Jonathan Tasini is clearly enjoying himself today after collecting the necessary number of petitions to appear on the primary ballot against Hillary Clinton.
He told us that he collected “north of 30,000, easy,” and that he “would have gotten a lot more petitions signed if it weren’t for the damned rain.”
He said the Read More
Tom Suozzi’s first television spot, produced by Martin Hamburger and Rachel Gorlin, showed up via FedEx today and it is, well, peppy. Actually, the soudtrack sounds like it’s drawn from the preview for a movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme (where did he disappear to, anyway?) and possibly set in outer space.
I’ve posted it Read More
Last Friday, readers of USA Today who opened to page 8A were hit with a full-page ad picturing a flummoxed Ken Jennings, all-time Jeopardy! champion and cult personality, gaping into the camera after delivering the Final Jeopardy answer that finally knocked him out: “What is FedEx?”
The ad-a spot for FedEx-was crashed into circulation by Read More
Lost in the brouhaha over the Jets stadium and the Bloomberg administration’s plan for a revitalized West Side is a broad swath of privately owned buildings in the 30′s and 40′s that the city wants to demolish to make room for a broad, park-like boulevard.
Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff’s ambitious plan calls for the city Read More
On March 1, 2003, at 12 a.m. Eastern time, 9 p.m. Pacific and 10 in the Mountain ranges, I will have a glass of bourbon. It’ll be Maker’s Mark on the rocks-the drink I love more than baseball, autumn in New York, my collection of All-Star Squadron comics, my long-dead grandfather and life on this Read More
To Perps, FedEx Truck Is
Grab Bag on Wheels
One perennially popular and generally not-too-risky form of theft involves crooks following a Federal Express or U.P.S. truck. “They’ll pull up behind or in front of the FedEx truck, and they’ll watch the FedEx driver as he’s making his deliveries,” explained Deputy Inspector Howard Lawrence, Read More
It probably won’t come as news, given the intense affection the typical cat owner feels toward his or her pet, that doing anything that places one of these beloved creatures in harm’s way constitutes a serious felony in the court of feline justice.
One East 77th Street resident found out firsthand just how serious an Read More
Some People Can Take No for an Answer
While the city and the nation remain on high alert for the next terrorist attack, some common criminals apparently don’t consider themselves in any peril of falling prey to the heightened security. On Oct. 14, a 29-year-old man was walking home along the Upper East Side Read More
Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic , from a screenplay by Stephen Gaghan, was inspired by a British Channel Four television miniseries entitled Traffik . Whereas this highly regarded miniseries traced the drug trade from Pakistan through Europe to Great Britain, Mr. Soderbergh and his many collaborators switched the action to Mexico and the United States. What was Read More
Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic , from a screenplay by Stephen Gaghan, was inspired by a British Channel Four television miniseries entitled Traffik . Whereas this highly regarded miniseries traced the drug trade from Pakistan through Europe to Great Britain, Mr. Soderbergh and his many collaborators switched the action to Mexico and the United States. What was Read More
