Paper Magazine's founder and editor-in-chief David Hershkovits gets all Okrent on New York Magazine's ass this week in a letter to the magazine's editor:

In It Happened Last Week, by Jim Holt [ Intelligencer, November 29], you made reference to a German lighting designer responsible for the electric snowflake at 57th and Fifth Avenue. His name is Ingo Maurer, the Frank Gehry of light design, whose work can be seen in museums throughout the world. Similarly, in the photos accompanying Gary Indiana s story on the East Village [ One Brief, Scuzzy Moment, December 6], there s a photo of a doorman at the Mudd Club. He was Haoui Montaug, one of the unsung heroes of downtown and an early victim of aids. These people deserve to be acknowledged with more than a passing mention.


You tell 'em, David! Of course, the people whose names are rendered merely "a friend" or a "his lady" in Paper's Cultural Sushi party photos might wish that they'd gotten the same consideration, but his heart's clearly in the right place.

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