Politics Buzz Shepard Fairey's five-foot tall “Hope” portrait is headed to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, to be hung Inauguration Day. They won't reveal how much they paid for it, which means it cost approximately a butt-load.
Culture Buzz Joan Acocella, a Manhattanite herself, answers in Smithsonian why her fellow city dwellers are so often thought to be rude - it’s because they’re smart! As New Yorkers, we must admit we would have trouble imagining Ms. Acocella coming to our overpriced, underwhelming outer-borough apartment and thinking us Mensa material.