By Drew Grant 3/13/12 6:26pm

Media fights

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Village Voice Writer Alerts Public to Colleague’s ‘Casual Racism’

Oooh, fight! Tony Ortega might have to go down to The Village Voice‘s cafeteria and separate Steven Thrasher from beating Running Scared‘s new kid* James King to a bloody pulp…with his words.

No, it’s not a physical fight, because this isn’t the Norman Mailer days anymore, but Mr. Thrasher, a 3-year veteran of the paper, has a few choice words (1363 of them, to be exact) regarding Mr. King’s “casual racism” in his colleague’s post. Read More

By Foster Kamer 1/04/12 7:07pm

LAYOFFS

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End of an Era: J. Hoberman is Out at the Village Voice, Staffers Mourn Former Critic and Labor Leader’s Departure

The Village Voice‘s longtime chief film critic and an institution at the paper, J. Hoberman, is out, his tenure ended by Village Voice Media as yet another in a long, ongoing series in staff reductions at the paper. The reactions from fellow staffers and among his contemporaries have been swift and unilateral in their disappointment and sadness. Read More

By Drew Grant 11/08/11 5:27pm

Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street Moves Indoors With Spokes Council

While we’ve noticed that many of Occupy Wall Street’s General Assembly meetings have been moved off-site and indoors (due to a literal lack of space now that the tents have gone up), it wasn’t till last night’s OWS first conference of a new council did we realize this was actually part of the plan to keep the movement alive once it gets cold. The Spokes Council–which was passed by the General Assembly committee but is not one of their working groups–had its first meeting in Murray Bergtraum High School cafeteria, to mixed results. Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 8/24/10 11:31pm

Foursquare’s Happy Growing Pains

Foursquare headquarters have been cramped this summer. The fast-growing location-based check-in service, which has been subleasing space from Curbed on the fifth floor of 36 Cooper Square since they moved out of founder Dennis Crowley’s kitchen, started the year with just five employees, and has since ballooned to 30. In May they were Read More