Posting a Selfie Is Now ‘Social Currency’
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has once again sent its demographers out into the binary wilds to examine how human behavior is evolving in the digital age. The organization’s latest...
View ArticleSpate of Attempted Robberies Hits NYC Startup Offices Onswipe and Shelby.TV
A few weeks ago, Betabeat caught wind of a handful of attempted robberies that had taken place at startup offices around the Flatiron area. On a visit to his office, Onswipe CEO Jason Baptiste told us...
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NBC’s Half-Assed Apology for Airing Kris Jenner Interview During 9-11 Moment...
Savannah Guthrie interviewing Kris Jenner on September 11. (NBC) September 11th was Tuesday, which most people remembered, what with "Never Forget" being the slogan for the annual commemoration of...
View ArticleGale International to Buy Flatiron Development Site from Extell Development
Developer Gale International has agreed to buy a Flatiron District development site that is currently owned by Gary Barnett’s Extell Development Co. The site, located on 19-25 W. 20th Street, is a...
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Who’s Afraid of Vagina Wolf? Why Female Critics Are Piling On
Welcome to The Bombshell, a regular column about the peculiarities of the fairer sex. It can’t be easy to be a man these days, what with the gender’s looming end, but thinking about Naomi Wolf’s new...
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Chinese Cosmology Gets a Kooky Nod of Approval at Vivienne Tam and Jewelry...
Jack Liu, Sandy Leung, Vivienne Tam and Annie Yau. (PMc) Vivienne Tam was clear about one thing at the launch of her jewelry collaboration with TSL at Hakkasan on Wednesday, which brought out the likes...
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Nets Say ‘Nyet’ to Super-Sized Drinks: Bruce Ratner Announces Barclays Center...
Too big to gulp. It may have some big signs, but the Barclays Center will not have big sodas. Following the approval of the Big Sugary Beverage Ban today, Bruce Ratner announced that his new Brooklyn...
View ArticleKanye West Was at General Assembly in the Flatiron This Afternoon, Meeting...
Fresh off blowing up Mitt Romney’s tax scheme spot on the opening track of Cruel Summer, Kanye West must have decided it was safe to take his eye off the throne for a minute. We hear the rapper dropped...
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‘Pink Slime’ Maker Has Billion Dollar Beef With ABC News
Beef Products Inc. made good on earlier threats and sued ABC News for defamation due to the network’s coverage of what the media has labeled "pink slime." The meat processing company is asking for $1.2...
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Does the Sensationalism of Alexander Wang and Other Designers Overshadow...
An exclusive backstage photo from The Observer's Wang-insider/tipster. American fashion design has seen an exciting new crop of talented youngsters creep onto the scene. Creatives such as Joseph...
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The Most Important Question of Our Time: What Real Estate Will Sarah Jessica...
Are they at it again? We could discuss the upcoming election, or our broken health care system, or the dearth of affordable housing in New York, but there is a more pressing issue—one that demands...
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Fake Drugs That Look Like Real Drugs Are the New Real Drugs (Video)
False advertisingThree years ago, Nate Hill made news for his business venture/performance art piece, a weekend crack delivery service. Mr. Hill would come to the houses of curious (or fiending)...
View ArticleMuslim Cyberfighters Claim Responsibility for Bank of America and NYSE Hack...
Bank of America customers have had a hard time accessing the bank’s website today–and a claim posted by a Muslim hacker group on Pastebin.com may have something to do with that. Reuters has reported...
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A Tale of Two Spaces: An Overlong Eclipse Inaugurates BAM’s New Venue
Jonah Bokaer in 'Eclipse' at BAM. (Courtesy Stephanie Berger) BAM HAS UNVEILED its new $50,000,000 performance space, configured for 250 viewers, with a commissioned work, Eclipse, by the ex-Cunningham...
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Goldman Tweets: CFO David Viniar Retiring After 32 Years at Firm
Goldman Sachs Chief Financial Officer David Viniar is retiring after 32 years at the firm, according to a press release linked by the firm's twitter account. Mr. Viniar joined Goldman in 1980, rising...
View ArticleToday’s Catch: Christie’s Nabs $20 M. Basquiat for November Sale
It’s been heating up for years, and now the Basquiat market is on fire, with two auction records in the past six months—$20.1 million at Christie’s in London in June and $16.3 million at Phillips de...
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From Glamour to Slammer: Two Actors and a Broadway Press Agent Are Keeping It...
Glover in a 2002 rehearsal for 'The Exonerated.' (Courtesy Tannen Maury/AFP/Getty Images) The funny thing about eureka moments is the way they sneak up on us unawares and radically rearrange our lives....
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The Master Loses Control of Its Flock: Underserved Cast Overacts in Paul...
Anderson and Phoenix. I never cease to be amused by the pile of unmitigated crap that gets shoveled off onto the moviegoing public by pretentious critics. They’re at it again with The Master, a load of...
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A Swing, and a Miss: Eastwood’s Late-Inning Rally Stifled by Lazy Gameplan as...
Adams and Eastwood in Trouble with the Curve. In the often illustrious career oeuvre of Clint Eastwood, Trouble with the Curve is a minor entry, a cinematic footnote. Worse yet, the screenplay and...
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Sweet Cherry, Blithe: Flaccid Script Can’t Find the Cinematic G-Spot
Hinshaw and Patel in About Cherry. Pornography is an accepted way of life today, and sex is only a click away. So a new movie about how an innocent teenager drifts into the porn industry may seem...
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