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The lady had dropped her napkin. More accurately, she had hurled it to the floor in a fit of disillusionment, her small protest against the slow creep of mediocrity and missed cues during a four-hour dinner at Per Se that would cost the four of us close to $3,000. Some time later, a passing server…
The New York Times said Tuesday that Jim Rutenberg, chief political correspondent for the Sunday magazine, will become its media columnist, filling a role that has been vacant since the death of David Carr about a year ago. “Our hunt for David’s successor has been exhaustive, and we were privileged to have had extraordinary candidates…
Despite how efficiently Star Wars: The Force Awakens manipulates nostalgia, much of the success of the movie—now the highest-grossing film ever made—can be ascribed to what’s fresh about it. Fans seem to be most excited by the new characters Rey, Finn, Poe, and Kylo Ren, and the diverse faces in the young cast are being…
Until recently, alcohol, like energy-dense food, was viewed as fundamentally different from tobacco in the sense that a little of what you like is fine. This contrasted with no safe level for smoking. But the new health evidence underpinning the latest alcohol guidelines in the United Kingdom suggests that it may have much more in…
Several months ago, Jann Wenner, a founder of Rolling Stone magazine, received a call from the actor Sean Penn. Mr. Penn, Mr. Wenner said in an interview on Sunday, wanted to discuss something important. But he did not want to speak openly over the phone, so the two began to speak elliptically about a potential…
Lower East Side / East Village Reporter DNAinfo New York is looking for neighborhood reporter to cover the Lower East Side and East Village. Whoever takes the job would cover everything from SPURA to Sock Man. This reporter would also cover education, politics, food, bars, real estate and whatever other subjects he or she finds…
Improving Post New Before I get into it, I’m going to need help to get some of these projects going. If you see something you’re interested in working on, let me know in the comments. The following project proposals are not intended to be a single feature plugin because they are separate projects with separate…
The drawing for the largest-ever lottery prize will be on Wednesday, if you still want a ticket. ID: 7740669 4. The meme claims that if the winner of the big prize instead split the money with every American citizen, each person would get $4.33 million. “Poverty solved!” it declared. ID: 7741504 One of the first…
Uber’s losses grew to nearly a billion dollars in the first half of last year, nearly 50% more than its full-year losses in 2014, according to confidential documents issued by the company as part of financing efforts last year. Net revenue in the first half of 2015 was $663 million, the documents showed. (Scroll down…
googleon: all googleoff: snippet Jeff Gammage, Staff Writer googleon: snippet googleoff: all googleon: all googleoff: snippet Last updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 1:07 AM Posted: Monday, January 11, 2016, 11:21 PM googleon: snippet googleoff: all googleon: all The owner of The Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com has donated the news organizations to a…