“Hello, sir! You look like you care about the environment!”
I am standing in front of Babies ’R Us in Union Square, making what could be mistaken for a single, spastic jazz hand at a man 15 feet away. He rolls his eyes, takes a drag on his cigarette and pointedly tosses it, still burning, Read More
Like so many other Americans, I spent part of last Saturday night reading about a seemingly homegrown terrorist who had botched a bombing attempt in midtown Manhattan. Only I was reading aloud from my novel, American Subversive, in a Washington, D.C., bookstore, oblivious to the analogous real-world events that were—exactly then—playing themselves out in Times Read More
On the evening of Monday, April 19, Carly Simon stood backstage at N.Y.U.’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, surrounded by a scrum of excited kids, a dozen celebrity actors and singers and Taro Alexander—the ebullient founder of Our Time, a nine-year-old theater company composed of the aforementioned children, all of whom, like Mr. Alexander Read More
First, let’s stipulate right off the bat that judging a daily newspaper section from only its first two days out of the gate is unfair. Noted.
But those are the only two days we have to go on. And, given the months of planning that went into The Wall Street Journal’s Greater New York Section—and Read More
Olivier Dahan, director of La Vie En Rose—the Oscar-winning flick based on the life of Edith Piaf—looks very “French movie director,” so it was fitting that he be seated at the head of the table at a cocktail hour for French films at the Tribeca Film festival on Friday evening. (The L-shaped table was mere Read More
