by Natasha Vargas-Cooper
To think, rough and tough New Yorkers were once scared of a little ‘urban renewal project’! Here in…
Bad news, dopeheads: “Males who smoke marijuana daily are four times more likely to have trouble reaching orgasm than men who don’t inhale, finds a new study of 8,656 Aussies. Other smokers had the opposite problem, experiencing premature…
Looking north from the intersection of St. Nicholas and Amsterdam Avenues toward 163rd Street in Washington Heights, you…
by Seth Colter Walls
Which helping hands co-wrote The Maureen Dowd Collective’s insane, 2003-era rant against Anna Wintour this weekend? We’re thinking the high dudgeon screaminess sounds like Alessandra Stanley and Frank Bruni cracking themselves up after a few…
Speaking in Columbus, GA, last week, former Army lieutenant William Calley apologized for his role in the My Lai massacre. If you’ve never heard of My Lai, here’s a little background: “In March 1968, U.S. soldiers gunned down hundreds of civilians in the Vietnamese hamlet…
FOR GENERAL RELEASE: Merely 20 or so minutes (approximately two cigarettes) after the announcement of a Justice Department investigation into whether there should be an investigation of CIA torture, I have completed my review of documents and…
“When people ask me why the world still does not have a single vertical farm, I just raise my eyebrows and shrug my shoulders.” I can’t think of what’s wrong with the ideas Dickson D. Despommier writes about in his New York Times op-ed either. (I…
Oh, in case you were wondering of what Michael Jackson died, somehow, it was the drugs. Also his hands and feet were basically pincushions, it sounds like. Update: Oh and it is now called a homicide. Go read People if you want to…
Apparently Amy Winehouse showed up at England’s V Fest this weekend and performed two songs with 2 Tone legends The Specials (aka The Special AKA-haha, see what I did there?). Anyway, I’m not sure how you feel about Winehouse at this point, but I for one am…
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds made an astounding $37.6 million at the box office this weekend, proving my long-held contention that there is an audience for movies about murderous Jews. That, and this article about the Final Destination movies, got me…
Will Italian first lady Veronica Lario divorce errant husband Silvio Berlusconi, or will the 72-year-old premier attempt reconciliation by entering a clinic for the rehabilitation of his addiction to consorting with underage girls and hookers? Who knows! But I hope…
I got an email from James Carville the other day! “Dear Dave, Would y’all like an autographed copy of my latest book? The one that tells how Republicans will be up to their necks in electoral ugly for at least the next generation? Of course you would. It’s…
Anger in Britain, where a government plan to redesign the pint glass is coming under fire from publicans, a group normally swift to embrace change. The British Beer and Pub Association is protesting the potential move to plastic glasses, a…
An investigation is taking place to decide whether there should be an investigation! This is only exciting because the pre-investigation is by the Justice Department, and of the CIA and its techniques. You know…
“The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry,”…
All you fans of contextual ads will be happy to hear about a more deliberately targeted campaign: Americans United for Change has launched this ad, aimed at the hundreds of thousands of Sarah Palin supporters on Facebook, reports Greg Sargent. The AUC tells…