Cracking Croquet

Judging by the hijinks and makeup on display at the recently-concluded World Cup, soccer, of all sports, certainly has the most crazed fans. Good for them. But I find it almost as ...

Viva Le Donne di Berlusconi, Viva Italia!

In April, I noted that television ratings indicate that sports audiences skew Republican and entertainment audiences Democratic. "€œWhich is more useful to control for ...

AskMen.com’s Top Babes: Ravishing or Roadkill?

Every year, AskMen.com comes out with a list of the “top 99 most desirable women.” They are allegedly chosen democratically: they claim six million votes were tallied ...

Panda Bear’s Newest Album on Vinyl, Matisse’s Radical Invention at MoMA

Plus, Australian crime thriller Animal Kingdom, The Bolshoi Ballet, Talking to Girls About Duran, and more culture to devour this week Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of ...

The Kids Are… Totally Overrated

The limited-release comedy The Kids Are All Right has driven critics into paroxysms of praise. For instance, the normally low-key A.O. Scott enthused in the New York Times as ...

Chomsky’s Inner Conservative

Noam Chomsky's new book, Hopes and Prospects, leads me to a conclusion that will startle his admirers and critics alike: Chomsky is a conservative. It might surprise him as well. ...

Gilbert & George go to The Netherlands, Mad Men Returns

Plus, Olivia Munn makes you laugh (until you cry), Pitchfork launches a new music blog, and Australia celebrates winter Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, through October ...

Long Live Queen Elizabeth

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is visiting us here in Manhattan this week. As I write this, she has just got through delivering an address to the U.N. General Assembly, 16 of ...

Twilight Hit for the Same Reasons Knight and Day Flopped

Believe it or not, it's worth comparing a current box office smash—The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, a Mormon teen vampire romance—to a dud—Knight and Day, an ...

Male Vanity Hits The Midwest

There have been many signs of the apocalypse as of late. We have a war in the birthplace of the Lord as was foretold in The Omen III, Global Warming is causing sheep to shrink as ...

Jean Cocteau’s House Opens, The Bulls Go Running in Pamplona

Plus, Helen Mirren gets her sex on and Louis C.K. stages a comeback La Maison Jean Cocteau La Maison Cocteau at Milly-la-Forêt is open to the public after five years and ...

Prince Charles Saves Chelsea Barracks

Something happened to British architects after the Second World War. Rugged Howard Roarke-like geniuses and obscure mediocrities alike shared an aesthetic that, for some reason, ...

Zooey Deschanel Sings, John Baldessari Art Goes Virtual

Plus, The Railway Children come to Waterloo and the Blue Boat goes up for auction She & Him Unlike, say, Lindsay Lohan, Zooey Deschanel can act, write songs, and sing. She ...

Bunky Mortimer’s London Season Diary

We WASPS have a long tradition with the London "€œSeason."€ The Chelsea Flower Show, Royal Ascot, Wimbledon, Henley, Glorious Goodwood in mid-summer, it's very old hat to us. ...

Costner & Kutcher to, Like, Fix the Oil Spill

We need to do our part to let BP know there are consequences for causing something like this… The more costly their punishment, the more money they will spend to make sure ...

The Death of the WASP

A remark by Richard Brookhiser in April in a syndicated column in the New York Post about “how we"€™re all WASPs now” made me realize that Brookhiser's statement ...


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