Ron Rosenbaum does his 'couple thousand words with ancient Greek references' thing on The Underminer, the soon to be published comic novel from Mike Albo and Times TV critic Virginia Heffernan in this week's New York Observer:
The New York Post takes a step towards respectability today with a real live correction—just like the ones you'd find in a boring "serious" newspapers!
Congratulations to Liv Tyler, who just gave birth to a... baby.
FOX, the network that brought you headaches, anger, and The Simple Life 2, is breaking new ground in Reality TV. (In fact, they're breaking ground so low, they're about to hit rock bottom.)
It's almost that time of year again: Who will be TIME's "Person of the Year"? For the life of us, we can't even guess:
Karl Rove?
Jon Stewart?
Mel Gibson?
Michael Moore?
Security Moms?
SpongeBob SquarePants?
Paris Hilton?
Lynndie England?
Bloggers?
Curt Schilling?
John Kerry?
Values voters?
In our ongoing study of New York magazine's Look Book feature, in which a completely random New Yorker is interviewed about his or her style, Intern Alexis tackles Ciara Gilmartin, "a young Vivienne Westwood." In order to better understand Ciara's style and the nuances of the Look Book, Alexis interviewed Entertainment Weekly's Timothy Gunatilaka, stand-up comic and filmmaker Katie Halper, and Jim Laakso of Blood Team for some stylish analysis. After the jump, their take on Ciara and her cardigan.
As if being a single gal in New York wasn't hard enough, the kind folks at MTV want to make it just a little worse.
Ah! Just when we thought we were done with Drudge for the day, our relationship finally moves forward. A reader brings us the good news:
Calling two gay men 'divas'! That's so catty. We love it.
The red blooded, red staters at FOXNews have some suggestions for perfect holiday gifts for grandma this year. Because, as we all know, Christmas is about breasts. And, um, the birth of Jesus.
Buried at the bottom of Sharon Waxman's Times piece on the "new" trend of cynical Christmas films (Christmas with the Kranks, Surviving Christmas, Bad Santa , and Home Alone get name checked, but, curiously, a bona fide classic of Christmas cynicism, A Christmas Story isn't mentioned once) is this strange little pitch by author David Thomson:
With their year-end issue topping out at roughly a bazillion pages, it's hardly surprising that New York magazine might run a little thin on new subjects. To wit, last week's Look Book featured "modern-day gypsy" Agathe Snow; this week, Agathe is returns via party pictures for some girl-on-girl action. An eagle-eyed reader writes in:
· Alec Baldwin, Rosie Perez, Molly Shannon, and Liev Schreiber read some Christmas stories written by funnyman David Sedaris at Studio 54 tonight. Kind of like the Oceans 12 of staged readings, but without the A-listers. And don't scoff at the $25 ticket price, Grinch—all the proceeds go to charity. [Filmmaker Magazine]
· Eclectic Canadians Broken Social Scene play for all the nice little boys and girls tonight at Bowery Ballroom. The Pixies play again tonight at Hammerstein, if you can get your dirty fingers on a ticket. [BB]
· Sooo many nagging questions still unanswered from Tom Wolfe's latest sex book. Like, who is Charlotte Simmons based on? Oh, it's supposed to be his daughter? Well color us dense. If you think of any more burning issues in the meantime, he speaks tonight at the 92nd Street Y. [92Y]
All right, comic book fans: we get it. How many Times corrections can your angry emails prompt?
Not that you wanted to know this, but apparently Tom Wolfe has won some sort of award for bad sex. Writing about sex badly, that is.
From The Times 'Travel Section' profile of hotelier André Balazs:
Now that the New York Times s red-headed stepchild, the Arts & Ideas section, has died, what are the editors to do with all those upper-level think pieces that aren t quite appropriate for the Arts & Leisure section, the Magazine, the Week in Review, or Eating Out? Why, just plop them in the jack-of-all-trades that is the New York Times' Book Review of course! This week s NYTBR was heavy on the random essays that vaguely had something to do with literature, and light on the book reviews. After the jump, Intern Alexis wonders what it all means.
One year you're on top:
New York and the The New York Times Magazine both trotted out their year-end issues this week. Each is an impressive effort (Months in the making! Editorial staffs of thousands! No sociological stone unturned!), yet both leave us feeling... well, very tired.
