Due to depleted funds from those hit by the recession, as well as a new $15 million initiative by Andrew Cuomo to keep the revolving door policy closed shut to hospitals’ recurring junkie patients, New York City is no longer the cocaine-fueled Wall Street joyride that it used to be. Read More
The Andy Monument, artist Rob Pruitt’s sculpture of the late Andy Warhol, is being unveiled in Union Square this week. It stands not far from the Decker Building, which housed the second Factory, the one where Valerie Solanas shot Warhol in 1968. So it should perhaps be seen as the Public Art Fund’s belated catch-up Read More
Plenty happens each day—how to keep up with it all? Time to test your memory!
–How did Tina Fey acquit herself as a tertiary character in a fake Bravo reality show?
–…and how does Mel Gibson do in Jodie Foster’s new dip into directing?
–Speaking of which! How did the husky-voiced directress–scandalously!–finagle Read More
Let’s get one thing straight: You are the market. Or maybe your friends are. Or maybe your little sister who is a junior at N.Y.U., or the guests at that dinner party last Thursday, maybe they are, too. You are all the market. We are the market.
The market in question–the global cocaine market–is one Read More
On a recent Friday night, a 22-year-old in his first year of living in New York hosted a late get-together in his Little Italy apartment. Everyone there would call it a good party, but it decidedly lacked a climax.
Until 10 in the morning, a dozen attractive men and women—day laborers in film, public Read More
Charlie Sheen’s much-publicized embrace of gratuitous drugs and prostitutes came to an end last week, when a trip to the hospital forced him to throw in the towel and enter rehab. But look at all he endured along the way! Who knows how he kept on trucking despite an incident at the tony restaurant Read More
We will bury you. You will be helpless in our frigid embrace. We will stop your trains, halt your cars, stall your trucks and cripple your buses. We will put your city into a coma. All of your money is useless against us. Your billionaire mayor is but an impotent elf. We will close your Read More
“Am I the only one who doesn’t take mints from anyone, even friends, because I’m terrified someone has laced it with LSD?” writes outrageousnb, the first commenter on the New York Times‘ City Room post about the massive $11,000 drug sting that claimed five Columbia students this morning. “This happened to me once Read More
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office has charged several longshoremen with enticing investors to buy stocks via Facebook and Twitter in a classic “pump and dump” fraud scheme.
This was apparently a side business that the dock workers engaged in when they weren’t busy trafficking 1.3 tons of cocaine worth $34 million through the Read More
Oh, dear. Paris Hilton hasn’t been in the news much lately. We thought that meant she’d settled down, taken up a hobby (Wii Tennis?) and started planning for her future.
Maybe not. Last night she was arrested on a drug charge. In Vegas. Which, hello, is a total cliche. Specifically, she was in a Read More
