Meet Randy Johnson, The Fired Bain Factory Employee Bird-Dogging Mitt Romney
JP Rosenbaum: Construction Manager By Day, Bachelorette Winner By Night
Ron Paul Promises To Defend Liberty In Spite of The Media
Rick Perry's Concession Speech Comes Via Email
Mitt Romney Contrasts His Vision With President Obama's 'Resentment of Success'
Joyful Noise Has Them Singin' for the Weekend
In The Divide, The End Is(n't) Near (Enough)
Beneath the Darkness: Run Run Run Run Run Run Run Away From This Psycho Killer Nonsense
Tightly Rolled Loosies
Ron Paul Promises To Defend Liberty In Spite of The Media
Ron Paul, who is projected to take second place in the New Hampshire primary, spoke to an audience at his campaign headquarters shortly after Mitt Romney made his victory speech. Mr. Paul criticized the media and political establishment for "ignoring" his campaign, but assured his supporters they'll still succeed in their quest to "restore freedom to this country."
"I called Governor Romney a short while ago before he gave his talk and congratulated him, because he certainly had a clear cut victory, but we're nibbling at his heels!" Mr. Paul said. Mr. Paul began his speech by thanking his staff and supporters. He also gave a sarcastic acknowledgment to the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper, which endorsed his rival Jon Huntsman.
"There was one other acknowledgment I wanted to make, I wanted to thank the Union Leader for not endorsing me," Mr. Paul said.
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Rick Perry’s Concession Speech Comes Via Email
Texas Governor Rick Perry finished in sixth place in New Hampshire tonight, scoring last among the main candidates for the GOP nomination. As the rest of the field is making their concession speeches on television, the Perry campaign phoned it in, so to speak, by conceding electronically.
"Tonight's results in New Hampshire show the race for 'conservative alternative' to Mitt Romney remains wide open," the statement read. "I skipped New Hampshire and aimed my campaign right at conservative South Carolina, where we've been campaigning hard and receiving an enthusiastic welcome."
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Jaguar Presents 12 to Watch in 2012 Episode 10: Paola Antonelli of MoMA - Design Brings Art Into Everyday Life
Meet Paola Antonelli, the Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at New York's Museum of Modern Art. In recent years, the MoMA has expanded its definition of Modern Art to add many different objects, gadgets, designs, and ideas integral to technology to its permanent collection - items like early Apple computers and concepts such as the "@" symbol.
Presenting Jaguar for 2012: XK, XF, and XJ -Three ways to be moved like never before. Learn more at jaguarusa.com.
Mitt Romney Contrasts His Vision With President Obama’s ‘Resentment of Success’
After he was declared the victor in tonight's New Hampshire primary, Mitt Romney took the stage and delivered a victory speech where he slammed President Obama and defended himself against attacks on his time working with financial consulting firm Bain Capital.
"We do remember when Barack Obama came to New Hampshire four years ago. he promised to bring people together, he promised to change the broken system in Washington, he promised to improve our nation," Mr. Romney said. "Those were the days of lofty promises made by a hopeful candidate. Today, we're faced with the disappointing record of a failed president." Read More
Joyful Noise Has Them Singin’ for the Weekend
In the overripe candy floss musical Joyful Noise, Kris Kristofferson plays the down-home choral director of the Georgia Sacred Divinity Church in rural Pacashau who dies during the opening credits, leaving behind a spunky widow named G.G. Sparrow (Dolly Parton), an exuberant choir headed for the church-sponsored Joyful Noise Gospel Competition in Los Angeles, and Read More
In The Divide, The End Is(n’t) Near (Enough)
Doomsday is out of the vaults and back on the screen, proving once again that January is the worst month for tacky retreads. All you get is the junk that wasn’t good enough to be released at the end of the previous year. Expect the dregs for weeks to come, but I can safely say with absolutely no trepidation that it is unlikely to get worse than a lurid, lewd and loathsome shockfest called The Divide. Read More
Beneath the Darkness: Run Run Run Run Run Run Run Away From This Psycho Killer Nonsense
Nagging question of the day: What heinous sin could the otherwise gifted, versatile and generally underappreciated Dennis Quad have committed to deserve a submental punishment called Beneath the Darkness? This sorry rip-off of every horror flick that turns up on late-night cable programming is a major head-scratcher. Filmed in two Texas highway speed bumps called Smithville and Bastrop, and boasting 61 final thank-you credits and endorsements for everything from the Hula Hoops Diner & Soda Shop to the Wells Fargo Bank of Bastrop, it is, from the picture, very much a community effort. God knows no professional appears to have come within a 500-mile radius. Except, of course, Mr. Quaid, who has a lot of explaining to do. Read More
Tightly Rolled Loosies
As indie-prods go, I applaud a modest little pleasure called Loosies and its writer-star Peter Facinelli, the handsome, charismatic actor whose work as a regular in the Twilight vampire franchise and the Nurse Jackie TV series in no way prepared me for his considerable accomplishments here. Read More
His Eminence, Timothy Dolan
Archbishop Timothy Dolan will get a promotion in a few weeks when he travels to the Vatican to receive a red hat symbolizing his elevation to cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. The honor means a lot to the two million Catholics in Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens and the nearby northern suburbs. But it should mean a lot to non-Catholic New Yorkers, too. If he is blessed with good health, the 61-year-old archbishop very likely will be a fixture in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and in the city’s larger civic community until around 2025. Get used to him.
Archbishop Dolan, of course, has been on the job for nearly three years already, so it’s not as though he needs an introduction. But his new title will give him more prominence and influence—not to mention new head gear. Read More
An Advocate for Students
Governor Cuomo has assigned himself a new task, that of chief lobbyist and advocate for the state’s public school children. Good luck, Governor. If you’re serious about the new assignment—and we hope you are—you have lots of work ahead of you.
As Mr. Cuomo noted himself, there is no shortage of lobbyists seeking to influence the state’s educational policy. The teachers’ union, most notably, has plenty of political muscle, but so do principals, superintendents, janitors and every other stakeholder in the public school system. So who represents students? Mr. Cuomo says he will. Read More
Mitt Romney Wins New Hampshire
Mitt Romney has scored another win tonight, defeating his rivals in New Hampshire, the networks have declared. His New Hampshire win comes as no surprise, as his dominance in the polling had never been shaken.
Mr. Romney had previously eked out a win in Iowa last week by a mere 8 votes. Read More
Mr. Liu Must Resign
City Comptroller John Liu should stop signing his name to meaningless proclamations celebrating his friends and instead sign something that actually would be significant: his letter of resignation.
Mr. Liu has been an embarrassment since winning the 2009 comptroller’s race. Read More
Seven Days of Social Networking
How can you tell 2012 has begun with a bang? Just log onto Twitter: the hot topics since Jan. 1 are a Venn diagram of American life—from pop culture to politics, to sports and even race relations. It’s beginning to feel an awful lot like looking into a microcosm not too dissimilar to those sea monkey kits we cried enough about to have Mom and Dad buy one, only to have it sitting in garage next to whatever Santa had brought us the year before. In fact, Twitter has morphed into This American Life. Well, again, for sea monkeys. At least there’s a community spirit in the barrage of 140-character thought bubblettes: it’s one of the few times that you’ll find New Yorkers venturing outside their insular world and joining in the national dialogue … even if it’s only online and it turns out that our sea monkeys are just brine shrimp with great marketing.
So here was your week on Twitter. Read More
Detail-Oriented Retail: Fixing the Fulton Mall Up
It is getting hard to catalog all the new changes on the Fulton Mall in recent years. There is the new benches and sidewalks, rebuilt after decades of neglect. The rezoning and the thousands of new apartments borne in on the tides of its land rush. A new mall, CityPoint, maybe with a Target inside, as well as the national retailers finally flooding into the old department stores alongside Macy's: Aeropostale, Express, H&M, TJ Maxx. And who could forget the crown jewel, Shake Shack.
While people worry about the future of the mall and who might shop there—indeed, it is the subject of a feature in tomorrow's paper—it still has much of the polyglot look it has had for decades, even more so given the new mix of national shops among the mom and pops with their riotous signs.
Just as it worked for the rezoning in 2005 and the streetscaping a year later, the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership is in the early stages of creating new standards for the storefronts on Fulton Mall, according to people involved with the project. While still very much preliminary, some form of new regulations is being developed by the local business improvement district in partnership with the Department of City Planning to spruce up the walls of the Fulton Mull. Read More
The Wee Hours Takes a Vacation—To Bahamian Dissipation
The grand plan was to stay sober for the month of January, and it failed. It collapsed the moment we touched down in the Bahamas and felt the silky warmth outside the Nassau airport. The whole place was wet with the prospect of booze—its bars, its dewy palm trees, its bikini-wearing swimmers, its cerulean wading pools. The plane’s tires hit the tarmac, and from then on, rum was god.
In the boxy cab we removed our loafers, took off our socks, stuffed them in a spare pocket of a hand-me-down attaché case and shoved our heels back into the miniature leather gondolas. The engine growled down hardy roads, handling the this-way-that-way roundabouts with the finesse of an arcade pinball.
It was 13 degrees in New York and we had taken up our father’s offer of a trip to Paradise Island. Read More
Song and Dance Man: Alan Cumming, Parker Posey and Lily Rabe Fête Darren Criss’ Broadway Debut
Each year at December’s end, courtly New Yorkers retreat from the harsh limelight and recover from the taxing holiday season. With regular patrons retreating to various white-sand beaches across the globe, the city’s best hotels, boîtes and bars are left fallow, sadly waiting the return of their dedicated revelers. Then, come the second week in Read More
