A born and raised New Yorker, award-winning columnist Andrea Peyser started her career at the Albany Associated Press bureau, did one lost year in Charleston, W.Va., before working for CNN and the Tampa Tribune. She landed at the Post in 1989 and was named columnist in 1993. Her columns have won awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Newswomen's Club of New York and the New York Associated Press, which named her columnist of the year for 2005. A graduate of the State University of New York, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
Shame-faced, prickly and evasive, Anthony Weiner stayed in hiding yesterday, the day he announced he’s running for mayor. But the disgraced ex-congressman materialized on the telephone — so terrified of talking to me,... May 23, 2013
From LocalShe was the first to complain of sexual harassment in Albany — and the first to be paid off with your money by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, just to shut up. Nice try, Shelly. Charmian Neary landed in the state... May 20, 2013
From LocalBring back Jay Leno! He hasn’t left the building yet? Maybe there’s still hope. This boneheaded move stands to go down along with history’s greatest mistakes: The ascent of Anthony Weiner. Tiger Woods, too. The public... May 18, 2013
From LocalShe’s my hero. Angelina Jolie has grown in my eyes overnight from a Hollywood narcissist who exists just to spoil my day — into my greatest inspiration. For here is a goddess who has it all: wealth, fabulous clothes,... May 15, 2013
From NationalThis little piggy looked truly pissed. Former state Sen. Shirley Huntley, the latest Albany hog to help herself to the taxpayer slop bucket, sucked angrily on a long, slim cigarette as she did the march of shame... May 10, 2013
From LocalDon’t forget the roses, you ungrateful wretches. Candy works. Scotch is better. Sunday is Mother’s Day, people. A holiday dedicated to honoring the lady who endured your nasty diapers, vicious tantrums, and, perhaps,... May 09, 2013
From NationalIreland Baldwin has everything a girl could wish for. She’s young (17). And tall (6-foot-2!). Recently signed as an IMG model, breathtaking Ireland is blessed with flawless beauty inherited from mom Kim Basinger.... May 06, 2013
From LocalThe city has gone porn. Walking through Times Square or Chinatown, in Brooklyn or even the cloistered Hasidic Jewish precincts of the Lower East Side, we of traditional family values (some would call us prudes, goody... May 02, 2013
From NationalBen Affleck has a lot to atone for. For the next, excruciating five days, Ben, 40, plans to take a quickie jaunt to an exotic locale — the land of poverty tourism. Ben has vowed, along with egocentric celebs and Hugh... April 29, 2013
From LocalYour daughter’s pretty little head needs an adjustment. The Girl Scouts of the USA, an organization that exists primarily to turn female children into professional pushers of Thin Mints, Samoas and Tagalongs, has joined... April 27, 2013
From LocalCall them Grumpy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Dopey, Happy and Doc. Bashful was not present. And where was Sleazy? Anthony Weiner, tragically, was not invited. We schlepped to the West Side last night to see five men and a lady... April 25, 2013
From LocalSix months ago, it seemed impossible. Barely three months ago, anyone who even suggested such a thing seemed disturbed. But today, Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the city’s icon of same-sex power, is suffering an... April 22, 2013
From LocalBe STILL, commoners. All you ordinary humans, juggling such pedestrian concerns as budgets, belly fat and inadequate thighs — Gwyneth Paltrow is having a bad month. The starving goddess — a lady of 40 who smokes tobacco... April 15, 2013
From NationalIs Anthony Weiner completely delusional? Or is he out of his flipping, sex-crazed gourd? Whatever big-busted fantasies crawl around the ex-congressman’s delirious noggin, la Weiner made his next goal as clear as the... April 11, 2013
From LocalTip your hat to the impoverished, but proud, nation of Malawi. Leaders of the small African country have accomplished a feat that no human has had the nerve to try: They said “No’’ to the spoiled, entitled, rich, aging... April 11, 2013
From NationalHave we devolved into a nation of cultured sheep? A piece of fine art on display at the highfalutin Museum of Modern Art contains no Holy Virgin caked in elephant dung. No crucifix was submerged in the artist’s blood... April 01, 2013
From LocalThe most toxic threat to the health and safety of schoolkids isn’t obesity, computer games, stepfathers or firearms. Educrats think your precious children are in grave danger at the paws of Hello Kitty — the cloying,... March 18, 2013
From NationalSheryl Sandberg is hazardous to women. The chief operating officer of Facebook, the universe’s top working mom, has reinvented herself as a latter-day guru to the fair sex — the rare lady who strives to give a leg up to... March 14, 2013
From NationalIt’s ass-saving time for morning villain Matt Lauer. More than eight months ago, the miserable “Today’’ show anchor snuffed the life out of America’s sweetheart Ann Curry on live TV just for kicks. Yesterday, Matt went... March 12, 2013
From LocalThis has gone too far. Those lips. Those eyes. The butchered hair. That skinny face. We hate her. This great and accepting society truly and eternally despises the actress Anne Hathaway with every last kernel of our... March 11, 2013
From NationalShe’s still a diva after all these years. The domestic dominatrix and fashion-forward ex-convict Martha Stewart made a sulky star turn this week at Manhattan Civil Court, behaving like a well-dressed pawn in a boys’... March 07, 2013
From NationalIt’s Obama time. Michelle Obama time. I break with my fellow conservatives and even some liberals to praise the first lady, not to trash her. For Mrs. O has come a long way, baby, since she declared haughtily during the... March 04, 2013
From NationalThis remorseless subhuman got just the chance he deserves — to die in prison. Still, Lamont Pride’s sentencing yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court for the murder of fine NYPD Detective Peter Figoski was nearly slashed... March 01, 2013
From LocalWhat’s that flushing noise? That sound is the government’s unappetizing case against freaky “cannibal’’ cop Gilberto Valle going down the toilet. After three days of listening to mouth-deadening tales of fricasseed... February 28, 2013
From ManhattanSome husbands run around with random women, drink to excess, gamble away the kid’s college savings, or manhandle their wives to a bloody pulp. Police Officer Gilberto Valle was home most every night planning elaborate... February 26, 2013
From NationalHe’s ringmaster in the Circus of the Damned. Dr. Drew Pinsky is the nation’s leading huckster for celebrity addicts — the go-to guy for almost-famous faces lost to liquor, sex, ecstasy and crack. Since 2008, Dr. Drew... February 25, 2013
From NationalWe’re all Manti Te’o now. It’s Valentine’s Day. If you’re a straight, single female, chances are excellent that you’ll be sitting home alone tonight with your cats, devouring an entire jumbo Whitman’s Sampler washed... February 14, 2013
From NationalThere are no words. A blind, deaf and stupid Brooklyn jury yesterday gave a vicious break to Lamont Pride, the remorseless piece of human pond scum who murdered fine Police Officer and Daddy Peter Figoski. Just because... February 12, 2013
From BrooklynThey’ve gone too far. City schools routinely provide mandatory lessons in deviant sex to 11-year-olds. But kids can forget about wrapping their little fingers on a fattening, contraband brownie. Now schools are... February 11, 2013
From LocalYoung women, I beg you — don’t be like Rihanna! The ravishing songstress and Bad Example for Girls waltzed into an LA court yesterday with her past and present and, I guess, forever boyfriend, Chris Brown, who isn’t... February 07, 2013
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