July 2010
Watchofficialssay:
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), yelling at House Republicans who opposed a bill that would provide $7.4 billion in health care and compensation to 9/11 rescue workers. The bill failed.
A fantastic Tumblr idea from the smart folks at ProPublica. Certainly, keep up with this one.
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A scene from the Mets locker room →
“He makes everything look so easy,” Rodriguez said of Rivera, admiringly. “So easy, the fans think it’s like that. But it’s not. Look around at 29 of the 30 closers. He’s the one, you know what I’m saying? He’s got one pitch, and they want you to do this, and you can’t.”
Before Rodriguez headed out to the weight room to lift, I...
New York City Subway Platforms to Go Wireless in... →
soupsoup:
After an almost three-year delay, work is set to begin on a $200 million plan to bring mobile- phone and Wi-Fi service to New York’s subway stations.
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Actually, the 1986 production of “Into the Light, A Musical,” which involved lazers and dancing nuns, is probably the worst musical ever. Here’s some choice lines from Frank Rich’s review:
While he eventually does get his hands on the rag, the audience at the Neil Simon Theater must first survive an onslaught of boogeying nuns and more than a few songs with lyrics like...
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I hung out with some Real Housewives on the Jersey... →
joepompeo:
#workingwhileonvacation
Also, did you know Simon uses Foursquare? Weirdness.
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NYTimes: Former East Villager/Playwright, Jim Neu,... →
(via eastvillagefeed)
Here, for example, is an excerpt from “Live Witness,” a noirish comedy from 1993 about the relationship between a pair of television news co-anchors:
1: People wonder if we see each other socially
2: Do they?
1: Is it so hard to imagine?
2: I never tried
1: Me either
2: I wouldn’t want to jeopardize the quality of our professional rapport
1: I wouldn’t want to...
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James Franco’s homework has had an incredible... →
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Wow wow wow! →
Have you guys seen the new Thirteen.org? It’s fantastic! And, full disclosure, Capital has a video partnership with Thirteen.
But you also need to add these blogs to your roll as soon as humanly possible:
Bookish | Leon Neyfakh http://www.thirteen.org/bookish/ Riff City | Nick Sylvester http://www.thirteen.org/riffcity Girl on Film | Sara Vilkomerson http://www.thirteen.org/girlonfilm
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logisticalnightmare:
“The simple fact is this: I’m a pomegranate. I’m a very big pomegranate that exploded and my seeds are all over the place. So there are 10,000 seeds of me all over the place. I am glad that I exploded and that I took root to become a pomegranate.”
Ray Bradbury is 90 years old.
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An appeal to the old-world enthusiasm of New York... →
(link reblogged via rubenfeld)
Oh, right. About bikes from Sam Schube:
New York, with its massive amateur cycling scene, should be aflutter with names like Schleck and Contador. (Mr. Livestrong wrecked himself out of contention for an eighth victory in the early going.) And yet until recently there was nowhere in the city to enjoy the Tour as it ought to be enjoyed: in a buzzy haze of...
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Meet Left-Wing Hitman HACKary Woolfe -... →
Congrats, Zach! And welcome to the club.
Two down, dozens more dishonest reporters to go.
“Every few days at The Washington Post, staffers get a notice like this: “Please welcome Dylan Feldman-Suarez, who will be joining the fact-integration team as a multiplatform idea triage specialist, reporting to the deputy director of word-flow management and video branding strategy. Dylan comes to us from the social media utilization division of Sikorsky Helicopters.”
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"Top Secret America" is a project nearly two years... →
An incredible day for the Washington Post staff: Congrats all around. Everyone working in earnest, investigative in journalism should be studying this.
Also, we want a trailer for all of our stories now.
peterfeld:
dhk:
unburyingthelead:
THANK YOU SOMEONE IS FINALLY TALKING ABOUT THIS.
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“Whatever feeling of ‘negativity’ people have about the idea of an...”
– Lockhart Steele on the New York Times’ upcoming East Village Local blog.
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Villain-off! New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail... →
“When I was younger, it was like ‘I’m either going to be a writer or...”
– Candace Bushnell. The prehistory of the New York Girl.
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Rupert Murdoch, Neel Shah, and the Short Pants →
So I show up to work today wearing a short-sleeve collared shirt, boat shoes, and dressy shorts. It’s only the second time I’ve worn shorts to work, but it’s like 90 degrees out and, quite frankly, everyone at the Post dresses like a slob, so I actually look pretty good by comparison. Anyway. I go downstairs to the third floor cafeteria to get breakfast. I’m paying for everything, and...
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An interactive map of New York's 'Stop, Question,... →
New York City’s police force, in its fight against crime, has increasingly used a strategy known as “stop, question and frisk,” which allows officers to stop someone based on a reasonable suspicion of crime. [NYTimes]
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The Bushwick Bookclub gets dirty with Anais Nin →
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Con Edison's NYC Outage Map →
For those of you who are also panicked about coming home to an electricity-less apartment, refresh this.
Someone Got 'The Daily Show' in My Jezebel and... →
“Because here’s the thing that we all know: just because you employ a ton of women (40%, they say!) on your staff doesn’t negate the possibility that the content of your show, and its public image—as in, who actually writes and says the words, who, in a word, are presented as the show’s…
(via tylercoates)
Michelle is really smart here.
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WatchSpeaking of Steve, don’t miss his devastating illustrations of the BP oil spill for PBS.
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“This season, by consensus, was supposed to be a death watch for the...”
– Howard Megdal writing for Capital on Omar Minaya’s freakshow Mets of 2010.
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whatevs (dot org): Internet 101 Lesson For People... →
Thanks for this.
Some notes:
- The broken links to Meghan’s piece are fixed now. We sent her a personal apology about this and the developers worked out the kink in our (custom!) CMS so it won’t happen again.
- We pay our writers.
- There are tons of little fixes we need to do for the site. We’re doing the best we can. Hope we can still be friends.
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“It’s hard for us to say ‘This is what HBO wants, or this is what Starz wants.’...”
– Bill Gorman on why the Internet couldn’t save Party Down. Read more from Meghan Keane’s (allthecoolkids) piece at Capital.
