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Glenn O'Brien

A Thin Line Between Apple’s ‘Genius Bar’ and Insanity

It’s apropos that New York’s Apple Store is in the old Soho P.O. Apple is an essential service, they don’t have any competition, and if you don’t like it-well, too bad for you.

Have you experienced their postal behavior? Not “postal” as in emptying an assault weapon into a line of stamp buyers-postal arrogance. Read More

Fashion Week: The Real N.Y.C. Marathon

After three months of resort road rage and frenzied shark attacks at our nation’s beaches, it’s time for New York Fashion Week. Once again, American designers and the foreigners who have adopted the city as their showroom-away-from-home will be hustling their spring collections. Not so many years ago, these runway shows were staged to exhibit Read More

One on One With Rudy’s Art Squad

As most sentient New Yorkers know, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has appointed a 23-member Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, reviving a long dormant and presumed extinct institution that is now charged with providing oversight of the artworks displayed in publicly funded museums. Presumably “oversight,” in this case, doesn’t mean forgetfulness; it means finally determining community standards Read More

Will Write for Merlot: The N.Y. Curse

A major magazine that I write for every month, and to which I am undyingly and contractually loyal, happened to be working up a business scandale piece on a company that I happened to have done some work for. Would I please, my dear editor entreated, talk to the reporter doing the story?

Well, Read More