By Kim Velsey 8/09/12 2:45pm

Love and Real Estate

The house. (The New York Times)

Man Builds Spaceship House To Prove Ex-Girlfriend Wrong

Many of us, in the wake of a failed romantic relationship, are guilty of a little vindictive self-betterment. Exercising more, diving into our careers, buying flattering new clothes—all in the hopes of causing an ex to weep the bitter tears of regret.

One man, still smarting from a break-up some forty years earlier, has built a spaceship house in Puerto Rico to show his college girlfriend just how wrong she was about him, The New York Times reports. And he doesn’t even like spaceships! Read More

By Lysandra Ohrstrom 6/09/08 10:59pm

The Local: The Annual Socioeconomic Rorschach Test

After trudging back and forth around a 30-block stretch of the Upper East Side on Sunday afternoon and talking to a handful of the estimated two million revelers who turned out for the Puerto Rican Day Parade, I ducked inside one of the few open stores on Madison Avenue for a break from the grimy, Read More

By Steve Kornacki 6/02/08 2:09am

Puerto Rico Hands Clinton a Fatal Victory

After she scored a lopsided victory in Sunday’s Puerto Rico primary, Hillary Clinton attempted to frame her campaign against Barack Obama, which will conclude with primaries in Montana and South Dakota on Tuesday, as a draw.

“I will lead the popular vote,” she said. “He will maintain a slight lead in the delegate count.”

It’s Read More

By Steve Kornacki 5/16/08 6:21pm

Puerto Rico Primary Looms Smaller

Last week, in an analysis of the popular vote in the Democratic race, I quoted Manuel Alvarez-Rivera, a Puerto Rican election expert who scoffed at the widely accepted estimate here on the mainland of a turnout of 1,000,000 voters in Puerto Rico’s June 1 primary.

It’s a little remarkable in the first place that the Read More

By Jason Horowitz 2/18/08 5:45pm

A Pro-Hillary Superdelegate on Ickes' Puerto Rican Tightrope

Does Harold Ickes complicate Hillary Clinton’s appeals to Puerto Rican superdelegates?

Francisco Domenech, a superdelegate supporting Hillary Clinton in Puerto Rico, thinks that Ickes, her point-man on the wrangling of superdelegates, may find himself having to explain his work on behalf of one side of the flammable issue of Puerto Rico’s national status.

Domenech, who Read More

By Mario Naves 9/22/03 12:00am

A Quiet Facility Thrills: Still Lifes With a Deft Touch

Boy, does Sydney Licht have the touch. Ms. Licht, whose still-life paintings are the subject of an exhibition at lyonswier gallery, works predominantly and adroitly with a palette knife. Spreading oils with a crisp concision, she brings a sense of give to the surfaces, a flexibility and airiness. She brings to them a density, too, Read More

By Baz Dreisinger 11/04/02 12:00am

A New, Mainstream Al Sharpton Woos the Rest of the Nation

Al on America , by Al Sharpton, with Karen Hunter. Kensington Publishing, 304 pages, $27.

Al Sharpton recently had a meeting with Al Sharpton. It was, he says, one of the most important events of his adult life, and it occurred in prison, during a 90-day sentence for protesting U.S. military bases in Vieques, Puerto Read More

By Richard Brookhiser 12:00am

Puerto Rico Won’t Say No Más to Status Quo

Puerto Rican independence has gotten a new convert. After the uproar about clemency for terrorists, Hillary Clinton surely wishes the island were out of American politics, if not under water, which is where it has been pulling her for the last month.

Previous victims of the Puerto Rico Triangle include society columnist Taki Theodoracopulos, on Read More