Wednesday, August 24 Bassline What better way to kick off a late-summer festival in celebration of extraordinary athleticism than with the sweatiest, most athletic music act in the game? Girl Talk (né Gregg Gillis), the Pittsburgh D.J. whose mixes mash together classic rap with ultra-current pop and whose concerts could very well Read More
In 2004, former mayor Ed Koch committed an act of Democratic treason and endorsed George W. Bush in his re-election bid against John Kerry. In Koch's estimation, Bush could be counted on to keep the country safe, and that pre-empted any concerns about their domestic policies.
In an email to his mailing list this afternoon, Koch Read More
Lady Catarina Pietra Toumei -- a woman who attempted to swindle the Bushes and the Guggenheims out of billions in cash, bonds and goods -- is not the first to don a fake title to climb the social ladder. Rather, she's just the latest to practice the great American tradition of aristocratic fabulism, a Old Read More
George W. Bush's memoir Decision Points landed in stores last November to the requisite curiosity and instant relaying of anything relatively juicy. But Decision Points was never looked at as a book -- even Michiko Kakutani, in The New York Times, barely addressed the prose styles of our former commander in chief. Perhaps Read More
Decision Points, President George W. Bush's hotly anticipated memoir, will hit bookstores tomorrow. If the leaked anecdotes are any indication, this thing's going to be quite the page-turner! But even if it's chock full of juicy tidbits that rival W.'s Kanye-hating, there's no surefire way of telling just how many copies the Read More
In anticipation of the Nov. 9 release of his memoir Decision Points, George W. Bush will sit down with Matt Lauer for a prime-time news special this Monday to talk over the experiences relayed in the book. In the excerpts released yesterday in a press release, the NBC anchor grilled the ex-head of Read More
Half-year numbers indicate that Random House has benefitted handsomely from the Stieg Larsson hysteria, CEO Markhus Dohle says in the memo posted on GalleyCat. Parent company Bertelsmann reported a "surge of profits" in a release, and in the memo Dohle claims the publishing house was a "significant contributor" to the uptick.
Random House has doubled its Read More
Ken Mehlman, who ran George W. Bush's 2004 presidential campaign, has admitted that he is gay. Writing in The Atlantic, Marc Ambinder said Mehlman made the realization about his sexual identity "fairly recently." The one-time head of the Republican National Committee told Ambinder that "Everybody has their own path to travel, their own Read More
A 7-year old robs Catbird in Williamsburg, apologizes.
British Airways issues a ticket to Osama Bin Laden in an internal magazine.
The New Yorker picks the "20 Under 40" fiction list.
Sarah Palin told everyone that this BP thing would happen.
Patrick Stewart is knighted.
Shitty, shitty, shitty!
The Goldman-skewering Senator from Michigan all but commandeered the s-word for the week, but he's really just the latest in a long (and occasionally esteemed) line of public officials who, when circumstances require it, are unafraid to drop some heavy shit.
It’s October 2008, the middle of the global financial apocalypse, and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has kayaked to a private island. The most expensive government spending act in American history passed a day earlier, but now he’s hunting redfish. “I felt like myself for the first time in a long while,” he sighs in On Read More
From now on, the headlines about Afghanistan will be slugged “Obama’s War,” and perhaps that is fair enough given the president’s many endorsements of what he has called a war of necessity. It would be much less fair, however, to ignore the events that led us to this moment, when whatever choice he makes will Read More
Documentary filmmaker and longtime Michael Moore collaborator Meghan O’Hara is currently working on a feature-length documentary about George W. Bush’s military service in the Texas Air National Guard, The Observer has learned.
Ms. O’Hara, who field-produced Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, is in the early stages of getting the project off the ground. Read More
Barack Obama’s Presidency is less than a year old, and he has already found himself on the roller coaster ride of American politics, media and celebrity. It must have been a pleasant surprise to wake to the news on October 9th that he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. While it will be derided Read More
For those of us who worked closely with environmental professionals during the eight years of the Bush Administration, we know that it was a time of declining resources and reduced political support for environmental regulation. It was demoralizing and more than a little scary. Last weekend an excellent piece of environmental reporting by the New Read More
