The National Newsroom
The National Newsroom
Don’t Blow It!
New York tech’s top investors have bubble trouble on the brain
November 18th, 2010
Is the tech industry in a bubble? Influential and well-informed leaders in the field have started to worry, and are speaking out unequivocally about reckless investors, rising valuations and the misuse of technical talent resulting from the abundance of eager, loaded tech hobbyists who are throwing money at bad ideas. Read more »
The National Newsroom
Last call for the ladies who lunch
November 18th, 2010
While New York can weather many troubles, including recession and bedbugs, I’m not sure how it will fare when the last of its ladies who lunch are gone. Brooke, Nan, Chessy, Pat and the lovely Judy Peabody have left us in recent years. These women and others who lived to be admired have gone from endangered to near extinction. Read more »
The National Newsroom
Madame Bovary Goes to Washington
George W. Bush’s memoir reveals a romantic self-deception that rings familiar
November 11th, 2010
Reading George W. Bush’s new memoir, Decision Points (Viking Adult, $28), and Lydia Davis’ brilliant new translation of Madame Bovary (Crown, $35) at the same time, I had a sudden illumination. George Bush is Emma Bovary. Read more »
The National Newsroom
Blame the bankers! At my club downtown, suits and ties are banned
November 11th, 2010
The young receptionist at the front door of my downtown club, a trendy London import I’m not supposed to name or else I could lose my membership, looked us up and down and grimaced. She said suits were not appropriate and that we should at least remove our ties. Read more »
Personal Finance
Bad online and cell-phone habits can hurt your career
November 11th, 2010
Could bad cell-phone and online habits be damaging your ability to get a job or a promotion? Read more »
The National Newsroom
Cool Kids for Sale!
A New York agency is turning being hip into a job
November 11th, 2010
Two weeks ago, at the Bowery Hotel in New York’s Lower East Side, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, the younger half-sibling of the artistically diverse Ronson family, described what can happen nowadays to kids like herself who don’t have professional representation. Read more »
The National Newsroom
The Problem With One-Night Stands
November 4th, 2010
“If I was a complete stranger and you slept with me on the first night, I’d never call you again. That’s one of my rules,” scolded the guy driving me home. It was noon and I was still wearing last night’s cocktail dress, my hair matted into fetching postcoital clumps. While I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve found myself in this particular scenario, I’ve never bought into sexual timelines. I’ve always just done what I wanted as long as it felt right. But maybe when it comes to sex, like they say in fashion, it’s better to look good than to feel good. And to this man, I looked like a slut. Read more »
Personal Finance
Betterment.com brings index funds to the masses
November 4th, 2010
If you’ve been thinking about getting started in investing but don’t have a lot of money, an option has opened up that could ease you into the stock market. Read more »
The National Newsroom
Metaphor on 23rd Street
The Chelsea Hotel has history and architecture—is that enough for a $100 million sale?
November 4th, 2010
Two punks pushing middle age, a man and a woman dressed in black, sat together on a bench in the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel on the afternoon of Oct. 29. The room was decorated for Halloween. Read more »
The National Newsroom
Justin Timberlake, Movie Star
The former Mickey Mouser is now wooing Hollywood
November 4th, 2010
On Sept. 24, at the opening night reception for the New York Film Festival’s premiere of The Social Network, a young woman in jeans and an oversize cardigan, an average-looking brunette, elbowed her way past actor Kevin Spacey, past director Darren Aronofsky, past a barricade of handlers that had formed around the young stars of the film, past the advancing reporters, their tape recorders jutting out of the crowd like entitlement torches, and assumed a small space in front of Justin Timberlake. She took hold of his bicep. “Hey! I just wanted to say, you were really great.” Read more »
