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BroBos to Venture Upstate?

The vaguely creative may to move farther afield if they're going to stay on the cutting edge of comfort. Today's Times reports that the town of Rosendale is fast becoming a Brooklyn... MORE >

By Molly Fischer | May 25, 2010 | 10:52 am
Whitehead, Elliott Holt, Cunningham and debutante Amelia Kahaney.

Literary Debutantes, Meet Publishing’s Apocalypse!

Friday night in the cargo bay of the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, One Story magazine threw its first annual Literary Debutante Ball. The idea originated as a joke. "Soon we were practicing our dips at editorial meetings,"... MORE >

By Christian Lorentzen | May 25, 2010 | 10:36 am
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An Insanity That Pays

I recall the moment before I entered the alternate universe of finance. I was in a job interview, pondering whether to leave a job I loved as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, for a job I knew next... MORE >

By Neil Barsky | May 25, 2010 | 10:27 am
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Sex and the City-State: Abu Dhabi Syndrome

Sex and the City 2 is set mostly in Abu Dhabi, where Carrie and Co. fly for an all-expenses-paid romp and much in the way of Scooby-Doo-like hijinks ensue. It's all in good fun, if not the most culturally... MORE >

By Peter C. Baker | May 25, 2010 | 10:08 am
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It's Free to Look: 1851 Seventh Avenue

For $5.9 million you can get a seven-bedroom penthouse in Harlem with a view of Central... MORE >

By Laura Kusisto | May 25, 2010 | 9:37 am
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Eye Opener: Asking and Telling

Obama supports a 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' compromise. The Atlantic (and some other mags) gain ad... MORE >

By | May 25, 2010 | 8:34 am
Mr. Prokhorov.

For 48 Hours, an Oligarch Turns on the Charm

In a room full of sports-beat reporters, most of them men in or near their 40s, a young female reporter sitting up front asked a Russian billionaire, who was there to talk about a basketball team he had just... MORE >

By Irina Aleksander | May 25, 2010 | 12:32 am
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Heroin and the Hamptons

Earlier this month, police arrived at the home of the Schirripa family on Cox Neck Road in Mattituck, a sleepy town on the North Fork of Long Island due north of the Hamptons. The two-decker house is painted a... MORE >

By Chloe Malle | May 24, 2010 | 9:56 pm
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The Street Where You Live: Chelsea Peekaboo

Chelsea hides. At least, it used to. Edgy new galleries secreted in anonymous factory brick, industrial-kitsch nightclubs skulking in basements-that was the old... MORE >

By Emily Geminder | May 24, 2010 | 6:55 pm
Mort Zuckerman.

Zuckerman Unbound! Mort Out of 1 W.T.C. Race

Mort Zuckerman is out of the running for the country's tallest... MORE >

By Eliot Brown | May 24, 2010 | 6:26 pm

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The Triumph of Hoax Over Experience

What this country needs is a grand unified theory of the hoax.In the same...

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The 140-Character Lunch

Last fall, the midtown media eatery Michael's launched a Twitter feed. Since then, every...

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I used to think an icon was somebody who, were he/she to be lowered...

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On a recent beautiful Saturday afternoon, Merrell Hambleton, 24, set out with her roommate...

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If it's wonderful to be young and beautiful, 'tis certainly better to be all that...

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On May 17, Governor Paterson and several other officials and community leaders assembled on...

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Mort Zuckerman is out of the running for the country's tallest building.Boston Properties, the...

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Real Simple Banking: Commodore Vanderbilt in a Brooklyn Basement

In the basement of a Brooklyn brownstone, in between rooms taken up by a homemade...

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Hollyworld: Waiting for Weinstein

It's kind of a cliché, bolstered by stereotypes of everyone driving around in Range...

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On a chilly March afternoon in Dumbo, in a back room of Gleason's Gym,...

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Robert Thomson Comes to the Plate!

Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson played softball this weekend in Central Park. He...