Last week, Katie J.M. Baker of Jezebel.com posted a cautionary tale, for both female and male online daters alike. A New York banker charting the waves of Match.com came up with a novel way to keep the women he was talking to on the site straight -- he...
0 Comments | Posted April 13, 2012 | 10:32 AM
I have a theory that my fear of needles can be traced back to a Garbage Pail Kid card that bore my name. Called "MediKate," the girl depicted on the card had a needle stuck so deeply into her fleshy arm that the shape of the syringe was visible on...
0 Comments | Posted March 28, 2012 | 6:16 PM
Absolutely Fabulous is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. A British sitcom that ran from 1992 to 1996 and again from 2001 to 2004, Ab Fab was about two best friends -- Edina and Patsy -- who reached their late 40s without giving up chain-smoking, booze swilling,...
1 Comments | Posted March 21, 2012 | 12:03 PM
My parents are cool. Very cool. In fact, in some ways, they are cooler than I am. They know they all the hot restaurants in New York City, and they've been to every new play. They stay out late at jazz clubs, and put together ensembles with the ease of...
0 Comments | Posted September 13, 2007 | 5:57 PM
New York City -- In the master control room, four screens reveal what's currently showing on the four stations of the Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN). On the first one, a teenager in a wife-beater lip syncs to "Singin' in the Rain," rain drops plopping on his nose as he leap-frogs...
0 Comments | Posted July 10, 2007 | 2:29 PM
Jane Magazine has been gone for less than 36 hours, and already people seem to agree on what should be engraved on its tombstone: "Nice magazine, but never quite lived up to her older sister Sassy."
I, like so many women in their twenties and thirties, was a Sassy reader....
0 Comments | Posted April 23, 2012 | 11:12 AM