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The Brat Pack

I was curious to see how many people remember "The Brat Pack" and if so which was your favorite actor from the group. The group consisted of nine actors/actresses: Judd Nelson, Andrew McCarthy, Mare...

Meetings Of The Minds: The 2007 Howie Kurtz-David Blum Peace Accord

Howie Kurtz, Washington Post media critic and author of "Reality Shows: Inside the Last Great Television News War," tells blog BigHeadDC that he'd be glad to meet with New York Press editor David...

Where Former 'village Voice' Editors Go: From the mailbag: "Does anyone care that ...

From the mailbag: "Does anyone care that David Blum is going to be the new (managing?) editor at the New York Press?" Oh I'm sure someone does.

In Brief: From the mailbag: "Does anyone care that ...

From the mailbag: "Does anyone care that David Blum is going to be the new (managing?) editor at the New York Press?" Oh I'm sure someone does.

Village Voice: Mara Altman Moves On

One of the final ties to the David Blum era at the Village Voice has finally been severed: We understand that the paper is dispensing with the services of Blum protégé Mara Altman, a young writer who...

Parents Just Don't Understand: David Blum Is Trying To Revive Ophelia All Wrong

"The drunk driving arrest of Lindsay Lohan on Saturday reminds us yet again what lousy role models our culture offers its population of teenage girls. And that's just when that demographic group has...

Ideas That Are Not Ideas: David Blum Will Fix Your Book Industry Like He Fixed The Newspaper Industr

Former Village Voice editor and J-school prof David Blum is confused about something. Why is Josh Ferris's Then We Came To The End not a New York Times bestseller, even though...

Keith Gessen And David Blum Hate America

Harvard alums Simon Rich, Bridie Clark and Keith Gessen sat down with the Crimson recently to talk about their lives as literary figures making a living in the harsh marketplace that is life after...

David Blum's Many Masculine Mistakes

David Blum once again demonstrates the rhetorical skill and journalistic integrity that marked his stewardship of the Village Voice with a review of Leslie Bennetts' new book, The Feminine Mistake,...

Against Didion: The Whine Album

So that recent Sun piece where former Voice editor David Blum tried to go all Arlene Croce on Joan Didion garnered what may very well be the saddest comment we've ever seen. Submitted by lenore, Mar...

David Blum's 'Voice' Ouster: Meaning! Context!

At last, two gigantic David Blum post-mortems. Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar—who needs to learn that it's not all hugs and kisses in this business—seems to think Blum has been tarred as...