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Important Questions About The Future Of Domestic Servitude
Jessica · 05/24/05 05:15PMMedia Bubble: Terrorists Might Allow You to Graduate Unprepared for a Meaningful Career
Pareene · 05/24/05 04:28PMRaquel Welch's Breasts Threatened A Lawsuit
mark · 05/24/05 03:16PMStaggering Levels Of Irony
Jessica · 05/24/05 03:15PMLooking At The Look Book
Jessica · 05/24/05 03:07PM
We've had a lot of wonderful editions of the Look Book but, without question, this week's edition features perhaps the most fantastic man on the street since Brooklyn hipsters donned their diapers. If you couldn't already guess, the man at right is Bobby Vita, an electrical contracter from Astoria. Bobby likes rear-entry pornos and expressing his feelings with all sorts of women; and while his track suit may say Puma, Bobby knows it's really Armani in disguise. In her weekly panel of Manhattan's toughest fashion police, Intern Alexis rounds up Sarah Brown, Anne Kislevitz, and Allison Lorentzen for commentary.
NY Post Registration Still Fairly Crappy
Jessica · 05/24/05 01:00PM
Surely you haven't forgotten: After a few days of glitches, errors, and general server diarrhea, the Post did its best to require all users to register for its online service, thus asking that we all fork over some personal (and probably false) personal info in order to receive a super-fantastic login and password. The whole thing would have been only marginally irritating, had the registration process not been a three-day detour into fuck-uppery.
G+J Dumps Magazines, Celebrity Bloggers Prepare Free-Verse Poems
Pareene · 05/24/05 12:36PMBertelsmann, the German company that owns most things printed on paper, burned onto circular discs, and probably you in some fashion, has had it up to here with the US magazine business. So — their subsidiary Gruner + Jahr is throwing them all out at once and shouting "think fast!" Meredith Corp. bought Parents, Child, Fitness, and Family Circle, and they might be forced to take Inc and Fast Company too. Bertelsmann cheerfully refers to this dump as "spinning off" their US magazine business. You know, like "Joey."
BREAKING: 4 Newsstands Run Out Of Radar!
Jessica · 05/24/05 11:40AM
The events of today prove that it is, indeed, the Greatest Magazine Launch In The History Of Foreverness, as a correspondent reports that no less (and maybe no more) than FOUR Manhattan newsstands are out of the premiere issue of Radar magazine. Meanwhile, in response to a previous item, another reader reports that Radar has flooded the racks of a Barnes & Noble in Arkansas.
Class Matters: The Game
Pareene · 05/24/05 10:40AMGawker Stalker: Radar Spotted In Arkansas!
Jessica · 05/24/05 10:23AMOn The (hilarious) Dangers Of Skimming The 'New Yorker'
Pareene · 05/24/05 09:45AMAfter The Rohland: Searching For A New NYPress Publisher
Jessica · 05/24/05 08:57AMStreet Value of Today's OpEd Page: $2.66
Pareene · 05/24/05 08:51AMTough Love For Lizz Winstead
Pareene · 05/24/05 08:13AMalex: Huh. Lizz Winstead's suing air america.
jessica: like they have a fucking dime for her.
alex: she can never catch a break, that one.
jessica: that's like suing your 8th grade boyfriend.
jessica: if she can never catch a break, it's because of dumb moves like that. and i'm sympathetic, believe me. but dude, lizzie, CMON.
alex: huffington will take care of her.
jessica: arianna will take lizz under her gilded greek wings.
jessica: and is there anything more sad then seeing your cat fail to hork up its hairball?
alex: ...
alex: that's a tough one
jessica: it's so sad and i can't help him.
alex: this is how i feel about Lizz Winstead.
jessica: the gawker media cat is in crisis.
Life Imitates Art, BP Imitates Morgan Stanley
Jessica · 05/24/05 08:11AM
Just because international energy behemoth BP has a green logo doesn't necessarily mean they're the good guys. Just a few days after financial pillar Morgan Stanley announced that all of their advertisements would be automatically pulled from any edition of a print publication featuring "objectionable editorial content," BP has followed suit:
Media Bubble: The Digital Revolution Will Be LiveBlogged
Pareene · 05/23/05 05:00PMReading About Reading: 'OC' + NASCAR = Egalitarian Fun
Jessica · 05/23/05 04:50PMIn this week's review of the New York Times Book Review, Intern Alexis comes to the defense of Everything Bad Is Good For You and, in the process, manages to reprint an IM conversation about The O.C. finale. We let her keep it in the final copy, purely out of respect for Trey and admiration for Marissa's solid gunplay. After the jump, Alexis explores NASCAR and pop culture in her review for the common man.
CHRIST-HAPPY COPY EDITOR PENS CRINGE-WORTHY COLUMN
Pareene · 05/23/05 04:40PMNY Press Publisher Chris Rohland Resigns
Jessica · 05/23/05 04:11PMWe just got off the phone with New York Press publisher Chris Rohland, who cheerfully confirmed the latest chatter: As of May 27, he will be resigning. He tells us, "I've just decided to pursue other projects. Ultimately, it's time for me to go." Rohland plans on doing some consulting work (read: sunbathing) but, after 15 years in publishing, doesn't intend to leave the industry. "I'll eventually land somewhere else," he says.