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Published: February 22, 2010
Return with us briefly to 2006. By February of that year, the would-be governor Eliot Spitzer had announced that he wanted David A. Paterson as his lieutenant governor. Mr. Spitzer, all but hailed as the Savior by fellow Democrats, knew in his bones that he would win the November election, so why not fill the No. 2 spot nice and early?
Typically, New York’s lieutenant governor is about as valuable as a right fielder in Little League. But someone has to be the nominal second in command. You know, in case the governor drops dead, falls into an irreversible coma or is caught fooling around with prostitutes. Improbable stuff like that.
In Mr. Spitzer’s case, getting two out of three right turned out to be not quite good enough. That’s how we ended up with Governor Paterson. Now Mr. Paterson is determined to win election on his own, in defiance of poll numbers that show he is about as popular as Toyota.

See the full article from “New York Times”

… Head-turning retro glamour of the red-lipstick-wearing sort.” (All the Rage) “Ms. Scott may once have made clothes only for herself and her celebrity friends who sat behind the long lunch table. But she is now looking for a larger audience.” (International Herald Tribune) “[Scott] put her finger on a weak point in fashion. Today formality doesn’t mean pomp and circumstance, but neither should it be lumps of bad taffeta.” (The New York Times) “Scott has set her own bar high, and overall the collection lacked the laser-sharp focus of seasons past.” (Style.com) “Oozed dark sophistication.” (Women’s Wear Daily)
Marchesa Designers: Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig Date and Location: Wednesday, Feb. 17, Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street Photos: slide show
“With any luck, the Hollywood stylists attending New York fashion week in search of red-carpet styles made a pit stop at the Marchesa presentation.” (Associated Press)
“Full of all the intricate handwork for which Marchesa has become famous.” (The Daily Telegraph)
“There was nothing tawdry about a collection inspired by a courtesan. The gowns were signature Marchesa: artful mounds of tulle, sequins and beading were molded into oversize folds, bows and ruffles.” (Heard on the Runway)

See the full article from “New York Times (blog)”

Don’t get too excited by the news but over at Hot Air, Allahpundit posts that ACORN is dissolving its national structure due to a damage to the brand. The article he links to starts with this biased description:
“ACORN has dissolved as a national structure of state organizations,” said a senior official close to the group, who declined to be identified by name because of the fierce conservative attacks on the group that began when a conservative filmmaker caught some staffers of its tax advisory arms on tape appearing to offer advice on incorporating a prostitution business…
and ends with:
“It’s not like this is some kind of hostile thing,” said the New York source. “This is what Fox has produced. National Acorn and Bertha Lewis are continuing doing their thing, but the New York flagship has been foreed into this new organization.”

See the full article from “Wizbang (blog)”

… It is not true that ACORN is closed for business all across the country. It still exists. Bertha Lewis is still the CEO,” Kevin Whelan told me. “It is true that we are shutting down operations in New York and there is this new New York Community organization,” he added, referring to New York Communities for Change, the group that has emerged in ACORN’s place. NYCC follows ACORN’s California chapter, which in January reformed as the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE).
ACORN has been struggling in the wake of a scandal involving videos taken by Andrew Breitbart-funded conservative activist James O’Keefe, which appeared to show ACORN employees giving advice on how to run a prostitution business. Although the videos were heavily edited, Congress acted quickly to cut ACORN’s federal funding. Since the scandal, the group has had difficulty raising money.

See the full article from “Tapped (blog)”

The new group is not affiliated with any national organization, a spokesman said. Its initial focus will be working to help people facing foreclosure, enforcing New York’s wage laws, preserving tenant rights and fighting state and local budget cuts that could impact low-income families.
Ed Ott, the former executive director of the Central Labor Council and an adjunct professor at the City University of New York, is among the group’s 11 board members, according to New York Communities for Change’s spokesman.
News of Acorn dissolution was first reported Monday by City Hall News.
Local chapters were widely expected to break off from the national organization as a result of fallout from last year’s episode when a conservative filmmaker caught Acorn staffers on camera offering advice about a prostitution business. The group lost federal grants and other funding and longtime critics unleashed a torrent of attacks.

See the full article from “Crain’s New York Business”

Beane crams the script with references to everything from “The Brady Bunch” to J.D. Salinger to “Sweeney Todd.” The remainder consists mostly of jokes about techno phenomena such as Twitter, Facebook, and the Kindle, as if he were checking off a grocery list of 21st-century gizmos. That’s fine, but these quips feel as if they were written for an article rather than integrated into a play. There are other structural weaknesses. Beane never makes clear the extent of the couple’s collaboration and fails to fully explore their sexual and romantic relationship. We learn that Mr. Fitch is bisexual and that Mrs. Fitch yearns for more physical intimacy. That’s a promising development, but the author just mentions it and leaves it. In addition, he’s inconsistent in his treatment of Mrs. Fitch. Would this dazzlingly intelligent woman mix up “indigenous” and “indignant” and confuse Sweden and Switzerland? These confusions are there just to get a laugh, as is a reference to the decades-old New York Post headline about a headless corpse found in a topless bar.

See the full article from “Back Stage”

However, the professional-style murder of the Marine Park husband-and-wife legal team Mark Schwartz and Christina Petrowski remains unsolved. Schwartz, 50, a well-known divorce lawyer, and Petrowski, 48, a divorce mediator, had been married for eight years before each being shot in the head while they slept.
Now the 18-month-long investigation by the Kings County District Attorneyâs Office â âœOperation: Bankrollâ â into the coupleâs various crimes has led to the indictments of four people and three corporations â including Schwartzâ long-time friend, Robert Delvicario.
âœThis case started with the double homicide. Early on we thought the motive might be financial,â said Ray Ferrari, chief of the Brooklyn South Homicide squad.
Information from copies of the couplesâ wills (though possibly invalid drafts) released after they were murdered showed that both Schwartz and Petrowski had colorful personalities, and an unusual attitude toward illegal behavior.
For example, Petrowski used her will to castigate estranged family members, while Schwartz requested a beach party funeral with strippers, and to have his body dumped into the ocean clad in scuba gear.

See the full article from “Brooklyn Daily Eagle”

The killer who provoked one of America’s most famous headlines has been denied parole after 27 years behind bars.
A fatal robbery at a Queens strip club in 1983 prompted the New York Post to blare on its front-page: “Headless Body in Topless Bar”. Charles Dingle, then 23, had been drinking at Herbie’s Bar when he shot the owner, Herbert Cummings, in the head.
He held four women hostage as he binged on alcohol and cocaine, raping one of the exotic dancers. While seaching the bar manager’s handbag, he found a business card showing that she also worked as an undertaker. He ordered her to gouge the bullet out of Mr Cummings’s head so that his gun could not be traced. When she was unable to do so he forced her to decapitate the corpse with a steak knife.

See the full article from “Times Online”

I understand that Tiger is news. And him appearing in public for the first time is news. But the seemingly unquenchable thirst for details about his life escapes me. Is that what makes those shows popular? I do know that shows like Inside Edition and the Insider are everything I hate about television all wrapped into one half hour.
I go to the movies and enjoy being entertained but I wouldnt walk across the street to just get a glimpse of Brad Pitt having lunch. Hes a guy; hes an actor, move on! Hes not going to ask me to be his best friend and hes not going to give me money. So all of the questions regarding Tiger seem the same to me.
By the time the parking lot was full on Friday morning there were reporters in Batman costume and strippers holding signs trying to be funny. I always figure if you ignore these people, theyll go away. But clearly somebody is paying attention and regrettably, that style of reporting has crept into what we used to call journalism.

See the full article from “WJXT Jacksonville”

Back in 1983, the Post penned its most famous headline of all time, “Headless Body in Topless Bar,” but to this day the man incarcerated for the humorously described crime claims innocence. For the third time in his 27 years behind bars, Charles Dingle asked for parole, claiming he wasn’t responsible for the blood bath in a Queens strip club, where one man was decapitated, a stripper was raped, and several women were robbed and held hostage. For the third time he was denied. “They expect you to come in and plead guilty and take responsibility for the crime,” he said of the parole board. “I can’t do it because I didn’t do it.” A gruesome flashback follows the break.
At 23, Dingle shot the owner of the strip joint and held four women hostage—raping one and robbing others—all the while drinking heavily and snorting coke, reported the Post. While going through the club manager’s purse, he found a business ca …

See the full article from “Gothamist”