Tools of the Trade

Puppetry of the Penis is an evening at the theater devoted to what its practitioners term “the ancient art of genital origami.” You would more likely call it “two dudes making balloon-animal shapes with their members.”

This entertainment initially arrived in New York in late September of 2001, when destruction was more Read More

Shouted Down by Snapshots— The 9/11 Photographic Record

The photographs of 9/11 hold an unparalleled, monumental power over us. So one picks up a 400-page book that promises to tell “The Stories Behind the Images” with high expectations, and with some nervousness, too: If it doesn’t live up to its billing, it will feel like just another meretricious contribution to the expanding shelf Read More

Shouted Down by Snapshots- The 9/11 Photographic Record

The photographs of 9/11 hold an unparalleled, monumental power over us. So one picks up a 400-page book that promises to tell “The Stories Behind the Images” with high expectations, and with some nervousness, too: If it doesn’t live up to its billing, it will feel like just another meretricious contribution to the expanding shelf Read More

Washington Post Is Copping A Felt On Deep Throat

Before W. Mark Felt was conclusively identified as Deep Throat, he took on one last alias: “The Guy.”

That was how Mr. Felt-the former F.B.I. official who’d secretly leaked Watergate developments to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post-was known around the offices of Vanity Fair as the magazine put together a piece by Mr. Felt’s Read More

CNBC, With Fewer Viewers, Returns To Good Old News

At first glance, Wakeup

Call , CNBC’s new morning show, seems like just another peppy

morning-television news show. There’s an energetic male anchor, Carl

Quintanilla, and an energetic female anchor, Liz Claman. There’s a perky set

with a window to a real, live street outside. There’s discussion of the news of

the day, plus weather Read More