John Bussey—the Wall Street Journal's DC bureau chief and one of the candidates touted for the newspaper's vacant managing editor position—probably won't get the nod...

Will you people give Nicole Brydson of the Observer a break? The lil' lady went to Williamsburg's popular Union Pool in a "frilly dress" on a Saturday night... alone....

Huh! Two separate essays from writers with new books to promote about Gen Xers "getting the shaft" in one month? Shouldn't y'all be slacking—or do you have mouths...

A tipster phones in some bad news: "A friend of mine works at the Boston Globe and says the place is crawling with McKinsey consultants. Everyone is fearing for their...

Oh, dear. Time Out Kids is having a little poll about Real Estate. No one can afford to live anywhere in New York anymore, so they're asking where their readers would...

Is Hollywood PR practice infecting New York's lofty cultural industry? Two young stars together are always bigger than two separate entities. "Hot young New York authors...

Journalism students in Reno, Nevada (they have schools there?) are all going to sign a symbolic ethics pledge tomorrow, thus guaranteeing forever the survival and...

90-year-old McSweeney's-approved Bowl of Cherries author Millard Kaufman says he doesn't work on a computer because "I don't like all the electricity." He also "once...

Earlier today, in honor of the season (and Larry Tribe's "thank your parents for boning" NYU speech, at left), I shared my favorite commencement speech and asked for...

A Brazilian newspaper is running a series of ads with the slogan "Understand the real value of money." So what's the real value of a dollar? Apparently it's terrorism,...

Tonight begins the two-part, three hour long finale of this most wonderful of seasons of Lost. The ABC mind-bender show has been in top form this year, with its...

Middling Queens neighborhood Jackson Heights (whoa now, Queens residents) is taking on fancy Brooklyn writer's enclave Park Slope in some provocative ads! "More Park Less...

An Illinois girl exposes her breasts to one of those creepy camera-bearing vans that make the "streetview" panoramas for Google Maps. In another Google blooper, an...

Freelancer-helping website MediaBistro's upcoming conference, the unfortunately-named MediaBistro Circus, may not be coming along so well: boa-wearing propriestress...

Hollywood stars gathered (electronically) in Times Square Tuesday to celebrate the 60th birthday of one of their dearest friends—the nation of Israel! Celebrities...

Business types are excited about the news today that General Electric is planning to sell off its appliance division in a $5 billion move. Normal types are excited...

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.[Actors Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, and Jack Black promoting their film "Kung Fu Panda" at the...

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.[Actors Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, and Jack Black promoting their film "Kung Fu Panda" at the...

TV networks continue to come up with new and better ways to morph their shows into continuous advertisements. MTV is already selling ads that are designed to be...

Opening with the now-famous Valleyway story of Kevin Colvin, the banking intern who ran off to party in a fairy costume (he told his boss there was a family emergency,...