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Kara Smoke

@kbsmoke

Writer, editor. Current: Polskin Arts Former: @WWD, NY Observer, etc.

 New York, NY
Joined December 2008
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"All your favorite things will disappear" a dad in Williamsburg to his 7 year old daughter, who is upset that a cookie shop closed – at Brooklyn, NY
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Ok fine, I’ll re-watch Veep
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Boys can’t handle seeing tampons but girls can handle giving birth?
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Poking our heads back in here to post our FB post from earlier today! #timwalz #betsytacy #mankato
Image from The Betsy-Tacy Society (@btsociety)
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Time to revisit my Betsy-Tacy collection
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I remember when Bezos buying The @washingtonpost was the story—getting nostalgic for 2013 and still grateful to @farhip for picking up the phone. Cc @romenesko for almost scooping observer.com/2013/08/how-the…
How The Washington Post Kept Its Sale Under Wraps

How The Washington Post Kept Its Sale Under Wraps

Almost as surprising as news of Jeff Bezos’s $250 million purchase of the The Washington Post was the fact that both sides kept the deal under wraps for months without a leak. Few in the media worl…

observer.com
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Sad but Slack is the new Twitter for breaking meteorological news
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I never know when to leave a party
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Nothing like walking through the apocalypse for a Sweetgreen
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Wearing a mask for the first times in months, but only outside
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If you ever want to feel really bad, just think about how Elizabeth and Philip in The Americans had two kids, a travel agency AND spent all night being spies.
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One can of chenin blanc and there goes your Wordle streak…..
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A fun thing about parenting is that there are literally millions of decisions to make that do not matter, but you still have to spend lots of time and energy making them
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Who are all these people?
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One day you are young and having fun, and then the day comes when your greatest vice is a children’s melatonin gummy
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it's the 2-year anniversary of my favorite NYT Cooking comment (from "vegan caesar salad with crisp chickpeas," which is actually very good)
Image from Kelly Weill (@KELLYWEILL)
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Somehow I have already read Harry’s book in the NY Post, and I barely even care about royal gossip
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Nobody pronounces Never Kevin like BBC World Service
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There is nothing more Monday or January than the first day back to work after a break, especially when it’s a rainy Tuesday
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Back to back watched the last episode of Fleischman is in Trouble and a randomly chosen episode of Seinfeld where George gets engaged. Great companion pieces, really
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Standing online at S&Ps, listening to people trash LA, talk about writing first drafts and therapy appointments— just like god intended. Sometimes New York is still New York!
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