Well-Tailored Piecework Stitches Up a 1911 Tragedy

Katharine Weber puts her stories together like piecework, like the work done by the two sisters in Triangle, one a survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire of 1911, the other killed by it (along with 145 others). Ms. Weber stitches together an interview, an article, a conventional third-person narrative the way one sister added Read More

Lard Almighty! Pig Fat Is Back

Ack! Ack! Ack! This is that time of year when the fall trends are being machine-gunned relentlessly into our psyches. Can there be a person alive on the planet who does not know that BLACK IS BACK, and that owning a pair of flat goblin boots is about to become as vital as a pancreas? Read More

Scorched by Colin the Great

I will remember 2004 as the year I went on a date with Colin Farrell and got scorched by the inferno of his white-hot charisma. Our liaison, an epic tale of bleach, blood and bisexuality, proved to be every bit as emotionally draining as the tabloids had led me to believe it might be.

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Dining out with Moira Hodgson

Where to Go For

Dinner and a Show

It may seem odd to start a review by talking about a restaurant’s bathrooms. But at Peep, they provide moments of hilarity worthy of a Feydeau hotel-bedroom farce. Take a seat on the banquette in the center of Peep’s long, mirrored dining room and enjoy the Read More