Kissing Sister Eileen

Jennifer Westfeldt, best known for playing the title character in Kissing Jessica Stein, the 2001 girl-loving-girl movie that she co-wrote and co-produced, is currently making her Broadway debut in a girl-loving-girl musical revival, Wonderful Town .

What? you ask? A gay musical?

Well, not really. The Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green “love Read More

Kurt Andersen and Michael Hirschorn Assemble New Media Web Site

Michael Hirschorn and Kurt Andersen are beginning to put a staff together for their on-line media and entertainment industry magazine. Early hires include Craig Marks, who was executive editor of Spin magazine under Mr. Hirschorn and who will direct music industry coverage after his current gig at Rolling Stone runs out, and Lorne Manly, a Read More

Random Encounters in Central Park at Night

You can go into Central Park at night with your “rucksack” like a literary gentleman and slumber in a hidden bower, the way Bill Buford did for The New Yorker recently, or you can do what I did and talk to the people you come across.

Real estate developer Abe Hirschfeld, who has lived on Read More