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Greenberg's Assembled Parties (Sort of) Celebrate Christmas; Odets gives Hollywood A Big Knife

Losing their religion

Holiday Guide: Arts Listings

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Don't Dress for Dinner Could Offer Better Menu

The Roundabout tries a comedy by Boeing-Boeing's Marc Camoletti

Alec Baldwin's Airplane Fiasco Gets Taiwanese Animation

​There were a few inevitable things that happened after Alec Baldwin got kicked off an American Airlines flight for playing Words with Friends. First, he angrily tweeted about it. Then came the ultimate in celebrity introspection, the deletion of his Twitter account followed by a Huffington P ... More >>

American Airlines Responds to Alec Baldwin Situation on Facebook

​Alec Baldwin -- closer, formerly prolific tweeter, and fake future mayoral candidate -- had a little incident with American Airlines yesterday because of his refusal to stop playing Words With Friends. Baldwin wouldn't shut off his phone when the flight attendant asked him to and says he was ... More >>

OWS Protesters Still Eating Like Kings; NYC's Most Beloved Diners

​Daniel Boulud will indeed be opening a new restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto, as previously rumored. [Toronto Star] More on those in-flight American Airlines meals designed by Richard Sandoval and Marcus Samuelsson. [Chicago Tribune] Occupy Wall Street protesters are sitting o ... More >>

Man and Boy: On With the Showy

Frank Langella leaps for the flamboyant bits in a Rattigan revival

Bulldogs Don't Fly Commercial

You might think a bulldog has the best life ever, being adorable and frequently stopped on streets to be gazed at and pet by adoring masses, and also getting its poop picked up by its owner whenever necessary, and not even having to work a 9 to 5 or 8 to 10 job...a bulldog is in the business of simp ... More >>

Ian Chalermkittichai 'In' at Spot Dessert Bar; Michael Sullivan 'In' at Veselka Bowery

Ian Chalermkittichai, formerly of Kittichai and currently at Ember Room, is taking over at Spot Dessert Bar from Pichet Ong. Chalermkittichai also recently opened a dessert bar in Bangkok. [Zagat Buzz] Dominique Ansel, the ex-pastry chef at Daniel, is opening Dominique Ansel Bakery this October, wh ... More >>

Marcus Samuelsson Scores Yet Another Product Endorsement

​Over the past year or so, Marcus Samuelsson has lent his fine name to many things: stainless steel cookware, a fragrance, Kraft Foods, American Airlines, kitchen linens, MasterCard, gas ranges, Buick, a cruise line, television, and, oh right, the Red Rooster. And to this list, we can now add ... More >>

New Yorkers Insist on Being Unhappy With the Snow Day That God Gave Them

The snow dude gets it. Via EV Grieve/GirlyDeJoie.​We were going to write a post called "10 Things to Do When You're Stranded at the Airport Due to a Blizzard-Pocalypse" but having narrowed the list down to, basically, drink, bitch, and call your airline names, we figured you probably had that ... More >>

iPads Gain Popularity as POS; United Serves Healthiest Airline Food

​The iPad is an increasingly popular tool restaurants employ as as part of their point-of-sale systems. [Nation's Restaurant News] Kroger has recalled several brands of pet food in 19 states, because of possible aflatoxin contamination, which can cause sluggishness and diarrhea. [Bloomberg] ... More >>

Fright or Flight Response

Why are Mexicanairlines so fearless?

TSA vs. Everyone Else: Full-Body Scanners, Radiation, and Heated Pat Downs

​ "Hello, my name is so-and-so, and I will be seeing you naked today."  While the TSA gives a slightly different diatribe prior to performing a full-body scan in airports that now span New York City, their aesthetic is the same: they will be managing a powerful X-ray machine and yes, the ... More >>

Full-Body Scanners Now At JFK Airport

​Just what New Yorkers need: Another thing to complain about. In recent weeks we've had MTA assholes, stinkbugs, gnomes with Tumblrs, and now? Attention, New Yorkers: Full-body scanners have now been placed in the American Airlines terminal of JFK airport.

Update: Hijacking Threat Aboard American Airlines Flight to JFK "Non-Credible"

​We're hearing of a hijacking threat made on an American Airlines flight heading from San Francisco to JFK today. After a threat was reportedly made by phone that a hijacker was on board, passengers on American Airlines Flight 24, which was preparing for takeoff, have been asked to deplane and ... More >>

Cromer Darkens Simon's Memoirs; Marber Misdates Miss Julie; Ordinary Days are Just That

AWKWARD!

Jude and Sienna keep their distance on Broadway

JFK Nation's Third-Worst Airport for Sleeping, Say Experts

Airport delays have become a way of life -- in fact, a new airline has made a massive delay part of its launch -- so you may be interested in The Guide to Sleeping in Airports and its just-announced best and worst airports for sleeping. As New York naturally figures in all superlatives, you will not ... More >>

High Line Park Results in New Restaurant Row; Green Roofs Everywhere

Mere months after reports claiming the exact opposite, a new study suggests that living near a fast food outlet actually does not increase weight in children, and that living near supermarkets, with their fresh fruits and vegetables, does nothing to lower weight. Go figure. [Science Daily] A survey ... More >>

Godot's Worth the Weight, The Philanthropist Donates Little, 9 to 5 Shows More Heart Than Art

Elvis Perkins in Dearland

Thursday's Headlines: Catholic Church fights Albany to protect Pedo-Priests

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]Your Thursday New York headlines...Legislature wants to life statute of limitations on child sex abuse lawsuits: Catholic Church objects, saying bill intended to bankrupt it.Daily News shows odd bit of sympathy for monster Madoff: may have spent "his last ... More >>

In-Flight Hanging Apparently False, But Stephen Fry Really Stuck in Lift

American Airlines flight 834, arriving this evening from the Dominican Republic, was met by emergency personnel because of a medical situation with a passenger -- not, American Airlines spokespeople insist, because the passenger had tried to hang himself, as persistent twittering had reported. The ... More >>

Have a Happy Flight-Delayed Christmas

A SIGN OF THE TIMES

Something to spice up the Ikea furniture

Joining the Mile High Club Just Got Easier

Now that airlines offer WiFi on flights, try cybersex at 30,000 feet.

W. Indian American Day Parade Hot, Loud, Fun

At JFK, Erhan Yildirim Clears Corpses For Takeoff

A wing and a prayer

Lynn Yaeger Spends the Weekend in Paris

Trekking to France to shop for history, 40 years after Mai '68

Silda Spitzer Steps Out, David Cook Wins American Idol and All the Rest

A Girl's Life at Aviation High School

A Girl's Life at Aviation High School

'Prisoners of War Have More Rights' Than Stranded Airline Passengers

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Rising law-prof star's book analyzes the ways we pass—and throws in a cri de coeur

La Dolce Musto

The Eisenhower Error

Greenberg's Girl bears an amazing resemblance to summer-stock romances of the '50s

Fall Theater Preview

Fear of Flying

Whistle-blowers say the FAA ignored a decade of pre–9-11 warnings

The 9-11 Gun

Disorganized Conspiracy

When you've got money and power, who needs meetings in secret boardrooms?

As New Like It

He Stoops to Conquer

An Immodest Proposal

Success Has Gotten Us Where We Are. Why Not Try Failure?

Pilots’-Eye View

The Crash of Flight 587 Raises Questions About Training and Air Traffic Control

'No Way but Jihad'

Al Qaeda Leader Spoke of 'Next Strikes'

Terrorism: Up Close And Personal

Nashville Scene founding publisher Albie Del Favero finds himself an eyewitness to the worst terrorist attack in history

Agenda: Gender

NY Mirror

Winging it

Queers Ahoy!

The high price of gay and lesbian travel