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Christine Quinn Threatens Media Who Run Ad She Doesn't Like

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is having a rough week so far. For one thing, new Quinnipiac poll shows the mayoral front-runner's numbers hitting a five-month low. She's also facing a new attack ad paid for by a coalition of labor and animal-rights groups. The ad got some media attention earl ... More >>

Rage Against the Machinima

As the stakes get higher on YouTube, video stars are finding safety—and power—in numbers

Bronx Man Faces Terrorism Charges For Drunken Facebook Death Threat

Just in case you're considering getting shitfaced tonight and then firing off some angry Facebook posts threatening to kill your boss, you should be advised that you could potentially be hit with terrorism charges -- as is the case for a Bronx man who wants his boss to "suck the gun" before he blows ... More >>

Brighton Beach Russians Can't Watch Show About Brighton Beach Russians

​By now, you've read and enjoyed my column about Russian Dolls, the Lifetime reality show about varying generations of Brooklyn Russkies angling for their lump of caviar in the sky. Well, I just got a call from a Brooklyn Russkie who was brimming with rage mixed with a healthy sense of irony. ... More >>

Jack Griffin Fired at Time Inc., But Fighting Back; Bill Simmons Loads New Website

Sports Guy Simmons​The warring of rich white men behind the scenes at magazine companies can be as dull as it sounds or, as in the case of Jack Griffin's firing from Time Inc. at the hands of Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, it can be amusing, provided the powerful people are pissy and willing to ... More >>

New Yorkers Insist on Being Unhappy With the Snow Day That God Gave Them

The snow dude gets it. Via EV Grieve/GirlyDeJoie.​We were going to write a post called "10 Things to Do When You're Stranded at the Airport Due to a Blizzard-Pocalypse" but having narrowed the list down to, basically, drink, bitch, and call your airline names, we figured you probably had that ... More >>

New York Times Wedding Couple Flaunts Leaving Their Spouses, Screwing Up Their Kids

​This Sunday morning Gawker points us to a sordid story in the wedding section of the New York Times. It turns out that rich white people leave their spouses. And then they talk about it to the Paper of Record! She was a "glamorous" anchor at WNBC; he was the president of media sales at Time W ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

"As Christians we are sorry if you have ever felt pushed away from Church or ever felt like you didn't fit in. That was people, not Jesus." -- message handed out by members of the Awakening Church at Union Square station. Tea parties were all the rage -- literally! We read the tea leaves and att ... More >>

Dow Jonesin': Rupert Murdoch reports big loss on 'Wall Street Journal'-related writedown

The pot's calling the kettle black: The New York Times runs a Reuters story this afternoon about Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. posting an $8.4 billion writedown on the advertising-challenged Wall Street Journal and other properties. The Times, as we know, is in even worse shape and has even reached o ... More >>

Holland Bar Reopens

The Holland Bar -- a long, thin haunt on Ninth near 39th that had for years sold cheap drinks and White Castle burgers to seasoned regulars and, later, younger folks who approved its low-down charms, until its closing last summer -- will reopen, probably this week. Last week the rumor of the Hollan ... More >>

The Woodstock Museum: Because You Weren't There

A myth, and a vivid reality, await you

Hold That 'Sweetheart' Verizon Cable Franchise, Advocates Warn

Actual Poor People Rate Bloomy's Poverty Plan

Free Willy

Summer means outdoor classical theater—and it's not just Shakespeare in the Park

'Once in a Lifetime'

No. 1 Fan

Cuckoo for Kylie Minogue and Jamie Lidell; Rothko renovates

Classical

The Big Chill

EZT shuts down, courts lag behind, WMG gets desperate

Gangsta Homonyms

Obsessive-compulsive rap artist repeats repeats repeats

Carpenters Hammered, Again

Monitor slams union

The Small Paybacks

No, you shouldn't call Prince's new album a comeback, but musicology will do just fine

Temps Perdu

The Parsippany swamp mystery and that leg warmer made out of a hat

Moscow on the West Side: Going from Cold War to hot jazz

How Bad a Year?

Music biz recovery means suing and firing more people

CEOs: Higher and Fire

For Execs, the Bigger the Layoff, the Bigger the Payoff

Jew Eye for the Black Guy: Odd Couple Swap Stereotypes

NY Mirror

Reloaded Questions

Hacking the 'Matrix' Master Code

Bush's War on Women, Part Two

The Myth of Progress

Everyone's Right to Spin

Big Media Back Nike in Supreme Court Case

The High-Stakes Testing Trap

Rising Standards, Rising Dropouts

The Tao of Low-Cost Wireless

Poor Ann Moore

Time Inc. Exec Cornered at CJR Panel

Are We Dead Yet?

Media Industry Hit by Rolling Layoffs

Telecom for Dummies

Touring the Media Industrial Complex

Bright Young Thing

How Michael Powell Rose From GOP Obscurity to a Shot at Becoming the First Black President

Letters

The Real McCain

The Advancing Abolitionists

How Clean Is Amoco's Gas?

The Quiet Man

Hollywood Fights to Seal Jack Valenti’s Testimony

Rocking Out at the Byte Club

Can New York Musicians Download Success Off MP3.com?

E-Bombs Away! Protest, Panic, and the Politics of Packet Monkeys

Sports

NY Mirror

Letters

White Lines (Do It)

A pretty girl is like a melody

The Movies Made Me Do It

How much are 'Natural Born' Killers affected by film violence?

Future Schlock

Westport's Dragon Lady

Martha Stewart Is One Burned-Up Cookie