Showing posts with label new york times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new york times. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

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We don't know what part of this sentence we like better:

"Awesome last name recipient and New York Times contributor Nicole Spiridakis ..."

SFist has picked up on the awesomely last named awesome NYTimes article about an up-and-coming SF neighborhood and -- since all blogs are only about the blogger anyway -- the item became vitriol magnet for author Brock Keeling.

Our favorite, posted anonymously: "If you call the Western Addition, NOPA, you deserve the stabbing or shooting your stupid white ass will get." Ouch.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

New York Times? N(o)P(a)!

The embargo has been lifted, and with it, our spirits.

peepsNet is pleased to reveal that Nicole has crashed through the gates of that certain East Coast newspaper of record with an article about a cool, emerging neighborhood in that West Coast town where she insists she must live.

Sunday's New York Times -- Travel Section, page 4, as earlier alluded to -- carries Nicole's homage to NOPA -- "the name stands for “north of the Panhandle,” that sliver of green jutting east from Golden Gate Park — was once known mostly for low-income housing and random shootings," Nicole writes. "But an influx of attention-getting restaurants and boutiques in the last decade has made it one of the city's cooler destinations, even as it struggles to maintain its gritty individuality," she continues, mocking the inaccessibility of this budding paradise to we Right Coast denizens.

The story is already on the web (yes, that is about the 11th link to it in this pimping puff piece. You should be so lucky.) but we cannot wait to see it in print which, as any New York Times reader will tell you (assuming that Jane O’Shaughnessy speaks for us all), is all that really matters.

peepsNet takes special note of the special care the NYT gave Nicole's article, commissioning a lovely illustration by Jorge Columbo to which we have linked, the better to shore up the paper's sagging readership.

No charge, Gray Lady. A reciprocal link would be just fine.

Monday, August 06, 2007

I'm Just Sayin'

I know you are all as upset as peepsNet is with the New York Times shrinking and all, but wait until Sunday before you give up on the Gray Lady.

Travel Section.

Page 4.

I'm just sayin'.