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Shades of Grey: Did Jeffrey MacDonald Really Kill His Family?
Jeffery MacDonald. When James Holmes opened fire on a sold-out movie theater in Colorado this summer, killing 12 people, the press went wild. Reporters made appeals to the Colorado chief district judge...
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Bloomberg Businessweek Gets Correction Regarding Spritzer-Drinking Protocol...
Ever-progressive world policy journal The Economist ran a piece about the tragic state of sobriety in the workplace. Their argument boiled down to: Everyone is boring without booze, which while often...
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Realist Painter Philip Pearlstein Leaving Longtime UWS Townhouse for $3.4 M.
Looking for a change of scene: Mr. Pearlstein and Ms. Cantor have sold their house. (Patrick McMullen) When painter Philip Pearlstein moved to Manhattan in 1949, he and his college pal Andy Warhol...
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Labor of Love: French Flick Beloved Bores
The movie musical has shown sporadic signs of life over the past decade or so, with early artistic triumphs (Moulin Rouge!, Chicago) giving way to devastatingly dull adaptations of Broadway’s most...
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Red State, Blue State: The Campaign Finds Comfortable Seat As a Cut-and-Dried...
'The Campaign' (Warner Bros.)Game Change director Jay Roach’s new political comedy, The Campaign, is a good film, though it might disappoint viewers who came to see a scathing satire of our current...
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Chicken With Plums Lays a Goose Egg
It’s vanishingly rare to know the exact moment at which a movie loses the sympathies of its viewer, yet Chicken With Plums, a sophomorically cruel look at the wasted life of an Iranian violinist,...
View ArticleAndrew Cuomo, Dad
Governor Andrew Cuomo may be the most powerful politician in the State of New York, but that doesn’t mean he can’t embarrass his kids just like the rest of us. Accordingly, during an interview on...
View ArticleOther Voices: Annette Messager at Marian Goodman Gallery; Sharon Hayes at the...
On the face of it, French artist Annette Messager and American Sharon Hayes could hardly be more different. Ms. Messager, using a rich formal and symbolic palette, delves deep into the magic and...
View ArticleRoundup: Then That Would Be a Question I Would Have to Ask and Answer
A Democratic challenger is accusing the incumbent of being too close to the Cuomo-friendly Committee to Save New York. The DCCC robo’d an ad linking Paul Ryan to congressional Republicans and...
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Guns, God and Other Pricks: Is Pubic Shaving the Solution to the Firearms...
Illo: Peter Arkle. The other day, driving to the local home center for some mulch and fertilizer, I absolutely solved the problem of gun proliferation in America once and for all. This was the morning...
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First of Probably Many NYU Expansion Lawsuits Filed
Not in my backyards—literally! (Wikimedia Commons) The first volley of NYU lawsuits has been filed, as residents of Washington Square Village have gotten together to sue the university for what they...
View ArticleProtest and Party Like It’s 5773 at Occupy Rosh Hashana!
September 17 is the anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protests, but it is also Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, a day when observant Jews are supposed to go to temple and refrain from a whole...
View ArticleBeginning August 30th, You May No Longer Sell Magic Spells, Potions or Tarot...
We were delighted to learn yesterday that it’s possible to purchase a magic spell on eBay that will merge your soul with that of a dragon. However, in the process of researching the Very Important...
View ArticleYou Can Play With Real Cats Right From Your Computer
If you’ve always wanted a furry fluffball to call your very own, but logistical issues like allergies or a significant other who is decidedly not a cat person got in your way, the Internet–as...
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Paving the Way: US DOT Will Return $473 Million in Unused Earmarks to States
(Flickr/jphilipg) Earmarks! Even when Congress won't spend them, the government will. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today that the Department of Transportation will return $473...
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Layoffs Hit Editorial Staff at The Village Voice
Layoffs are hitting the editorial staff at The Village Voice today, and they're hitting some of the most widely-read staff writers in the office. The Observer has heard from multiple sources familiar...
View ArticlePhotos From NYC’s Pussy Riot Protest March
"Let our sisters go! Let our sisters go!" about 25 protestors in support of Pussy Riot chanted as they walked east on 91st st. toward the Russian Consulate on the west side of Central Park this morning...
View ArticleWould You Like to See a Picture of Mitt Romney Kissing Matt Drudge?
Then do a Google search for Mr. Romney’s campaign manager, Matt Rhoades. While writing our post about the testy exchange between Mr. Rhoades and Obama campaign manager Jim Messina that occurred this...
View ArticleBrookfield CEO J. Bruce Flatt Flees Tribeca Loft for Scant Profit
Brookfield Asset Management C.E.O. and president J. Bruce Flatt has sold his two-bedroom co-op at 165 Duane Street. We totally understand. Whatever charms Lower Manhattan held for the financial guru...
View ArticleThe Surreal Estate of Dorothea Tanning: Late Painter’s Pad Sells For $5.5 M.
The two-bedroom co-op apartment at 40 Fifth Avenue has many winning features: a wood burning fireplace, a 23-foot entrance gallery, an eat-in kitchen, high ceilings and herringbone floors....
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