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What I Ate On Mars
The waiter stood over me, pen at the ready. “Signorina?” For lunch I ordered sardines on toast, pickled herring, a grilled mutton chop, buttered green beans, pommes lyonnaise and lemon sherbert. I was...
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The Movie That Made Me Never Want To Date Again
I was really looking forward to seeing He’s Just Not That Into You. Don’t judge! Admit it—you were, too. It’s been a cold, dark and depressing winter (and I’m not just talking about the weather), so is...
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Who Needs Valentine’s Day? Not Me, My Jonny, or the Toledos
A pal of mine and her fiancé recently went to shop for engagement rings at a prominent Fifth Avenue jeweler. After thoughtfully examining her hand, the sales associate told her there was a problem with...
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Gays Love a Depression!
“Gays love a recession!” said Robert Cogan, a 27-year-old patron of the brand-new East Village gay bar the Hose on the night of Feb. 7. It was a Saturday night, and he was checking out the scene in the...
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Oscar and Me
The Oscars are like dividend statements from Bernie Madoff. You know they’re coming, you expect the worst, but you open the envelopes anyway, with your fingers crossed, hoping this year will be better....
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The Anti-Shea. Great.
This weekend, I made my way out to the Willets Point–Shea Stadium stop on the No. 7 train, and for the first time with my own eyes, I saw that my beloved blue dump was gone. The only things left of...
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A-Rod, Superscar
Who’s the most despised player in baseball history? Ty Cobb was a virulent racist who sharpened his spikes to slash the shins of infielders who got in his way. The 1919 Chicago Black Sox took money to...
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Will You Drop for Topshop?
Late last week, the comely blond British socialite and model Poppy Delevigne, 22, called from her Nolita apartment—several blocks from the new four-story, 40,000-square-foot Topshop behemoth lurking...
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The Death of the New York City Democrat
In Washington, Democrats won the White House and expanded their control of Congress. Albany is run by a Democratic governor, Democratic Assembly leader and a Democratic Senate majority leader....
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The Unshine Boys
“It used to be Diane Keaton with me—she always used to tell me, ‘I’m terrible, I’m awful, I can’t do it, you should get someone else.’ And she was always brilliant. Well, Larry is like this,” said...
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Film Tri-athalon
Overhwlemed by choices? Here are the Observer’s top nine picks at Tribeca. Click on the slideshow to see what not to miss! And check back during the week for dispatches, updates and everything else...
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Models Mob the Met!
The theme of this year’s Met Costume Institute Gala—i.e., the Oscars of the East—was “the Model as Muse,” and the weedlike mannequins floating up the red carpet in weapons-grade shoes and teensy...
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Radical Cheeky! Prop. 8 Mishegoss Is Makin’ Me Militant
Turn on. Tune in. Drop … off your dry cleaning and head to a demonstration! No, seriously, I am having such a totally tumultuous ’60s moment! My life has gone from light and fluffy to totally heavy,...
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Can Love Survive?
The preview for Revolutionary Road, which opens Dec. 26, is one of those rare and wondrous pieces of promotion that tells you everything you need to know about a movie without really telling you...
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Christmas at The Carlyle
Spend a weekend at the Carlyle Hotel on Madison Avenue and East 76th Street. You have to listen closely. Bop, bop bop. Bop, bop bop. Around 8:30, Friday night at the Café Carlyle, home of the legendary...
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A Quieter Approach to Christmas
Lithe brunette socialite Jennifer Creel arrived on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the meatpacking district showroom of British handbag designer Anya Hindmarch wearing a puffy coat, black spandex and a tank top....
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Hollywood Friends I’ll Miss and A Hollywood Year I Won’t
For many disturbing reasons—personal, financial and global—I unequivocally declare 2008 one of the most miserably catastrophic years within memory. With a new government promising a new strategy of...
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Richard Bey’s Infinite Punyverse
When Richard Bey saw the April segment of Glenn Beck’s Fox News show in which the anchor doused an actor in fake gasoline to illustrate his disapproval of Barack Obama, he had one thought: “This is The...
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Manifest Density
The dramatic transformation of Manhattan’s far West Side, only two years ago, seemed shiningly imminent. Mayor Bloomberg had been pushing the grungy, truck-filled area south of the Javits Center hard...
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