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May 10, 2012
Newsweek and Time: Two Kinds of Mommy Porn
Yup, this sure is a 3-year-old breastfeeding on the cover of Time Magazine.
News
January 11, 2012
100 Most Powerless New Yorkers
A 'power list' for the rest of us
Blogs
August 8, 2011
Here's What Steve Buscemi Would Look Like With Michele Bachmann Eyes
Much has been made of the recent Newsweek cover featuring Michele Bachmann. Some consider it sexist; others have seen it simply as another opportunity to mock the Minnesota representative (see: every commenter on here, basically). We noticed today that our friends at BuzzFeed had created a fo ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Why America's E. Coli Response Makes Germany's Look Like Scheiße
Each week, Death by Science gets on its hands and knees and crawls around, searching the dark world of science and technology. Often terrifying, sometimes humbling, our discoveries will make you call your best bud and go, "Wha--?" This week, we examine why Germany's E. Coli outbreak has been ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Arianna Huffington on New York Times Paywall: More Like a 'Hedge Wall!'
The testiness between the Huffington Post and New York Times continued late this week with HuffPo/AOL chief Arianna Huffington taking a lunch speech as yet another opportunity to needle Times executive editor Bill Keller. To be fair, Keller started it, but at this point, it's the Times that'd ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Katie Couric Out at CBS News; Engadget Crew Ditches AOL For SB Nation
Every time we turn around there's a switch-up at the newly Arianna Huffington-helmed AOL and Huffington Post hybrid, with the boss simultaneously cleaning house and sprucing up, by kicking AOL-ers to the curb and hiring up a handful of big names. The Huffington reign has left a large number s ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
Ex-Bon App Editor Barbara Fairchild Now Writing for Digital Mag Real Eats
Fairchild for the digital age.The last we heard from Barbara Fairchild she was getting ready to launch her own food website. Now the ex-Bon Appetit editor is going digital.
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February 1, 2011
Gawker Media Rolling Out Redesign, The Daily Coming Tomorrow and NewsBeast Merged
New Jalopnik, Gawker's Car BlogGawker, The Daily and NewsBeast, oh my. Three of the year's biggest media launches so far have landed, albeit in different stages, on or around February 1, 2011, making for some vaguely exciting times on the internet, if you're into that sort of thing. Taken tog ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
Peter Weir, Master and Commander of His Own Strange Trip
New Jalopnik, Gawker's Car BlogGawker, The Daily and NewsBeast, oh my. Three of the year's biggest media launches so far have landed, albeit in different stages, on or around February 1, 2011, making for some vaguely exciting times on the internet, if you're into that sort of thing. Taken tog ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
The 2010 Media Holiday Party Circuit Crash-Map
For my second-to-last Press Clips, Day 27, we have a very, very special treat. Every year, many of the New York-based media companies who produce a large portion of American media that is consumed across the country gather after months of conspiring...to get shitface drunk. Behold:
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November 22, 2010
News Corp. is Basically Hiring Everyone for The Daily iPad Thinger
Lock up ye editorial staffers! The Daily is trying to hire them if they haven't already. And if Papa Rupe doesn't come for 'em, Yahoo will. A New York Observer-er peaces out. Finally, the clearing out of some old items, the firing of some long-needed shots, and the media company you're most l ... More >>
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November 21, 2010
Your Child Will Always Look Good in Pictures Because of Computers
On the front page of Sunday's New York Times is an article about the digital retouching of school photos and its effects on the psyches of today's youth. Basically, we're all screwed because parents who pay as little as $6 to fix their children -- tweaking anything from hair-length to a nasty ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Press Clips: Mediaite Loses Foot Soldier Glynnis MacNicol to Business Insider
Dan Abrams' news operation Mediaite loses a founding staff member. New York Magazine snubs New York Magazine. Alec Baldwin is New York's hot new media critic -- Guest of a Guest? Not so much. -- and Emily Smith at Page Six is having some growing pains sans-Richard Johnson, it'd appear. Press ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
Press Clips, Early Lunch Edition, Day 4: The Mediaite Street Fight
Smell that? Media beefs, cooking everywhere this week. Also, blogging on drugs, suing the small guy, shady lobbyists, good hiring sprees, bad hiring sprees, and someone taking issue with Gawker's ethical standpoints. Happy Friday, Part 1, folks:
News
June 22, 2010
A Gay Man Considers Joining the GOP
Is it possible that Republicans could prove to be a closer ally?
Art
June 1, 2010
P.S.1's 'Greater New York 2010' Is Worse Than the Biennial
The Museum's Gotham artist round-up becomes a talent-sucking bog
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May 25, 2010
Newsweek: Antidepressants Depressingly Wonky
An excellent Newsweek cover story today brings the sad news that antidepressants depressingly don't work. Which is sad, because - among other reasons - a lot of people use them. What's even worse, however, is that they work less than placebos.
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April 13, 2010
Shots Fired: New York Times Columnists Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman's Beef Officially Cooked
Pictured, Left to Right: Youth and Skill, Old Age and TreacheryWell-paid media celebrity and (purportedly) boyishly good looking New York Times' star finance reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin is, as they say on the streets, "starting some shit." And he's starting it inside the New York Times, with ... More >>
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April 12, 2010
Newsweek Still Has Yet To Learn Valuable Lesson on "Tempting Fate" Apparently
Good christ. Via Henry Blodget at the Business Insider - who simply and astutely titles his post "Uh oh" - here's the new Newsweek cover. In all of its glory. And we do mean "glory."
Blogs
March 12, 2010
Marc Jacobs' Luscious Husband Naked In Butt Magazine!
Scans courtesy Butt MagazineLorenzo Martone is the charming 30-year-old Brazilian who's design superstar Marc Jacobs' love partner (he's sort of the original Jesus Luz, but not really). And he's showing it all--and telling all--in the new issue of the rough and readable Butt magazine.
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January 18, 2010
Rightbloggers Keep It Sweet on Haiti -- Unless You Attack Rush, Are Obama, Etc.
The disaster in Haiti has obsessed both mainstream media and bloggers, and for the most part rightbloggers have been exceptionally well-behaved about it. Even some normally obstreperous critics have praised Obama for his interventions, and if they piled on Danny Glover for attributing the quake t ... More >>
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January 3, 2010
Atlantic Yards, Bloomberg get national bad press
The press in other places have discovered the Mayor's pet Atlantic Yards project, with a scathing AP piece on the human cost of eminent domain and a firebreathing George Will column on how much the Founding Fathers would have disapproved. Neither mentions the mayor, but both make it far more ... More >>
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November 20, 2009
Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Kristen Stewart, New Moon premiere. Twitpic via KriisStewart_. Our Man of the Week is Rudolph Giuliani. He started off with confused but belligerent comments about the KSM trial, making him look like a candidate for something. Then word leaked that he would not run for Governor, then that ... More >>
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September 16, 2009
The USDA Gets Locavore Fever; The How-to-Stay-Regular Cookbook
The USDA has launched a new campaign entitled Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food, that includes a close to $65 million handout to help connect small -- especially sustainable -- farms to people seeking local food. [NY Times] To help fight obesity, universities are posting caloric information i ... More >>
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September 15, 2009
Clip Job: Lenny Bruce Out a Window
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives April 1, 1965, Vol. X, No. 24 Bruce Injured While giving an imitation of "Superjew," Lenny Bruce fell 40 feet out of a San Francisco hotel window Monday. The 38-year-old comedian broke his arm and suffered possible back injuries. After ... More >>
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July 27, 2009
Britney Saves Lives!
It turns out it's not Madonna who has healing powers, despite having given birth to Lourdes. It's Britney, bitch! Proof of that is a BBC documentary called Britney Spears Saved My Life, and you'll simply have to believe me on that since I haven't lied to you that often before. According to th ... More >>
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June 26, 2009
From the Voice Archives: Robert Christgau on the Mass Culture Spectacle of Michael Jackson in 1984
In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Robert Christgau's titanic 1984 piece on arena rock, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson and the complicated place where all three meet. Working the Crowd By Robert Christgau August 21,1984 If you'd told me five years ago that I'd will ... More >>
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October 27, 2008
Clayton Riley, 1935-2008
In honor of Michael Jackson, we're raiding our archives. Here's Robert Christgau's titanic 1984 piece on arena rock, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson and the complicated place where all three meet. Working the Crowd By Robert Christgau August 21,1984 If you'd told me five years ago that I'd will ... More >>
Art
July 25, 2006
Doctors With Borders
Bioethics matures into a formal academic field—and faces an identity crisis
Music
November 30, 2004
Flyovereasy
Smart Christian kids and freaky pop pervs rock red states
News
May 4, 2004
Drugless Ecstasy
Attaining altered states through shamanic dance and chanting
People
January 27, 2004
S! M!
Attaining altered states through shamanic dance and chanting
NYC Life
November 18, 2003
NY Mirror
A franc discussion: Putting a rocky relationship to the test
News
October 28, 2003
Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
The Journalists Who Would Be CEO
Columns
March 11, 2003
NY Mirror
The Journalists Who Would Be CEO
Film
August 6, 2002
Keep It Together
The Journalists Who Would Be CEO
Music
June 18, 2002
Gamma Gamma Hey
The Journalists Who Would Be CEO
News
April 30, 2002
Quid Pro Coup
The 'Times' Condones Censorship, Venezuelan Style
Film
March 12, 2002
The Atrocity Exhibit
The 'Times' Condones Censorship, Venezuelan Style
News
January 8, 2002
Exquisite Corpse
New York Bookstores on My Mind
Film
June 12, 2001
I Am, I Said
David Manning Speaks! Stunning!
News
May 29, 2001
World Leaders on Dope
Right Joins Left in Call For an End to the Drug War
News
January 30, 2001
Who’s Sorry Now?
Jesse Jackson Marches in the Penitents Parade
Columns
June 6, 2000
The Female Hard-On
Jesse Jackson Marches in the Penitents Parade
Film
May 16, 2000
Beasts and Beefcake
Jesse Jackson Marches in the Penitents Parade
Music
September 14, 1999
Wrigley's in the Trashcan
James Miller Tries to Control What He No Longer Loves
Books
July 13, 1999
The Informer
James Miller Tries to Control What He No Longer Loves
News
May 26, 1998
India Ink
James Miller Tries to Control What He No Longer Loves
News
January 6, 1998
Year of Living Digitally
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