LAURIE: Ladies, gentlemen, listen up. You want all of your wedding vendors, and especially your cake maker, to think like (or be) Duff Goldman.
“I’m kind of the anti-wedding industry wedding vendor,” said Mr. Goldman, proprietor of Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, Maryland. “The wedding industry is designed to rip people off. There’s Read More
Candidates in Brooklyn’s 10th Congressional District debate at NY1 (7 & 10:30).
Maryland Democratic candidates, Benjamin Cardin and Kwiesi Mfume (head of the NAACP) debate on C-SPAN 2 at 7.
Andrew Cuomo and Charlie King speak at the House of the Lord Church (415 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn) at 8 p.m.
Mike Bloomberg Read More
America’s young drivers are a problem as old as the Christmas gift of a new La Salle given to an entitled tyke in Appointment in Samarra. “The kids knew he was going to get it all along,” John O’Hara wrote. “His mother told him beforehand. He smashed it up New Year’s Eve.”
America’s young drivers are a problem as old as the Christmas gift of a new La Salle given to an entitled tyke in Appointment in Samarra. “The kids knew he was going to get it all along,” John O’Hara wrote. “His mother told him beforehand. He smashed it up New Year’s Eve.”
A third of Read More
A week or so back I did a snarky take on Laurel Snyder’s new book, Half-Life: Jew-ish Tales From Interfaith Homes and a reading she had at Makor , then walked away whistling. But after trying to comment on my post and being foiled somehow by the Observer’s system (apologies), Snyder sent Read More
AIMEE: Brian and I arrive in Maryland for a whirlwind day of wedding planning: Our all-important first stop? Popping by the Dorchester County Courthouse in the tiny town of Cambridge to get ourselves a marriage license.
Aimee and Brian getting their marriage license.
With my parents in tow, Brian and I wander in Read More
AIMEE: Everyone will be relieved to know that my bridesmaid Jennie has retrieved the tea-length dress that was being held in the basement package room of her suburban Maryland apartment building.
I pick up the phone and she dives in: “Can you believe it was addressed to Jamie Folta in apartment 335 instead Read More
BEIJING—Before I bought the snakehead—the presumed snakehead—I wanted to make sure. “Qing wen,” I said in my broken proto-Mandarin. Excuse me …. The guy at the fish counter wheeled and called over his partner, a young woman, for help.
“Zhe shi shenme yu?” I asked her. What kind of fish is this?—or, given my language Read More
BEIJING—Before I bought the snakehead—the presumed snakehead—I wanted to make sure. “ Qing wen,” I said in my broken proto-Mandarin. Excuse me …. The guy at the fish counter wheeled and called over his partner, a young woman, for help.
“ Zhe shi shenme yu?” I asked her. What kind of fish is this?—or, given Read More
The holiday shopping season may be off to a sluggish start … but the holiday shoplifting season is going gangbusters. On Nov. 29, three women visited Banana Republic’s store at 1136 Madison Avenue and helped themselves to enough merchandise to Secret Santa their whole neighborhood or, more likely, set up shop on the street.
The Read More
