Someone has stumbled upon Courtney Love's Etsy profile, which presumably she uses to procure things with (as opposed to sell things with). It's nice to see she's consistent with her internet dealings, incorporating both her charming trademark typo-ridden text and a totally out-of-nowhere financial issues rant in her profile: more ›

Steven Slater's 15 minutes have stretched into 2011, and New York magazine has a profile on the former Jet Blue flight attendant and very momentary folk hero. The quirky quitting tactic Slater took is always worth revisiting, so here we go (again). Last year, at his wit's end, Slater announced over the intercom on a JetBlue flight: “To the passenger who called me a motherfucker: Fuck you. I’ve been in this business for twenty years. And that’s it. I’ve had it. I’m done.” He then grabbed two beers, slid down the emergency chute to his freedom, and a hero was born... until all the other sides of the story came out. But let's not go there again. Instead, a look at that profile, which manages to fill in some blanks (such as Slater and his partner Rochelle weren't having sex when authorities showed up). more ›

If you're on Facebook (and you probably are), you've no doubt seen that X amount of your friends have the "new profile." But they probably don't like it! Some people appear anxious about the more prominent display of some information, with one user writing on the Facebook blog, "I don't like it. Too messy...I don't like all my information (like when I was born, where my current location, etc.) appear directly on the top of the page." Important private information like that should at least be protected by a mouse click! more ›

If you make it through the this 8 bazillion word profile in the New York Observer on a crack-smoking hipster, please let us know how it ends. What we learned from a quick scan of the first page is that it doubles as a tip sheet for amateur crackophiles, and also bodegas sell crack kits! The code word at Crack Hipster's bodgea is: "Casaban." And if you say it, "you’re handed a brown paper bag containing the glass tube with a tiny bunched-up ball of steel wool at one end, and a little lighter. It costs $2.50." more ›

Thirteen's new series profiling New Yorkers released a new video this week, this time traveling to 33rd and 9th to visit Carlos Sarabia's coffee cart. They say he "emigrated from Jalisco, Mexico to the United States, bringing his mother's breakfast torta recipe with him." He works from Mondays through Friday, starting at sun up — and says he'd like to own his own cafe, where he wouldn't have to confront the harsh weather in the winter. more ›

The New Yorker has a characteristically sprawling profile piece on Alec Baldwin in this week's issue, and the 30 Rock star is characteristically candid about life, his career, and his future. Or, as his brother William puts it, “There’s always something for him to fucking whine about.” Indeed, the profile, titled "Why Me?", is chock full of Baldwinning quotes. more ›

This week’s New York Magazine cover story drops over 5,500 words on the “slightly illicit-sounding” Brownstoner, a blog that for several years has chronicled the steamy vicissitudes of gentrifying Brooklyn. Or rather, the article looks at Brooklyn’s turbulence through the prism of the blog’s commenters – specifically a derisive doomsday prophet who calls himself The What. 5,500 words, one commenter. Up next, a sprawling New Yorker profile on Alex Balk’s Tumblr imitator. more ›