Earlier today, D.C. gossip rag FishbowlDC published a post declaring "an unusual trend" developing among female "campaign and White House reporters" using "provocative, sometimes sexy photographs of themselves for their Twitter accounts." As examples o... »
Bill Keller not a Luddite, just busy: "I have something of a reputation, within certain circles, mainly the people who spend most of their lives tweeting, for being a digiphobe or a Luddite," he said. "I don't think that's right. The Times on my watch ... »
Simon Doonan (Getty Images) Fashion Week and its grind have receded into memory (or so it would seem from our Twitter, on which every Condé staffer we follow has finally stopped totemically retyping their every Starbucks order), and Simon Doonan is fre... »
Tom DiNapoli peered out of the 19th-floor windows of 110 State Street in Albany—“The Taj McCall,” the comptroller’s staff call the building, after Carl McCall, the predecessor of Mr. DiNapoli’s who shepherded the building to completion—and pointed out ... »
Some might say this is long overdue. Others may call it heresy. One thing is certain: Nobody quite expected the storied and lofty perch from which the chief New York Times dining critic sits, being used to evaluate a fast food restaurant. Even if that ... »
The popular Union Square eatery The Coffee Shop has renewed its retail lease at its long time home at 27 Union Square West and also office space it has upstairs in the building. The deal totals about 20,000 square feet and stretches for ten-years, acco... »
We can tell it's 'shopped having seen many fakes and protesters in our time Is Westboro Baptist losing its edge? Raw Story reports that while the infamous anti-homosexual protest organization (or, as Westboro likes to call itself, "church") did not act... »
Fan messages for Whitney Houston outside New Jersey church (Getty Images) Tomorrow, the memorial for Whitney Houston will take place in Newark, NJ at the New Hope Baptist Church. Speculation for the funeral's guest-live began almost immediately after t... »
Whitney Houston (Getty) Two Los Angeles radio talk hosts have been suspended for what their station management termed "insensitive and inappropriate comments about the late Whitney Houston." KFI AM 640 announced the suspension of John Kobylt and Ken Ch... »
Thanks to the ongoing contract dispute between Time Warner Cable and the ownership of the New York Knicks, Councilman and social media enthusiast Peter Vallone Jr. wasn't able to watch Jeremy Lin play at his house last night. Despite missing the basket... »
At the Paley Center for Media yesterday, New York tech's paterfamilias Fred Wilson offered something largely absent from recent anti-SOPA debates: a plan for an alternative. Better yet, he wasn't just preaching to the choir. Rather, the Union Square Ve... »
Diving into sub-TMZ depths of celebrity slime, CarProperty.com is hoping to cash in on Whitney Houston's death. Her Newark mansion, which had been on and off the market since 2009 with the niche real estate site, is still available. With Google churnin... »
Families are flocking to Far West Chelsea. [Journal] Malkin readies his Empire State Building IPO. [Dealbook, Bloomberg] "Scalies" in love, just in times for Valentines Day. [Curbed] Gross? Inside Whitney Houston's New Jersey home. [Daily News] See Jer... »
Adele at tonight's Grammys (Getty Images) Tonight's Grammys are to feature a tribute to Whitney Houston and a comeback-from-surgery performance by heavily-favored multiple nominee Adele. We'll be watching closely to see if the British chanteuse can cla... »
Whitney Houston and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown (Getty Images) Bobbi Kristina Brown, 18-year-old daughter of Whitney Houston and ex-husband Bobby Brown, was taken to the hospital Sunday morning. Ms. Brown was still at the Beverly Hilton Hotel where h... »
