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'Mirror Neurons' Explain Why 'I Feel Your Pain'

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:43:02 -0500

Ever found yourself crying or laughing along with your neighbor on the morning commute? Salon's Gordy Slack explains why:

A young woman sat on the subway and sobbed. Her mascara-stained cheeks were wet and blotchy. Her eyes were red. Her shoulders shook. She was hopeless, completely forlorn. When I got off the train, I stood on the platform, paralyzed by emotions. Hers. I'd taken them with me. I stood there, tears streaming down my cheeks....

Shutterbug Mom, Overexposed Kid

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:00:00 -0400

Pity the children of artistes: All it takes is one click of a shutter and, the next thing you know, you’re sipping Shirley Temples in a Soho gallery while fawning crowds ooh and aah over “subversive” six-foot prints of your nether regions. Such is the sad fate of Clara, the central character in Black & White, Dani Shapiro’s new middle-class-family-meets-art-world melodrama. Clara is just a babe of 3 when her mother, photographer Ruth Dunne,...

Salon Torture Enthusiasts Seek Victims, Ad Viewers

Wed, 10 May 2006 14:14:23 -0400

Unaltered screenshot from Salon In the great war against Salon.com, do we need any more evidence of their disfiguring ideologies, their disgusting and deleterious doctrines which they so perniciously advance, than this screenshot from their website? Below are the reward fliers our militia is sprinkling about University Place. At right, white wine and torture-loving New York editorial director (and man!) Kerry Lauerman; on the reader's left, an artist's rendering of what an imprisoned Rebecca Traister...

Declaration of War Against Salon

Thu, 04 May 2006 09:12:11 -0400

BEGUN AND HELD IN THE TRANSOM'S TINY MESSY OFFICE AT 915 BROADWAY, 9TH FLOOR, ON THE FOURTH OF MAY, TWO THOUSAND AND SIX. WHEREAS, for too long, beer-sharing, staff-crossover (we're looking at you, Rebecca Traister and Suzy Hansen) and mutual liberal head-nodding has taken place between the staffs of the New York Observer and Salon.com, and; WHEREAS, Salon.com Editor in Chief Joan Walsh thinks that Observer D.C. correspondent Chris Lehmann eats babies, or at least is...

Inside the World of Tracy Quan, Literary Hooker-Cum-Novelist

Sun, 05 Aug 2001 20:00:00 -0400

On a recent Friday afternoon in the bar of the Hotel Mark on

East 77th Street, Tracy Quan pulled out an alcohol swab and cleaned her hands before dipping into the nuts. The gesture could have belonged to the protagonist of Ms. Quan's new novel, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl. Like her fictional alter ego, Ms. Quan has lived the life of a happy and hygienic Upper East Side hooker who avoided kissing clients on the mouth, was handy...

What's With the Big Dot-Com Shakeout?

Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:00:00 -0400

For a while, in the glow of expanding stock market wealth, dot-com journalists pretty much had free run of the place. Get a faux-visionary C.E.O. to tell a good story in front of the money men about "vertical-market penetration" and "hypersyndication" and liberate the ratings-sensitive, focus-group-approved, newsstand-driven old media from its prisons while a new dawn arose.

Not anymore. The money men aren't happy that no one seems to have figured out a way to...

Salon.com Reduces Its Staff By the Numbers

Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:00:00 -0400

In the end, it was numbers that did in some of the literary talents of

Salon.com. First revenues determined that it was necessary to reduce costs at the on-line magazine. Then founder and editor-in-chief David Talbot used numbers--web usage--to target which members of the editorial staff should go. The numbers, the equivalent of television ratings, allowed Mr. Talbot to pinpoint 13 employees, including seven editors and writers, who did not generate enough web "hits" to justify keeping them...