New York Magazine

Gael Greene, 40-Year New York Magazine Food Critic, Let Go

Huffington Post | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media


New York magazine's longtime food critic, Gael Greene, has been let go after 40 years of writing about New York dining for the magazine. "New York ma...

A Challenge

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 10.17.2008 | Media


Andrew Sargus Klein

Snark and blinkered partisanship aren't going to help anyone out of this mess. It's going to take a lot of ivory tower types and pragmatic politicians to pull this off.

Hillary Clinton Speaks at Convention, the Press Concocts a Story

Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.26.2008 | Media


Eric Boehlert

The press has portrayed Clinton's planned convention address, as well as the fact that her name is being placed into nomination, as an unprecedented, heavy-handed power grab. It's not.

Women Who Look Like They Had Work Done

Joyce McFadden | Posted 08.18.2008 | Style


Joyce McFadden

If the "old" plastic surgery look was an image in a circus mirror, the new new face is an image in a mirror with abstruse imperfections that puzzle the observer's mind. Women who choose to have work done do so with the goal of looking better, and/or younger. But is that what they actually get?

Plastic Surgery For Dummies

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 08.14.2008 | Style


Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Plastic surgery has legitimate uses. Nobody is denying the great good that organizations like Operation Smile do. But somehow I think fixing actual ...

Friend Poaching or Social Networking?

Irene S. Levine | Posted 08.11.2008 | Living


Irene S. Levine

Friendships change over time. A friendship that is 'stolen' may have long been gone. It may offer the poachee an opportunity to change or get rid of a friendship that was draining or toxic in other ways.

For Obama, The Latest News Is Not Good

Sandy Goodman | Posted 08.03.2008 | Politics


Sandy Goodman

Obama has his work cut out for him. He must find a way to combat McCain's so far successful campaign of character assassination or risk losing the election.

New York Magazine Buys Menupages

PaidContent | Rafat Ali | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media


Menupages, the New York City based online restaurant menu guides site, is being bought out by New York Magazine, we have learned. This is the first su...

Clay Felker: The Best Interview Advice I Ever Got

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media


Blake Fleetwood

A former sportswriter, Felker often told me that the best stories had to have a strong personality and conflict -- and that these were the only ideas, or stories, he wanted from me.

R.I.P. Clay Felker, New York Founder and Media Giant

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media


To quote a longtime friend and colleague,New York magazine founder Clay Felker's magazine "wasn't so much a guide to the city as it was a guide to being cleverer, hipper, more in-the-know" — and a place where great writing about it all could find a home.

What Do Men Want?

Stephanie Sandberg | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics


Stephanie Sandberg

I used to think that there were simply a few women having an astonishing number of liaisons to hold up the female end of the affairs, until I realized that in my own experience it's usually the women who cheat.

So Now The Press Tells Candidates When To Quit?

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.01.2008 | Media


Eric Boehlert

Until this election cycle, journalists simply did not consider it to be their job to tell a contender when he or she should stop campaigning.

New York Magazine's 'This Is New York' Issue Cover: Very White, Lots of Dudes

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 04.10.2008 | Media


Jessica Wakeman

I did a doubletake when I arrived home tonight to see the cover of New York magazine's "This Is New York, 1968 - 2008" issue. Apparently the cultural titans among us are very white and have penises.

Eulogy for Dead Trees

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 04.04.2008 | Media


Jessica Wakeman

I saw my name in print on a dead tree and I cashed a check for my months of researching, interviewing, writing and rewriting. But I'm not sure anybody's actually read my article.

Glenn Beck: I Drink The Blood Of Small People Who Are Different Than Me

New York Magazine | Daily Intel | Posted 02.12.2008 | Media


Glenn Beck sat down for Daily Intel's 21 Questions (the interview where Shep Smith announced that he doesn't give to panhandlers and that he loves Hei...

Lipstick Jungle Reviews: Living In The Shadow Of A Hit Series

Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 02.05.2008 | Entertainment


With the official 'Sex and the City' movie coming out this May and two shows vying to claim it's place on television, 2008 seems like the fabled year ...

NY Mag Reporter Smokes Pot With Snoop

New York Magazine | Posted 11.29.2007 | Media


Below, the tale of the coolest thing one of our reporters has ever done, which she has, after much deliberation, decided to give unto the Internet bec...

Ms. Magazine: Not Dead Yet

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 11.12.2007 | Media


Jessica Wakeman

What began as a one-time-only insert in New York magazine is now owned by the Feminist Majority Foundation -- and it just turned 35 years old.

New York Magazine To Stop Accepting Sex Ads For Back Of Book

Women's Wear Daily | Irin Carmon | Posted 11.07.2007 | Media


All those adult ads in New York magazine will have to find another home. Two days before a planned protest by the National Organization for Women's Ne...

Trader Joe's HR Secret: Hot Employees

New York Magazine | Arianne Cohen | Posted 10.29.2007 | Business


Captain Lance is angry at crew member Karen. Karen Shueh, a cherubic store clerk, has arrived with the words everything will be taken away written ba...

Eichenwald "Emotionally Damaged" By Teen Porn Story Scandal

New York Magazine | David France | Posted 10.29.2007 | Media


In his remarkable twenty-year career as a New York Times business journalist, Kurt Eichenwald has seen himself as a kind of crusader--shedding light o...

Live From The AMC! MagaBrands, Octopi and Eating Off Dan Rather's Plate

Huffingonton Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.29.2007 | Media


So far we've had one exciting afternoon and evening, and it's been eventful, first with the kickoff keynote featuring Tony Snow, using the words "White House" and "intellectual vigor" in a sentence.

Imagining Bill Clinton In Drag

HuffingtonPost.com | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 10.01.2007 | Politics


Perhaps Bill Clinton really will slit his throat if he becomes First Husband. Clinton joked on the Daily Show last week that this was his intention if...