Celebrating Obama’s Birthday in Harlem
(click image for slideshow) This past Sunday night, photographer Deidre Schoo attended a birthday party for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at St. Joe Nick’s Pub. Despite a cake that...
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No Future
Originally published in the April 19, 1994, issue of The Village Voice. People couldn’t believe the photograph. The day after Kurt Cobain shot himself faceless in his million-dollar home, his friends...
View ArticleProm Balloons
Nineteen-year-old Manhattanite Peter Cincotti just doubled Diana Krall’s record sales, becoming Billboard‘s top trad-jazz seller of the moment. He burst into national consciousness recently with...
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Losing Joshua
Phoenix, New York—Debra Graham sat at her dining room table on a recent Wednesday morning and riffled through a stack of loose-leaf notebook paper, each page covered with the tortured scrawl of her...
View ArticleThe Age of ‘Reason’
Wired founder Louis Rossetto has been fascinated with Reason for over 30 years. Recently, he played a role in the magazine’s redesign. The following interview was conducted via e-mail, with Rossetto...
View ArticleDoes City Owe Squat?
The squat at 537-539 East 5th Street is long gone, demolished by the city after a fire broke out there on February 9, 1997. But next week marks not only the third anniversary of the razing of the...
View ArticleIsle of White
In the summer of 1948, during a heat wave, E.B. White came down from Maine and holed up at the Algonquin Hotel to write a piece for Holiday, an elegant travel magazine of the day. The assignment was to...
View ArticleNude Awakening
The streets of New York City are all but deserted at 6:15 a.m. on a Sunday morning, yet there is an isolated chaos. Shoes are kicked off. Elbows bump elbows as hands rip shirts over heads. Pants fall...
View ArticleNY Mirror
Sumptuous free press junkets aren’t always as great as they sound— I’ve dodged empty beer bottles in Iceland, vaginal Ping-Pong balls in Thailand, and severe boredom in Russia— but the one two weeks...
View ArticleKinsley–for a Day
Has Michael Kinsley gone nuts? That was the prevailing sentiment in New York media circles late Monday morning. The Slate editor was evidently a top choice to edit The New Yorker. He then committed the...
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