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• Mats Gustafson’s Landscapes and Swans

  
  one piece — Authority: 122
  Since the late 1970s, Mats Gustafson’s fashion illustrations have decorated the pages of magazines such as Interview, The New Yorker, and Vogue, among others. But by 1997, the artist began shifting his focus to the natural world, starting a series...
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• Red Terrorism Scare

  
  Writings of Ryu — Authority: 106
  Embedded video from CNN Video I find it odd that Representative Peter King (R-NY) is quick to point fingers at the Democratic administration when in the most terrible act of terrorism occurred in New York, and where was President Bush when 9/11 happened? How can King even think of Obamas supposed negligence in ...
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• Cock-Crow of the Bantam Car

  
  The Muffyoglb — Authority: 123
  I understand that 30s periodicals were not particularly sensitive -- offenses against God and Country excluded -- but Im a bit surprised by the pictures in this March 1st, 1930 advertisement from The New Yorker. They represent the " American Austin " car as the victorious rooster in a bloody cockfight . The rest ...
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• Sidney Awards: David Brooks’ Best Essays Of 2009 Includes No Women

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 778
  What can we learn about New York Times columnist David Brooks through his favorite essays of the year, published annually as The Sidney Awards? Well, he loves The New Yorker , paid special attention to the health care debate and, uh… doesn’t read the work of too many women. Or he, at least, isn’t ...
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• The New Yorker Asks…

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 129
  10 questions of you, myself and or some other human in a position to answer them.  These 10 questions are called Unsolved “Mysteries” in the War on Terror.Sure in the end…the author just want’s us to think about these unanswered questions.  But we’ve proven time and time again, that we’re not a nation ...
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• Mediaite’s Magazine Editor Of The Year: Newsweek’s Jon Meacham

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 778
  The year 2009 was a remarkably troubled year for magazine publishing — filled with lay-offs, declining ad revenue, and serious questions about the viability of the medium as a whole. Yet, in this sea of bad news, a few titles were able to eke out some positive attention and influence over the field — thanks, in ...
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• Top 20 Christmas Magazine Covers of All Time

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 778
  The recent New Yorker Christmas cover, featuring a brilliant Barry Blitt illustration of President Obama bowing deeply to Santa Claus , reminds us of how much we like the long tradition of magazines making bold holiday statements on their covers for the December issue. We went to our local newsstand looking for ...
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• Patricia Marx is an Ass

  
  dcat — Authority: 117
  You want to know why a lot of people think the east coast (read: New York) intellectual class are effete assholes? How about these opening two sentences from Patricia Marxs brief "On and Off the Avenue" piece in The New Yorker on the arts and crafts store Michaels : New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and ...
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• John Seabrook on Zaha Hadid

  
  We Love You So - Where The Wild Things Are - Spike Jonze — Authority: 567
  John Seabrook’s profile of Zaha Hadid in The New Yorker opens with an image of the architect sequestered in a banquette at a fancy restaurant, talking vigorously as bits of a chicken sandwich go flying from her mouth. Assistants are nearby, fielding the swarm of media constantly attempting to get in touch with ...
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• Health Care reform is coming

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 136
  And the form of the reform is taking shape. It’s a major issue in the U.S. and an insanely hot button topic in politics, made even more in modern politics after the defeat of Hillarycare in Clinton’s first term. I’ve stayed largely on the sidelines on heath care reform and have mostly sought as unbiased as ...
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• I Wish Id Seen This

  
  To Here Knows When — Authority: 140
  For the record, Ulysses is one of my very favorite books.  I’ve read it three times.  Or, more honestly, two-and-a-half.  I didn’t finish it the third time.  I don’t remember why anymore. Q. Is it true that at some point in the seventies, Goings On About Town used the listings for The Fantasticks to ...
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• The Platon Photographs

  
  Kanlaon — Authority: 137
  When Dear Bro was here in October, self took him to see the Richard Avedon exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. That was an amazing exhibit, one which self wished could have re-visited, again and again. And now, here are another set of portraits, in the Dec. 7, 2009 issue of The New Yorker (Self still struggling ...
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• A Word to the Fellas Who Wear Trackpants

  
  The Muffyoglb — Authority: 123
  Youre always proud of her. Good cause you have too. Sitting beside her in the car...strolling down-town...stepping out together...you know you have a perfect right to take pride in her appearance. But how does she really feel about you? Very little gets by that appraising glance... How do you suppose you would look ...
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• Even MORE Orozco

  
  Carol Diehl's Art Vent — Authority: 111
  Peter Schjeldahl, " Man of the World: A Gabriel Orozco retrospective ," The New Yorker, December 21 & 28, 2009, pp. 146-7: Orozco’s patient remark in their [his paintings’] defense gives me pause: “People forget that I want to disappoint.” That strategy, targeting “the expectations of the one ...
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• Ex-tabloid editor says Tiger Woods missed chances to refocus media

  
  The Editors' Desk — Authority: 125
  Identifying himself as a golf nut and former tabloid news editor — he was a senior editor at the New York Post in the ’90s — John Cassidy writes on the New Yorker web site that Tiger Woods totally mismanaged media…
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• Dr. Seuss and Flit: "On Safari"

  
  The Muffyoglb — Authority: 123
  Presented without comment, a true story!
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• Atlanta in the year-end lists: How’d we do?

  
  Crib Notes — Authority: 509
  Kudos to Bradford Cox, Gucci Mane, Mastodon and Pill
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• Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ Becomes the World’s First Double Platinum Holiday Ringtone

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Mariah Carey’s contemporary yuletide classic “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” has become the first seasonal ringtone to cross the RIAA Double Platinum mark in recognition of sales of more than two million units. “Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ has become one of the essential ...
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• BREAKING: New Yorker’s Tad Friend Names Tad Friend Greatest Author Ever

  
  Arts Desk — Authority: 143
  Today, the New Yorker’s many contributors, editors, staffers, BFFs, etc., listed their most enjoyable reads of the year . Nothing too groundbreaking: David Remnick went with Updike, as well as “autobiographies by Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin,” which the ...
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• Sung by Libby Holman

  
  The Muffyoglb — Authority: 123
  Awww, I just love these slang-filled, over-alliterative 30s record advertisements from Brunswick . Happy Because Im in Love -- What a kiss can do to this mean, moanin mamma! Lurid Libby admits a loss of reason in this--the confession of a conquered coquette. More Than You Know -- Heres Libby giving some gent a ...
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