Joe Pompeo
On a rainy afternoon in March of 2004, M.T.A. subway worker Michael Martin was in his silver Lincoln Mark VII, stopped at a red light at the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Quentin Road in Brooklyn, when suddenly: Screeech! He heard a crash, looked in his rear view and saw a car careening toward him. It slammed into the back of his car, sending it directly into oncoming traffic. The good news:... READ MORE»
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Joe Pompeo | February 15, 2010 | 1:38 pm
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On a cold, miserable afternoon in mid-November, Ben Bronfman stepped out of a cab in front of the United Nations and walked through the security checkpoint, past the clusters of tourists in the lobby, and up to the Delegates Dining Room on the third floor, where there was a fancy luncheon to ramp things up for the big U.N. climate showdown that’s taking place in Copenhagen Dec. 7 through Dec.... READ MORE»
A little over a month ago, as the second wave of the great H1N1 hysteria of 2009 began to swell, it seemed like vaccines would be made available to any New Yorker who’d decided he would rather not gamble on contracting the feverish, vomit-inducing, kinda-maybe-sorta-lethal porcine plague. Things didn’t work out that ... READ MORE»
It had been eight years since Drew Katchen, a 32-year-old Web producer who works for a major media company in New York, had been in touch with an old friend of his from his home state of South Carolina. “She was cool. I always really liked her,” he said. Mr. Katchen was delighted one afternoon when a message from this individual, titled, “Flashback,” popped into his Facebook... READ MORE»
There’s a certain kind of music that seems like it was created for no other reason than to have a soundtrack for October, when everything’s starting to get dark and cold and spooky. Nick Cave is one example. Ditto much of Tom Waits’ canon. Leonard Cohen ultimately fits into this category,... READ MORE»
In July of 2007, comedian Michael Showalter was at a bar in Park Slope doing stand-up about an unwitting experience he’d had with a prescription drug called Seroquel. The scenario: Mr. Showalter couldn’t fall asleep one night thanks to some noisy construction outside his Flatbush Avenue apartment, so his girlfriend suggested he take one of these pills she happened to have lying around. “It’s a chill-out pill,” she told him, reassuringly. “It’s... READ MORE»
A few weeks ago, the Internet spit up some footage of a pre-fame Lady Gaga, the 23-year-old breakout pop star from Manhattan whose outrageous wardrobe and weirdo live performances have made her a cultural phenomenon to suburban tweens and Marc Jacobs... READ MORE»
October 2008 may have seemed like the worst time to start a new magazine, but that didn’t deter Evanly Schindler, the founder and former editorial director of BlackBook, from starting a thick, indie arts biannual called Tar under the rubric of a media company called Tar Art, which he’d founded two years earlier with former Diesel public-relations bigwig Maurizio... READ MORE»
At around 10:30 a.m. on a recent weekday, Todd Kennedy, a 31-year-old product developer at a major New York media company, walked down the hall to the office of his co-worker, Antony Petersen, and without so much as a “Morning” or “What’s up, dude,” abruptly inquired, “So what’d you make for dinner last... READ MORE»
Jim Carroll, the legendary Manhattan poet and punk rocker, died of a heart attack on Friday, Sept. 12, at the age of 60. On Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 15, the day before a private funeral service for family and friends, some New Yorkers who knew Carroll shared their memories of him with the... READ MORE»
If there is one man in the rock-snob canon who can rattle off a series of filthy expletives without sounding anything less than utterly eloquent and polite, it is Nick... READ MORE»
It was a bit of a gamble for the British concert promoter Barry Hogan to hold the first New York installment of his traveling All Tomorrow’s Party festival at a dated Borscht Belt summer resort in the Catskills. It was last September, and he’d assembled something of a dream lineup for the aging indie set, including the first U.S. performance in 16 years by Scottish fuzz-rockers My Bloody Valentine and much hyped appearances... READ MORE»
For everyday New York men who strive to be reasonably well dressed, it can be a daunting experience shopping for clothes that won’t make you look like an... READ MORE»
This week’s New Yorker (dated Aug. 31) and the Aug. 30 Sunday New York Times Magazine both contain lengthy profiles of professional tennis twins Bob and Mike Bryan. ... READ MORE»
