Today The New York Times sends us this mirror-imaged dispatch: Andrew and Andrew are a "DJ collective" known as AndrewAndrew, and you'd be a fool not to mistake them for twins. Or, perhaps... MORE»
A November profile of one-time rock queen Courtney Love in The New York Times revealed the following facts about the singer's current state: she smokes Marlboro Golds, reads self-help books such as What to Say to Get Your Way, cavorts naked and drunk through hotel corridors with neo-expressionist painters, can no longer apply makeup with accuracy, fixes a breakfast of "wakeup cupcakes" and "some anti-depressants," and hasn't spoken to the daughter she had with Kurt Cobain in some time. ... MORE»
Actress Michelle Williams, in a sensitive interview that may have been edited down with the goal of attacting readers, told the Daily Beast's Kevin Sessums she was upset by the way Cynthia McFadden and the "Nightline" team edited down their recent conversation to "sell the... MORE»
It was an August night some time ago at Frances Tavern, a pub at 54 Pearl Street that reopened last night after a few months of closure. Presumably men were drinking, and presumably men were eating. Then, in a flash, an 18-pound cannonball bounded in from above, splintering the roof and eventually resting in a corner of the half-demolished bar. O.K., fine, perhaps it was not your average night -- it was 1775, and the British warship Asia was attacking New York... MORE»
Simon & Schuster is quietly publishing an anonymously authored novel called O: A Presidential... MORE»
Tumblr woke up one morning and found itself flush with even more cash and in the possession of a fashion-focused community director, Rich Tong. How, then, to make use of such... MORE»
Can we call it the Lindsay Lohan effect? Cable's rerun-hoarder TBS pulled out of the bidding for Modern Family out of concerns the show is overexposed on the internet, reports the Los Angeles... MORE»
Where does some of the best coding get done? In coffee shops. Where do some of the biggest deals close? Over drinks. This thread on the Q&A site Quora sparked a conversation this week about where entrepreneurs and investors like to hang out in the city. Investor Charlie O'Donnell of First Round Capital followed up with a Dinevore map of where to eat to meet... MORE»
Last week Barack Obama retired Larry Palmer of his duties as ambassador to Venezuela after President Hugo Chávez disapproved of the selection. Why did El Jefe say adios to the longtime American diplomat? He didn't have that Hollywood wattage, baby! When the U.S. chooses an envoy to Chávez's personal plaything of a South American nation, he gets the stars he wants. And in this case, that means Sean Penn, Oliver Stone or, for a slightly different flavor, Noam... MORE»
When art fairs and galleries try to be hip, they release an iPhone app or start a YouTube channel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, always the traditionalist, opted for something subtler: an audio slideshow.... MORE»
Twitter can be many things, but has anyone turned it into gorgeous music? Perhaps the first man to ask if such a feat is possible would be Josh Groban, the guy whose buttery voice fills all of suburbia's mom-helmed minivans with pulsating arias and sonatas. And if there were a Twitter feed that could stand on its own when set to a melody, it would be the Twitter feed of Kanye... MORE»
Ladies and gentlemen, the First Sandals have been inaugurated into office. While on vacation in Hawaii, President Barack Obama was caught before the lens of a shutterbug with not one, not two, but all ten toes basking in the Pacific sunlight.... MORE»
When it was first revealed that designer Jennifer Post had been hired to soften Jean Nouvel's stark lobby at 100 11th Avenue, one of the more interesting details was that she would be using obsidian "boulder" sculptures to do so. Not exactly the warm touch it sounded like the place needed, but we'll leave the artistic decisions up to the... MORE»
Former New York Times dining critic Mimi Sheraton has no time for this so-called Brooklyn dining... MORE»
This week, The Observer interviewed artist Sue de Beer, who recently returned to New York--Brooklyn, to be exact--from Berlin. She has a new piece debuting next month at the Park Avenue Armory entitled The Ghosts. The Observer, with the help of the Art Production Fund and the artist, has managed to capture a few aparitions from the forthcoming film. They're haunting. SLIDESHOW: Can you see the ghosts?... MORE»
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