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Megan McCarthy: are baby ocelots called ocelittles? adrianne: are we doing an ocelot slideshow? Megan McCarthy: YES Megan McCarthy: POWER OCELOTS
What's living underneath the Essex Street Market? 'Low Line' project stumbles upon evidence of subterranean existence.
I’m happy to have lost my 1.
- Salman Rushdie responds to winning @salmanrushdie on Twitter from former @salmanrushdie1 account.
Meet the models from Jay-Z's Fashion Week edition of "Empire State of Mind."
Toddlers and Tiaras and Kelly Bensimon equal Bryant Park's best (worst) Fashion Week show.
Coquettishness reigns for lissome lit-world lasses seeking writing gigs; "HOW OLD ARE YOU?" befuddled editors wonder.
What makes a Molly?
Three well-known Internet writers–Molly Young, Molly Lambert, and Molly McAleer–share more than a name. The three have long attracted attention for their similar methods of self-promotion on the blogging platforms Tumblr and Twitter. Ms. Young, an n+1 contributor, had a (now-deleted) Tumblr showcasing slightly goofy glamour shots and offering chapbooks for sale. Ms. Lambert used the photo-heavy format of the website This Recording as a jumping-off point for a sort of post-writing writing career as curator of several Tumblrs, including one comprised entirely of GIF files. Molly McAleer was the former Gawker Media videographer whose personal blog featured videotaped confessions and thoughts about Yogurtland and other elements of life in Los Angeles.
The New York Observer has hired a new reporter, Drew Grant, editor in chief Elizabeth Spiers announced today.
Drew was most recently a staff writer at Salon, covering television, film and pop culture. Previously, she was the deputy editor of the B5 Media blog Crushable. She has written for Nerve, McSweeney’s, The Huffington Post and Street Carnage, among others.
Check out the new broadsheet!
Inaugural issue highlights include:
O-Bummer! Hipsters O-Bandon Obama Prez ditched by Pitchfork.com-wielding puerile politicos who prefer stumptown to stumping. By David Freedlander
Nick Cannon’s Teenage Dreams “Bitch I’m Famous” proclaims mogul’s t-shirt: Is Mr. Mariah Carey the next Bob Hope? By Daniel D’Addario
The Corset King of Alphabet City Can budding fashion icon Garo Sparo make reality TV more Victorian? By Nate Freeman
The Doctor Will See You Now Booking appointments hurts. Can ZocDoc take the pain away? By Adrianne Jeffries
GOOD, the publisher-turned-digital-media-platform with a focus on good design and social causes, announced today that it has acquired Jumo for undisclosed terms. But the “acquisition” is not quite the earth-shaker it was made out to be. Betabeat has learned the terms amounted to $0, a loose “advisory” role for Mr. Hughes at GOOD, and the opportunity for Jumo’s 16 employees to interview for the start-up’s new owner.
He's taken over the world, so why not the firm?
In New York City’s media industry, women have certainly been killing it lately, as you’ll note from the list of media bachelorettes, which follow yesterday’s look at media’s bachelors. Who’s on the list? Some men have wanted to take a guess. Some men have taken a guess. Some men have been noted as having been with no less than three of the women on the same list.
See for yourself.