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New Yorker Officially Kicks-starts Tina Fey Backlash

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2008-12-01 09:45:39 by Lane Brown in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Yorker any less unexpected. Under the headline "Sketchy Comedy," Franklin calls Fey's performance on the show "not-so-great" ("I sense that part of her is keeping her distance from the fray"), faults Rock for its frequent digressions ("Its roots are in sketch comedy and in improv, with their set pieces and their eagerness to keep you...
 
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The New Yorker Obama Cover Cartoon

2008-07-14 15:29:15 by Hollywood Grind in Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors celebrity scandals Hollywood gossip blog from Hollywood Grin
 
...Yorker has sparked controversy with a cover cartoon depicting Barack Obama and Michelle Obama . The artist says it is to dispell all the stereotypes, not support them. Its supposed to be a kind of reverse psychology At a press availability Sunday afternoon in San Diego, Senator Obama was asked, according to the diligent Maria Gavrilovic of...
 
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Under attack: The New Yorker over Barack Obama Cover

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2008-07-14 21:20:30 by Peter in In Entertainment
...Yorker magazine has come under attack, following the cover that they run showing Barack Obama as a Muslim and his wife Michelle as a terrorist. The New Yorker has since released a statement saying that the cover which shows Senator Obama wearing a turban, robe and sandals, was intended to satirize the scare tactics being used by opponents of...
 
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New Yorker Talks Fashion

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2008-09-18 12:04:03 by Editor in Fashionista
...Yorker festival starts soon, and in between their roster of interviews with Elizabeth Edwards and Oliver Stone is the "The Next Generation of Fashion", a talk to discern "Who will be the next Behnaz Sarafpour or Zac Posen?" at the Cathedral on October 4th The panel consists of Louise Markey, of London's Central Saint Martins; Mokoto Takada,...
 
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Spring Fashion Covers, Plus The New Yorker's Extraordinarily Good Fashion Issue

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2008-03-09 21:30:00 by Raquel Laneri in Electric Warrior
...Yorker's srping fashion issue that seemed the most, um, fashion-y. The flowers and curvilinear lines referenced the blooms that dominated the spring runways--from Balenciaga to Stella McCartney--and Prada's Art Nouveau-inspired collection. The New Yorker's fashion issue covers are usually a overtly cheeky, a bit mocking, but this one is witty...
 
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What's the Best Part of the Epic George Clooney Profile in The New Yorker?

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2008-04-08 12:30:17 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Yorker ! It's that long! It's 9,500 words, and takes up ten pages online. Needless to say, it's hard to decide on our favorite part Maybe it's the way that Leatherheads ended up being such a dog that the ostensible peg for the profile had to get shuffled off to a paragraph more than halfway through, with the final line, "The reviews, when...
 
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Is New Yorker Critic James Wood Creating an Army of Like-minded Young Novelists?

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2008-07-23 15:45:45 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...Yorker , just released his own book, How Fiction Works , a prescriptive guide to writing. Specifically, it's a prescriptive guide to writing the kind of book that James Wood loves the best the high-realist novel, which focuses on character and dialogue rather than on stylistic flourishes. And writers are starting to listen A few years ago,...
 
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The New Yorker Controversial Obama Cover

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2008-07-15 20:24:12 by Meg in Bitten and Bound
...Yorker has published a controversial albeit satirical cover cartoon dated July 21, 2008 that has the Obama camp seeing RED The edition hit news stands yesterday, depicting presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama as the next U.S. president. He is shown in the Oval Office dressed as a Muslim. His wife Michelle Obama is...
 
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Marc Jacobs in the New Yorker

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2008-08-25 10:00:16 by Editor in Fashionista
...Yorker is putting out a Style Issue this week, on newsstands today for September 1st, and they've put together a nice little issue we've had the privilege to glimpse In it, you can expect a meditation on shoes, a news piece on new ways shoplifters' are being caught, and a seven-page profile on Marc by Ariel Levy, including a picture of him in...
 
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