- 12/5/11 /
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Russians Are the Latest to Take Up iPhones in Protest
We don't know whether the election was dirtier than previous contests. We do know more people carried iPhones.
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Michael Idov Archive
- 8/10/11 /
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Considering Lifetime’s Wan New Reality Series, Russian Dolls
Brighton Beach's answer to 'Jersey Shore' is more or less 'The Real Housewives of Kings County.'
- 2/3/11 /
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A Russian Film Comes Up With a Crazy New Kind of Publicity Gimmick
He's buried under latex and CGI, and the press is being driven mad trying to figure out who it is.
- 6/14/10 /
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One Night With Evelyn Evelyn, Amanda Palmer’s Conjoined-Twin Creation
From writing to performing to partying.
- 5/7/10 /
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How a Russian Town’s Contest to Design a Woody Allen Statue Got Judged by Allen Himself
We have the four designs that Allen picked that best illustrated his legacy.
- 3/14/10 /
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Meet the Masterminds of New York’s Tea-Party Movement
Their biggest donor so far is a Manhattan doctor who's written a check for $500.
- 3/10/10 /
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City Agencies Descend on Lead- and Asbestos-Choked Apthorp Building
The Apthorp tenants were always an eye-rollingly wheedling bunch, but it's hard to argue with a laundry list of wipe samples quoting six to ten times the legal amounts of lead in the air.
- 3/9/10 /
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Eric Massa, Unpredictable Explosive
Republicans are embracing the ex-congressman's tales of Rahm Emanuel's intimidation tactics, but Democrats expect him to backfire.
- 9/29/09 /
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men Director John Krasinski on Adapting David Foster Wallace
"I was scared people would think I was doing this only to get away from 'The Office,' to be super-dark and cerebral."
- 8/9/09 /
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The Political-Celebrity Complex
Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and Silvio Berlusconi are on the cutting edge of a new trend in political personality cults.
