The Phoenix Theatre by day is a picture reminiscent of an after school daycare program. Inside the main auditorium kids are skateboarding on the multitude of wooden ramps set up against the walls. The lobby is filled with youth hanging out, and searching their pockets for change to buy candy or soda from the concession […]
The Art of the Party
“Chelsea’s become too clean. We need something different.” Solange Umutoni is not talking about the floodlit circus that used to be 27th Street. Nor is she referring to its formerly notorious nightclubs—places like Cain and Bungalow 8—where the most illicit vice is now cigarette-smoking. Ms. Umutoni talking about art. It’s December 4, 2006, and we’re […]
The Hadley Memo
Was the now-notorious Hadley Memo a White House ploy that backfired or another Bush-league blunder? Either way, it leaves the United States with diminished clout and prestige while the Iraq fiasco worsens daily. Leaked by what the New York Times described as “an administration official,” the memorandum written by National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley […]
Scott Adam’s Interview creator of Dilbert
I was very bored the other day and needed something to write about so i thought about how many great bloggers there were out there and thought hmmm why not interview one. So i googled the word "blog" and came across the Scott Adams Blog, the creator of the comic Dilbert. Having been a massive […]
Sisters Wow All in NYC Marathon
By all appearances, Hillary Beeman is your average 23-year-old, living it up in New York City. The Boise, Idaho native has an irrepressibly cheery demeanor not often seen in these parts, and she can disarm even the grumpiest urbanites with her midwestern charm. A regular at some of Manhattan poshest night spots, Ms. Beeman has […]
Dr Kramer
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">About a week after one of those what-are-you-doing-after-all-these-years email drops into the basket, I find myself struggling for an answer. Would that I had a neat one-liner of a career! Engineer! Marketing manager! Drug-addled whore! Cop! Dropout and copout! None-of-the-above is ticked with a tut-tut and I tinkle at keyboard […]