Brian Sutorius
Ethan Hill
Published in the March 2010 “Essentials” issue
For the 281st time in the last ten months, Roger Ebert is sitting down to watch a movie in the Lake Street Screening Room, on the sixteenth floor of what used to pass for a skyscraper in the Loop. Ebert’s been coming to it for nearly thirty…
Inside the singular hysteria of the Academy Awards race. Quentin Tarantino being interviewed before the Critics' Choice Awards, in L.A. (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe) Portfolio by Brigitte Lacombe T he crowd inside Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater on January 9 is awaiting what is being billed as �An…
Last year, I spent two months recreating Your First Meteor Application , a video training series about building web applications with the Meteor JavaScript framework. This involved: Figuring what worked (and what didn’t) about the original version. Completely reworking every second of content from…
It’s fall-TV season, which means a lot of new network dramas try to be like daring cable-TV dramas, and a lot of new sitcoms in which people in their 20s deliver punchlines about having either no sex or a lot of it. Of course, some of the new shows are better—and worse—than that. Here’s my guide,…
Randy Mims, left, one of the Four Horsemen, is the first to exchange a handshake with LeBron James before games. David Ahntholz for The New York Times CLEVELAND — It is known simply as the Ritual. Thanks to the postgame highlights that show it, the posters that celebrate it, the shoe that is named…
I don't think we computer geeks appreciate how profoundly the rise of the smartphone, and Facebook, has changed the Internet audience. It's something that really only happened in the last five years , as smartphones and data plans dropped radically in price and became accessible – and addictive – to…
Jay and Dave together? Could it be true? It is, and there they were, Jay Leno and David Letterman sitting on a couch – with Oprah Winfrey between them — upstairs at the Ed Sullivan Theater, where Mr. Letterman tapes his show. The spot was shot last Tuesday afternoon, under the strictest of secrecy…
January 29, 2010 7:44 PM 6:59:00 AM 35,000 Feet You have a late night and an early flight. Not long after takeoff, you drift to sleep. Suddenly, you’re wide awake. There’s cold air rushing everywhere, and sound. Intense, horrible sound. Where am I?, you think. Where’s the plane? You’re 6 miles up.…
Caves are some of the last places on the planet left to explore. Though caving is relatively safe, if something goes wrong deep inside the Earth, a rescue can take days — in part because cell phones and walkie-talkies don’t work underground. But a remarkable teenager in New Mexico has invented a…
At the laundromat, irregular things happen. People square off over washers mine; no, mine. They sit on the counters where you were planning to fold T-shirts. Women conveniently forget a negligee in a dryer so you’ll find it and marry them. Street people try to sell utterly unnecessary things.…
FOR FROTH OR FERMENT At Little Branch, Cervantes Medina adds an egg to a Bermuda Sour. Photographs by Jeffrey Gurwin for The New York Times WHATEVER happened on the evening of Jan. 19 at the Pegu Club, the high-end cocktail hangout in Manhattan, the perpetrator was a specialty of the house: the Earl…
Happycentro Elizabeth Barrett Browning once gave the poetry of her husband, Robert, a harsh assessment, criticizing his habit of excessively paring down his syntax with opaque results. “You sometimes make a dust, a dark dust,” she wrote him, “by sweeping away your little words.” In their quest for…
Never Dupe Your Readers I normally stay out of the fray when somebody in our industry does something stupid — because it happens so often — but what Jason Calacanis did to his readers on Twitter last night and this morning is as clear an example of pomposity and disrespect as you’ll ever find:…
Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images You don't miss the game when the most charismatic athlete of his generation visits your city. Like everyone else at Staples Center, I had a little extra hop in my step Saturday night. LeBron was in the house. I skipped the second half of a live NFL playoff game…
Tumblr and Posterous are the two most prominent “tumblogging” sites, i.e. sites that make blogging more straightforward by making it easier to post media. Both were launched within six months. (Actually, Posterous was started later than Tumblr.) But now Tumblr has been an Alexa Top 100 site for a…
04.13. 2006 The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day. You will be tempted to just peck at it or even skip it altogether, rationalizing that you need to save yourself for the much larger steak later that night. But this is a false economy, like refusing to…
Paul Drinkwater/NBC Conan O’Brien released a statement Tuesday saying that he no longer wanted to be the host of “The Tonight Show” on NBC if it appeared at 12:05 a.m. Mr. O’Brien’s brief run as host at 11:35 p.m. is to be cut short next month, as NBC decided to restore his predecessor, Jay Leno, to…
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Originally published in the March 2008 issue
Five weeks ago, I was working the elliptical, my feet throbbing out those nasty loops. The entire machine panted its report, the morning mantra: down, down, down. Once I’d hit a…
Wingard and Barrett have a perfect eye and ear for this type of material. They have fun with their influences, paying homage to John Carpenter…
In his music, he routinely celebrates/deconstructs his public persona: brutalizer, coward, agnostic, and wannabe deity. “20,000 Days on Earth” is…
At NBC, a redefining moment After failed Leno experiment, 'Tonight Show' may never be the same By Gary Levin USA TODAY PASADENA, Calif. � TV's late shift is shifting again, and in a way that could retool a television institution, The Tonight Show . On Sunday, NBC confirmed what was Hollywood's…
CHICKEN liver is what the restaurateur Danny Meyer calls a torpedo. Left to its own devices, it may be unappetizing and unpopular, but when paired with what he calls an enhancer — applewood smoked bacon in the case of the chicken liver on the menu at Tabla, Mr. Meyer’s Indian fusion restaurant in…
David Quinlan is a normal guy with day job and just a bit of coding experience. But he and a friend lived the dream and cranked out a simple iPhone app in a weekend. Here's how they did it: "Thai, salad or ramen?" It's lunchtime on a typical Thursday and it strikes us that millions of people all…
John Mackey at a store in Austin, Texas. To “the people that really dislike us,” he says, “Whole Foods is a big corporation, so they think that we’ve crossed over to the dark side.” Credit Photograph by Dan Winters John Mackey, the co-founder and chief executive of Whole Foods Market, refers to the…
The dirty little secret about simple: It’s actually hard to do. That’s why most people make complex stuff. Simple requires deep thought, discipline, and patience – things that many companies lack. That leaves room for you. Do something simpler than your competitors and you’ll win over a lot of…
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By John Aloysius Farrell, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
So. I’ve returned to Thomas Jefferson St. after taking a few months off for a book leave. Why does it take such effort to write a book? Consider this cautionary tale: the story of The Greatest Newspaper Lead Ever Written.
When I embarked on the…
EXPERT OPINION Yawn It’s one of the best things you can do for your brain. Nov|Dec 09 contents Gazette Home First Person Alumni Voices Two old souls Elsewhere A (tiny) pot to piss in Expert Opinion Yawn! By Andrew Newburg | Yawn. Go ahead: Laugh if you want (though you’ll benefit your brain more if…
#185771 - Pastie He’d decided to try his SUV in a little bit of cross-country travel, hadgreat fun zooming over the badlands and through the sand, got lost, hit abig rock, and then he couldn’t get it started again. There were no cellphone towers anywhere near, so his cell phone was useless. He had…
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It’s fact-encirclingly huge, and it’s idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking, and full of simmering controversies—and it’s free, and it’s fast. In a few seconds you can look up, for instance, “Diogenes of…
Sadly, Thanksgiving's feast lasts but a few days, depending on how fast you plow through leftovers. But at Dave's Chillin-n-Grillin in Eagle Rock, a city district north of downtown, the traditional holiday meal is served every Thursday - on a bun. It's called the Pilgrim: For $7, patrons get a…
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My eight-year-old son, Joel, comes into my office to ask if there's a worse swearword than fuck. "No," I say. There's a silence. "You're lying," he says. "There's none worse than fuck," I say. Joel narrows his eyes. "I know you're lying," he says. He leaves the room. On Saturday I take Joel to…
The Making of an Agent After 16 weeks of action-packed exercises that will test them to the core, the recruits in Training Class No. 283 will pass into the elite ranks of the Secret Service -- or leave humiliated By Laura Blumenfeld Sunday, July 26, 2009 LESSON ONE: Get Ready To Die The teacher…
For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this question. We have collected data around the world: from China, Greece, Chile, Indonesia, Russia, and…
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