New York's currently: a sucker for a variety pack Conservative Alito sworn in to Supreme Court; a true shift, however, may only happen if somebody else decides to retire. Bush's promise to cut the nation's dependence on oil sounds nice, though familiar. House arrest:
The bear heads abroad again, this time to Finland, where even a groundbreaking art exhibit can’t distract him from the cans of bear meat on grocery store shelves. A gallery of photographs from our smallest correspondent.
French intellectual superstar (the French have such things) Bernard-Henri Levy, known there as BHL, was introduced to these shores with Melville House’s publication of Who Killed Daniel Pearl? Proving everything new is old, BHL has now reprised a 19th-century classic with his 21st-century American Vertigo: Traveling
TMN’s Contributing Illustrator Danny Gregory has a new book on the shelves, and we want to give you a copy…assuming your last name is MacGyver. We’ve got 10 books to give away, and here’s how it will go: Each weekday morning beginning today, for the next
New York's currently: getting on the bandwagon, picking up the handbook E.U., U.S., U.N., and Russia will continue to aid the Palestinians as long as Hamas someday neuters itself. Deal viewed as a compromise of views between black-and-white U.S. and hazy-gray
Though it was dark for over 30 years, the neon sign above the New Yorker Hotel, for many of its former residents, never truly dimmed. Attending the hotel’s anniversary celebration, the night the lights switched back on in Midtown.
While in Napa for our 10th anniversary, my wife and I marveled at the simplicity of the Umbra Malta toilet-paper holder in our hotel bathroom. It led to a lengthy and unromantic discussion over Shiraz that evening about how it was possible that this simple and obvious design could
Steroid Maximus’s Ectopia is classical-industrial music that uses John Cage’s flaming-piano-out-the-window experiment as a starting point and turns it into the score for a movie yet to be made. Babies crying, jangling pianos, jungle chases, wailing violins, and boats creaking all mixed together
New York's currently: tracky bottoms tucked in socks New laws may allow pharmacists and other health workers to deny care that contradicts their personal beliefs. Threatened with withdrawal of western aid, Hamas says such a move would hurt Palestinian people, promises transparency in spending. Sixty-seven die in
New York's currently: forced occasionally to recover from the night before With Hamas throne-ensconced, Israel's likely to go unilateral. U.S. and China agree Russia can control Iran's nuke fuel, but Iran's disappointed; U.S. and Iran agree to ban gay
