Wow. Village Voice food critic Robert Sietsema takes blogger and Time magazine food writer Josh Ozersky to task over a column Ozersky wrote in Time ostensibly giving people advice on how to really cater a wedding. In short Ozersky says don’t hire a caterer but instead grab local chefs to do the cooking. Here’s Sietsema: [...]
In reporting on the unfolding events in Times Square right now, the New York Times‘s City Room blog lapses into almost Onionesque territory when it mentions a vendor who reported a suspicious duffel bag earlier this morning: Mr. Elbaz, an immigrant from Egypt who lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, said he was relieved. It was [...]
I was robbed. My New Yorker Caption Contest photo was far superior to any of these. As C. says, “You should do a write-in vote. Yours was way better and incorporated a bunch of New Yorkers’ (the people, not the magazine) favorite things: Jewish people who eat Chinese food on holidays.” My caption was, “Do [...]
I can relate all too well with this tweet by Jason Kottke. Being first is always nice, but it is equally nice to get some sleep, to actually go out and do things IRL, and to not worry about ephemeral crap that no one will care about 24 hours from now—or indeed two hours from [...]
The New York Times‘s new strategy is just to sell the crap out of Barack Obama editions. Unfortunately, this inauguration issue has been on the rack for ages. Didn’t seem like excitement over this issue was as fevered as the November 5, 2008, one that declared he won the election.
I just saw blog impresario Lockhart Steele tweet about the New York All Media Bowling League. Seems like it’s back on after a long hiatus. But I would like to point your attention to the original New York Media Bowling League, aka NYMBL (pronounced nimble). I’ve stupidly failed to keep archives of all my hatchback.net [...]
This 1981 video, about a very early form of Internet-accessible newspapers, is making the rounds. It’s more prophetic than it intends to be, with the San Francisco Examiner‘s David Cole saying, “This is an experiment. We’re trying to figure out what this means to us as editors and reporters and what it means to the [...]
For the past couple of weeks in Serious Eats Talk, I’ve been meddling with Talk topic titles, trying to help make them more precise and reflective of what’s being asked in the thread. In some cases, I truly think my meddling is helpful. For instance, “Need a butcher in Phoenix” is a better title than [...]
The Best Line on Today’s ‘New York Times’ Op-Ed Page, originally uploaded by Adam "Slice" Kuban “This is William Kristol’s last column.” Good riddance!