Eight months ago, after more than 14 years working as a digital-media business developer at News Corp., Daren Benzi left his job and joined a relatively unknown company called Plastic Logic, based in the same neighborhood as Google’s headquarters in Silicon Valley. The company is building what they hope will be a Kindle killer—the Read More
Observed this weekend at a Brooklyn wine bar: a crew of boomy-voiced 30-somethings harassing their waitress.
"This is horrible!" said a long-haired portly guy, thrusting his iPhone at her. "These songs you're playing are so tired, man! Listen, we're in the industry. Trust us. Please put on my playlist. I cannot listen to this crap!" Read More
New York Mag inspires us to finish The Brothers Karamozov Read More
I'm Mad as Hell! To the editor: In his article “Spitzer-Take! Governor Vows to Persevere” [March 5], Jason Horowitz writes that the health-care workers’ union 1199 SEIU is currently paying for a television campaign against proposed Medicaid cuts to New York’s state budget, and that Mr. Spitzer may respond with his own TV campaign. I Read More
Think Small: Moses’ Tiny City In Queens Feeling a bit claustrophobic between the Empire State and Chrysler buildings? Get a bite-sized version of the Big Apple at the tiny New York City tucked away inside the Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. The Panorama, which reopened Feb. 4 after a five-month hiatus for Read More
Think Small: Moses’ Tiny City In Queens Feeling a bit claustrophobic between the Empire State and Chrysler buildings? Get a bite-sized version of the Big Apple at the tiny New York City tucked away inside the Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. The Panorama, which reopened Feb. 4 after a five-month hiatus for Read More
Memo to: Al Gore From: Ari Gold Subject: Your Oscar Speech Dear Al: Before I go any further here, allow me to apologize in advance for calling you “Al,” as opposed to “Mr. Vice President.” Sure, it might seem overly familiar. But Al—dude—VeepMan—now that you’ve got the Oscar nomination and you’re officially in show business, Read More
Jonathan Raban’s third novel, Surveillance, opens with a school-bus explosion, the rescue workers scrambling to save survivors. And then the camera pulls back, revealing that the school-bus driver, Tad Zachary, is clearing the fake blood from his ears after being placed in the Red Cross van. He’s an actor, one of several under contract with Read More
“I think it’s kind of ridiculous,” Robert F. Byrne, 15, of Fayetteville-Manlius High School outside of Syracuse, N.Y., was recently quoted as saying in The New York Times. “Our administration is refusing to change with the times.” The “times” young Master Byrne was referring to concerned his school’s decision to cancel a dance because the Read More
Every year, the media tends to beat certain words, phrases and concepts to death. Remember the Axis of Evil? Hanging chads? Soccer moms? Shock and awe? Forget overexposure. These things quickly clock past cliché and head right into the Green Zone (ding—there’s one!) of cultural irrelevancy. This year, in an attempt to get ahead of Read More
My dream is to make a rhinestone-studded ceiling,” said Jennifer Oz LeRoy, owner of Tavern on the Green. “I think that it would be fantastic and definitely one-of-a-kind,” she said. “I would just have to make sure that the glue was really good so that there weren’t rhinestones falling into people’s lobster bisque.” Ms. LeRoy, Read More
My dream is to make a rhinestone-studded ceiling,” said Jennifer Oz LeRoy, owner of Tavern on the Green.
“I think that it would be fantastic and definitely one-of-a-kind,” she said. “I would just have to make sure that the glue was really good so that there weren’t rhinestones falling into people’s lobster bisque.” Ms. LeRoy, Read MoreMaybe people are so used to learning disturbing things about Wal-Mart that the latest news from America’s largest and most frightening corporation didn’t cause much of a ripple. There was a dearth of denunciation after The New York Times published a well-reported piece on Wal-Mart’s decision to put 40 percent of its workers on part-time Read More
Maybe people are so used to learning disturbing things about Wal-Mart that the latest news from America’s largest and most frightening corporation didn’t cause much of a ripple. There was a dearth of denunciation after The New York Times published a well-reported piece on Wal-Mart’s decision to put 40 percent of its workers on part-time Read More
