Liquor, Race, Soho—And All That Jazz

“We don’t want to appear to be antagonistic to anyone,” said restaurateur Gayle Patrick-Odeen, after deleting some triumphant rhe-toric from her Web site and yanking letters of support from her storefront windows, on advice of counsel.

“We don’t want to rub anything in anybody’s face,” Ms. Patrick-Odeen said. “We just want to get on with Read More

Liquor, Race, Soho-And All That Jazz

“We don’t want to appear to be antagonistic to anyone,” said restaurateur Gayle Patrick-Odeen, after deleting some triumphant rhe-toric from her Web site and yanking letters of support from her storefront windows, on advice of counsel.

“We don’t want to rub anything in anybody’s face,” Ms. Patrick-Odeen said. “We just want to get on with Read More

The Edgy Enthusiast

In My 80′s-Video ‘Safe Room,’ It’s Always Sept. 10

Next to “terror sex,” the most interesting two-word phrase to emerge from post–Sept. 11 culture has to be “safe room.” It crept into discourse in the aftermath of the anthrax scare. Originally, “safe room” referred to a sort of fallout-shelter-type room, well-stocked and reinforced for Read More