The New York Observer is edited for the intelligent, savvy New Yorker. It covers media, finance, politics, society and the cultural arts, and offers a unique, irreverent perspective on city life via columns, criticism, profiles and features. With its cheekily ostentatious old-style newspaper layout, giant Drew Friedman caricatures, and entertaining headlines, the New York Observer--New York's Weekly Newspaper--wears its grin of knowingness on its sleeve. The table of contents has its bylines of some impressive old men of New York cultural commentary--Andrew Sarris, Rex Reed, Hilton Kramer--but the Observer's real spirit is in the contemporary style coverage of Manhattan's most uncovered obsessions, such as real estate, publishing, Wall Street, local politics, and social and financial excess. There you'll find the persistent publicists, the embittered former managing editors, the howling apartment brokers, and the bored teen socialites who make schadenfreude such an exquisite urban pleasure. At its best, the Observer remains long and discreetly enough at the photo shoots and the tiny tables covered with empty martini glasses to make you feel that you are indeed hearing the talk of the city.
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