Are Your Cats Really Adorable or Just Regular Adorable?
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we show you the 50 questions on this year's census you didn't see coming.
Choire Sicha
Fear of Flying
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we help an airline passenger determine the best day and time to book a flight.
Would You Like Havarti With Those Freedom Fries?
Embassies have been torched, several people have died, ignorance flows from all corners--all for a few cartoons less intelligible than your average "Cathy" strip.
Killoggs
I don't even remember how they all know each other any more. But for more than five years now, I've voyeuristically watched a gang of pals who quietly sort-of blog at www.killoggs.com. Josh got punched by Ben recently, and now his eye is messed
The New New Journalism
The New New Journalism (freshly out in paperback) is 19 interviews with nonfiction writers. In each, we learn in a new way how insane and creative people are. These folks keep 1940s typewriters around for when they get blocked; they cover the walls with text and peer across the room
The East Coast Olive Conspiracy
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we answer an age-old question about green and black olives, and more importantly, and why New Yorkers can't get green olives on their pizza.
Breastfeeding a la Carte
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we dive into that testy political swamp where culinary and maternal matters mix juices: When is breastfeeding (in)appropriate in restaurants?
Dear Santa
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we answer a late, incoherent letter to Santa Claus that was mistakenly delivered to our offices.
French Film, French Film
A New York filled with memories. A New York filled with Mallomars. Mallomars filled with, er, you get the picture.
Ronald Reagan and Reading Proust
In a town of A-list-worship and ever younger, hotter scribblers, the New Yorker Festival is a two-day freak-out for all things scribed. Our reporter braved the lit-sters for every reading he could schmooze his way into, including the now-infamous Wolfowitz riots.
Broken Hearts
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we explain the many steps of recovery after your heart's been ripped out, stepped on, and sold for scrap.
The New York City Tattoo Convention
In a generation, body art has gone from subversive to suburban, so it now takes a lot more ink to stand out. Choire Sicha and photographer Geoffrey Badner document the hardcore at this year’s Tattoo Convention.
It Must've Been Something I Hate
New Yorkers judge each other every day, but some days they get to do it in court! The dating pool of voir dire and the other joys of jury duty.
The Complicated Art of Chelsea
New York's art world is made of fanatics, freaks, and the ultra-rich. In a quest to convert a rich friend to patronage, we begin to doubt the faith.