In the hothouse world of New York’s private schools, where students are treated like rare and fragile flowers, the mere scent of a scandal is often enough to send a school into damage-control mode. Meetings are held, mediators are called, rumors are quashed like pesky little bugs.
So it was something of a surprise last Read More
Saul Bellow, Nobel laureate and dean of Jewish-American fiction, passed away on Tuesday, April 5. He was 89. Bellow, in such novels as Herzog, The Adventures of Augie March, Henderson the Rain King, Mr. Sammler’s Planet and, more recently, Ravelstein, examined the persistent anxieties of modern life with a romantic depth and a relentless, if Read More
Is that really it? After all the backtalk and whispers, the tears and the screaming fits, we expected high drama of the Miramax-Disney divorce. Not the anticlimax of a solemn choreographed speech over conference call. But that’s how Harvey and Bob Weinstein’s long nightmare ended-late on Tuesday, March 29, with a call, accompanied by Disney Read More
It’s a nightmare scenario that haunts subway riders: A dirty bomb is detonated on a crowded train, killing thousands and injuring even more in the ensuing panic.
Most security experts describe the city’s subway system as one of the most likely terrorist targets and stress that its sheer size and openness make it particularly vulnerable Read More
Hip-hop court jester Flavor Flav may be the newest reality-TV sensation (see The Surreal Life and Strange Love, if you can stomach it) but one person isn’t buying the act: Chuck D, Flav’s former comrade in the seminal rap group Public Enemy.
“You gotta understand, when somebody says, ‘Yo, yo, what do you think of Read More
“Looks like we’re going to be raising federal money,” Governor George Pataki began telling supporters late last year, his signal to them that he would be running for President.
Less than two months later, however, the only people still putting Mr. Pataki’s name in the same sentence as “2008″ are on the Governor’s payroll. Mr. Read More
In the moments before Donald Trump barreled through a packed house at Michael Kors’ runway show last week, a thin man stood in the center of the tent, mindlessly patting his starchy coif. It was Austin Scarlett, the delicate wunderkind of Bravo’s Project Runway and a reality-show star to rival Mr. Trump in general hairdo Read More
“Is that Nell’s?” a harried young man asked, standing on the north side of 14th Street near Eighth Avenue and pointing across the street at the awning of NA. Anticipating a fashion show that night, a fair number of low-grade scenesters were milling about in front of the nightclub that had indeed once been Nell’s Read More
It’s a cliché: the tough guy with the gentle touch. One of New York’s recurring characters, a man’s man who knows how to be sensitive with the ladies. But that was Jerry Orbach-or Lennie Briscoe, or Billy Flynn, or Mack the Knife, or any one of the dozens of memorable characters he played off and Read More
“I was born with a charisma!” Cyprus-born singer Anna Vissi declared. “I don’t sing for money or for fame. I became famous and I became rich, but …. ” She shrugged, rattling the sequins on her vintage 1920′s halter from a Portobello flea market. A sparkly Patricia Field belt held up her black satin Gucci Read More
