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Mother Teresa

  • News

    December 21, 2011

    Christopher Hitchens's Contradictory Legacy

    Crusades, holy men, and devils

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Animal Drink Coasters at Broadway Panhandler, Gift Suggestion #5

    ​Aren't they unspeakably cute? -- and they protect the finish on your fine furniture, too. Drink coasters are something of a retro-phenomenon. While our moms had several sets with different themes in neat stacks under the bar -- to protect her good finish from dad's sloppy drinking habits -- ... More >>

  • Film

    July 6, 2011

    Nicolas Pereda: Here Are His Stories

    ​Aren't they unspeakably cute? -- and they protect the finish on your fine furniture, too. Drink coasters are something of a retro-phenomenon. While our moms had several sets with different themes in neat stacks under the bar -- to protect her good finish from dad's sloppy drinking habits -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2011

    NYU Business Student Makes $300K Off Dead Osama Shirts, Gives It All Back

    via osamadeadtees.com​23-year-old NYU business school student Maurice Harary worked late into the night after Osama Bin Laden was killed, making a website and designing a line of dead Osama-themed merch. As of yesterday, he'd reportedly sold 25,000 t-shirts at $12 per shirt. The disturbing frat-bo ... More >>

  • Film

    April 6, 2011

    A Handsome but Cursory Portrait of Animal Rescue in Born to Be Wild 3D

    via osamadeadtees.com​23-year-old NYU business school student Maurice Harary worked late into the night after Osama Bin Laden was killed, making a website and designing a line of dead Osama-themed merch. As of yesterday, he'd reportedly sold 25,000 t-shirts at $12 per shirt. The disturbing frat-bo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Michael Alig Has Written a Musical About Lady Gaga

    ​This Saturday night in Toronto, there will be a performance of Of a Monstrous Child: a gaga musical, in which two people play Lady Gaga and someone playing British club provocateur Leigh Bowery is "the electronic emcee." But that's not the shocking part.

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Vatican Declares Homer Simpson a "True Catholic"

    ​No, this is not the Onion. Apparently, the Pope isn't relatable enough these days. Instead, if you're seeking a Catholic role model, you should look to a beer-guzzling, doughnut-pounding, Ned-Flanders-torturing "everyman." Yes. L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's newspaper, has published an a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    For Mother Teresa's 100th Birthday, a Rally Outside the Empire State Building

    ​Cities all over the world are celebrating Mother Teresa's birthday today, and New York is no exception, with blue and white lights planned for Times Square, the Intrepid, Borough Hall in Brooklyn, and other city locales. Notably not included in the list of landmarks honoring the Nobel-Prize-w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Battle of the Buildings: Empire State Building and 15 Penn Plaza Wage War of Artistic Renderings

    ​The empire state of mind is pretty pissy this week. Empire State Building owner Anthony Malkin of Malkin Holdings says that the enormous new building planned for 15 Penn Plaza, two blocks west of his 80-year-old beauty, would mar the view of New York's iconic skyscraper and change the skyline ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    Empire State Building to Spite Mother Teresa This Thursday

    ​Times Square billboards, the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, and Brooklyn Borough Hall will all glow blue and white on Thursday for Mother Theresa's 100th Birthday, according to the Daily News. But the Empire State Building continues to hold strong against the request because of the owner's "r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Charlie Rangel Finally Speaks Out on "Charlie Rangel" (Audio)

    ​Via WNYC's Azi Paybarah, here's a hysterical interview of Charlie Rangel referring to himself in the third person. Also, who's holding this guy's thesaurus these days? "Scintilla," huh? Even if he's not convicted of ethics fraud, he should still be convicted of sounding ridiculous. He's like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Empire State Building Won't Light Up for Mother Teresa, then Lies, Which Mother Teresa Really Would Have Hated (But Forgiven)

    ​The Empire State Building is privately owned, and as such, they can do whatever the hell they want -- lighting themselves in pink and red for Valentine's Day, or honoring the Simpsons, or whatever. So, when they said no to lights honoring Mother Teresa's upcoming 100th birthday on August 26, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Last Night: Stephen Colbert Accuses the Hold Steady of Being Graphic Designers

    "Are you sure you're not graphic designers?", Stephen Colbert asks the Hold Steady's Craig Finn and Tad Kubler, the joke being that they're way too old to be playing in a band. (Like Harvilla sez: "You have to remember: The Hold Steady were wizened, wistful veterans when they started.") Then, afte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    My Footwear Crisis Is Finally Resolved

    ​ You know what they say about a guy with big feet: It's hard for him to find shoes that fit! And though I recently thought I'd solved my oversized feet crisis by nabbing a pair of size 17 bowling shoes, the truth is they hurt like the dickens and what's more, bowling shoes look a little sil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Medal of Freedom Recipients Announced, Include Tutu, Harvey Milk

    ​President Obama has announced this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients. The nation's highest civilian honor has gone in the past to folks like T.S. Eliot, Lucille Ball, Pope John XXIII, Margaret Mead, Jack Nicklaus, Mother Teresa, and Norman Podhoretz. As you may have guessed, Dem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Damn Yankee: Alex Rodriguez confesses (kinda), and naturally he wants to now 'help kids'

    So Alex Rodriguez finally confessed to having used steroids. What a shocker. He had no choice, because he had so clearly lied previously when he absolutely denied using the muscle-enhancing drugs. But, then, they say that steroids can shrink your balls, so his previous lack of courage is really no ... More >>

  • News

    August 5, 2008

    Letters 8.6.08

    So Alex Rodriguez finally confessed to having used steroids. What a shocker. He had no choice, because he had so clearly lied previously when he absolutely denied using the muscle-enhancing drugs. But, then, they say that steroids can shrink your balls, so his previous lack of courage is really no ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 2, 2008

    Gene Simmons and the Whores He Admires

    Kiss-and-makeup with Simmons; trophy-boy update; chats in the middle of the Maddin crowd

  • Film

    September 18, 2007

    The Price of Sugar

    Haitian cane-cutters in the Dominican Republic

  • Columns

    August 14, 2007

    Horoscope

    Haitian cane-cutters in the Dominican Republic

  • Columns

    July 31, 2007

    Can You Top This?

    Unrelated: the city's sex life bottoms out; Hillary's gal Friday; Dean among the Queens

  • Columns

    June 19, 2007

    Pre-Coital Clubbing

    At Lincoln Center, the ambiance of felching. Elsewhere, smoking gossip.

  • Columns

    May 15, 2007

    Free Will Astrology

    At Lincoln Center, the ambiance of felching. Elsewhere, smoking gossip.

  • Columns

    August 1, 2006

    NY Mirror

    At Lincoln Center, the ambiance of felching. Elsewhere, smoking gossip.

  • Columns

    February 21, 2006

    Horoscope

    At Lincoln Center, the ambiance of felching. Elsewhere, smoking gossip.

  • Theater

    January 3, 2006

    Missionary Style

    A former Mother Teresa volunteer brings us her sister act

  • Columns

    November 22, 2005

    Horoscope

    A former Mother Teresa volunteer brings us her sister act

  • Columns

    September 20, 2005

    Horoscope

    A former Mother Teresa volunteer brings us her sister act

  • Columns

    November 2, 2004

    Horoscope

    A former Mother Teresa volunteer brings us her sister act

  • Books

    October 12, 2004

    Intellectual Healing

    Encyclopedia brawn: A.J. Jacobs can't go on, he'll go on

  • Dance

    September 14, 2004

    Downtown Dance and Performance Awards Celebrate 20 Years

    Encyclopedia brawn: A.J. Jacobs can't go on, he'll go on

  • Columns

    June 22, 2004

    Horoscope

    Encyclopedia brawn: A.J. Jacobs can't go on, he'll go on

  • Film

    October 21, 2003

    Film

    Encyclopedia brawn: A.J. Jacobs can't go on, he'll go on

  • Music

    April 8, 2003

    Beating as One

    Yo La Tengo Make Their Love Album

  • Film

    October 8, 2002

    They Aim to Please

    Yo La Tengo Make Their Love Album

  • Theater

    August 6, 2002

    London Fields

    New Dramas Make Connections—No Music Required

  • Theater

    July 23, 2002

    Theater

    New Dramas Make Connections—No Music Required

  • News

    April 30, 2002

    Sports

    New Dramas Make Connections—No Music Required

  • Columns

    April 16, 2002

    Horoscope

    New Dramas Make Connections—No Music Required

  • Columns

    November 13, 2001

    Horoscope

    New Dramas Make Connections—No Music Required

  • Columns

    November 6, 2001

    NY Mirror

    New Dramas Make Connections—No Music Required

  • Columns

    October 30, 2001

    NY Mirror

    New Dramas Make Connections—No Music Required

  • News

    May 22, 2001

    Father Frank's Crusade

    A Staten Island Priest Leads a Costly and Well-Organized Campaign Against Abortion

  • Film

    June 27, 2000

    What’s Your Beef?

    A Staten Island Priest Leads a Costly and Well-Organized Campaign Against Abortion

  • Music

    February 16, 1999

    Like a Prayer

    A Staten Island Priest Leads a Costly and Well-Organized Campaign Against Abortion

  • NYC Life

    February 9, 1999

    Love Saves

    The heart is a retail hunter

  • News

    December 15, 1998

    Millennial Prophecies

    Exclusive! America’s Only Psychic Journalist Reports the News Before it Happens!

  • News

    September 8, 1998

    Compromising Positions

    Wives and Lovers

  • NYC Life

    January 13, 1998

    NY Mirror

    Wives and Lovers

  • News

    September 30, 1997

    NY, OH

    It's Cleaner, Whiter, Brighter

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