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Fervent Clinton Supporter Explains Tirade to Fox News
After the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee decided to give Florida's and Michigan's delegates half votes, a dedicated Hillary Clinton supporter who had traveled from Manhattan to the meeting on Saturday vented to those gathering at the Marriott. And did she vent! …
The Dark Side of the Moon's a Giant Litter Box
Kids: Ewwwwwww!!Man with them: What about aliens?Kids: Ewwww! Everyone knows they poop all over themselves. Poop alllllll over themselves! Ewwwwww!--Frederick Douglass & 124th Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us …
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June 2, 2008 - 10:58 pm: I'll Out Myself...I'm the "Critic"
June 2, 2008 - 10:58 pm: I'll Out Myself...I'm the "Critic" || This week, Metromix ran a pre-James Beard award feature asking three influential food folks-a critic, a publicist and a chef ndash;about their pred... || Go to TheStrongBuzz.com to see the full posting.
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June 2, 2008 - 10:48 pm: Two Rare (and great) Italian Beers this week at Jimmy's No. 43
June 2, 2008 - 10:48 pm: Two Rare (and great) Italian Beers this week at Jimmy's No. 43 || This week at Jimmy's no.43 (43 East 7th Street), you'll find two very rare (and very delicious) Italian beers on draught. According to Jimmy Pots and Pans himself, this is the only time in NYC that both of…
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Bill Clinton Calls Vanity Fair Writer "Scumbag" [Scandal]
Audio emerged tonight of former President Bill Clinton calling Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum a "sleazy... dishonest... slimy... scumbag." Former Times reporter Purdum, of course, is the guy who wrote the just-released article about how Clinton is running around the world on private jets,…
Downtown NYC River to River Festival 2008
Downtown NYC River to River Festival 2008
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Mason Jarring
Remember when blogging about Pink Floyd was all the rage? Maura does! Well, I've been looking for the interview portions of the Pompeii video on the Internet for quite some time and finally found it uploaded, in 3 parts, to YouTube last November. The clip above includes an extraordinary case study…
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More NY: new pay toilets, bad Tavern, EZ Pass trick
Whitman's Mannahatta! By Amy Langfield/NewYorkology Tavern on the Green pays $2.2 mln in racial discrimination lawsuit (NY Times) The federal commission said the sexual harassment had included graphic comments and demands for sexual acts, as well as groping of...
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Spin Class Berserker Cleared In Court [Violence On The Bike]
A jury today acquitted that stockbroker who upended a fellow spin-class participant's stationary bike. After a class instructor declined to intervene, Christopher Carter had gone after Stuart Sugarman for shouting "Yeah!" and "You go girl!" at the top of his lungs after the class instructor…
One Man One City - The Top 1 reason I will not be seeing the Sex & the City movie
The city has been a buzz with excitement for the new Sex and the City movie. I have no idea why people like this awful show.
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When the Bimbos Come Home to Roost
Middle-aged suit #1: So I'm going to be a father again.Middle-aged suit #2: Oh, really?Middle-aged suit #1: Yeah, the mother's some bimbo on the West Side.Middle-aged suit #2: Oh yeah.Middle-aged suit #1: Yeah. I figure if I'm going to fuck up my life, I might as well do it in grand…
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Coke Bust To Bump Sales For Tatum O'Neal Publisher [Celebrity-industrial Complex]
HarperCollins hopes the whiff of scandal will push sales of Tatum O'Neal's memoir higher, based on the line (OK I'll stop now) the publisher is selling in a new press release touting the three-year-old book. The oh-so-tasteful bit of flackery leads with the "BREAKING NEWS" of O'Neal's arrest…
Extra, Extra
come back to the five and dime, wayne thiebaud, wayne thiebaud, by KnickerbockerNY at flickrToday on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on 59th St. and 3rd Ave. in Manhattan, a man pinned under a car on Grace St. in Queens, and a floater in the Hudson near Pier 90 off Manhattan. Despite…
25 Mile New York City Film Zone Map
25 Mile New York City Film Zone Map
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Mom: Enjoy the Army, Sweetie
High school kid: I'm thinking of staying in the city for school.Friend: Really?High school kid: Yeah, I kinda want to stay in my apartment.Friend: Oh, I thought it would be to party or something. Why would you want to live at home?High school kid: Oh, don't worry, I'm going to kick my mom out…
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Write-Offs: 06.02.08
$$$ Deals: Monsters in the Wings? In our M&A Roundup for the week ended June 1, real dealmaking is tepid compared to the mega-billion-dollar buzz over Anheuser-InBev and Rio Tinto-BHP Billiton. $$$ Shoot the CEO [Portfolio] $$$ Morgan Stanley loses prop traders [TheStreet.com] $$$ "It's time…
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Reporter-Threatening Japanese Gangster: One Scary Dude [Crime]
Some secret Japanese government files have emerged about Tadamasa Goto, the Yakuza gangster boss who's threatened the life of American reporter Jake Adelstein and his family. And—we hate to say it—but it really sounds like Goto is not a guy you would want to be threatening your life.…
Censorship! [Bloggers In Peril]
A young man in Saudi Arabia (he is delivering a kidney to his father—no joke!) reports that the site of Fouad al Farhan, the Saudi blogger jailed last year, is blocked. Along with Radar, Fleshbot, and Craigslist Casual Encounters. [Kidney and the Kingdom]
A Plague Upon All Our Houses: Rats
traffickin', by jonfeinstein at flickr The common rule of thumb is that there are eight or nine rats for every human being in New York City, which means a scurrying verminous population of 64-72 million lurking in walls, below streets, in trash cans, and sometimes in plain sight. Being a rat…
Newsday in News for Actual Journalism
Newsday, the Long Island paper that until a week ago was owned by the Tribune Co. (then nearly-bought by Rupert Murdoch, only to be purchased by James Dolan's clueless Cablevision) wants to help New Yorkers discover the beauty and drama of Long Island with a print version of its Web site…
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Condos Come to Brooklyn, But Promised Parks Stall
When the Bloomberg administration successfully rezoned large parts of Williamsburg and Brooklyn three years ago to facilitate the construction of massive housing condos, the deal came with a promise to deliver lots of new park space. But while the luxury residential buildings are going up,…
Let's Make You Some Money
Today's big money idea is the logical continuation of last week's tip about getting in on the car-fucking trend early. Felix Dennis is a "businessman" who used to publish Maxim, so when it comes to monetizing masturbation, he knows what he's talking about. In a new interview with BusinessWeek,…
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One If By Sea...
I've learned to love thunderstorms. Sure, they may make everyone antsy on the wedding day, especially when the reception is on a boat, but they bring with them such a lovely wind.* Two weddings + two engagement shoots this weekend = so many wonderful mom
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Drudge Loves Obama|So Do a Lot of Other Media Folk|Gawker to Tatum: How to Purchase Illegal Drugs Properly|The Gould Effect?|Business Week Can See the Future
Politico: Drudge Report keeps campaigns guessing Slate: Obamagoguery of the Week Gawker: Tatum O'Neal: Surprisingly Bad At Buying Drugs HuffPo: The Gould Effect: Does Blogging About Your Life Necessarily Ruin It? Eat the Press: What's Changed About Blogging (Besides A BusinessWeek…
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Is Washington Mutual's CEO Next?
This morning we asked whether the firing of Ken Thompson would lead to a new bloodbath at the top of our financial institutions. A few hours later Washington Mutual took away the chief executive Kerry Killinger post as chairman of the company's board. Killinger has been running as a close second…
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Sugarman Loses Spinning Class Fracas! Details Forthcoming
Earlier Coverage of the greatest story ever told: Spinning Out Of Control Because The Guy Next To You Won't Pipe Down-- A-Okay? "No, You Shut Up," "No, You Shut Up," "You Shut Up," "You Shut Up" Let's Get Serious For A Second Ask An Expert
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EaterWire: New Treats Truck, Serge Becker's New Space, and the Absinthe Gummi Bears
NEW YORK CITY— The Feed has a Treats Truck birth announcement: "Baker/driver/Treats Truck entrepreneur Kim Ima has announced the addition of a new truck to her fleet of one. Dot is the name...Though Dot’s schedule is still being determined, noshers... NEW YORK CITY— The Feed…
Byrne Gets the Battery Maritime Building Played
Over the weekend David Byrne's Playing the Building installation opened, ostensibly making the Battery Maritime Building the city's largest instrument. The weekend boasted some long lines for those who wanted to get their fingers on the ivories -- unless of course you were Lou Reed and Laurie…
Amanda Lorber Controversy Sparks War of the Young Journos [Feuds]
Ruh roh. A new generation of New York journalists have already begun to turn on one another. After a reporter from the Columbia Spectator named Alexandria Symonds wrote a nasty couple of sentences about Amanda Lorber, editor-in-chief of Cypress Bay High School's The Circuit and star of the MTV…
Yahoo Loses Bid To Keep Cop Shareholder Suit Secret
Yahoo's shareholder troubles don't end with the proxy fight started by Carl Icahn. A Delaware court today unsealed a complaint filed by Yahoo shareholders against the company over its alleged bungling of Microsoft bid to buy the company. Yahoo had sought to keep the lawsuit under seal. It was…
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That's What You Get For Ordering The Boss' Wife To Kansas [CBS]
Rick Kaplan's exit from The Early Show—less than three months after the veteran TV producer was brought in to turn around the troubled CBS morning programme—has never been adequately explained. CBS's valiant flacks said he needed a rest after working two jobs, and would be focus on the…
Bun Update: Apologies for the Shitshow
Bun has started emailing apologies to diners for screwing the pooch on last week's free food giveaway. But that's not all, they promise there will be another promotion in the near future: "We at Bun would like to apologize for... Bun has started emailing apologies to diners for screwing the…
Ken Thompson Thanks Wachovians On His Way Out The Door
As his last day at Wachovia wraps up, Ken Thompson decided to send a note to all of Wachovia's employees, thanking them for putting their "extraordinary talent" to work for him. It didn't work out so well but there's nothing to gain in pointing fingers now. Presumably his ability to send firm…
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Who is the "Jewish Carrie" in This Week's Sex Diaries? [Blind Items]
New York mag's Daily Intel unfortunately publishes the Sex Diaries of various New Yorkers, which are usually nauseating and packed with way too much information. This week is no different, and everybody's trying to guess who the writer is: "Jewish Carrie: 32, single, Gramercy, editor and blogger,…
Sponsored Post: Where’s your favorite place to check out art and culture?
From museums to galleries to garden sculptures and street installations, the City is one big art and culture exhibition. But what’s truly worth checking out, and what stands out from the rest? Is it the open-air studios of Socrates Sculpture Park or the more traditional exploration of…
Monday Blogwrap
Gowanus Goes Green DEP boat. 'Turd Boat' Makes an Appearance on the Canal [GL] 3rd Ave BBQ Joint Already Up in Smoke? [Eater] Mall's Non-Targety Parts Coming Along [Brooklyn Junction] Groundbreaking for New Arts Center [Bed-Stuy Blog] Brownstone Development, Circa 1880's [PMFA] A Visit to Dog…
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The Jewiest Web Sites Around [The Internets]
As we told you earlier, Jewish people love buying books and eating Chinese food. But what are their favorite websites? We've rounded up the Jewiest ones! Click for our list. A user's guide: if a website's index is 200, that means it has twice as many Jewish readers as would be expected from their…
Who's Afraid of the Puerto Rican Day Parade?
Well, according to a New York Magazine Intelligencer item, it might be Madison Avenue cafe Via Quadronno. The establishment "closes for just four days each year: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, and a certain spring day."A spokesman claims coincidence. “We close that day every year…
How S&P's Downgrades Could Help Wall Street
Just like the real estate agent who is heroically solving Califorina's oversupply of housing by giving away one house when you buy another, Wall Street firms are courageously propping up their own balance sheets by booking gains as a result of declines in their own creditworthiness. Here's how…
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Closing Bell: Two Trees Talks Dock Street Development
DumboNYC posted the vid above about a public information session in which Two Trees described its proposal to build an apartment building, school, retail and parking on Dock Street. In the clip, Jed Walentas gestures at renderings, describing where the project would be ("my mom's carousel is up…
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Shrooms Are for Funerals. Cocaine Is for Weddings
Girl #1: I mean, really, she was doing cocaine at her father's memorial service.Girl #2: I know. Me and Ashley were like, "We're no prudes, but there's such a thing as decorum."--84th & Madison Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! …
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The PR Industry Will Not Stand For These Outrageous Criticisms! [Flackery]
The PR industry loves to get riled up any time someone takes what might be construed as an unjustified shot at its awful reputation. This is because there are already so many perfectly justified criticisms of PR that any argument not directly linked to a huge public scandal gives the industry a…
Lanty Smith Writes To Wachovia's Employees: All Your Functions Report To Me
We can't get enough of the downfall of Ken Thompson, the as-of-this-morning former chief executive of Wachovia. Thompson hoped to preside over the growth of the bank into a universal banking powerhouse. Instead, he nearly ran it into the ground. This morning Lanty Smith, the chairman of the…
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Stalk and Walk: Uma’s Disturbed Fan Gets Probation
Jack Jordan, the man convicted of stalking actress Uma Thurman, received a sentence of three years probation today. On May 6th a jury found Jordan guilty of stalking and aggravated harassment. Prosecutors had wanted him to spend a year in jail, but the judge declined to order any jail time,…
Vince McManhon Applies Chokehold to MMA
In an effort to boost his sport's sagging ratings, World Wrestling Entertainment chairman Vince McMahon will give away $1 million of his own money to viewers during telecasts of Monday Night Raw, although he failed to say how or when the windfall would arrive. "People can view this as my own…
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Justice [Actual Stalkers]
Jack Jordan, who sent Uma Thurman lots of crazy letters and liked to hang around outside her apartment, must keep away from the actress for five years, per order of the Manhattan Supreme Court. After that, it's fair game. In the meantime, Jordan will stalk Oprah.