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To Do Sunday: Sugar, Sugar
Sixto Rodríguez. Missed the much-applauded Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, about Sixto Rodríguez, an elusive musical genius who was obscure in America, but bigger than the Beatles in...
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Memo From Mad Men‘s Human Resources Department Re: Office Morale
Business as usual. (AMC) To: Employees of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce From: HR Subject: Policy Review To all staff, We hope you had a lovely Christmas and a happy New Year to boot! We know that 1968...
View ArticleReport: Christie’s Planning Major Auction With Leonardo DiCaprio
Christie’s has planned a major philanthropic auction with the actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation that is estimated to raise between $15 and $20 million to benefit what a...
View ArticleCould All That Free Food Get Tech Companies in Trouble with the Tax Man?
Free food is such a staple of Startupland that when Marissa Mayer introduced free food to Yahoo, she was heralded like Moses stepping down from Mt. Sinai, stone tablets in hand. But the Wall Street...
View ArticleNews Corp. Threatens to Yank Fox Off the Airwaves and Turn It Into a Cable...
What’s the best way to respond when a court ruling doesn’t go in your favor? Public histrionics, judging by statements from News Corp. COO Chase Carey. Last week, the Second Circuit appeals court...
View ArticleOwners Demolishing Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Mercedes-Benz Showroom
Following Mercedes-Benz’s departure in January from the showroom it occupied at 430 Park Avenue since the late 1950’s, ownership is demolishing the space, The Commercial Observer has learned. The...
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Billionaire Tamir Sapir Failed To Notice That $200,000 Worth of Silver...
Sapir lost his silver ice buckets in a theft. Billionaire cabbie-turned-real-estate mogul Tamir Sapir was recently the victim of theft at his $20 million Long Island mansion after a construction worker...
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Fortune’s Children: New ‘Deep-Thoughts’ Fashion Magazine Has Deep Pockets
Looks like there is hope for the magazine industry after all--that is, if you have $100,000 to spend per issue of a start-up and some big socialite names (and money) behind the venture. “Everybody...
View ArticleNaive J-Date User ‘Accidentally’ Registers Username ‘Tossed Salad’
If you don’t want to be greeted by an onslaught of messages from creepy guys asking about your butt, you might want to heed the advice of xoJane scribe Rachel Heller and not choose the online dating...
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Even Williamsburg’s Condo-Dwellers Hate All the New Condos
New condo towers mean construction racket. Poor Williamsburg. It's now suffering a terrible fate known to but a handful of pert prom queens and high school football hunks—it is not only possible to be...
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Unique Lilly Pulitzer Available on Sale for $8.5 M.
Sorry, floral print connoisseurs—it's a teardown. With the passing of Palm Beach socialite and dress designer Lilly Pulitzer, WASPs around the nation will be donning their flowery best in her memory....
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Rapper Roulette: Wu-Tang Clan Members Swap Spots at Frank Book Launch
Raekwon and Stephen Malbon. If one member of the Wu-Tang Clan can’t make it to dinner at the last minute, there’s always another Wu-Tang Clan member to take his place. Such a switch-up happened last...
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The Briefcase Notes of David Berman
David Berman (Wikimedia Commons) David Berman arrived 20 minutes late for his talk at the Macaulay Honors College on Monday night. Which was fine and fashionable, but you half-expected him not to show...
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Konichiwa, Ms. Kennedy
Ms. Kennedy. (Getty Images) I kinda like Caroline Kennedy. Not that she would care if I do or don’t. In any case, I haven’t seen her for a dozen years—and before that only fleetingly. We first met when...
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Police Formality: Annual Gala Honors NYC’s Boys (and Girls) in Blue
Detective Ivan Marcano, Hilda Miolan and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. In the kind of grand-scale symbolism achievable only in this great city of ours, ordinary folks throughout Manhattan might have...
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Investing in the End of the World: Cash-Flush Preppers Try to Up Their Odds...
Aviva Drescher (Michael Rosenthal/Bravo) Aviva Drescher’s first child was only 1 month old when the planes hit the Twin Towers on September 11. The Real Housewives of New York City star—a lifetime New...
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Kirill Was Here: Art-School Dropout Traffics in Incredibly Tacky Club Photos
Photographer Kirill's Buchitsky celebrates his birthday with friends. It was 1 a.m. on the Bowery, and someone wanted a picture taken. A pair of barely dressed, plain-faced girls clutched each other,...
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On the Page: Charles Jackson Edition
The novelist Charles Jackson may not be as well known as the subjects of Blake Bailey’s previous biographies, Richard Yates and John Cheever—the latter book, Cheever: A Life, won Mr. Bailey the...
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Salter of the Earth: ‘Sport and a Pastime’ Author Gets Down and Dirty In New...
For James Salter, sex and love are noble conquests. But as with fighting MiG planes in the Korean War in his novel The Hunters or scaling the French Alps in Solo Faces, the thrill of the chase only...
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The Rumors Are True: Steve Cohen Lists $115 M. One Beacon Court Penthouse
"Sorry, but the figurine stays," we imagine Mr. Cohen told the photographer at Corcoran. Over the past month, hedge fund honcho Steve Cohen has shelled out $155 million for a Picasso, $60 million for...
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