Professional Services Sector

Willard Lanham, Former DOE Consultant Who Stole Millions, Hit With Three-Year Prison Sentence

Willard "Ross" Lanham, 58, learned yesterday that embezzling millions of dollars in funds meant to bring Internet access to kids is not only a despicable thing to do, but it will also earn you more than three years in prison. A Manhattan federal court judge sentenced Lanham to 37 months in jail fo ... More >>

Waiting for Ivan Orkin's Ramen Specials

By 6:30 p.m., about a hundred ramen fans were waiting at Momofuku Noodle Bar to try the one-night-only specials from Ivan Orkin, the Long Island chef who has been slinging his well-respected ramen in Tokyo for the last few years. But by the time many folks were in, Orkin's specials had already sold ... More >>

EDC 2012: Coachella or Electric Daisy Carnival: Which One is Better?

See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage Dance music is coming to an arena near you: Kaskade will be the first DJ ever to play Staples Center (July 27). And mainstream concert promoters such as Live Nation are diving into the electronic dance explosion. Electric Daisy Carnival, which is being hel ... More >>

5 Funniest TV Food Commercials of Stan Freberg

Starring character actor Jesse White, this commercial, circa 1960, treats Esskay franks as if you could smoke them. Born 1926, Stan Freberg was an American satirist, active in the 1950s through the 1980s. Something of a Renaissance Man, he was a radio personality, comedian, wrote books, voiced ani ... More >>

PARIS BLUES

Rosecrans Baldwin tells of his 
not-so-charming expat life

Draper's Friends

What to do when Mad Men isn't on

The Ting Tings

'Escort Quality, Hooker Pricing' Billboard Is Not OK, Says Scott Stringer

If an offensive advertisement fails, and you apologize for the offensiveness of the ad, what's the next logical step for the ad company? For Wodka Vodka, the answer apparently is to try and offend someone else. IN VERY LARGE LETTERS. The thinking behind the madness: If making fun of Jews doesn't w ... More >>

Edward De Sear, Law Firm Partner, Charged With Distributing Kiddie Porn

Edward De Sear, via LinkedIn ​Edward De Sear, a top-ranked capital markets lawyer and partner at international firm Allen & Overy, was arrested by the FBI yesterday at his New Jersey home on charges of distributing kiddie porn on the Internet. Reuters reports that he appeared in federal court ... More >>

BLACK-TIE OPTIONAL

Bands, beer pong, and a dance-off await

Bed Bug Insurance Is Here; Bed Bugs Still Attacking

​Finally some potentially good news in the ongoing war against bed bugs: insurance. According to a press release issued yesterday, Aon Risk Solutions, Global Excess Partners, and Terminix have joined forces to provide bed bug insurance for "hotels, landlords, student housing, corporate busines ... More >>

Gerard Denault, CityTime Project Manager, Fired For Raiding the Till

​The beleaguered lead contractor in the $800 million Citytime debacle has fired the project manager for paying himself for hours he didn't even work, Comptroller John Liu reports. Science Applications International Corp. tells the city that it has fired Gerard Denault, who was leading the com ... More >>

Wu Lyf

SAINT JOANIE

A tribute to Miss Holloway—er, Hathaway

Floridita's Fight With Columbia Gets More Toxic

Gonzalez/New York TimesRamon Diaz​The increasingly bitter conflict between Columbia University and Floridita has now spilled over into court. Ramon Diaz, owner of the popular neighborhood eatery at 125th Street and Broadway, has filed suit against Columbia, alleging that the university is respons ... More >>

What Would Times Square Look Like With No Ads?

​From the man who brought you Super Size Me and reality stunt show 30 Days comes No Ad: New York, "an internet-based effort to remove all visual advertising from Times Square." Morgan Spurlock's Warrior Poets have teamed with online photo editing program Aviary and some neo-ad agency called Th ... More >>

Sawyer Frye 'Contest Video': McDonald's McRib Ushered Out With a Very Lame Bit of Marketing

The McRib has once again been pulled from the market as part of McDonald's corporate marketing campaign, and the focus of the current hubbub is a supposedly amateur video made by one Sawyer Frye of Carthage, North Carolina, said to be the winner of a $10,000 contest sponsored by McDonald's.

BLANK SURROUNDINGS

The new hot dance party gets local help

The Downward Spiral of TVT Records

How the ambitious NYC indie nearly brought artists from Ambulance LTD to Lil Jon down with it

In Light of the Princess Diana Lottery Bust: This Is What a Scam Looks Like, People

​Four men have been busted and charged in New York with the oldest, possibly worst trick in the post-modern book: Email-spamming people that they'd won the "$5 Million Princess Diana Lottery." Apparently some people were enticed, on the promise of Diana's supposed millions, to give up their ba ... More >>

Today in Non-Shockers: That Berlin Cannibal Restaurant Is, Indeed, a Hoax

Remember the cannibal restaurant that we told you about, the one that was angering Berliners with requests for body parts, but was probably a hoax? It's a hoax! Apparently, the whole marketing campaign was a tone-deaf hoax perpetrated by vegetarian activists trying to draw a moral parallel between ... More >>

Bedbugs Take Over Hachette Book Group's Offices

​Coming to you with the latest in bedbug news: Hachette Book Group's three floors at 237 Park Avenue and East 46th Street are infested and undergoing "aggressive treatment" for the bugs on Thursday and Friday while, we presume, the lucky/unlucky Hachette employees "work from home" or "go to th ... More >>

David Perez Is Currently Doing Anything You Tweet

David Perez, Now on Demand​David Perez, who we told you about last week, wanted to go to the Advertising Festival in Cannes, and his employer, ad firm Leo Burnett, agreed to send him under one condition: He must do whatever people on Twitter tell him to do for a five days.

IS NYC SINKING?

Women and children first!

Teaching Hamburgers to Lie: How TV Food Is Photostyled

This incredible video details how hamburgers are prepped by stylist Jennifer Eustock for TV commercials. The process involves gluing sesame seeds, branding the patty, and propping up the lettuce with straight pins. After you see this, you'll know why your Big Mac and Whopper can't measure up to thei ... More >>

EYE CANDY FOR STRANGERS

Online visual art submissions make it to 10 big screens

Losing Money, the 'Times' Hits the Bottle

The New York Times Company announced yesterday that it's starting a wine club. An un-bylined article in the Times' business section today reports that the new business, called (suprise) the New York Times Wine Club, is one of several ventures the company has been exploring as its advertising sales h ... More >>

Streaking Past Viacom Offices in Times Square Now Legitimate Path to MTV Video Music Award Nominations

Hey, so the downy elf with the dilated pupils who dwells inside the padded confines of MTV's viral marketing campaign closet did good today! The MTV Video Music Award Nominations are out, and boy, look at that Breakthrough Video category: the ninja-filled, Underworld-vibing video to Bat For Lash's ... More >>

WILL FILM FOR FOOD

Opening gala kicks off a week of yummy films

MTA Ad Seller Blows $7.5 Target; Ad Rates Down

We thought we were seeing an awful lot of Poetry in Motions on the subways lately, and now the Times tells us that Titan Worldwide has failed to meet its $7.5 million target for selling ad space on New York's subways, buses and commuter trains. Another vendor, CBS Outdoor, says it has had no problem ... More >>

OTAKU ATTACK

Japan Society takes you to Tokyo

UNCANNY CREATIVITY

Nonperishables like you've never seen them before

FATHER’S DAY

Backyard shenanigans with a Michigan dad

Clip Job: In Defense of Madison Avenue

'No Skeletons in My Closet!'

Oh yeah? How Michael Mukasey and Bernie Kerik are haunting Rudy's run.

Pricing the Pols: How Much for a Beep?

eBay Atheist

Emerging markets: Souls, for sale and/or saving

That Sinking Feeling

Alito, Plamegate—there's even no escape in South America for Bush

Morning Report 10/5/05
Harriet's Supreme Qualification: Her Firm's Fundraising

Morning Report 10/4/05
Miers on Bush: 'Smartest Man I Ever Met'

Not Bathroom Humor: Richest Deal Ever

Temperatures Rise

Power, water, planning—and the lack thereof—in southern Iraq

This Genteel Racket

Can't sell your book? Maybe your agent hasn't even read it—and never will

Female Protégées Suck Up to Donald Trump While Guys Just Suck

Hydrogen's Dirty Details

Cleaning Up: Bush's Pals, an Oligarch, and a Siberian Pollution Factory

Music

Bronx Clash

A Contractor's Commission Payment Sparks Probe

Scandal? What Scandal?

Enron Too Complicated for Some

The Court Street Regular

Brooklyn Machine Wants One of Its Own Atop the New Council

The Bilbao Effect

Marquee Architects Draw Mixed Reviews on Campus