My dream is to make a rhinestone-studded ceiling,” said Jennifer Oz LeRoy, owner of Tavern on the Green.
“I think that it would be fantastic and definitely one-of-a-kind,” she said. “I would just have to make sure that the glue was really good so that there weren’t rhinestones falling into people’s lobster bisque.”
Ms. LeRoy, Read More
Maybe people are so used to learning disturbing things about Wal-Mart that the latest news from America’s largest and most frightening corporation didn’t cause much of a ripple. There was a dearth of denunciation after The New York Times published a well-reported piece on Wal-Mart’s decision to put 40 percent of its workers on part-time Read More
Maybe people are so used to learning disturbing things about Wal-Mart that the latest news from America’s largest and most frightening corporation didn’t cause much of a ripple. There was a dearth of denunciation after The New York Times published a well-reported piece on Wal-Mart’s decision to put 40 percent of its workers on part-time Read More
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We’ve spent months pining for a Flatiron Apple store. First we thought the iPod-people would be opening up on 136 Fifth Avenue, but our hopes were dashed when a middle aged-ladies’ clothing store went there instead.
As long-awaited recomense, there is some thrillingly anti-PC news this morning: Read More
Albert Sipzener puts in 60- to 70-hour weeks as vice president of Shikiar Asset Management, an investment company that controls $300 million in assets.
In the evenings, he works as a model.
He teaches, on average, eight spin classes a week. In the past eight years, he estimates, 95 percent of the women he’s dated Read More
Congressman Steve Israel delivers iPods donated by the Plumbers Union to New York National Guard members in Hauppauge.
Council Member Tony Avella announces a new anti-grafitti initiative at Bonnie Brite Cleaners in Flushing.
Carolyn Maloney and the NYC Breastfeeding Promotion Leadership Committee and the Brooklyn Alliance for Breastfeeding Empowerment will hold their 3rd annual subway Read More
From the A.P., May 8, 2006: “Iran’s leader has written to President Bush, in the first letter from an Iranian head of state to an American President in 27 years, a government spokesman said Monday. “In the letter, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proposes ‘new solutions for getting out of international problems.’”
Dear President Bush:
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I just got the page proofs of my latest book, my eighth. Will it also be my last? Who will write the very last book in America?
Writing is an unkillable impulse. It is like second sight or a blood disease, a gift or a state beyond our control. Writing is older than writing, as Read More
If you’ve ever visited a former Communist republic, you know that graffiti can be a problem. It’s as if, after all those years of stifled creative expression, it explodes all over the place from the nozzle of a spray-paint can.
And while free expression (if not vandalism) is to be encouraged, we’d prefer its Read More
If you’ve ever visited a former Communist republic, you know that graffiti can be a problem. It’s as if, after all those years of stifled creative expression, it explodes all over the place from the nozzle of a spray-paint can.
And while free expression (if not vandalism) is to be encouraged, we’d prefer its practitioners Read More
