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Wheeeeeee!
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Ed??™s, like, so stoked today. He finally got the KCRW streaming music to work on his computer so now he has an eclectic mix of ear candy all day long at his desk??¦ BRILLIANT!

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Don??™t fuggedaboud??¦
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The NYC Happy Hour (with free pizza, yo!) next Weds., Feb. 16 at the Alligator Lounge in Williamsburg. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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News
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1. NY Daily News
Love puts a twinkle in publishers' eyes
By Paul Colford
2/11/05
http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/279726p-239668c.html%22

Suddenly, just in time for Valentine's Day, love is a growth sector. Two weeks after The New York Times said its Sunday Styles section would accept paid announcements of weddings, engagements and partnerships, New York magazine is adding paid wedding notices.

The tipoff came in an ad attached to subscriber E-mails: "Did you just TIE THE KNOT or are you planning to?"

New York's Announcements section will kick off this spring, after the release of the mag's twice-yearly weddings guide, spokeswoman Serena Torrey said yesterday.

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If fashion editors are easy to caricature??”writers were fond of Diana Vreeland's rouged face and her preference for rouge-colored rooms??”Anna Wintour may be easier than most. She has been described as a skinny, haughty, snappish perfectionist in sunglasses and stilettos so many times that journalists have been forced to get outlandish with their metaphors, labeling her variously as "a fabulously glamorous insect" and "kitchen scissors at work." Now, along comes Jerry Oppenheimer's Front Row: Anna Wintour, The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor in Chief, a dishy indictment of Wintour based on tidbits collected from disgruntled former employees, slighted friends, and dissed boyfriends, many of whom spoke anonymously. In other words: more of the same.

But Wintour didn't get where she is without talent; she is incredibly smart about fashion. During her tenure, Vogue has been enormously successful: The September issue, which ran to 832 pages, was the largest issue of a monthly magazine ever to be published. And so it's worth getting beyond the caricature to examine Wintour's work at Vogue, without which there would be no speculation about the "real" Anna Wintour.

In 1988, when Wintour was appointed head of Vogue, Grace Mirabella had been editor in chief for 17 years, and the magazine had grown complacent, coasting along in what one journalist derisively called "its beige years." Beige was the color Mirabella had used to paint over the red walls in Diana Vreeland's office, and the metaphor was apt: The magazine had become boring. Among Cond?© Nast executives, there was worry that the grand dame of fashion publications was losing ground to upstart Elle, which in just three years had reached a paid circulation of 851,000 to Vogue's stagnant 1.2 million. And so Cond?© Nast publisher Si Newhouse brought in the 38-year-old Wintour??”who, through editor in chief positions at British Vogue and House & Garden, had become known not only for her cutting-edge visual sense but also for her ability to radically revamp a magazine??”to shake things up. (Wintour had so altered House & Garden by adding models in fashionable clothes to the traditional photo spreads of spartanly furnished rooms that the media had taken to calling the magazine "House & Garment.")

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As the New Yorker celebrates its 80th anniversary this week, Editor David Remnick would rather look ahead than rhapsodize about the good old days.

And why not? While Remnick, 45, appreciates the magazine's legacy, he believes that these are the good old days for America's most celebrated magazine -- and it's hard to disagree with him.

The New Yorker's pages, as ever, gleam with ideas. The magazine's 80th anniversary double issue (Feb. 14-21) contains the usual wide range of subjects, spanning Jane Mayer on how the U.S. outsources torture, Nicholas Lemann on the media, Roger Angell on his late stepfather E.B. White and Richard Preston on climbing the redwoods.

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