leoncrawl julie johnson the editor of all about beer magazine said the fancy beer boom has reverberated so loudly and so far that its spawned its own hipster backlash one any new yorker of certain gentrified neighborhoods has encountered in the ubiquitous twodollar pabst blue ribbon special. the older avuncular beer ms. johnson says gives its drinkers borrowed workingclass authenticity without ...
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this week i wrote about sam lessin and his company drop.io a private filesharing site. look if my entire life is going to be searchable and findable im going to change how i live my life or at least how i live it online said mr. lessin a fit bespectacled 25yearold sitting in the coffee shop at the basement of drop.ios office literary magazine n1 is in the same building. he lives in tribeca and co...
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youve gotta love the observer and this weeks cover story by jason horowitz. leonard nimoy approves of barack obamas emotional detachment and logical approach to campaigning. he is measured and stable said mr. nimoy who played mr. spock on star trek and who has supported mr. obama since they first met about a year and a half ago at a small los angeles fundraiser. its true that he has an intellect ...
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hours earlier as reporters started trickling in and retrieving their bags of shwag in the science laboratory building where lectures still took place in front of chalked up black boards it was clear that the bar for palin was extremely low. two sign language translators standing by the debate entrance jokingly practiced tumbling their hands over one another in what one of the young women called th...
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looking at magnetic fields album covers and also at an interview in which stephin merritt talked to me in the third person really soothes the nerves.......
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scene from zidane a 21st century portrait in this weeks observer i wrote about douglas gordon the artist whose documentary on one of zinedine zidanes games used 17 cameras and an allmogwai soundtrack. i also interviewed tom wolfe and brooke astors poor son. i emailed mr. gordon to ask if hed comment for the story and this is what he wrote back my girlfriend is having a contraction. i think i have ...
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its my blog and ill link if i want to. i wrote a preview for the falls mantastic heh theater season. heres a book review about planet google saying pretty much what we all already know theyre kind of a big deal. and hey heres a bright light in the doom and gloom of the wall street collapse talented engineers and programmers are going to be unleashed from the banks. maybe the new york tech commu...
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doree irina and i worked together on this crash virgins piece about people who are going through their first economic crash. i dont think that were in for the great creative renaissance of 2008 but you know thats just cynical old me. anyway heres an excerpt of course thats a story thats been years in the making the disappearance of lehman brothers and the conversion of goldman sachs and morgan s...
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oh hi.a ive neglected to update the internet on my thoughts recently and for that i apologize.a but its just that ive been busy writing words about things elsewhere.a if you are interested in those words please read them over here and over here too.a oh wait here also.a also check out my new widgetbox.......
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from amid 2008 campaign cacophony on the web print reverts to hobbesian state does print journalism matter in this election its obvious and no crime against humanity that the world has many many places to turn for information misinformation analysis rants etc wrote bill keller the executive editor of the new york times in an email. wethe times the washington post politico the news outlets that ai...
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irina put together a slideshow of her favorite socialitecelebrity looks from last nights new yorkers for children benefit.......
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i think its a correction. if you take the longterm view of things the ups and downs dont seem so dramatic said svelte vanity fair contributor amy fine collins. i remember in 1987 there was this big christian lacroix party and it was right around the time that the stock market crashed. the world didnt end it just went into a different phase. at graydon carters party swells swill as stocks slide t...
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yesterday on sept. 11 arthur sulzberger jr. held a meeting with times employees to give the latest report on the state of the times. there were two meetings one in the morning and another in the afternoon and we spoke to three people who attended the afternoon session. mr. sulzberger who wasnt wearing a wedding ring began the meeting with a slideshow that was set to the background of coldplays c...
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ms. banks left mr. weisberg chatting with her husband max handelman and wandered over in a strapless black dress. my husband is im sure going to talk his ear off about politics she said. i am the biggest fan of deborah needleman and jacob weisberg that exists on the planet i love these two. i love them as a couple. i love her as a human being. i love her as an editor. i think shes fabulous. domin...
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i wrote about these guys and their social trendcasting site edopter.com this week.......
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christopher rosen asked whats with fringes sexist dialouge in the culture czar blog unless we were watching mad men or reruns of cheers we didnt think it was possible to hear a grown woman called sweetheart or honey by her male colleagues on television in 2008 so many times. yet there on fox on a television show that supposedly exists in present day america fbi agent olivia dunham anna torv was b...
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betsey johnson dressed liam mcmullan up like a pirate an unpublicized fashion week party where jennifer aniston tobey maguire and meg ryan showed up meg didnt look as horrible as she does in pictures the marc jacobs show was mayhem as per usual but unusually kanye west and jayz rapped together at the afterparty details of the marie claire reality show......
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in 1975 jimmy page told rolling stone from the shit holes to the classiest hotels its all been fun. from the shadowbox motel where the walls crumbled during the night seven years ago to the plaza where the attorney general staying one floor above us complained about me playing little feat records too loud last night. these days in the plaza wouldnt you know it things are different. i wrote two thi...
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that mysterious plaza buyer who is awfully upset about his 53.5 million triplex penthouse at the plaza and its unappealing drainage grates isnt so mysterious anymore. according to an email mistakenly sent to the observer the buyer is buzzcut russian financier andrei vavilov a hedge fund maverick who became a deputy finance minister under yeltsin in 1992 survived an assassination attempt in a kreml...
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people feel like just because you like to dress well that dont mean youre gay i dont know where that came from andre benjamin a.k.a. andre 3000 of outkast at the launch of his mens clothing line at barneys last night. love him......
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i met jon hamm don draper of mad men last night. i came. i saw. i swooned. i caught up with kelly cutrone of peoples revolution pr and guest star of the hills to discuss bloggers at fashion week. i went to an adorable boutique in fort greene called thistle clover and covered their open call for designers. tiny houses i had a short interview with hunter parrish of weeds to discuss his broadway ...
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why a good web fundraising operation matters mccain has had to attend 90 fundraisers since march. mccain gets good iowa press. he leaves himself open to anwr. glover park adds madden begins to stock up on republican s. dicker son tries to put his finger on whats wrong with mccains message. tom ridge says mccain is a candidate for the times. stuart roy and grella consider russerts s...
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