The New York Observer » Michelle Obama http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:24:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Michelle Obama’s Talk Show Challenge: Is the First Lady in Better Shape Than the Rest of the World? (Video) If you're a fan of talk shows where famous people talk to other famous people so that the second famous person can promote their latest whatever, then you might have noticed an odd trend: First Lady Michelle Obama has been making the rounds lately: first on Ellen, then Jay Leno, and now Jimmy Fallon, all in an effort to raise awareness for the Let's Move! health initiative. Or is it?
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]]> http://www.observer.com/2012/02/michelle-obamas-talk-show-challenge-is-the-first-lady-in-better-shape-than-the-rest-of-the-world-video/ Michelle Obama Vogue Cover Divided White House Staff When Vogue invited Michelle Obama to do a cover story in early 2009, reactions from her staff illustrated the constant role of racial politics in the first lady's decision-making process, according to Jodi Kantor's new book, The Obamas. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2012/01/michelle-obama-vogue-cover-divided-white-house-staff/ Celebrities Are Miserable At US Open [Pics] Despite what our neighbors might be screaming about next door, the US Open isn't the Superbowl.Tennis, for all its excitement, is not our national past time-- still baseball, with a tie for second between hoarding and waiting for an early onset diabetes-- and it fails to arouse the fierce patriotic pride. At least at the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/09/celebrities-are-miserable-at-us-open-pics/ Congressman Ryan Comes Out of Left Field and Jeter Drives One (3000th Hit) Deep Last weekend in the Bronx, Derek Jeter made Yankee history by becoming the first player in the franchise to reach 3,000 hits. His dramatic homer deep into left field in the third inning of Saturday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays thrilled fans—especially Christian Lopez, who caught the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/07/congressman-ryan-comes-out-of-left-field-and-jeter-drives-one-3000th-hit-deep/ Let’s Go, Betts! The Kate Comes Back with New Michelle Obama Coffee-Table Tome Kate Betts has experienced her share of ups and downs during her years in the fashion world--and honey, we don't mean hemlines. 

After beginning her career as a hard-charging reporter in WWD's Paris bureau and rising to the rank of bureau chief, she was hired by Anna Wintour at Vogue, where she served as fashion news Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/lets-go-betts-kate-back-michelle-o-coffee-table-tome Parliament Lights No More! President Obama Finally Quits Smoking America's most well-known smoker has kicked the habit. In a press conference earlier today, Michelle Obama told reporters that her husband has not lit up in "almost a year," and that he has no current plans to smoke in the near future. This is breaking news.

For more on the matter, let's check out Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/culture/parliament-lights-no-more-president-obama-finally-quits-smoking Even Michelle Obama Will Shop at Walmart New York politicos have been lining up to fight Walmart for months now, as the national retailer attempts its third incursion into the city. Yet they may have just met their match in the first lady.

Michelle Obama has made combating childhood obesity a signature part of her agenda while at the White House. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/real-estate/even-michelle-obama-will-shop-walmart No Washington at Westminster! Obamas Left off Royal Wedding Guest List As the big day draws near, the world awaits with bated breath the union between Prince William and his stunning, shiny-haired bride-to-be Kate Middleton. April 29, you cannot come soon enough.

Naturally, for an event as grand and important as this, it's a matter of national urgency that President Obama, leader of the free world, attend Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/no-washington-westminster-obamas-left-royal-wedding-guest-list In Other News…: Michelle Obama Will Sell Your Clothes - The Michelle Obama fashion marketing effect: more intense than we knew.

- Guest of a Guest gives Patti Stanger a primer on why her approach to setting up women in New York is all wrong. We agree with GofaG--our dates picking out our clothes is just...not necessary.

- Eliot Spitzer: if you were Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/daily-transom/other-news-michelle-obama-will-sell-your-clothes D.C. Socialites Declare War on Michelle Obama Michelle Obama will arrive in New York today for a private Democratic fund-raiser at the Upper West Side home of fashion designer Donna Karan and then head to Broadway's St. James Theater where actress Sarah Jessica Parker will serve as her host. It all sounds lovely. Ms. Obama will likely be in the same room Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/daily-transom/dc-socialites-declare-war-mrs-obama Last Night’s TV: Willie Nelson Gets High Willie Nelson went on Larry King Live and -- spoiler alert -- he was Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/last-nights-tv-willie-nelson-gets-high Tinselgate: My Side of the Story There is a warehouse 20 minutes from the White House. It houses all the holiday decorations from presidential administrations past. To poke through this twinkly archive is to examine U.S. history. Here lie giant spools of Nancy Reagan’s favorite red ribbon, as lush and thick as the shoulder pads on an Adolfo socialite suit. What’s Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/tinselgate-my-side-story Go Jodi Go! Times‘ Kantor Scores Seven Figures From Little, Brown For Obama Book New York Times Washington correspondent Jodi Kantor has secured a stunning seven-figure book deal this week with Little, Brown to write a volume on the Obamas.

The deal was the result of a heated citywide auction, and was brokered by independent lit agent Elyse Cheney. It comes on the heels of the 34-year-old reporter’s New York Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/media/go-jodi-go-times-kantor-scores-seven-figures-little-brown-obama-book Lawmakers Inviting Michelle Obama to Push for Paid Sick Days Michelle Obama was sent a letter by city lawmakers inviting her to testify here in favor of requiring paid sick days for workers.

The first lady recently embraced paid sick days in a talk with the business leaders, according to the Times.

In the November 12 letter, the lawmakers said, “We believe that with the Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2009/politics/lawmakers-inviting-michelle-obama-push-paid-sick-days Biden For Owens, Again ALBANY—The last minute push for Democratic Congressional candidate Bill Owens will include a visit by Vice President Joe Biden.

Biden will appear at a rally in Watertown at the Northside Improvement League. This is the second visit to the area by Biden, who during a trip to Syracuse held a fundraiser for Read More

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