As Chris Cilizza points out in The Washington Post, “the White House has become very interested in House Minority Leader John Boehner of late.” In a speech last week in Boehner’s home state of Ohio, President Obama mentioned Boehner an incredible eight times. Over the weekend, White House surrogates drew attention to an article in …
Sure, some people are going to buy the September issue of Details because Zac Efron‘s picture is on the cover, but some are going to be drawn to the cover line that says “Why You Should Lie to Your Boss.” I hope so, anyway, because I wrote it–a nice little tongue-in-cheek service piece about how …
Terry Jones, whom some may call Reverend but not me, is the gun-toting pastor of a dinky, fifty-member church in Gainesville Florida, who has this week held the country in thrall with his ugly proposal to burn copies of the Koran. I know–if you’re like me, you’re thinking, Do I have a dog in this …
Thanks to Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, some truly ridiculous blather by Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi and a man whose name is bruited about as a potential Republican nomination for president, has been exposed for the noxious nonsense that it is. Barbour. who is 62, recently gave …
I had the pleasure Thursday of meeting Gary Lippman, a talented writer who has written an interesting novel called Freak Hots for Sharon. We talked about his family, his home in Paris, his visits to Burning Man, the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, our mutual friend Melik Kaylin, and of course, writing. Fiction …
I finally cashed in the fabulous Father’s Day gift I received in June, as Ginny and Molly and Cara took me to see the Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 7 to 5, on a picture-perfect end-of-summer afternoon in the Bronx. We sat in Section 306 in the Terrace, which put us in a prime …
Visitors to the offices of Jann Wenner on Sixth Avenue and 51st Street will be treated to the sight of the many National Magazine Awards the magazines of Wenner Media have collected over the years, many of them quite justifiably for the art direction of Rolling Stone. Well, they won’t be winning any art direction …
In The New York Times this morning, Janet Maslin had very positive things to say about True Prep, the new book from my friend Lisa Birnbach and Chip Kidd, which is a sequel to her huge hit of a couple of decades ago, The Official Preppie Handbook. Says Maslin: “Ms. Birnbach has returned to the …
Writing in The New York Times today, Marc Ambinder notes that “During this election cycle, a suspiciously large number of candidates with thin résumés and barely formed political identities are beating well-financed, better-established opponents. What’s more, these upstarts are winning primary races, in no small part, by running against the notion that their opponents were …
Sam Brown – “Horse to the water”?????? Andria | MySpace Video From The Concert for George, which she utterly stole from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton et al. Magnificent–and what a smile! Why was she never a major star?