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By Benjamin-Emile Le Hay 2/13 9:15am

Fashion Week Observed

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Après-ski chic

Ramses Barden Wears Diamonds for Lacoste and Felipe Oliveira Baptista Takes Us Skiing

Portuguese artistic director, Felipe Oliveira Baptista (—the name just oozes sex appeal, no?) is more likely to be spotted perusing Paris marché aux puces, Port de Clignancourt. But since 2010, he treks to New York two times a year to present his collection for Lacoste. The Observer, was regrettably about to miss this momentous event... But thanks to some really athletic sprinting through the snow, we blazed into Lincoln Center at 10:27am. We spotted Leigh Lazark’s hair getting flurried by the impressive rectangular-shaped snow globe that stretched the entire center aisle… How appropriate: snow—something that is sadly lacking this winter. Read More

By Steve Huff 2/10 2:58am

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(Flickr/Francisco Javier Argel)

You Probably Didn’t Catch Measles at The Super Bowl

If you were among the crowds in Indianapolis rooting for the New England Patriots or New York Giants last Sunday, there's a chance you received more than a beer and barbeque hangover or big foam finger for your troubles: health officials in Indiana report at least two cases of measles in the Super Bowl village.

While the patients who came down with measles didn't go to the game, they did pass through Super Bowl village along with 200,000 others. Since measles is highly communicable, Indiana officials elected to alert state health departments across the country. Read More

2 By The Editors 2/07 6:46pm

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New York’s Giants

They were the epitome of determination during a season that seemed lost on more than one occasion. To be sure, they looked overmatched at times, pretenders who had no business being mentioned among the league’s elite teams. But their coach preached a single word—finish—and eventually the message took hold.

And so the Giants finished their season in high style, winning their second Super Bowl championship in five seasons. Like their title run in 2007-08, this one seemingly came out of nowhere. A season that seemed like the very definition of mediocrity became, almost in an instant, a magical, memorable season of brilliant moments and unforgettable images.

Through it all, through the depths of a four-game losing streak that seemed to doom their playoff chances, through the blitz of called-in demands for coaching changes and doubts about the quarterback, the Giants’ owners did precisely what Giants’ owners traditionally do.

They did nothing. More to the point, they did nothing rash. They said nothing to incite back-page headlines. They issued no demands of their players. They ended no sentences with the phrase “or else.”

The Mara and Tisch families run the Giants with a sort of patience and class that seems so very old-fashioned in the 24-hour sports-media cycle. Read More

By The Editors 2/07 6:42pm

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Madonna strikes a pose. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images)

Madonna, Manning and Musicals!

Yesterday, New York residents found themselves split into two categories: the people who celebrated the New York Giants’ victory over the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl—for the second time!—by reveling in the ticker tape parade that stretched all down Broadway, and the people who spent the day trying to get through their daily commute. We’re not saying that Eli Manning shouldn’t be celebrated like the “elite” quarterback (take that, ESPN) and god of pigskin that he is, but why couldn’t the city have the parade over the weekend?

Not that we’re complaining—O.K., we are complaining—but if there’s anyone whom we should be cheering on for their performance on Sunday night, we’d pick Madonna over Victor Cruz. Read More

By Drew Grant 2/06 12:27pm

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This is going right up on the special IRS YouTube channel

Man Wins $7.5k in Super Bowl Bet, Taunts IRS (Video)

When we think of how the housing bubble almost wrecked the U.S. economy, we think in terms of those sneaky Wall Street bond traders and insurance companies like AIG; the type of people Michael Lewis writes about in The Big Short as greedy and oblivious to the apocalyptic scenario they were creating when they bundled all those subprime mortgage loans as CDOs and authorized credit default swaps.

 

And there's a reason for this: we don't like to think of the average American who took out those teaser-rate mortgages as being stupid or greedy themselves; they were just duped by a system that was either lying to them or too complicated to understand.

But that's not entirely true. The human instinct, when presented with an option too good to be true, doesn't necessarily act in his or her own best interest. Because this is America bitches, and if you've just won $7,500 in your office's Super Bowl pool, the first thing you do is videotape yourself screaming about how you should be put on "IRS YouTube! Yeah!"
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4 By Steve Huff 2/06 12:23am

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UMass Amherst Students ‘Riot’ After Patriots’ Super Bowl Loss [Video]

As many as 2000 students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst rioted in the streets tonight following the New England Patriots' 21-17 loss to the New York Giants. There were riot squads at the ready. Police used flashbangs and smoke bombs break up the action and supplemented with horseback officers who waded into the crowd gathered in student residential area. Police were on hand because reports indicate rioting in conjunction with major events is simply something students at UMass Amherst sometimes do: Read More

By Steve Huff 2/05 10:47pm

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M.I.A.: is that a middle finger or are you just glad to sing for us?

New York Giants Win Super Bowl XLVI

It turns out the New York Giants were prescient when they briefly put their website on a championship footing Saturday: in spite of a strong effort by the Patriots in the 4th quarter including a failed Tom Brady Hail Mary pass, the Giants won their Super Bowl match-up against the New England Patriots, 21-17.  The Giants profited as much off Patriot foul-ups as they did from quarterback Eli Manning's efficient move into high gear in the fourth quarter, when Mr. Manning led what would ultimately be the game-winning drive, culminating in a touchdown by Ahmad Bradshaw with less than a minute left in the game. The AP reports as many as 100 million viewers may have tuned into the game on NBC. Read More

2 By Steve Huff 2/05 12:29am

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via @MikeGiardi

New York Giants Get Way Ahead of the Game

Someone behind the New York Giants' website tried to play sports Nostradamus on Saturday, prematurely declaring the Giants champions of Sunday's Super Bowl match with the New England Patriots. Giants.com briefly became a portal to Super Bowl champs merchandise and triumphant images of team members raising fists in victory. Web producers quickly realized this might be bad form and reverted the site to its more modest state, but not before Comcast Sports Net anchor Mike Giardi happened to take a screengrab. Sports blogs like The Nosebleeds wondered if this could be a "bad omen" for the New York team, but Giants fans would likely insist it was just an effort to get a head start on the inevitable.

[CBS Boston]

1 By The Editors 1/24 7:40pm

opinion

Time for a Garden Party, If They’ll Have It

While the football Giants will claim lots of attention in the coming days as they prepare to face the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, let’s not forget that there are a couple of other New York teams in action these days. The Knicks’ season is in full swing after the long lockout, and the Rangers look like they will be strong contenders for this year’s Stanley Cup.

This time of year should be heaven on earth for New York sports fans. Read More

By The Editors 1/17 7:04pm

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Kaitlin Monte, Miss New York. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Living for the (Long) Weekend

With temperatures dropping into the low single digits, is it any wonder that most of us would prefer to spend our weekends indoors? Sure, we could be doing something with our families and friends on these blustery Saturday and Sunday evenings: Throwing a fondue party, perhaps, or helping the kids put together a jigsaw puzzle with one hand, a glass of Malbec in the other. But how can you expect us to concentrate when there are so many amazing things going on inside that spectacularly flashing flat screen? Read More

By Steve Cohen 11/02/09 9:43pm

Baseball and the Heart of New York City

My parents moved to Brooklyn in 1955 when I was almost two years old, and by the time I was four, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants had played their last home games in the five boroughs. Until Casey Stengel and the Mets arrived in 1962, the only baseball team in town was the Read More

By Felix Gillette 9/24/09 5:26pm

NYC’s Weekly Top Ten in TV: Giants Beat Cowboys, Emmys, Leno

J-E-T-S. Jets. Jets.

Jets?

Despite all the joyful delirium surrounding the arrival of Mark Sanchez and Rex Ryan in New York and despite a stirring come-from-behind home victory over the detestable New England Patriots, the Jets once again failed to crack the weekly top ten.

New York City, it would seem, still belongs to the Giants.

And sure enough, Read More


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