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Big Raises for New York Times Web Staff

Ryan Tate · 01/15/09 08:23AM

Not all newspaper journalists are getting hammered by the simultaneous implosion of their industry and the economy: The embattled Times just raised Web staff salaries by an average 12 percent. Yay unions?

Obama's Cozy Dinner With Times Conservatives

Ryan Tate · 01/14/09 12:26AM

Barack Obama is wooing the milquetoast-conservative punditocracy tonight, at George Will's house (obvs). And the Times better have the killer inside scoop, because its columnists are all up in that dinner party.

Obama Tickets Scalped on Craigslist

Owen Thomas · 01/13/09 08:28PM

Members of Congress, who have granted themselves the exclusive right to dole out tickets to Barack Obama's inauguration, are outraged that free marketeers on Craigslist are infringing on their monopoly. [Politico]

Faux-bama Hot, Young, Less Dorky

Ryan Tate · 01/12/09 08:08PM

Staff Sgt. Derrick Brooks, 26, looks enough like the handsome president-elect that he's already kind of a big deal. Barack Obama doesn't see the resemblance. Jealous much?

Fish-Free Jeremy Piven Confronts Elisabeth Moss, Press

Kyle Buchanan · 01/12/09 03:00PM

Jeremy Piven faced quite the gauntlet at last night's Globes: a press pack hungry to douse him in soy sauce and eat him alive, plus his aggrieved former Broadway costar, Elisabeth Moss.

How Long Will McCain Mope?

Ryan Tate · 01/10/09 03:45PM

John McCain looked every bit the seething, uncomfortable vanquished rival in that first, awkward post-election press conference on those enormous chairs. It sounds like he's kind of still that way.

Benicio Del Toro Puts Mouthy Bros On Notice

Kyle Buchanan · 01/06/09 01:45PM

Benicio Del Toro deserves credit for a great many things: his Oscar-winning acting, his inspiration to the mushmouthed, and now, for crafting 2009's very first meme.