By now this is old news and you are probably tired of hearing about the performance artist who gave birth in a Brooklyn gallery, but I just wanted to make sure you got the memo. Marni Kotak believes that giving birth is “the highest form of art.” She created an art piece out of it, [...]

Billionaire Texan Sid Bass is getting a divorce from his second wife, Mercedes, the news has reported. It was a mutual end and they hope to remain friends. Apparently Sid is fed up with the glitz and glamour and wants to live a simple life as a painter. Though he has given millions to the [...]

Why do people go to graduate school? Well, of course in the case of doctors and lawyers it’s a necessary step, but beyond that, why bother?
Well, now that I know about what it’s like to work in an office, and, even worse, to work in administration, I realize exactly why people attend graduate school. Because [...]

Last night I attended a very WASPy birthday party. It was held in one of those Upper East Side apartments that you thought only existed in a Slim Aarons portrait. The horse, hound, and African safari were prevalent themes in the decor.
The birthday boy was turning fifty-something, and his mother was responsible for the entire [...]

The hidden identity of a mousy Manhattan lawyer working in the New York Attorney General’s office has made a splash in the news this week. She might be “Alisha Smith” by day, but by night, she’s “Alisha Spark,” dominatrix du jour. That’s right, she unbuttons her pant suit and “performs” at S&M events, satisfying the [...]

There has been an unfortunate mishap at the Hustler Club in Manhattan. A man is suing the club for getting tricked into his $28,000 bar bill. He claims that the busty employees got him so intoxicated that “he was no longer capable of conducting financial transactions.”
At least he’s not alone in his idiocy. One CEO [...]

I haven’t written in a while, because I finally got a real job. At a desk and everything. I had deactivated this blog, because many people thought it was jeopardizing my chances of getting hired. But finally one HR person neglected to Google me.
The Manhattan job search has been a huge 9-month-long bummer, so I’m [...]

Midnight In Paris is yet another delight from Woody Allen. Gil (Owen Wilson) serves as the “Woody Allen character,” a disgruntled Hollywood screenwriter who dreams of reaching a higher level of literary genius by writing a novel. Unfortunately, he is engaged to a pushy girl, Inez (Rachel McAdams), who loves big diamonds and even bigger [...]

Now that summer is here Manhattan is a hotbed of girls wearing seasonally appropriate clothing. For once, it’s a time when men are more uncomfortable than women in terms of wardrobe. While guys are sweating underneath their suits and jackets, girls are frolicking around in sundresses, short skirts, rompers, etc.
But it’s not all fun and [...]

My sister is having a hard time with the New York City dating scene. Last week alone she went out with a performance artist from Brooklyn who ended up being gay (not a huge surprise), a former child star turned PhD student who ended up being a creeper (another inevitability).
Her third date of the week [...]