By The Editors 10/05/11 9:49am

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For New Yorkers, a Week of Big Surprises

Sometimes we like to imagine what life would be like if everything had turned out differently—if everything we’d wished for this week had actually come true.  We like to imagine, for instance, that we’d be in line for the new iPhone 5 and that it would be so shiny and magical that it wouldn’t matter that we still get no reception anywhere in Manhattan where you’d actually need to make a phone call.  We like to imagine that Chris Christie is running for President because we like outsized… personalities.  (We’ve sprained all of our extraocular muscles rolling our eyes at Michelle Bachmann but she seems to have more staying power than Mitt Romney’s hair gel.) We like to imagine Derek Jeter hammering some of Justin Verlander’s 100 mph fastballs into the nosebleed seats at Comerica Park. We like to imagine that Girl Scout Council employees are paragons of public service and would never, ever embezzle $310,000 of organizational cookie money for cosmetic laser procedures and cruises.

But, alas, none of it’s true. Read More

By Rex Reed 9/21/11 12:08am

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Dolphin Tale is Something Fishy

Three things that make everybody happy: Christmas, ice cream and dolphins. A delightful new family film called Dolphin Tale is not a Christmas story; it takes place in Florida, so you wouldn’t know it even if it was. But you get everything else, and the way things are going at the movies these days, two out of three ain’t bad.

This is the kind of movie with end credits for days, postproduction edits for years, and nobody cares. What matters is how lovable the dolphin is, and on that score everyone can rest easy. Read More

By Azi Paybarah 6/23/09 10:47pm

The Goodman Commission

Former state senator Roy Goodman of Manhattan released a statement today saying he’d like the stalemate in the Senate to be broken by a bipartisan commission.

Goodman, one of the last of the Rockefeller Republican types, recommends the following “individuals of the highest caliber” to serve on it:

Former governors George E. Pataki, Mario Cuomo Read More

By Azi Paybarah 6/16/09 3:30pm

Monserrate Says He’s on ‘Right Side of History’

I just got off the phone with Senator Hiram Monserrate, whose defection from and return to the Democratic caucus in the State Senate has brought Albany to a standstill.
Monserrate said he did what he did because he had an “obligation” to his constituents “to change Albany,” and he is on the “right side Read More

By Azi Paybarah 4/29/09 8:25pm

A Campaign to Get Bloomberg to Debate

The Working Families Party is enlisting help to put pressure on Michael Bloomberg for his refusal to accept an invitation to participate in a debate.
The WFP, one of the debate organizers, has launched an online petition saying the mayoral campaign is “already overloaded” with sound bites, and notes that Bloomberg’s two Democratic opponents Read More

By Azi Paybarah 3/31/09 8:27pm

Council Candidate Shows His Story, But Not His Face

Here’s an entertaining video from City Council candidate Robert Cornegy Jr., who, unlike most candidates for office, introduces himself to the public by hiding his face.
The video takes it cue from an ad featuring rapper Jay-Z, who was peddling Hewlett Packard products.
Cornegy is running against City Councilman Al Vann of Brooklyn, Read More