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By Aaron Gell 11/28/11 1:36pm

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Photo by Brigitte Lacombe

The Legendary Zoe Caldwell on Her New One-Woman Show, ‘Elective Affinities’

If you’re a visitor to New York, here’s a little trick to play on your hotel concierge: Slip him or her a nice tip, say $100, and let it be known that you’d be so eternally grateful for a pair of tickets to Elective Affinities, the new one-woman show starring Zoe Caldwell.

It’s not going to happen.

You’ll have no better luck if you’re a New Yorker, but the experience will be less fun, because the abject failure will be yours alone.

Elective Affinities, you see, is a very tough ticket, probably the toughest in town. Read More

40 By Drew Grant 10/05/11 8:50am

Occupy Wall Street

Jesse LaGreca (Photo via the Daily Kos)

Jesse LaGreca: The Smartest Man on Wall Street?

When Fox News turned their cameras on the 31-year-old Daily Kos writer Jesse LaGreca last Wednesday, they didn't know what they were in for. Not only did Fox producer Griff Jenkins get schooled all over the Internet --  forcing Greta Van Susteren to respond on why they didn't air the footage of Mr. LaGreca's statements  -- but suddenly the somewhat haphazard movement was given a clear and distinct voice.

"Fox News wants to laugh at us," Mr. LaGreca told us in a phone interview Tuesday evening. "To say that we're unruly, that we're to be laughed at....because that fits into their narrative, which is that only free markets can save us. Only unregulated capitalism can save us. And anyone in opposition to that needs to be attacked and marginalized.'"

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By Peter Duhon 4/26/11 11:37pm

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Post-Career Rehab, Marilyn Minter’s Seedy Side Shows

Wet pearls against red lips. Sparkling high heels walking through filthy water. A tongue encased in silver.

Before she became famous, Marilyn Minter was a product of much of the same "nightclub kid" scene of the 1970s and 1980s that begot Madonna. And the artist's works--hyperrealistic close-ups of gleaming body parts--were as censored and controversial as Read More

By Dan Duray 12/07/10 10:09pm

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15 Minutes With Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher's touring show Wishful Drinking was recently filmed for an HBO special that debuts December 12. The show, which began on Broadway, is taken from her book of the same title and provides a broad overview of her many tabloid scandals — though Ms. Fisher says she's actually not that much of a drinker. Read More

By The Editors 11/19/10 7:33pm

11 Questions

Meet the Neighbors! Elayne Roskin, the East Sider

Welcome to a new regular feature from The Observer Real Estate Desk. In this inaugural edition, we ask Elayne Roskin, a senior vice president and managing director at Brown Harris Stevens, 11 questions about the city and herself. Ms. Roskin grew up in New York with real estate in her blood. (Don't we all?) The Read More


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