Since my rocker boyfriend unceremoniously dumped me last summer, I’ve been totally obsessed with my face. Staring for long stretches into the mirror-contemplating lines, blemishes, crinkles and scars-began as a distraction from my broken heart. But it has since evolved into a cherished pastime; spending money to replenish and glow has become a veritable addiction. Read More
Mom Delivers Baby,
Stork Snatches Purse
Giving birth is a sufficiently laborious task that one might think keeping an eye on one’s purse would be the last thing on an expectant mother’s mind. But a Long Island City woman faced just that challenge at Lenox Hill Hospital on May 15-if not during labor, then Read More
Wednesday 21st
“They can be so messy, noisy and temperamental,” said Susan Chamberlain, speaking not of Manhattan men but pet birds -”pets that are often discarded,” according to Ms. Chamberlain, president of the Long Island Parrot Society and owner of nine birds, who live with her in a glass house . “They’re very long-lived. Read More
Sassy Subway Punks Lift The Loot and Catch Action on Film
If you’ve committed a crime and nobody knows about it except your victim, did it actually occur? That’s the existential question that three female teenage thugs may have been attempting to address on Feb. 8 when they assaulted a couple of 14-year-olds on Read More
I have always clung to the belief that “shrimping,” i.e., toe-sucking, though not the most revoltingly incomprehensible sexual aberration known to man, is still pretty gnarly. Feet should be tended and soothed–not slobbered over.
Then, last week, I went to Rescue, and now I find I am more than ready to revise my opinion. Improbably Read More
Pia Getty motioned toward a lacquered console out of Clockwork Orange . “This is the fragrance organ,” Ms. Getty said, her voice sweet and intercontinental. As workmen rushed by, my attention turned to the muscular young man hired to greet customers at the threshold of the 8,100-square-foot Sephora store on Broadway and Prince streets; it Read More
