In Virgin, Hanne Blank reminds us that the idea of virginity exists for no other animal species. And what would our world be like if for us, too, the idea simply did not exist? No Donna Martin, struggling to keep her legs firmly shut through seven seasons of 90210. Steve Carell might still be on Read More
"If I have recourse, I’m gonna use it,” said Richard (Handsome Dick) Manitoba.
The owner of the eponymously named Manitoba’s bar on Avenue B isn’t sitting quietly after being so rudely shushed by upstairs neighbors to the tune of $6,400 in fines.
On March 27, Mr. Manitoba and his lawyer are scheduled to appear before Read More
Vito Fossella has 1,558 friends on his MySpace page, and some of them are, uh, not conservative.
Andrew Sullivan detects hypocrisy in the Republican contention that rebuking Mark Foley would have made them look homophobic.
“They don’t seem too worried about appearing homophobic when it comes to Read More
This week’s New Yorker allows Mark Singer to take us to the 40th death-iversary of the New York Herald Tribune. The oldsters met “the other night” in their old offices, which are now taken up by the journalism grad school of the City University of New York. Old/new world speeches were made: Another speaker was Read More
A reader who a) uses MySpace and b) is identified on MySpace as a New Yorker just received the following email:
Tom Suozzi, for NY Governor 2006 would like to be added to your MySpace friends list.By accepting Tom Suozzi, for NY Governor 2006 as your friend, you will be able to send Tom Read More
Vibe
Ari Horowitz spent his weekend at the beach. He has a house in Waterville, and on Saturday he rented a boat for a while, called The Queen Bee, and went out with a bunch of pals.
Over on Shelter Island, Mr. Horowitz, who is the new president of Vibe magazine, bared Read More
One summer, I was going through my cell contacts, trying to background-check this adorable doe-eyed L.A. wannabe screenwriter—call him Charlie Hollywood—I’d met in Chelsea. We had a weeklong fling while he was in town that ended with him inviting me for another tryst on his home turf. It sounded tempting: Neither one of us was Read More
One summer, I was going through my cell contacts, trying to background-check this adorable doe-eyed L.A. wannabe screenwriter—call him Charlie Hollywood—I’d met in Chelsea. We had a weeklong fling while he was in town that ended with him inviting me for another tryst on his home turf. It sounded tempting: Neither one of us was Read More
One shocking thing about the MySpace.com investigation—the Kansas students allegedly plotting a massacre at their high school on the site—is the claim by MySpace that it has 72 million members. A lot of people are living online.
As a blogger, I’m living online myself, and I find it very confusing. The computer is Read More
