Extra! Extra!

Via Romenesko:

Tickets for the New York Post’s 2 1/2-hour tour cost $49. “Overall, I want it to be fun for people,” says publisher Jesse Angelo. “That’s the whole point. Every tour on earth tells you about The Plaza. None of them tells you about Charlie Sheen.” (The Post’s tour guide discusses Sheen’s coke-and-hooker antics at the famed hotel.)

I wonder if an extra 5-spot will get you out on Long Island to the auto body shop where Joey Buttafuoco first met and fucked Amy Fisher in an apartment above his garage.

Saturday (Evening) 'Post'

HERE is a rather juicy story I wrote for Page Six awhile back.

Saturday (Evening) 'Post'

The story about the arrest of the "Cat Woman" burglar was kind of interesting.

But the accidental death of a 17-year-old is nothing but sad news.

Thursday Post

Another busy week as a tabloid "prodigy": the story about the Carpios and their sextuplets was the cutest thing I've worked on yet, while this short on Timbaland had me wondering what really is going on with the rapper-producer.

Saturday (Evening) 'Post'

HERE is a sad piece I worked on for The New York Post yesterday.

Another GOSSIPY story I wrote on Thursday got folded into a Page Six item.

Thursday Post

Click above or HERE to check out my story from Thursday's New York Post. (The Web version didn't do it justice as you had to see the photos to fully appreciate it all.)

Saturday (Evening) 'Post'

Tracked down the guy in South Africa who was holding Naomi Campbell's blood diamonds HERE, which netted me my first Page 1 refer.

Plus ...

My first Rick "15-second man" Pitino story HERE.

'Post' Script

My first "floater"

If someone bludgeons me to death with a cell phone, I think you know where to point the cops.

'Post' Script

Did some more work for The New York Post this week:

Every day is different when you're reporting. At one point, THIS story was going to be divided into three parts, with the Blomberg angle plus another story examining the cultural significance of saggin', and a fun "man on the street" piece where we spoke to a bunch of high school kids about their droopy drawers (you should hear what they had to say about Obama's advice to "pull your pants up"!). In the end, it wound up only being a tiny piece on Bloomberg's press conference.

THIS was one of the most difficult stories I've ever had to work on. Truly heartbreaking stuff.

Pull(ed) Quote

Had my first (freelance) byline in the famed New York Post today, about Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand cleaning up on The Hill's 50 most beautiful list. Sadly, I wasn't able to include the hilarious Ben Widdicombe's take on the whole thing:

"Given that they say politics is show business for ugly people, a 50 Most Besutiful List for DC is a little like handing out prizes for the tallest gnome. Still, it's impossible not to be proud of our gun-lovin' junior senator snagging the third spot (even if we suspect that if Caroline Kennedy had gotten the seat, she would have come at least second)."