June 2012
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“I will still be part of the ‘Today’ show family but I’m gonna have a new...”
– Ann Curry’s signoff from the Today Show this morning. (via Poynter)
Watch other ‘Today’ anchors signoff.
(via cheatsheet)
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What's next for Hakeem Jeffries? →
He was the candidate of the New York political firmament, the moneyed elite and the Brooklyn Democratic machine, facing off against an unreconstructed black nationalist who prides himself on fighting power instead of courting it.
But before the primary temporarily made him The Guy Who Can Stop Charles Barron, Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries wasn’t primarily thought of as an organization guy.
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'Times' will end partnerships with N.Y.U., CUNY on... →
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“I think that basically what it comes down to is, the government doesn’t...”
– Sam Morrill, who co-founded the Rockabus, which offers a ride from Williamsburg to the Rockaways, with Ryan Hefner, a Williamsburg-based surfer and web designer.
Read more from Dana Rubinstein’s report: An inevitable hipster jitney to Rockaway, via Williamsburg
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What Rangel's campaign is, other than an... →
What Charlie’s race really means for his district (and New York).
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Panicked Democrats send checks to Charles Barron's... →
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66 people were hit by subway cars through May of... →
Hence, the MTA makes a ‘Be Safe. Be Smart’ campaign.
2012 Bloomberg proposes cuts to programs that 2005... →
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“This isn’t the nerds versus the jocks. This is the killers versus the poets.”
– Steven Boone on “The Last of Us,” and other violent video games that leave nothing to the imagination
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Jersey Boys →
longform:
One night in Newark with Chris Christie and Bruce Springsteen.
“No one is beyond the reach of Bruce!” he screams over the noise of the crowd, and then screams it again, to make sure I understand: “No one is beyond the reach of Bruce!”
Jeffrey Goldberg | The Atlantic | Jul 2012
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Tonight! Philip Glass plays a free show you really... →
Seth Colter Walls (who is on Tumblr) tells you why!
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Watch“He lunged at me like a raging bull.” - The photographer shoved by Alec Baldwin speaks out.
“As long as Cuomo’s approval rating remains where it is, and as long as the...”
– So now Andrew Cuomo is too Democratic? | Capital New York (via azipaybarah)
“Everyone thinks of a literary press as being progressive and forward, and then...”
– Volunteer Stephen Krausaka at last night’s fund-raiser for VIDA, the advocacy group for women in the literary arts
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“Everything open. All secrets out there. We need a way to take all this...”
– Nick Denton on the future of gossip in media
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