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Michael Grimm, NY’s Tea Party Favorite, Is Poised To Become City’s Most...
Soon after midnight last Tuesday Michael Grimm went from being an obscure congressional candidate on the distant borough of Staten Island to one of the most powerful people in New York City. “We are...
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Winona Ryder Knew About Mel Gibson’s ‘Problems’ Long, Long Ago
Winona Ryder, seemingly absent for the better part of a decade, has a featured role in the giant Oscar-bait extravaganza that is Black Swan. This qualifies the icon of a bygone era as glossy mag...
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Gary Johnson, New Mexico's 'Governor Moonbeam' and G.O.P. Prez Contender,...
Gary Johnson walked down 37th Street, musing about the nature of success. “I have this whole notion that I talk about all the time, that life really is a journey,” he said. “It’s not about a...
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Attention Must Be Paid: The Adventures of Royal Young
Royal Young. (Photo: Erik Erikson) On a recent Friday night, the 26-year-old writer Royal Young held a reading of his unpublished memoir Fame Shark at the Lower East Side home of his parents. He had...
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An Audience With Blowfly, Hip Hop’s Bawdy Caped Crusader
Blowfly in costume The Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village was nearly empty at 9 p.m. last Friday night, save for an old black man wearing a shirt emblazoned with the letters “BF” and a ratty orange hat...
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The Hizzoner Grifter: Outside of Courthouse, A Different Picture of John...
Talk to G.O.P. political operatives, or customers sitting at some of the Irish bars in eastern Queens, or even former aides from the Bloomberg re-election campaign, and they will tell you that the last...
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Barbaro at the Gate: Bloomberg’s Times Gadfly Lands on Romney
Bloomberg staffers and Wall Street Journal reporters can breathe a sigh of relief. The New York Times’ roving political reporter Michael Barbaro is off the city politics beat. Mr. Barbaro has recently...
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The Most Misunderstood Kid In America? Ezra Miller's Star is on the Rise.
At the recent New York premiere of We Need To Talk About Kevin, a scruffy looking kid with thrift store apparel and long-unattended to hair, told The Observer of the decision he’s made to never play a...
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Aviva Drescher: The Good (House)Wife
Aviva Drescher, who will not be a Real Housewife Update 4/5/12: Aviva Drescher has been announced as one of the new additions to The Real Housewives on New York City, Season Five. Tucked into a back...
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Selling the Sizzle: New York ‘Spice King’ Dhiraj Arora Lets It All Hang Out
Dhiraj Arora (Photo via Sean John) Shortly after meeting The Observer in the lobby of the Ace Hotel last Wednesday, Dhiraj Arora—who is the owner of the spice company Arora Creations Inc., but is...
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Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants: Doug Liman Goes From Bourne to Brooklyn,...
Doug Liman has found his Pants “I’m more inclined to see the villains’ point of view in my movies,” Doug Liman told The Observer on a brisk October afternoon over bottles of Poland Spring in the...
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The Voice of The Opposition: Can Tom DiNapoli Defend Labor From The Albany...
Tom DiNapoli peered out of the 15th-floor windows of 110 State Street in Albany—“The Taj McCall,” the comptroller’s staff call the building, after Carl McCall, the predecessor of Mr. DiNapoli’s who...
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‘The New Yorker’ Profiles Christian Marclay, Almost Gives a Full Plot...
The New Yorker has a wonderful, detailed profile of Christian Marclay, penned by Daniel Zalewski. It goes into intricate detail about the making of the artist’s 24-hour film, The Clock (and provides an...
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Kim Gordon Explains Her Break-Up With Thurston Moore
Kim Gordon. (Courtesy last.fm) Kim Gordon, the Sonic Youth bassist, artist and all-around renaissance woman, gave a candid interview to Elle magazine in which she talks about her life post-Thurston...
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Been There, Dern That
Bruce Dern (Getty Images) “You have a fabulous face, did anyone ever tell you that?” Bruce Dern asked the Transom when we met the iconic actor at the Ritz-Carlton last week. He leaned over to study our...
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The Persecution of the Winklevii: On Vanity Fair’s Profile of the Winklevoss...
Today, Vanity Fair unleashed a profile of Facebook’s would-be founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, written by novelist, former I-Banker, and
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The Marvel-ous Evan Peters: Ensemble Star of ‘American Horror Story’ and ‘X-Men’
Evan Peters is currently on a press junket for his reprisal of Quicksilver in this summer’s X-Men: Apocalypse.
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Rachel Chavkin, Broadway Bolide
Director Rachel Chavkin is riding a comet to Broadway—surely the slowest-moving comet ever to streak across the stratosphere. On November 14—four years, one month and two days after it world-premiered...
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Mint Theater: The Lost-and-Found (Jonathan) Bank
Our theater community took a major hit this month with the passing of James Houghton, the 57-year-old artistic director of the Signature Theater Company who pioneered a whole new procedure in the...
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The Gentleman Caller Cometh: Finn Wittrock on the Endurance of ‘The Glass...
Wittrock performs alongside the likes of David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig in Othello, and Sally Field in Menagerie.
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