By Kim Velsey 6/11/12 7:00pm

Red Carpet Real Estate

A spot fit for a radio star?

Ira Glass To Live This American Life In Chelsea Carriage House

Chicago, it’s really over. Sure, Ira Glass left a few years ago. Sure, he packed up the entire This American Life crew, said that he was never coming back, but all that time, he couldn’t seem to settle down in any of the New York neighborhoods. And sometimes he even talked about how much he missed you, how he used to be able to get in a car and be anywhere in Chicago in 20 minutes. But now he’s  gone and bought a condo at 159 West 24th Street!

Yes, Mr. Glass and wife Anaheed Alani paid $1.26 million for the one-bedroom apartment, a buy first spotted by The Real Deal. Read More

By Moira Hodgson 7/21/03 12:00am

Dining out with Moira Hodgson

Domingo Takes Two:

South of the Border Style

Plácido Domingo didn’t have much success with his eponymous midtown restaurant, which served Spanish cuisine. So six months ago he teamed up with Richard Sandoval, the chef of Maya, and re-opened as Pampano, whose Mexican menu consists primarily of seafood from the Veracruz region. It was Read More

By Adam Begley 2/28/00 12:00am

Sontag’s High-Toned Tale: Her Brains Center Stage

In America , by Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 387 pages, $26.

No way to sweeten the pill: Susan Sontag is a powerful thinker, as smart as she’s supposed to be, and a better writer, sentence for sentence, than anyone who now wears the tag “intellectual”–but she can’t seem to write a great novel. Read More