"Lanny, what now?" reporters ask Lanny Davis one by one. "We're going to take the White House" is his talking point today.
And here's a reporter who's been covering Hillary for the whole shebang. What's next for him? "Gonna take a week off."
Inside. There are 10 American flags in the room, Read More
So there at the Hillary Clinton event at Baruch College was Lanny Davis, Senator Clinton's old pal from Yale--speaking to reporters, he stressed, as just a private citizen. Barack Obama, he said, "is strong in places where she isn't strong." Also Mr. Davis had called Senator Clinton that morning to tell her he was starting Read More
On Hillary Clinton: "She's had her fans."
More importantly, on Barack Obama and Clinton talking: "I think an invitation has been extended. Senator Clinton will accept that."
UPDATE: She also said, "This night is a celebration for a candidate that has finished the course."
Andrea Peyser couldn't get online in the press room. Andrea! Say something funny! "This is like her campaign," she said.
An appellate court upstate had said that a Canadian marriage between two women must be recognized in New York. This wasn’t much in the way of news! Mr. Paterson Read More
The hole appeared maybe in March. It was the size of—and as oddly shaped a trapezium as—a bad West Village studio. The town’s dock becomes a short boardwalk that deposits arrivals deboarding the boat from the mainland at a cramped, poorly planned intersection; that is Cherry Grove, Fire Island’s entire tiny downtown. So arrivals find Read More
For the first Read More
Daniel Manus Pinkwater, one of the two or three last great male writers alive, is putting his new novel, The Yggyssey, online, one chapter each week. He is up to chapter four! Mr. Pinkwater, like so many men after him, attended Bard College (most probably concurrently with former feminist pioneer and current outcast Phyllis Chesler, Read More
In an inevitable, perhaps even overdue collision of reality and lifestyle, this morning MTV announced it has green-lighted the 21st season of The Real World. It will be filmed in Brooklyn, the reigning home turf of post-teen drama, and broadcast in 13 one-hour episodes in early 2009. No word yet regarding in which neighborhood the Read More
“Sometimes government moves slow, but we run sure,” said Hiram Monserrate, councilman from Queens, on Monday afternoon. The Veteran’s Committee, which he chairs, was passing a Berkeley-esque resolution calling (again) for the federal government to repeal the “Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” policy and replace it with a policy of equal rights for homosexuals Read More
Sometimes statistics can give rise to a piece of journalism. New York Times magazine contributing writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis, a resident of Boston, found that 700 gay men age 29 or younger were wed in the state of Massachusetts between May 2004 and June 2007. What resulted is a 7000-word New York Times magazine cover story, Read More
This morning, the New York Times announced the recipients of their 2007 Punch Awards. The awards, named after the nickname of former Times honcho Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, have two categories: "journalistic or editorial excellence" in community service and "business accomplishments."
The Gainesville Sun, purchased by the Times in 1971 and part of the company's Regional Newspaper Read More
The wingnut parade at the 112th annual New York Times stockholder's meeting, held late this morning at the Times' conference room on the other side of a birch-and-moss filled atrium from the Times' newsroom tower, was out of control. And when chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. was not being harassed by pesky shareholders, he was being Read More
They really are. So bored! Bored with all those SOLUTIONS! But she also had good news, everybody! Hillary Read More
Tishman Speyer, the newly-chosen developers of the West Side rail yards, would like to eliminate the northernmost spur of the High Line.
Friends of the High Line president and co-founder Robert Hammond doesn't believe it's going to happen—after all, he's already overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the conversion of the elevated railway into a new Read More
