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Puff Piece: Breakfast Cereal’s Secret Weapon
Ted Allen. (Photo by Jason Bahr/Getty Images for Pure Leaf) You couldn’t fault a passerby for running for cover last Tuesday night in Carroll Gardens. The rounds sounded like large-bore ammunition, as...
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On the Page: Charles Manson and Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson Jeff Guinn (Simon & Schuster, 512 pp., $27.50) Forty years have passed since the massacres performed by the followers of self-styled “guru” Charles...
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Chaste Scene: ‘The Virgins’ and the Problem with White Male Narrators
Pamela Erens’s new novel, The Virgins (Tin House Books, 288 pp., $15.95), is one explicitly concerned with narrative. Set in 1979 at a New Hampshire boarding school called Auburn, its narrator, Bruce...
View ArticleThe Female Candidate’s Dilemma: Christine Quinn Softens Image in Tight...
Standing alongside her rivals at the first broadcast debate of the mayor’s race, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the contest’s former front-runner, seemed like a candy-coated version of herself....
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Will the Real Rabbi Carlebach Please Stand Up? Reb Shlomo’s music shines in...
Eric Anderson as Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, the folk-singing rock-star rabbi of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, was born in Berlin in 1925, fled from Nazi Germany to Switzerland with his...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Makes a Park Slope Push With Steve Buscemi
First, Comptroller John Liu yelled, “Yes we can!” to the crowded Apollo Theater last week. Today, rival Bill de Blasio compared his own surging mayoral bid to President Barack Obama’s re-election...
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New Yorkers Want All the Hospitals to Stay Right Where They Are, Thank You...
This is what happens when you try to close a hospital in New York. And, apparently, when you try to open one. (Photo by Gideon Resnick.) New Yorkers hate it when hospitals close, especially Manhattan...
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David Hasselhoff Defender Seriously Injured During Iced Hoffee Caper
This advertisement may be too popular for its own good. (Cumberland Farms) A convenience store clerk in Shelton, Connecticut, was severely hurt on Tuesday after trying to stop a man from stealing two...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner and Bill Thompson Release Spanish TV Spots
With less than three weeks to go until the Democratic mayoral primary, the candidates are hard at work trying to court the Latino vote. Today, in another sign the vote remains up for grabs, former...
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I Remember You: Reflections on Cedar Walton, Marian McPartland and Other Jazz...
Cedar Walton. (Photo: Getty Images) I always told myself I’d go see Cedar Walton, the great pianist who held court several times a year in jazz clubs throughout the city, most often at the Village...
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UWS ‘Anti-Preschool’ Wants to Quadruple Your Child’s Daily Dose of Sigur Ros
Preschool is not all fun and games anymore. (Upper Valley Preschool) A fancy new "Anti-Preschool" is opening on the Upper West Side, promising parents that "avant garde" experience that every kid who...
View ArticleQuinn’s Dad Rejoins the Campaign Trail After Being Sidelined By Injury
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s dad, sidelined for months by medical problems, returned to the campaign trail this morning just in time for his 87th birthday. The charming Larry Quinn, often...
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New York Times Misquote? The New York Times Is on It!
Maureen Dowd. (Photo: Getty) Today, the New York City mayoral race was shook up by a rather notable misquote by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, resulting in condemnations and fury all around....
View ArticleMayoral Candidates Want to Let You Drink on Your Stoop
The Democrats vying to become the next mayor of New York City may have some pretty sharp disagreements at times, but a clear consensus emerged during their latest televised debate tonight: drinking on...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Is the Target at the Latest Mayoral Debate
There was a very tall target in tonight’s mayoral debate in the form of Bill de Blasio. The latest front-runner in the topsy-turvey race took repeated hits from his rivals at a heated debate where the...
View ArticleSick of Stereotypical Turban Guy, DoSomething.org Petitions Apple to Address...
Late last year, before Miley Cyrus became the platinum-haired twerking PSA that she is today, she started a shortlived Twitter campaign for emoji equality. “RT if you think there needs to be an...
View ArticleLGBT Activist Commandeers Reportedly Homophobic Church’s Facebook Page
A Tennessee church is making headlines because it allegedly ousted Detective Kat Cooper’s family after learning that Ms. Cooper was gay. In response, an online activist has taken over a Facebook...
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Bleecker Street Records Pushed Off Bleecker Street by Rent Increase
Bleecker Street Records is moving to West 4th. (VNY) It is, at this point, a story so common, the difference in details so slight, that even the most heartfelt of tributes can take on the tone of...
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Trayvon Martin and Paula Deen Cases Combined for One Ill-Advised Law & Order...
Law & Order: Season 15 You know that we have an affinity for Law & Order: SVU. No matter what people say about it being a sensationalist, ripped-from-the-headlines glorification of rape, sexual...
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Not Every Address that Glitters is Gold: Benenson Capital Tries for 150%...
Second Avenue style, Park Avenue prices. Park Avenue is a rough place to be for a townhouse. The stretch was originally shunned by New York's moneyed elite, back when the New York Central's...
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