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Gawker Loses Third Editor in Three Days
On Friday, Nov. 30, readers of an item on Gawker.com which was nominally about author and editor Keith Gessen were told that the Web site’s managing editor, Choire Sicha, and editor Emily Gould were...
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Byrdie Bell Alights on Socialite Consciousness, Cracks It Like a Twig
Like a mighty rainstorm over the parched Sahara, yesterday’s Page Six Magazine profile of Byrdie Bell offered sweet promise to Manhattan’s socialite landscape, which has grown decidedly athirst for new...
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BlackBook Editor Joshua David Stein to Revamp Front of Book and Release an Album
Newly appointed BlackBook editor in chief Joshua David Stein is looking forward to writing for an audience that’s a little bit more like him. For the last year, he’s been senior editor at Departures...
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Media Briefs: Editor-in-Chief Out at BlackBook
BlackBook‘s editor is out. Buzzfeed’s got a new vertical. And The Observer has a softball game against a Foer Brother to get to, so let’s get on with this. Here are your Friday Afternoon Media Briefs:...
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Best New High-End Restaurant of 2013
Piora Stein’s pick: For a restaurant to be truly transcendent, it should do something new. It should be passionate to the point of reckless, personal to the point of pain and brilliant to the edge...
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Meat Slog: Hugue Dufour Plays the Very, Very Long Game at the New M. Wells...
M. Wells Steakhouse: Calling out the bullshit excesses of the genre (Photo by Jesse Winter) My name is Hugue Dufour. First name “huge” but with a hard “G,” like “big deal.” I am a chef from Montreal,...
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In an Age of Hype, Look to the Birds
Any bird would be proud to find itself on the menu of Mountain Bird. (Photo: Arman Dzidzovic) In birding parlance, a life bird is the first bird of a species a birder sees. Birders remember life birds...
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Listening to Vegetables
The Dining Rooms at Narcissa: An Incubator for Love(Photo: Chris Mosier) When it is 4:30 am and the city is dark and its only sounds are the growl of municipal engines, the whisper of radiators and the...
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Dine-O-Fight! Dueling Foodies Stein and Ozersky Carve Up the Best Eats of 2014
Illustration by Fred Harper There were no cronuts or ramen burgers this year to spark the madness of crowds. Instead, 2014 was a year of quiet retrenchment for New York City restaurants. Established...
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Food, Tech and Cronuts Merge at Observer’s Panel in Soho
“Culture is impacted in every possible way by technology,” said New York Observer Editor in Chief Ken Kurson. “You would think if there is one arena resistant to that it would be food. But, as...
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