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If you’re at all like the rest of us, except for me because it’s my job, then keeping up with new social networking tools is like middle school all over again. You’re trying to be cool and know what’s cool before everyone else knows that you don’t know what’s cool when no one actually [...]
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In the impending world of digital first, print never there is a shining beacon of hope called Capital New York–a new weekly online publication declaring “This Is How New York Works”. Categorically it falls somewhere between a magazine, a newspaper and a blog and manages to capture the best of each world. It’s well [...]
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If you’re anything like us then you enjoy getting your voyeuristic kicks by peering into the impeccably styled habitats of the world’s creative class via The Selby.com. (Kudos on your own impeccable taste, you’re in good company). It seems Mr. Selby’s website has garnered him a great deal of commercial success lately including the [...]
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Well, it’s finally here. After two years of refining her concept for the art world’s answer to Project Runway, Sarah Jessica Parker announces that Work of Art: The Next Great Artist is set to debut on Bravo this summer. Is it just this cynical mood we woke up in or does this show look [...]
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Step 1: Get mad as hell.
Step 2: Locate your nearest Anger Release Machine.
Step 3: Select adorable figurine, plot it’s demise, insert coins.
Step 4: Listen for destruction.
Step 5: Sigh with relief.
Step 6: Thank Swiss and Danish artist duo Katja Kublitz and Ronnie Yarisal for giving you something to break.
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Just this afternoon there was meeting of the nogg minds and some writer friends which evolved into a discussion of the magazine. Where it’s going, how will it get there, and what will it mean for the writers among us when it does. There was lots of discussion of Kindles and the decline of [...]
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And why shouldn’t she be? Oh, so you think that just because a person never finished college, has only ever worked as a singer and/or stripper, and has rarely been seen in public wearing pants that they somehow aren’t corporate material? That they aren’t deserving of being handed a CD position for no particular [...]
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Another decade another million “best of” lists and we still can’t even decide on a name for the last 10 years. (Personally, we’re pulling for the Naughties- so cheeky.) After spending countless wasted hours mindlessly clicking through lists like The Evolution of the Hipster 2000-2009 (thank you Paste magazine) we came across the Naughtie [...]
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By Ben Brundage
It was a couple of weeks ago, on Friday at 4pm and I was walking to my apartment with a red umbrella in one hand and some plastic grocery bags in the other. You were walking beside me and looked over and smiled at me. I smiled back.
Friday, around 11 pm. I [...]
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What the what was going on in Budapest today?
The Doodle division woke up this morning to find their usually scenic view of the city obscured by great heaps of garbage crawling with feisty and oddly territorial Romas. “Some gypsy tried to sell me a soiled couch out of my own dumpster this morning,” remarked [...]
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