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The Real Story Behind ‘These Links From Our Partners’ 27 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
A few years ago, I got an unusual request from Google. The search giant was working on an experimental program that encouraged retailers to feature links to products from other retailers on their webs...
Former Journalist Decides Teaching Dogs How to Use iPads Is More Stable Work 27 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
A couple of weeks ago, in the doldrums of August, the Wall Street Journal revealed that there are people (Manhattanites, obviously) who are actually willing to pay money for their dogs to learn to use...
A Confident Spitzer Looks for Jewish Votes to Win ‘Bucking Bronco’ Race 27 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
On the same day that a leading mayoral candidate hit the campaign trail for the Orthodox Jewish vote at a pizzeria in the Boro Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer took his own front-r...
Morning Media Mix 27 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
(Illustration by Lauren Payne.) "Advertisers, along with you idiots, love videos," Meredith Artley, Managing Editor Of CNN.Com, explains why Miley Cyrus's VMA performance was the top story on the ...
Glenn Merry, Glenn Cross: ‘TV Party’ Invades MoMA PS1 27 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
In an art world of $60 million estate lawsuits and jet-set dealers, it’s hard to remember a time when anyone would mispronounce Jean-Michel Basquiat’s graffiti tag “SAMO,” but in 1979 Glenn O’Brien di...
Motor City Is Burning: Elmore Leonard’s Detroit 27 Aug 2013 | 06:37 pm
(Courtesy studio360.org) Of Elmore Leonard’s 45 published novels, about a third are set in Detroit, the city he lived in for most of his life and where he was buried last weekend at the age of 87. He...
On the Market: City Pledges to Fix Falling-Apart Rockaway Bathrooms; The Bellicose Nature of Architectural Renderings; A McMansion Building Boom In th... 27 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
Short supply and high demand cause prices for commercial condos to spike. [Crain's] Rotting deer carcasses and makeshift bowling alleys: true apartment horror stories. [AC] City plans extensive repair...
To Do Tuesday: See and Be Scene 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
John Legend. Scene’s summer cover star, John Legend, is only in town for two days before jetting to Italy to marry his longtime love, supermodel Chrissy Teigen. And we have the Grammy winner for one ...
Councilman Proposes Cigarette-Style Warnings on Independent PAC Ads 27 Aug 2013 | 04:50 am
City Councilman Brad Lander is looking to rein in exploding expenditures from super PAC-like groups with proposed new legislation that would slap cigarette-style warnings on their mailings, among othe...
De Blasio Brandishes Boro Park Roots in Bid to Win Orthodox Jewish Votes 27 Aug 2013 | 03:47 am
It’s good to be back home, or at least in your former City Council district. Bill de Blasio took his mayoral campaign down a busy business strip in the heart of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community t...
