Foursquare, Hot New Phone App, Is Dodgeball on Steroids
"If you're have a slamming Saturday night, there's no reason why it shouldn't feel like a game of Legend of Zelda," said
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Blackberry Bold, Gran Torino, 92nd Street Y, Huffington Post, et. al. Declare: New York Times ‘Sold’ Front Page
Today, The Huffington Post's Media Vertical has a huge, attention-grabbing above-the-scroll headline about The New York Times' announcement that the paper is now selling ads on A1, which reads, FRONT PAGE FOR SALE.
It should be noted that the Huffington Post, which was the subject of Simon Dumenco's Ad Age column today in Read More
The New Phone Phobics Use Gizmos For Everything But Talking
Sarah Morrison, a Williamsburg resident in her late 20s who writes for Missbehave magazine, had no problem copping to the fact that she often ignores friends’ phone calls.
“I’ll sit there and watch the phone ring and be like, ‘UGH! Why are they calling?’” said Ms. Morrison, “99 percent” of whose Read More
Notes on Campbell: To Naomi Is To Love Me!
Naomi struck me … as such a nice young lady. I am always taken aback by that phone-throwing, anger-management-requiring reputation of hers. I have been acquainted with La Campbell since the late 1980’s. She used to model for my old pal, the Turkish fashion designer Rifat Ozbek. When I first came to New York, I Read More
Cucina de Balthazar
As he did with Balthazar, Keith McNally has once again set a stage where the play is about eating and the actors are the diners. This time it’s not a Paris bistro, but a rustic trattoria somewhere in the hills of Italy. Morandi’s low, beamed ceiling is hung with wooden chandeliers topped with small brown Read More
Does Society Matter? Ask Existential Arbiter David Patrick Columbia
Last Thursday, David Patrick Columbia, 65 years old, went from Michael’s to Le Cirque to Swifty’s, and then on Friday, he was at Swifty’s again, for lunch. It was awful quiet in the restaurant, just a friend of Brooke Astor’s having lunch with a young woman, and then Robert Caravaggi, one of the owners, dressed Read More
Does Society Matter? Ask Existential Arbiter David Patrick Columbia
Last Thursday, David Patrick Columbia, 65 years old, went from Michael’s to Le Cirque to Swifty’s, and then on Friday, he was at Swifty’s again, for lunch. It was awful quiet in the restaurant, just a friend of Brooke Astor’s having lunch with a young woman, and then Robert Caravaggi, one of the owners, dressed Read More
Bridgehampton Bob Balaban Does Special Thing With Hoe
On the sunny afternoon of July 24, Bob Balaban held a meeting with a drainage specialist at his Bridgehampton home to discuss, among other issues, the death of his hydrangeas. “I tried sprinkling them with aluminum-chloride flakes,” he said woefully to the man from Hampton Irrigation. Mr. Balaban addressed him as “Steve.” Steve wore work Read More
The Transom
Vibe Ari Horowitz spent his weekend at the beach. He has a house in Waterville, and on Saturday he rented a boat for a while, called The Queen Bee, and went out with a bunch of pals. Over on Shelter Island, Mr. Horowitz, who is the new president of Vibe magazine, bared Read More
The Peach Parade: Vibe, Joe Francis, Adultery in Manhattan, The Agent of Brooklyn, Rosario Dawson, and Phil Collins’ Heart
"That's what I'm the most psyched about," shirtless new Vibe president Ari Horowitz told The Transom on Shelter Island on Saturday. "The people there are really, really solid. They've been incredibly receptive...." Within the next three days, Mr. Horowitz's new Vibe team would raise their lay-off total to nearly 25 staffers. Where do Manhattan's Read More
Fashion Week Freaks! Here Is Handy Primer
We’re getting fatter and fatter, or so the endless flow of statistical surveys would have us believe. But is this the whole picture? I think not. Based on my observations at last week’s New York Fashion Week frenzy, I am forced to the conclusion that there’s a hell of a lot more going on. The Read More
New York World
Can New York City Function Without the BlackBerry? Only days after coming up with a contingency plan for a crippling snowstorm, City Hall is scrambling in the face of another potential freeze: the potential cutoff of wireless service to the 6,100 city employees who are issued BlackBerry devices. “I’m always nervous in the electronic age,” Read More
Fashion Week Freaks! Here Is Handy Primer
We’re getting fatter and fatter, or so the endless flow of statistical surveys would have us believe. But is this the whole picture? I think not. Based on my observations at last week’s New York Fashion Week frenzy, I am forced to the conclusion that there’s a hell of a lot more going on. The Read More
New York World
Can New York City Function Without the BlackBerry?
Only days after coming up with a contingency plan for a crippling snowstorm, City Hall is scrambling in the face of another potential freeze: the potential cutoff of wireless service to the 6,100 city employees who are issued BlackBerry devices. “I’m always nervous in the electronic age,” Read MoreAll I Want This Christmas: An Exit Strategy!
And so we’ve come to the final days of 2005.
The tips have been distributed; the holiday cards have been dispatched. And all that’s left is that flurry of last-minute shopping for the most difficult gifts—the gifts for whom it’s not just “the thought” that counts. So what, then, is the perfect gift this year? Read More
