Good morning! Happy Friday! Steve Levy officially kicks off his gubernatorial bid, and all eyes remain on Washington for a health care vote. Here are some headlines…
Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell and partner John Bantha celebrated St. Patrick's Day at the White House (Photo provided)
Gov. David Paterson said [...]
#conartists
Crazy Birther blogger Debbie Schlussel claims that the Fox News personality's "Freedom Alliance" war [...] Just a little editorial to start your Friday - Pass the Health Care bill
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. My stance has been pretty consistent - Some form of a single payer system like Medicare for all. A Medicare buy-in would be wonderful. The proposed Health Care bill [...]
#internetbeef
The ongoing cyber war between the military and the CIA is getting [...] 
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the WNYMedia.net Tournament of Political Failure 2010.™
#dontaskdonttell
A fondness of handcuffs and openly gay "socialization" in lazy European armies led [...] 
#mysteries
On December 17, 2008 a British man parked his $200,000 Lamborghini outside his home. He then got blackout drunk.' [...] 
Got your pitchfork handy? Good, because if you live in Manhattan, you'll need it; this week on Project Runway, the challenge is apparently to incite all Gothamites to violence. And it succeeds wil...
Continue reading "Project Runway: Where Everyone's Lost Below Union Square" >
St. Louis 4 Rangers 3: Most the season, Henrik Lundqvist has carried the Rangers when they couldn’t put the puck in the net. Thursday night, he was the problem, allowing four goals against sixteen shots as the Rangers dropped their second-straight. The Rangers took a [...] 
Dear Congressman Arcuri,
Your recent flip-flop in the wrong direction on healthcare is a move so politically stupid, it is hard to summon the words to adequately describe it.
The only plausible reason you have to vote against Health Care Reform would be to possibly [...]
#invasions
They came on foot, by bicycle and skateboard. They filled the Soho streets like a dirty flood. Traffic was [...] I received an email this afternoon. It started out like this:
We came across a very brief obituary notice this morning, about a curious individual with a single word for a name, in an obscure newspaper of diminishing circulation and soon to cease publication altogether itself. The notice read:
Hope, a professional [...]
This guy Cox needs to be thrown out on his a$$…..
The Republican National Committee has told state GOP chair Ed Cox that they do not want to send money into New York races if Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy is at the top of [...]
#twitterati
LeVar Burton saw another famous face at Ralph's; Alyssa Milano saw her authorship challenged; and Jolie' [...] 
Internet censorship map via Ambiome.Senor is the all-but-declared Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in New York, challenging the excellent Senator Kirsten [...]
#projectrunway
Hey, everyone! It's Gawker-commenter-live-blog-party time, so turn on [...] The teenagers had Elvis but, for a brief moment a bit more than half a century ago this spring, Fess Parker's King of the Wild Frontier was the idol of every American six-year-old within range of ...
Continue reading "Fess Parker (1925-2010)" >If Nate Silver is correct, both the Democratic Party and the New York Yankees might be headed for tough times this fall. The ace political pollster/baseball analyst projects the numbers for 1,600 ...
Continue reading "Yankees Prospects Look Grim -- Star Pollster Nate Silver" > [...]
#videouhoh
Or: "Firefighter Becomes Fire Hazard." A woman came home on St. Patrick's Eve to find a passed-out man in [...] Thomas Hagan, the only man who ever admitted involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X, will be getting out of jail next month. Hagan was granted parole on March 3rd and is scheduled to be rel...
Continue reading "Breaking: Malcolm X's Killer Paroled, is a Free" [...]Michael Kors, Betsey Johnson, Diane von Furstenberg and 17 other top American designers are creating a summer-long "fashion show" that will march up Broadway from Herald Square to Times Square. T...
Continue reading "Michael Kors Dresses Weatherproof Mannequin, Gets Taste of His Own Project Runway Medicine" [...]Over the years, Mike Lacey, the charismatic and sometimes prickly alt-weekly executive, and his pals at Village Voice Media (ne New Times) have generated no shortage of amusing media stories. And for those of us with a taste for the genre, Eli Sanders' feature in this week's The Stranger about' [...]
The Times corrects Paterson.
Lazio is the "original Kanye."
Gerstein says Lazio is "especially ill-suited for this anti-insider mood."
Mike Long doesn't like how long it took Levy to flip.
Jay Jacobs isn't happy.
Conservatives may wait.
Ben Adler sees Levy's defection' [...]
Steve Levy goes after Rick Lazio.
From an advance transcript of his interview on Capitol Tonight
"He is saying he has 67 or 70 percent. Many of those people who claim to be on his list are going to be standing with me when I announce my candidacy, tomorrow. Saying they endorse" [...]
You can really tell things are going bad when Democrats start accusing their own party of stealing.
[...]
The city teachers union likes to argue that its own charter schools are proof that the schools can thrive even with unionized teachers. But the report issued yesterday renewing the schools’ charter complicates the union’s claim.
The first union-run charter school in the city, UFT Charter School’s first five years have [...]
Tiger Woods' sexxxy text messages have made their way to the Internet this morning en masse, courtesy of Joslyn James, one of the various women the golfer's had flings with over the last few years...
Continue reading "Tiger Woods' Sexting Texts: Free Verse Poetry" > [...]
Broad Channel, via dschaub's flickr
• Time: Warren Buffett is playing former Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose in a video for Geico. Hopefully this means we can wait about 47 more years before he decides to do an impression of Chinese Democracy-era Axl.
• AgencySpy: Dina Lohan is unveiling an eco-friendly' [...]
Chloe Leon and her mother, Leigh Anne O'Connor, man the home-baked treats stand at the "bake-in."
“Viva el cupcake!”
That was a battle cry of parents and children protesting outside City Hall today against new rules that restrict what foods can be sold at school bake sales. The' [...]
The New York Times' Media Decoder blog reports that Harper's Senior Editor Jennifer Szalai and Associate Web Editor Paul Ford left the magazine this week. Szalai had been with Harper's for a decade.
Their departure follows that of Roger Hodge, who was [...]
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After hearing gunshots, an off-duty NYPD officer tried to chase down a group of men involved in the East Harlem shooting—leading to another barrage of bullets that left one man injured. When the cop started trailing a group of men reportedly [...]
If you thought a bake sale was just a place to scarf down a brownie think again. To the parents, children and local officials protesting the Department of Education’s new bake sale policy, the selling of home-made goodies epitomizes democracy, tradition, community and, yes, health.
As has [...]
If you thought a bake sale was just a place to scarf down a brownie think again. To the parents, children and local officials protesting the Department of Education’s new bake sale policy, the selling of home-made goodies epitomizes democracy, tradition, community and, yes, health.
As has [...]
We had the pleasure of attending the MPA and ASME's Magazines 24/7 discussion on "The e-Reading Revolution." Mike attended the luncheon and networking portion of today's series of events, which included the Digital Ellies awards presentation. (Although we were sad to have missed it, maybe [...]
Donna Simpson, the 604-pound NJ woman whose "fantasy" to be 1,000 pounds, is now the toast of the town. According to the Star-Ledger, "Two days after the 42-year-old Simpson announced she intended to eat her way into the record books, 'Entertainment Tonight' was" [...]
Television history will be made Wednesday night when the world’s first home-broadcasted, live 3D sporting event will bring the Rangers-Islanders game to you in 3D. And by "you," we mean the handful of people who own the 3D high-definition TVs that went on sale about [...]
After more than 20 years of planning, a portion of Brooklyn Bridge Park will open on Monday. Following a 9:30 a.m. ribbon-cutting with Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg, the Pier 1 section of $350-million greenspace will open to the public, Brooklyn Heights Blog [...]
March Madness is officially upon us, and with the brackets locked in, let's take a look at who the New York media's big-time (and small-time) players picked to win the big dance.
Let's get the obvious out of the way: Sports Illustrated's team of experts overwhelmingly [...]
After discovering that many taxi drivers scammed riders out of millions by charging them out-of-town rates, the Taxi and Limousine Commission has outfitted 5,000 cabs with a new system that alerts riders when the rate system has changed, with the rest of the city's' [...]
Student Kela Brathwaite is fast becoming a culinary expert!
Aw, a Saturday Night Live director found and returned a 4-carat diamond to an audience member who dropped it in the studio. The NY Post reports that a Manhattan woman, Bree Candee, was celebrating her 36th birthday by attending a rehearsal last weekend, where [...]
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 12:52 a.m. Location: In front of 102 Convent Ave., West Harlem, Manhattan. Richard Cedeno, 25, of West 134th Street, was sitting in his parked car just across t...
Continue reading "Richard Cedeno, 25, Shot and Killed Outside City College" >ProPublica has an informative little feature on its blog called "Investigations You Need to Read," described on the site as an aggregation of stories that form "part of our ongoing roundup of investigations from other news outlets." The feature was brought to our attention through a Tweet from [...]
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 12:34 a.m. Location: Beach 12 Street and the Boardwalk, Far Rockaway, Queens. Mario Alberto Canton Quijada, 25, of Beach Channel Drive, was fatally stabbed earl...
Continue reading "Mario Alberto Canton Quijada, 25, Stabbed to Death on Rockaway Beach" > [...]
#wereadyou
Down our throats. Please do! We really need it. In case you needed further proof that our current health care system is fucked up, [...] Date: Wednesday March 17, 2010, 8:10 p.m. Location: 745 Lafayette Ave., Fourth Floor, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The police arrived in a fourth-floor apartment at the above address and foun...
Continue reading "Possible Murder-Suicide in Bed-Stuy" >
More details on Steven Spielberg's Ground Zero documentary series. [Architectural Record]
Apple would like to some more partners for that iPad it's shipping soon. [WSJ]
Meanwhile, Amazon launches 'Kindle for Mac.' [WSJ]
Chuck Schumer and Lindsey Graham co-wrote an immigration editorial. [WaPo]
President Obama put off his Asia trip again. [NYT]
Another Harlem [...]
A Long Island Democrat is planning to become a Republican so he has a better shot at becoming Governor. In a move that could turn out shaking up an election many thought was already decided—even though the predicted winner still hasn't officially declared' [...]
Date: Wednesday March 17, 2010, 12:19 p.m. Location: Eastchester Road and Gunhill Road, Eastchester, The Bronx. When the cops reached an overturned car at the above intersection, they found a ...
Continue reading "Man Shot in the Back, Flips Car, Dies in Eastchester" > [...]Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010, 2:57 p.m. Location: Schenck Avenue and Pitkin Avenue, East New York, Brooklyn. Police in the East New York section of Brooklyn, once the city's murder capital, ...
Continue reading "Murder in East New York: Man Shot in the Head, Dumped in a Shopping" [...]
Two programmers who helped Ponzi-schemer (and now prison punching bag) Bernard Madoff program an old computer to produce false records have been indicted, according to the Post. Jerome O'Hara and George Perez were accused of conspiracy, falsifying records of a broker dealer and' [...]
Hassan Nemazee, a former finance chair for the presidential campaigns of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton and a finance chair for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, pleaded guilty today to defrauding three banks and a friend out of $290 million in loans and proceeds.
Mr. Nemazee's arrest in August stunned the [...]
Web 2.0 consultant Leora Israel photographs Nick McGlynn during their SXSW panel.
One of the major themes at SXSW was how do you effectively manage your privacy while simultaneously managing a stellar online profile?
Beyond the big think talks on the subject (Doug Rushkoff [...]
The head of a national teachers union and the former U.S. Secretary of Education squared off on a televised debate program this week over the question of whether teachers unions are to blame for failing schools.
Called Intelligence Squared, the program airs on NPR and Bloomberg TV next week, but [...]
Sasha Grey for PETA What's one of the most sought after and expensive domain names in history? Sex.com, of course. Yesterday the rights to the domain were going to be auctioned off (starting at $1MM), after previous owner (since 2006) Escom went into [...]
Winners of the National Magazine Awards for Digital Media pose with their elephant-shaped statues, or "Ellies."
The American Society of Magazine Editors and the Journalism School of Columbia University today announced the winners of the 2010 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media. Here are some of [...]
In the end, perhaps somewhat predictably, David Westin went with the biggest star.
Today, Mr. Westin, the president of ABC News, officially announced that the network had hired Christiane Amanpour as the new anchor of the Sunday public affairs program, This Week.
The high-profile D.C. gig has been vacant since the [...]
Sanbow Media has purchased eight magazines from Reed Business Information (RBI), including Interior Design, Furniture Today, Gifts & Decorative Accessories, Home Textiles Today, Casual Living, Home Accents Today, Kids Today and Playthings.
RBI, you may recall, also sold Library Journal and School Library Journal To Media [...]
The State Republican Party chairman Ed Cox will be in Albany tomorrow to join Democrat Steve Levy when he announces he's joining the G.O.P. and running for governor.
Some Republicans, like City Councilman Eric Ulrich, aren't happy about Cox's move.
"Absolutely disgraceful," Ulrich said via email.
Republican Rick Lazio's spokesman said they've gotten [...]
Oh come on. Why are we doing this? Look the concept of government intervention is fine but somehow I suspect that what is really at stake here is people built houses on a beach and now that the beach is eroding (naturally) they feel their property values will decline and [...]
This morning, porn star Joslyn James offered up many of the texts she claims former lover Tiger Woods sent her, because, she says, "It's time to tell the truth about Tiger." Many involve their sexual relationship ("I would like to have a threesome" [...]
#copyfight
YouTube's big court fight with Viacom is unearthing some fun stories, like this one: Viacom secretly' [...] 
Time Warner Inc. might offer as much as $1.5 billion dollars for MGM, according to Bloomberg News.
What do you get for that?
Well, a 4,100-title library, the James Bond franchise, the Pink Panther franchise, part of the upcoming Hobbit movie, some television channels, and the rights to the show [...]
The American Society of Magazine Editors and the Journalism School at Columbia University today announced the winners of the 2010 National Magazine Awards for Digital Media. Today's event, held at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers in midtown, was the first ever ASME award ceremony [...]
For over a year Arnold Diaz and his Shame Crew have been on the tail of Queens pet dealer Robin Schulder (pictured). The dog breeder uses various websites to sell puppies nationwide, raking in at least $1000 per dog, and allegedly gets them through [...]
An analysis using the Balanced Transportation Analyzer shows how much time individual drivers steal from fellow drivers by choosing to drive into the New York City CBD.
