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July 7, 2011
NYC is a 'Ghost Town': 1 in 25 Manhattan Homes Are Empty Because of Rich People
Apartment at the Trump/ Only slept in it onceOut of 845,000 houses and apartments in Manhattan, 102,000 were counted as vacant according to census numbers, the New York Times reports today, and more than 33,000, or one in 25 residences on the main island, had someone living there less than tw ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
Matt Taibbi on Michele Bachmann in Rolling Stone: Not Quite Plagiarism; PBS Hacked Again
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone wrote another of his highly entertaining, polarizing, acerbic, hyperbolic and metaphor-laden magazine features, online now, this time about Minnesota politician and presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, who Taibbi, right out of the gate, calls "almost certainly t ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Elaine's Reminiscences Keep on Coming
"Any great restaurant is a place for meeting and communicating -- not dining, communicating. This was a very special place because it crossed political lines, athletic, literary, entrepreneurial. People who came here were in advertising and political life, law enforcement, writing, poetry -- ... More >>
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February 18, 2011
Jack Newfield: There Is No "New Journalism"
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 20 Of honest men & good writers By Jack Newfield After participating in several panel discussions, attending (More)'s counter-convention, reading books and articles by Tom Wolfe and Mike Arlen, and being i ... More >>
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December 4, 2010
New York City Remembers Elaine Kaufman of Elaine's, Restaurateur and Friend of the Stars
Elaine Kaufman, referred to by the New York Times as the "salty den mother" of exclusive New York City restaurant Elaine's, died on Friday in Manhattan at the age of 81. The cause of death, perhaps darkly appropriate with regards to the period of New York City that Kaufman represented, was co ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
R.I.P. Elaine Kaufman, Owner of the Elaine's
Lorenzo CiniglioElaine Kaufman, the owner of the eponymous Upper East Side restaurant that for decades has served as a second home to legions of writers, died earlier this afternoon. The Post reports that Kaufman, who was 81, died from complications of emphysema. A lifelong New Yorker, Kauf ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Pete Hamill on the Death of ~~Newsweek~~ The Saturday Evening Post
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 16, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 14 More Irrelevant Than Irreverent by Pete Hamill The tv cameras had departed, the reporters were gone, and in the fourth-floor offices of the Saturday Evening Post at 541 Lexington Avenue, there wasn't ... More >>
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May 24, 2010
Things That Suck: Gino's Will Be Replaced by Sprinkles Cupcakes
Roe Ethridge/The New York TimesA remembrance of things past.Gay Talese takes to the pages of The New Yorker this week to pen a fond farewell to Gino, the storied 65-year-old Italian restaurant that's closing on May 29. Among the more interesting facts he relays: There are 314 zebras prancing ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Clip Job: When a Newspaper Dies
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 28, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 28 Mr. Hearst's Flagship Sank Like the Maine By Stan Fischler The Journal-American died with its boots on last Sunday morning at the age of 71. When the boots were removed there was a stench. "Nat Hento ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
Lit Seen: A Heavy Rotation Playlist
Pink air! Origami irony! Writers on the albums (and songs) that shaped them.
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June 12, 2009
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 >>
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June 12, 2009
Week in Review: Get Ready #Bonnaroo You're Gonna Be My Bitch For the Weekend
Rebecca Smeyne In the week we didn't go to the mud-soaked hobbit/hippie fest that is Bonnaroo (well, except for the top secret one of us who did, and is even now Twittering about it), all three members of SOTC did go to Prospect Park, where we wandered the green green grass 27,000 parents and thei ... More >>
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February 17, 2009
Gay Talese Extends Editorial Services to Bums
Gay Talese, recent recipient of a Polk Award for distinguished journalism, shows his stuff at the Times, describing how he revised a beggar's message so it would play better in New York's competitive advertising market. Unsolicited, Talese changed a nameless mendicant's punchy, "Homeless. Please Hel ... More >>
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February 17, 2009
Gay Talese Amongst the Poor: Comedy, Tragedy, Or Kind Of OK?
This Gay Talese thing does make for a bizarre story--a man famous for his bulletproof sartorial style and glamorous townhouse parties takes to the streets with font-laded laserprinted signs bearing the legend "Please Support Pres. Obama's Stimulus Plan, and begin right here ... at the bottom ... T ... More >>
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October 15, 2008
Gay Talese, Not Exactly a Fan of 'M.I.A. and the N.E.R.D.S'
This Gay Talese thing does make for a bizarre story--a man famous for his bulletproof sartorial style and glamorous townhouse parties takes to the streets with font-laded laserprinted signs bearing the legend "Please Support Pres. Obama's Stimulus Plan, and begin right here ... at the bottom ... T ... More >>
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October 8, 2008
BETTER THAN FICTION
Doc Fest covers it all from post-Prohibition-era New York to Johnny Cash
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September 4, 2007
Toots
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January 31, 2006
Books
Doc Fest covers it all from post-Prohibition-era New York to Johnny Cash
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June 14, 2005
Woodward's Debt to Deep Throat
After the big stories, sometimes more than credit is due, sources say
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June 15, 1999
The Literati and Their Servers
The Two Faces of Carl Bernstein
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June 1, 1999
Look Who Crossed a Picket Line
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