A picture of Coach Vivian Stringer hangs high in the Rutgers basketball arena, the only face in the RAC rafters, looming near the ceiling like some stained-glass window of a saint in a church. It adorns a banner honoring her 2009 induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in a class that included Michael Read More
DENVER—Spike Lee really liked Wednesday night’s speeches.
“Fired up! Fired up!” said the director walking down the main aisle of the Pepsi Center last night. He wore a white T-shirt with Obama’s face on it and a baseball cap. He gave a high five to Newark Mayor Cory Booker, sitting in the front row Read More
On what was supposed to have been his last album ever, Jay-Z made a little joke: “When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5 / it ain’t to play games with you / it’s to aim at you, probably maim you!” Never mind the tense trouble and clunky rhyme—Jay-Z’s meaning was clear: His retirement Read More
On what was supposed to have been his last album ever, Jay-Z made a little joke: “When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5 / it ain’t to play games with you / it’s to aim at you, probably maim you!” Never mind the tense trouble and clunky rhyme—Jay-Z’s meaning was clear: His retirement Read More
You may think Buddhists are all centered and less indecisive than the rest of us. Not so for Richard Gere. Apparently, the actor cannot make up his mind over which Hamptons mansion to take, according to the New York Post. Also, George Clooney, Ivana Trump, and Michael Jordan have trouble in Vegas.
Usher is Read More
The Full Monty , the new musical about various wee-wees, is currently lighting up Broadway. I guess I’ve seen some things in my time, but a musical about whether amateur male strippers will drop their G-strings to show us “the full monty” after almost three hours-at last! This is the moment . Will they, won’t Read More
I was taken aback recently when I walked past the small, shocking pink townhouse that for years housed Asti’s restaurant in Greenwich Village. It sported a brand-new red neon sign emblazoned with the words “Strip House.” So it had come to this! How low this venerable old tourist trap, with its jolly opera-singing waiters and Read More
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made , by David Halberstam. Random House, 426 pages, $24.95.
Now that he’s gone–he says it’s “99.9 percent” certain–we’re ready for the summing up. But we’ve already been at it for years. Larry Bird, early in Michael Jordan’s career, called him a god in human form. Read More
