City Room: The Mayor and the Philip Roth Quote
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The mayor, at the end of his State of the City address on Thursday, cited a passage from Philip Roth's latest novel, "Exit Ghost." But the novel is not nearly as optimistic about New York City as the passage along would suggest.
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Philip Roth has won yet another literary prize, this time the PEN/Faulkner award for "Everyman," his short, bleak novel about illness and mortality.
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It would be impossible, in a short letter, to counter every argument made in your newspaper over the past few days lambasting Mayor Rocky Anderson. The short response is that Mayor Anderson is beholden to the constituents who elected him.
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What has gone wrong, might not go wrong Comment A new report "warns that cities considering municipal WiFi shouldnât fool themselves into believing that the experience will be as routine as running water, gas and electricity systems." The report should come with a Thatcher Warning; it's not ideologically neutral.â¦
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I&#8217;m not sure if this is a mixed metaphor, but Harvard and the mayor of New York have gone logrolling in the trans-fat cascade. The Harvard School of Public Health announced that it&#8217;s giving its highest honor, the Julius B. Richmond Award, to Mayor Michael Bloomberg for demonstrating &#8220;extraordinary leadership in protecting and promoting the [...].
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Did you hear the one about the gubernatorial candidate up for a literary prize?
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Tycho:  Gabe keeps coming into the Goddamn office with his Goddamn tales of high adventure, telling me about how there's tokens or some shit in Burning Crusade now, or maybe tiers, and other words I had scoured from my consciousness.  He also says there is hot new five-man content, which initially sounded like pornography.  The comic is correct - I purchased it in a moment of weakness.  As I must often approach you, the cherished reader, to apologize for this or that indiscretion, it may be more appropriate to say that I have moments of strength which are suspended in cowardice and moral decay.
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By TOM GALLAGHER  For the record, I will insist that formal discussions about allegations made against me by Mayor Lionel Rivera occur in public and be open to public participation. The issues bear on matters of ethics and values of your elected officials; the people have a right to know.
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Some are starting to wonder whether Mayor Daley's ambitious pledge of four years ago was more politics than policy
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Our Mayor For Life wants you to know that he is not out of gas. Not at all.
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Graham Hodges, author of "Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver," is taking questions from City Room readers this week.
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James Sanders, an architect, author and filmmaker based in New York City, is taking questions from City Room readers this week.
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A blog reader and longtime Giants fan sent us this dispatch from Tuesday's parade: By Dan Bruskewicz Is there a more antiquated idea of civic pride then a freaking parade? I mean, who does this anymore? What kind of modern American city has the time and space to shut down major blocks and forfeit innumerable civil servants [...].
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About one year after New York City announced an ambitious plan to take the fight to the long-tailed rodents and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sounded the battle cry &quot;City to rats: Drop dead,&quot; 1,200
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Tycho:   One of the questions during a a panel at PAX had to do with the italicised line at the end of each day's post.  They're almost always song lyrics, and back before we were paying for bandwidth (and before RIAA rape gangs were prowling the web) these lines used to link directly to the MP3.  I maintained the practice afterward because it's sort of like a song of the day, and I like the idea that someone might be struck by a strange turn of phrase and seek out a piece of music.  It also serves as a gauge of my mental state at the moment.  Today's song, for example, is Stan Rodgers' incredible live version of the sea shanty "Rolling Down To Old Maui," which Pandora kicked out after about a week of tuning the station.  I've listened to it about thirty times today.    The person who asked the question at the con complimented my musical tastes, and I accepted the compliment, but I'm almost always late to the scene.  I just bought Interpol's "Turn On The Bright Lights," for chrissakes.  I'm mostly lucky to know people who do have unique library.  I told him I would mention a few of my favorite bands on the site, but then I forgot.  Essentially, it's music that cool people were listening to a decade ago (where applicable).  I am a musical carrion bird.    He wanted me to list off a few bands, and I said I would last week, but then I forgot.  These are the first ten albums I could think of.    "Starless" by Shiner
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In reading about the mayor of Salt Lake City's latest foray into national politics, I detect two more signs that the apocalypse is upon us.  First, Rocky Anderson is our nation's moral authority.
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Although New York has for many years been the nationÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs most populous city, its mayorÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂs office has not been an effective springboard for candidates with statewide or national ambitions ÃÂ¢ÃÂÃÂ something former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani hopes to change in a bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.