They Dance Like They’ve Dance Before *

[Editor's Note: A somewhat murky clarification has been appended to this item on July 20th.]

When The Transom talked to Paula Froelich last week, she was jetting off to somewhere less humid and more glamorous for the weekend. And apparently Page Six boss Richard Johnson was out on mini-vacation. Which would have just left the Read More

Howard Dean’s Diary

1-20-2004

Dear Diary,

Fuck you.

Sorry, I didn’t mean that. I meant, fuck them all. Fuck Kerry and Chris Matthews and Jodi Wilgoren and Mike Barnicle.

So my Iowa speech is the Paris Hilton tape of the new year.

Big fuckin’ deal. I watched the tape. I don’t think I looked Read More

King Conked by Yunqué

The 92nd Street Y’s “Writing New York” reading on Jan. 5 should have been a placid affair. Three authors, all of whom live in and write about the city, were to read from their current work: Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead and the mustachioed Edgardo Vega Yunqué. Mr. Lethem, who won the National Book Critics Circle Read More

Meet the Columnists Who Dish It Out

That’s Funny, Kids. That’s Funny

A typical Cindy Adams item: Photographer Peter Beard goes into the bush, gets stomped by an elephant and his pelvis shatters in 22 places. Six months after he heals, he goes back, and another elephant charges him. Director Renny Harlin is making a documentary about Mr. Beard. What’s Cindy’s Read More