December 2010
A Capital send-off for 2010, and what you can... →
We’ve been live for six months (yes, only six months)! Here’s a thank you note to all of you in the form of a review of what we’ve done so far and what we’re planning for 2011.
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Perfect blizzard read: Winter's Tale by Mark... →
Dec 27th
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He’s "biggy," "top'd," "oil'd," "right before the... →
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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The Man Who Shot Santa Claus →
Dec 26th
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Dec 23rd
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GQ : Seven Questions For FuckYeahMensWear →
gq: GQ: What’s crispy in the streets these days as far as you’re concerned? Which brands are coming correct with the steez? Which are faking the funk? FYMW: First off, can we officially dead “faking the funk” for good? I’m going on record, “fuck outta here with that bullshit”. I’ll say this, if you need to ask what’s crispy in the streets...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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FAQ: Who cares about the Black List?
Josh: These people are at war over stuff that will never mean anything to the casuals. Sara: Welcome to the internet. Josh: But even accounting for sock-puppetry and gratuitous crankiness, very little of it was about the merits of the movie ideas. It was about how the list gets gamed, and the various ways in which it’s biased, and generally how it sucks because of all the unproduced...
Dec 20th
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“But here’s the secret. The smartest people on the radio are dumb. Or not dumb...”
– Give In To Your Inner Dummy: Jonathan Menjivar, who used to work here at Fresh Air and now works as a producer at This American Life, explaining one of public radio’s deepest, darkest secrets. (via scottdodd) Yes, which is pretty much a top quality in a good reporter: (maybe) dumb but (definitely)...
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“False nostalgia means that The A-Team was a success at $176 million, but it also...”
– False Nostalgia: How VH1 Ruined the Taste of a Generation (via langer)
Dec 17th
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Predictions For 2011 - From 1931 : Planet Money :... →
goldman: “Back in 1931, the New York Times asked a bunch of luminaries to predict what the world would be like in 2011. Here are a few of the highlights.” The predictions are actually closer to the mark than you’d expect. We loved this, too.
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Hosed: The FDNY's Black Firefighter Problem →
By Steven Thrasher, Village Voice
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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instantwatcher.com →
Completely mesmerized by the data on this site, which tracks new and “trending” titles on Netflix Instant. Maybe we can somehow game the system and make So This Is New York the top title by the end of the day. Who is with us?
Dec 14th
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Cliff Lee and the future of New York baseball →
Dec 14th
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Richard Holbrooke's last speech — about founding... →
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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What Anthony Weiner learned from Chuck Schumer,... →
Another nerdy masterpiece from Steve Kornacki today.
Dec 13th
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The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s Security Mess →
What It All Means from Forbes. Also, you can figure out whether your password was hacked with this widget at Slate.
Dec 13th
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“People from the digital world are always saying we don’t need journalists at all...”
– Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Columbia Journalism School.  This comment was “extremely disappointing” to NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen and media critic Jeff Jarvis (via soupsoup) Just going to put this here.
Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Sandy Alderson Conference Call with Bloggers →
hotfoot: My favorite portion: “I’m very familiar with the blogosphere, and how it makes connections with fans… People are going to form their own opinions, but if you’ve heard from me, it’ll be on the basis of direct communication. I don’t mind spending the time. In a sense, you guys probably reflect the most passionate elements of the fan base. If I’m right about that, it’s more important to...
Dec 11th
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Watch a symposium on Wikileaks live →
soupsoup: an impressive array of thinkers discussing where we go in a post-wikileaks world You can also follow along with the #pdfleaks hashtag on Twitter. Get ready for a barrage of insightful quotes (we’re recording some of them with the Capital New York account).
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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Scocca : "I'm Not a Journalist, and I Don't... →
peterwknox: All Five-Parts are up, over at Slate. Frantically Instapapering.
Dec 10th
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The Soho House murder, told two ways →
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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The Worst Bathroom in New York City →
Dec 9th
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“But compared to the Broadway-wattage lights powered by celebrity blogs, rap beef...”
– Seth Colter Walls on difficult music’s rise in New York.
Dec 9th
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“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it...”
– The Art of Fiction LXXXVII by Elizabeth Hardwick, The Paris Review Issue 96, 1985 (via allthatglitters1968)
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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"Are you a member of the co-op?" one of the... →
Zeke on the streets for the Whole Foods beat.
Dec 8th
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Lindsay Robertson: HBO is making a show about the... →
johncarney: I hope Ben is getting paid out on this.  lindsayrobertson: Buried in a Deadline post about agency moves is the first news that HBO is working on a show about the Ramapo Mountain Indians of New Jersey, aka “The Jackson Whites,” subjects of the awesome March 2010 Ben McGrath piece in the New Yorker (abstract only) that everybody was talking about that…
Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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