Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ New York Times ’

Julian Newman: He's short, he's young, and he's a serious baller.
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There's nothing more to say about FieriGate. OK, there are two things.
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The young Cornerstone Theatre Co. will stage a weekend-long run of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People, a Southie-set exploration of class, loyalty and shame, as the first show of their ambitious first full season.
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For the cover of our Sept. 8 issue, we profiled Bill Doyle, a Central Florida retiree and one of the lead plaintiffs in the trillion-dollar “9/11 Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism” lawsuit. When the suit was first announced in 2002, it made headlines not only for its price tag and its thousands of plaintiffs...
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After the we saw the headline in the New York Times which read “Sentencing Shift Gives New Leverage to Prosecutors,” we had a hunch that the report, though nationwide in scope, would draw heavily on the state of Florida. “Tough on crime” has been a mantra of the state legislature for decades, and mandatory-minimum...
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In our Aug. 4 cover story, “Underdog Hand,” Ashley Belanger examined the fallout from a federal ban on online gambling through the fortunes of Grayson Nichols, a Windermere-based poker whiz struggling to adjust to a radically different gambling landscape. Though Nichols’ profession had essentially been eliminated with the disappearance of the web’s largest poker...
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The clock is ticking. In three days, the United States is expected to default on its debts—that is, unless Republicans and Democrats in Washington can agree on legislation to raise the country’s debt ceiling, currently set at $14.3 trillion. Some observers, like James Surowiecki of the New Yorker, find the ceiling an unnecessary regulation,...
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As you may recall, last week we ran an article about the struggles of Syrian- and Libyan-Americans here in Florida to come to terms with the revolution gripping their countries overseas. The article profiles two women in particular, Dena Atassi, a 26 year-old whose family hails from Homs, Syria’s third largest city, and 30...
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In an effort to show you that we do in fact read, and also to remind you that Bloggytown has not been completely swallowed by the Food Not Bombs fracas, we want to take this opportunity to point you to a few non-Weekly articles that relate to our own published and personal interests. Training...
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For those of you who haven’t yet reached your 20-stories-per-month limit on the website of the New York Times,  check out this recent piece on how the Casey Anthony trial has helped to save HLN — the TV network formerly known as Headline News — from the ratings gutter. An excerpt: As Court TV...
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