Sports Bars For Foodies, The Sports-Averse

by Robert Lanham

‘Kentucky v. King’: But Shouldn’t Stupid People be a Protected Class?

All the Lady-Movies Now Are About Sluts!

Thing Not As Big As Was Originally Claimed

“None of us on that cruise had been to the patch, but we had all heard that it’s twice the size of Texas. That’s in a textbook. These statements are so frequent and in so many places that they are accepted as fact. But they undermine the credibility of…

Michael Klein, “What He Was Reading”

by Mark Bibbins, Editor

What He Was Reading

You are watching the wind turn pages of a book
 back and forth until the weight of them
 stops it somewhere near the beginning.

Please Make Smug Ford Guy Go Away

by Jeff Johnson and David Roth

Ellen Stewart, the Queen of the East Village

“She was never eager to speak about the part of her life before her arrival in New York, and details about it are scarce…. What is known is that she studied to be a teacher at Arkansas State College and worked as a riveter in a defense plant in Chicago…

Dear Mrs. Noonan

Dear Mrs. Noonan,

Sorry if it seemed like I was trying to see you naked.

I wasn’t, I swear.

This happened one morning in the summer of 1994, when I was living with your son Will in the apartment on 6th Street. Will had…

What Can Pictures Of Self-Absorbed People With Laptops Tell Us About Our Modern World?

It’s Really None Of Your Business, But Aretha Franklin Is Feeling Better

When The Web Hands You Penises, Make Penisade

“Everyday, about 50,000 new men are trying to get naked. What we’re doing is selling the naked men to a couple of websites — it’s an investment for us.”
 — Chatroulette founder Andrey Ternovskiy discusses his website’s new funding strategy: “When…

Guy From Madness Hits 50

New Yorkers Irked By Competent Service

“They plowed at 6 a.m. — they woke me up! It was pretty noisy. The super said everyone on the front side of the building could hear them. At least three plows went by [in an hour]!”
 — Midtown resident Henry Falcon expresses displeasure at the efficiency with…

The Science Of Touching

“Gender stereotypes suggest that men are usually tough and women are usually tender. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds these stereotypes have some real bodily truth for our brains; when people look at a…