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I Have Michael's Glove! Should I Save It Or Sell It on eBay?
There's nothing more depressing than having to watch history being made from the sidelines; I'm talk read more »
Boys' Night Out: A Beatnik Walking Tour With Dear Old Dad
Feeling a bit goofy from my cousin's wedding, my son and I emerged around midnight from the D.J. read more »
Dad the Psychoanalyst Doesn't Understand Why Writer Son Hates Words
I've had an argument with my father that's lasted 20 years. read more »
House-Sitting Politics: Food, Perfume, Dogs– All Mine! Or Is It?
I'm typing this on someone else's computer while listening to her PJ Harvey CD on her stereo, occasi read more »
Inverted Selfishness: Thank You, New York, For Tucking In My Tag
I felt my understanding and empathy for my fellow New Yorkers swell like a big glowing orb of Care B read more »
Cleavage vs. Crime: Do Law & Order Starlets Pretty Up to Move Up?
Why is there no CSI: Kansas, where they need it?My friend Caroline, a fellow Law & Order addict, can read more »
Cleavage vs. Crime: Do Law & Order Starlets Pretty Up to Move Up?
My friend Caroline, a fellow Law & Order addict, can pinpoint the precise moment when Jack McCoy's a read more »
Inverted Selfishness: Thank You, New York, For Tucking In My Tag
I know it seems like a late start, but I was 22 my first time. read more »
One-Man Memorial Day: Ritual on Riverside; Remember Grandma
It's Memorial Day, and he lays out his uniform on the bed. read more »
The College (Un)Fair: Step Right Up, Kids, To Big Anxiety Assembly
Nightingale-Bamford School with my 17-year-old daughter. read more »
The Motherhood Club: Catty New York Gals Purr Over Big Bellies
Recently, four couples I know convened for lunch in Carnegie Hill with their toddlers and newborns. read more »
Hey, Where You From?: I'm More at Home In Mideast Than Midwest
"But you don't look American." "Where are you really from?" "Where were your parents born?" I've hea read more »
Real Real-Estate Woes: Cramped Space Means Shushes, not Shags
I'm having an affair with my husband. read more »
Remembering Rosie: A Brave Single Mother Ahead of Her Time
It has come round again: the day of the year I most cherish and dread. read more »
Two Different Hats: Bashful Society Belle, Brash Fan of Brooklyn
For the past several years, my mother and her friends have invited me to the annual Frederick Law Ol read more »
Mommy Mimics: So Having a Baby Wasn't Just My Idea?
I was ambling across St. read more »
Un-Masked Man: Who Is That Kazakh, Or Don't You Know Ali G?
Earlier this week, I read that the Ali G movie is back in production after a brief hiatus. read more »
Uptown Dad Shows Son Wilderness of LES: How Hip! How Edgy!
Author: Ken Krimstein Page: 5PQ: 'But one thing: What are records?'
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Pica, Vestigial Tails: Fave Icky Obsessions Bad for Finding Love
Having excused myself from getting involved in all things humanly romantic for the last few years, I read more »
Tough Times for Obits: Pope, Bellow, Cochran–Will Dad Make the Cut?
It wasn't a great week to try and place a news obituary in The New York Times. read more »
Elegy for a Friend: He Perished Alone And Far Too Young
A friend of mine died a couple of weeks ago, unexpectedly, alone in his apartment at the age of 30. read more »
Southern in the City: Manners, Magnolia, Defuse the F-Bomb
On the cold, wet second day of spring this year, I sought refuge from the lashing sleet with a group read more »
Smell Her Misery! And Be Nice to Those Perfume Sample Girls
In the Soho Bloomingdale's the other day, a young woman teetering on heels stopped me. read more »
Condé Nast Lust! Nose Pressed to Glass, Eyes on 4 Times Sq.
There are many perks to my day job at one of New York's hundreds of hedge funds: my own Herman Mille read more »
Ack, I'm Turning 30! Crow's Feet, Gray Hairs–But Can't I Stop Time?
Since my rocker boyfriend unceremoniously dumped me last summer, I've been totally obsessed with my read more »
Is She Straight, Or... A Secret Botticelli? Girls Scorn Curls
Walking up Columbus Avenue on my way to yoga class, I like to scope out flocks of girls with fake-st read more »
Snotty Little Kids! Forget Hot Potato-They Want PlayStation
It was Marsha the Moose in mufti, it had to be. read more »
He's Just...Dreamy, But Am I Dowdy? Dandies Prowl Our City
I was having tea in a few days with the celebrated New York dandy Patrick McDonald. read more »
An Unholy Sabbath: Their Need Is Great, And I, Too Small
This is a confession, of sorts. When my fiancé, Edward, and I moved to South Brooklyn a few months read more »
The Federline Mystique: Women Confess To Kevin Obsession
As soon as I saw the current cover of Us Weekly, with Britney Spears and Kevin Federline enjoying th read more »
Euro-Crazed French Take Over My Apartment!
Every time I go into the cabinet above the toaster looking for some Sleepy Time Tea, I stumble acros read more »
No Catholic School Girls? Heaven Help Us, Save Those Uniforms!
The news last week that nearly two dozen Catholic elementary schools in Brooklyn and Queens are slat read more »
I Was 'Sylvia Plath-ish': But What Does That Really Mean Anyway?
There were hints that I might be Sylvia Plath reincarnated as early as high school, but confirmation read more »
The Urban Pet Share: It's a Cat! It's a Kid! It's...Catbaby!
It happened one Saturday afternoon while walking down Seventh Avenue in Park Slope: I actually stopp read more »
The Ex Encounter: Horrors! She Has Twins! Let the Games Begin!
Someday, I feared, I'd simply run into her, the woman who'd ripped out and Irish-riverdanced upon my read more »
Get Me Bob Vila! A Dream House Becomes a Money Pit
I think what pushed me over the edge was the rainy night I circled the block for an hour and 20 minu read more »
Real-Estate Fable: Loose Lips Sink Co-ops!
Two years ago, learning that a developer planned to erect a high-rise whose shadow would turn our cl read more »
I Miss Tom Ridge! Where Have You Gone, Code Orange Alert?
Crossing Sixth Avenue on a recent afternoon, I wove through a thicket of tourists gawking at the tow read more »
Hollywood Holidays: Box-Office Blues, Paunchy Celebs
And so it's Christmas in Los Angeles, 2004.The gifts have been sent, the tips have been disbursed, a read more »
See Ya, Lindsay Lohan! Who Says All Men Prefer Younger Women?
Thanks to Desperate Housewives, suburban fortysomethings have replaced Britney and Lindsay as the se read more »
The Benevolent Bob: For Charity, My Kid Chops Her Tresses
It wasn't exactly what we had in mind when we suggested that Lucy, our 16-year-old, perform communit read more »
Ladies Who Crunch! Hollow Up-Towners Exploring Their 'Core'
It's 9:15 on a Monday morning, and I'm surrounded by 30 perfectly sculpted women with abs of steel. read more »
My Chanel Suit: Nipped, Tucked-Bon Jour, Lefty Couture?
During the 2004 election coverage, I repeatedly cringed at the unflattering ensembles I saw woman po read more »
Out, Out Damn Spot! When Dust Bunnies Revolt, Are Cleaning Ladies O.K.?
There comes a time in every New Yorker's life when she realizes that she simply can't keep up-and I' read more »
Out, Out Damn Spot! When is it OK? To Hire 'Help'?
There comes a time in every New Yorker's life when she realizes that she simply can't keep up-and I' read more »
See Ya, East 64th St.! 17 Giddy Years In Dotty Squalor
For 17 years, since The New York Observer entered city life in 1987, it has existed within a red bri read more »
The Final Countdown: On Nov. 2, Pundits Go Nuts
O.K., let’s be perfectly frank here: We’ve all heard, or said, virtually everything there is to read more »
Memorial Bench Biz: How Should You Honor Central Park Devotees?
My grandmother Nadia passed away a couple of weeks ago at the impressive age of 104, almost 105. read more »
