The Mark Green Show

From Reuters:

“NBC has handed a cast-contingent pilot order to the drama ‘M.O.N.Y.’

“The project centers on a socially conscious New York public advocate who is thrust into the uncomfortable position of becoming interim mayor and struggles to balance his moral center with the hardball realities of the city’s politics.”

Who gets to Read More

The Coulter Excuse

At an event organized by the New York chapter of People for the American Way, former Reuters reporter Joe Maguire said last night that he was fired for writing a critical book about Ann Coulter.

Here’s the audio clip.

[Also, Maguire admits he doesn't know how to type!]

– Azi Paybarah

Events for September 19, 2006

The Fifth Annual U.S. Maritime Security Conference and Exposition will be at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.

The City Council holds hearings on zoning and franchises oversight, special education, and maritime uses.

United for Peace and Justice holds an anti-war march and rally near the U.N.

Vito Fossella and Diane Savino make an announcement about Read More

Ellie Ryan Blum

May 15, 2006

12:06 p.m.

5 pounds, 11 ounces

New York Presbyterian Hospital

Ten cashmere onesies, please! Jodi Blum, 32, an account executive at Ralph Lauren, didn’t find out the sex of her first baby before birth, but “I thought it was a girl the entire time,” she said, so she made Read More

All that is solid, melts in the square

Marshall Berman takes a long, Marxist look at the cleaned up Times Square in Dissent. He marvels at the flickering lights, hangs outside the Condé Nast building, and analyzes screaming TRL-crazed teenagers that flock to MTV studios (including a lone Tupac supporter).

Like any self-respecting leftist, he also gets hassled by the man outside Read More