Jamie Malanowski

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JUNE 2016

6.16 The turtle returns 6.15 Almost 40 percent of the millennials surveyed by Mintel for its 2015 report said cereal was an inconvenient breakfast choice because they had to clean up after eating it. 6.13 Albany 6.12 49 people are killed by a gunman at a nightclub in Orlando. It was the deadliest mass shooting …

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MAY 2016

5.7 Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, was elected Mayor of London, beating the son of Sir Jimmy Goldsmith 5.7 A passenger on a flight between Philadelphia and Syracuse reported her seat mate seemed suspicious and was writing in a foreign language. The man in question turned out to be Guido Menzio, a 40 year-old Ivy League …

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THE HORROR

These are hardly the most terrible pictures that emerged from 9/11, not by a long shot. And yet for images that live at that messy nexus between culpability and helplessness, it’s hard to beat these images that were taken at the White House on that awful, awful day.

FORTY YEARS AND STILL GOING STRONG!

  Last Saturday Ginny and I marked (almost) forty years of wedded bliss with our friends and loved ones at Trattoria 160 in Pleasantville. Front row: Dave Jensen, Ginny, me, Cara Malanowski, Molly Malanowski. Top row: Paul Lindstrom, Anne Lindstrom, Cathy Gallagher, Tim Hart, Susan Schmidt, Greg Schmidt and Shawn Kelly.

GOOD CALL!

The Washington Independent Review of Books likes Commander Will Cushing! In this witty, well-written biography, writes reviewer Grayson Clary, an unknown Union sailor finally gets his due. “Historians, Southern-sympathizing or otherwise, have long marshaled heroic profiles to defend the honor of the Confederate states: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, P.G.T. Beauregard, J.E.B. Stuart, the Grey …

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