Rumor Roundup: The Winklevoss Twins Take Hollywood and Branch Moves Up and Out
Lala Land When you plunk down $18 million in hard-won settlement earnings on an 8,000 sq. ft. manse with “a jetliner view of L.A.” you don’t just around on the couch watching Bravo. Especially not if...
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Shippers Warn of ‘Havoc’ in Weeks to Come If Longshoremen Strike
(Illustration: Tim Lane) The U.S. Maritime Alliance, which negotiates union contracts on behalf of shipping container terminal operators on the East coast, warned of "serious consequences for the...
View ArticleLavish Self-Gifting for Ungenerous Grinchy Urbanites
Screw gift-giving to others. This season should be all about you! Treat yourself to something extraordinary that, naturally, you'd never consider budgeting for to give to anyone else. Don't dwell on...
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Art World Hamptons House Swap Puts David Maupin in Janelle Rearing’s Old Place
Mr. Maupin's old house. Janelle Rearing and David Maupin don't only share a similar sensibility when it comes to selling art. The former mentor and mentee—Mr. Maupin worked under Ms. Rearing at Metro...
View ArticleSimon de Pury Leaves Phillips de Pury & Company [Updated]
Come January, auction house Phillips de Pury & Company will be simply Phillips, following news today that chairman Simon de Pury is stepping down after 12 years on the job. The departure, which...
View ArticleMorning Read: ‘I Accept Total Responsibility’
Republican Idaho Senator Michael Crapo issued an apology after he was arrested for drunk driving in the D.C. suburbs in the wee hours of Sunday morning. “I accept total responsibility and will deal...
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Newsweek‘s #LastPrintIssue
We knew it was coming and here it is. The last attempt at a buzz-generating Newsweek cover hit newsstands today. And it is generating a slight amount of buzz. The nostalgic, black and white image of...
View ArticleGovernor Cuomo Offers Condolences to Families of Firefighters Shot in Webster
After a week in which the debate over gun control dominated the political world, two first responders in Western New York were killed in a shooting. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced New York State...
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Just Because You Are Paranoid Doesn’t Mean the FBI Wasn’t Monitoring You:...
FBI keeps tabs on OWS It turns out that all you crazy, post-hippy Occupy Wall Streeters were right: the government does not have your best interest at hearts. In fact, the FBI just released a heavily...
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Rookie‘s Amy Rose Spiegel is Going to BuzzFeed Music
Amy Rose Spiegel, a staff writer at Rookie, has been named associate editor at BuzzFeed Music. Ms. Spiegel, who literally graduated from college yesterday, will start "building out the vertical and...
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Google Analytics Shoots Self in Search Engine-Optimized Foot With New Adverts...
Great Googledy-boogledy! (Youtube) Google Analytics has done a fine job creating a series of humorous television spots--apparently targeted at British businesses-- that shows what a Google Search would...
View ArticleWarning: Shopping Online From Manhattan May Result In Higher Prices
Step away from the “purchase” button. According to an investigation from the Wall Street Journal, shopping sites run by companies like Staples, Discover Financial Services, Rosetta Stone, and Home...
View ArticleHave Yourself A Very Litigious Christmas: Instagram Sued for Changes to its...
All those calming platitudes from Kevin Systrom haven’t silenced the blowback over recent changes to Instagram’s terms of service. Reuters broke the news that a class action lawsuit was filed against...
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HuffPost Figures Out Algorithm for Christmas Traffic Spike: Listing Chain...
The most popular articles on Huffington Post *Slow clap* Congratulations, Arianna. We see that you've beat the dreaded "Original Holiday Content" beast that has driven down traffic at so many other...
View ArticleStars Twinkle on Christmas: How the Tweeters, Beaters and World Leaders...
Forget about the stockings and the giant tree in your living room. Forget about the ham or, if you're Jewish, the traditional Chinese take-out to be followed by a matinee. (Which at this point has...
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Sorry, Philip Roth Is Not on Twitter
Philip Roth is no longer writing books, but that doesn't mean he has started tweeting--despite the fact that a Twitter feed proporting to be the novelist duped journalists over the Christmas holiday....
View ArticleBillionaires Go Trophy Hunting: The Biggest Real Estate Deals of 2012
The beginning of 2012 started with a closing—the most spectacular closing this city had ever seen—Russian fertilizer king Dmitry Rybolovlev spent $88 million on Sandy Weill's 15 Central Park West...
View ArticleState Senator Slams ‘Asinine’ Newspaper Editors Who Published Gun Permit Map
Over the weekend, The Journal News newspaper published maps with the addresses and names of pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties. The information for the map was legally obtained...
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Tyler Perry ‘Presents’ Kim Kardashian in Confessions of a Marriage Counselor...
Kim Kardashian, 'acting.' (Lionsgate) Future Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award winner Kim Kardashian has landed herself the role of a lifetime (or at least one that's going to be paying higher...
View ArticleConspiracy Theorist Jeff Boss Launches Mayoral Bid
Jeff Boss, who has made a name for himself by putting up posters around the city proclaiming that he “WITNESSED THE NSA ARRANGE THE 911 ATTACKS” will be running for mayor next year. In addition to...
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