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