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The wayward journey of the New York birther.
Quite simply it was the most breathtaking view of Manhattan I’d ever seen. True, it wasn’t that ultimate mark of status, not the arriviste, paid-for view, but the unexpected view (“Yes, the bathroom’s just down the hall. When you go in,...
Love it or Haiti it….
It’s almost been a year since Haiti was forced to reckon with a devastating earthquake that capitulated the country into complete demise. In it’s wake it left over 230 000 dead, in a single day, public services such...
The violent arrival of polemic politics. Arizona and beyond.
Update- Jan 11: Westboro Baptist Church plans to travel to Arizona to protest funerals of Arizona shooting
A lone lunatic or the logical extension of polemical politics or anti government rhetoric in America?
Saturday morning in Tucson, Arizona saw the brazen...
Are you a Fake Millionaire too? Welcome to the secret behind Millionaire Matchmaker.
Here's a fun story that's being making the rounds courtesy of a Guest of a Guest. It involves one of the contestants David Yontef ostensibly claiming that the show's producers do not do a background check to determine if you...
Our top 5 predictions for 2011: The rise of media whoredom, social networking and the haves vs the have...
As we trod on firmly on to the new year, we've been thinking about some of the trends/instances that we should be on the look out for and frankly believe will become part of our daily regiment.
With the dizzying...
The perfect boyfriend checklist- do you make the cut?
I'll be honest- I just don't think I make a good boyfriend to most women out there- and it's not for the most obvious reasons that you would think (yes- I tend to be loyal, believe it or not)....
Are the vacant unoccupied cites of inner China the trick of clever photographers?
Pursuant to an article - Google’s Satellite Images Reveal Chinese ‘Ghost Cities’ we posted that drew world wide interest in whether in fact there were entire mass un occupied cities in inner west China that went on for...
Was your Christmas Eve Dinner a disaster too?
There comes a venerable rite of one's adulthood passage where they can remark on that one disastrous Christmas eve dinner. Mine it seems came this past weekend, and now that it's come and gone I am happily smirking, happy...
The top ten hottest guys of NYC: 2010.
Pursuant to our recent article the top ten most beautiful women of NYC (an adjunct to Ms Alexa Winner’s top 22 most beautiful women of NYC) we started to think if there could be a list for the...
And what will you wish for this Xmas?
As Christmas day and the close of 2010 approaches we slow down for a moment and ponder what it's all about, why we put up with what we do and conversely what it is that we are so grateful...
THE MEDIA’S IN-COMPLETE NARRATIVE OF THE MADOFF FRAUD
This narrative comes courtesy of Mr Christopher London Esq (the article reprinted here and its revealing reader comments can be seen here). In the ongoing complexities of the Bernard Madoff scandal that first arose 2 years ago Mr...
Tis the Season for Faux-Pas.
As the multitude of holiday parties continue to rage on, ad infinitum, I find myself in a curious position: somewhere between shocked at how far we’ve fallen from social grace and simply not giving a shit....
On Critics, On Outcry And Dead Horses
Alastair Macaulay’s review of George Balanchine’s Nutcracker catalyzed a furor in recent weeks, over an off-hand remark over Ballerina Jennifer Ringer’s weight. As a result, the internet basically had a hissy-fit.
For those unfamiliar with the term,...
The top 10 most beautiful women of NYC.
We picked this up from one of our favorite ‘it’ girls – fashion stylist/visionary Alexa Winner, whom if you remember we recently did a feature on. Talking of which Ms Winner has gone on and done her own feature...
How to kill yourself in public and create a scene: A study in the American myth.
There are many ways to kill yourself if inclined; jumping off bridges because of the stigma associated with one's sexuality, shooting yourself in the head, hanging yourself live on a chat room session whilst being cheered on, being gunned...
