Microsoft Tramp Stamp Anyone? Indian Tech Employees Getting Company Logo Tattoos
In the Valley, employees of major tech companies like Google and Facebook wear their building badges like a literal badge of honor. You don’t need to keep it attached to your belt while out on a Friday...
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Turn On, Tune In, Drop $14 M. On an UES Penthouse
We're more than a little jealous of the views. The Park Regis at 50 East 89th Street isn't what normally comes to mind when one thinks of $14 million penthouses. Built in 1974, it lacks the classical...
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Stage Combat: Modern Theatergoers Turn Broadway into Great Fight Way
Theater audience members are getting more annoying. The fight broke out during the first act of Glengarry Glen Ross. As Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale circled each other on the boards, a well-dressed...
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Zak Pelaccio Cutting the Fat, Glazing Turnips Instead
Pelaccio's bartender Kat Dunn. (Photo: Laetitia Hussain) Zak Pelaccio’s newest venture differs from most mod-country, locavore eateries these days in one crucial way — it actually is in the country. In...
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The Best Film Pitch Ever Sent Out Via PR Blast: VIOLET & DAISY
Violet & Daisy: a chick-flick for psychopaths. Have you ever just glimpsed at a film review, or poster, or what have you and thought, "I need to see that movie, immediately?" That just happened to...
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Bluth for a Day! How The Observer Talked Our Way into the Banana Stand
There's been something quite a-peeling going on this week in New York. A real-life version of the infamous Bluth’s Frozen Banana stand has been touring the city to coincide with the fourth season of...
View ArticleNew Jersey Lawmakers Announce Smoking Age-Boosting Bill in New York
The nanny state is creeping across the border. New Jersey lawmakers traveled all the way to New York City Hall Thursday to announce their plans to introduce legislation boosting the tobacco purchase...
View ArticleWarhol Quadruple Marilyn Makes $38.2 M. at Phillips’s $78.6 M. Contemporary Sale
Phillips ended this week’s contemporary art auctions with a modest sale that took in $78.6 million, with no major records set. An Andy Warhol quadruple portrait of Marilyn Monroe against an orange...
View ArticleShelly Silver Suggests Expelling Vito Lopez From Assembly
Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver’s office released a statement late Thursday suggesting for the first time that disgraced Assemblyman Veto Lopez could be expelled from office following the damning Joint...
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To Do Friday: Can I Have Some More?
A look from the Oliver Spencer Autumn/Winter 2013 collection. Designer Oli Spencer founded his label Oliver Spencer in 2002. A self-taught tailor, the British designer marries traditional cuts with...
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Gizmodo Pivots From Gadgets to Design
Geoff Manaugh. (Photo credit: Patrick McMullan). Gizmodo, Gawker media’s tech blog, is getting a new editor and a new focus. Geoff Manaugh, a former senior editor at Dwell Magazine and contributing...
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Cannes: Promising Flicks Light Up the Screens as Gloomy Skies Prevail
CANNES, France -- Gloomy skies may be hanging over the south of France, but psychedelic philosophizing is lighting up the screens indoors. Ari Folman’s The Congress opened up the Director’s Fortnight...
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Who Will Be New York’s Next Chief City Planner? And Does It Matter?
Who will follow in Amanda Burden's (very stylish) footsteps? With the New York City mayor's race not even past the Democratic primary, it's a bit early to be handicapping the city's next chief city...
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Editor's note: This story was originally published on Dec. 11, 1995. In one of the few instances of the Justice Department strong-arming journalists since the Nixon Administration, U.S. attorneys in...
View ArticleRidiculous Candidate Gets Ridiculous Endorsement: Jimmy McMillan Crowned...
In what has to be the best endorsement of the mayor’s race so far, Jimmy McMillan from The Rent is Too Damn High Party has earned a nod from none other than Papaya King. The cheapo hot dog eatery not...
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Changes at The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Book Review is modernizing under the editorship of Pamela Paul, who was appointed to the positon in early April. The section announced three changes in a new column in this Sunday's...
View ArticleRumor Roundup: Betabeat Becomes a Bunch of Glassholes, Prince Harry Hails a...
Glasshole Missed Connection Betabeat finally had the distinct pleasure of trying the dorky looking face computer we love to mock so much at a party last night at Meetup HQ. We (only slightly drunkenly)...
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Doesn’t Anyone Love One57?
Oh, One57! Don't just lie around moping. Poor, lonely, luxury condo tower! Unlike the co-ops lining Central Park to the East and the West, whose residents really love them, it seems like One57's new...
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To Do Saturday: Not Your Average Street Food
Chef Marc Murphy of Landmarc. Tribeca is known for big-bucks lofts, celebrity residents and fancy food. The Taste of Tribeca, started in 1994, is a great way to pig out on glamorous grub from eateries...
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Charlie Rose Will Host Charlie Rose Weekend
Charlie Rose. (Photo via Twitter). Is waking up to Charlie Rose on CBS This Morning and ending a hectic weekday by watching Mr. Rose's interview show just not enough Mr. Rose? Good news: starting in...
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