New York Magazine

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 7:03am on Monday, December 28th, 2009

Larry Kramer Is Rewriting History Again, New York magazine reported on December 27, 2009:

"The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me, the screenplay of Women in Love, and a raft of journalism, blog posts and op-eds were works that marked the world: that prompted, in a way rarely accomplished by words on paper, social action. Larry Kramer might have died proud of that alone.

And yet to Kramer, everything he’d been known for was just a prelude to a massive unpublished work called The American People, at which he’d labored on and off since 1978. All the plays and speeches put together would not equal it in extending his argument about the centrality of gayness in human achievement. It would also, he believed, deliver the coup de grâce to those who had for years forbidden his work entry past the polished gates of art, consigning it instead to the slum of agitprop. The American People would prove him a citizen of both neighborhoods, which were actually not even separate."

The full story:
http://nymag.com/news/features/62887/

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 8:53am on Thursday, December 24th, 2009

December 23, 2009 -- New York Magazine profiles Rupert Murdoch's many professional battles and rivalries:

"If nothing else, Murdoch loves a good fight. Lives for it, really — it might even help keep him alive, at 78. Few people have sustained wars as long, or as consistently, as Murdoch, who from the age of 22 has thrived on publicly sticking it to his enemies. And very few have ever managed to get one over on the mogul. Herewith, a history of wars waged and battles won (and his one big loss)."

The full story:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/12/murdochs_rivalries.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 9:23am on Monday, December 7th, 2009

New York magazine is trying to be both good and popular, its editor says.

The Washington Post reported on December 7, 2009:

"The nation's best and most-imitated city magazine is often not about the city -- at least not in the overcrowded, traffic-clogged, five-boroughs sense.

Sure, some cover stories scream New York: "Is Goldman Sachs Evil?" "Bernie Madoff, Monster," with the crooked trader depicted as The Joker. "Last of the Schlemiels," with Woody Allen and Larry David. And the photo of Client No. 9, Eliot Spitzer, with a red arrow -- labeled "Brain" -- pointing to his zipper.

But what about the recent cover story on Nancy Pelosi? What does the House speaker have to do with the Big Apple?"

The full story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/06/AR2009120602395.html

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 2:29pm on Thursday, April 30th, 2009

New York Magazine will eliminate two issues during the summer of 2009, saying that the weeks are "simply not popular with advertisers." Folio magazine reported the story on April 29, 2009:

"New York magazine is cutting two issues from its publishing schedule.

The weekly title is anticipating that advertisers, who traditionally pull back during the summer months, will pull back more so in a recession.

The issues dated June 22 and August 17 will not be published.

“We’ve looked, and found that these are two weeks simply not popular with advertisers,” said Serena Torrey, New York Media's executive director of business development and corporate communications. “It’s a hard decision, but is something we decided to do to ensure the company’s future.”"