October 2010
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Ted Sorensen, speechwriter for JFK, died today...
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89 Minutes With Natasha Lyonne
She is sober but doesn’t want to go on about it. “Obviously, there are things I wouldn’t be capable of doing in my life today if that were not the case,” she says. “I never thought I would act again. Obviously, I cleaned up my act in a big way. But I think it’s important to keep it …” She hesitates and then adds, “Precious.” As she speaks, a homeless man walks in front of the big window behind her...
Dept. of totally new jokes that have never been...
theeinternet:
Working at a non-profit means you will not profit from working there.
You just have to recalibrate your definition of “profit.” We profit spiritually whenever we see these kids smile.
92YTribeca: Great Entrepreneurs: Kelly Flatley →
“In 2002, at age 23, Kelly Flatley tapped into consumers’ growing natural-food obsession and launched Bear Naked—a start-up selling natural homemade nutty granola. Five years later, Flatley had built a $50 million a year granola business and in 2007, sold it to Kellogg’s.” We washed our neighbor’s windows one summer for $50.
“God is the reason that I’m running.”
– Christine O’Donnell, via Politico
Come discuss with me and Ari Berman, political correspondent at The Nation, at a Political Shabbat Dinner at 92YTribeca this Friday, at 7. (via rabbidan)
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Do We Want Too Much From TV’s Creators?
bbook:
I’m endlessly curious about the perspective of TV creators on this developing dynamic, especially those, like Weiner, who have come of age during the Great Shift, and need to sell their show as well — who are required to alternately rile and tame the commentariat, and to answer the nosy questions of skeptical, possibly one-legged journalists: “Who is Matt Weiner?”
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Video: An immersion course in the Gowanus Canal |... →
rubenfeld:
You are awesome, CNY.
Nice partnership between Capital and Thirteen. Funding journalism.
Grover the Jew: Get ready for a new ‘Shalom... →
The road to Shalom Sesame has been rocky. The first Israeli version of Sesame Street ran in 1983. Who can forget the joint, 1998 Israeli-Palestinian Rechov Sumsum/Shara’a Simsim, which was designed to preach coexistence? Behind the scenes, the production devolved into heated arguments over the depictions of kaffiyehs and kippot, Palestinian and Israeli flags. According to Khalil Abu Arafeh, the...
WatchVideo: Paulina Porizkova on modeling, rockstar husbands, and life away from the spotlight.
She’s back in the spotlight these days talking about aging beauty:My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young. I didn’t look bad: only, the freshness had...
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Superwoman Comes to the Superstore →
dpdsprings:
I went to a Hoda Kotb reading in White Plains!
She’ll be bringing her superpowers to 92Y on Tuesday.
The Gotham Independent Film Awards Nominees...
The Gotham Independent Film Awards, the first honors of the film awards season, have announced their nominees; congratulation to all of them. But a special note to films we screened this year. Those include Summer Pasture, nominated for Best Film Not Playing in a Theater Near You, Sweetgrass, nominated for Best Documentary and Holy Rollers, nominated for Breakthrough Director.
As the New York...
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The New York Times Talks To Syrian Poet Adonis
Image via Wikipedia From yesterday’s New York Times:Every year around this time the name of the Syrian poet Adonis pops up in newspapers and in betting shops. Adonis (pronounced ah-doh-NEES), a pseudonym adopted by Ali Ahmad Said Esber in his teens as an attention getter, is a perennial favorite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. This year Ladbrokes, the British bookmaking firm, had his...
Naomi Wolf Talks with Feminism's New Young Leaders →
lenachen:
This is happening and unbelievable and huge (that is, for me personally) and if you’re in NYC, please come say hi so that this will also be huge literally. All in all, I’m honored and slightly intimidated to be speaking among this group of women, but I’ll try to do y’all proud ;) Here’s the blurb:
Voices from the left and right: Lena Chen, Allison Kasic, Shelby Knox and Jessica...
