Messaging Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Founder Charges $100 to Stay Out of His...
Oh, Zuck. We know you have a busy schedule, especially now that you’re running a public company, and we imagine that if you were to ever hang up your CEO boots, you’d have no shortage of speaking...
View ArticleBloomberg Slaps Down Criticism of Painkiller Restriction Plan
Yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city officials unveiled a new initiative to limit supplies of prescription painkillers in the city’s emergency rooms as a way to combat what they described as a...
View ArticleOn the Market: The Modernist Townhouses of William Lescaze; the Ferry and the...
Won't someone please save William Lescaze's lovely, dowdy Kramer house? [NY Times] Six real estate bigs make their predictions ahead of REBNY dinner. [Crain's] Ferry accident shows how thin city's...
View ArticleVornado’s Steve Roth Sells West Village Loft for Four Times What He Paid
The West Village, 1999. The meatpackers have all but left the nearby cobblestones, but a savvy buyer can still pick up a sprawling, newly-converted industrial loft for a little over a million bucks....
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The Subscription Cycle: Why Andrew Sullivan’s Switching to the Pay Model and...
As a business, the journalism industry is bipolar. For basically all of its history, it's been bouncing between two opposing revenue models. Though many were shocked at the news last week that...
View ArticleSatanists Rally For Rick Scott
A group of Florida-based Satanists will be holding a rally in support of the Sunshine State’s Republican Governor Rick Scott on January 25. According to a press release for the event, the Satanic...
View ArticleTweet the Market: Hedge Fund That Traded Twitter Sentiment Relaunches for...
Remember the so-called Twitter hedge fund, Derwent Capital Markets, which parlayed research indicating that tweeted sentiments tracked well with the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fashion a...
View ArticleOscars Schmoscars—Richard Prince Gets a Sequel at Gagosian Beverly Hills
Yesterday, the Academy announced its nominations for the Oscars. Exciting news for the world of pop culture, less so perhaps for the art world, which is generally more curious about shows of a...
View ArticleCops Now Pinning Mugshots to Pinterest Because the Police Can Be Aspirational...
Few social networks are as adroit at triggering man’s aspirational impulse as Pinterest. Of course, different people covet different things. In the case of police departments in fourteen...
View ArticleWelcome to Tech World Stardom, Jimmy Iovine
It’s no wonder that Jimmy Iovine has been the beau of the ball called CES—what would you rather write about, more dumb gadget shit or the smack-talking, paisley-loving head of a major record label?...
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Newsweek‘s New Digital Cover Hits Digital Newsstands
Photo credit: Newsweek Newsweek's last print publication went out on December 24, not with a bang but with a hashtag. Today, the newly digital-only publication unveiled a new, all-digital cover for the...
View ArticleRumor Roundup: Sexism at CES? It Ain’t Me, Babe
#RealTalk Dave McClure, our favorite giver of zero fucks, went on a bit of a Twitter tear the other day. It started with the admission that he’d “just had really hard tough love talk w/ startup...
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Lights Out: Eviction Stay Snuffed for Sixteenth Street Synagogue
The synagogue's legal battle is on its last legs. The Appellate Court has denied the Sixteenth Street Synagogue a stay of eviction that would have kept it in its home of 67 years while it explores its...
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East Midtown Hold Up: Maloney, State Pols Ask City Hall to Slow Down Rezoning
Don't block my landmark, bro. (Getty) Add a few more names to the growing list of people concerned about the speed with which the city is executing the Midtown East Rezoning—ones that carry some...
View ArticleHardcore Parkour Freaks Finally Have a Place to Practice Indoors
Straddling the ever changing East Williamsburg/Bushwick divide, surrounded by warehouses and empty of pedestrian traffic, a new gym plans to summon the dormant monkey caged deep within most New...
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Obama to Be Inaugurated Surrounded By Dozens of Dignitaries Armed With Yogurt
(Chobani.com) Seeing as President Barack Obama once wore yogurt at a Boulder, Co., event last spring, it’s mildly surprising that the very same dairy treat has been selected to be part of January 21's...
View ArticleThe White House Responds to That Death Star Petition: ‘The Administration...
Remember that petition urging the White House to facilitate job creation by building a gigantic Death Star a la Star Wars? With a little help from 4chan, the petition reached the 25,000 signature...
View ArticleCharlie Rangel Discusses the Debt Ceiling Debate and $1 Trillion Coin
Congressman Charlie Rangel sat down with a small group of reporters yesterday for a wide-ranging discussion at his office. One of the main topics was the brewing battle over the debt ceiling and...
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The Lovely Bones: Harold Dieterle’s New Restaurant, The Marrow, Mines His...
The juniper brased lamb neck at The Marrow At a certain point in a man’s life, usually in his mid- to late 30s, a time when his grandparents are dead or dying, when he may or may not have children of...
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The Belle of the Borough: Can Park Slope Accept Miss America?
Ali Rogers, left, Miss South Carolina, and Mallory Hytes Hagan, Miss New York, react after the announcement of the new Miss America. The loveable, retro kitsch-fest that is the Miss America Pageant...
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