This era's Cowboys team is so familiar to us by now that a full treatment of Dallas's strengths and weaknesses seems unnecessary. We pretty much know who they are and what they do, so a thumbnail analysis will suffice before we move on to some miscellaneous odds and ends:

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My girlfriend and I want to get married. Only thing is: it's not legal in NY State, where we live. So we started doing everything we could think of to reverse that. Including going up to Albany this past spring with two of our politico friends to speak to some...

Could it be that the hit television show, Gossip Girl, will have a bigger impact on the future of the art market than the "largest, most important" annual art event in America"? I'm leaning in favor of Gossip Girl.

This week is undoubtedly important for the art world's governing elite....

TGIF everyone, here's my Top 5 for December 4, 2009 from Len Berman at www.ThatsSports.com.

1. Quick Hits

* Tiger Woods and his wife have reportedly reworked their prenup so that she gets immediate cash and a bigger buyout if and when she splits. And...

For veteran director/screenwriter Paul Schrader, seeing his film Adam Resurrected appear in this year's Israel Film Festival in New York is a little like coming around full circle. Originally released here almost a year ago, his strange surreal little black comedy of a film stars Jeff Goldblum as a concentration...

But now I need a little give and take/The New York Times, The Daily News/It comes down to reality And it's fine with me 'cause I've let it slide/Don't care if it's Chinatown or on Riverside/I don't have any reasons I've left them all behind/I'm in a New...

When is the last time any of our state and federal law makers actually read the U.S. Constitution? Yesterday, New York State rejected gay marriage legislation, claiming that New York residents were either too preoccupied to concern themselves with human rights and/or that most major religions do not condone it....

A couple in Brooklyn is looking to challenge the legitimacy of straight marriages in light of the recent New York Senate vote against gay marriage rights. Their strategy: apply for an annulment.

An annulment is usually reserved for marriages where there is no consummation of the marriage (yep, that...

Bartlett Sher, the director of South Pacific revival just next door to the Met Opera is finished with the wash-that-man-right-out-of-my-hair mission and onto a trickier task: washing that man out of four different pretty heads in Les Contes d'Hoffman. Once again, we visit the tragic love affairs of the...

"A woman's charms are 50% illusion," says Blanche DuBois in the classic play A Streetcar Named Desire. But Cate Blanchett's bravura performance of the fragile, overdramatic Southern belle in Tennessee Williams' masterpiece is the real deal. The current revival at BAM, through Dec. 20, is a shattering production, stripped to...

Happy Thursday everyone, here's my Top 5 for December 3, 2009 from Len Berman at www.ThatsSports.com.

1. Quick Hits

* Tiger Woods finally admits "transgressions."

* Congratulations New Jersey Nets! Nobody does it worse. They lost to Dallas last night 117-101 to start the season a...

All of a sudden, he seems to be everywhere. I first saw Eliot Spitzer weighing in as a talking head on the MSNBC Morning Meeting with Dylan Ratigan. After repeated appearances there, The Chris Matthews Show - one of the station's top-rated programs - booked him. Perhaps because...

Last week, my daughter's middle school hosted a pot luck for new parents--assembling a panel of NYC teachers, assistant principals and guidance counselors who gave presentations on everything from extreme behavorial issues to what to expect during the high school vetting process. As most in the room were parents of...

Way back in 1970, the whole nation was watching our state legislature. A bill that would make New York the second state to legalize abortion had passed the all-male Senate and made its way to the Assembly. The vote, which had looked tight, got tighter when some of the...

New York's state senate decided to take the coward's route and vote down marriage equality in my home state. I'd always been proud of New York, but I'm truly ashamed that 38 senators -- including the one in my district -- chose to place themselves on the wrong side of...

• Diaz isn't a bigot @Markos! Didn't u know some of his best friends & relatives are gay? He <3's the gays just not enough 2 give 'em = rights 


• gay marriage fails In NY? I expect this in Alabama but NY? So much 4 our northeast...

Flames burst high into the air when a road-resurfacing vehicle caught fire this morning in Hopewell Township. No injuries were reported, which is hard to believe when you look at this amazing photo of the fire on NJ.com.