My problem with Lisa Kron’s autobiographical Well on Broadway is that I didn’t enjoy it. I tried. But the same was regrettably true when I first saw the well-regarded play two years ago at the Public. Ms. Kron’s arty reflections on the nature of fiction, truth and memory, as well as the comi-tragedy of illness Read More
My problem with Lisa Kron’s autobiographical Well on Broadway is that I didn’t enjoy it. I tried. But the same was regrettably true when I first saw the well-regarded play two years ago at the Public. Ms. Kron’s arty reflections on the nature of fiction, truth and memory, as well as the comi-tragedy of illness Read More
Thousands of dollars of Northwest Airlines and Jet Blue tickets to fly in what the campaign calls “late help”: ringers who have worked with the campaign and wanted to be there in the election’s endgame .
According to the Bloomberg campaign, at least a portion of those flown in (commercial, not corporate, mind you) were Read More
As we passengers joyously disembarked from JetBlue Flight 292 on the evening of Sept. 21, 2005, one of Los Angeles’ gorgeous toxic sunsets was illuminating the kindly, ruddy, handsome faces of the suddenly superfluous but very welcome emergency personnel gathered on the tarmac. They all looked like 1940’s movie heroes reduced to skycap duty Read More
Lots to read in today’s Observer.
I make the point that Mike could lose this one; I also get an early look at that Kerry documentary that’s causing all the fuss.
Jason Horowitz dives into the recriminations surrounding Eve Rachel Markewich’s race for Surrogate, a.k.a, he writes, the “worst campaign in living Read More
Just a little snippet of last night’s CNN transcript, in which the New York Observer’s features editor Alexandra Jacobs, who was aboard Jet Blue last night for an emergency landing, apologizes to Anderson Cooper for watching a rival network on-board and proves that a critic is still a critic in an airplane malfunction.
JACOBS: We Read More
The Transom is very much relieved to see the Observer‘s six-months-pregnant and incredibly well-composed features editor Alexandra Jacobs on CNN with Anderson Cooper, discussing her experience as a passenger during tonight’s amazing Jet Blue disaster landing. Ms. Jacobs is not one to jump happily into a plane, and, as a fellow airplane-hater, The Transom Read More
On a recent Friday afternoon, Manhattan society hostess and art collector Beth de Woody was sitting in Terminal 6 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, awaiting her JetBlue flight to Palm Beach, when she ran into Caroline Hirsch, owner of Caroline’s Comedy Club, and her boyfriend, attorney Andrew Fox. “We were all hanging out in Read More
Some of the city’s most influential preservationists are vowing to block plans to build a huge new terminal for Jet Blue Airways at John F. Kennedy International Airport, arguing that it will destroy a gloriouspieceofaviation architecture: Eero Saarinen’s T.W.A. terminal.
But the efforts of these preservationists have infuriated some of the city’s business leaders, who Read More
Being bicoastal had always sounded really cool to me-the best of both worlds, the sanest way to endure the shallowness of L.A. and the hardship of New York. Then I actually began having to live it, and immediately found myself losing things-not just sleep, but house keys, mail, my wallet and the necessary calm attention-span Read More
