- April 20, 1998
- The Tech Report: Big Shot
Analog tape’s finest hour (before digital video takes over the world).
- April 20, 1998
- The Tech Report: Silicon Survivors
Darwinists, take note: The city’s new-media industry has entered the Age of Accountability, wherein balance sheets and business plans suddenly matter.
- April 20, 1998
- Eager Diva
Bred for the footlights as if Broadway really mattered, Melissa Errico channels the spirit of Cole Porter in High Society.
- April 20, 1998
- Politics: The Seven Stages of Newt
- April 20, 1998
- The Tech Report: I’m A Loser, Baby
Five Silicon Alley Big Ideas that went bust.
- April 13, 1998
- Hard Lessons
Why does a kid who’s barely scraping by have a better chance of getting into the high school of her choice than an eager B student? An investigation.
- March 23, 1998
- The Double Life of a Ludlow Street Landlord
When Mark Glass was charged with plotting the death of two of his tenants, his Orthodox family and friends from Manhattan Beach were as shocked as his hipster tenants on the Lower East Side. But the district attorney says that it’s all on tape. So who is the real Mark Glass: the mensch or the murderer?
- March 16, 1998
- Big Shot
At 23, Larry Meistrich launched SoHo’s hottest film company witha mix of no-frills financing and extravagant chutzpa. But will that be enough to construct a lavish Hollywood-style studio in, uh, New Jersey?
- March 16, 1998
- Meet the New Boss at CBS (Careful, He Bites)
Three years ago, no one but Howard Stern and Don Imus had heard of Mel Karmazin. Today, the demanding, tight-fisted radio mogul is running the Tiffany Network, and Wall Street couldn't be happier.
- March 2, 1998
- Can This Man Save Publishing?
Big publishers may be bailing out of serious fiction and nonfiction, saying they can’t make the mid-list pay, but a former LBO magnate named Frank Pearl is out to prove they’re wrong. And he’s already got a best-seller to show for it.