By Kim Velsey 8/14/12 5:05pm

Manhattan Transfers

Looking for a change of scene: Mr. Pearlstein and Ms. Cantor have sold their house. (Patrick McMullen)

Realist Painter Philip Pearlstein Leaving Longtime UWS Townhouse for $3.4 M.

When painter Philip Pearlstein moved to Manhattan in 1949, he and his college pal Andy Warhol subletted an dingy eighth-floor walk-up on St. Marks Place and Avenue A.

“The bathtub was in the kitchen and it was usually full of roaches, incredible roaches,” Mr. Pearlstein once said of the apartment. Nor did their lot improve when they relocated to a West 23rd Street loft a few months later. Andy Warhol was said to have sent out address-change cards in glitter-filled envelopes announcing, “I’ve moved from one roach-ridden apartment to another.” Read More

By Zeke Turner 5/11/10 10:07pm

Plausible Deniability

‘Absurd Question’: What Was the Wall Street Journal Trying to Say with Softball Cover Photo?

Politico’s Ben Smith attemps to drill down into the Wall Street Journal‘s decision to put a picture of Supreme Court nominee and Elena Kagan playing softball on its cover this morning. Were the Journal‘s editors trying to send its readers a message?

“If you turn the photo upside down, reverse the pixilation and simultaneously listen Read More

By Sridhar Pappu 3/04/02 12:00am

Danny Pearl, Reporter

Daniel Pearl told friends he was coming home. Pakistan was going to be his final fling with foreign journalism, he said; his wife Mariane was pregnant, and they were ready to rejoin the rhythm of American life.

“This was his victory lap,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, an associate dean at the Yale School of Management, who Read More