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 Can’t afford a studio apartment in New York? Try shopping for a one-bedroom then.
Get this: Per some estimates, the square footage of studios in some Manhattan neighborhoods is more expensive than that of one-bedroom apartments.
Go figure.
Pulling data from Radar Logic, a real estate data analysis firm, The New York Times reported that studios in the [...]

Now I’ll recommend “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the HBO series created by the mastermind behind Seinfeld, Larry David, beyond my circle of friends and acquaintances. Knowing that this great series can help schizophrenics, I have a couple of people in mind for who I should to promote the show.
According to The New Yorker, David Roberts, a [...]

 
It didn’t take long for Nick Denton to react to Grigoriadis’ “Everybody Sucks” cover feature at New York magazine Oct. 22. issue. For him, having his gossip blog profiled in “one of the last bastions of old-school journalism” is “something of a rite of passage.”
His tone hints annoyance at the announcement of his sexual inclinations [...]

“Any publicity is good publicity” seems to be Nick Denton’s mantra.
If you haven’t heard of Denton, check www.gawker.com, a five-year old blog that is setting the tone in the blogosphere.
With nearly 20 call-outs filled with insults, borrowed from Gawker.com, New Yorkmagazine’s profiled the blog and the man behind it in its cover story. “Greasy, Self-absorbed [...]

Call the Internet democratic and a horde of disenfranchised offline citizens might protest. With one billion people online, the World Wide Web is off limits to more than five billion people. Broadband and dial-up hurdles aside, blame it on English, the language that dominates the online universe.
Starting on Monday, Web-domains incorporating 11 languages that don’t [...]

Following British band Radiohead’s proclamation of independence from record labels, closing its affiliation with EMI Group, it is now Madonna who is giving the cold shoulder to its recoding company of 23 years Warner Music.
Radiohead decided to go solo, releasing its latest album Rainbows through its own Web site and let fans decided how much [...]

Branding is sacred, and The Ten Commandments seem to be in need of a marketing push. Members of a Christian group, dismayed by the results of a survey of 1,000 Americans, are speaking up.
“Knowing and loving the Ten Commandments empowers people and feeds their souls, while knowing the contents of a famous hamburger, at most, [...]

Not only athletes, but pigs are on a rigorous regimen in China, in preparation for the Beijing Olympics next year. Chinese pigs eat organic, get daily exercise and take Chinese herbal medicine. They do all that in farms carefully chosen to meet water and soil quality criteria. The hogs’ VIP treatment, though, is infuriating Chinese [...]