The Park Slope bar Patio Lounge caused a fuss last month for banning children. As the New York Post reported, a bartender at the establishment, Andy Heidel, posted a “Stroller Manifesto,” which read, “I declare today Stroller-free Sunday.”
Brooklynites love to complain about children and strollers and parenthood just as much as they love to Read More
The Park Slope bar Patio Lounge caused a fuss last month for banning children. As the New York Post reported, a bartender at the establishment, Andy Heidel, posted a “Stroller Manifesto,” which read, “I declare today Stroller-free Sunday.”
Brooklynites love to complain about children and strollers and parenthood just as much as they love to Read More
John Michael Rollins
June 27, 2005
5:18 a.m.
8 pounds
Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, N.J.
A mini–media mogul in the making? John Rollins, 41, the publisher of Elle, has sired a son with Dana Sacher Rollins, 37, the chief operating officer of Tracks magazine, the Rolling Stone alternative that the couple, married for Read More
Emily Fromm and David (Lefty) Leibowitz
Met: April 2002
Engaged: April 14, 2005
Projected Wedding Date: Summer 2006
When Emily Fromm, 30, an editor for People magazine’s Web site, first met David (Lefty) Leibowitz, 34, a senior producer in interactive technology at Young & Rubicam, “the sparks and flames were out of control,” she said. Read More
Wednesday 22nd
Lessons learned this week: That New Yorkers get awfully cranky when the sidewalks start to bake in the heat (and yet braless lasses continue to clomp around in gamy cowboy boots); that, according to the courts of law, Martha Stewart is more of a threat to society than Michael Jackson; that the folks Read More
“Why do people go to museums?” Baird Jones asked. The question was rhetorical, offered up as he whisked The Transom through a private tour of his extensive collection of celebrity artwork, which crams the walls and fills the closets of his two-bedroom East Village apartment. “Isn’t the real purpose entertainment?”
Mr. Jones, a fixture on 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
