Stalker Love
Here’s the latest advance word on Unreal Estate from the awesome realty blog The Real Estalker. “Mister Gross leaves no high society stone un-turned when it comes to revealing the actions and ambitions of a small but enormously influential army of filthy rich folks,” writes the blogger Mark David, better known as Your Mama. “Using […]
Murdoch Family Values
I ponder the fate of my long-ago boss Les Hinton , the recently resigned CEO of Dow Jones (above, left, with Rupert Murdoch), in my latest Crain’s New York Business column. Loyalty as a fatal flaw? We report. You decide.
American Tabloid
Today’s New York Times Op-Ed page offersa surprising and compelling defense of tabloid journalism by Ryan Linkof, a history lecturer at USC, especially in view of the undisguised glee Times writers have revealed in most of its coverage of the Murdoch-News of the World Affair — and the newspaper’s schizophrenia about tabloid-type stories. It’s worth […]
Christy: The West Coast “stripped bare” in new L.A. expose.
Columnist George Christy of the Beverly Hills Courier dedicates most of his column today to a preview of Unreal Estate — even giving it top billing over the premiere of the last Harry Potter movie. “We’ve always appreciated and admired Michael’s literary oeuvre, and with Unreal Estate he’ll have a field day stripping bare the […]
Travel Traumas…
… are the subject of my column, “Coffee, Tea or Flee,” in Crain’s New York Business this week.
Kicks on Page Six (redux)
Unreal Estate’s chapter on Greenacres owner Ron Burkle gives Page Six its lead item today. Burkle’s spokesman tells the column his quotes have been taken out of context. That’s for sure. There’s a lot more where this item comes from. You can advance order a copy (for delivery November 1) here or here.
Engine of My Dreams
Today’s Galleycat sent me racing to Fyrefly’s new Book Blogs Search Engine which revealed a review of Rogues’ Gallery I’d never seen before by the blogger Largehearted Boy. Read it here. But if clicking is too much for you, here are the two lines that made me ROLF: “Haven’t heard about this book despite a […]
Co-ops Rock
Back in April, I wrote a column for Crain’s New York Business asking why condos were worth more than co-ops (I co-own one of the latter) and hoping if not quite predicting that co-ops would rise again. Continuing in catch-up mode, Gripepad is thrilled to note Tom Acitelli‘s July 1 New York Observer post, “Co-ops […]
True words
“True history is the enemy of reverence,” writes Simon Schama in his debut column in Newsweek this week. Just back from Corsica and the Cotswolds, I was catching up today when that terrific, simple sentence caught my eye. Having read Ron Chernow‘s monumental