Ask Polly: Should I Play It Cool — Or Ask Him For More And Be “That Girl”?

Brooklyn Night Court

Brooklyn criminal courtroom number 105, at 10:43 p.m., Judge Jackie Williams presiding. The room is high-ceilinged, the…

In The Church Of ‘St. Vincent’

by Jeva Lange

Metronomy, “Love Letters”

You Are Probably Using ‘Kudos’ Wrong

by Jeva Lange

“The real problem with kudos, however, isn’t grammatical. It’s socio-politico-cultural. Not to put too fine a point on it, but few of us are heroes, and little that gets done today deserves good old-fashioned ancient kudos. A…

Headline Impeccable

Brands, Hurry Up And Take Advantage Of “Flappy Bird” Mania Before The Next Thing Comes Along!

Boring Dog Wins Westminster Dog Show

“Rangel called Sky ‘the little perfect dog’ who always seems to know what to do in a show ring…

Here Is A Gallery Of Things That Might Cause The Next Pandemic!

“Over the past two decades, bats have turned out to play host to all kinds of nasty viruses. Some of these can infect people; many, including Ebola and MERS, can be deadly. Most human outbreaks have been small, but the…

Bill Russell Is 80

William Felton Russell, the first African American coach in American professional sports and indisputably one of basketball’s greatest all-time players, an “impassioned advocate of human rights” and “a consistent advocate of equality,” as the White House put it when awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010, turns 80 today.

What The Smiths Taught Me About Business

“In business as in personal relationships, there can be such a thing as a beautiful exit, one that ‘avoids, as much as possible, hurting the disengager, the other party, and the connected network.’ Being good at relationships means knowing how to end it in a…

Battered By The Hands Of Time And Hobbled By The Failings Of A Body That Finally Proved Unable To Continually Defy The Years Of Punishment Inflicted Upon It, A Local Sportsman — A Brittle Shadow Of The Strapping Youth…

New York City, February 11, 2014

★★ Frozen and dried into rigid unchangeability. Hard ice and salt crust coexisted on the sidewalk. A…