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  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Ray Kelly, NYPD Commissioner, Loves a Good Tie, Hoodie

    ​Today's edition of Women's Wear Daily profiles the style of a somewhat unlikely fashion character, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. On a night out on the East River, Kelly sports "a charcoal Martin Greenfield hand-tailored suit" with a "Charvet tie, so pink it practically reflects the faraway P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Watergate Proving that Norman Mailer's Paranoia Was Prescient

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 12, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 28 Mailer's 5th Estate: Who's paranoid now? by Frank Crowther "Paranoia is the most useful or the most destructive faculty of the human spirit. One never knows when it's devoted to you or your destruction ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    When the Burtons and Brando and Malcolm McDowell Blew Through Town

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 21, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 25 Hype! Hype! Hooray! by Arthur Bell A heat wave blew into town last week. So did Merle Oberon, Malcolm McDowell, the Burtons, Ron O'Neal, Alice Cooper, Marlon Brando, withered endives, chopped liver fro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Reuters Publishes Photos of Men Killed With Osama Bin Laden: Will Others Leak?

    ​Yesterday we asked "Should the United States Release Osama Bin Laden Death Photos?" but by this afternoon the White House announced that President Barack Obama had opted to keep the images secret for fear they would inflame anti-U.S. anger worldwide. "There is no doubt that we killed Osama bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    New York Parties Are So Over

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 22, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 12 Wake up! The party's not over by Blair Sobol Perhaps Norman Mailer started it all. The latest craze is giving extravagantly dull parties. The bigger and more boring the better. Nowadays the success of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    The Fix is a Website About Addiction; Happy New York Times Paywall Day!

    ​First of all, if you click on this, you will have wasted one of your 20 monthly free New York Times articles on something about white male bloggers. That's because in addition to a new website about addiction from Radar founder Maer Roshan, which went up with little-to-no build-up, today is a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Republican Secret Camera Scam Artist Fools NPR, But Also Muslim-Hating Bloggers

    ​James O'Keefe, the same Republican operative/twerp/'investigative journalist' behind such secret stings as the undercover ACORN videos (yeah, the pimp costume guy) and the attempted tapping of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu's phones went at it again today with a new video project. This time, O'Ke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Will the New York Times Paywall Be a 'Wasteland' For Writers? It's Coming Soon!

    ​The New York Times had a big, important meeting today at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, in which the people in charge talked about how the business side is going. For most everyone that reads the paper, the discussion is boring beyond belief. ("The improvement in p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Gawker Media Rolling Out Redesign, The Daily Coming Tomorrow and NewsBeast Merged

    New Jalopnik, Gawker's Car Blog​Gawker, 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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Bloomberg Names First Chief Digital Officer; New York Times Readies Online Paywall

    ​Rachel Sterne, a 27-year-old child of New York City's burgeoning start-up scene and a citizen journalism early adopter, has been named the city's Chief Digital Officer by the Bloomberg administration. What on earth does that mean? Find out inside Press Clips, our afternoon media round-up. Plu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    The Cockettes Conquer New York

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 25, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 47 History of a hype: Worm in Big Apple By Maureen Orth New York is dead, everyone complained. The last thing to hit town was "Jesus Christ Superstar," and it was so unbelievably crass. The major art op ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2010

    New York City Remembers Elaine Kaufman of Elaine's, Restaurateur and Friend of the Stars

    ​Elaine Kaufman, referred to by the New York Times as the "salty den mother" of exclusive New York City restaurant Elaine's, died on Friday in Manhattan at the age of 81. The cause of death, perhaps darkly appropriate with regards to the period of New York City that Kaufman represented, was co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    NY Mag, Yahoo, Mediaite, CNN, and Gawker Media: A Manic Monday's Media Moves

    ​Remember, remember, the 15th of November. The world of media gigs spins, and with it, our heads. How are New York Magazine, Mediaite, Business Insider, CNN, and Gawker Media intricately tied together today? If you get motion sickness easily, well, you probably shouldn't be reading this on a m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Media Moves: Nick Summers in The Koblin Spot at the New York Observer, Dana Rubinstein Out

    ​The New York Observer's star media reporter John Koblin left his post there a few weeks ago to work with longtime Observer editor-in-chief Peter Kaplan at Fairchild Publications as Womens Wear Daily's Memo Pad reporter. Culture editor Sara Vilkomerson left last week for a job with Entertainme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Sara Vilkomerson Out at New York Observer

    ​We've just received unconfirmed word that New York Observer culture editor Sara Vilkomerson -- a longtime staffer at the paper -- is out.

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Breaking: John Koblin Quits the New York Observer (Updated)

    ​We just got word that the New York Observer's star media reporter John Koblin has left the paper. This goes in line with rumors we were hearing that Koblin would be out following his yearly US Open coverage. If true, it's a bad day and huge loss for the paper. Know any more? Hit us up. Update ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Direct Line: Peter Kaplan on The John Koblin Hire, An iPad App, and WWD's Future

    ​Well, big media change: John Koblin was hired by longtime former New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan -- who is now the editorial director of Fairchild -- to go report on media for Women's Wear Daily. After being assured we were speaking with the actual Peter W. Kaplan (and not one of his ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Media Moves: Jeff Bercovici Going to Forbes

    ​Another breaking media move: we're now hearing reading that Jeff Bercovici -- AOL's star media reporter at Daily Finance -- is going to work with Lewis "Darth" Dvorkin at Forbes (or True/Forbes, as we like to call it around here) after being courted by a number of potential bosses, according ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Gourmet Rises From the Dead (Sort of)

    ​Those who think apps are the future of the internet just got more ammunition--Gourmet will be revived as Gourmet Live, an app that will offer "an ever-expanding collection of articles, photos, video and more about: seasonal foods, holidays and special occasions, restaurants, travel and food c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Consumer Reports: Danielle Steel Owns Over 6,000 Pairs of Psycho-Expensive Shoes

    ​ Women's Wear Daily reports today that NY-born author Danielle Steel, purveyor of lurid bubble-bath scenes and star-cross'd cosmopolitan love affairs (not that we would know, okay?), owns "at least" 6,000 pairs of Christian Louboutin shoes. WWD reports that the designer tells an upcoming issu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Bourke, Convicted in Bribe Scheme, Keeps Job, $

    It turns out you can be a convicted felon and still keep your high-profile job. As reported here Tuesday, multimillionaire handbag manufacturer Frederic Bourke was found guilty late last week of participating in a $350 million bribery scheme, in which the corrupt president of Azerbaijan had planned ... More >>

  • NYC Life

    September 18, 2007

    Sui Generis?

    Anna Sui, others sue Forever 21: How original are you?

  • NYC Life

    July 17, 2007

    Purse Snatching

    What's a girl got to do to get a fake Louis Vuitton around here?

  • Art

    May 1, 2007

    Recommendations

    Taryn Simon's Hymenoplasty, John Bradford, and Joseph Cornell

  • Art

    March 27, 2007

    High Fashion

    Styles come and go, but the glamour of drugs endures

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2007

    H&M Home Not a Dream

    Styles come and go, but the glamour of drugs endures

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2007

    Get Your Juicy Baby

    Styles come and go, but the glamour of drugs endures

  • NYC Life

    May 23, 2006

    Almost Famous

    4 percenter dishes the dirt on the dirt-dishers

  • NYC Life

    April 27, 2004

    Lagerfeld for Less

    4 percenter dishes the dirt on the dirt-dishers

  • NYC Life

    October 29, 2002

    The Heinie Chronicles

    What a Raunchy Designer Can Learn From the Sex Museum

  • Columns

    August 20, 2002

    NY Mirror

    What a Raunchy Designer Can Learn From the Sex Museum

  • NYC Life

    July 16, 2002

    Got to Be Startin' Somethin'

    What a Raunchy Designer Can Learn From the Sex Museum

  • NYC Life

    June 19, 2001

    Prize Patrol

    American Fashion Awards Itself

  • NYC Life

    March 20, 2001

    Oscar Undressed

    The Starmaking Machinery Behind the Popular Gown

  • NYC Life

    September 5, 2000

    Remembrance of Things Crass

    The Fashion Magazines of September 2000

  • News

    August 22, 2000

    Statues of Limitations

    Archaeologists Don’t Dig Moynihan’s Art Collector Pal for Stolen-Treasures Post

  • NYC Life

    January 5, 1999

    Dressing Like It's 1999

    The Year in Frock

  • News

    October 20, 1998

    Feds Finger Labor Boss

    Apparel Union Tied to Mafia Shakedown

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