New York’s Artists Take Their Case to the Supreme Court
The New York City artists who have long litigated to sell their work in public parks have officially asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider their case, according to legal documents filed earlier this...
View ArticleWhat’s in Store for Wall Street and the Markets in 2014
Remember 2013? The Dow banged to a record high, even against a rising Greek chorus of investors warning of the possibility of another flash crash. (To be sure, there was a computer glitch in April that...
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Child Soldiers: Graduating From the School of Hard Knocks Isn’t Easy
Thein Htut Oo has the Burmese word for “mother” tattooed on his right bicep and “father” on his left. Like young men the world over, he got the tattoos while serving in the military, in this case...
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Beyond Glass and Steel
The rock city of Petra in Jordan, the still-unfinished Sagrada Família cathedral in Barcelona, the façade of the Grand Central Terminal in New York — these are all testaments to architecture at its...
View ArticleThe Weird World Of New Year’s Eve Food
Well-intentioned or just superstitious, folks all over the world consume symbolically lucky foods and drink on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Everyone is looking for prosperity and well-being and...
View ArticleThe Best, Worst and Weirdest in Sports, 2013; Part 5
Part 1 - January/FebruaryPart 2 - March/AprilPart 3 - May/JunePart 4 - July/AugustSEPTEMBERGareth BailsWelsh soccer phenom Gareth Bale, a two-time Barclays Premier League Player of the Year at age 24,...
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Today in Tabs: Will This Year-End Ever End?
Vacation is nice, but tabs never rest, so I'm afraid we have a few stupid things to catch up on.Like for example Paul Graham, Silicon Valley's oracle of ignorant privilege, who told The Information:...
View ArticleRing Out the Old, Ring in the New: A Tale of Two Nations
Out with the old, in with the new. In 2014, Iran -- and the related cruel war in Syria -- will dominate Middle East headlines; tensions between China and Japan will top that region on America’s list of...
View ArticleIran Says Nuclear Deal To Be Implemented In Late January
DUBAI (Reuters) - World powers and Iran have agreed to start implementing in late January an agreement obliging Tehran to suspend its most sensitive nuclear work, an Iranian official was quoted as...
View ArticleThe Best, Worst and Weirdest in Sports, 2013; Part 6
Part 1 - January/FebruaryPart 2 - March/AprilPart 3 - May/JunePart 4 - July/AugustPart 5 - September/OctoberNOVEMBERHail to the ChiefsKansas City defeats the Buffalo Bills 23-13 to move to 9-0 after...
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Today in Tabs: Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of...
Tab Updates: Remember yesterday's ruin-porn tab about Flint, MI? Turns out one of the pictures was from Israel and another was from Detroit. Also it was by JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's daughter, so...
View ArticleOut-of-Towners Make Light Work of New Year’s Ball Drop
Seven cobalt-colored bicycles, made stationary for a three-day public relations campaign, were set up on a crowded sidewalk in Times Square, across the street from a Red Lobster.A handful of anxious...
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The New Vesuvius Smothers Italy’s Prime Products
Once the countryside around Naples was known as “felix” – meaning bountiful, happy. It was one of the most fertile tracts of land in Italy, and it still is.But then the local Mafia, the Camorra,...
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Sex, Lies, and Class Politics Set to Music
Andrew Lloyd Webber ranks alongside the Beatles as one of England’s most successful musical exports of all time, with international hit musicals based on the Bible (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor...
View ArticleDe Blasio’s Battle for Equality Starts in the Parks
As populist mayor Bill de Blasio takes the reins of New York City, he is poised to attack the legacy of his predecessor, Mike Bloomberg. He blames the widening gulf in income on the “hands off”...
View ArticleRob Ford Launches Re-Election Campaign (Really)
TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who won global ridicule last year after admitting to having used crack cocaine, registered on Thursday for the October mayoral election, saying he was the...
View ArticleAll Passengers Rescued From Ship Stuck In Antarctic Ice
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A rescue effort to remove 52 passengers on board a research ship that had been trapped in Antarctica ice for nine days was successful, and they were evacuated safely by helicopter,...
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Today in Tabs: Re/tab
2014's tabs have begun in earnest, and if you thought this year would be better you thought so, so wrong. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher re/launched the re/mains of All Things D today. The new site is...
View ArticleSome Good Mole Nostalgia
The CIA mole-catcher’s memoir that inspired ABC's The Assets, the espionage miniseries debuting on January 2, has just one brief mention of the National Security Agency – and it’s not very flattering....
View ArticleWill the Snapchat Hack Vanish from Investors' Minds?
“Oh snap!” was the battle cry across the Internet as millions using Snapchat, a popular online messaging service, discovered their usernames and phone numbers dumped on the Internet by hackers during...
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