Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto’s bad Tuesday night on Twitter is a tale of two tweets. First, Mr. Taranto’s offending post, which started a firestorm. Referring to the three women whose boyfriends saved them from the bullets of a mass murderer in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater on July 20, Mr. Taranto wrote: Read More
Williamsburg has always—somehow—remained an elusive, fleeting place (let alone: idea) for the thinktank at the Styles section of the New York Times. It’s so close, yet, so far. But its further colonization by moneyed Manhattanites (as opposed to its earlier colonization by not-so-moneyed Manhattanites) along with the advent of HBO’s ‘Girls’ (and thus: the ability to make a highbrow-pedestrian pop culture reference that they can always return to), Styles section writing about Williamsburg has become significantly less elusive and…labored. Read More
