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Elizabeth Spiers’s New Deal

Originally in: [Institutional Investor]

Call it The Daily Show for the CNBC set. That’s how Elizabeth Spiers, a former New York magazine reporter and founding editor of infamous celebrity-gossip …

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Andy Warhol, Pale Male

WARHOL’S WORLD: PHOTOGRAPHY & TELEVISION, ZWIRNER & WIRTH; Reception, April 5, 2006, 6-8pm

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Andy Warhol is forever an attendee at his own shows. No less so last Wednesday, at an exhibit and book launch for a collection of …

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World Markets

Originally in: [http://www.observer.com/20060410/20060410___thecity_thetransom-4.asp#Markets]

The Transom column

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“There are good people here,” enthused a giddy, well-coifed flack. And wasn’t that Michael Milken? Fifteen minutes before the Contemporary Asian auction began, a dull …

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The Whitney Biennial, Unexplained

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The sprawling Whitney Biennial can be challenging enough for visitors to navigate, even those armed with an exhibition catalog and audio guide. At least one …

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Acropolis Now

The rebirth of ancient civilizations online.

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The long-gone empires of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome were every bit as exciting as anything in Tolkien or EverQuest. Now Michael Griffin, a 23-year-old …

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Stalk Market

Why Gawker.com is putting the fear in celebrities

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Keanu Reeves 99 Prince St Mar. 18th, 2006 @ 10pm Post-dinner @ Mercer Kitchen, spotted Keanu Reeves and a blonde canoodling on one of the

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Gaming the Revolution

Can a videogame train players in real-world political change?

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GRBAC, SLOVOPAKNIA—Political satire has proven itself a powderkeg elsewhere in Europe this spring. In the tiny Eastern European nation of Slovopaknia, a cartoon has unseated …

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Roll Your Own Google

Originally in: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2005/12/69817

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In a move with potentially far-reaching implications for the search market, Alexa Internet is opening up its huge web crawler to any programmer who wants …

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