For anyone with a healthy fear of death, disease or antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the idea of spending more than an hour in a hospital—let alone a day or a week—is deeply Read More
It’s hard to believe it, but our little baby is growing up. Prozac has just turned 20.
It’s been quite a heady two decades for our favorite mood-boosting pill, a regular Drew Barrymore kind of childhood, with books Read More
When the renowned paleontologist Neil Shubin announced in 2006 that he’d discovered an ancient fossil with an uncanny resemblance to a “missing link” between fish and land-dwellers, creationists responded with all the fury of pissed off-apes. Jumping, hooting Read More
It was a beautiful Wednesday afternoon in early October, and all up and down Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue, women were busy being mommies. There were a few nannies, and four fathers Read More
When Hillary Clinton plopped down on the couch between the hostesses of ABC’s girlie chat show, The View, on Monday morning, she seemed poised to reprise the housewife routine she had performed so well during her last appearance on the program in December 2006. That was the routine in which she jabbered on about how Read More
By most descriptions, Cintra Wilson, the writer, cultural pundit, and all-around liberal lady, is not your typical, rock-ribbed Hillary Clinton supporter. From the beginning, she thought the Iraq war “was malignantly rotten and insane,” she said. In 2000, she voted for frequent presidential candidate and perennial un-Democrat, Ralph Nader. And for a brief moment this Read More
Each night, when Alison Pill slips into the lead role of Theresa Rebeck’s new Broadway play, Mauritius, she must endure what can only be described as a theatrical gauntlet. She gets tossed about the stage like a three-ounce rag doll. She has to hold her own against F. Murray Abraham—the F. Murray Abraham—and newer delights Read More
It was shortly after four on a summer Wednesday—not even rush hour—but the six lanes of asphalt lot were already two-thirds full. They were jammed with cars Read More
He was speaking to an audience made up mostly of Read More
Michael Kirban, a young beverage entrepreneur with affable eyes and the round head of a coconut, sat in the cool shade of a conference room on a recent Tuesday, clutching a box of juice. The box was Carnaval-colored, splattered with a private beach’s worth of sand, surf, and palm trees, which may have explained the Read More
With three days, six hours, 26 minutes, and 12 seconds until the book goes on sale in bookstores midnight on Friday night, a Read More
On a balmy morning in June, Rebecca Miller, a petite 26-year-old actress and Brown University graduate, was perched on a wooden bench in the East Village, just a block from the apartment she shares with her fiancé, a theater director, and two cats. By the looks of her outfit, she was firmly grounded in the Read More
It was the morning of Tuesday, May 8, and the respected oceanographer was sitting in the Mayor’s Office of Operations, lecturing four officials on the potential plagues of global warming. He had sought out the meeting because Read More
Phil Casseus, a 33-year-old producer and high-school sports coach, was walking down West 97th Street on a recent flawless Monday afternoon when he was hit by a sudden, overwhelming wave of nostalgia. Maybe it was caused by that sterile Duane Reade where the endearingly ragamuffin clothing store Fo Wad used to be. Maybe it was Read More
But for two American-Jewish dynasties who covet control of the World Jewish Congress, the Bronfmans and the Lauders, Monday, May 7, will go down as the day that saw one family’s ambitions collapse in a heap, while another’s Read More
