How to Stop the Swelling? Four Answers to Love Handles

Confront your holiday bloat! Do it now! Spring merch is already starting to hit the stores; meanwhile, you need to hit the treadmill … and try not to break it–or eat it!

It all started last September, when–egged on by well-intentioned Katie Couric–type people–you went on a post–9/11 comfort-food ingest-athon. Who can blame you? Read More

All I Want This Christmas: An Exit Strategy!

And so we’ve come to the final days of 2005.

The tips have been distributed; the holiday cards have been dispatched. And all that’s left is that flurry of last-minute shopping for the most difficult gifts—the gifts for whom it’s not just “the thought” that counts.

So what, then, is the perfect gift Read More

All I Want This Christmas: An Exit Strategy!

And so we’ve come to the final days of 2005.

The tips have been distributed; the holiday cards have been dispatched. And all that’s left is that flurry of last-minute shopping for the most difficult gifts—the gifts for whom it’s not just “the thought” that counts.

So what, then, is the perfect gift this year? Read More

Perplexed on the Op-Ed Page, Dowd Clings to Categories

Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide, by Maureen Dowd. Putnam, 352 pages, $25.95.

This past week, almost every female journalist alive (all 12 of them), as well as Howard Kurtz, face-masked Maureen Dowd and her new book, Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide. There have been profiles, reviews, links, excerpts, items and personal reminiscences of Read More

Hold Tight, Young Moms: New Spate of Stroller Crimes

The preying by craven perps upon distracted young mothers pushing strollers continues unabated. On Jan. 6 at 6 p.m., a 30-year-old East 87th Street resident was shopping in Gristede’s with her newborn when her wallet, heretofore in the pocket of her stroller, mysteriously vanished.

The victim claimed not to have seen anything suspicious and said Read More

October 27, 2004 – November 3, 2004

Wednesday 27th

Pigs are flying, hell is freezing over, dogs and cats are living harmoniously together, and the Yankees are awaiting reassignment from the Boss …. We only have three words to say: Let’s go, Knicks! Now who here blows up like a Thanksgiving float after eating a rogue peanut? If you are one of Read More

The Botox Babies

“They’re hearing about it from their mothers, so it trickles down,” said Dr. Howard Sobel, an Upper East Side dermatologist who recently Botoxed a 17-year-old girl. Her 14-year-old sister expressed interest in the procedure as well. “We’ll have girls walk in with a picture of her mother and say, ‘I don’t ever want to have Read More