This is what’s missing from so many of the restaurants I’ve been to lately: the feminine touch. Donatella Arpaia is the consummate gracious hostess. Tall and striking, with a mane of streaked blond hair, she patrols the packed white-and-yellow dining room in high heels and miniskirt, chatting with customers. An ex-attorney whose father was in Read More
This is what’s missing from so many of the restaurants I’ve been to lately: the feminine touch. Donatella Arpaia is the consummate gracious hostess. Tall and striking, with a mane of streaked blond hair, she patrols the packed white-and-yellow dining room in high heels and miniskirt, chatting with customers. An ex-attorney whose father was in Read More
“More feminine than masculine” is how the famous chef-proprietor Mario Batali describes his Greenwich Village flagship, Babbo, in the beginning of former New Yorker fiction editor Bill Buford’s new book. “People should think there are grandmothers in the back preparing their dinner.”
With all due respect to Mr. Batali, not to mention legions of grandmothers, Read More
“More feminine than masculine” is how the famous chef-proprietor Mario Batali describes his Greenwich Village flagship, Babbo, in the beginning of former New Yorker fiction editor Bill Buford’s new book. “People should think there are grandmothers in the back preparing their dinner.”
With all due respect to Mr. Batali, not to mention legions of Read More
Lee Bollinger’s Columbia Journalism School All-Stars-Anna Quindlen, Ken Auletta & Co.-have been meeting for long dinners at the Century Association to chew over the new president’s directive to re-examine the purpose of journalism school and so far the zzzzzzzzzzz ….
“People are taking pains to agree with each other, “said one Bollinger task-force source. “There Read More
Bill Buford, The New Yorker ‘s fiction editor since 1994, will be leaving his post to become the magazine’s European correspondent. His last issue editing fiction will be the magazine’s Christmas issue, and he will start as a staff writer in January.
“In a way, it’s going from the best editing job in town to Read More
As journalism jobs go, what could be more fun than writing or editing for the “Weekend Journal”? Plenty, apparently.
The lively, colorful section nestled in every Friday’s Wall Street Journal stands out among the gray columns of trade reports. Since its debut as a separate section in March 1998, it has become an oasis of Read More
Salon.com hit the ground–well, it just sort of hit the ground when it went public at last June 22. It was offered at $10.50, but by the end of the day it had fallen to $10.
The initial public offering of the Internet magazine company had long been derided by other journalists out of some Read More
