This past weekend, Mediaite contributor Jasmine Moy took in the New Yorker Festival, one of the city’s hottest cultural tickets every fall, usually featuring very smart people sitting in chairs on stage, talking thoughtfully about smart things, for longer than five minutes and without interruption. Why is there so little of that on the telly? It even had its share of naughtiness: “They were small breasts, in keeping with the understated nature of the magazine.” If you want to find out the context for that remark, you’ll have to read on.

Who: Jeffrey Toobin, Calvin Trillin, Janeane Garofalo and Jonathan Alter, moderated by Andy Borowitz What: The Andy Borowitz Report: Obama’s First Year Where: 92nd St. Y When: January 27, 2010 Thumbs: Up Host/moderator Andy Borowitz set the tone for the evening with ten minutes of stand-up comedy at the top of the event. It sent [...]

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Didn’t scramble quickly enough to get your own elusive tickets to this year’s New Yorker Festival featuring the likes of Rachel Maddow, Matthew Weiner, Nate Silver, and Wallace Shawn (just to name a few!)? Fear not, you attend vicariously via the Twitterings of those lucky few who are there. Enjoy!

The thing about long-time New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin is that even though he represents the very best of what we are arguably losing in the demise of old media, you get the sense that had he been born into the 2.0 era he would have done just fine.