“When eight people are laid off from an institution, it’s not a happy day,” said David Blum, incoming editor-in-chief of the Village Voice.
Blum was on the phone after a meeting with staff at the newspaper’s Cooper Square office. Last week, his superiors-to-be at Village Voice Media dismissed eight staffers from the weekly paper. Today, Read More
Hillary Clinton is on a Western fundraising swing today, scheduled to appear this morning at a benefit for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s opponent in San Francisco and, tonight, at a cocktail reception for her Senate campaign at the Denver home of Laura and Bob Hill.
The graphic shown above is Gregg Birnbaum’s scrupulously Read More
In an almost quadrennial ritual mating dance between New York and the Democrats that has persisted through the last nine presidential elections, a dozen or so members of the Democratic National Committee and their consultants are on their way into town. After they have checked into the Ritz-Carlton on the evening of June 14, they’ll Read More
In an almost quadrennial ritual mating dance between New York and the Democrats that has persisted through the last nine presidential elections, a dozen or so members of the Democratic National Committee and their consultants are on their way into town. After they have checked into the Ritz-Carlton on the evening of June 14, they’ll Read More
Several weeks ago, Laura Gilbert, a 26-year-old magazine editor, arrived in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, from Denver, Colo. Ms. Gilbert’s furniture, however, did not. The movers hired to deliver her belongings didn’t do the job on time, and when Ms. Gilbert telephoned the moving company, she got no relief.
“When I tried to reason with the Read More
I’ve heard all the explanations-no education, no prospects, only the color of your skin to console you, rage from childhood disappointments, rage at being unable to buy or lease that Lexus spinning out of the wicked primal soup on your TV, energy but no place to go, loneliness as vast and cold as the tundras Read More
Jazz guitar has never had much dirt under its fingernails. In R&B and rock, the guitar has always been the star, percussive and twangy, with bent blue notes aimed at your face. But jazz, older and more urbane, had already been up and running for two decades before anyone figured out how to plug in Read More
