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  • Film

    December 21, 2011

    The Year in Film: Team Margaret

    The best movie of the year (that you haven't been able to see). And 9 more picks.

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Yankee Post-Mortem, Part 2: Too-Much-Moneyball and the Crapshoot Factor

    If you're sick of Moneyball clichés, try the cure: Too Much Moneyball, a video from Jest.com that's making the rounds. Our favorite scene is when the actor playing the Brad Pitt role — or, rather, in this scenario the Brian Cashman role — is thinking of new ways to spend money: "Ove ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    Brad Pitt Aside, Here's a Baseball Quiz: Why Does Moneyball Leave Out Steroid Ball?

    Billy BeaneIt's a Moneyball media fest out there — the articles on the book Moneyball, the movie Moneyball, the stars of Moneyball and the articles about the articles about Moneyball have created a light industry. Everything you always wanted to know about Moneyball is currently available on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    This Week in the Voice: The Rapture Come Home; Bloomberg's Young Men's Initiative

    ​This week in the Voice, Michaelangelo Matos writes of the Rapture's return to DFA Records with their new album, their "soul record," In the Grace of Your Love. The band will be playing Webster Hall this Friday. Steven Thrasher explores Mayor Bloomberg's Young Men's Initiative, a program tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Bloomberg View Gathers All-Star Roster of White Males

    ​Bloomberg View, the forthcoming editorial page at Bloomberg News -- under the umbrella of the media and data company Bloomberg L.P., founded and owned by Michael Bloomberg, New York City's three-term billionaire mayor -- has finally released its list of high-powered editorial board members and co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Press Clips: The New York Observer's New Disclosure Problems

    ​Only one item today: Why didn't the New York Observer's new media writer disclose any potential conflicts of interest with his first cover story for the paper, on Slate? Feels like he should've. Why? UPDATED.

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Live: GAYNGS Bring Justin Vernon, Sax Solos to the Music Hall of Williamsburg

    Photos by Shoshanah TarkowOne heck of a Minneapolis "Musical Super-Family." Better than: a sax solo, by any other name GAYNGS is not a small concept. The slow-jammin' Minneapolis collective, led by Ryan Olson, is a rotating crew of 23 musicians that includes Zack Coulter and Adam Hurlburt of So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Eliot Spitzer's Interview at the 92Y: The Full Report

    ​Eliot Spitzer's talk with CBS News analyst Jeff Greenfield was last night at the 92nd Street Y, and it started with Greenfield noting that Spitzer only agreed to talk "without conditions." Needless to say, this had serious potential for all parties involved, especially the audience. And Spitz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    2010 Pulitzer Prizes: The Breakdown!

    ​It's that magical time of year again when the uppity nerds of Columbia University bestow upon the people their picks for this year's Best Writing Stuff. And we're going to attempt to add some context to these proceedings as they happen. So, here, we're live-blogging the Pulitzer Prizes. Unfor ... More >>

  • Music

    April 6, 2010

    Jazz Consumer Guide: Adapt, Improvise, Party

    A cross-section of young/old and avant/traditional gets drunk on everything

  • Film

    November 17, 2009

    Saintly White People Do the Saving in The Blind Side

    A cross-section of young/old and avant/traditional gets drunk on everything

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2009

    Most Wanted NY criminal caught in NC

    ​The NYPD's Most Wanted Fugitive, according to the police Crimestoppers.com website, was caught in Rocky Mount NC over the weekend by New York and Rocky Mount police, and the U.S. Marshals service. Rasheem Williams, known to the Post as the "Red Sox bandit" after the hat he was wearing for o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    Mike Bloomberg launches preemptive trip to Israel; invasion of NYC unlikely

    Waltz With Bashir, a movie that sprang from a previous Israeli invasion of Lebanon, won Best Picture from the National Society of Film Critics. A free Madoff Watch T-shirt to the reader who suggests the best title for the first movie spurred by Israel's current invasion of Gaza. On an overseas t ... More >>

  • Music

    February 5, 2008

    Old Forms, Fresh Outlooks

    Innovation reigns, from 36-CD retrospectives to the Hüsker Dü of free jazz

  • Music

    August 16, 2005

    Bush Medicine

    All sorts of big idea about how today's jazz fits into history and maybe into popular culture

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    December 23, 2003

    Letters

    All sorts of big idea about how today's jazz fits into history and maybe into popular culture

  • Books

    July 31, 2001

    Net Returns

    All sorts of big idea about how today's jazz fits into history and maybe into popular culture

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