Marty Gets Schooled

Dope on the Slope, how we love ye! After the jump, check out Mr./Ms. Dope’s Brooklyn Borough Cheerleader Marty Markowitz takedown. Clever, witty and to the point.

Smoking Weed
Speaking of weed, what was Borough President Marty Markowitz smoking when he wrote this letter to the editors of New Read More

The Next Bloomberg

Is Time Warner Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons, according to this item in New York Magazine.

In the past, most of Parsons’s political contributions in the City have gone to Democrats like Mark Green and Freddy Ferrer, and potential ’09 challenger, Bill Thompson. There was one notable Republican who got a donation from Read More

Tuesday: Billy Joel in Brooklyn, Zaha Hadid on NY

  • Zaha Hadid plays nice, pleasantly conversing about the future of architecture. Eventually she cracks and says things like: Paris is “beautiful, but it has no energy.” At the grand finale she somehow acknowledges the possibility of seeing her work in twenty years and gasping: “Oh, my goodness, this is really irritating.” (New York Magazine)
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    Hillary Is Running for President!

    We apologize to Serena Torrey for missing last night’s forum on third-party candidates, which New York Magazine, vis-a-vis its current package, is trying to market as the “purple party.”

    Especially since Ben Smith, who as a staff of one over there is still more mobile than our temporary Politicker staff, got in and got that Read More