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Bernard King: Not Such a Hall of Fame Guy?

You think you know a guy. Bernard King was on the top rung of my sports heroes since 1984, when he had incredible back-to-back 50-point games in Knicks victories. (Try that one, Melo.) Like everyone else, I was overjoyed to see him sweep easily into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. In none of t ... More >>

Let's Get All Internet-y on Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience

Oh, what's up JT? Nice of you to join us over here in the music world again. You abandoned us in 2006 after Future Sex/Love Sounds--quick note: that was seven years ago, and seven years is roughly the age of a first grader, so we are now a first grader's life away from the previous JT record--but th ... More >>

The A$AP Rocky Drinking Game

This month buzzier-than-thou rapper A$AP Rocky released his major label debut, Long.Live.A$AP. You may have heard. We've thought long and hard about the album, and want you to have the optimal Rocky listening experience. Among its tracks you'll find several tropes and repetitive aspects. A$AP Rocky ... More >>

Beyoncé Isn't Perfect, and That's A Relief

There are a few people--maybe ten--who have yet to hear that Beyoncé Ashlee Simpson'd Barack Obama's inauguration. These people don't have access to tumblr or eccentric gay friends. They are still under the illusion that Beyonce is infallible. We pity these people. Because the idea that Beyoncé is ... More >>

Ben Scorah of Bill's Food and Drink on Classic Cocktails, Car Bombs, and Hanky Panky

Ben Scorah is the bartender you want to introduce to your parents. The affable Brit (London-born, New York-based) helms the bar at Bill's Food and Drink, the revamped Midtown restaurant that previously held Bill's Gay Nineties. Scorah has such an appreciation for the history of the venue, and he w ... More >>

David France on the Plague Years: The history and survival of ACT UP

Fall Guide 2012: Books

Under the Toque: Guy Fieri in NYC, Todd English Sued

According to The New York Times, Guy Fieri will be opening a restaurant in Times Square. Fieri has seven restaurants already in California but the New York concept will be completely different. It's slated to be called Guy's American Kitchen and Bar. [New York Times] Le Bernardin will be hosting a ... More >>

Aaron Rodgers on Mark Sanchez's GQ Spread: 'That's Terrible.'

GQ"Broadway Mark"Lost in all the fuss over Mark Sanchez's photo spread in the September GQ is that it was a charity gig for Tuesday's Children, which benefits children of people who died on 9/11 and in other global terrorist attacks. You'd expect that his QB counterpart Aaron Rodgers, who does a gr ... More >>

The Classical Talks: The Voice Interviews the Writers Behind the New Sports Site

​While the coming new sports site, The Classical, feels to us an awful lot like what people hoped Grantland would be, the writers involved tell the Voice they see it as more like a sports version of the Awl. Either way, sports are one of the topics that eat up a lot of time but remain immune t ... More >>

Condé Nast Elevator Twitter Really Has People Worked Up

​The @CondeElevator Twitter account, which purports to tweet real quotes from inside the elevators of the Condé Nast building, is attracting intense interest from a surprisingly large number of people. Are the tweeted quotes even real? A lot of them are simply too good to be true. Regardless, ... More >>

Friends With Benefits

New York Drinkers Mourn Two Booze Pioneers; Arkansas Now Distilling, Too

​Eric Asimov remembers Ray Deter of d.b.a., who died Sunday following a bike accident on June 27, calling Deter's bar "groundbreaking." [Diner's Journal] Debra Whiting of Red Newt Cellars and Bistro on Seneca Lake in the Finger Lakes, a food and wine pioneer in the region, died in a car crash ... More >>

Destroying Chicago and Our Brain Cells: Transformers is Back

Michael Bay shoots the moon

Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon

Tina Brown Excites Staff With Redesign, Still Riding New Newsweek Hype Wave

​If there's one word to describe the media news narrative so far in 2011, it's probably "reinvention," or something like it, what with all of the relaunches, redesigns and restructuring, from AOL and the Huffington Post to Gawker, the New York Times (plus Magazine), New York Observer and Tina ... More >>

The Huffington Post Gets Blacker, Howard Kurtz Gets Paid as Press Clips Returns

​Press Clips has long, if intermittently, been the name of the media column at the Village Voice, years ago on paper in the hands of journalists like Sydney Schanberg and Keach Hagey, before being brought to this blog by some untamed rabble-rouser called Foster Kamer. But as a wise man once wr ... More >>

On Drake, Nicki Minaj, B.o.B., and the Art of the Debut-As-Pop-Crossover

Attack of the singing rappers

GAME OVER

Adam Rapoport Is Named Bon Appétit's Editor-in-Chief

Adam Rapoport​As expected, Condé Nast has sent out an official announcement bearing the news that Adam Rapoport has been named the editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit. In addition to writing about grub for GQ, where he most recently served as the magazine's style editor, Rapoport edit ... More >>

Jay-Z vs. The New York Observer's Feet

​In what might be the most high-profile victory -- or feat -- for both media reporters and The New York Observer in recent weeks, the feet of a New York Observer media reporter intimidated Jay-Z into putting his foot back in his loafer.

The Dream Is Dead: Inception Fails to Get Inside Our Head

Week in Review: We Forgot "Rad Bromance"

The highlight of our week, for good or ill.​ In case Lady Gaga's monstrous fame-monster antics weren't over-the-top enough, the bubble-dress-wearing, bloody-heart- ripping Gaga monster's out-of-this-planet-to-Jupiter-and-back diva status may have officially been cemented in stone this week. We ... More >>

The Latest M.I.A. Mega-Profile Fixates On Ice Cube (?) Instead Of Truffle Fries

​One thing rings very true after reading Gary Shteyngart's GQ profile of M.I.A.: Neither the magazine nor the interviewer had any interest in giving her the Hirschberg, as it were. Gary Shteyngart--the much-lauded young writer releasing his third novel next month--brings up Maya's relationship ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Reign of Terror Becomes Arizona State Policy

Thanks to State Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

Beard Awards Media and Journalism Finalists Are Announced

The man himself.​The James Beard Foundation is announcing its James Beard Awards finalists via Twitter this morning. The list of chefs has just started rolling out (currently, regional finalists are being named), but the list of final nominees for the foundation's Media and Journalism Awards a ... More >>

Male Whoring at GQ's Best New Designers Party

Going once... going twice... sold!​Discussed: Duckie Brown, Native Son, Cynthia Steffe, Michael Angel It's now day two of Fashion Week mayhem and we've already experienced major hearing loss thanks to last night's Patti Smith's set at the LNA after party, and almost passed out at the slew of ... More >>

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Spend an evening at the Chelsea Hotel

Employment Opportunity: Make $2,800 Shoes for Gay Talese

Gay Talese, whose forthcoming book about his marriage has prompted some really great feature stories in 2009, is well known for his style and general all-around high sartorial standards--I've known more than one person who showed up underdressed to dinner with the man, only to be mercilessly mocked ... More >>

Jennifer Aniston Rejects Playboy "Offer"

In a publicity bonus for both parties, it is reported that Jennifer Aniston has turned down Playboy, which allegedly offered her $4 million to do a photo spread. Entertainmentwise further informs us that Playboy offered a performance bonus of $10 million. Aniston has managed to gain attention over ... More >>

The Incidental Tourists

Offbeat doc and glossy travel ad offer two breezy views of post-apartheid South Africa

Do Not Recycle

The most stylish magazine photography of 2004

The Main Course

Food studies is fast becoming a serious pursuit

Working Weak

Taking the Lead, Again

Feature Writers Rely on Old Tricks

Is There a Diva in the House?

Everyone's a Critic

Foodies Add Spice to ASME Awards

How Shall I Begin?

The Magazine Writer’s Most Soul-Searching Dilemma

Who Stole Feminism?

Miss Understood

Sex Manuals

Formerly Timid Mainstream Magazines Are Now Selling Sex Alongside Cooking and Fashion Tips. Are You Buying?

In Stitches

It’s Fashion Week. Are You a Clotheshorse or a Dressmaker’s Dummy?

Laptop beats, digital birds and Ricci fiends

Laptop Beats, Digital Birds, and Ricci Fiends

Bats Out Of Hell

Gray Hair? Pink Slip!

At Condé Nast, If You're Postmenopausal, You're Dead

Bait and Switch

And the Winner Is . . .

Out in the Open

Pundit-cide