Free agency opens on Friday. The Yankees need to sign C.C. Sabathia as soon as possible once it does. He is not the final piece—but it will be extremely difficult for New York them to win in 2009 without him. He represents something the Yankees...

In the paper today we talked to some publishing people about why more reporters out on the campaign trail aren't working on books about the election-and why the handful who are doing it think it's a good idea. One campaign book that has already bitte...

The Mets don't look like a winning team customarily looks. It seems impossible to imagine that a team with a bullpen so unreliable, and utterly devoid of quality performers, could manage to make the playoffs, let alone contend for a championship. But...

Last week, we told you about how Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore was slated to speak about the intersection of music and publishing at yesterday's Brooklyn Book Festival with fellow punk icon Ian MacKaye.

So, in the interest of writing about something, anything, other than Chinese Democracy (which, by the way, landed on Best Buy’s shelves yesterday), we thought we’d fill you in on yet another musical event we thought would never come to pass.

Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web. A Thanksgiving survival guide on Hulu - Admit it: You'll probably be spending at...

Because you really don't have to see New Moon for the fourth time in less than a week, Hollywood is pulling out all the trimmings this Thanksgiving. By which we mean yet another movie about the apocalypse (The Road) and one that could potentially cause...

Rudy Giuliani, the big scoop went, had decided to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand for her U.S. Senate seat next year and would announce his candidacy "in the next 48 hours." 120 hours later (and counting), the world is still waiting to hear from Rudy....

There's a question that's been coming up a good deal lately: Is Atlantic Yards ever going to happen? Time will soon tell. The planned $4.9 billion development--home to a new Nets basketball arena, 15 residential towers, and an office building--is now...

As the magazine industry dies a very slow death, its leaders continue to buy up lovely little Manhattan homes. Condé Nast heir Samuel I. Newhouse IV just bought a $2.5 million Tribeca loft (with "a sensual zen-like" master bedroom), while Vice...