Tag Archives: New Yorker Magazine

I spent a long time last night reading a lengthy expose of the Church Of Scientology in the latest issue of The New Yorker. There’s far too much there to effectively excerpt here (including a bit about the cult’s stance on gay rights), but do check it out when you get the time. Below Matt Lauer talks to the story’s …

From the new site that provides literal captions to the New Yorker’s famously obtuse cartoons, thereby making them actually funny.

After weeks of rumors, today the New York Times confirms that Conde Nast is ready to ink a deal to move its fleet of aspirational magazines and their accompanying army of snooty clackers away from their present midtown location and into One World Trade Center. Where they will be miles away from anything remotely hip! Oh noes! The deal to …

“As a gay man, I naturally spend much of my time debating casting issues involving the musical theatre, although, thankfully, I can’t share such thoughts with my unit. Instead, when I spot a potential suicide bomber, I think of him as someone who insists that Tyne Daly was the greatest Mama Rose of all time, even better than Merman. This …

I never mentioned it here (because..hello…the source was Perez Hilton), but moments after it made the news, a flack for Prince was denying his anti-gay quotes in the New Yorker, saying that the Artist Formerly Known As Interesting had been “grossly misquoted and misinterpreted.” Misinterpreted? “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, …

Openly gay New Yorker music critic Alex Ross, 40, has won a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. From the Foundation: Alex Ross is a critic whose writing captures the often-elusive aesthetic and technical aspects of classical and contemporary music with clarity, grace, and wit. A staff writer for the New Yorker, his frequent essays display an expansive knowledge of music and …

As usual, Jon Stewart nails it.

Drooling, enfeebled, medicated, Cheney acolyte. War hawk, Constitution burner, trophy wife. Pretty much hits on all the left’s attacks on McCain. It’s a pity the humorless National Review would never really pull a New Yorker in this way.

Via Queerty, here’s the latest result of today’s poll on World Net Daily, which ask readers to “sound off” on New Yorker’s Obamas-as-terrorists cover. At the moment, 60% of their wingnut readers believe the cartoon is “isn’t too far from the dangerous truth about the Obama family.” Embiggen for the idiocy.

The cover story of the current issue of New Yorker delves into Barack Obama’s rise from an unknown lawyer to a powerful Chicago politician, but it’s cartoonist Barry Blitt’s satirical artwork on that cover has got people screaming. Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is …