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07 Jan 17 : 27 | Yacht Update! Paul Allen Spends $38K a Week on His; Other Billionaires... In October--right around the time that the financial crisis began to seem a whole lot more real--hedge fund billionaire Carl Icahn put his 177-foot yacht, the Starfire, up for sale for $37.5 million. Then, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has been so affected by the economic downturn that... Source : The New York Observer - 3 hours ago |
07 Jan 17 : 12 | AMC Website Goes Retro for The Prisoner Remake With a third season of Mad Men still up in the air for 2009--hey Lionsgate, take your time in cutting a deal with Matthew Weiner--it is nice to see that AMC has planned ahead to fill the gaps in their programming slate. The network has recently wrapped shooting on its six-hour mini-series remake of... Source : The New York Observer - 3 hours ago |
07 Jan 13 : 52 | Lineup for January 7, 2009 Who are this year's Media Mensches? Meet The New York Times' Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson, director Errol Morris, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux's Lorin Stein, and 60 Minutes' Jeffrey Fager. Felix Gillette looks at CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips, "a seasoned,... Source : The New York Observer - 6 hours ago |
06 Jan 19 : 10 | Where’d All the Tough New Yorkers Go? Josh Brolin: 'New York Critics Have... At the New York Film Critic's Circle Awards on Monday, Jan. 5, NYFCC Best Actor nominee Sean Penn offered early clues as to how he'll approach this year's awards: He hammed it up for the cameras with Milk co-star Josh Brolin before blowing off a lengthy line of eager journalists. (Interestingly, Mr.... Source : The New York Observer - 25 hours ago |
06 Jan 19 : 05 | Stop The Presses: The Atlantic Wonders If The New York Times Could Cease... In the January/February issue of The Atlantic, columnist Michael Hirschorn looks at the future of The New York Times and wonders, "[W]hat if the old media dies much more quickly? ... [W]hat if The New York Times goes out of business—like, this May?" Mr. Hirschorn looks at the Times Company's... Source : The New York Observer - 25 hours ago |
07 Jan 03 : 05 | What's Left for the State of the State? ALBANY—Today's big speech will be odd, longtime observers say, because many of the policy initiatives usually outlined in such speeches, and then devilishly detailed in budget presentations, have already been detailed. What's left for there to say? Any surprises? read more » Source : The New York Observer - 17 hours ago |
07 Jan 00 : 47 | City: Costs (and Benefits) of Yankees, Mets Stadiums Increase The city has released a cost/benefit analysis of the new Yankees and Mets stadiums, as the city plans to issue a fresh set of tax-free bonds for the projects. For the Yankees project, costs directly to the city are up substantially since the last analysis in 2006 (from $34.3 million to $209.5... Source : The New York Observer - 19 hours ago |
06 Jan 22 : 55 | Fashion Roundup: Roberto Cavalli's Slithery Credit Card; Men's Designers... J Just in time for the recession, Roberto Cavalli has introduced an exclusive snakeskin credit card. [Luxist via Cityfile] Chicago-based designer Mario Pinto, whose designs are often worn by Michelle Obama, says the trick to designing the perfect dress is being able to wear the dress yourself.... Source : The New York Observer - 21 hours ago |
06 Jan 22 : 53 | Elsewhere: Caroline's Defense, Obama's Pick, Ferreras Radio The message accompanying the $400 rebate checks change every year, said a spokesman for the city's finance commissioner. Jen Chung notes that Michael Bloomberg used to have his name all over the rebate checks. read more » Source : The New York Observer - 21 hours ago |
06 Jan 19 : 46 | With This Year's Rebate Checks, a (Much) Shorter Note This is the very terse note accompanying the $400 homeowners rebate checks that Michael Bloomberg reluctantly sent out after brokering a deal with the City Council on taxes. read more » Source : The New York Observer - 24 hours ago |
06 Jan 18 : 07 | DiNapoli Thinks Hoping for an Early Budget Is 'Overly Optimistic' ALBANY—The state's top financial officer is skeptical that lawmakers will be able to enact the budget a month early, as David Paterson initially proposed. Early adoption, Paterson said, will save $1.3 billion of next year's estimated $12.7 billion budget gap. read more » Source : The New York Observer - 26 hours ago |
06 Jan 17 : 52 | 2008 Manhattan Office Stats: As Bad As You'd Expect Cushman & Wakefield released its 2008 Manhattan office stats this morning (we'll have more on them in tomorrow's print Observer) but here's a few randomly selected statistics that show just how badly things have gotten for commercial landlords and their brokers: Leasing activity totaled 19.1... Source : The New York Observer - 26 hours ago |
06 Jan 17 : 43 | Council Candidate Will Refuse Matching Funds: 'The City Has Enough... The city’s fiscal crisis is the reason why John Tabacco said he won’t seek matching funds for his City Council campaign. read more » Source : The New York Observer - 26 hours ago |
06 Jan 17 : 08 | Search City Salaries: Kevin Sheekey, Viola Plummer, Erno Weinberger Thanks to the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center, the city’s payroll is now online, and searchable. Here what a few of our civil servants make: Deputy Mayor Kevin Sheekey:$196,574 read more » Source : The New York Observer - 27 hours ago |
06 Jan 16 : 59 | No Princess Brides! 'Elope!' Says Hudson; 'Don't Marry the Wrong Person,'... For someone who recently had to endure a very public, and very embarrassing, breakup from her felonious ex-boyfriend (Italian real estate developer Raffaello Follieri), the actress Anne Hathaway has been starring in an unfortunate number of films about marriage lately--the dark comedy Rachel Getting... Source : The New York Observer - 27 hours ago |
06 Jan 14 : 35 | Which PGA Nominee Will Get Left Out in the Cold Come Oscar Night? While receiving a nomination from the Producers Guild of America is a very good sign for a film hoping to land in one of the five Best Picture slots at the Academy Awards, it doesn't necessarily mean all of the nominees announced yesterday should get too comfortable. The last time the PGA nailed... Source : The New York Observer - 30 hours ago |
05 Jan 23 : 43 | Carpenters Back Kennedy for Senate The head of a union representing 25,000 carpenters in New York City just issued a statement backing Caroline Kennedy for Hillary Clinton's U.S. Senate seat, saying she’s “intelligent, easy to communicate with and grasps our issues.” read more » Source : The New York Observer - 44 hours ago |
06 Jan 03 : 33 | Avi Schick Leaves ESDC Avi Schick, the prosecutor-turned-development official who has served as downstate president of the Empire State Development Corporation for the past two years, will leave his job this week. Mr. Schick emailed a letter on Monday evening to colleagues announcing his departure (a copy of the letter is... Source : The New York Observer - 41 hours ago |
05 Jan 20 : 30 | Ann Jeffery Nabs 834 Fifth's Beloved Buckhantz Listing The late Araxia M. Buckhantz's two-bedroom sprawl at the massively proper 834 Fifth Avenue is the kind of perfect little chunk of New York real estate that can make a very important and normally staid uptown broker cackle with excitement. "I absolutely am wild about this apartment," one agent who... Source : The New York Observer - 48 hours ago |
05 Jan 20 : 25 | Even Jay McInerney is a Little Surprised at How Well Bright Lights, Big... Author and social fixture Jay McInerney's new book, The Last Bachelor, is being released in the UK this month; it's a short-story collection about the morally complicated relationships of middle-class Manhattanites. In a piece in the Telegraph, Mr. McInerney comes off as certainly "the last" of... Source : The New York Observer - 48 hours ago |
05 Jan 23 : 52 | NYSUT Staying Out of Senate Leadership Fight, Capitol March ALBANY—The state teacher's union is sitting on the sidelines as other labor groups get involved in the fight for the State Senate leadership. read more » Source : The New York Observer - 44 hours ago |
05 Jan 19 : 29 | 'Reader' Reacts as New-York Ghost Goes From Weekly to 'Seasonal This morning, fans of The New-York Ghost, the weird and frequently wonderful little "Newsletter You Print Out at Work," were treated with a new issue, Vol. IV, No. 53. But instead of calling itself a weekly, the digital-only paper of McSweeney's-like squibs, poetry, essays, and fiction (with... Source : The New York Observer - |
05 Jan 23 : 27 | Elsewhere: The Panetta Surprise, the Hochberg Draft Barack Obama will choose Leon Panetta to run the C.I.A., delivering a surprise "even to some Obama insiders." read more » Source : The New York Observer - 45 hours ago |
05 Jan 22 : 08 | Fashion Roundup: Amy Winehouse to Design for Fred Perry?; John Galliano... Troubled singer Amy Winehouse is reportedly in talks with British fashion house Fred Perry to design her own clothing collection and has already begun sketching some of her ideas. [Vogue UK] Gedalio Grinberg, chairman of the Movado Group (where he had worked since the '60s), died on Sunday in... Source : The New York Observer - 46 hours ago |
05 Jan 22 : 05 | Legendary! Neil Patrick Harris to Host SNL Some bright news on an otherwise gray Monday afternoon: this coming weekend, Neil Patrick Harris will be hosting Saturday Night Live! We used to dream about Mr. Harris when he played Doogie (in fact, yours truly mentioned this in print a few years ago). We loved his speed-freak cameos in Harold and... Source : The New York Observer - 46 hours ago |
05 Jan 21 : 21 | Our Critic's Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Lincoln 24/7; Bush and The Great... Are you ready for all Lincoln all the time? Do you worry that you’ll need some help in cutting through the bicentennial blather? If you’re looking for a quick refresher (as opposed, say, to the two-part, six volume mythologizing biography Carl Sandburg completed in 1939), try The Best American... Source : The New York Observer - 47 hours ago |
05 Jan 20 : 06 | 4Q Manhattan Housing Reports: Where's That Cliff Already? Three major Manhattan housing market reports for the fourth quarter of 2008 were released on Monday, the first ones that can at least somewhat gauge the impact of the financial crisis. (All involve deals closed in the final three months of last year, but perhaps negotiated many months prior.) The... Source : The New York Observer - |
05 Jan 20 : 02 | New Doctor Who Announced, British Folks Rage, Most Americans Shrug, and We... We have a well-documented love of Doctor Who here at the Observer, so we'd be remiss if we didn't comment on the announcement from this weekend that a replacement for beloved fop David Tennant, who will leave the show after filming a few specials this year, has finally been found. And the winner... Source : The New York Observer - |
05 Jan 19 : 49 | Change Hipsters Can Believe In--Obama Gets Indie Rock Bash In Washington When Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on Jan. 20, all of this "change" we've been hearing so much about will be measurable by a number of factors: His race. His persona. His vast departure from the policies of George W. Bush and his superior ability to form a... Source : The New York Observer - |
05 Jan 19 : 07 | Observer Contributor Niall Stanage, 'An Irish Reporter,' Wins Race to... Against all odds, the first book out of the gate on the 2008 election comes not from The Washington Post’s Daniel Balz, Time’s Mark Halperin, or Newsweek’s Evan Thomas, but Niall Stanage of Ireland’s Sunday Business Post, whose account of Barack Obama’s fight for the nomination and his... Source : The New York Observer - |
05 Jan 14 : 09 | The Week in DVR: A Dose of Reality, Brad Pitt's Bad Boy, Our Favorite... Monday: Confessions of a Teen Idol So it's a little more lowbrow than we usually recommend, but we're feeling like watching Confessions of a Teen Idol might actually count as charity work. The eight-episode reality series focuses on a handful of 80s was-beens-including Christopher Atkins (remember... Source : The New York Observer - |
02 Jan 16 : 35 | New York Tech Smarties Make Industry Predictions for '09 What will be the next big thing in tech this year? How will start-ups grapple with the economic crisis? What's gonna happen to Google? Will Twitter take over the world? Charlie O'Donnell, co-founder and C.E.O. of career-building site Path 101, asked a bunch of tech-savvy New Yorkers and others to... Source : The New York Observer - |
03 Jan 16 : 55 | Feb. 22 Special Elections Michael Bloomberg announced that February 24 will be the date for special elections for the City Council seats being vacated by Hiram Monserrate, Joseph Addabbo and Mike McMahon. Monserrate and Addabbo, both of Queens, were elected to the State Senate. McMahon, of Staten Island, was elected to... Source : The New York Observer - |
30 Dec 20 : 24 | Have You Heard, New York? Hotel Deals! In mid-November, my colleague Chris Shott recounted that even marquee hotels in New York were dropping room rates--a sure sign that the much-ballyhooed hotel boom was waning, if not completely over. A basic room at the Hotel Pennsylvania tonight would also cost $189, down from $222. The price of a... Source : The New York Observer - |
03 Jan 00 : 27 | Elsewhere: Kennedy for Senate, Really? Maybe. The A.P., citing unnamed sources close to David Paterson, says Caroline Kennedy will get the Senate seat. Not surprisingly, not all conservatives are happy. read more » Source : The New York Observer - |
02 Jan 17 : 21 | Fashion Roundup: Lynn Yaeger Laid Off; Is Vogue Becoming Irrelevant?; Kira... The Village Voice has laid off legendary fashion writer Lynn Yaeger. [Fashionista] Cathy Horyn gets to the bottom of what's wrong with Vogue. (Summary: The magazine has gotten sort of boring.) [NYT] The clothing company established for Kira Plastinina, the 16-year-old daughter of Russian... Source : The New York Observer - |
02 Jan 16 : 09 | Herman Blackbook Offers Funds for iPhone, Boxee, Twitter Developers New York-based consulting firm Herman Blackbook is offering seed funding for developers making applications for open-source platforms like Twitter, the iPhone, Boxee, AppNexus and more. With their "New Platforms Fund," the company will give up to 10 "cutting edge" ideas (they're not talking iFart... Source : The New York Observer - |
02 Jan 15 : 43 | Morning Memo: Noel Family Finds a Taker for Mustique Home; Bristol Palin's... Madoff-tainted Walter and Monica Noel managed to rent out Yemanja, their Mustique vacation home, to someone willing to pay their $55,000-per-week asking price. [P6] People paid around $300,000 for the first pictures of Bristol Palin's son, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston. [The Scoop] Sean "P.... Source : The New York Observer - |
01 Jan 22 : 06 | Elsewhere: Local Papers Look Forward Newsday's Dan Janison has nine big themes to consider for the new year. read more » Source : The New York Observer - |
01 Jan 18 : 52 | Happy New Year, Music Biz! You're Still Totally Screwed Now that 2008 is officially over, it seems we have no choice but to turn bravely around, slowly open our eyes, and cringe at the slow, sad decline of the music industry. There were a few bright spots, yes. Lil Wayne—a guy who’s made a career out of releasing his music for free—still managed to... Source : The New York Observer - |
01 Jan 18 : 16 | '09 To Bring Green Apartments, Girls Clubhouse to Avenue D The landscape will look different in 2009, but girls will still be girls, and the Lower Eastside Girls Club, with development partner Dermot Company, is still moving forward with its plans to build a clubhouse/apartment building on the Lower East Side. On Dec. 16, the 13-year-old girls club and... Source : The New York Observer - |
01 Jan 17 : 19 | Single Person's Movie: Reservoir Dogs It's 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we're just like you: single. Need a movie to keep you company until... Source : The New York Observer - |
01 Jan 14 : 43 | The Pedro Feliciano Project For players in Caribbean winter leagues like Pedro Feliciano, each game is an exercise in multitasking. Feliciano, who is currently pitching for Leones de Ponce in Puerto Rico, has the immediate task in front of him—helping his team to the Puerto Rican playoffs. Feliciano also has the unenviable... Source : The New York Observer - |
26 Dec 17 : 19 | The City Star Whitney Port Moved to New York to "Be a Stranger" As you may know by now, MTV's third-generation Laguna Beach spinoff The City, starring laconic Hills character Whitney Port, premieres on December 29. The reality show will track Ms. Port's relocation from Los Angeles to New York, where her superior fashion sense and interpersonal skills... Source : The New York Observer - |
01 Jan 00 : 11 | Hot Tickets: Mos Def, Mendes at BAM, Apes and Androids While the majority of their peers are content to perform in jeans and tees surrounded by little more than effects pedals, Apes and Androids would rather dish out their manic glam rock wearing wife-beaters, bandanas and full-color face paint while a giant papier-mâché monster looms overhead and the... Source : The New York Observer - |
31 Dec 22 : 09 | Harsh. More Anti-Sitt Literature From Coney Diehards Here’s a look at some of the latest creations from a boisterous group of Coney Island enthusiasts, newly energized as Coney mega-landlord Joe Sitt has begun not renewing leases. The group, the Coney Island Coalition, sent an email to us on Wednesday saying they were planning a rally today at the... Source : The New York Observer - |
31 Dec 20 : 31 | Paterson Makes Two Pardons ALBANY—Out of the 450 inmates in the state who applied for a New Year's reprieve, David Paterson commuted the sentences of two. Freddie Warren, 56, is serving 20 years to life on a drug dealing charge. Incarcerated since 1990, he has spent 400 hours learning American Sign Language. He would be... Source : The New York Observer - |
31 Dec 18 : 50 | Fashion Roundup: Fancier Kids' Clothes Coming Soon; Daisy Lowe for Marc... With sales of high-end childrenswear up 50 percent in the last year, designers are set to introduce more fancy kids' clothes to the market. [WWD] The highly anticipated spring ads for Chanel (Heidi Mount posing in Karl Lagerfeld's home) and Marc by Marc Jacobs (a supine Daisy Lowe on a white bed)... Source : The New York Observer - |
31 Dec 17 : 49 | The Next Budget Drama: Privatization ALBANY—The budget-related narrative since David Paterson released his draft spending plan earlier this month has been dominated by new taxes and fees, funding cuts, and t read more » Source : The New York Observer - |
30 Dec 23 : 16 | City Hall: Sheekey's Kennedy Role Hasn't Changed After I tried to get a comment from Kevin Sheekey about the report that he's pulling away from the effort to make Caroline Kennedy the next Senator from New York, he had mayoral spokesman Stu Loeser reach out to me. read more » Source : The New York Observer - |
