The Atlantic's Ross Douthat, who helms a popular and analytically sincere right-leaning blog for the magazine, has been tapped to write opinion for the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review reports. According to a memo from editorial-page editor Andy Rosenthal, "he will start out primarily ...

I like to gripe about Top 40 radio, but I don't have much of a technical music vocabulary. Are there names for the vocal styles of Avril Lavigne, Taylor Swift, et al.? Recently I found myself trying to articulate the particular way that these singers deliver lines, and I quickly ended up using unsat...

I am one of very few that thinks U2 really isn’t that great, other than The Joshua Tree and a few other random songs. The fact that Rolling Stone gave the new release five stars pretty much guarantees I won’t like it. But Neko Case… ohhh Neko Case. If only you were ten years younge...

What do you say about a city where the parking garages are so high that the new buildings don't start until the old buildings end? That perhaps they have their priorities a bit screwed up? ......

Ready to fight the robots. We just got around to listening to the tape of Ira Glass speaking to Columbia students last week after his This American Life radio program won a duPont/Columbia University Award. (We spotted part of the convo through our friends over at Philebrity and got curious.) Glass ...

The celebrity profile, as a genre, was declared dead long ago, so long ago that it cannot even be googled. But in reality it has actually lived on, albeit in a sinister, hollow-eyed way and, like a zombie or a vampire or some kind of creature from a different, weird world, these creatures will leap ...

The rumors of the demise of four-year-old shelter magazine Domino are, sadly, true. We've just heard from a senior editor that despite the recent addition of a new publisher, the magazine has been hit hard by the recession, and employees were just told at a meeting that Condé Nast is closing th...

Down on the Bowery last night, the New York Times hosted an inauguration party at the New Museum to fête Barack Obama's nascent presidency. At around six o'clock, guests began arriving in the museum's cavernous ground floor and were handed straw top hats and American-flag pinwheels. At the rear...

"Man you guys are a pasty bunch!" This Obama pool report from Times writer Helene Cooper is making the rounds at the moment. The only thing more awesomely bad than the imagery is the strength of Cooper's disdain: After three and a half hours at his transition office, PEOTUS obama took another 6 minu...

The august New York Times has been giving a hard look at what they do well, and what their competitors do better. And they've come up with something that they figure they can leave to others: collecting and archiving favorite stories. They sent out a memo today to all "Times File" users that they'll...