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WTC worries

Posted on September 10, 2004 by Felix

I’ve long been a cheerleader for the WTC redevelopment. Even when others started griping, I was still optimistic about the prospects for the site and the likelihood that it could become a vibrant and world-beating neighborhood. In recent days, however, … Continue reading →

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White collar crime in the New York Times

Posted on June 8, 2004 by Felix

I was wrong: my report on the death of the New York Times magazine was, as they say, exaggerated. In fact, the latest issue is the best magazine of any description I’ve read in many months, if not longer. There … Continue reading →

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Irwin at the Guggenheim

Posted on March 10, 2004 by Felix

It’s Art Week in New York – a bit like Fashion Week, only bitchier. The Whitney Biennial‘s just opened, the Armory Show is upon us, and -scope is setting up shop on 9th Avenue. The upshot is that there’s more … Continue reading →

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New York Stories

Posted on November 28, 2003 by Felix

Firstly, many apologies for not updating this blog in a little while. I would use the excuse that I was in Uruguay for most of the time, but that would be disingenuous, since I had (a) laptop; (b) internet connection … Continue reading →

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Reporting simple news

Posted on October 29, 2003 by Felix

Howell Raines, the former editor of the New York times, recently said that the biggest threat to US journalism was news pieces which betray a political point of view, the way things are done in Britain. (The story was reported … Continue reading →

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Applause between movements

Posted on October 20, 2003 by Felix

Terry Teachout chimed in yesterday on one of those low-level debates which never seems to get resolved one way or the other: whether it’s a good or a bad thing to applaud an orchestra between the movements of a concerto … Continue reading →

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Blogging is hard

Posted on October 6, 2003 by Felix

Publishing on the internet has never been as easy as the technoütopians would have it. (This week, I’ve decided to maximise my use of the diaeresis: see this MemeFirst entry if you want to know why.) And after fiddling around … Continue reading →

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WTC: Your questions answered

Posted on September 23, 2003 by Felix

Back from a long weekend, there’s lots of fabulous new stuff I want to blog about, but first I want to get the last of the WTC stuff off my chest. My last post, on the design revisions, got a … Continue reading →

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Grade retention

Posted on May 28, 2003 by Felix

When Texas governor George W Bush was running for president, we heard a lot about "compassionate conservatism," but rather less about what it actually meant. The one thing which did emerge from his handlers’ interference, however, was that Bush was … Continue reading →

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Literary fiction

Posted on April 13, 2003 by Felix

A couple of weeks ago, I was quite rude about those who take their literature extremely seriously. Today, in order to redress the balance a little, I’d like to respond to the opposite tendency: the idea, as Michael Blowhard puts … Continue reading →

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A cruise around the New York blogosphere

Posted on February 13, 2003 by Felix

You probably didn’t notice, but I recently restructured my website. Entries which used to have unwieldly URLs like https://www.felixsalmon.com/mt-blogfiles/archives/felixsalmon/000067.html now have nice simple addresses like https://www.felixsalmon.com/000067.php – a change which has more than simply cosmetic benefits. Now, I can check … Continue reading →

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The IHT is dead! Long live the NYT!

Posted on January 20, 2003 by Felix

Last November, the New York Times played hardball with the Washington Post and forced the Post to sell its 50% share in the International Herald Tribune. The conventional wisdom at the time was that the Times wanted to create what … Continue reading →

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Kinsley on mammograms

Posted on February 21, 2002 by Felix

Michael Kinsley is no longer editor of Slate. He gave up that post amidst rather a lot of publicity last week, saying that he would continue at the online magazine as a columnist. That was good news: Kinsley, when he’s … Continue reading →

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Airplane notes

Posted on August 7, 2001 by Felix

It’s 11:55pm, New York time, and I’m on Continental Airlines flight 31 from Newark to Sao Paulo. They’ve served the meal already – I accepted the mini-bottle of Cotes du Rhône – and I’ve also popped a couple of the … Continue reading →