Last summer, outside the Starbucks on Second Street and Covina Avenue in the Belmont Shores neighborhood of Long Beach, Calif., Catarina Toumei stepped out of a beat-up car and made her way to a coffee shop. She had... MORE >
"It's really kind of a boring story," Ron Teitelbaum said, referring to his 14th-floor listing at 165 Charles Street. "I wish I could spin it some way that would be interesting to you." Are you kidding? Since when is a... MORE >
Late last month a defamation lawsuit was filed against the journalist Michael Lewis. The irony of Mr. Lewis being sued for vilifying anybody is that his body of work is so scrupulously villain-free as to cause the reader to... MORE >
"I see people who buy $25 mac-and-cheese on both sides of this argument," Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, told The Observer last week as he finished dinner at Rachel's Burritos in Park Slope and prepared to... MORE >
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Peggy Siegel's tennis group was here Monday. A bevy of blondes and one or two brunettes took over a round center table in the Grill. I delivered a pink-and-plum-colored spring bouquet to their table, because I decided the ladies... MORE >
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Artist Sebastian Bremer bobbed on his heels, preening, at the start of the Armory Show in New York Wednesday. The next day, his show at Edwyn Houk Gallery was set to open, with pieces priced about $30,000 to $65,000--but... MORE >
Who do you have to frack to get some credit around here? That's what we're wondering after a recent New York Times series on the latest hot-button environmental issue--hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. "fracking." The Times series is packaged as a slow-cooked... MORE >
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"Did she see you had an entourage with you?" asked Bobby. "Yes, she definitely noticed," The Observer replied. The Observer had just had a close call on the floor of the Armory Show. Looking at two large photographs by Candida Hofer... MORE >
Who do you have to frack to get some credit around here?That's what we're wondering after a recent New York Times series on the... MORE >
"I see people who buy $25 mac-and-cheese on both sides of this argument," Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, told The Observer... MORE >
When David Foster Wallace hanged himself with a black belt and his arms bound by duct tape on the patio of his home in... MORE >
One early morning about two weeks ago on the Upper East Side, Mayor Bloomberg sat down for coffee (black, no sugar) with Michael Mulgrew... MORE >
Late last month a defamation lawsuit was filed against the journalist Michael Lewis. The irony of Mr. Lewis being sued for vilifying anybody is... MORE >
When David Foster Wallace hanged himself with a black belt and his arms bound by duct tape on the patio of his home in...
"Food is always drama," Seline Dell'Orto, proprietor of Manganaro's Grosseria Italiana was explaining to The Observer on Monday afternoon. It had been a tough...
"I see people who buy $25 mac-and-cheese on both sides of this argument," Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, told The Observer...
Late last month a defamation lawsuit was filed against the journalist Michael Lewis. The irony of Mr. Lewis being sued for vilifying anybody is...
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