By Kim Velsey 10/25/12 10:13am

Manhattan Transfers

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No Laughing Matter: Andy Borowitz Upgrades From Classic Six to Seven

From the outside, at least, we didn’t see a lot of room for improvement in Andy Borowitz‘s life. Write an eponymous satire column that gets picked up by The New Yorker? Check. Be heralded as “one of the funniest people in America” by CBS News Sunday Morning? Check. Marry a successful nonfiction writer (and fellow Harvard alum) and buy a classic six on the Upper West Side? Check and check. But apparently there’s always room for improvement. Case in point Mr. Borowitz and wife Olivia Gentile have purchased an “extraordinary seven” at 294 West End Avenue. Read More

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 10/09/12 8:27pm

Legends in the Fall

Rebecca Mead on Middlemarch

The New Yorker on The New Yorker

On a recent Friday evening, we headed all the way west on 37th Street to hear New Yorker writers recount stories about being that most exciting of things—a New Yorker writer. The event was the opening night of the blitz of panels, conversations and chances to see what writers look like that is the annual New Yorker Festival.

The hangar-like space was converted into a lounge with the addition of cafe tables and chairs. A cash bar offered wine, beer and snacks in serving bowls fashioned  to look like martini glasses. Snippets of conversation—overheard while we looked for a seat—sounded like, dare we say it, the premise of many a New Yorker cartoon. Read More

By Em Whitney 3/18/09 6:55pm

In The City: Events, 3.18.09

6:30 p.m. The New York Center for Independent Publishing hosts “special” reading to celebrate Small Press Month at 20 West 44th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

6:30 p.m. Filmmaker Peter Forgacs will give a lecture regarding “The Archaeology of Memory” at The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street.

7 p.m. Read More

By Staff, Staff 12:00am

The Transom

Thurberizing Borowitz

Jon Stewart didn’t show, but on Monday night his co-authors in America (The Book): A Guide to Democracy Inaction turned up at the Algonquin Hotel to pick up this year’s Thurber Prize for American Humor and the check for five grand that came with it.

The duo, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum, stressed Read More

By Noelle Hancock 6/02/03 12:00am

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 28t h

SOFA, so good? In the 1990′s, your empty apartment would’ve seemed Zen, but now all that wide-open space is giving you panic attacks , so pop an Ativan-oh, all right, maybe two -and brave the arty and tarty ladies and all the men still wearing blazers over black T-shirts at the International Read More