Last month Bruce Buschel, proprietor of a yet-unopened restaurant in Bridgehampton, wrote a blog post for The New York Times ennumerating "100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do." Behaviors that he preemptively forbade included interrrupting patrons' conversations,...
With Kirsten Gillibrand struggling to connect with voters, and Rudy Giuliani inciting more confusion than excitement about his own candidacy, the rumor mill keeps churning out big-name potential challengers. Today, Theodore Roosevelt IV is out, and Harold Ford,...
"For Joseph Bruno," writes The Times, "Golf Was Central to Politics and Business." "And Crime," they neglect to add. It seems the golf course ("soft, grassy, and green") was Mr. Bruno's venue of choice for unethical...
The Mets (or, really, SNY) made their first big move of the offseason, bringing back retired first baseman and "anti-homer" broadcaster Keith Hernandez, says the Post, according to some sources in the know. Here's hoping it's not...
Sonia Sotomayor is surfacing in Senate races. The Washington Post won't be covering New York much...
How wide open is the Republican field for governor now that no one is pretending that Rudy Giuliani is...
Can anyone usurp Scarlett Johannson's place in Woody Allen's cinematic affections? Maybe Carla Bruni. Lovely French first lady/fan of funny-looking guys Bruni is apparently in talks with funny-looking guy/fan of lovely ladies Allen regarding an upcoming project. According...
This morning, David Paterson sent a bill to the legislature asking them to abdicate their power over the budget and allow him the unfettered authority to slash and burn the state's budget as he sees...
Time Inc. is folding InStyle Weddings, says Gawker. With it, presumably, goes the curse of the InStyle wedding, which ordained that unions featured on the magazine's cover would meet bad...
Issue 33 of McSweeney's--a one-time-only newspaper called the Panorama designed to demonstrate the fun things ink and paper can do--will be released in a couple weeks. The San Francisco Chronicle rehashes this news today, and gets comments...
The Court of Appeals is not so impressed with Prospect Heights. Okay, so it's not as bad as a Dickens' Bleak House, the state's highest court admits, but in a majority opinion issued this morning, six of the...
According to one of Jimmy Vielkind's sources, state party chair Jay Jacobs told a roomful of Democrats not to worry about the Paterson saga dragging out too much longer. "This governor's race is going to take care of...
You're never going to believe this, but the sports sections of your Tuesday tabloids are all about Rex...
Andrew Cuomo has filed suit against the United Homeless Organization "just in time for the holidays," writes the Post, saying that the organization is "a scam run by con artists." The UHO charges beggars $15-$25 to rent...
Would-be Gillibrand-slayer Jon Cooper postpones his decision. Naturally, Zooey Deschanel wants a pony for...
