The mother who pumped heroin to end her boy’s life.
What's a mother to do?
Francis Ingles was yesterday sentenced to life in jail for killing her son, if that's one way to put it. The case over in England has touched nerves in the field of assisted suicide. The...
Mischa Barton Changes Roles, Not Clothes.
Mischa Barton is about to wrap filming for her guest spot on Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she plays a prostitute with a mysterious connection to one of the detectives. She’s been photographed around town wearing...
Zumba: hip-hop for white people.
I was recently cajoled into taking part in a Zumba aerobics class. For those of you who don’t know, get out from under your rocks, for Christ’s sake. It’s a latin-inspired aerobic dance craze that has swept through the...
Advice for the Tanned, Bemuscled and Bouffanted.
The contestants of Jersey Shore are coming under fire, yet again. Not for their tans, their atrocious fashion or their refusal to be anything but a stereotype. Now it’s for their buffoonish behavior in LA as they make their...
Should online publishers charge for their content?
In light of the announcement by the NY Times over the weekend that they intend to begin charging some sort of fee for part of their content the debate as to whether online media can continue to give away...
British press are in no mood to forgive Kerry Katona.
Once a rising star now a vilified horror show.
If one pays enough attention to how British and American press handle their stars one will come away with the feeling that both camps are in the business of annihilating their...
The hurdles of celebrity: a treatise on shame.
Let’s be honest. The number one fear in the world, it seems, is not death. It’s speaking in public. This doesn’t address the truth. People don’t fear speaking in public. They fear the consequences of speaking in public. Being...
The rise of the celebrity bitch.
Some female celebrities flaunt their inner bitch. Some try to hide it. We don't know which camp the next breakout starlet will belong to, but one thing is certain: she will be a bitch. Fortunately, those who make their...
Dating in the recession, has left a hole in my stomach.
My mother calls me a dinner whore. I call myself a serial first dater. Either way, it feeds me. Or at least, it used too. I once fed myself by going on first dates for 2 months straight in...
At the Golden Globes Award pre party at Chateau Marmont.
The scene opens: On a crystal-clear Los Angeles night, a vagabond stands clutching a glass of Dom Pérignon on the penthouse terrace at the Château Marmont. Laughter wafts through the air, hanging over the sparkling city below. The vagabond...
Thomas Friedman can’t even predict his birthday.
When the only predictable thing about Thomas Friedman is that he can't predict.
Those who caught Thomas Friedman's January 12th op-ed in which he predicts continued and steady economic gains for China's foreseeable future will no doubt be convinced that the...
Kyle Fisher is still trying to figure out his new room mate’s work schedule.
Adventures and mysteries in suburban Boston.
Out of Boston comes the compelling case of Kyle Fisher's new roommate- Tom Alford. Although Tom has been living with Kyle for over 3 months Kyle has yet to work out what Tom does...
TAB the band: A Band Worth Rooting For .
One recent morning, I found myself in Midtown with a bowl of tomato basil, surrounded by TAB the band, whose drink of choice was a Mimosa. Fancy are we? One member even had the audacity to return a glass...
The downtown set hit Collective Hardware.
In the depths of the Bowery, between the shuttered down shops and chipped doorways to walk-ups, lies Collective Hardware, otherwise known as 169 Bowery.
Anticipation and fervor started to pump into the art space on Thursday evening as the gallery prepped...
ICP dresses up for ‘Dress Codes.’
Entering the midtown Manhattan-based International Centre of Photography (ICP) on Thursday was an immediate sensory overload. Music pounded from all four corners of the museum, sweeps of shadows where slinky couples hide and chat clashed with the bright lights...
