Lipstick and a driver’s license do not make a sound like that. A clonk of that particular heft is reserved only for a flat rectangular object of a certain weight.
The (Civil) Society Column
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Covered in color
While its agenda can be political, fanciful or baffling, its first purpose is always to issue the primal call of “I am here! And you are, too!”
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‘Hedwig’: The ultimate rock ‘n’ roll fantasy
A fictional transgender German rock star might sound like an unlikely obsession for a straight (but not narrow!) married lady with a mortgage, but I’m definitely not the only Hedhead.
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Sowing the farmers’ stories
The fact is, true farming is a whole lot harder than us wannabes could ever imagine: The dawn-’til-dusk labor, the hand-me-downs and do-withouts, the sheer fear of being beholden to nature’s whims.
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Here’s to your health (insurance)!
In theory, the Affordable Care Act provides decent care and protects patients from suffocating bills, though so far in practice it seems to be performing about as well as a drunken rhino running the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.
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Still haunted on 61st Street
Since we last saw our heroic midtown residents and business owners, they were pitted against the ghoulish developers in a gory showdown that resulted in the city kowtowing to the powerful invaders.
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Pimp your ride?
The Absurdivan is a venerated part of our family, like a senile aunt who wears her entire costume jewelry collection to the grocery store because she thinks the cleaning lady will steal it.
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History cut short
He had the uncanny talent of stitching together disparate disciplines to distill the bigger picture, an uncommon trait for a lifelong academic.
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America, the beautiful mess
If I had a bunch of old suits screaming all day long about what they think is best for me while ignoring what I actually have to say about it, I’d break some serious bad, too. But listen. You’re pushing 238 and it’s time to grow the fuck up.
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Get sick at the Davenport House
Set in various parts of the refined American Federal-style domicile on Columbia Square, the hour-long show chronicles the horrific illness that killed one out of five Savannah citizens and provides a fascinating and germane context of social norms, race relations, media propaganda and medical inefficacy.
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The Veep came to town and I didn’t even get a T-shirt
Thing is, Biden gave almost exactly the same speech earlier that morning in South Carolina, which has its own harbor deepening enterprise brewing at the Port of Charleston.
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The once and future reign of E. Shaver
“The Internet has transformed reading, yes. But there will always be people who want to touch a book,” assures Esther Shaver, who has indulged bibliophiles from near and far for the past 38 years from her cozy shop on Madison Square. “Books are not going to go away.”