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Tears for Sears: Eddie Lampert Props Up the Troubled Retailer, But Who’s Buying?
Photo illo: Ed Johnson. Did you hear the news about Sears last Monday? Of course you didn’t. You’re not stuck in 1975, after all, so why would you absorb any news about the company? But this was worth...
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Cotter’s Key: The Geo-Fence That Has Malls Surrounded
Mr. Cunningham at the Javits Center. More than 25,000 conventioneers rolled in for the 102nd “Big Show” at the Javits Center this weekend—the retailing industry’s increasingly desperate annual attempt...
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Meet Audrey Gelman: She’s Like Marnie—Only Successful
Audrey Gelman and Lena Dunham last week at Capitale, from Ms. Gelman’s Instagram account. Audrey Gelman first appears in season two of Girls—which premiered Sunday night—coming out of the bathroom. She...
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Heavy Lifting: Dara-Lynn Weiss’s Memoir Hits Shelves
Photo credit: Vogue. Remember when Dara-Lynn Weiss wrote about putting her overweight 7-year-old daughter, Bea, on a diet in last April’s issue of Vogue? In the event that you do not, Ms. Weiss...
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One Klein Day: Victor Cruz Busts Salsa Moves at Calvin’s Milan Show and...
Victor Cruz, Italo Zucchelli and Justin Theroux at the Calvin Klein show in Milan. (McMullan) Shindigger is simply mad about all things Italian: the food, the language, the people, the clothes, the...
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Study: N.Y. Pet Owners Failing to Care for Their Critters
Meow. (Getty Images) It shouldn't be raining cats and dogs in New York. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, New York ranks 49th among U.S. states in pet ownership, with 50.6...
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Magazine Success Story: The Saturday Evening Post Keeps On Going
On a recent chilly Tuesday evening, magazine editors and ad salespeople from one of the nation’s most venerable glossies crowded the garden room at Michael’s, holding glasses of pinot aloft as the...
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Bad Men: TV’s Most Reprehensible Antiheroes and the Women Who Love Them
Clockwise from left: Damian Lewis in Homeland, Steve Buscemi in Boardwalk Empire, Andrew Lincoln in The Walking Dead, Jon Hamm in Mad Men, and Bryan Cranston on Breaking Bad. (Ed Johnson)On Sunday...
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Lena Dunham Goes on The Howard Stern Show, Buries Hatchet
Lena Dunham: Good sport or BEST sport? (HBO) Calling Lena Dunham a "little fat chick" might have been the smartest move Howard Stern's made in the last several years. Not only did his remarks get...
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New York Times Names Glenn Kramon Tech Editor
Glenn Kramon, The New York Times' assistant managing editor for enterprise has been appointed the paper's technology editor, Dean Murphy, the newly appointed editor for Business Day, announced in an...
View ArticleSomething Is . . . Off About These Startup Job Descriptions
It’s hard out there for a startup, what with the tech talent crunch and all. A different kind of hardship than the one faced by America’s millions of underemployed, of course. But how are you going to...
View ArticleCuomo Pledges His ‘Full Support’ for Obama’s Gun Proposals
It’s not just Mayor Michael Bloomberg who’s offering effusive praise for President Barack Obama’s gun initiatives that the White House rolled out today. In a statement released this afternoon, Governor...
View ArticleAnd They’re Off: A Crowded Pack of Candidates and Crazies Races Toward City Hall
New York City’s last two mayors each left an indelible mark on the city. Rudy Giuliani’s eight years are remembered for his crime crackdown, the Disneyfication of Times Square and millions weeping as...
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Councilwoman Brewer Lays Out BIG Demands for Durst’s 57th Street Pyramid
Affordable or not affordable, that is the question. (Durst/Fetner) Tomorrow, Durst/Fetner will go before the Zoning and Franchise Subcommittee of the City Council, one of the final stops in the...
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Does Townhouse Sale Mean Park Slope Is Losing Its Kennedy?
Rory Kennedy. Could Rory Kennedy be moving out of Park Slope? New York's own Camelot, where hope, optimism and real estate prices are always on the rise, along with the test scores of little Rowan and...
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Today’s Special: Dumpling House Fights Landlord Over ‘Suspicious’ Sidewalk...
Sticky Situation. (Spring38.com) This dumpling shop's owner is steaming mad. Mark Yuan, the owner of the new Midtown West dumpling house Spring, says that unnecessary scaffolding has cast a shadow over...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger on Reddit: Plans for Twins 2 With Eddie Murphy and...
"Proof" (Imgur) Arnold Schwarzenegger, apropos of nothing except his new film The Last Stand co-starring Johnny Knoxville (in theaters Friday!), showed up on Reddit's IAmA (Ask Me Anything) subforum...
View ArticleThere Is No Opting Out of Facbeook’s Graph Search
In the deluge of posts generated by Facebook’s impeccably-orchestrated “graph search” announcement, one teency little tidbit got obscured. Zuck’s potential advertising “goldmine” has no opt-out button....
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Barney’s Kin ‘Shoots Neighbor’ in Latest Disturbing Kid Show Scandal
(Getty) Looks like the Barney clan isn’t such a happy family after all. An altercation in a peaceful Malibu neighborhood turned ugly last Wednesday, when 27 year-old Patrick Leach, son of Barney &...
View ArticleMike Judge’s HBO Silicon Valley Comedy Opens On ‘The Shit Brown Hills of...
Have we told you how mind-numbingly excited Betabeat is for HBO’s forthcoming comedy, Silicon Valley? That the network’s inspired decision to hire the creators of Beavis and Butthead to write a TV show...
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