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By Drew Grant 12/15/11 2:45pm

Stefon meets Norman Rockwell (via Mediaite)

This Is Your Stefon-Themed Saturday Night Live Holiday Card

By far, the best thing Saturday Night Live has brought us in the past two years has been Bill Hader‘s “Weekend Update” character Stefon: the club promoter/city correspondent whose ideas for “family fun” usually involve some combination of terrifying dungeon imagery, punny drag queen names, and politically incorrect uses for “midgets.” (Their word, not ours.)

That’s why this holiday season, the best gift you could get is one sent to you by the cast and crew of Saturday Night Live, featuring Stefon in the set of the Norman Rockwell “Freedom From Want” painting.

This was first put online (to the best of our knowledge) by theater publicist Aaron Meier, who received one of the cards and put it on Tumblr, where it was subsequently picked up by Mediaite.

For a larger photo, check below. And then forward to all your friends and family, because this picture definitively answers the question “Buh-whaaa?” Read More

By Mike Taylor 12/22/10 7:35pm

Serious Business

Blackstone Demands the Head of Party Crash Enabler

Fun-loving readers may remember a fun New York Magazine item a few weeks back in which freelance writer Kevin Roose snuck past some clipboard-weilding hostesses to provide an engaging account of what sounded like a pretty unengaging Blackstone holiday party. Well, it turns out that the higher-ups at Blackstone will not take an Read More

By Mike Taylor 11/29/10 5:20pm

Festivities

In Amazing Display of Forbearance, Wall Street Firms Skip Holiday Parties

Two years after the financial crisis effectively neutered Wall Street’s ability to ring in the holidays with style, some of the nation’s largest banks are still keeping the eggnog in the cubpoard. TheStreet.com reports that Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS and Bank of America will not be throwing holiday parties this year. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 11/24/10 3:48pm

Don't Touch My Junk

Touchy-Feely! TSA Blog Is a Laugh Riot

After a few weeks of bad press over invasive new security measures, TSA has a new strategy for seeing what’s inside your pants–charming them off you.

Behold TSA Blog, penned by pseudonymous yuckster Blogger Bob in order to “facilitate an ongoing dialogue on innovations in security, technology Read More

By admin 11/23/10 5:47pm

Tech Addict

Yes, You Will Read Work Email Over Thanksgiving Holiday

If you were planning to sneak off and check your work email during the Thanksgiving holiday, don’t bother. Just do it right at the dinner table, like everyone else.

A new study from Xobni and Harris Interactive found that 60 percent of people check their work email over the holidays, and a third of Read More

By Zeke Turner 7/01/10 4:44pm

Smoked Meat to Eat, Canada Day is Pat Kiernan’s Thing

Unofficial (but at the same time extremely official) Canadian ambassador to America Pat Kiernan has written a tipsheet for Gothamist about how to celebrate Canada Day today: Eat smoked meat, drink Labatt, skate on ice, drive to the border to look across — be merry. Mr. Kiernan wore a Read More

By Molly Fischer 5/06/10 8:37pm

Sukkahs in Union Square With Youngest Foer Bro

Perhaps you have found yourself wondering what Joshua Foer, younger brother of Foers Franklin and Jonathan Safran, is up to. Wonder no more, for The Architect’s Newspaper knows:

Hoping to challenge not only New Yorkers’ notions about sukkahs but also the world’s, Joshua Foer has launched Sukkah City for this coming Sukkot. Read More

By Jimmy Vielkind 12/24/08 3:37pm

Snow. And Then Freezing Rain.

ALBANY—The Capitol will see a White Christmas. A slushy, messy, White Christmas.

This photo shows the Hudson River just north of Albany, with chunks of ice floating south. Bad weather continues in the Capital Region today, providing even less incentive for people (like, say, me) to head to the Capitol on Christmas Eve. Read More

By Tom Acitelli 11/26/07 3:27pm

Subprime Mess Bloodies Santa Claus

Add another victim to the subprime mortgage crisis: holiday shopping.

Higher monthly mortgage payments and tougher lending standards when borrowing against a home’s value will likely prevent many homeowners from buying holiday presents like they used to, the Wall Street Journal reports this morning.

Now, with mortgage delinquencies at record highs and Read More

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This Is Your Stefon-Themed Saturday Night Live Holiday Card

Blackstone Demands the Head of Party Crash Enabler

In Amazing Display of Forbearance, Wall Street Firms Skip Holiday Parties

Touchy-Feely! TSA Blog Is a Laugh Riot

Yes, You Will Read Work Email Over Thanksgiving Holiday

Smoked Meat to Eat, Canada Day is Pat Kiernan’s Thing

Sukkahs in Union Square With Youngest Foer Bro

Snow. And Then Freezing Rain.

Subprime Mess Bloodies Santa Claus

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