Is it possible that ABC dislikes women as much as Bravo? While that seems impossible, given all the hideous, plastic-surgery addicts and desperately unlovable freaks Bravo calls “real” “Housewives,” it’s becoming clear that ABC is doing to women in scrip...
It's not a good sign when the financial situation at a New York City public school brings to mind the existential challenges faced by the teenagers in the "Hunger Games." But that thought occurred recently when I received an email blast from David Hershk...
By Nate Freeman The spring social season brings Manhattan's most glamorous to Central Park's Grand Army Plaza, where an eponymous hotel hosts lavish fetes in the name of a deserving charity or foundation. So why can't the other borough's Grand Army Plaza...
By Michael Howard Saul At the top of the Standard Hotel in Manhattan next week, fashion guru Tim Gunn will play host at a gay-friendly fundraiser where other luminaries—Bravo television executive Andy Cohen, Thom Filicia, the interior designer who appear...
Limbaugh doesn't just call people names. He promotes language that deliberately dehumanizes his targets. Like the sophisticated propagandist Josef Goebbels, he creates rhetorical frames--and the bigger the lie, the more effective--inciting listeners to v...
Jan 27, 2012 · ... in the porn star biopic “Lovelace,” the studio behind the film has confirmed that Sarah Jessica Parker ... Angeles in December, and stars Amanda Seyfried ... Sarah Jessica Parker was last seen onscreen in the omnibus romcom "New Year's...
COME COMMENCEMENT SEASON , many universities seek out the politically powerful and lofty — figures with that certain global gravitas — to step up to their leafy graduation lecterns. Mortarboards muster the call of capital-I Importance. Yet after this mon...
Stars of David, a new musical about Jewish identity, with a book by Charles Busch and songs by a collection of Broadway and Hollywood songwriters — from William Finn to Tom Kitt to Marvin Hamlisch to Marilyn and Alan Bergman — will open the 2012-13 seaso...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 22: Queen Elizabeth II meets American television journalist Katie Couric at the first Buckingham Palace garden party of the summer on May 22, 2012 in London, England. Around 8,000 guests attended the garden party hosted by th...
Carol B. Polis, of North Wales, Montgomery County, phoned recently. She wants everyone to know that her book, The Lady is a Champ, just came out. It was written with co-author Rich Herschlag. Among other things, Polis is a referee for ...
The Republican file photoGloria Steinem signs an autograph for Shoba S. Rajgopal, assistant professor of ethnic and gender studies at Westfield State University in 2010 before speaking to a crowd of about 1,000. One of Steinem's most famous quotes is amo...
