Brian Sutorius
With the impending release of 'Deathly Hallows — Part 1,' the makers of the blockbuster series look back on what a rival calls 'the best-managed franchise that we've ever seen, top to bottom.' On a sticky June night just outside London, the magic finally came to an end for the cast and crew of the "…
The chief wardrobe of the week. Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times SO the idea was this: Six days with my wife on an uninhabited, mostly unpowered Bahamian island. My first thought? Alcatraz is an island too. For reasons I can’t fully explain, I experience free time as a kind of a provocation,…
The Social Network a film directed by David Fincher, with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier Merrick Morton/Columbia Pictures Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, and Rooney Mara as his girlfriend Erica in The Social Network How…
When Apple announced the new MacBook Air at their ‘Back to the Mac’ event my jaw dropped. I have always thought the MacBook Airs represented this delicate line between something very beautiful and something wondrously impossible. Turns out that with the first round up of MacBook Airs they weren’t…
“He’s had some of those spectacular games that just leave your mouth open,” the pitching coach Dave Righetti said of Tim Lincecum. Brian Snyder/Reuters ARLINGTON, Tex. — He is not Curt Schilling, filled with burly bombast, or Josh Beckett, a gruff and scruffy Texan. He is not Bob Gibson, a snarling…
Evan Williams recently stepped down as Twitter’s chief in order to focus on product strategy. It is considered a sign that Twitter — which Mr. Williams calls “a 6-foot-tall sixth grader” — is maturing. Noah Berger for The New York Times San Francisco AT the annual South by Southwest gathering of…
Edgar Renteria, a World Series veteran, homered in the fifth inning off the Rangers’ C. J. Wilson to give the Giants the only run they would need in Thursday’s victory in San Francisco. Eric Gay/Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants’ best-known starting pitcher keeps his unruly mop of black…
A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head. It’s unlikely that this project is a nerd’s day job because his opinion regarding his job is, “Been there, done that”. We’ll explore the…
Excerpted from by Bill Carter, to be published in November by Viking, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. © 2010 by the author. Robert Morton had been David Letterman’s producer at both NBC and CBS, from 1982 to 1996. He retained many friends in the late-night world, but none closer than Jeff…
I remember falling in love with the original MacBook Air . It wasn’t the styling that won me over, but rather the combination of performance, form factor and battery life. I needed a notebook fast enough for me to get work done when necessary, but with long enough battery life to last me through a…
Rolling through New York City in the back seat of his black Maybach, Jay-Z touches a button to let more light through the translucent roof, then tugs back a window curtain to peek out at the rainy streets of his hometown. The rapper went from a Brooklyn housing project to a top corner office near…
The artist James Turrell in 2001 at Roden Crater, his artwork (or his studio, depending on how you look at it). Florian Holzherr Los Angeles TWO years ago, not long after he turned 45, Ed Sweeney made a list of things to do before he died. Take his wife to Machu Picchu. Take his young son to see the…
Tina Fey on 30 Rock Every outdated format has its cult. In the case of vinyl LPs or Polaroid film, the cults are substantial, but even cassettes , Laserdiscs , and Minidiscs have their own collectors, proponents, and preservationists. All of these people might, to some degree, regard their pet…
"You can hug the Stanley Cup, and you can kiss the Cup, but the main thing I ask is you never try to lift or to move it." –Howie Borrow, in white shirt, Hockey Hall of Fame's Keeper of the Cup Hockey Hall of Fame's Keeper of the Cup Howie Borrow carries the Stanley Cup out of the Blue Goose Tavern…
I’m not talking about the privacy of Twitter’s millions of users- who they follow, what they retweet and the inner-sanctum of their DMs. I’m talking about the privacy of Evan Williams– one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the Web 2.0 era, yet one who doesn’t have Gawker photographers come to…
Here’s a full transcript of my interview with John Sculley on the subject of Steve Jobs . It’s long but worth reading because there are some awesome insights into how Jobs does things. It’s also one of the frankest CEO interviews you’ll ever read. Sculley talks openly about Jobs and Apple, admits it…
It took five years and $50,000 to get a single L.A.-Barstow-Kelso Depot tour rolling. Organizers hope it inspired someone to bankroll a regular tourist rail service to rival the Grand Canyon's. Reporting from Barstow — With a horn blast and a whoosh of air brakes, a special train carrying 254 rail…
This story appears in the October 18, 2010 issue of Sports Illustrated
I will never forget the first time I paid a player.
There are moments you will always remember, like your first kiss or your first home run or the day you met your wife. For me, the first time I broke an NCAA rule to try to land…
This story appeared in ESPN The Magazine's Oct. 18, 2010, issue. Subscribe today! AFTER RACING NEARLY 140 miles, first through the ocean, then across the blackened lava fields of Kona, Hawaii, Julie Moss crested the final hill of the 1982 Ironman Triathlon alone in front, hovering near delirium. She…
WASHINGTON - Paper is in peril. Hardcover book sales, down; e-book sales, soaring. Magazine and newspaper circulations are in decline. When was the last time you let your fingers do the walking in the Yellow Pages? But one paper tool is thriving. It is 3.5 inches long and 2 inches tall. Its use…
Welcome to One Year In, a feature in which Eater sits down for a chat with the chefs and owners of restaurants celebrating their one year anniversary.
[Krieger, 09/16/10]
A year after opening their tiny West Village restaurant Joseph Leonard, Gabriel Stulman and Chef James McDuffee are prepping two…
NEW YORK— Second-graders who can't tie shoes or zip jackets. Four-year-olds in Pull-Ups diapers. Five-year-olds in strollers. Teens and preteens befuddled by can openers and ice-cube trays. College kids who've never done laundry, taken a bus alone or addressed an envelope. Are we raising a…
Relentlessly self-critical, Baldwin says, “I don’t think I really have a talent for movie acting.” Credit Photograph by Martin Schoeller Alec Baldwin, who stars in “30 Rock,” the NBC sitcom that has revived his career and done nothing to lift his spirits, has the unbending, straight-armed gait of…
Everyone recognizes New York. From the sweaty jungles to the shivering tundras, we all know the look, the silhouette, the height and breadth of the city. This place is the most famous man-made vista in the whole world, and that’s something. From abroad, we see it not just as America’s greatest…
So we're now nearly five weeks into the iPad deployment and I thought it was time to update you in some detail. The Educational Part So many people have asked me to explain the educational impact of the iPad. I simply can't yet get to grips with everything that's happening. Put simply, the iPad…
Pogoplugs are great little storage devices, but they can do more than they let on. Let's take a look at how you can hack a Pogoplug into a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web server. This is a fun little project, but it does take some time and patience. Be sure to set aside a few hours this weekend…
Photo: Michelle Gachet, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 650 Townsend St. building viewed from 8th St. in San Francisco, Calif. on Sept. 17, 2010. 650 Townsend St. building from 8th St. in San Francisco, Calif. on Sept. 17, 2010. 650 Townsend St. building viewed from 8th St.…
Stephen Colbert testified in Congress on Friday about an immigration bill that he said — in all truthiness — he had not read, “like most members of Congress.” And when the comedian was challenged by one disgruntled lawmaker about his expertise, which was based on a single day spent hamming it up in…
If anyone can understand the tension between brick-and-mortar restaurants and the mobile army of food trucks that has stormed D.C. in the past year, it’s Stephan Boillon. After he lost his job at Dino in Cleveland Park in 2008, the veteran chef sought to launch an upscale sandwich shop on…
Bring It On Home [Vice] The Southern Boys Behind Eastbound & Down Send Kenny Powers’s Ass to Mexico Published October, 2010 BY HUNTER STEPHENSON PHOTOS BY RICHARD KERN This colossal exposé on the long-awaited second season of Eastbound & Down is going to appear in our October Larfs Issue, but we…
©photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman (click photo to visit her blog) [Note: Shuna, aka eggbeater, has covered this subject well and honestly in many posts , notably the culinary school question . I address it in the intro to the new paperback of Making of a Chef and on my FAQ page. But when I read…
by Adam M. Bright in Examined Life
It’s February. Eleven p.m. The air is cold, glittery, almost amniotically thick. There are all sorts of archetypal New York touches to the street scene outside: couples jaywalking, slabs of jury-rigged scaffolding over the sidewalks, fat tanklike dumpsters full of…
SEATTLE—The unattached, freewheeling, consequence-free years following Frank Anderton's graduation from college are being spent in "one of the coolest offices in all of Seattle," the 24-year-old reported Tuesday. Anderton, who has the world at his feet, works late at the office. "Man, it's the…
As I hinted in my previous post , Birdfeed’s development was highly stressful. I originally conceived the project with my brother Robert , but ended up losing him and all the early design work he had done on the app due to a conflict with his employer at the time. I let my perfectionism and…
As I work towards completing my own game , I’ve been thinking a lot about finishing projects in general. I’ve noticed that there are a lot of talented developers out there that have trouble finishing games. Truthfully, I’ve left a long trail of unfinished games in my wake… I think everyone has. Not…
Photo: Lance Iversen, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 20 Caption Close Image 1 of 20 French Laundry waiters and food runners line up in front of Chef de Cuisine, Timothy Hollingsworth who is plating up one of the thirteen courses offered on the nightly dinner serving. For many this is an…
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