Hurricane Irene: Did the media go overboard?
Like most New Yorkers, I've been wrapped listening and reading play by play how Hurricane Irene has been playing out since it arrived our way this weekend. From the web, TV, radio it all pretty amounts to the same...
Assistant football coach proceeds to choke seventh-grader, attack parent, head coach on the first day of school, all with...
Times must be tough when a middle-school football team is forced to hire the resident hothead In-School-Suspension supervisor as a coach, as a Kannapolis, NC school has come to find out.
According the Salisbury Post, school was just resuming Thursday afternoon...
Three-foot-long rat speared in Brooklyn housing project
Maybe it’s the hurricane fever sweeping the city, or that I just saw The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, but I am feeling the nature-gone-wild-and-rears-its-ugly-head stories.
Take this one, for instance: at Bed Stuy’s Marcy Houses, residents have been...
Drena De Niro beats the crap out of her ex boyfriend after learning that he has a new live...
YOU TALKING TO ME?!
Oops...Looks like life in one celebrity lane got a motsa out of control last night as famed daughter of Robert De Niro and no slouch herself, actress producer Drena de Niro lost her composure...
Expect to be fed sushi and whisky if you land in prison in Russia.
The good life will always be yours in Russia as long as you have a fistful of dollars rubles.
Kids I have to be honest if you mention the following two words: prison and Russia the only things that...
Welcome to the new trend in dining in NYC- you will be asked to leave if you’re not done...
Bon appetit! but hurry up jerk!
Raise your hand if you've wanted to walk over to the couple (switch preferred dilettante here) monopolizing the dinner table whilst you did everything short of flinging your watch at them as you waited...
Park Ave property developer Kent Swig will soon be looking for a studio in East New York.
Another one bites the dust...
If like most of us you've been financially rattled these last few months you have a spare shoulder with me to cry on, but that said I might have to shrug some of...
Beyonce: “Diva By Default”: Ten Years Later courtesy of Aaliyah.
Exactly ten years ago today, Aaliyah died in 2001 at the height of her fame. At the time, she, not Beyonce, was the burgeoning queen of pop, with movie roles (and critical acclaim to match) already racked up, stellar album...
The (Il)logic of Free-seating in Theaters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II is the final film of a magical series that has enraptured millions worldwide, myself included, for over a decade. Such was my excitement over the film, which opened...
Why don’t you just be a man about it? Trying to figure out if a man should give up...
Not so long ago, I was seated on a crowded subway with a female friend. Whilst we were talking amongst ourselves an older woman, in her early 50's boarded the train and stood by us. It was obvious by...
The argument for oxytocin. Inducing empathy could save the world. But who really wants to live in a society...
Judging by the recent disharmony in the world one could be pressed to argue the root of what ails society is the degree of inequity when it comes to the distribution of resources and wealth. Which is...
Disabled woman lives with her dead partner whom she has no recollection of for 5 weeks before authorities are...
Brighton-UK, Aug 20. A frail 51 year old Jessica Makarab is reported to have been so frail upon the death of her caretaker partner that she was unable to report his death, which led to her living with him...
Moscow debuts a small box where people can sleep in dignity.
In general, I am a fan of hyperminimalism—building offices in the woods where you don’t actually build anything, people just set up shop under trees—if only as a camp concept. Let’s face it: more is more, baby, but let’s hear...
Sarah Lynn would like to explain to you how she left her toddler in a stroller in the rain...
Down the hatch she goes...
Sarah Lynn Cheek is nursing a giant hangover pursuant to being arresting for child neglect this past Thursday evening. But at least it will be a hangover she will remember for some time to come...
It...
Distraught girl calls her mother while she is being mauled to death by bears
I have a friend whose hobbies include YouTubing phone calls when people are dying: 9/11 calls, girls trapped in a car, etc., etc.. We’ve come to laugh about this, not just because of the morbidity involved but I think because...
