Robert Allbritton, the publisher of Politico, has purchased Capital New York, the site founded by former New York Observer editors Tom McGeveran and Josh Benson. Allbritton plans "to do in New York what we did in Washington with POLITICO." Or even, hopefully, something better.

New York Times travel editor Danielle Mattoon, who put Dwight Garner on a sexy boat, is now the paper's culture czar.

In your hopeful Wednesday media column: someone gives Capital New York some dough, Chris Rovzar leaves New York, Elisabeth Murdoch has tons of News Corp shareholder cash, Village Voice sex lawsuit dismissed, and the world's highest paid authors.

Former New York Observer editors Tom McGeveran and Josh Benson launched their online magazine in beta form today. It seems to have lived up to its advance billing as a sort of Politico-meets-Salon-meets-Observer.