It's Done: Yahoo Just Announced the Acquisition of Tumblr
Charlie Rose Will Host Charlie Rose Weekend
Khloe Kardashian Pulls T-Shirt After Gov. Cuomo Threatens to Sue
An Apologetic Shelly Silver Tries to Fix Albany's Sexual Harassment Problem
Speaker Quinn Divides March for Greenwich Hate Crime Victim
Yahoo! Opening New Office in Times Square, Wants to Expand NYC Presence by 60 Percent
Andrew Cuomo Shares Fred Dicker’s Private Email With All His Competitors
People Still Want to Work at The Village Voice
Let's Not Pop All the Bottles at Once: This Tumblr Deal Isn't a Total Cinderella Story
Khloe Kardashian Pulls T-Shirt After Gov. Cuomo Threatens to Sue
It looks like Gov. Andrew Cuomo caught up with the Kardashians.
The high-end clothing line run by Khloe Kardashian and her husband, NBA star Lamar Odom, has pulled a designer t-shirt from its website after the state threatened to sue them for copyright infringement.
The shirt, which had been available on the Rich Soil Clothing website, featured a design that looked “suspiciously like a state logo,” according to the Daily News, which first reported the fashion faux-pas. Read More
An Apologetic Shelly Silver Tries to Fix Albany’s Sexual Harassment Problem
Facing growing calls for his resignation, Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver, surrounded by an army of loyal supporters, apologized for his handling of the Vito Lopez allegations and announced a series of reforms to ensure, he said, that such mistakes will never be made again.
“I want New Yorkers to know I care deeply about this institution and its employees, that I remain dedicated to our core commission of protecting those who are most in need of a strong and caring government,” Mr. Silver told reporters at a press conference in Albany hours after Mr. Lopez officially resigned. Read More
Speaker Quinn Divides March for Greenwich Hate Crime Victim
The horrific, cold-blooded murder of 32-year-old Mark Carson in Greenwich Village Friday night has shocked New Yorkers into action. In what is believed to have been a hate crime, Mr. Carson, a homosexual man, was stalked and gunned down for what he was wearing, mere blocks away from the site of the historic Stonewall riots. The suspect, Elliot Morales, allegedly laughed when cornered by the police, boasting, “I shot him in the face.”
An outpouring of sentiment followed as hundreds left vigils at the site of the crime over the weekend. This evening, you can find organizers from GLAAD, along with city officials and New Yorkers–gay and straight–in a solidarity march starting at the LGBT Community Center of New York at 5:30PM and ending with a rally at the murder site, where friends, family, community leaders and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will read from prepared statements.
However, not everyone wants the mayoral candidate using this tragic incident as a stumping ground, and have organized their own event in solidarity with Mr. Carson. Read More
Yahoo! Opening New Office in Times Square, Wants to Expand NYC Presence by 60 Percent
Yahoo! is taking over New York, whether you like it or not. After the long-awaited announcement that the old school web giant had purchased Alley darling Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion, the company held a press event in Times Square to make another big declaration: Yahoo! will be consolidating its local offices into a giant hub in the old New York Times building. It’s no Googleplex, but it’ll do. Read More
Andrew Cuomo Shares Fred Dicker’s Private Email With All His Competitors
After a New York Post reporter sent a confidential email inquiry to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office, the Cuomo administration released the email to other journalists, reports the Associated Press.
This comes on the same day that The Washington Post revealed that the Department of Justice had snooped on a Fox News reporter’s private emails, and only a week after the AP reported that the DOJ had surreptitiously obtained their reporters’ phone records, making it an easy addition to the government versus press narrative. Three, after all, is a trend. Read More
People Still Want to Work at The Village Voice
The Village Voice is going through the latest in a series of rough times–in the past two weeks, following the resignation of their top two editors, the downtown alt-weekly laid off some of their most beloved writers. Today, two more writers resigned. But the fact that it might not seem like the most stable of places to work hasn’t deterred what we can only assume are young writers from sending in their applications. Read More
Let’s Not Pop All the Bottles at Once: This Tumblr Deal Isn’t a Total Cinderella Story
In Pride and Prejudice, before achieving her happy ending with Mr. Darcy, Lizzie Bennett receives a marriage proposal from Mr. Collins, a toadying little man who offers a lifetime of a) stability and b) teeth-grinding annoyance. She turns him down, and her friend Charlotte promptly snaps him up. A 27-year-old woman of limited means in 18th century England, she’s realistic about her options and grabs her best bet with both hands.
Let’s not kid ourselves that Yahoo! is anything other than a Mr. Collins. Read More
$90 M. Hotel Worker Health Center Coming to Downtown Brooklyn
From the BAM Cultural District to Williamsburg, Brooklyn is undergoing a hotel boom. And pretty soon, all of those workers—or at least, the unionized ones—will have a new place to go for check-ups.
The New York Hotel Trades Council & Hotel Association of New York City, the city’s leading hotel workers’ union, and its Employee Benefit Funds just picked up a $19 million parking lot at 620 Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn, on an irregularly-shaped lot bounded by Fulton Street, Ashland Place and St. Felix Street. Read More
Governor Cuomo Talks Scandals and Sex
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that voters don’t blame him for the scandals sweeping Albany, joking that nobody could have expected him to ban sex.
Speaking during an appearance on WCNY’s “Capitol Pressroom” earlier today, Mr. Cuomo was asked about a new poll that shows that, despite the recent scandals–including Assemblyman Vito Lopez’s resignation following sexual harassment allegations–his numbers have ticked slightly up. Read More
Memo From Mad Men’s Human Resources Department Re: Reminders
To: Employees of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce
From: HR
Subject: Reminders
To all staff-
Just wanted to once again take this opportunity to go over a few policies that some of you may be unclear on. Read More
