Felix Morelo crouched in Union Square on his hands and knees on Sunday morning at 10:30, as passersby prepared for the Pride festival that would provide hours of marriage-themed glee. Chalk in hand, he scrawled: “I WILL ATTEMPT A TRAIL OF CHALK FACES AROUND THE PARK. (DONATIONS ARE COOL)”
By 3 p.m., when the park Read More
During the early days of the AOL Huffington Post merger, we had a chuckle when Arianna Huffington was named editor-in-chief of an array of AOL blogs outside of her area of expertise: Engadget, Moviefone, Autoblog and, perhaps most glaringly, BlackVoices.
No need to cringe anymore. Ms. Huffington has entrusted the site’s vision and recruitment to Read More
Surrounded by a mob at South Street Seaport of at least 300 sweating, blue faces – including as many adults as there were children – The Observer was a bit scared.
“There are so many blue people,” said a passerby. We nodded.
And that was just New York – 4,891 people last Saturday in 11 Read More
After over 20 days of wearing high heels, Miss New York pointed at her manicured feet and said, laughing, that she still couldn’t feel one of her toes.
The Observer wasn’t quite sure if she was joking, but we chuckled along with her anyway because – let’s face it – she has a knack for Read More
Though Disney brought you Lion King, Cinderella and Bambi, a group of New York protesters today labeled the company as a “serial killer.”
“Do not kill my family!” read Debra Davidson’s sign, as she stood with a small group of enraged members of Fans United against ABC (cleverly named with the acronym F. U. ABC) Read More
Graduation season just commenced, which means gifts for grads. In most of the country, that’ll be a new MacBook, maybe a car. Here in Manhattan, it means another Times trend piece about parents buying a $1.15 million condo—complete with rock climbing wall and spa—just for the kids.
Why would they do such a Read More
“America, I realize this is a ridiculous situation,” Marcella Caprario, 37, said to the press gathered outside the courthouse following her criminal trial on charges of assault and harassment.
On January 9th, Carpario and another middle-aged woman descended the escalators at Trader Joe’s to peruse the frozen food section, making their ways among the frozen Read More
“I thought maybe they’d cancel it because it was 100 degrees,” Gale Albahae said while waiting for the commencement of Trisha Brown’s Roof Piece. She stood safely with her two friends under the southern end of the High Line as the sky darkened and rain began to pour.
“It’s really coming down,” her friend Maria Read More
