(with apologies to James Agee, author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 1941) In Paris at the Shakespeare and Company bookshop the other night, a ninety-three-year old man ...
With the nation broke, Congress snoozing, and the president dithering, what we need is a laugh. Here are two offerings of different kinds of humor. My own taste"English Lad ...
Fran Lebowitz doesn’t write anymore. Does it have something to do with having known success at a young age and seeing so many people buying her books but so few actually ...
"You must come visit us in Vienna," said Mrs H. as we lunched at Cecconi's in Miami Beach. "Oh, Vienna, yes, I"ve been thinking of Vienna recently," I ...
Plus, Piers Morgan debuts, Sundance kicks off and Britney's ...
Plus, Will Cotton's dreamy landscapes, a sizzling new soap, and London's mime ...
My first practical observation about the A380 Superjumbo: It isn"t all that big. Once you get inside it and have crouched your way claustrophobically through the ...
Plus Nadja (read: a vampire movie that’s actually good), the latest Frank Gehry exhibit, Barcelona’s Fiesta de la Merce, and more cultural must-sees this ...
Plus, L’Insctint de Mort puts Pacino to shame, the US Open returns to Queens, Jonathan Franzen finally gives us a second novel, and more cultural gems to love this ...
Plus, La Sonnambula in Sydney, The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, and more picks to love this week The Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery, through September 12 Designed by ...
Plus, the city of Metz takes on Paris, war film Lebanon puts The Hurt Locker to shame, and the Dia Art Institute opens an unconventional space Sympathy for the Devil In this ...
Sting’s ‘Symphonicity’ Tour If his (somewhat troubled) reunion with the Police was more nostalgic than it was inventive, Sting’s current tour—with ...
I read with interest R. J. Stove's recent blog about new a book by Gerd Bayer, Heavy Metal Music in Britain, and I would like to add my own remarks to Mr. Devin Reid Saucier's ...
Wonkette, if you have the good fortune of not knowing, is a left-liberal site that manages to consider itself cheeky and iconoclastic while endorsing only the most exquisitely ...
Not just Octomom but Bimom and Unimom, too. It took me several years to gain my wife's trust. For some reason she didn"t want to give her ovaries to a complete asshole who ...
Two years ago, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham published American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation. There, as in his public appearances and journalism ...
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