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Sexy Job of the Future: the Almighty Fact-Checker
Monday night, Air America CEO Bennett Zier led a panel with two media bigwigs and polar opposites: Craig Newmark, the laid-back founder of Craigslist, a self-proclaimed nerd who launched CL, “without a plan,” in San Francisco, and Michael Wolff, an officer in the sorority of New York media lust, columnist for Vanity Fair, and founder…
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Financial Media Mourns Its Pulitzer
Will financial reporting ever have a Woodward and Bernstein, the two metro desk Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate Scandal? After attending last night’s panel on Financial Journalism Under Fire: Did We Do Our Job?, hosted by the New York Financial Writers Association, the answer is clear: no. (Changes may and should happen, and…
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Phoenix, Band on SNL, Not from Brooklyn
Phoenix, this amazing, uplifting French band on SNL last night, was unrecognizable to my French friend watching the show. He knew electronic Phoenix–the guys who sounded like a much better, far superior version of Jamiroquai. But these guys looked like they could have been out of Brooklyn, sharing practice space with Vampire Weekend. The following…
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WATCH: Donna Karan On How Holistic Living Can Cut Your Medical Expenses
Yoga. I’ve tried this yoga. And I always end up the one in the class who the patient instructor has to hover over to make sure one of my flailing legs doesn’t knock somebody out of their zen. Donna Karan, at her two day Urban Zen retreat on nutrition last week, assured me that yoga…
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Madoff’s Prison Number Pays Off for Lottery Player
It’s like the universe wanted to dish out a reward when Madoff was finally sent to prison. That reward went to Ralph Amendolaro of Queens, New York. On March 15th, Amendolaro won $1,500 playing the last three numbers of the gargantuan crook’s prison number — 61727-054A. As strings of numbers go, that one’s creepy. It’s…
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Hottest Parties of Summer 2009? Health Care Rallies, Of Course!
Forget the Hamptons! (No, seriously, forget the Hamptons.) The hottest parties of the summer have been the increasingly crazy health care rallies. They started off innocently enough–anti-reform protesters carrying loaded guns and Nazi signs–but now, like all good parties, things have gotten weird. Wednesday night, at a pro-health care vigil in Thousand Oaks, California, a…
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A Poem for Our Time
It is harder for a rich man to enter heaven, the Bible tells us, than a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Makes sense. You see it all over Dick Cheney’s snarling face. When he goes, you’ll have to pry his Halliburton shares from his cold, dead hands. Every time I think…
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Red-state Residents Buy the Most Online Porn
I wonder how pill-popping Rush Limbaugh would explain this: a new study out of Harvard Business School finds that red-staters buy more online porn than their blue state compatriots. Jason Cochran breaks down the findings for WalletPop.com: A Harvard Business School assistant professor who had access to customer receipts from dozens of adult websites found…
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Same-Sex Marriage Good for Economy and Wedding Crashers
Remember when African Americans couldn’t drink from the same drinking fountains as whites? Remember when gay people couldn’t get married? Both scenarios sound so ridiculous. Especially when you think about how much money is to be gained if same-sex couples are legally allowed to get married. Just look at the figures broken down by Conde…
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You Can Have a Long Distance Relationship, Even in this Economy
Long distance love is exciting! You get to have the best of both worlds–your space and time to yourself like you were single and someone there who just wants to tell you good night, every night. It’s bliss. I know, my boyfriend and I met in Paris and went back and forth for two years.…