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New Jersey’s ‘Star-Ledger’ Saved by Delivery Deal?
Now that the deliverers’ union has agreed to make some concessions to Advance Publications, publishers say the paper’s future looks more secure.
Posted 10/03/08 in Daily Intel : Ink-Stained Wretches
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Publisher: ‘Star-Ledger’ to Be Sold or Shuttered by January
The paper's publisher just announced that if the company can't reach a deal with its drivers, it may spell the end of the nearly 200-year-old New Jersey daily.
Posted 09/17/08 in Daily Intel : Ink-Stained Wretches
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Meet Christopher Davis
He trades, he advises, he reads ‘The Wall Street Journal.’ He's 14.
Posted 09/04/08 in Daily Intel : The Future
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Dina Matos to Receive No Alimony From Jim McGreevey
After an incredibly acrimonious divorce, neither party comes out the winner.
Posted 08/08/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Princess Chunk Finds Castle of His Own: A Fairy Tale
The famous 44-pound cat has found a home, complete with litter-box castle, in southern New Jersey.
Posted 08/08/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Guidos and Guidettes of Staten Island Fight Back Against Mayor of Belmar, New Jersey
It's not a group we'd want to antagonize, that's for sure.
Posted 07/18/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Odds That the McGreevey Threesomes Actually Happened: Two to One
Well, the Post really dropped the ball on the whole David Paterson affair story (their version of the tale was devoid of quotes from the new governor, and filled with the line "the Post has learned" without the polite "from the Daily News" after it), but man, are they on top of the McGreevey threesome story. "IT WAS 3-MENDOUS" blares their headline. (All the News could come up with was "McOrgy." Lame.) Andrea Peyser called the series of trysts between Jim McGreevey, Dina Matos McGreevey, and limo driver Teddy Pedersen as "T.G.I. Friday's Three-For All." Shrieks Peyser:
The couple frequently enjoyed dinner a trois, before retiring to lick leftover spicy Buffalo wing sauce and chive-immersed sour cream from Pedersen's body. Lord knows what they did with the fried mozzarella sticks.
Come on, Andrea — you know exactly what they did with them. If you didn't have such a vivid imagination for the tawdry and disgusting, you'd be out slicing oranges in Prospect Park with the rest of the soccer moms. Anyway, the best part of today's updates on the McNage à trois was that the former governor was quick to confirm the sexual encounters, just as his estranged wife immediately denied them. The problem with having sex with more than one person at a time, you see, is that suddenly it's not your word against his. It's your word against his and the cute limo driver's*. And that, like most situations involving sex and mozzarella sticks, is an uncomfortable situation in which to find yourself. Matos McGreevey denies threesomes; Jim McGreevey confirms aide's account [NYDN] MCG: IT WAS 3-MENDOUS SEX [NYP] *Did anyone else notice that Ted Pedersen is 29 now, which means that he was 20ish when these affairs took place before 2001. Wow. Go-Go Gadget McGreeveys!Posted 03/18/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Thank You, McGreevey Family, for Putting This Whole Spitzer Mess Into Perspective
At first we were grateful for the Eliot Spitzer prostitute scandal — it provided a much-needed beak from the endless horror that has been the Democratic-primary campaign. But now, less than a week after it broke, we're suffering from Spitzer fatigue. Isn't there anything else tawdry and embarrassing to talk about? We've sort of burnt out all of our nerve endings regarding Spitzer. It's like Britney Spears — we're all out of sorry. Lo and behold, yesterday we learned that there is something more tawdry and embarrassing than a married governor using hookers: a married governor having threesomes with his wife and male limo driver. Combined with the added bonus that the wife, despite having seen him frolicking in bed with another man, says she is shocked to learn that he's gay. (Lady, regardless of whether there was another penis in the room, straight men do not "frolic," mmkay?) And thus, Jim McGreevey, Dina Matos McGreevey, and hunky driver Teddy Pedersen have relieved us from our Spitzer doldrums.
Posted 03/17/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Jon Corzine Will Sign Gay-Marriage Bill, But Won't Give Republicans a Talking Point
Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey is frustrating gay activists because he is hesitant to get moving on a bill to change the state's civil-unions policy to one of flat-out marriage equality. After a report was released yesterday that says civil unions in the state are not equal to marriages, the state legislature is under pressure to change the law. Civil unions have been allowed since 2006 in New Jersey after the State Supreme Court ruled that gay couples should receive the same legal rights and protections as married straight couples. Legislators quickly created a law that was designed to give equality to all parties. In order to comply with the decree of the Supreme Court, adjustments have to be made to the current policy, but Corzine says he wants to wait until after November to do so. "He will sign a bill, but doesn't want to make it a presidential-election-year issue," Corzine spokeswoman Lilo Stainton said. This is a shrewd move, both for Democrats and gays alike. A Republican nominee will be sure to use the specter of gay marriage to scare their base to the voting booths in November, as George Bush did so effectively in 2004. The last thing that gays hoping to wed (and Democrats hoping to win) need are endless high-profile speeches about the sanctity of marriage. It's the one issue that could bring evangelicals like James Dobson together with front-runner John McCain, whom they currently mistrust. N.J. governor concerned civil unions don't bring equal rights [Newsday]
Posted 02/20/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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Bon Jovi to Play His Part and Play Your Game on ‘Project Runway’?
Remember when everyone was talking about how maybe Jon Bon Jovi was going to run for governor of New Jersey? Well, it turns out he's already earned himself a much more important seat: in one of the judges' chairs of Project Runway. That's right. Tomorrow night, according to Fashion Week Daily, His Joviness will be giving Bravo's most popular show a bad name. Until now, we've never taken a moment to imagine how Bon Jovi and fashion could possibly be related, so we were flummoxed as to what his exact role on the show might be. But whatever it is, we're guessing the TRESemme Hair Salon is about to get much more pivotal. Exclusive: Bon Jovi to Judge Schmattes with Heidi [Fashion Week Daily] Update: In all fairness, we just discovered that this news was in Ben Widdicombe's Gatecrasher column in October. Back then, Widdicombe also reported in the breath that contestants would design for Sarah Jessica Parker, and we must have blacked out temporarily, because we missed the end of the sentence!
Posted 11/20/07 in Daily Intel : Intel
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Michael Jackson Has Been Living Right Underneath Our Prosthetic Noses!
Michael Jackson has been spotted around town in New York periodically in recent months, but until today, we didn't know where he was living. Turns out he'd been holed up with a private family in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, where he'd been "trying to be normal," according to FoxNews.com columnist Roger Friedman. That's less than an hour from here! Technically, that put Jackson miles and miles closer to our bustling city than he is to "normalcy." Jackson has reportedly returned to L.A., but good for him for trying to introduce his family to the quiet life in the Jersey suburbs? Good for him. For a short time, his kids could finally have a normal life, going to the movies, attending public school, making regular friends. After all, if your new little friend has millions of dollars to spend at the Short Hills mall, who cares if he has to do it wearing a mask? Jacko Lived with New Jersey Family for Three Months [Fox 411] Earlier: Why the Fug Isn't Anybody Paying Attention to Michael Jackson?
Posted 11/19/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Cavalli, Jersey Madness Take Over H&M
In true Roberto Cavalli form, the H&M launch this morning was the flashiest of all the clothing company's collaborations so far. The sidewalk in front of the Fifth Avenue store was lined with a red carpet, where supermodel Jessica Stam joined the designer for photo ops. Over 50 people were in line by 8 a.m., surprising even Cavalli himself, who admitted he “didn’t expect so much success.” But the Cavalli-aholics, mainly hailing from New Jersey, were as frenzied and savage as the animals whose print they so furiously coveted. The first in line (since 7 p.m. last night!) were a pair of cousins, 12-year-old Margaret and 24-year-old Frances. When the doors opened at ten, they sprinted first toward the gold minidresses and floor-length gowns, swooping up entire racks of the same item. Later, at the cash register, the cousins carried bundles so huge that only their faux-Ugg boots were visible. Was it worth the wait? “I’m going to pass out. I’m not even kidding,” one replied before breaking down into tears on the phone. The other boasted that she fought a woman for a dress. "I hit her with a hanger!” she yelped. Their mother, however, wasn’t satisfied. “Whurs the jewelrrrrrrrry?!!!” she shrieked.
Posted 11/08/07 in Daily Intel : Intel
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The Islamofascist Handbook
• To aid in terrorism surveillance, the NYPD has released a jihadi version of The Preppy Handbook, detailing how average Muslim schlubs morph into Islamic terrorists. Grow a beard, renounce booze and broads, play paintball war games, dis the U.S. a lot — you know the drill. [NYDN]
Posted 08/16/07 in Daily Intel : The Morning Line
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Bus Stop
• Sure, the Feds promised Bloomberg $354 million for his traffic-reduction plan (if he can get the city and state to pass it), but that dough's mainly to put up new bus depots. Of the roughly $200 mil needed to charge drivers entering Manhattan, Uncle Sam's promised only $10 million. [NYT]
Posted 08/15/07 in Daily Intel : The Morning Line
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Follow the E-mail
• The Post, in another damning Spitzer exclusive (it's almost as if someone well connected in Albany hated the governor!), claims the administration is hiding a trove of private scandal-related e-mails, which Attorney General Cuomo, lacking subpoena power, didn't get. [NYP]
Posted 08/06/07 in Daily Intel : The Morning Line
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What Can Brown Do for You?
• Try following this: Spitzer's office said no to a Republican proposal to grant Andrew Cuomo special-prosecutor powers so that Cuomo could better stick it to Spitzer. Yeah. [NYDN]
Posted 07/31/07 in Daily Intel : The Morning Line
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Mr. Ethics, Meet the Ethics Board
• The newest chapter in the fast-developing Spitzer scandal: The State Ethics Commission, which definitely has subpoena power, has joined the State Senate in requesting the documents from the Bruno investigation. Not looking good. [amNY]
Posted 07/27/07 in Daily Intel : The Morning Line
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New Conservative Worry: Save George Washington High!
How lovely it must be for conservatives today; how triumphantly they must have achieved all their goals. How else to explain the existence of the recent "Civic Report" we stumbled across on the Manhattan Institute's Website, in which that bastion of urbane conservatism exposes a horrifying trend: Apparently there’s been a precipitous decline in the naming of public schools in the U.S. after presidents and other notables. Egad!
Posted 07/25/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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‘Hairspray’ Premieres, Cont'd.: Newark Loves Latifah
The marathon of Hairspray premieres ran on last night, stopping just over the Hudson in Newark, New Jersey — and, well, those Jerseyans took things seriously. Nearly 2,000 fans were gathered in front of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center as the celebrities arrived, and they were dolled up in their finest. (“I’m, like, the only underdressed person here,” moaned a jeans-clad teen outside the ladies' room.) Hottie Zac Efron and lovable Nikki Blonsky were greeted with cheers as they entered the building, but Queen Latifah’s appearance drove the crowd to a frenzy. The Queen, a Newark native, broke past press lines to embrace fans who had waited hours to see her. “Go with your own path, stop following everybody else’s," she told the crowd. "And go for your goal. You can accomplish it."
Posted 07/18/07 in Daily Intel : Party Lines
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Except for at Bloomberg, It's Not Easy Being Green
Another day, another company going green: Today it's Bloomberg LP (which, frankly, was a bit of a surprise; we'd assumed Mike's moneymaker has long been running on, oh, let's say discarded trans fats). It was only a matter of time, then, before we'd see some sort of backlash from the "traditional" utility forces. In California, L.A.'s Department of Water & Power (yes, the corporate villain of Chinatown) has pulled the plug on Gore Vidal's home solar-power plant, literally ripping out the wires and taking down the panels. Supposedly the system was improperly installed; now Vidal is back on the grid like a good little customer.
Posted 07/11/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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