By now everyone knows that the big picture for newspaper business is bleak. Today in The New York Times, David Carr surveys the media landscape—including more layoffs at The Los Angeles Times; The Christian Science Monitor ceasing its daily print edition; massive cuts at Time, Inc.; etc., ad infinitum—and concludes, "Clearly, Read More
Tuesday, March 4, around 8 p.m., Bill O’Reilly bounded across a chilly studio on the first floor of the News Corp. building on Sixth Avenue toward the desk at the back of the room.
There, the members of the Fox News Super Tuesday II political team—Brit Hume, Juan Williams, Bill Kristol, Nina Easton and Fred Read More
Two things are obvious: If Hillary Clinton can somehow win both Texas and Ohio, she stays; if she loses both states, she’s tuna fish.
A third possibility—a split decision—will present Clinton the justification to push on if she wishes to, but without any clear way to win.
Let’s say Hillary wins Ohio (as the latest Read More
Whole Foods’ whopping 71,000-square-foot new supermarket opened last week on the Bowery at Houston Street, boasting perhaps the most extensive selection of groceries in Manhattan—though not a drop of alcohol.
No organic Oregonian red wines. No earthy Vermont microbrews. Not even any gluten-free sorghum beers.
An aisle marked “LAGER, PILSNER, ALE, LIGHT, PORTER, STOUT” seemed Read More
Nip Slip! Socialite Survives Wardrobe Malfunction at Indian Consulate
Who says it’s only bored, middle-aged socialites that design jewelry? On Tuesday, March 13, the Sikh actor Waris Ahluwalia, 32, unveiled his new line of gold baubles, House of Waris, with a party at Bergdorf Goodman. Later that night, there was a seated dinner at the Read More
In the summer of 2000, Melanie Martinez—who was fired a few weeks ago as the host of the PBS kids program The Good Night Show—responded to an ad in Backstage. Someone was seeking a “young-looking” actress who could play a short role in a public-service announcement.
“No nudity,” the ad promised.
Fifty women auditioned Read More
David Smith (1906-1965) is generally considered the most significant American sculptor of the 20th century. Certainly, Carmen Giménez, curator of David Smith: A Centennial, has bet the farm—or, rather, the better part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum—on the “melancholy solitude,” “independence” and “grandeur” of the “Blacksmith of Space.”
In thrall to Smith’s protean gift Read More
There’s a new and ugly wrinkle to Bridezilla, that monstrous, wedding-obsessed creature baptized back in the innocent days of early 2001 by The New York Times Sunday Styles section, whose well-thumbed end pages remain the sine qua non for the wedding-obsessed, even though the announcements therein no longer fall under the comfortingly musty rubric of Read More
There’s a new and ugly wrinkle to Bridezilla, that monstrous, wedding-obsessed creature baptized back in the innocent days of early 2001 by The New York Times Sunday Styles section, whose well-thumbed end pages remain the sine qua non for the wedding-obsessed, even though the announcements therein no longer fall under the comfortingly musty rubric of Read More
On a sweaty afternoon in mid-September, three days into the new school year, 16-year-old Oliver Ignatius and 15-year-old Josh Barocas were holding court in the St. Ann’s School’s well-worn student center, surrounded by a gaggle of friends with adventurous-sounding names like Zeke and Milo. They were sprawled about in languid, teenagery lumps, their worn jeans Read More
