Why the N.F.L. Sucks: Tight-Ass Prigs Ban Football Dance of Joy

It’s a struggle between American Puritanism and American flamboyance.

I’m talking about the argument over N.F.L. touchdown dances and other outcroppings of fun in this sport that takes itself so seriously.

As the Super Bowl approaches, the sports prudes are at it again. Consider the deep distress with which an otherwise intelligent local sports Read More

Countdown to Bliss

Samantha Greene and Jack Woodruff

Met: January 2003

Engaged: Feb. 3, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: Jan. 14, 2007

Samantha Greene and Jack Woodruff, both 32-year-old M.B.A.’s, will attempt a merger of their souls at Peter White Studio in Chelsea, brokered by the wedding-planning company Always a Bridesmaid. Ms. Greene is the Read More

After the Blackout, Goodwin Emerges Top of News Pack

Many inside the Daily News took it as a sign that Michael Goodwin’s longtime aspiration to run the tabloid wouldn’t come to pass when publisher Mort Zuckerman, upon accepting editor in chief Edward Kosner’s resignation on July 21, didn’t immediately name him as a successor. It had been long assumed that Mr. Goodwin, a controversial Read More

Hello Kitty

I first saw Miss Kitty while she was rolling around on a bed with her girlfriend, Miss Profanity. They were on Channel 57, doing a sketch called “Baywatch Bitches” for Miss Kitty’s self-parodyingly slutty burlesque show, The Goddess Show, which airs Monday nights on Manhattan public access.

Miss Kitty (née Karina Figueroa) was doing most Read More