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Atlantic Media Fails Hacking Test
Earlier today, everyone at Atlantic Media received an email warning them to "reverify" their Google Apps account. But the email wasn't actually from Google; it was from Atlantic Media's Chief...
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Architect’s Newspaper Editor Does Not Appreciate MAS Inviting Him To Presser...
One of the renderings. (H3 Hardy Collaboration Architects). The press release or phone call from a publicist trumpeting some scintillating (or often, not so scintillating) "news" that was broken hours...
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To Do Saturday: Polo With McConaughey
(Getty Images) What better way to watch a polo match than with endless flutes of champagne? VIPs at the sixth annual Veuve Cliquot Polo Classic, hosted by Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Lauren model Nacho...
View ArticleBad Attitudes: Harald Szeemann’s Landmark Exhibition Was a Scandal in Its Day
Harald Szeemann’s mother did not approve of “When Attitudes Become Form.” A resident of Bern, Switzerland, where his famous exhibition took place in 1969, she was horrified by “Attitudes” and the...
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To Do Sunday: Fancy Fiesta
(courtesy maxneumann.com) A monthly print and digital literary journal, The American Reader, is celebrating Music & Literature on the occasion of its second issue, which explores the work of László...
View Article‘It’s Great to Be Back’: Weiner Meets Cheers and Jeers at Pro-Israel Parade
A beaming Anthony Weiner took his mayoral campaign down the Celebrate Israel Parade route today. Wielding a large Israeli flag with one hand and a bullhorn in the other, the newly-minted candidate...
View ArticleMonths After They Developed a Number One Game, Zynga Reportedly Shutters New...
Perhaps Zynga New York employees running into traffic was a harbinger of terrible things to come: AllThingsD reports that the social gaming company intends to lay off 520 people–about 18 percent of its...
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Twenty-Five People Shot in New York City This Weekend
(Getty) New York City’s first sweltering summer weekend was marred by a spate of gun violence in four of the five boroughs. The Daily News reported that at least six New Yorkers were killed and...
View ArticleFrank Lautenberg’s Potential Successors
While conflicting, state statutes give Gov. Chris Christie potent arguments to make to schedule the statewide election for U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s (D-NJ) seat on a date other than this year’s...
View ArticleLinkedin Makes It Even Easier To Find Out Who’s Stalking You
If all social networks were members of your family, Linkedin might be the boring uncle who talks about the inner workings of his accounting job at parties. Solid career advice, but you’re not exactly...
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Jesse Eisenberg, at Least Some of the Time, to Interviewers, is a Jerk (Video)
Jesse Eisenberg makes girls cry. (YouTube)Jesse Eisenberg has been labeled a "jerk" after insulting Univision's Romina Puga on her show, Say My Name With Romina. (Roh-mee-nah? Row-mih-nah?) Promoting...
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NYU Won’t Fire Fat Shaming Professor
Geoffrey Miller (via Twitter) An NYU spokesman has just exclusively informed The Observer that Geoffrey Miller will keep his post at the university. As reported earlier today, Dr. Miller, a visiting...
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Gawker Reveals Newest ‘Bastard Child’: A Photo Blog Named Dodge&Burn
(Dodge&Burn) There's a new Gawker Media property in town. The image-based site, Dodge&Burn, is designed to chronicle and capture "the mundane and the magical, the sad and the uplifting."...
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Newsweek Lost Half Its Subscribers In Three Years
Photo credit: Newsweek Poor Newsweek. After being turned into a vehicle for buzzy covers by Tina Brown, it finally ended print publication last year. Its owner, Barry Diller, has publicly said that...
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Maxwell’s, That Hallowed Hoboken House of Rock, Will Close Its Doors This July
Maxwell's, on the corner of Washington Street and 11th Street, in Hoboken Maxwell's, the legendary Hoboken rock venue and restaurant where, in 1985, Bruce Springsteen filmed the video for "Glory Days,"...
View ArticleNo-Fun Google Bans Porn from Glass
Hot on the heels of the release of the first-ever porn app for Google Glass, cleverly titled Tits and Glass, comes the news that the boner-killing Internet giant has decided to ban porn completely from...
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Can I Get a Fitness? Shindigger Shapes Up For Summer
Joel Harper helps Shindigger rediscover his student body. Before Shindigger could think about summer plans in places like Milan, Paris, Saint-Tropez, Sitges and the Hamptons, we had a more daunting...
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Welcome Home, Bernie
Bernie Kerik. (Photo: Getty Images) The first time I met Bernie Kerik was in his giant office at 1 Police Plaza. Bernie is a showy guy who makes an instant impression with his barrel chest and massive...
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Let the Great World Tell Stories: Colum McCann and Esquire Celebrate...
Narrative 4 Executive Director Lisa Consiglio and Colum McCann (Photo credit: James Higgins). Last Friday night, a slew of literary luminaries gathered at a cocktail party in an Astor Square penthouse...
View ArticleFearing a Return to the Bad Old Days
The Partnership for New York City, a business and civic organization, recently published an important analysis of the city’s economy with a special emphasis on job creation. Amid the charts, number...
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