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Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories

The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>

The Weeknd Postpones Next Thursday's Show; Drake Actually Not That Into Cardigans

Just yesterday, we informed you that Toronto PBR&B kingpin The Weeknd would be making its United States debut at Vice's Upfront Extravaganza. Alas, he's no longer on the bill, although the event will still go down at Skylight One Hanson next week and feature, among others, Tanlines, Unknown Mortal ... More >>

Ryan Sutton and the Union Square Hospitality Group Agree to Disagree

​If you thought nobody could rain on Danny Meyer's publicity parade, then Ryan Sutton would like to hand you an umbrella.

Mars Bar Patrons Are Really Sick of Reporters

​Did you know that the Mars Bar is still closing? It is, though apparently not for another four to six weeks or so. And did you know that its patrons are sick of reporters asking them about their feelings on the matter?

Princess Diana Covers Newsweek Because Tina Brown Said So; David Carr Pisses Off America

​The newish editor-in-chief of Newsweek is the very famous and talented Tina Brown, who took over when her floundering web project The Daily Beast partnered with the floundering newsweekly. During her editorship, Brown famously made both Vanity Fair and the New Yorker sharper and flashier, and ... More >>

Park Slope Pigeon Killer Sounds Off Online

​Normally a quiet neighborhood full of mothers and small children, Park Slope was shaken up on Monday when a nutjob admitted online that he's been poisoning pigeons in JJ Byrne Park. Under the username Pyrrhic Victory the killer wrote extensively about his tactics for avian genocide and then r ... More >>

Anthony Weiner 'Secret Muslim' Story Pulled; Journalism Undergoing 'Hamsterization'

​In the age of publishing directly to the Internet, often with little or no editing, sometimes embarrassing things end up underneath the logo of otherwise legitimate news organizations. Though where the Washington Times fits on the legitimacy scale is arguable (see: Sun Myung Moon), a post on ... More >>

Glenn Beck Moving to the Internet; Arianna Huffington Pissing Off New AOL Team

​After some unsuccessful press jockeying on both sides, negotiations between Fox News and their cash cow-turned-credibility sucker Glenn Beck pretty much disintegrated and so they worked together on his exit from the channel. Now it's time for him to ride his intensely angry, loyal and crazy m ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Death Pictures Hit First Freedom of Information Act Bump

​With President Obama deciding that the United States is not the type of country to release photographs of a dead Osama Bin Laden, shot in the head, there are two ways the public will ever see them: 1) a government leak when this all dies down, or 2) an enterprising journalist whose Freedom of ... More >>

Huffington Post: Our Bloggers Like Doing It For Free

​On Thursday, the Newspaper Guild made a public plea to all unpaid writers for the Huffington Post to withdraw their services as a part of a strike against using unpaid labor in the wake of HuffPo's $315 million sale to AOL. "Just as we would ask writers to stand fast and not cross a physical ... More >>

New York Times Journos Missing in Libya; New York Observer Launches Betabeat Tech Site

​It's a sad, scary day in journalism, as it too often is, with the New York Times announcing that four of their own are missing in Libya, where government forces continue to clash with demonstrators. This after last week, when four BBC journalists were detained by Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi's ... More >>

The Daily Ditching iPad-Only For Android App ASAP; TBD.com Dismantled, Doomed

​After three weeks of publication as the world's first-ever iPad newspaper, reports are trickling out that News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch's pet project, The Daily, will be migrating to a second platform, the Android tablet, in the second quarter of 2011. The news comes barely 20 issues since M ... More >>

Blogging is Dead, Long Live Blogging

​As a blogger working on a blog -- blogging, really -- it only feels appropriate to devote today's media column, Press Clips, to "The End of Blogging" in this week's New York Observer. In the provocative, narrow and winding feature, the Observer sets out to prove -- well, what, really? The "nu ... More >>

My Weirdest Piece Of Press Ever

Surely you read about the Portuguese gossip columnist who was recently killed and castrated by a psycho 20-year-old at the Intercontintal Hotel. Well, in a New York Observer piece about this tragedy, the older man, Carlos Castro, is identified as a Portuguese version of me! Says the article, Castr ... More >>

Press Clips: Do Not Let Robert Thomson Behead Anyone This Week, Please

​VICTORY! for a New York City newspaper, while the rest are going down, down, in an earlier round. A new, familiar byline at New York's Vulture, and a new, familiar byline at AgencySpy. The iPad is still just The iPad, but Twitter is definitely still Twitter. Howard Kurtz at The Daily Beast is sti ... More >>

A Look at the McRib Cult; Waiterpay.com Lets Waiters Know Their Rights

​Corn futures surged on Monday, and with sharp gains in soybeans, sugar, and coffee, worries over the rising cost of food have been sparked. [NY Times] Los Angeles food trucks are about to be subject to the same health department rules as brick-and-mortar restaurants, including letter grades. ... More >>

The UCLA Hipster Panel Discussion: A Field Report

Via Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter.​Last night, a discussion panel regarding hipsters entitled Look at This F*cking Panel: A Sociological Investigation of the Hipster took place at UCLA's Ackerman Grand Ballroom. We dispatched author, blogger, and Friend of Runnin' Scared, Tess Lynch, to documen ... More >>

Press Clips: "10 Reasons Nick Denton is an Asshole"

​Well, since it's now hailing outside, I'm stuck inside the office until it lets up just enough for me to run from our office to the Astor Place 6 using my emergency Umbrella Mafia-umbrella without getting completely drenched. Might as well do this thing. Press Clips, Day 11, Late "Hailpocolyp ... More >>

Tragic Segway Death Inspires Existential Crisis as to How We Feel About Segways

It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.​Faced with the tragic and oh-so-meta news of the untimely demise of Jimi Heselden, the 62-year-old owner of the Segway company -- for whom things ended with a fall off a 30-foot cliff into a river while riding a Segway, we weren't sure how to rea ... More >>

John Cook Leaving (Maw of) Yahoo News, Returning to Gawker

​Andrew Golis of Yahoo just posted a job opening noting that John Cook is going back to Gawker! Doesn't this sound familiar?

NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller to The New York Observer: "Get a Life."

​What would cause the executive editor of the New York Times to tell New York Observer media reporter John Koblin to "get a life"?

The Men's US Open Final is Wet With Rain (UPDATE: It's Rained Out!)

Nadal​It is a big Sunday for sports! If you still don't understand the rules of American football, you are probably all set to watch tennis, which is widely considered less manly. Still, the men's championship US Open match is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. ET (UPDATE: Not today! See below.) in ... More >>

Victoria Azarenka: The First 2010 U.S. Open Heat Collapse (Video)

​It's official: this is the hottest summer on record in New York City. Naturally, if you're playing in the U.S. Open, and you get word that a heat wave is coming, this is not good news to you. The sun has now beat down upon one of its many U.S. Open victims to the point of submission.

Jersey Shore's Trashiness Reaches Epic New Level: The Game Theory Approach

​Everyone knows Jersey Shore is trashy, but is that trashiness quantifiable in any realistic way? Apparently so, as the guidos of Jersey Shore are being used -- in such an explicit dirty manner -- as pawns in luxury goods consumerism warfare. How?

Press Clips, Day 8, Lunch Edition: New York vs. The New Yorker Cage Match Edtion

Pictured: a figurative portrait of New York Observer senior editor Christian Lorentzen. ​Press Clips has returned to the roost, and we're starting the week off with great news, great media squabbles, hypocrisy, and self-awareness. In other words, your Monday Media Proctology Exam has arrived. ... More >>

Jersey Shore's Guido Effect on the New York Stock Exchange: The Results!

​This afternoon, we published our own theory on the potential financial voodoo that would ensue after the cast of Jersey Shore rang the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange: The Guido Effect. "Brilliant!" noted the New York Observer. Flavorwire wondered if it was "too late to invest" in ... More >>

Jersey Shore Continues to Respond to Queer Issue Cover-Status With Pride, Silence

​Putting the boys of Jersey Shore on the cover of The Village Voice's Queer Issue is apparently a big deal! I mean, we didn't think anything of it when it happened, and given those now-classic So Gay They Make You Go "Hmm" photos, we didn't think anybody would think much of it, either, other t ... More >>

Rush & Molloy Bid Farewell to New York Daily News Gossip Column

​You don't have to like it, but you can't knock the hustle: gossip reporting is a New York City institution and rightfully so. Whether they're maneuvering their way onto MTV hit shows or grading Courtney Love's dinner etiquette, the best gossips are always grinding, working the phones and part ... More >>

NY1's iPhone App Generating Considerable Amount of Excitement

​New Yorkers are passionate about NY1. And now they can be even more passionate about NY1.

Media Moves: Anti-Hipster Christian Lorentzen to the New York Observer

​A new hire at the New York Observer shortly after a new "this isn't working out." It happens!

New York City: The Math Museum is Coming, Motherfactors!

​Prompting traumatic flashbacks and striking fear into the hearts of liberal arts graduates, people so traumatized by a TI-86 that they still can't bring themselves to buy an iPhone, and anybody who's ever had a nightmare about those numbers-obsessed Chasid stalkers in Pi...New York City is ge ... More >>

Media Moves: Joe Pompeo Leaves the NY Observer for Business Insider

​Peacing out: Joe Pompeo, managing editor of The New York Observer, leaving the pink paper for Business Insider. The news was broken by Observer media reporter Felix Gillette via Twitter. This comes in the wake of Clusterstock editor John Carney's firing, and the consequent shitshow (also acce ... More >>

BlogBeat: Gothamist Sells Out to Cablevision, James Dolan Presumably Excited to Ruin Another News Outlet

​Gothamist -- the New York City metro news blog and subsequent locally-based "Ist" properties -- long a punchline among bloggers who poked at its overly excitable tones about the varying news minutiae it covered, finally gave themselves something to giggle over: a long-rumored multi-million do ... More >>

David Paterson Sex Story? Don't Look At Us: Times

​As Julia discussed this weekend, the New York Times suggested via a column by public editor Clark Hoyt that the "gauzy rumors" about a salacious story his paper was going to release someday about David Paterson were not the paper's fault, but that of other, less principled journalistic outlet ... More >>

Snooty Weekly, Staten Island Daily Endorse Bloomberg

​The New York Observer and the Staten Island Advance today endorse Mayor Bloomberg's third term (the Advance "strongly," the Observer in a tasteful shade of salmon). The proletarian Advance shakes its head that some people, upset by Bloomberg's overthrow of term limits, are planning to vote a ... More >>

Lit Seen: A Report From the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival

Gaitskill, Auster, Gessen—and Lupe Fiasco.

Gabe Pressman on Bloomberg Eruption: Call the Shrinks!

No New York journalist has jousted with as many mayors and with as much tenacity as NBC's great Gabe Pressman. So we asked Gabe, who started covering City Hall in 1954, what he thought about Mike Bloomberg's hissy eruption yesterday at New York Observer blogger Azi Paybarah. "I wrote it this morni ... More >>

Wall Street Bonuses: "Plummeted" or "Hefty"?

Sometimes the New York Times leads consensus, sometimes it follows it. Rarely does it break with consensus, which is what's interesting about today's "What Red Ink? Wall Street Paid Hefty Bonuses" story. The paper reports the $18.4 billion workers in the securities industry collected as bonuses "w ... More >>

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