On October 29th, Mark Ronson and Georgina Chapman received the Arts Leadership Award presented by Music Unites and the Young Patrons of Lincoln Center (YPLC) at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. The award was given to Zac Posen last year. The Last King of Scotland actress Kerry Washington presented the...

Before he ever took off, Falcon Heene was grounded. Now that the boy is (still) safe at home, what are the parents to do? They've already said a go-upstairs-to-your-room grounding is out of the question. So why not indulge in some old-fashioned fun, some mainstream parenting, and take the...

In The Life of David Gale, a 2003 film starring Kevin Spacey, an innocent man is put to death.

In real life, David Grann, a writer for the New Yorker, reported last month that an innocent man was put to death. While there are marked differences between the fictional...

We've got a problem on our hands. Or, as it were, between her legs: she, the lissome beauty whose lovemaking appears, at the moment, wholly unrequited. Dispensing with the dulcet moans, the brunette demands of her slumbering lover (as if he needed the introduction)...

"Hank?" ... "Hank!" Moody, that is....

It's ironic, but for the first time all night, Brandon Flowers looks human. His band, the Killers, is midway through their set at Jones Beach on Tuesday night. The stage is desert themed⎯diminutive palm trees line the floor, beads of light hang overhead like a Sahara sky, long shots of...

For someone who calls herself "the perfect affirmative action baby," Sonia Sotomayor is having a hard time convincing supporters that she deserves that distinction.

Not unlike the man who nominated her to the Supreme Court, Sotomayor would seem to vindicate the use of affirmative action in higher education. From...

Sky Masterson: "You have wished yourself a Scarsdale Galahad, the breakfast-eating, Brooks Brothers type."

Sarah Brown: "Yes! And I shall meet him when the time is right."

--- "I'll Know," Guys and Dolls

Boy those were the days.

On April 19, a...

If you can ignore Michael Wolff's distracting, ad hominem attacks against David Carr -- calling him, among other things, "semi-retarded" -- there is a legitimate question buried in yesterday's polemic. Apparently, there's some rivalry between Carr, a media columnist for the Times, and Wolff, the founder of Newser, a...

As a rule, my friend Adam takes a Gatorade with his lunch. And why shouldn't he, a onetime nominee for "Best Athlete" in his office's superlative contest. His daily beverage is more than just a personal refresher--it's a boost to the office morale, to the certitude of their convictions. But...

In my yearlong study at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, I watched with horror as jobs disappeared, bureaus shuttered, and entire papers folded. But nothing compared to the greatest shock of all: applications for next year's class are up a whopping 38 percent.

It's true that because of...

They've got high hopes for journalism, high apple pie in the sky hopes. Well not exactly an apple cobbler, but a "new news pie," in the words of industry Pangloss, Jeff Jarvis. Because denial's neither just a river in Egypt nor a shabby URL, it's the lofty rhetoric,...

"If we kill the rich," Vicky Ward asks in yesterday's Huffington Post, "don't we kill the dream?"

There may well be a dream on the line, but it's not the one Ward's worried about -- namely, "the American dream of meritocracy," which allegedly "Congress is trying to strangle."...

Over a year ago, David Wessel wondered aloud in the Wall Street Journal if the financial meltdown might suggest that "the brainpower drawn to Wall Street would have been more productively employed elsewhere in the economy."

His snide conclusion: "It looks like many of those folks will get...

Modern day journalism school is a lot like the Make-A-Wish Foundation: for a steep price, ill-fated youngsters earn the company of industry luminaries, who recount their sterling careers — the very calling to which these kids would aspire were their futures not terminally stricken — while struggling to conceal the...

The Congressional Budget Office announced last week that the federal deficit for 2009 would be $1.2 trillion--as a share of the economy, the largest since World War II. And that's not even including the proposed stimulus package. Responding to that staggering sum, President-elect Barack Obama warned that...