Subject: NBC Universal Inc.

• The Elephant in the Democrats' Living Room

  July 29, 2004

• NBC Makes Jamie Foxx Look Stupid

  January 26, 2006

• SNL Natalie Portman Rap Skit: Shittier Than Actual Rap?

  March 10, 2006

• NBC's Live Earth Special: A Running Diary

  July 9, 2007

• Clip Job: Charles Van Doren Signs with NBC

  February 5, 2008

• Ellen Page Lesbian Sketch: What Does it Mean?

  March 3, 2008

• NBC's Dateline Airs Misleading UFO Footage

  May 19, 2008

• 'Meet the Press' Moderator Tim Russert Dead at Age 58

  June 13, 2008

• America's Got Drag Queen

  August 5, 2008

• First Reax Palin-Biden (Still Drunk!)

  October 2, 2008

• Which SNL Stars Do The Best Political Impressions?

  October 28, 2008

• Halloween Media Criticism from the Today Show

  October 31, 2008

• Fork in the Road Loves Bussaco in Spite of Herself

  November 26, 2008

• Disappointed Giants Fans Destroy Car

  "Local fans disheartened by favorite team's loss," said the Poughkeepsie Journal. They didn't know the half of it. Sunday's playoff defeat at the hands of the Eagles left some Giants supporters sufficiently disheartened, and drunk, that they sought solace in smashing up a Porsche in the Meadowlands' parking lot. More video at NBC New York, where commenters are unsympathetic, as we expect the police will be when they see it.

  January 13, 2009

• "Drunken Negro Face" Cookie Post-Mortem

    Nobody in the neighborhood seemed to notice, and the nannies continued to sweep into the bakery for cookies and milk with their young charges, just picked up from Greenwich Village's P.S. 41 next door. But Lafayette Bakery--which has rather grandly called itself a "French Bakery" for nearly 75 years, even though the owners are Greek--was the center of a shit storm on the internet, when Gothamist, Fox 5 News, NBC, and Fork in the Road, among a dozen other websites,

  January 23, 2009

• Girls Paid $10/hr to Take Pill, Sleep in Museum

  Normally you have to crush it and put it in their drinks when they're not looking, but the New Museum of Contemporary Art is offering to pay local women to take a sleeping pill and crawl into bed for six hours. Per the job application, participants must be between 18 and 40 years of age, and willing to come to the museum, "consume a sleeping aid, get into a bed installed in the exhibition space, and sleep as many consecutive hours as possible" as part of "The Generational: Younger Than Jesus," a

  January 30, 2009

• Kings Features Some Queens!

  NBC's upcoming melodrama Kings--about intrigue and romance in a modern civilization--has a major character who's gay, according to a buzzy buzzy website I've found. He'll even have a big old boyfriend and they'll go to big old gay bars. Don't be a princess--read about it and learn.

  February 24, 2009

• Hacked Traffic Signs Proliferate; State Taking Action

  The hacked electronic traffic signs noticed by Gothamist persist! NBC says the stunt, which tells drivers in the East Village "Party at Julie's," "New York is Dying," and "Shit Bird Orl," has been pulled in other cities, such as Austin, where motorists were warned of zombies. The hacking instructions are available online, but require that the signs' access panels be found unlocked, which is apparently common. A commissioner tells the New York Post that the state is "taking steps to avoid a repe

  March 17, 2009

• 76:50 — The lifespan of the anti-Jim-Gray website

  November 9, 1999

• Teaching a New Generation of Reporters to Capture Events on Film

  Dying news industry? Just shoot it.

  July 29, 2008

• Don't Miss USA

  April 5, 2005

• Remote Patrol

  February 7, 2006

• Equinox

  October 6, 1998

• Sue the Messenger, Part One

  December 21, 1999

• Business and Edit: A Perfect Fit

  February 8, 2000

• The Matthew Shepard Icon

  March 12, 2002

• Press Corps

  March 4, 2003

• NY Mirror

  September 2, 2003

• Our Way to Fall

  September 16, 2003

• Machine Age

  April 20, 2004

• Mauling Michael Moore

  June 22, 2004

• Shovin' It

  July 27, 2004

• Tune in to Discover the Unlikely Superstars of the New Games

  August 10, 2004

• Jingo Bells

  August 17, 2004

• Olympic Sex

  August 31, 2004

• Trauma Drama: More 9-11 Movies

  December 13, 2005

• That '70s Show

  October 24, 2006

• The Chopping Block Gets Axed

  Apparently, we aren't the only ones who can't make ourselves care about NBC's The Chopping Block. After just three episodes, the axe has dropped on Marco Pierre White and his chef'testants. The rub? The network is replacing CB with Law & Order: Criminal Intent reruns. Ouch. [Eat me daily]

  March 27, 2009

• TLC Wants Cab Ideas -- Here's Ours

  The Taxi and Limousine Commission is asking for your suggestions on how to make cabs better. No, really: they've put out an RFI for "ways to enhance the technology systems in each taxicab for the benefit of passengers, drivers and owners alike," and You the Public are encouraged to respond by email or elsewise by June 15. NBC has already gotten the ball rolling (one cabbie has asked for a "cell-phone blocker" to keep riders from yakking). We've got our own big, fat wish list and we're going to

  April 15, 2009

• Fast Food Causing Colon Cancer Rates to Rise; Prez Boosts Five Guys Burger Business

  While the overall rate of people with colon cancer has gone down over the years, more people under the age of 50 are being diagnosed, especially in the 20-29-year-old range. The prevalence of fast-food is a possible culprit. [US News & World Report] USA Today takes a look at the Five Guys burger chain. Founded by Jerry Murrell, it's one of the fastest growing restaurant chains in the country, thanks in part to visits from a certain first family--Michelle was at a Dupont Circle location in April

  June 9, 2009

• New York Anti-Letterman Rally Draws Dozens

  We dropped by that Fire David Letterman protest across the street from the Ed Sullivan Theater. The Daily News says there were about 50 people there, but we put it closer to 100 if you include the rubberneckers. Indeed, there were about four or five times as many protesters as reporters and cameramen, who competed for pearls of wisdom or lunacy from the crowd. "I have a conservative blog!" one nice young man in a button-down shirt offered. "Women are being debased, Christians are being degrade

  June 16, 2009

• Padma Lakshmi to Leave 'Top Chef'

  BravoOut of the frying pan, into the fire: Variety is reporting that Padma Lakshmi will be leaving Top Chef after its sixth season for her own sitcom on NBC. The show will reportedly "star Lakshmi as a woman working in the culinary world," and is tentatively titled--lord have mercy--Single Serving.Despite Food Network ubiquity and the popularity of food reality shows, food sitcoms, as Variety points out, do not exactly have an exemplary track record. The Fox version of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen

  July 20, 2009

• Hey, Did You Notice That Was a Matt & Kim Song in the Promos for the NBC Fall Comedy Community?

  Just about fell off the couch last night, when parked in a post-Siren stupor I heard Matt & Kim's "Good Ol' Fashioned Nightmare" wafting from the TV. But there it was--the stadium-bleacher foot-stomp, Matt's soaring Ahhhhhhhhhhs, the joyous piano tinkling--scoring a 30-second spot for the upcoming NBC sitcom Community. (This isn't the first time one of the our hometown heroes' tunes have been on primetime: "Daylight," another carefree single from 2009's Grand, has already been in a Bacardi com

  July 21, 2009

• Tavern on the Green Under New Management -- For First Time in 33 Years

  ​Notorious Central Park tourist trap Tavern on the Green will for the first time in 33 years be run by somebody other than the LeRoy family, who have been responsible for its mothy elegance since the 70s: Dean Poll, who runs the Central Park Boathouse, described by Eater as "another disappointing but beautiful tourist trap," will take over in December. Poll brings a $25 million capital investment plan, which exceeded the reach of the remaining contenders (the LeRoys and Capitale owner Seth

  August 28, 2009

• Deer Tick

  September 1, 2009

• Hear the New Ted Leo Song: "One Polaroid a Day"

  Ted Leo's been doing some version of the same live set for nigh on three and a half years now; his last full length record, Living with the Living, was released on the now-departed Touch & Go back in March of 2007. His shows are never less than stellar but on the eve of a new record--promised on Matador in the spring--we figured it'd be safe to skip his headlining gig at True Panther's CMJ showcase at the Suffolk Friday night. It was, or it wasn't (regret is present in us, right now), but at l

  October 26, 2009

• Kerik Moved Out of Mental Health Unit of Jail

  Or, as NBC has it, "Kerik is Sane, Judge Rules." Guess he's okay, then. His admission to the Mental Health Forensic Unit of Westchester County Jail 10 days ago was described as voluntary, and examining doctors have found him no threat to himself or others. NBC provides the letter. Kerik was jailed for pissing off the judge in his fraud trial, who deemed him untrustworthy in matters relating to confidential trial materials. Westchester County Jail mental health professionals were concerned about

  November 2, 2009

• Bloomberg Wins

  With less than ten percent of districts reporting, NBC called it for Bloomberg, so hey, why not. The Post with 22 percent of the vote has it neck and neck. We'll take the risk. "Upbeat mood at Bloomberg Hq," says Michael Harris. The Mayor will probably appear soon to receive their plaudits and give a speech. It's times like this we're relieved not to have a TV. Well, at least the bodega's still open.

  November 3, 2009

• Pregnant Padma Guests on 30 Rock

  Padma Lakshmi demonstrated her acting skills once again on NBC's 30 Rock last night. "Men always tell me I'm very funny," she confesses to Jack Donaghy. So, whatever happened to those sitcom plans?

  November 13, 2009

• Hark, Another Food-Based Reality Show: The United Plates of America

  ​NBC is unleashing another food-based reality show upon the viewing populace, and thanks to the title alone, it's already a groaner.

  November 19, 2009