Charles Ramsey

The Natural Talent of Chuck Ramsey and Other Bits

If you want honest talk about race, an articulate working-class black person like Chuck Ramsey is your best ...

Bette Midler as Sue Mengers

Art Appreciation: The Braille Method

NEW YORK—Life is definitely beautiful…as long as one can see, that is, which for two miserable days last week I couldn’t. Having had a glaucoma operation on my eyes two ...

Elrod House

The Future Isn”€™t What it Used to Be

With Iron Man 3 hauling in $174 million at the box office last weekend, this is a good time to pay tribute to a great architect whose hold on the American imagination is finally ...

The Difference Between Killing and Murder

Returning to London from Seville I see that abortion is once again one of the top news stories in what the Spanish still refer to as the Anglo-Saxon world: in the US, Ireland, and ...

The Crying Rape Game

Meg Lanker-Simons, who I"€™ll presume hyphenates her surname to prove she's not beholden to the patriarchy, is a bespectacled female wildebeest who grazes the campus of the ...

The Week That Perished

Last Week's Most Captivating and Infuriating News Stories OBAMA-LAMA-DING-DONG! America’s 44th president says he’s comfortable with the fact that the morning-after ...

Letters of a Screenwriter in Trouble

Dear Gato, Bocas del Toro couldn"€™t be more different than Puerto Viejo. In Bocas, the "€œVenice of Panama,"€ the only way to get around is by dugout canoe, paddled by ...

President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov

Excessive Hurdles

I do apologize for that little spasm of optimism ...

Halston and Steve Rubell

Man Bites Man

Which is the most infamous bite in history? Surely Adam’s, but the one Steve Rubell took off Halston’s leg was far more expensive. Let me explain for you whippersnappers ...

Where the Men Are

My favorite jailhouse sex scene is the one in The Longest Yard. Burt Reynolds is in the Florida state pen. A fellow inmate boasts of his powers as a fixer. “I can get you ...

George Jones

The Tolerance That Is Only Skin Deep

Country singer George Jones, who to my ears had the greatest voice ever recorded, died on Friday. A genius of phrasing and nuance, Jones had a stratospheric voice that captured ...

Letters of a Screenwriter in Trouble

Dear Gato: So I made the crossing over to Panama just fine, at least from the legal point of view. Despite the guards’ Rottweiler expressions, they can’t even be ...

Jill St. John

Verderben

If that'd been me in there with the tiger, I would have wanted a free change of underwear at ...

Has Pot Become a Hard Drug?

More than half the country says they think pot should be legalized. This is due in part to a brilliant PR campaign that frames cannabis as a valuable medicinal herb instead of a ...

Park Avenue, New York

The Power of Glass and Steel

NEW YORK—The search for the two Chechen terrorists in Boston was nothing compared to mine for new digs in the Big Bagel. I accrued reams of knowledge while cruising the City ...

Longfellow Bridge, Boston

Boston Bombing Footnotes

The Boston Marathon bombing story came garnished with an unusual number of ironies, coincidences, and historical echoes. Irony. Item number 27 in Christian Landers's book Stuff ...


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