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SATURDAY, JULY 4, 2009

Hell's Kitchen Chef Sees Profits Fry

Ramsay pours millions into failing biz, admits 'ambition overtook me'

TRAVEL
ANALYSIS

A Little Bit Cloudy, a Little Bit Rock 'n Roll

Weather Channel abandons smooth jazz for harder-edged music

 Universal Turning  
 Atari's '70s Asteroids 
 Game Into Movie 

Crudely drawn '70s arcade classic to become full-length film

Quincy Jones Wants Vibe Back—Online

'They just messed
my magazine all up,'
former owner says

UPDATED

Jackson Memorial Tuesday at LA Arena After Family Service

20,000-seat coliseum will host farewell to the King of Pop

OPINION

 Emmys Line Up Harris to Host 

Mother star moves to TV after hosting Tonys

OPINION

 Rompers: 
 Play Clothes 
 for Grown-Ups 

Writer gives up, tries a few on—and actually likes some


  Plant Your Own Beer Garden 

Even if you don't drink, hop vines can be an attractive garden addition

 Angie Edges 
 Jen as Top 
 Earner 


Just by $2 million, though

Vatican Steps Up Scrutiny
of American Nuns

Nuns fear church heirarchy is seeking to return them to strictly traditional ways

OPINION
OPINION

 Best Cheap, Canned US Beers 

National Bohemian tops list of cheap crowd pleasers

Judge Backs Salinger, Blocks Catcher Sequel

Novel about Holden Caulfield can't be published in US

OBITUARY

Karl Malden, Oscar-Winner and AmEx Face, Dead at 97

'Don't leave home without it,' he reminded



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Jenny Sanford Is a Bummer

77
Jul 2, 09 | 9:03 AM BY Michael Wolff

How come Jenny Sanford has become a heroine for American women in the new sex wars? Ruth Marcus excitedly expressed the conventional wisdom on Mrs. Sanford in yesterday’s Washington Post, calling her a “model for the wronged political spouse.” Tina Brown, who, as I recall, stole her husband out from under another woman, detailed her keen satisfaction that Sanford had not stood shamefacedly by her husband’s side in the manner of Silda Spitzer... More »

Do You Use a Vibrator?

30
Jul 1, 09 | 9:29 AM BY Michael Wolff

Apparently half of adult Americans use vibrators, according to a new study. That does not mean that women use vibrators and men don’t.... More »

Madoff Sentence: Is It a Jewish Thing?

31
Jun 30, 09 | 9:23 AM BY Michael Wolff

How many more years in prison did Bernie Madoff get for being Jewish? We might as well get the question out there. It’s surfaced... More »

Michael Jackson Goes to Heaven

14
Jun 29, 09 | 9:24 AM BY Michael Wolff

The New York Post has run an almost unaccountable number of Wacko Jacko headlines during Michael Jackson’s peculiar... More »

Who Killed Michael Jackson?

23
Jun 26, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

While his is an end long foretold, it will nevertheless receive and, by tabloid rules require, obsessive explanation and a search for both... More »

Disgraced Sanford as Romantic Hero

7
Jun 25, 09 | 9:11 PM BY Caroline Miller

Boy, the avalanche of blogs and columns about Mark Sanford’s confession of marital infidelity yesterday have been almost as weird... More »

Why Fox News Is Really Pleasant and Agreeable

33
Jun 25, 09 | 9:37 AM BY Michael Wolff

How does Fox News do it? In the face of an incredibly popular Democratic president, a Republican Party and conservative movement in vast... More »

Steve Jobs Lives (or Is Not Dead, Apparently)

7
Jun 24, 09 | 9:09 AM BY Michael Wolff

Well, is he in the building or not? Is he all better? Why won’t they tell us? And does it matter? Now, it very well may be that... More »

Iran: Media Loves a Revolution

19
Jun 23, 09 | 9:29 AM BY Michael Wolff

More than murder, corruption, war, scandal, it’s revolution that the media adores. Revolution’s the ultimate conflict and... More »

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