Welcome to corporate America, journos! Reporters at The Washington Post will now be ranked with a multiple-choice job-performance assessment each year.
Accompanying an annual written evaluation, each reporter will be described as: “frequently exceeds expectations,” “sometimes exceeds expectations,” “meets expectations,” “sometimes fails to meet expectations,” or “frequently does not meet expectations.”
“It’s like a third-grade Read More
The new Broadway musical Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is a tale of two acts. After last season’s successful run at Playwrights Horizons, the show’s creators tried to solve the problem of the expository first act, but what they might have done is drop it entirely—it would have been a courageous stroke of mad Read More
“It’s a great space, but they should open it up a bit more, let more people in at the door,” said Shamim Momin, an associate curator at the Whitney. It was after midnight on Sunday, October 1, at a party in what used to be a public swimming pool in Berlin.
Trust dealer Javier Peres, Read More
Last week my father gave me a book of the English essayist Isaiah Berlin’s portraits. Berlin was a friend of Chaim Weizmann, the moderate Zionist and first president of Israel, whom Berlin often visited in Palestine during the tortuous years under the British mandate, 1945-1947, when Jewish terrorists blew up the King David Read More
Robert Elmes spent the month of August in Berlin. He borrowed a spare bike from a friend, one of those antique-looking, function-over-form contraptions that many Berliners ride, so he could cruise the bezirken, the boroughs.
Mr. Elmes owns Galapagos, the long-standing performance-art space in Williamsburg, and he is looking either to open an outpost in Read More
Robert Elmes spent the month of August in Berlin. He borrowed a spare bike from a friend, one of those antique-looking, function-over-form contraptions that many Berliners ride, so he could cruise the bezirken, the boroughs.
Mr. Elmes owns Galapagos, the long-standing performance-art space in Williamsburg, and he is looking either to open an outpost Read More
Today, Columbia University professor Barry Bergdoll was named as MoMA’s chief curator of architecture and design, as reported in the New York Times. He takes over from Terence Riley, who is currently director of the Miami Art Museum. The department was founded by Philip Johnson in 1932.
This morning, the MoMA sent Read More
The new 184 Kent. Now, with richer hipsters inside.
As the city rather melodramatically girds for riot over the Teitelbaum succession in the Satmar section of Williamsburg, police found themselves having a job of work handling the neighborhood’s hipster population Saturday Friday night*.
Onlookers at a bar across the street from 184 Kent Read More
New York’s cool kids have been keeping busy: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Fiery Furnaces, the Walkmen (who are saying goodbye to their Harlem studio) and Liars (who relocated to Berlin to work on their latest) are all getting ready to grace us with new records throughout the spring, while TV on the Radio’s sophomore Read More
For a year, I’ve had a fantasy: I check into a hotel in the late afternoon and have a hamburger sent to my room, along with three martinis. The fantasy is so vivid, I can taste the ketchup and thick slice of onion on the hamburger. I polish off the second martini, placing the empty Read More
