What kind of man makes a one-man show about three sex workers and calls it a comedy?
“It was the marketing team,” Roy Arias, head of Roy Arias Studios and Theatres, laughed when asked how Sex on the Beach got billed as a “spicy new comedy about Read More
The race to fill the 40th City Council seat in Brooklyn is starting to look a little bit like the Congressional race that just concluded in that area, in which much of the dialogue centered on whether “a white individual” could or should represent a majority-minority district.
In the Council race, there Read More
DEMETRIA: Josh and I have looked at every resort in the Caribbean and in Morocco at least 3 times each. In the age of 50 billion on-line travel sites, I don’t think we really need a travel agent. We’re having the wedding in the Dominican Republic, so really we could just stay in the DR Read More
Let’s go to the hop, oh baby
Yesterday our inbox was graced with an invitation to a ’50s-themed party (this Saturday night!) for New Jersey’s future Wildwood hotel / resort / condo.
But why is this invitation different from all other invitations? A kindly PR rep offered us ways to cover this fascinating Read More
On a recent Friday evening, as a cold March sun set on the Hudson, Rabbi Naftali Citron stood in his small and crowded synagogue on 79th Street and West End Avenue, lecturing about the meaning of Shabbat to an increasingly hungry congregation. On one side of a translucent partition, men bowed and swayed. On the Read More
For anyone upset that there was no IMterview on Friday, here is a longer-than-usual excerpt from Hillary‘s speech yesterday at the Jewish Community Relations Council‘s annual legislative breakfast at the 92nd Street Y.
Hillary connects the port security issue with the national economy. Then, while not exactly promising to an IMterview in the Read More
After digging himself out of financial difficulties in the 1990’s, Peter Kalikow thought there was more to life than money. This month, when he sat down at the negotiating table across from Roger Toussaint, the chief of the Transit Workers Union, he found out that he was right.
Mr. Kalikow, a lean, third-generation real-estate developer Read More
After digging himself out of financial difficulties in the 1990’s, Peter Kalikow thought there was more to life than money. This month, when he sat down at the negotiating table across from Roger Toussaint, the chief of the Transit Workers Union, he found out that he was right.
Mr. Kalikow, a lean, third-generation real-estate developer Read More
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America’s Cruise-Ship Empires, by Kristoffer A. Garin. Viking, 366 pages, $24.95.
I’ve never taken a Caribbean cruise, and I probably never will. It’s David Foster Wallace’s fault. His 1995 essay “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”—an uproarious dissection of seven Read More
Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America’s Cruise-Ship Empires, by Kristoffer A. Garin. Viking, 366 pages, $24.95.
I’ve never taken a Caribbean cruise, and I probably never will. It’s David Foster Wallace’s fault. His 1995 essay “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”—an uproarious dissection of seven Read More
