Autumn in New York
Autumn in New York, they even wrote a song about it that was a great hit sixty years ago. Last weekend the sky was awash in blue, Manhattan at its best, with Central Park gleaming in green and only the crowds marring the ...
Autumn in New York, they even wrote a song about it that was a great hit sixty years ago. Last weekend the sky was awash in blue, Manhattan at its best, with Central Park gleaming in green and only the crowds marring the ...
I have always believed that the mission of post-Fred & Ginger movies has been to reduce, insofar as it lay within their power, the manners and morals of the community. Long before the camera was invented, the ancient ...
I recently did a duplex book review for a respectable conservative quarterly (relevant issue not yet in print). The two books I reviewed, this one and this one, were of the boosterist type, the boosteree in both cases being ...
The Week's Most Diffuse, Obtuse, and Abstruse Headlines DEAR BLACK PEOPLE: STOP MAKING FILMS SUCH AS DEAR WHITE PEOPLE Black director Justin Simien"and yes, it's pronounced just like "simian""is fairly ...
When then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saw fit to ram the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (now affectionately known as ObamaCare) through Congress, the country engaged in a ...
One evening back in the late 1980s, I returned to my then-apartment on Toronto's Dundonald Street and heard the unmistakable refrain of "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" seeping out of the super's place on the ground ...
Some years ago, in a flash of inspiration while in Istanbul, I had an idea of a kind that occurs to me infrequently: I thought of an entirely new institution, the National Museum of Kitsch. I would collect particularly ...
Athens—This grimy, semi-Levantine, ancient city has its beauty spots, with childhood memories indelibly attached. A turn of the century apartment building, across the street from my house, where in 1942 or ’43 I watched a ...
I met writer and photographer Rick McGinnis about ten years ago, but by rights, we should have known each other much longer. We both live in Toronto, enjoy roughly the same music, and therefore should have bumped into (or in ...
Returning recently to France from Germany, where I had given a talk on the ideological roots of ugliness (which might seem to some a rather peculiar and even inexistent subject), I was struck once again by the sheer inhuman ...
This was a bad summer for movies at the American box office, with total gross down 22 percent from last year. Revenue was the lowest since 2006, suggesting that the recent economic crash had artificially pumped up box office ...
"Exotic dancers. They"re not exotic, and they"re not dancers," explains comedian Ellen Cleghorne here. "It's like calling a pedophile an "exotic babysitter."" That joke popped into my head ...
We all, I suppose, live in a tiny world of our own construction, whose size and character depends upon what interests us. I realized the other day just how peculiar my own little world is, statistically speaking, when I saw on ...
You know that one time a month when you"re arguing with a lady friend and she says something that makes your neck recoil in confusion? You"ll stop the fight for a second and think to yourself, "That doesn"t ...