Bloggingheads.tv has relaunched with a new design. The site, which was born two years ago out of the desire by the author Robert Wright and the journalist Mickey Kaus to pontificate on Web TV, has steadily expanded ever since, and is now featured regularly on NYTimes.com. The new site features Flash video, an embeddable video Read More
Five days later, and that 150th anniversary party The Atlantic threw for itself last week — the one where regular people were allowed to watch from the cheap seats while the real guests mingled on stage — is still getting made fun of.
Gawker called it "the social disaster of the season."
Mystery Pollster (a blogger whose identity, as a professional pollster, Mark Blumenthal, is no longer a mystery) adduces some actual data (!) to find that the blogospheric unhappiness with Hillary’s stance on the Iraq war has had zero effect on her popularity among Democrats. In fact, she’s particularly popular among liberal Democrats at Read More
Hillary spokesman Philippe Reines is the subject of today’s IMterview, an almost-regular Friday Politicker feature. (Two Hillary spokesmen in a row? Well, why not?)
benobserver: You find yourself saying “no” to the press a lot. Do you enjoy that?
[reines]: this is a trick question, in that if i answer yes i am mean, if Read More
We have a few thoughts on Roberto’s recording a Ferrer campaign meeting onto the voicemail of a New York Times reporter.
1-We, too, have voicemail. The number is 212 407 9363. Roberto, Kevin, Joe, David — feel free.
2-The content of Roberto’s meeting is about as sensational as Doug Wead’s expose of just how Read More
How do you know when the best part is over? Restoration Hardware opens in the neighborhood. Björk gets profiled in The New Yorker . Zhang Yimou starts putting Zhang Ziyi in all his movies.
And Vanity Fair essayist James Wolcott arrives on the Web, via jameswolcott.com: ” … I was having brunch with Elvis Mitchell, Read More
Galileo! Galileo!
This is the city of strange bedfellows, but every so often the combinations are so unfathomable that attention must be paid. That was certainly the case on the evening of Nov. 17, when CLAL (the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership) staged a benefit performance of selections from Stargazer: The Rock Opera-about Read More
