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  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    Diane Keaton: "I've Never Had Plastic Surgery"

    So many stars say they haven't had surgery that I actually expect Barbara Walters to come out and say it too. It's the oldest cliche in the book. An older actor--looking remarkably line-free--says, "I haven't had surgery, but I wouldn't rule it out in the future." But I worship Diane Keaton and s ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 22, 2012

    Caffè Storico: The Museum of Fine Dining

    Venice lends some savor to the New-York Historical Society

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    My Five Worst Flights Of All Time

    I hate flying even when it's smooth -- the combination of terror and tedium really wears me down. But when it ain't smooth, my nerves jangle so loud they drown out Alec Baldwin playing games on his cell phone in the next row. While I inhale a whip-it to relax, let me tell you my five worst flights ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Places Where You Can Feel Younger

    ​My whole life, I was always the young one. I was the youngest (and in fact only) one in my family. The youngest one in school. The new kid at work.

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2011

    Even Senior Citizens Aren't Safe From Food TV

    ​Once you've run out of shameless narcissists and psychologically unstable megalomaniacs to exploit for the purposes of televised entertainment, where do you turn? To the elderly, of course.

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Guess What Stories I've Been Pitched This Week?

    ​Think the life of a columnist/blogger is nothing but glamour and gift bags? Well, it is--sort of--but it also involves sifting through the piles of angsty promotional emails begging for my attention. Here are the pitches that have passed by my technology in the last week alone. You decide ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Graydon Carter Is Maybe Sort of Sniffing Around Elaine's

    Dan LaceyGraydon Carter, with pancake and fiddle.​Today in time-killing speculation: Graydon Carter is or was possibly, maybe interested in taking over Elaine's.

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #4: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, "Don't Pull Me Over"

    F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​Here is the moment where Jeff Lynne finally captures the hard-earned title of "second worst Wilbury."

  • Columns

    November 3, 2010

    Was Margaret Cho Too Gay for Dancing With The Stars?

    Talking with the stand-up rebel, followed by a heavy dose of—remember this?—nostalgia

  • Voice Choices

    October 27, 2010

    THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT

    Paul Weller plays the Apollo

  • Film

    October 13, 2010

    Killer Instincts, Bad Knees

    Helen Mirren will cut you, and other awesome old-people things, in Red

  • News

    September 29, 2010

    White America Has Lost Its Mind

    The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular fashion

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Scientist Attempts to Debunk Cougars; Cougars Fight Back Via Sex With Younger Men

    ​Back in June (God, weren't we young then?), we wrote of a study in Psychology Today that said, basically cougars -- i.e., "older" women, older being 27 through 45, broadly -- are totally about getting it on because of their "diminishing fertility." At the end of their ropes, so to speak, the ... More >>

  • Film

    August 11, 2010

    In Praise of Andrew V. McLaglen and His Washed-Up A-List Casts

    ​Back in June (God, weren't we young then?), we wrote of a study in Psychology Today that said, basically cougars -- i.e., "older" women, older being 27 through 45, broadly -- are totally about getting it on because of their "diminishing fertility." At the end of their ropes, so to speak, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2010

    Free Tax Preparation and Online Filing

    ​If you make less than $58,000/yr, the city has set up a site where you can file online for free here. If you make under $42,000/yr, call the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program at 1 (800) 829-1040 to find an assistance site where they'll help you prepare your return. If you're over 60 ... More >>

  • Music

    December 15, 2009

    Holiday Music Roundup '09

    Weird Christmas records: They're not just for Dylan anymore

  • Columns

    November 17, 2009

    Your Mama's Locks

    What's with the crazy colores?

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Tea Partiers Invade Congress

    ​Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who has famously called for "armed and dangerous" protests against the Democratic government (which she fears will create "re-education camps for young people"), is presently leading thousands of supporters to yell at Congress from its lawn. She refers to this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    "Musto's Door Dispute"

    ​Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who has famously called for "armed and dangerous" protests against the Democratic government (which she fears will create "re-education camps for young people"), is presently leading thousands of supporters to yell at Congress from its lawn. She refers to this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Geezers Jump from Commie AARP to Patriotic ASA -- Driven by Health Care, or Incoming Hippie Seniors?

    ​The American Association of Retired Persons finds itself in a bind. CBS News says thousands of angry geezers are quitting the AARP over the Obama healthcare plan -- even though the AARP has not officially endorsed the plan. "I feel they're supporting it through the backdoor," says one former ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    When Parents Won't Let You Grow Up

    ​What do you do when I--I mean you--have a parent who stubbornly refuses to treat you like an adult, even though you're practically of AARP age? How do you react when--though you're so old you can remember the Dead Sea when it was just sick--my mama, I mean your mama, says stuff like "Did you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    Golden Girls Moving To One More Lanai

    In the future, there will be Cher, cockroaches, and The Golden Girls. The beloved '80s sitcom about four cantankerous and slutty but lovable old broads has played so long on Lifetime that I've gotten my AARP card along with the characters. And now I've been informed that they're moving to the Hall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    John Updike, Continued

    Many complicated tributes to John Updike today. This was a writer with an ambivalent reputation among people of a certain age (and an impossibly glowing one with people of another). But facile opinions tend to fall away at moments like these. The New Yorker's Book Bench has gathered together a sla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Photos: Fiasco at the Old Stone House

    Many complicated tributes to John Updike today. This was a writer with an ambivalent reputation among people of a certain age (and an impossibly glowing one with people of another). But facile opinions tend to fall away at moments like these. The New Yorker's Book Bench has gathered together a sla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Roger Kimball, Runnin' Scared Endorse Riots

    Many complicated tributes to John Updike today. This was a writer with an ambivalent reputation among people of a certain age (and an impossibly glowing one with people of another). But facile opinions tend to fall away at moments like these. The New Yorker's Book Bench has gathered together a sla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Live: Tina Turner Celebrates Her 69th Birthday in Newark

    Many complicated tributes to John Updike today. This was a writer with an ambivalent reputation among people of a certain age (and an impossibly glowing one with people of another). But facile opinions tend to fall away at moments like these. The New Yorker's Book Bench has gathered together a sla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2008

    Sorry, Pops: NY Firms Fail to Crack Older-Worker Top 25

    Many complicated tributes to John Updike today. This was a writer with an ambivalent reputation among people of a certain age (and an impossibly glowing one with people of another). But facile opinions tend to fall away at moments like these. The New Yorker's Book Bench has gathered together a sla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    On First Day of School, Mayor's Ed Policy Gets Spot Exam

    Many complicated tributes to John Updike today. This was a writer with an ambivalent reputation among people of a certain age (and an impossibly glowing one with people of another). But facile opinions tend to fall away at moments like these. The New Yorker's Book Bench has gathered together a sla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    YouTube Treasure: The Jacksons Got Nothin' On These Crackers

    Many complicated tributes to John Updike today. This was a writer with an ambivalent reputation among people of a certain age (and an impossibly glowing one with people of another). But facile opinions tend to fall away at moments like these. The New Yorker's Book Bench has gathered together a sla ... More >>

  • Music

    August 12, 2008

    The NYC Chapter of the Complaints Choir is Here

    Many complicated tributes to John Updike today. This was a writer with an ambivalent reputation among people of a certain age (and an impossibly glowing one with people of another). But facile opinions tend to fall away at moments like these. The New Yorker's Book Bench has gathered together a sla ... More >>

  • News

    May 20, 2008

    The Beating Heart of Jazz

    Art Blakey: 'You don't have to be a musician to understand jazz. Just be able to feel.'

  • Columns

    May 20, 2008

    The Daddy Diaries 2: More Whoring in Pampers!

    A schlong day's journey into night

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2008

    Ay Dios Mio! Golden Globe's Bad Karma

    A schlong day's journey into night

  • Film

    October 16, 2007

    Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

    A schlong day's journey into night

  • Music

    November 21, 2006

    Sign 'O' the Times

    A respite from Times Square holiday madness resides at the Rum House piano bar

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2005

    Pensions: Why All You Whipper-Snappers Are Walking to Work

    A respite from Times Square holiday madness resides at the Rum House piano bar

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2005

    The Battle of Brooklyn

    A respite from Times Square holiday madness resides at the Rum House piano bar

  • News

    March 8, 2005

    Bombs Away

    The truth about pilots, the pope, pot, and the Nazis' favorite dwarfs

  • News

    February 1, 2005

    From Security to Risk in One Easy Bush Plan

    President trades American promise for a Wall Street gamble

  • News

    February 1, 2005

    Conversation Kills

    Gray-haired pols keep yammering about Social Security, but it's young people who need to be heard

  • News

    May 25, 2004

    A Sleeping Class

    Young Americans fight for every cause but their own. Wake up, already.

  • News

    March 16, 2004

    Petaphilia

    The Great American Man-Dog Marriage Panic

  • News

    March 9, 2004

    The New Graduate

    From a 'quarterlife crisis,' a movement is born

  • Film

    October 21, 2003

    It's DéJà Vu All Over Again as Bush and Gore Rerun for Office

    From a 'quarterlife crisis,' a movement is born

  • Film

    July 8, 2003
  • News

    November 12, 2002

    Dr. Pusherman

    Woman of Action

  • News

    November 12, 2002

    Sports

    Woman of Action

  • News

    April 17, 2001

    From the Subprime to the Ridiculous

    Mayoral Candidates Huff and Puff on Predatory Lending

  • Long Island Voice

    August 24, 1999

    Scrap Metal

    Mayoral Candidates Huff and Puff on Predatory Lending

  • News

    May 18, 1999

    Masters in Hype

    Liddy Dole To Speak at Nonexistent Graduation

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