The independent Manhattan movie house Film Forum has decided to pull its advertising from the Village Voice, citing concerns about Backpage.com, the classifieds site owned by Voice parent company Village Voice Media.
Longtime Film Forum director Karen Cooper told Off the Record that Nicholas Kristof’s Friday op-ed in The New York Times prompted her decision. Read More
The sad passing of Evelyn Lauder this week has us wearing our pink ribbons proudly (and also buying up half of Estée Lauder’s cosmetic counter at Bloomingdale’s). The cancer survivor, advocate and entrepreneur was one hell of a lady. You’d have to be to have Estée Lauder as a mother-in-law (we imagine her as the perfume magnate version of Anna Wintour’s surrogate in The Devil Wears Prada). But even a real Mommy Dearest couldn’t hold a candle this week to Patti Labelle. Read More
In case you were wondering what Nicholas Kristof thinks about the subpoena of his New York Times colleague James Risen earlier this week, he's against it. He blogged this morning:
During the Bush administration, the issue came up several times, and there were hot disputes about whether news organizations should have revealed illegal Read More
Ever notice that the NYTimes.com most-emailed list is slanted toward an older demographic? Maybe because only folks over a certain age—like our Aunt Mabel—still use the email tool. Here's a quick, annotated guide to what grandma and grandpa thought you might be interested in from NYTimes.com ...
1. No matter how many young adult novelists are Read More
Ever notice that the NYTimes.com most-emailed list is slanted toward an older demographic? Maybe because only folks over a certain age—like our Aunt Mabel—still use the email tool. Here's a quick, annotated guide to what grandma and grandpa thought you might be interested in from NYTimes.com ...
1. Times editors are proud of Aunt Mabel today. Read More
Literati packed into Gail Collins’s shabby-chic Morningside Heights apartment on the evening on Wednesday, June 17 to celebrate the launch of J. Courtney Sullivan’s debut novel, Commencement, set largely at the author's alma mater, Smith College. Ms. Sullivan, who previously penned Dating Up: Dump the Schlump and Find A Quality Man, was the Read More
Ever noticed that the NYT most emailed list is slanted toward, well, an older demographic? Maybe because only folks over a certain age—like our Aunt Mabel—still use the email tool! Here's a quick, annotated guide to what grandma and grandpa read in the paper (and sent to you!) over the weekend. We read it so you Read More
News junkies are gamers.
Ask your friends a question about the latest news tidbit—say, where President Obama and the First Lady went on their dinner date this weekend. Then watch them whip out their iPhones, flip open their laptops, racing to find the right answer. Within seconds, they’ll emerge from the scrolling sea of Google Read More
This morning, on May 28, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof challenged a room full of gamers.
"I’m slightly intimidated by being here as the one who knows the least about games," he said, standing on a stage at the New School’s Tisch Auditorium on West 12th Street in a brown blazer. He Read More
In his column today, The New York Times Op-Ed columnist offers a corrective to his 2002 columns implying that Dr. Steven J. Hatfill (whom Mr. Kristof sometimes referred to as "Mr. Z" in his columns) was connected to the still-unsolved anthrax attacks media and government figures following the 9/11. Read More
Is Nicholas Kristof the new Michael Moore? This week, The New York Times columnist wrote about his attempt to obtain a permit to protest at the Olympics in Beijing and, at times, his stunt feels like a remake of Roger & Me, minus Mr. Moore's trucker hat and blue collar crusading.
Here's how Mr. Read More
This morning, Judge Liam O'Grady ruled that New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof will not be forced to disclose his two FBI sources in a case brought against him by former Army scientist Steven Hatfill. However, by withholding the sources, sanctions were imposed against the newspaper. Last month, the Times was ordered to reveal Mr. Read More
New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof--the first journalist to have written about former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now-famous fact-finding trip to Niger--was originally on prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's subpoena list in 2003, but was never subpoenaed. In a phone conversation this afternoon, Kristof said he had been on the list. He also said that Read More
The alarming rise in liberal aggression is now the subject of regular bulletins from pundits of varying persuasions and temperaments. As certain disquieting elements converge, portents of doom can no longer be ignored: The same progressives who once fit the wimp stereotype are answering back when attacked. The same Democrats who could find no voice Read More
George Bush has put every kind of American in his cabinet
except Jews, and no one has complained about this, even though everyone knows it's nuts. Remaking the American power structure without Jews is like remaking sports without blacks. At least when it comes to blacks in sports, you can talk about it; you can say Read More
