Opening Shot: Quaking in Our Boots
ON THE COVER
O-Bummer! Hipsters O-Bandon Obama
Prez ditched by Pitchfork.com-wielding puerile politicos who prefer stumptown to stumping.
By David Freedlander
EDITORIALS
Zip It, Chris; Mr. Schneiderman and the Banks; and Pataki? For President?
TRANSOM
As part of The New York Times‘ opinion section rebrand, “The Sunday Review,” syndicated national political cartoons are out; taking their place is a commissioned column by cartoonist Brian McFadden called The Strip.
Mr. McFadden is the author of the web comic Big Fat Whale, which is syndicated in alt-weeklies. As such, it’s Read More
The iPhone will become available for Verizon customers in a few days, and New York City should steel itself for a pedestrian population more app-enabled and more dangerously distracted than ever. But the subway is another thing entirely. In the 3G-free underground, the iPhone is becoming the preferred tool for deep and engaged reading. iPhone Read More
Alex Star, the deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine, is leaving that section for the Book Review, sources at the paper tell The Observer.
Mr. Star, who has been at the Times Magazine since 2004 and before that created the Boston Globe‘s Ideas section, did not respond immediately to a request for comment. Read More
