(“comic sans walks into a bar, and the bartender says, ‘we don’t serve your type.’”) the font was invented in 1994 by vincent connare for a software package called microsoft bob (which is included in time magazine's list of the fifty worst inventions of all time, along with ...
We settle in with the June 21 issue (which leads this post) with White once again, this time enjoying a drive to Stamford, Conn., where he admired the “splendor” of the Condé Nast printing plant (apparently the plant also printed The New Yorker, although the magazine itself would not...
whom she first met in 1926. In the pages of the 1920sNew Yorker,Parker particularly lauded Hemingway’s short story collections,In Our Time(1925) andMen Without Women(1927), which bookended his 1926 novelThe Sun Also Rises(which Parker thought OK but overly hyped). WhenTheNew Yorkerprofile...
With Blanc’s vague sexuality revealed, the exciting mystery commences with many twists and turns among the characters, led by a wonderful dual performance by Monáe. She plays sophisticated New Yorker Andi and her southern sister Helen Brand. The other characters are a mixed bag with Hudson and...
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Native New Yorker Fields landed her first gig on "Sesame Street" when she was 5 years old, joining the students of the fictitious Eastland School four years later. The diminutive Fields was so much shorter than her costars that producers fit her with roller skates to facilitate filming. ...
Native New Yorker Fields landed her first gig on "Sesame Street" when she was 5 years old, joining the students of the fictitious Eastland School four years later. The diminutive Fields was so much shorter than her costars that producers fit her with roller skates to facilitate filming. ...
One night in 1969, an anxious New Yorker named Irv Teibel discovered the perfect ocean. He couldn’t see it, couldn’t smell it, couldn’t dip his toes in it. But he could hear it, and the sound was all he needed. Like a lot of searches, Teibel’s had started accidentally, ...
In the Nov. 9, 1929 issue ofThe New YorkerMurdock Pembertonhailed the opening of the Roerich Museum. For the July 14, 1934 issue, “The Talk of the Town” took another look. A brief excerpt: MORE THAN A BUILDING…”The Talk of the Town” noted the changing shades of the art deco ...
Above: The split image is from a New Yorker video:Eighty Years of New York City, Then and Now. While the Empire State Building developers were preparing to reduce the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to rubble, another venerable relic of the Victorian age, the Murray Hill Hotel, was still clinging...