The meatpacking district is a tangle of new velvet ropes. D.J.’s are trekking to the nether reaches of Bushwick. The Lower East Side has spilled over into Chinatown. And every week, murmurs of a new hot spot seem to reach a fever pitch.
We're coming to you live from 2002!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Also restaurants. Lots of new restaurants are opening in New York in various neighborhoods. Right now.
― portrait of the artist as a yung joc (Hurting 2), Sunday, 21 November 2010 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, Laurel, that article you linked is nearly unreadable. "Earrings became blowfish-big to draw attention and ward off predators." Like... what?
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 22 November 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Laurel: looooooool that is like 1/2 of every Time Out.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 November 2010 09:18 (thirteen years ago) link
“Put on an Ace of Base song and everyone clears the dance floor in 30 seconds. Then you have four promoters running up to you screaming.”
ur doin it wrong
― max, Monday, 22 November 2010 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
DJ AM. “Before I saw him, I didn’t know how to differentiate between a playlist and a D.J.”
― James Mitchell, Monday, 22 November 2010 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
The paper version is even worse. They put the picture and a blurb on the front of the Fashion & Style section as a teaser for the actual profiles inside. wtf, nytimes.
― mh, Monday, 22 November 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/health/nutrition/30best.html?pagewanted=1&ref=health
Maybe I'm missing something, but this article seems utterly ridiculous.
― Ryan, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Why? It's in the health section. People get hurt cycling, and by the looks of it the article started a discussion on biking vs. running. The only thing I found annoying was how she wrote out her friends' full names.
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
The first thing I did when I hit the ground was turn off my stopwatch — I did not want accident time to count toward our riding time. Then I sat on a curb, dazed.
Love how this is delivered with zero trace of irony
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Amanda Hess OTM: http://www.tbd.com/blogs/amanda-hess/2010/12/new-york-times-trends-women-5379.html
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
that was a great read
― .\ /. (dayo), Friday, 3 December 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
soembody should do a NYT supercut article
Later that year, the paper pounced on a "growing number of researchers" concerned that some women are receiving most of their calories through alcohol. "Drunkorexia is not an official medical term," the piece claimed. "But it hints at a troubling phenomenon in addiction and eating disorders."
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
That was fantastic and made me really detest the NYTimes.
― ball (Hurting 2), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
One of the people I've seen in lists of cases of spontaneous combustion had eaten nothing but booze for three years--in the 18th Century. This is not a new thing.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
And I've seen the term drunkorexia
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Damn Zing.
And I've seen the term drunkorexia used before, decades ago.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
frazzled momzhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/garden/02parents.html
― (ㅅ) (am0n), Sunday, 5 December 2010 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Somehow I feel like I've already seen the "frazzled moms spend too much time volunteering for school" thing elsewhere -- slate maybe?
― ball (Hurting 2), Sunday, 5 December 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
ah yes, this gem:http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/why-im-sick-volunteering-my-kids-wealthy-school
― ball (Hurting 2), Sunday, 5 December 2010 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
michiko kakutani writes a review of The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe in character as brian (the dog) from "family guy. though "in character" in this case pretty much seems to consist of saying "hi, this is brian from 'family guy'" at the beginning of the review
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Of course in the top-dog department, Maf doesn’t come close to having my skills. He can’t drive a car, he can’t sing and dance, he hasn’t attended college, and as far as I can tell, he’s contributed exactly nada to the zeitgeist. But hey, he does have chops as a witness, I gotta give him that. And as a fellow observer of the human comedy, I’ll throw him a bone. Every dog has his day, and Maf, you lucky dog, you, this is yours: I, Brian Griffin, your best-selling competitor and colleague in the literary trenches, award you for your novel — er, memoir — a coveted three out of four paws up.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I literally cannot make myself read past the first paragraph
― the nagl is the nagl (dayo), Thursday, 9 December 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
inserting stock phrases like "no doubt about it" and "I gotta give him that" does not a 'persona' make
― the nagl is the nagl (dayo), Thursday, 9 December 2010 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
The quiddities and agonies of reading Michiko Kakutani
― mandatorily joined parties (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 December 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
all the book reviews written in character as a dog from a cartoon that's fit to print
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 9 December 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
oh what a fine review, i'm sure the pulitzer committee will be unanimously in your favour <--- voice of stewie
― man dem coalition (history mayne), Thursday, 9 December 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
^^this guy is posting as stewie, you know, the talking baby from Family Guy, in case you haven't noticed
― the nagl is the nagl (dayo), Friday, 10 December 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Truly hateful:
Mixing Drinks, Adding Class
One of many gems:
“In my opinion, if you don’t have a bartender at your party, you’re a loser,” said Dustin Terry, who lives a floor below Ms. Argiro and said his job was to get models and Saudi royalty into hot clubs. “The bartender brings class and sophistication.” “If you can’t afford to hire a bartender,” he added, “you shouldn’t be having a party.”
“If you can’t afford to hire a bartender,” he added, “you shouldn’t be having a party.”
― Moodles, Saturday, 11 December 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
The whole theme of "we are in a recession so we have to hire bartenders to signal wealth" is aggravating to the extreme.
― Moodles, Saturday, 11 December 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
More evidence, perhaps, that the Times Style section is actively trolling people.
― mandatorily joined parties (Hurting 2), Saturday, 11 December 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually think that article's pretty good - it reads to me like the best of a bad job, i.e. yes the Times being actively reprehensible in its choice of subject matter, the writer handed an absolute dog of an assignment, but i think he does a pretty sly job. these people really do come across as monsters.
“Hosts don’t want to have to look after their guests’ needs,” said Matt Solan, a bartender who works many such small locations. “But they also want a level of prestige.”
that quote's just left there on its own but it tells you everything you need to know.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 December 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
They munched on Ms. Argiro’s homemade panko-crusted chicken bites and jalapeño poppers while dancing to tracks by the Cure, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Gorillaz.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 December 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
trolling, yes, but anyone who reads past "hid the TV behind an industrial column" is asking for it
― /\/K/\/\, Saturday, 11 December 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
myself included obv
― /\/K/\/\, Saturday, 11 December 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
The growing world of mom blogging has provided ample forums for exposing the darker feelings of motherhood
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 12 December 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
“I feel very sophisticated at this party,” he said. “And I usually feel like a complete dirt bag.”
― kanellos (gbx), Sunday, 12 December 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
guy in the vest thinks you shouldn't be having a party
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 December 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
that's a hardworking vest
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 12 December 2010 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Have you met Matthew Assante and Dustin Terry yet? These two are the men responsible for the newest summer rooftop brunch party at the Gansevoort Hotel that we told you about last week. The Hamptons are sooo 2004 right?
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 12 December 2010 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Saturday, December 11, 2010 6:47 PM Bookmark
If you're too poor to afford panko crust, you shouldn't be serving chicken bites.
― mandatorily joined parties (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 December 2010 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
have to say bartending these parties sounds like fun. They're probably all lightweights so it wouldn't be much work, right?
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 12 December 2010 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
the chicken better be free range or I am OUT of here
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Sunday, 12 December 2010 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
“With the recession, they don’t want to rent an expensive loft space,” he said. Instead, they are having house parties, he said, and hiring bartenders as a way to splurge within their means.
This contrasts quite a bit with the rest of the piece. Also the fact that the bartender only cost about $200 a night.
Even so, pretty repulsive stuff.
― Is that Glenn Danzig or Tommy Wiseau? (Jesse), Sunday, 12 December 2010 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Even as the wedding stories in the NYT usually go, this one is just o_O.
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Monday, 20 December 2010 00:47 (thirteen years ago) link
this probably gets filed under 'if you're reading this section you're asking for it' but: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/garden/16outsource.html?_r=1&hpw
Consider the needs of a European couple with a young family — 4-year-old twin boys — who live abroad but maintain a house in Connecticut and a penthouse on the Upper East Side, which they like to visit at Christmas.
yes, these are the ppl whose needs id like to consider, sure.
― forGet (Lamp), Monday, 20 December 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
funny thing about that wedding story is her first marriage also made it to the wedding sectionxpost
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CEEDC1539F931A25752C1A963958260&scp=2&sq=Carol%20Anne%20Riddell&st=cse
― buzza, Monday, 20 December 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like, ok, you found your soulmate after you got married to the "wrong" person, shit happens, but having your new love featured in such a public way is so insensitive to the feelings of the dumped spouses.
― buzza, Monday, 20 December 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
one garland of signed Warhol dollar bills
waht
― dayo, Monday, 20 December 2010 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link