Confuses Jay Carney With Michelle Obama
The White House Press Office made a rather amusing error when they sent out the transcript of Press Secretary Jay Carney’s afternoon briefing. In the transcript, Mr. Carney’s answer to a question about...
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The Food That Ate Manhattan: The Implacable Rise of Frozen Yogurt Leaves Us Cold
Illustration by Ryan Snook. I’d been noticing them for some time, of course, the way you might notice a nimbus of fruit flies hovering above a bowl of browning bananas, or the tinny music leaking out...
View ArticleHello Operator: Can Bill de Blasio Go From Master Strategist to Mister Mayor?
The year: 1980. At stake: the presidency of NYU’s Weinstein Hall dorm. “It was a hotly, hotly contested race,” Public Advocate Bill de Blasio recalls of his first campaign. His opponent was thwarting...
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The Zen Move: Here’s Why Obama Should Fold in Fiscal Follies
President Obama. The conventional wisdom insists that President Obama has all the leverage right now over the Republicans in their negotiation for a “grand bargain” to close the budget deficit....
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Life and Death: The Anarchist Is Dead on Arrival, so Is Dead Accounts
LuPone and Winger in 'The Anarchist.' To put it in language the playwright should understand: fuck off already, David Mamet. This is not simply a reaction to his newfound and aggressively evangelized...
View ArticleArt Basel Miami Beach 2012 Preview: Part 5
The moment has arrived. The 2012 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach opens this morning to invited guests. The general public will have access Thursday through Sunday. More than 250 galleries have brought...
View ArticleGovernor Cuomo’s Magnificent Christmas Tree
Sandra Lee, the cooking show host and girlfriend of Andrew Cuomo, just posted a picture of the Christmas tree in the Westchester home she shares with the governor on Twitter. “Merry Christmas! Our tree...
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Publicity Circus: BlackBerry Shoots for Relevance; Glenn Beck’s Fluid...
BASKETBALL AND BLACKBERRY: When celebrities walk the red carpet and go out on the town, you can bet that none of the billions of dollars in cash that Apple is hoarding is being paid to any of them to...
View ArticleA Very Cuomo Christmas
Late Tuesday night, Andrew Cuomo’s girlfriend, celebrity chef Sandra Lee, set the internet abuzz when she tweeted a photo of an ornate Christmas tree at the home she shares with the governor in...
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Joe Lhota Calls Bill Rudin “an Exemplary Leader”
Mr. Flood. (MTA/Flickr) It's beginning to feel a bit like the letters section of the New York Review of Books around here. Yesterday morning, The Observer published a post highlighting another outlet's...
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Newsweek Layoffs Coming Today, Tina Brown Confirms [UPDATED]
Newsweek’s print edition is ending in a matter of weeks, and the anticipated staff changes have already begun. Layoffs are expected to be announced this afternoon, a tipster tells us. Meanwhile, we...
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