A Motley Crew in Hollywood Talks Movies and Makes Love

Elena, a writer of self-help books at work on Here’s How: To Do EVERYTHING Correctly!, and Max, a Hollywood filmmaker whose single Oscar is decades behind him, are together in bed. They should be having sex, but under the shadow of the recent invasion of Iraq, Max is having a “non-contributing member problem” and prefers Read More

Landmark Decision Stabled


128 East 13th Street.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission held an emergency hearing today to in order to hear testimony from the public regarding the former Van Tassel and Kearney horse auction house at 126-128 East 13th Street.


A developer’s dream.

Built in 1904, the building served as an auction house for well-heeled New Read More

You Cheap Bastards! New York Men-Oafs Fail to Open Wallets

I don’t know why my date’s first words to me were “You’re late,” even though I arrived just 10 minutes after the appointed hour. I don’t know why the appointed hour was 4 o’clock in the afternoon and not something more civilized like 7 o’clock in the evening, or why he chose to meet at Read More

Growth Trends

This week in Slate, Tom Vanderbilt writes about the rise in personal mini-storage units in one of those far-reaching cultural essays inevitably headlined “[fill in the blank] Nation.”

Vanderbilt posits a number of explanations for the rise in mini-storage in Self-Storage Nation (rising consumerism, increased mobility, eBay, etc.) and grapples with the mystery of Read More