Countdown to Bliss

Wayne Baker and Meredith Ronayne

Met: June 5, 2005

Engaged: Aug. 24, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: Oct. 14, 2006

Meredith Ronayne was a starry-eyed intern at the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York when she watched Wayne Baker deliver a passionate opening statement in a trial against Read More

Countdown to Bliss

Hali Brindel and Evan Forman

Met: April 2003

Engaged: Feb. 13, 2004

Projected Wedding Date: June 17, 2006

It was a brisk spring morning, and Evan Forman was in a state of bewilderment, staring at the 10 fresh e-mails that graced his inbox. Soon there were 20 … and 30. All Read More

Black Widows, Long Legs–It’s Jazz Age Spider Chic

Arachnids are back! A predatory fervor is consuming the women of Manhattan, who-egged on by the man-eating flappers in the utterly fab movie Chicago and the male-baiting Bachelorette -are luring large groups of fellows into their webs, via the Web. Whether on J-Date.com, Match.com or the more self-consciously groovy Nerve.com, they weave a seductive cocoon Read More

Naked Ambition

When a friend in her 20′s learned that I had recently attended an upscale, invite-only orgy called “Caligula’s Ball” as part of my research for this story, she pressed me for details in an e-mail. I replied, “Saturday night. Large loft in Chelsea with high ceilings, comfy couches and a custom-made king-size canopy bed with Read More

Getting Over the Dot-Com Don Juans

Cecilia, Jennifer and I were fleeing Gotham in a white

Rabbit convertible. Cecilia had never driven the car much further than the

Hamptons. But now, we were all suddenly unemployed and single. Top down, we

sped down Broome Street toward the Holland Tunnel, three women in our early

30′s singing, “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now!” Read More