The Los Angeles Dodgers are worth $1.4 billion, according to Forbes, which went live yesterday with its annual list of the world’s most valuable sports teams. At which value, we’d like to remind you, the club is worth $600 million less than a group led by Guggenheim Partners’ CEO Mark Walter and L.A. Lakers Read More
2012: Obama’s re-elect kicks off with testimonials from the grassroots. [BarackObama.com]
FOIL: Wikiaccountability.org collects FOIL requests scrutinizing Obama. [Noam Cohen]
Federal Budget: Schumer doubts there’ll be a shutdown. [Thomas DeFrank]
Redistricting: Tie-breaking professor endorses “Democratic-drawn map.” Christie a loser. [Lisa Fleisher]
Redistricting: Christie got very involved. [Richard Perez-Pena]
Today is Bloomsday, that time-honored literary commemoration involving college professors, former English majors, and Irish people of the date on which all of the action of James Joyce’s Ulysses takes place (June 16, 1904). In New York City every year since 1981, Symphony Space has hosted a marathon Bloomsday event featuring all sorts of famous Read More
If you remember this year’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner, you weren’t there. Felix Gillette, John Koblin, and Choire Sicha flood the zone in D.C..
Janet Silver is moving from Houghton Mifflin to Nan Talese’s imprint at Doubleday. Leon Neyfakh checks in with with Ms. Talese who says, "I called Janet and she sent Read More
At around 7:45 p.m. on Monday, April 28, writer Carl Bernstein was mingling at the cocktail hour before the PEN Literary Awards at the Museum of Natural History, Coca Cola in hand, looking very healthy. “I ride a bike and listen to a lot of music,” he said. “I mostly listen to classical but also Read More
Adolescence sucks, and then it gets worse. Skin problems proliferate; parents are hateful. Fashion lays traps, social pressures spit steam, and cracks start to appear in the trophy case erected for the putative series of successes called adulthood.
Ned Vizzini seemed to have outwitted that plan. Or that Plan—in the genre of high-school confidentials Read More
From 1966 to 1996, a bar called the Lion’s Head operated
from a basement-level entrance on Christopher Street
in Greenwich Village. It was generally known as a
politicians’ joint-a place where patrons claimed they saw the likes of Robert
F. Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy, where Ed Koch would sometimes have lunch-and
also a literati place, Read More
Paul Yates, director of the upcoming indie film Porno: The Movie, was born on Dec. 28, 1967, close enough to Christmas that his friends call his birthday “Yatesmas.” As with nearly every Yatesmas for the past decade, this year saw a frosty kickball match followed by a dip in the hot tub at rocker Tarquin Read More
On occasion, as he goes about his business as a diving instructor in Bali, Indonesia, Malachy McCourt finds himself answering that question of questions: “Are you, er, Angela’s husband?”
This anecdote would seem to prove at least three theories: 1) Nearly everyone in the world, even neophyte scuba divers in Bali, has read Frank McCourt’s Read More
Alan Parker’s Angela’s Ashes , from a screenplay by Laura Jones and Mr. Parker, based on the memoir by Frank McCourt, materializes on the screen as a disappointingly turgid saga of squalor that is overproduced, misdirected and almost totally lacking in the existential epiphanies of Mr. McCourt’s exhilarating remembrance of childhood poverty in the Limerick, Read More
