Smart Alec
Today’s Gawker advances the story of Alec Baldwin‘s decade-plus-long flirtation with running for political office. Will he close the deal? Consider what happened last time he talked of throwing his hat in the ring here.
Uncompromised
Google is warning that my web site might contain malicious code. It’s a delayed reaction to a problem that was solved months ago. To be clear, the site is safe. I’ll be curious to see how long it takes Google to realize that and remove the warning.
And for my next book… ?
Emily Rafferty, President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been named to fill an unexpired one-year term on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Rafferty, who led the museum’s in-house effort to keep its employees and friends from speaking about it to me for Rogues’ Gallery, sounds like […]
Outer Borough Blues
Dear Queens, Brooklyn (the Bronx and Staten Island, too): Are you wondering where those Sanitation crews are who’re supposed to be plowing your streets? Digging out the intersection of Seventh Avenue and 57th Street, of course! New Year’s Eve brings in a ton of money and glory, dontcha know. What have you done for Mayor […]
Snow Job
Mayor Bloomberg is having a bad press day. But at least his street’s been plowed.
Better Late… A Last-Minute Gift?
This just-published review of Rogues’ Gallery on ipadbookspdf.com just might make me believe in Santa Claus: Â “This is an intriguing book to appear at what may be a major turning point in the Met’s history… chronicles the interminable tugs of war between the trustees, donors and curators and the city authorities over the institution’s core […]
Carine Careens from Condé, ¡Ay Caramba!
Yesterday’s Daily Beast dissection of the brilliant Carine Roitfeld’s departure from French Vogue, where she has been redacteur-en-chef for a decade, includes this line by Jake Bernstein: Â “There have also been complaints about the lucrative work she has booked as a stylist doing ad campaigns — work she continued to accept long past the time […]
Happy Holidaze: Straight Outa Brooklyn
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has been on a roll, railing against the Department of Transportation’s unilateral street-choking imposition of bike lanes and tourist petting zoos. Â This week, The Brooklyn Paper reprinted his holiday card (above) and included the lyrics to his rewrite of “My Favorite Things” which he sang at a recent City Council […]
Who’s Ralphing Now?
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren will be published shortly in a Korean translation.  야호 (yaho)!
When Books Collide
Today’s New York Observer reports on the proposed new plaza in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, paid for in large part by David Koch, a newish Met trustee and resident of 740 Park, and the opposition already being mounted by the museum’s neighbors across Fifth Avenue. Â Koch used to be one of them […]