By Staff 4/17/06 10:30am

Monday: Green Building Fever

  • The city is test-driving “green” buildings, with ventilated air, stone floors that generate heat in the winter and absorb it in the summer, and even a waterfall that humidifies and chills the lobby. But while the Hearst Tower should be all filled up, Larry Silverstein could use a few more tenants in his green building Read More

    • By Sheelah Kolhatkar 12/19/05 12:00am

    Gloria Steinem

    What is Gloria Steinem’s advice to young women these days? To do “whatever they fucking well please,” America’s foremost feminist said, stabbing into poached eggs at a brunch-mobbed diner on a recent Sunday. “ Ha ha ha! … Have some fries.”

    Ms. Steinem, a luminous 71, still curses, looks hot and paints her nails. Read More

    By Frank DiGiacomo 8/08/05 12:00am

    Why Have a Night Like This In times Like These?’

    Just weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Friars Club warily proceeded with its planned roast of Hugh Hefner, which included a classic telling of ‘The Aristocrats’ joke. The result? As Frank DiGiacomo reported, the laughter humanized an inhuman time.

    On Saturday, Sept. 29, Freddie Roman, the dean of New York’s Friars Read More

    By Elon R. Green, Anna Jane Grossman and Alexandra Wolfe 12/15/03 12:00am

    Galileo! Galileo!

    Galileo! Galileo!

    This is the city of strange bedfellows, but every so often the combinations are so unfathomable that attention must be paid. That was certainly the case on the evening of Nov. 17, when CLAL (the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership) staged a benefit performance of selections from Stargazer: The Rock Opera-about Read More

    By Sridhar Pappu 10/07/02 12:00am

    Hefner Decrees: Less Sex Better in New Playboy

    He wants to “pull back.”

    Hugh Hefner-the 76-year-old, Viagra-gulping geezer, the man who sells sex and a sense of male inadequacy every time he steps off an airplane with six or seven artificially D-cupped 23-year-olds- thinks Playboy needs fewer tits.

    “I want us to pull back a little bit,” Mr. Hefner said in an Read More

    By Frank DiGiacamo 10/08/01 12:00am

    Front Page 6

    On Saturday, Sept. 29, Freddie Roman, the dean of New

    York’s Friars Club, stood before audience members in the Grand Ballroom of the

    New York Hilton and asked them to familiarize themselves with the fire exits.

    Then, because he’d said that “these are very different times for us all,” he

    attempted to answer a question Read More

    By Frank DiGiacomo 10/08/01 12:00am

    Observatory

    On Saturday, Sept. 29, Freddie Roman, the dean of New York’s Friars Club, stood before audience members in the Grand Ballroom of the

    New York Hilton and asked them to familiarize themselves with the fire exits.

    Then, because he’d said that “these are very different times for us all,” he

    attempted to answer a question Read More