On Aug. 16, 1977--the day Elvis Presley died--Joey Ramone and a couple of his friends were moping around the Lower East Side, devastated. Still, nobody could think of a fitting homage to their idol. “Then somebody got the idea that we should buy some fresh brains,” said Joey’s friend, DeerFrances, who was there that day. Read More
Not long ago, Ida Goldberg scandalized the ladies at her Wednesday mah-jongg game. Mrs. Goldberg, a 72-year-old Long Island grandmother of nine with pinkish hair and sparkling dentures, said she didn’t think it was such a good thing that her son, Stuart, became a doctor. “What he goes through, how long he works, how good Read More
Not long ago, Ida Goldberg scandalized the ladies at her Wednesday mah-jongg game. Mrs. Goldberg, a 72-year-old Long Island grandmother of nine with pinkish hair and sparkling dentures, said she didn’t think it was such a good thing that her son, Stuart, became a doctor.
“What he goes through, how long he works, how good Read More"You rarely meet someone who loves Columbia, and you never meet someone who likes it," Alex Feerst said. "That's just normal. Me and my friends had a motto: 'If you meet someone who loves Columbia, run.'"
Mr. Feerst was trying to explain the Web site he founded-CULPA, the Columbia Underground Listing of Professor Ability-and why it Read MoreOn March 10, Senator Charles Schumer ventured to the Downtown
Athletic Club, the once shabby-chic sweat temple for the likes of Robert De Niro and John F. Kennedy Jr. and longtime home of that symbol of youth and athletic prowess, the Heisman Trophy. The Senator brought his cheerleader's smile and the governmental equivalent of a giant Read MoreThe passionate depressives who spin classical music on WNYC-FM
are queasier than usual these days. When the station's transmitter went down with the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, WNYC management knitted up its two schedules-a talk-heavy slate of programming on the AM frequency (820 kHz) and a classical-music-heavy lineup on the FM dial (93.9 MHz). Read MoreThis much is not disputed: Wang Ruowang, a dissident Chinese
writer and onetime Columbia professor who'd spent decades of his life in jail, died of lung cancer on Dec. 19 in Queens. He was 83. Mr. Wang's funeral was held in the Central Funeral Home in Flushing on Dec. 29. More than 200 people came, according Read MoreArchie Ingersoll was miffed. It was Friday, Nov. 16, and Mr.
Ingersoll, a junior at Columbia University, had learned that for only the second time in his five semesters in Morningside Heights, he was not going to make the Dean's List. Mr. Ingersoll, a member of Columbia's hockey and crew teams, hadn't gotten any stupider, or Read MoreA few years after the Brazilian bikini wax tore through the city, New York women were ripe for a new gimmick–something extreme to justify the pain and indignity of that half-hour, totally denuding procedure. So some genius came up with the idea of arranging tiny, self-adhesive Swarovski crystals on the newly revealed expanse and charging Read More
Not long ago, Ida Goldberg scandalized the ladies at her Wednesday mah-jongg game. Mrs. Goldberg, a 72-year-old Long Island grandmother of nine with pinkish hair and sparkling dentures, said she didn't think it was such a good thing that her son, Stuart, became a doctor.
"What he goes through, how long he works, how good at Read MoreWho's the fairest of them all? This Wednesday, May 2, the American Society of Magazine Editors will present the National Magazine Awards. But The Observer-with a little help from the Web site HotorNot.com- found another way to judge the magazine world's annual beauty contest.
Midday on Wednesday, May 2, hundreds of media heavyweights will trundle into Read MoreYou came to Manhattan because of the nightlife, but nobody bothered to tell you about the city's work ethic–you know, getting up at the crack of dawn and showing up at the office before the markets open. If you had your way, you'd party all night and wake up at noon, or later.
People called you Read MoreFor the first time in its history, The New York Times will publish personal advertisements. We prime the pump for the breakthrough section, set to premiere April 22.
Men Seeking Women DON'T BE A CASSANDRA. SWM financial genius seeking loving, independently wealthy SF. You feed my parrot, put my Leo memorabilia on eBay, enjoy a man Read MoreWho's the fairest of them all? This Wednesday, May 2, the American Society of Magazine Editors will present the National Magazine Awards. But The Observer-with a little help from the Web site HotorNot.com- found another way to judge the magazine world's annual beauty contest.
Midday on Wednesday, May 2, hundreds of media heavyweights will trundle into Read MoreThe thing about the men in gray flannel suits, who came home
from World War II and got married and bought a house in Great Neck with its very own fallout shelter, who lunched on Dagwoods and napped all weekend, who feared only the boss and the communists: They all had ulcers. Ah, the great American Read More
