Dabbling in the Dining Business Has Its Dangers
cityfile · 06/02/09 01:52PMScience Confirms: Twitter Dominated by Self-Obsessed Dudes
Ryan Tate · 06/02/09 01:32PMHate Crime Kid Had Lovely Africa Trip
Pareene · 06/02/09 01:32PMThings to Be Thankful For: Tourists in Midtown
cityfile · 06/02/09 01:22PM
And you thought Manhattan's retail market was struggling. Fifth Avenue in the 50s is doing just fine thanks to tourists with foreign currency to blow on discounted American goods. The former Brooks Brothers store at 666 Fifth Avenue is now up for grabs and five major chains are currently vying to take over the space (which costs $30 million a year to rent): Uniqlo, Topshop, Zara, Century 21, and Forever 21. So instead of sneering at the next camera-toting German couple who bumps into you on Fifth, thank them for their patronage and move along, okay? [NYP]
Watch the Fox & Friends Bunch Try to Process the Bruno-Eminem Stunt
Richard Lawson · 06/02/09 01:06PMThe Battle Royale Over Japonais
cityfile · 06/02/09 12:53PM
The big-box Japanese fusion restaurant Japonais currently has three locations around the country—Chicago, Las Vegas, and on East 18th Street in New York. One restaurant that is not part of the chain: the Japonais allegedly located in Westbury, Long Island. But if Roy Tuccillo, the owner of the new Long Island outpost gets his way, the three mega-restaurants around the U.S. will have to come up with a new name in the near future.
Labor Relations Expert Mickey Kaus on GM
Pareene · 06/02/09 12:25PMHand Holding Means You're Married
Richard Lawson · 06/02/09 12:21PMToday in D.C.'s Polyamorous Gay Murder: Let's Learn about Electro-Ejaculation
John Cook · 06/02/09 12:20PMFloyd Abrams' Spurious First Amendment Excuse for S&P
John Cook · 06/02/09 11:50AMWill Arianna Huffington Be Paying You This Month?
Ryan Tate · 06/02/09 11:31AMConan's Ratings Are In: Solid, If Not Remarkable
Richard Lawson · 06/02/09 11:25AMNew York Rich Kids' Reality Show to Make the Case for Being Old and Poor
Richard Lawson · 06/02/09 11:13AMGrowing up in New York and turning out to be a complete dickwad is a hallowed city tradition. Teen fictions like Gossip Girl have shed some fake-ish light on the plight/privilege, but now a reality series (on Bravo, of course) is poised to blow the story wide open.
Conan's Debut, Salinger's Suit, Paris's New Show
cityfile · 06/02/09 11:13AM• Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show debuted last night. The reviews were mixed, although he did very well in the ratings, not surprisingly. [Variety, THR]
• Playboy Enterprises named Scott Flanders as its CEO yesterday. [NYP]
• Lawyers for author J.D. Salinger have filed suit against an author who is publishing a book billed as a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye. [NYT]
• Five magazines—Popular Photography, Flying, Boating, Sound & Vision and American Photo—have been sold to Bonnier Corp. by Hachette. [Crain's]
• Paris Hilton and producer Michael Hirschorn have teamed up to bring a version of Paris Hilton's My New BFF to Dubai. Yes, Dubai. No joke. [Variety]
MN Governor Frees Himself From Pressure to Seat Franken
Pareene · 06/02/09 11:07AMSpencer on Quitting I'm a Celebrity...: 'I'm Not a Reality Star. I'm on The Hills.'
Richard Lawson · 06/02/09 10:35AMWell, that didn't go well at all. One episode and several crying jags/smacking-water-bottles-out-of-Frangela's-hands later, Heidi and Spencer from The Hills have quit the disastrous reality series I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Outta Here!. Mostly because it's "not a nice show." Plus Heidi got bug bites.
Matthew Broderick: 11th Street & 7th Avenue
Robespierre · 06/02/09 10:29AMThe Baby Daddy Diet
cityfile · 06/02/09 10:19AM
"A British research firm is reporting that the average weight gained during pregnancy is 14 pounds—and that's by the babies' fathers." The men involved in the study reported they added two inches, on average, to their waistlines and a quarter indicated that they gained the weight out of a "desire to make their partner feel better about her own weight gain." And yet only 30 percent joined their partner in a diet after the baby arrived. Typical. [NYT]











