By Staff 1/09/06 12:00am

20 Real New Year’s Eves

It seems that now, on New Year’s Eve, everything shifts east. New Jersey stumbles into Manhattan; Manhattan’s riffraff ends up in Brooklyn. (The Transom isn’t sure yet where Brooklyn goes. Hauppauge? Copiague? Nor does it really care.)

But where do the real New Yorkers end up? Although a union spokesperson wouldn’t comment, Transit Workers Union Read More

By Tom Scocca 7/26/04 12:00am

Can’t anybody just savor a metaphor anymore?

Can’t anybody just savor a metaphor anymore? This past weekend, John Leonard wrote a scathing takedown of Dale Peck’s volume of collected criticism, Hatchet Jobs , for The New York Times Book Review . In the piece, Mr. Leonard variously referred to Mr. Peck as a “hot dog,” a “vampire bat” and an “East German Read More