by John Del Signore
by Luke Mazur
So last week I was wondering to what extent, geographically speaking, Beggars’ Night was celebrated. Growing up in Buffalo, we always went trick-or-treating the night before Halloween, October…
And also, in the new New York Observer book, there is Jared Kushner talking about owning the paper. Last night there was a party for this book, by the way! Former editor Peter Kaplan made a very funny speech that began with a joke…
by Rudolph Delson
To while away the days until the publication of Sarah Palin’s memoirs on November 17th, Rudolph Delson is reviewing the American vice presidential…
From our comments, regarding the Fort Hood shooting: “People who make psych diagnoses based on news articles and tv segments are indeed idiots. People who make racist statements are indeed racists. That understood, let’s not deny…
“Gladwell’s protagonists are generally intelligent but ordinary folks who have imbued their work with a passionate practicality. Their laboratories are courtrooms and high-concept shopping malls, office parks and African villages, but whatever their locale, they are always buried…
The New York Observer book is out this week. The Kingdom of New York is a big ol’ collection of pieces that rather accurately do sum up the last 20 years here! A couple of things caught my eye. One was an interview with the founding publisher, Arthur…
A study by Dartmouth social neuroscientist Kristina Caudle on “World of Warcraft” players showed that “areas of the brain involved in self-reflection and judgement seem to behave similarly when someone is thinking about their virtual self as when they think…
Certain things start to make sense when you learn that notorious East Village gay party promoter Daniel Nardicio is the one behind the Levi Johnston Playgirl photospread. Also it’s fun and…
I have nothing particularly profound or informative to say about what happened at Fort Hood yesterday, so I will simply direct you to this post by Spencer Ackerman, which pretty much encapsulates how I feel about the coverage of the story and is a powerful corrective to stuff like this.
There is a new iPhone app called “2Balls1Cup.” I don’t know what it’s about, because THERE IS NO WAY you will get me to look at that. Look for yourselves, if you want, I don’t care, it’s your life.
Here you will find a thoughtful and diverting discussion on the particular genre of pop music single known as the girl-vs.-girl song.
Well, we beat the forecast for October: we were only supposed to lose 175,000 jobs last month, and we did 190,000! Which really isn’t very much. 190,000 people is the entire population of Little Rock, Arkansas (which is the 118th largest city in the…
I’ve been thinking a bunch about what we’ll remember 2009 for, besides rampant unemployment and two great flu panics. Mostly that is what I’ll remember, but I’ll also think of it as the year that the nation became obsessed with jerks and woman-beaters. That…
Question of the day: “The Question Becomes: If this is the end…what should we do? Get involved politically and fight for our freedom or just sit at home, watch ‘Mad Men’ and wait for Jesus to return?”
“An article in some editions on Wednesday about Michael R. Bloomberg’s narrow victory in the New York mayoral race referred incorrectly to a voter who said Mr. Bloomberg ‘ran a smear campaign against a nonexistent opponent.’ The…
On the off chance that reading up on the Afghanistan situation wasn’t rough enough going for you, Lawrence Wright’s Letter from Gaza, “Captives,” in this week’s New Yorker, is also very long and thoroughly a bummer, as well as excellent and even-handed and important. Short…
Rachel Christie, Miss England, has relinquished her crown after being arrested for assaulting Miss Manchester at a nightclub where Miss Manchester showed Miss England a “saucy text message” allegedly sent to Miss Manchester by Miss England’s boyfriend (an ex of Miss Manchester’s) Tornado, who…
I bet somebody is. Maybe look on Google?
