May 21, 2008
1. A New York Woman thinks Fresh Direct (an online-ordering grocery delivery service) is better than sliced bread. She might know how to cook, but sees little reason to. She might have a spiffy kitchen, and yet not know whether she has a broiler, and if she does, where it...
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted May 12, 2008 | Living
Because obesity and taxes are two of the best subjects to get people all riled up, in an effort to raise their Google ranking, New Jersey decided to propose a new tax on fast food. Governor John S. Corzine (the Not Gay One -- remember him? Don't feel bad,...
Julia Moulden | Posted May 5, 2008 | Entertainment
Ronnie Abrams appointment as special counsel for pro bono to one of New York's prestigious law firms (Davis Polk & Wardwell) is big enough news that it earned coverage in last Friday's New York Times. Why? Reporter Karen Donovan knows that it's more than a strategic move for a smart,...
Tony Newman | Posted May 1, 2008 | Politics
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) released a major report Tuesday showing that New York City is now the marijuana arrest capital of the world.
Harry Levine and Deborah Small, the report authors, found that between 1998 and 2007 New York City police arrested...
Jonathan Powers | Posted May 1, 2008 | Politics
Today marks the fifth anniversary of Bush's speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, where he stood beneath the now infamous Mission Accomplished banner and announced, "my fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
Half...
Blake Fleetwood | Posted April 30, 2008 | Politics
April 30, 1968
With billy clubs swinging, bloodying heads, a phalanx of riot police stomped their way through the crowd of faculty supporters standing outside Fayerweather Hall. No one was given a chance to walk away.
The police then proceeded to smash in the main doors of...
Michelle Haimoff | Posted April 23, 2008 | Living
In Fifth Grade I wrote a poem about Madison Avenue.
Even then I sensed that there was something curative about walking past the stores with art gallery windows and watching the people go by. Years later, it's still a great way to spend a sunny day and, during sale season,...
Charlie Rose | Posted April 21, 2008 | Politics
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have been nationally recognized for their bipartisan approach to governing and bold efforts to combat problems like global warming. The two are also friends and political allies. Here is an excerpt from my conversation with them last week:
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Steve Clemons | Posted April 19, 2008 | Entertainment
I've been blogging and reading this morning at Columbus Circle in New York -- and a TWN reader said hi to me at 7 a.m. there. It's become a strange thing to run into people...
AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | April 2, 2008
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted March 27, 2008 | Off The Bus
Some political candidates come up with new ideas and new initiatives because they really want to help people. Yes, we've all become cynical -- but there are still some of that good kind.
Then there's the more pedestrian, and plentiful, kind of candidate, the one who will say things and...
Giulia Rozzi | Posted March 26, 2008 | Living
Tonight a group of wonderful New York based artists and activists will use literature, theatre, and music to promote a non-violent and healthy world through their production of A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer. Edited by V-day founder Eve Ensler, A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant,...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | March 25, 2008 12:53 PM
Paul Jenkins | Posted March 21, 2008 | Politics
Earlier this week, Hillary Clinton was back in Michigan, a full two months after its "primary," pleading with the state legislature to allow a revote in the state. As she stood in downtown Detroit, it was becoming increasingly clear that there would be no do-over and she looked for the...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted March 14, 2008 | Business
I'm at a restaurant for dinner the other night and at a corner table I see Lefkowitz, this guy I know from LA. He's got a certain look down cold which I guess we'll have to call the "LA in NY" look. It consists mostly of a suit and an...
Robert Scheer | Posted March 12, 2008 | Politics
Tell me again: Why should we get all worked up over the revelation that the New York governor paid for sex? Will it bring back to life the eight U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq that same day in a war that makes no sense and has cost this nation trillions...
Edward Ugel | Posted March 11, 2008 | Politics
Oh Eliot.
On a positive note, it's nice to know that there's a big time Democrat out there still having sex. My wife just had a baby so I've forgotten what sex is all together. I'm told I may get some more sex sometime just before my children can...
Paul Jenkins | Posted March 9, 2008 | Politics
Of the many strange spins the Clinton campaign has sold the media, few are as troubling as the idea that she is the stronger general election candidate: pretty much all polling, sound judgment and anecdotal evidence point to the contrary, but we are led to believe that New York...
Steven Denlinger | Posted February 29, 2008 | Living
The novella 'Coming to Los Angeles: How I learned to stop worrying, and love this city' continues as a serial this week.
MY FRIEND Kimberley Melin's automobile accident and the resulting coma transformed me. As August 2000 rolled into September, I slowly began to realize that my world had changed.
...Sharon Glassman | Posted February 21, 2008 | Living
I think New Yorkers come in two flavors: True-Yorkers and Thru-Yorkers.
Until last fall, when I traded in my rent-stabilized Brooklyn Heights apartment for a Rocky Mountain house share, I could have sworn I was True. Just like you, perhaps?
True-Yorkers move to the city to "find their purpose," like...
A front page story in today's New York Times wonders whether...
One of Sen. Hillary Clinton's top financial supporters offered $1 million to the...
The Washington Post reports from Obama's rally in Portland, Oregon: Sen....
Yesterday, Time's Joe Klein noted that he could find no evidence...
Chuck Hagel is quickly becoming Barack Obama's answer to Joe Lieberman. The
WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama has a message for Tennessee's Republican Party: "Lay off my wife." Obama,...
Read the full account of Sen. Ted Kennedy's condition below,...
John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser...
The Legal Framework for the Prosecution That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and...
White House official Ed Gillespie, in a nice bit of synergy with their Fox News patrons, has...
Listen to the talking heads...
7:03 (all times are EDT) Even though the early returns are...
Marilyn M. Machlowitz | Posted May 19, 2008 |