Events Roundup: Wednesday, February 18, 2009

5:30 p.m. Robert Kahn will sign copies of his new book, Movies: The Ultimate Insider’s Guide at Rizzoli Bookstore, 31 West 57th Street.

6 p.m. The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School will host a discussion with Professor Robert Shiller to discuss his upcoming book, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Read More

Old School Scott Stringer

We were a bit surprised to see “Doctor Dre” listed among the hosts of a fundraiser for Assemblyman Scott Stringer, who’s running for Manhattan Borough President, and who is not widely seen as a hip-hop icon.

Stringer’s spokesman, Micah Lasher, clarified for us that this is not the West Coast gangster rapper Dr. Read More

Guess Who Thinks Eminem’s a Genius? Middle-Aged Me

If you’re anything like me, you’re middle-aged, you have a fabulous wife and kid, you see a shrink, you really should lose 15 pounds, you think Albert Brooks is funny and Billy Crystal is not, and you can’t believe that anyone can look at this nasty little prick Bush and see a “President,” and … Read More

Eminem: White Trash Rapper Likes His Humor Black

Yeah, he rips Pamela Anderson’s breasts off, impregnates Spice Girls, tells his dad he wants to slit his throat and his mom that she smokes too much dope and didn’t give him enough milk. But my favorite revenge fantasy in Eminem’s “My Name Is” happens when this guy at a White Castle, where he may Read More