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By Foster Kamer 6/20/12 5:57pm

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The Brant Brothers

The Ten Best Lines from the Thursday Styles Profile of the Brant Brothers, ‘The New Princes of the City’

Peter Brant is the owner of Brant Publications, which makes him the publisher of Interview Magazine, which was started by Andy Warhol. He also makes lots of money doing other things, like collecting art. His wife—who he almost got a divorce with, and then, reconciled with—is supermodel Stephanie Seymour, who was in the “November Rain” video. He had three children with her. Two of them were profiled by the New York Times for tomorrow’s Thursday Styles section.

Without further ado, here are the ten best lines, removed from their context, without commentary*: Read More

By Foster Kamer 4/30/12 12:43pm

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Thought Catalog Writer Pens Brilliant History of Williamsburg a la Candide

Maybe you’ve heard about this neighborhood in New York City called Williamsburg? It’s a magical little place that—sometime around 1996—young artists looking for a bargain in reasonable proximity to Manhattan migrated from places like the East Village, back when it was still fairly cheap. The neighborhood has historically been a stronghold of Brooklyn’s Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Italians, and Chasidic Jews. Since then, like every other neighborhood in New York, folks young and old—moneyed with finances given or earned—have moved into the neighborhood.

As a result of this:

1. Those for whom the neighborhood was once affordable no longer count it as a reasonable living option.
2. Those for whom the neighborhood was once populated with contemporaries, it no longer is.
3. Those for whom the neighborhood was the place that they grew up have seen it indelibly changed.

And we know this now because a daring satirist writing for Thought Catalog—a digital publication ushering in a new Age of Enlightenment—has now come out as one of its ‘thoughtful denizens.’ Read More

By Foster Kamer 7/01/11 12:34am

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Report: Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Prosecutors Felled by 400 Pounds of Weed

[Insert French expression of astonishment here.] The New York Times reported Thursday evening that the Manhattan DA’s sexual assault case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn—or “Le Perv,” as dubbed by a few New York City newspapers—has come into serious, serious question by (among other things) 400 pounds of Marijuana, and moreover, the credibility of the former IMF chief’s accuser.

Their story is essentially:

There have been inconsistencies in the accuser’s story and past, which is reportedly littered with questions about motives (immigration status) and ties to unsavory characters. Read More

By John Koblin 6/08/10 4:56pm

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Whoa! Sally Singer Named Editor of T Magazine

Arthur Sulzberger Jr. just stunned the city.

Sally Singer, the features and fashion news editor at Vogue, the ear to Anna Wintour and regarded as one of the biggest talents in fashion publishing, is the new editor of T Magazine.

Ever since Stefano Tonchi left T for W, the search has been a long one, and it was expected Read More