theater

Scroggins and Strolle in The Big Meal

The Big Meal: Whose Role Is it Anyway?

What happened to Playwrights Horizons? Once a bastion of the best and brightest new plays in the New York theater, this noble company has turned into a wobbly showcase for the kind of experimental writing that lives and dies in workshop productions on college campuses in Vermont. Having barely survived a pointless farrago of office politics called Assistance, I have now squirmed my way through The Big Meal, a boring case history of family life as symbolically reflected through three generations of revolting looking menu items that six adults and two children must consume until their plates are empty. The play has been quickly erased from my memory, but the heartburn lingers on. Read More

Craigslist

What you'll be saying about your new Craigslist friend!

Craigslist Creeper Targeting NYC’s Rich, Married Women On Missed Connections

Gross guys on Craigslist are nothing new…it’s basically why Craigslist was invented by Jimmy Wales. (Well that, and to halt SOPA. And to clarify, yes we know that Mr. Wales founded Wikipedia, not Craigslist, but our sense of humor might not be translating as well after a 24-hour Golden Globes binge.) But today’s listings have led us to a guy who could Mike the Investment Banker look sane. Or maybe it is Mike the Investment Banker?? Read More

Derek Jeter

Minka Kelly and Derek Jeter (Getty Images)

No More Wonderful Prizes For Sleeping With Derek Jeter

Several weeks ago, we reported on the oft-heard rumor that if you are lucky enough to catch the Yankee shortstop  Derek Jeter‘s penis and put it inside you, you would go home the next morning with a gifting suite worth of goodies. (Including but not limited to a signed baseball! How very Freudian.) The best part of all? There wasn’t a cap on how many times you could pull the one-night-stand move on Mr. Jeter, since he apparently has the memory of a goldfish when it comes to the women he’s bedded.

Sorry ladies, but your free ride is officially over. Read More

Editorial

Barack Obama: No Friend of Israel

In demanding that Israel retreat to its pre-1967 borders as a starting point for negotiations with the Palestinians, President Obama confirmed what many have suspected for some time: he is not a friend of Israel.

No friend, no true ally, would ask another state to put its very existence in jeopardy. But that is precisely Read More

Paradoxes

‘WSJ’ Bearish on Marital ‘Bonds?’

Over the last year, a narrative emerged in the work of Wall Street Journal relationship columnist Elizabeth Bernstein.

It started with “The Tricky Art of Sleeping Together,” “Helping a Loved One Fight Depression,” “Sick of This Text: ‘Sorry I’m Late’,” “Sorry? Really? Behind the Apology Gap,” “Coping With Adult Temper Tantrums” and “She Talks, But Does Read More

Love

The Girlfriend Always Phones Twice: How Many Calls Are Too Many?

“Were you drinking for the entire flight?” Mr. Goody Two-Shoes asked as I deboarded my plane from Antigua. While he sounded vaguely amused as I slurred a denial, in my defense I had been through quite the ordeal.

I must have been really engrossed in The Jersey Shore while booking my trip to St. Barth’s, Read More