Wendell Jamieson
New York
Co-author "Connecting Dots" with Josh Miele (@berkeleyblink). Editorial Director @NicholasLence. Worked for 4 NYC papers. Pulitzer pieces. Lifelong Brooklynite.
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How It Felt As It Happened
What we experienced that day and how the media processed it For those of us who were here, a certain kind of morning brings it all back. A big blue sky with the first hint of autumn prickling our skin. Some of us dream about that day. I know I do. Airplanes crashing into buildings. We can’t forget… Furious dust storms hurtling down the canyons of Wall Street before bursting out into the harbor. A man who an hour earlier had been choosing a tie now somersaulting from the heavens, that tie flapping.
September 5, 2026 - Air Mail
WISH YOU WEREN’T HERE ALL ABOUT EVE THE GREAT FALL OF CHINA PORTRAITS OF GRIEF A TASTE FOR BLOOD ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH LIFE CHIPP ON THEIR SHOULDERS BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Issue No. 373 sparkle Van Cleef & Arpels The perennial clover that adorns each piece of the Van Cleef & Arpels Alhambra collection just got a brand-new, rose-colored look… watch A New Leaf Elaine May cut her teeth as an improvisational comedian alongside Mike Nichols before finding her wickedly sharp, wry writer’s voice…...
Inside "Portraits of Grief," the New York Times's 9/11 Obituary Series
Christine Kay, an assistant Metro editor, came running up to my desk. This was on Sept. 13, 2001, and we were in the newsroom of the old New York Times building on West 43rd Street. Two days before, the World Trade Center had been hit by two hijacked planes and destroyed. We were all still in shock; the city still smelled like smoke. She said she needed someone to edit victim profiles. That someone was me. So began what remains, 25 years later, the assignment of a lifetime.
When Hokusai Met Hiroshige
The exhibition “Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals” garnered worldwide attention when it opened at London’s Tate Gallery in 2025. On the same walls, the two undisputed English landscape masters went mano a mano, revealing vastly different visions and sensibilities even as they moved through the same era, even the same drawing rooms.
"American Reich" Traces the Rise of Neo-Nazism in Young Men
American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate by Eric Lichtblau Blaze Bernstein had been a “popular, smart-alecky kid with wide-ranging interests” in his artsy California high school. After graduating, in 2016, he went on to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied psychology and was named managing editor of the student foodie magazine, Penn Appetit.
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese star known for 'Ran' and other classics, dies at 92
Tatsuya Nakadai, a prolific actor whose work with many of the most accomplished directors in Japan made him one of the country’s biggest movie stars and gave him international reach in films like Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran,” died Nov. 8 in Tokyo. He was 92. He died of pneumonia in a hospital, said Naoko Ema, an actress at Mumeijuku, the theater company and acting school that Nakadai founded in Tokyo in 1975.
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Star Known for ‘Ran’ and Other Classics, Dies at 92
Tatsuya Nakadai, a prolific actor whose work with many of the most accomplished directors in Japan made him one of the country’s biggest movie stars, died on Saturday in Tokyo. He was 92. He died of pneumonia in a hospital, said Naoko Ema, an actress at Mumeijuku, the theater company and acting school that Mr. Nakadai founded in Tokyo in 1975. With his intensely expressive eyes often widened for effect, Mr. Nakadai appeared in more than 100 films over a seven-decade career.
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Star Known for 'Ran' and Other Classics, Dies at 92
TORONTO -- How can you tell when you've just been part of the greatest World Series game of your lifetime? Or maybe we should make that anybod…
Thirty Years After New York Newsday, There’s Never Been Another Paper Like It
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Once there was another newspaper here. It was born with great hopes but died before it became a teenager. It sought to mix the solid journalism of the New York Times with the aggressively colorful coverage of the Daily News and the New York Post. Its staff was younger than that of most newsrooms, and strikingly more diverse. This newspaper was kinder than the tabloids, could wear its heart on its sleeve, and for this it was occasionally mocked.
Goodbye to the M & M Man
It’s 8:10 am, just north of Times Square, and soda cans, bottles, and discarded paper face masks are blowing around on the ground outside a grimy office building. The entrance is between a gentleman’s club and a boarded-up restaurant. I use a plastic key card to get inside the building and operate the elevator. Getting off on the ninth floor, I use keys to enter an empty office.
A New History of World War II Revisits the Alliances that Shaped the Allied Powers
Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World by Tim Bouverie World War II: the good guys versus the bad guys. Democracy versus Fascism. Spitfires and Mustangs versus Messerschmitts and Zeros. It was all so simple, the world in black and white. Not really. That may be the general plotline, but the alliances and connections that made up the Allied side were ever shifting, out of convenience or necessity, with endless sideshows and subplots.
"Connecting Dots" Author Wendell Jamieson on Joshua Miele's Inspiring Journey
“I saw him today—the boy who got burned.” This was my little sister, Lindsay, talking. We were having dinner with our mother in the kitchen of our brownstone on St. John’s Place in Park Slope, Brooklyn, sometime in the mid-1970s. We didn’t know the boy’s name, the boy who got burned, but we knew what happened, because everyone in Park Slope knew what happened: he opened the gate of his family’s house on President Street, and a “crazy man” poured a cup of acid on his head.
Before he was Diddy: Covering Sean Combs’s first scandal
“Puff who?” I asked. “Puff Daddy.” “Puff Daddy?” “Yes.” “Who the hell is that?” “How should I know? That’s what my guy said.” Breslin was confused. So was I. He was on a pay phone somewhere in New York City. I was in the city room of New York Newsday in midtown, the only reporter on duty. It was a little hard to make him out through the static and car horns. Sign up for CJR's daily email I leaned over to the assistant city editor, Kristen Kelch.
Commentary: The dance floor from ‘Saturday Night Fever’? It’s stayin’ alive
There's that floor again, that famous floor - geometric, primary colors, flashing in the perpetuity of pop culture memory, an icon of the long-ago disco era.
Commentary: The Dance Floor From ‘Saturday Night Fever’? It’s Stayin’ Alive - Los Angeles Times
There’s that floor again, that famous floor — geometric, primary colors, flashing in the perpetuity of pop culture memory, an icon of the long-ago disco era.
Opinion: The dance floor from 'Saturday Night Fever'? It's stayin' alive
There’s that floor again, that famous floor — geometric, primary colors, flashing in the perpetuity of pop culture memory, an icon of the long-ago disco era.
The Day a Boy Fell From the Sky
ON a winter afternoon, the light in Snooky's Pub in Park Slope, Brooklyn, is almost the color of Scotch and water. Outside, the baby stroller army rolls down Seventh Avenue. Inside there is cigarette smoke, a Dennis Quaid movie playing silently on TV, and murmured talk and laughter around the polished bar, the light glinting on the upside-down glasses. Some days, you can find Barbara Lewnes here, after her morning errands, having lunch, talking with a few of the regulars.
Book and Film Globe
Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steve Kemper focuses on the tense and seemingly unstoppable run-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, 81 years ago today. But while reading the early pages, one can’t help but think about another war, the one unfolding today in Ukraine. For weeks, the world was warned that Russia planned to invade. Tanks and troops massed at the border. Vladimir Putin issued denials and dismissed the warnings as absurd lies by the West.
Joe Biden should pardon Donald Trump - in part
President Biden should pardon President Trump. Stop screaming. You heard me right. Let me explain. Joe Biden should grant a pre-emptive, blanket pardon to Donald Trump for all and any crimes he may have committed related to the withholding of classified materials, as well as other government property, at his Mar-a-Lago estate, as well as any crimes of perjury he may have committed regarding those materials. Biden should hold a primetime broadcast to announce the pardon.
Dead at 104, Hunt's Career Derailed by Red Scare
Marsha Hunt, who appeared in more than 50 movies between 1935 and 1949 and seemed well on her way to stardom until her career was damaged by the Hollywood blacklist, and who, for the rest of her career, was as much an activist as she was an actress, died on Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 104. Her death was announced by Roger C.
Marsha Hunt, Actress Turned Activist, Is Dead at 104
Movies|Marsha Hunt, Actress Turned Activist, Is Dead at 104 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/movies/marsha-hunt-dead.html She seemed well on her way to stardom until her career was derailed by the Hollywood blacklist. She then turned her attention to social causes. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. The actress Marsha Hunt in an undated photo.
Opinion | Russia didn’t learn from the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. But Ukraine can
On television and online, commentators reach furiously for comparisons to past conflicts for insights into the Ukrainian-Russian war. How will it ever end? At the same time, military analysts watch closely to see how lethal new technologies lead to ghastly carnage like in Donbas and Irpin. What can we learn about how to fight future wars?
Russia didn’t learn from the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. But Ukraine can
On television and online, commentators reach furiously for comparisons to past conflicts for insights into the Ukrainian-Russian war. How will it ever end? At the same time, military analysts watch closely to see how lethal new technologies lead to ghastly carnage like in Donbas and Irpin. What can we learn about how to fight future wars?
Why it hurts so much when they hit the subways: The N-train mass shooting and NYC
By Wendell Jamieson New York Daily News | Apr 14, 2022 at 5:00 AM The subways are the great equalizer of the great city. Bosses and workers, riders of all genders and ethnicities, cram together, or at least they did before COVID. Some lines are like journeys around the world, every stop a new country. As teenagers we took dates on the subways; afterwards, we rode home on them, elated or dejected. We rode them to our first jobs. As parents, we taught our children to navigate them.
The Making of Tora! Tora! Tora!
Tora! Tora! Tora!’s special-effects crews built giant model ships—some of them 40 feet long—that could be shot in the Sersen tank at Twentieth Century Fox’s ranch in Calabasas, California. University of New Mexico Wendell Jamieson Autumn 2021 The USS Yorktown (CV-10) steamed gently 30 miles off the coast of San Diego on a golden December morning in 1968.
Wendell Jamieson column: With Pearl Harbor memories still raw, Hollywood told the story through an unexpected lens
Wendell Jamieson column: With Pearl Harbor memories still raw, Hollywood told the story through an unexpected lens GETTY IMAGES By Wendell Jamieson By Wendell Jamieson For many years as I was growing up, my mother’s companion was a man named Bob Kulicke. He was 16 when Pearl Harbor was bombed 80 years ago, on Dec. 7, 1941, and he and his buddies were disappointed to be too young to join up. They were sure this war would be over by the time they could. No such luck.
Commentary: With Pearl Harbor memories still raw, Hollywood told the story through an unexpected lens
For many years as I was growing up, my mother’s companion was a man named Bob Kulicke. He was 16 when Pearl Harbor was bombed 80 years ago, on Dec. 7, 1941, and he and his buddies were disappointed to be too young to join up. They were sure that this war would be over by the time they could. No such luck. On his 18th birthday he got a telegram from Uncle Sam that began “Greetings.” Three years later he came home, after fighting five campaigns against the Japanese in the Pacific.
With Pearl Harbor memories still raw, Hollywood told the story through an unexpected lens
For many years as I was growing up, my mother’s companion was a man named Bob Kulicke. He was 16 when Pearl Harbor was bombed 80 years ago, on Dec. 7, 1941, and he and his buddies were disappointed to be too young to join up. They were sure that this war would be over by the time they could. No such luck. On his 18th birthday he got a telegram from Uncle Sam that began “Greetings.” Three years later he came home, after fighting five campaigns against the Japanese in the Pacific.
Op-Ed: With Pearl Harbor memories still raw, Hollywood told the story through an unexpected lens
"Tora! Tora! Tora!" deployed real planes and elaborate sets. (Twentieth Century Fox / Corbis via Getty Images) For many years as I was growing up, my mother’s companion was a man named Bob Kulicke. He was 16 when Pearl Harbor was bombed 80 years ago, on Dec. 7, 1941, and he and his buddies were disappointed to be too young to join up. They were sure that this war would be over by the time they could. No such luck.
Arlene Dahl, Movie Star Turned Entrepreneur, Is Dead at 96
She had already started branching out when her film career was at its height, writing a syndicated column and launching a fashion and cosmetics business. Arlene Dahl in about 1955. Her column-writing and entrepreneurial ventures kept her in the public eye long after she had left Hollywood and settled in Manhattan.Credit...Fox Photos/Hulton Archive, via Getty Images Nov.
Rock Force Book Review–Another WWII Tale - Book and Film Globe
As World War II recedes into the distant past, nonfiction books slice it thinner and thinner. Some doorstoppers still cover the grand arcs of entire theatres and campaigns, but others narrow the lens and give lesser-known moments their dramatic–and sometimes cinematic–due. Books about battles have given way to books about battles within battles.
What if Trump had found his inner FDR?
The United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor was a shattered, smoking ruin — battleships blown apart, turned turtle or settled in the mud — when President Franklin D. Roosevelt, following thunderous bipartisan applause, addressed Congress. “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy…” Everyone knows what followed — a call to arms that, at just more than 500 words, remains one of the most potent yet succinct presidential addresses of all time.
Book and Film Globe
The magisterial final volume of Ian W. Toll’s Pacific War trilogy September 2nd marks the 75th anniversary of the day the Japanese officially surrendered on the deck of the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II. Just over the railings, much of Tokyo was burned to the ground, as were many Japanese cities, the nation starving and completely beaten.
Incident on the 79th Floor: The story of the Empire State Building bomber crash
The engine and part of the wing of a B-25 bomber are seen protruding from the Empire State Building after it crashed into the 79th floor of the structure in New York, July 28, 1945. (ERNIE SISTO/AP Photo) They heard the engines through the fog, but they didn't even look up from their typewriters at first, thinking the roar would pass overhead and then fade into the swirling gray sky. But the drone became deafening, filling the offices, rattling glass panes, vibrating coffee cups.
Looking our masked faces in the mirror
By Wendell Jamieson New York Daily News | Jul 29, 2020 at 11:00 AM (David McNew/Getty Images) I put on a mask the second week in March and haven’t left my house since without wearing one. When I pass a mask-less neighbor my blood boils a little bit, but I’ve yet had the courage to say anything, despite clever words of lecturing righteousness that bounce around inside my head. So there I was the other day in a liquor store when my mask slipped off my nose. I wasn’t really paying attention.
Local journalism is just fine, thank you: Let’s have an honest comparison with the ‘glory days’
By Wendell Jamieson New York Daily News | Feb 10, 2020 | 5:00 AM Look deeper.(Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News) I’ve read a lot lately about the precarious state of local news in New York City. It’s a drumbeat of doom and gloom: The Village Voice, gone. DNAinfo, gone. Staffs and news holes cut and then cut again. Careers and families wrecked by layoffs. No doubt the puzzle of how to make money in local journalism remains unsolved.
The Weathermen: How some of the city's wealthiest children bombed Manhattan buildings in an anti-war protest
By WENDELL JAMIESON NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | Aug 14, 2017 | 6:00 AM Firefighters work at extinguishing a fire at 18 West 11th Street in the Greenwich Village section of New York, which was rocked by three explosions, March 6, 1970. (Marty Lederhandler/AP) The blasts shattered windows throughout Greenwich Village, showering the streets with glass and blowing a gaping hole in of one of W. 11th St.'s Greek revival townhouses.
Riding the Bounding Rails
HERE'S this little railroad on the Brooklyn waterfront with 1.5 miles of track, one locomotive and a three-man crew -- the engineer, the conductor and the brakeman. Trains like speed, but this one never goes faster than five miles an hour, on rails that run through Sunset Park, beneath the arched footbridges of the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and alongside and through old warehouses. The engineer is Charlie McClellend, 60, who has been doing this for 31 years.
Can't-Miss Broadway Extravaganzas That Did
With its cascading delays and cast injuries, the troubled birth of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” on Broadway has attracted a great deal of attention. Thus inspired, City Room paged through yellowed clippings to bring you some other notable theatrical misfires through Broadway history.
A family travel playbook Make plans, prepare to let them go
Clearly, the GPS had gone haywire. We were sitting in our rental car in Belgium in search of Bruges. After directing me down a series of increasingly narrower country roads, the GPS now wanted me to head into the driveway of a modest suburban house. The children in the back seat were laughing; my wife, to my right, was not. “It’s getting dark.
A Family Travel Playbook: Make Plans, Prepare to Let Them Go
Personal Journeys Image Luxembourg Gardens in Paris. Sept. 12, 2017 Clearly, the GPS had gone haywire. We were sitting in our rental car in Belgium, in search of Bruges. After directing me down a series of increasingly narrower country roads, it now wanted me to head into the driveway of a modest suburban house. The children in the backseat were laughing; my wife, to my right, was not. “It’s getting dark.
Tracing the Origins of the New York Police Department
LAW AND DISORDER The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD By Bruce Chadwick Illustrated. 368 pp. Thomas Dunne Books/ St. Martin’s Press. $28.99. I got mugged a bunch of times growing up in Brooklyn and thought I had it rough. But I didn’t have it nearly as bad as the German immigrant who, on a wintry night in the 1840s, took a walk through Battery Park. He was killed by robbers who then rifled his pockets and grew enraged when they found only 12 cents. So they hurled his body into the harbor.
New York Today: Winter Weather, Signs of Spring
As you’re shivering over this dayslong cold spell, keep in mind that spring is also upon us. A few signs to prove it: Dairy: Before asparagus and strawberries hit our farmers’ markets, there’s an earlier predictor of spring: fresh goat’s cheese and sheep’s milk. Goats and sheep are birthing kids and lambs upstate at a quick pace, and they are supplying New York City dairy lovers with milk, said Liz Carollo, the publicity manager for GrowNYC’s Greenmarket program.
Where Do You Go on a Saturday Night in New York?
Saturday night in New York. It’s when Times Square, the Village and Williamsburg are even more jammed — inside bars, restaurants, clubs and on the sidewalks. But there are many New Yorks, and many Saturday nights, and not all of them unfold in the same old places. That’s where we need your help: Where do you go on a Saturday night in New York?
Right Out of Film Noir, a Shadowy New York
To watch all three back-to-back in one sitting is to hypnotically experience another New York. Not the actual metropolis of the late 1940's as you might see in a Ken Burns documentary, but a New York City that was probably as realistic then as the New York City portrayed in movies is today.
Elvis Costello’s New York Soul
Elvis Costello, who has a solo show at Town Hall on Oct. 1, plays with his band the Imposters at the Beacon Theater on Nov. 6 and 7. Sept. 28, 2016 Elvis Costello first saw Manhattan when he was 23. This was late 1977. He and his band, the Attractions, were coming down from New Haven on their first tour of the United States when the skyscrapers came into view. “It was really like a jolt of adrenaline — it’s such a mythic skyline,” he said. “I’d only experienced that a few other times in my career.
A Dream Come True: Metro Editor Meets Lifelong Hero, Elvis Costello
Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this piece, Wendell Jamieson, the editor of the Metro section, shares his experience at the Algonquin Hotel with his idol, the musician Elvis Costello.
Chasing a Vision of Japan
Hiking from Chikatsuyu to Takahara on the Kumano Kodo, a series of trails through deep forest and small towns on the Kii Peninsula south of Osaka. Hiking from Chikatsuyu to Takahara on the Kumano Kodo, a series of trails through deep forest and small towns on the Kii Peninsula south of Osaka. The rain misted down and I had two choices: the road up the hill, or the one alongside the river.
The Man Who Hated Christmas
BOB liked to say how much he hated Christmas. This amazed me and my sister. We’d look at each other: How could anyone hate Christmas? But he’d say it again and again: “Bess, I hate Christmas.” He had a variation on this: “Bess, I hate Christmas trees.” He’d shake his head thoughtfully and chuckle: “They’re nothing but trouble.
What We Learned From Summer Love
On the road to togetherness, many of our couples took time off from each other -- deliberately, or because of circumstances. The time apart seems to have tightened the bonds. Ms. Nadel and Mr. Bachner were sweethearts in the Bronx when the war broke out. He joined the Marines. He fooled around. “What red-blooded Marine wouldn’t?” he said. “We’d march in the street and the girls just threw themselves at us. And yes, there was hanky-panky.” They were split for two years after that.
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