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Tag Archives: New York Times
The Wynton Marsalis Ad Jazz at Lincoln Center Should’ve Run
As the hardgrading staff noted yesterday, Jazz at Lincoln Center ran this totally unreadable full-page ad in the New York Times on Monday to celebrate Wynton Marsalis’s 60th birthday. (The Missus rightly noted that Wynton Marsalis deserved far better than … Continue reading
Hey, Jazz at Lincoln Center: Just Set Your Money on Fire
Yesterday was Wynton Marsalis’s 60th birthday, so the fine folks from Jazz At Lincoln Center took out this full-page ad in the New York Times to celebrate it. Yeah, that’s what we thought. Here’s a blown up section to give … Continue reading
Why the NYT Is a Great News Organization (Exhibit Umpteen)
Say what you will about the Grey Lady’s shortcomings (looking at you, Caliphate), but when she’s good, she’s very very good. Case in point: Yesterday’s edition of The Daily, the wildly popular New York Times podcast. When the Taliban took … Continue reading
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Tagged Caliphate, Lynsea Garrison, N, New York Times, Stella Tan, Taliban, The Daily, The Grey Lady.
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Remembering Tommy Ashton, Murdered 20 Years Ago on 9/11
My cousin Tommy Ashton was 21 years old on September 11, 2001, working his second day as an apprentice electrician at the World Trade Center. Tommy was on the 95th floor of the north tower when American Airlines Flight 11 … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11 Memorial & Museum, 9/11 truther, Al Qaeda, Ayala Ben-Yehuda, Bob McIlvaine Sr., Bobby McIlvaine, Branka Kristic, Colleen Ashton, Helen McIlvaine, Hofstra Parents Hofstra Pride, Jeff McIlvaine, Jennifer Senior, John Ashton, Kathy Ashton, Mary Ashton, New York Times, Portraits of Grief, qns.com, St. Sebastian Parish Center, The Atlantic, Thomas J. Ashton Way, Tommy Ashton, Tommy Ashton 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament, Voices of September 11th Living Memorial Project, World Trade Center
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The Nude York Times (Instagram Secret Scroll Edition)
From our Grey Lady pearl-clutching desk The hardblushing staff has long chronicled the growing willingness of the New York Times to bare all in the name of art – or commerce – in its advertising. Representative samples include this ulp-skirt ad from … Continue reading
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Tagged Amedeo Modigliani, An American in Paris, Christie's, Federico Beltran-Masses, Fitzwilliam Museum, Gagosian Gallery, Guy Trebay, Jack Pierson, John Currin, Julius LeBlanc Stewart, Louis Vuitton, Luke Syson, M.S. Rau, New York Times, rg_bunny1, Roz Chast, Tracey Emin, ulp-skirt
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Remembering Tommy Ashton, Murdered on 9/11
Nineteen years ago today, my cousin Tommy Ashton was struck down in his prime by the Al Qaeda terrorists who engineered the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. From the New York Times great Portraits of Grief memorial: Colleen … Continue reading
Dylan Thomas Does Not Go Gentle Into That Bad Ad
Listen, the hardworking staff enjoys a literary allusion as much as the next person, assuming the next person isn’t James Wood. But this ad in Thursday’s New York Times was just totally misconceived. Right – so Dylan Thomas’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas, James Wood, MyLight, New York Times, poets.org
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The Nude York Times (‘An American in Paris’ Edition)
From our Grey Lady pearl-clutching desk The hardblushing staff has long chronicled the growing willingness of the New York Times to bare all in the name of art – or commerce – in its advertising. Representative samples include this ulp-skirt ad … Continue reading
Amazon Delivers News Packages to Compliant Media Outlets
Call it Prime-ing the news pump. In the runup to today’s annual shareholder meeting, Amazon has tried to disinfect its COVID-battered image with a video produced in the form of a news report and distributed to local TV stations around … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Courier, COVID-19, New York Times, Prime-ing the news pump, propagambit, Todd Walker
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New York Times Has a ‘Manifesto’ for Boston’s MFA
The other day the New York Times ran a big takeout by art critic Holland Cotter on what major U.S. museums should be doing nowadays with their time and money. For Big Museums, It’s Time to Change As the Metropolitan … Continue reading
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