Email Author Heather Baysa

2010 Stories by Heather Baysa

• LOVE ACTUALLY

  published December 22, 2010

  Normally we wouldn’t recommend schmoozing around an intersection waiting for a quick hook-up. But this is different. This is about... More >>

• GENTLE GIANT

  published December 15, 2010

  Cold War paranoia, fear of a nuclear holocaust, and a benevolent military robot were perhaps subjects too heavy for American audiences who,... More >>

• BLAME CANADA!

  published December 8, 2010

  The weather is getting colder, the days are getting shorter, and the wind is getting . . . windier. Who’s responsible? Follow the lead of a... More >>

• BAD SANTA

  published December 1, 2010

  The annual NYC SantaCon is coming to town once again, reminding us that everyone deserves to spend a little time on the naughty list, even... More >>

• BROKEN DOLL

  published November 24, 2010

  Back in the day, photographer Jerry Schatzberg got around. He was the man behind the camera for such ’60s icons as Bob Dylan (he shot the... More >>

• SAVING SUSO

  published November 17, 2010

  Ever wonder where sexy Sophia Loren’s coy flirtations came from, or where timeless heartthrob Marcello Mastroianni picked up his charming... More >>

• HE’S A MANIAC

  published November 10, 2010

  Never mind that by today’s standards he just looks like many of our Williamsburg neighbors. In 1980’s Maniac, Joe Spinell was the... More >>

• PSYCHO KILLERS

  published November 3, 2010

  The "granny killer" is on the loose, bumping off old ladies all across Paris. Daiga, our heroine, doesn't understand enough French to comprehend... More >>

• CON ARTISTS

  published October 27, 2010

  If Spock-eared Trekkies conversing in Vulcan and Adam West churning out autographs to fanboys well beyond the age of Batman’s intended... More >>

• SWEET TRANSVESTITES

  published October 20, 2010

  Your car breaks down in the middle of a thunderstorm. You and your virginal—suggestive cough—girlfriend seek shelter in a castle that... More >>

• REBEL LIGHTS

  published October 13, 2010

  Over the years, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been called a lot of things: "the most popular modern poet," by critics, "an old-ass anarchist" by... More >>

• HOLY ROLLING

  published October 6, 2010

  The congregation of Scrabble Creek looks modest enough at first—little old ladies praying for relief of minor aches and pains, restless kids... More >>

• LIFE OF LENNON

  published September 29, 2010

  The odd-couple sight of Mayor Bloomberg and Yoko Ono chumming it up on the streets of the Upper West Side might seem all out of sorts (but what a... More >>

• THUG LIFE

  published September 22, 2010

  At the tail end of a recession, who can blame folks for getting a little, um, creative with their means of income? Whether your preferred job is... More >>

• EARTHLY DELIGHTS

  published September 15, 2010

  First, he quipped and punned circles around the cable-news media. Then he rewrote our national history . . . possibly with more accuracy. Then he... More >>

• PSYCHO BABBLE

  published September 15, 2010

  Ever wish your standard Halloween haunted hayride-minus-the-hay would step up the production value a bit from the unenthused teenage kid in a... More >>

• PROJECT HIPSTER

  published September 8, 2010

  The Williamsburg Fashion Weekend, self-proclaimed purveyor of everything “hip and now” in indie rags, is back with 14 designers... More >>

• NO MAN’S LAND

  published September 8, 2010

  Prior to all the postmodern goofiness and Peter Sellers antics of Dr. Strangelove, and before all the memorably absurd verbal lashings of... More >>

• STRANGE WATERS

  published September 1, 2010

  In any of John Waters’s films, there’s a pervasive tension that cuts through all the camp: What will happen next? Black-market... More >>

• TEAM ZISSOU

  published August 25, 2010

  Of all the meticulously detailed, primary-colored screen worlds Wes Anderson has ever conjured to fill with the beating non-sound of many an... More >>

• BLOOD TIES

  published August 18, 2010

  Already drained by the fanged phenomenon of sometimes-sexy, occasionally Mormon bloodsucking tweens, current pop culture seems at a real loss for... More >>

• The Moody Blues

  published August 11, 2010

  It’s becoming increasingly difficult to reach blindly forth into the pop cultural stratosphere and pluck out a proper analogy for what author... More >>

• JURY DUTY

  published August 4, 2010

  When Reginald Rose's dramatic nugget of a telecast was adapted in 1957 to make the now-classic film 12 Angry Men, director Sidney Lumet... More >>

• SHE'S HAVING A BABY

  published July 27, 2010

  Starting a new life in the city can be difficult, but here are a few tips every New Yorker should abide by in order to, oh, say, avoid spiraling... More >>

• AMERICAN ODDITY

  published July 27, 2010

  So we all more or less know the dilemma: The Cyclone, Wonder Wheel, magnificently greasy fries from Nathan's, and all at once kitschy yet... More >>