by Mike Barthel
by Mary Phillips-Sandy
Each year for as long as I can remember, I’ve been invited to go to Israel for free, to see the country: the discos of Haifa! The towers of Tel Aviv! The horrible, horrible weather! Sometimes this solicitation comes from the government or the foreign…
by Ben Dolnick
by Sean Manning
Jay-Z’s cameraphone video of Beyonce’s rehearsal last night. Jesus!
Q: I know that you don’t want to speak about your new diet regime….
A: Exactly
Q: But why, why don’t you want to speak?
“While healthy people expect the future to be slightly better than it ends up being, people with severe depression tend to be pessimistically biased: they expect things to be worse than they end up being. People…
Well, the most terrible story in the world has reached its conclusion by verdict. “The jury convicted both officers of official misconduct for entering the woman’s apartment, but found them not guilty of all other charges, including burglary and falsifying business…
“We are all lonely cheeseburger whores.”
“As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle goblins and cast spells. Liu says he was one of…
Friday May 27th — that’s tomorrow! — at 5 p.m., at 100 Centre Street, Manhattan. Facebook group here.
“A retired dentist suffered a broken leg after driving his quad bike into a tree while being attacked by a goose.”
We presume it’ll be “mildly expensive” (not like NetJets expensive!) but starting today, the Standard Hotel plane is available for public bookings! It’s an eight-seater Cessna water plane, and they’re doing a…
Man, remember when everyone was soiling their undergarments over the possibility that Sarah Palin might become president? These days she’s getting compared to Gary Hart. And not the ’84 model. It’s a funny old world.
Science, tell me how the next generation is doing.
