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Mark Your Calendars: Girls‘ Second Season Premiere Date Revealed
The new cast of Girls is much more culturally diverse. After months of biting our nails in anticipation as we await the second season of Lena Dunham's HBO comedy Girls, we can almost see the home...
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An Urban Parent’s Guide to Raising Cultured Children
With all the distractions of the city, it seems there’s never really time for much of anything—particularly not for enjoying those very distractions. You and your kids have your hands in this and that,...
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At Unveiling of 7 Percent Fare Hike, Joe Lhota Lectures on the Value of...
Now class... (Matt Chaban) Call him Professor Joe Lhota. At MTA headquarters this morning, the transit agency’s chairman unveiled a fare and toll increase plan for next year that raises all travel...
View ArticleViolentacrez Takes to Reddit to Solicit Sympathy, PayPal Donations
Violentacrez, a notorious Reddit user who moderated controversial subreddits like Creepshots and Jailbait, was revealed by Gawker on Friday to be a Texas-based IT worker named Michael Brusch. Adrian...
View ArticleScrrrreech! The TLC Explains Why Square Stopped Its Pilot Program in NYC Taxis
Ouch, we think we just got whiplash. A couple weeks ago, Mayor Bloomberg was photo-opping in the backseat with Jack Dorsey, founder of the mobile payments company Square. But this afternoon, the New...
View ArticleDid Arianna Huffington Buy A Townhouse on East 80th Street?
We've heard that media doyenne Arianna Huffington has been looking for a good perch in the city ever since HuffPo got snapped up by AOL, and now the New York Daily News is claiming that Ms. Huffington...
View ArticleIn Brooklyn, Israeli Ambassador Refuses to Make a Presidential Pick
Earlier this evening, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren visited Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, where the New York-born diplomat touted Israel’s diversity, economic growth and its relationship...
View ArticleBobby Jindal: ‘I Almost Feel Sorry for the President’
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Like many prominent politicians in the United States right now, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is on the floor of the media filing room at Hofstra University, making the pitch for...
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Goldstein, Hill & West: How New York’s Most Anonymous Architects Have Taken...
Hill, West and Goldstein, the architects you never knew you knew. (Peter Letre) The sun was setting over New York harbor, and behind it, the coast of New Jersey. From the 17th floor of 11 Broadway,...
View ArticleObama Advisor Praises White House Press Office Handling of Libya Attack
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — The Obama administration has been criticized for offering evolving, confusing explanations for the cause of last month’s attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. However,...
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Tom Wolfe Has Blood on His Hands: Back to Blood, Reviewed
"Back to Blood" The first person thanked in the acknowledgments of Tom Wolfe’s new novel, Back to Blood (Little, Brown and Company, 720 pp., $30), a doorstop set in Miami, is that city’s former mayor,...
View ArticleObama Doesn’t Let Big Bird Go
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Governor Mitt Romney generated endless headlines when, during the first presidential debate, he referenced Big Bird while citing federal funding for PBS as something he would be...
View ArticleA Flustered Romney Finds Himself Debating the Moderator Rather Than Obama
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — At many points in tonight’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney seemed to be expending more energy sparring with the moderator, CNN’s Candy Crowley, than with President Barack Obama. The...
View ArticleObama Campaign: Romney Was ‘Angry, Sweaty, Rattled’
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — The last questioner hadn’t even finished asking his question before the presidential campaigns’ surrogates hit the floor of the media filing room to spin the results of the second...
View ArticleSenior Romney Advisor Says Obama Was ‘More Spirited’ Tonight, But Mitt Will...
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Talking to reporters in “spin alley” after tonight’s debate, Mitt Romney’s senior advisor Eric Fehrnstrom conceded President Barack Obama was “more spirited” than he was in the first...
View ArticleReddit CEO in Memo Leaked to Gawker: ‘We are Not Going to Ban Distasteful...
As the story of notorious Reddit user Violentacrez and the controversial subreddits he moderated sinks its tentacles into the greater Internet, Reddit administrators–known for their laissez-faire...
View ArticleCuomo Makes a Surprise Appearance in Spin Alley
Though Governor Andrew Cuomo was in the audience at tonight’s debate, he was not on the official list of Democratic surrogates passed out by President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. Indeed, his...
View ArticleCuomo Says He’ll Hit the Swing States for Obama
In recent weeks, Governor Andrew Cuomo faced some quiet grumblings over his perceived unwillingness to help the presidential ticket, but countering that narrative this morning, Mr. Cuomo announced his...
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Greek Soccer Club Scores Sponsorship Deal With Brothels Amid Crisis
We've often observed that as the European debt crises stretches on (and on), and rising sovereign borrowing costs lead to bailout plans and austerity programs, leading the people to protest slashed...
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Times Public Editor Praises Times Writer
Dan Barry managed to find people in the middle. The final installment in Dan Barry's five-part, 14,000 word series about a diner in a small Ohio city ran in today's paper, and public editor Margaret...
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