By Sara Vilkomerson 4/21/09 7:28pm

Film Tri-athalon

Overhwlemed by choices? Here are the Observer’s top nine picks at Tribeca. Click on the slideshow to see what not to miss! And check back during the week for dispatches, updates and everything else from the festival.

By Staff 5/07/06 6:16pm

Steve Nash Accepts His MVP, and So Do I

When Steve Nash said yesterday, “I’m not going to give it back,” he was talking to all the people like me who didn’t want him to win MVP twice in a row. If you believe in democracy—O.K., elitist democracy— you have to see some justice in the award. 125 sporstwriters and broadcasters gave him Read More

By Staff 5/05/06 10:23pm

Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, and the MVP

I stayed up till 1:30 last night to watch the Suns’ victory over the Lakers in overtime. I felt awed by the displays of power by Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash. Nash may lack Kobe’s athleticism, and Jordanity, but it is beautiful to watch him run that offense. It ticked me off when the Read More

By Staff 9:24am

Celebrities: They’re Just Like Themselves!

New York magazine, July 25, 2005
CELEBRITY PSYCHOS
Celebrity and Its Discontents: A Diagnosis
By Vanessa Grigoriadis
Telephone rage, impromptu African sabbaticals, a trial that could only have taken place in Neverland—this season, our neurotic star culture seems to be suffering a complete mental collapse. Are only the crazy drawn Read More

By Baz Dreisinger 8/18/03 12:00am

Adultery Finds Witty Champion, Domestic Coupledom Takes a Hit

Against Love: A Polemic , by Laura Kipnis. Pantheon, 224 pages, $24.

If scandals have their seasons, nothing suits summer like a steamy dose of adultery. This season we celebrate a cuckold, Hillary Clinton, whose top-dollar memoir renewed interest in the most delicious illicit affair of the 90′s. And we malign an adulterer (and accused Read More