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The Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, for more than a half century on the premier locations for cabaret in Manhattan, has closed. Prior to its musical incarnation, the Oak Room was famous for being the...
View ArticleAND HERE IS THE REASON WHY!
This is the undefeated cap which my daughter Cara gave me for Christmas. With the magic conjured by the combination of this cap and my head, the Giants beat the Jets and the Cowboys to close out the...
View ArticleLOVE, NEW YORK STYLE
Found on Facebook, a photo of a couple, Alexis Creque and Russell Murphy, after their arrest last month for allegedly spray-painting a Lower East Side building. An 1980s-era infraction, but the...
View ArticleLUCKY TO BE UNIMPRESSED
We hosted Sandy, the Storm of the Century here this past week, and frankly, we pretty much missed it. Oh, we had impressively high winds that we could see thrashing the trees across the street all day....
View ArticlePOP UP SUCCESS
Here is my new article in Success magazine, about chef Ryan Umane, and the pop up restaurant phenomenon: The intersection of 79th and Third is close to the bull’s-eye center of Manhattan’s Upper East...
View ArticleHEAR, HEAR, WIESELTIER!
At some point in high school, in one of those endless bifurcations people come up with to make sense of society, I realized that all the smart guys at my school could be divided up into two...
View ArticleEDWARD SNOWDEN, MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
(This first appeared on washingtonmonthly.com on July 6th.) We woke this morning to find that Edward Snowden (Mr. Around the World in Rrrrrrrrrrr! [sound of a screeching stop]) has been offered asylum...
View ArticleFIGHT THE POWER–WITH MAKE-UP!
I loved the article by Robinson Meyer in The Atlantic about how individuals can fight the panoptic power of CCTV and other surveillance devices just by slathering on some face paint. According to...
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