Flicked Off: “Capitalism: A Love Story”

At least 180 people were laid off today at Conde Nast, the magazine company with $3.5…

Sad news for fans of self-hatred: An expert on Jewish Iranians is casting doubt on this weekend’s speculation that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a Jew whose family changed its name to avoid discrimination. Professor David…

Man, I wish the Lionsgate movie about that one GQ article about some white dude named Devin who tries to make black friends that’s been picked up by Oprah and Chris Rock and the people behind Tyler Perry movies was slated to be made not by the rightest, most correctest people…

The Times’ chief lady-blogger Eric Wilson filed a devastatingly catty piece on Lindsay Lohan’s new job as the “artistic adviser” of Ungaro, on the occasion of that house’s Paris show…

Gah! East Village-drinking dreamboat Chris Noth is finally getting married. This is culturally relevant in some enormous way that I can’t quite even describe. Also, he is 54? Here is a very odd and somewhat crazy-making sentence about them from UPI: “People.com said the…

And now for some Silvio Berlusconi trouble not involving prostitutes: In 1989, Berlusconi rival Carlo DeBenedetti was about to acquire effective control of Mondadori, Italy’s largest print publisher. Berlusconi and wary allies, including Bettino Craxi, the…

I guess this counts as the apology for what New Republic editor Frank Foer calls the magazine’s “original sin”: Fifteen years after publishing her stunningly dishonest article on Bill Clinton’s health care reform bill, TNR takes on Betsey McCaughey…

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It’s a day I never thought I would live long enough to witness, but here we are: The mainstream media-in this case, the august Wall Street Journal-has finally seen fit to cast its gaze on Jerkface. I hope the attention doesn’t go to his head. From the…

Broke: “Conde Nast plans to announce this morning that it will close Gourmet magazine, a magazine of almost biblical status in the food world; it has been published since December 1940.” I love me some Ruth Reichl, so this makes me sad. Also, they decided to close this over Bon…

Conde Nast CEO Chuck Townshend tells the Times’ Stephanie Clifford that none of the company’s other titles will be shuttered, although some may reduce frequency. And the poorly-received decision to kill Gourmet rather than Bon Appétit?

A source close to Barack Obama has told the Associated Press that the President will address the Human Rights Campaign’s annual dinner this Saturday. The HRC is one of the nation’s largest gay…

In not-at-all surprising news, “an etching put up for auction on Thursday that purports to depict Hitler and Lenin playing chess failed to attract any bidders.” Another picture about the accuracy of which historians have cast doubts-a velvet…