Sucker Culinary Baedeker

Written by None - Do not Delete on December 21, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

(Also 4000 yards of red velvet. Also more than 20,000 feet of interior garland. Also two 14-foot Christmas trees decorated with more than 10,000 ornaments, 3000 feet of gold rope, 10,000 feet of evergreen garland and 60,000 feet of holiday ribbon weaving in and out of everything that doesn’t move.) The Tavern’s dinner costs $82
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Don’t Mess With the Greeks

Written by John Strausbaugh on December 21, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Was I mortified. I learned a hard and important lesson: Don’t mess with the Greeks unless you really know what you’re doing. I got a little itchy all over again a few times while reading two new translations from the ancient Greek that are both very loose adaptations: Ted Hughes’ version of Euripides’ Alcestis (Farrar,
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He Built Better Mousetraps

Written by Michael Yockel on December 20, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

While you may have heard of that pair, very likely the name Calvin Dodd MacCracken doesn’t immediately resonate in the inner recesses of your memory, and yet certainly, at some point, you have come across one of his numerous practical inventions. The surgical stapler: his. The water-cooled "K-pad" used by hospitals to administer to burn
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Wall Street’s Fine; The Big Apple State?

Written by None - Do not Delete on December 20, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"The stock market?" "Yes. The market’s crashing. Should I be worried?" Worried? I was cramming for some test in some class I’d never attended. I had never taken economics and usually would puke at the thought of touching a business-section page of the newspaper. I had no clue that Wall Street was at the edge
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Old Joe

Written by Christopher Caldwell on December 20, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

two hours of drilling and scraping, and three days of "paradise in pill form." I guess the glory days of psychotropic convalescence are over. Literature will suffer for it. Do you ever notice how many great novels and short stories were written while the author was "recuperating" from some dread disease or horrid accident? Last
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Liars, Stalkers & Scrooges

Written by Taki on December 20, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Taki LE MAÎTRE A Few More Liars A very long time ago, drunk in El Morocco, the premier dinner-nightclub of its day, I made friends with Alan Jay Lerner, the famous lyricist, upon discovering we were both boxers. (I had a black eye, he had lost an eye practicing the sweet science.) My dinner companion
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“Old Media” Is Still Scared Silly

Written by None - Do not Delete on December 20, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Nobody, save his family, will remember Frank Rich, a callow man who once reviewed theater for The New York Times and now writes naive and bitter op-ed pieces every other Saturday for the sickly daily. On Dec. 4, Rich had great sport with the recent cancellation of Drudge’s Fox News Channel television show, exulting in
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Surprise! Gore Exploits the Misfortune of Bradley; He’s Bill Clinton’s Star Pupil

Written by Russ Smith on December 20, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Surprise! Gore Exploits the Misfortune of Bradley; He’s Bill Clinton’s Star Pupil Hang down your head, Al Gore. Hang down your head in shame, Mr. Greenjeans, for you’ve become almost as despicable and immoral as Bill Clinton. Last Friday, after rival Bill Bradley was briefly hospitalized for an irregular heartbeat, a common, treatable condition, Gore
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Jeff Koons: Easyfun

Written by Christian Viveros-Faune on December 16, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Accentuating the elephant graveyard feel is the work of Jeff Koons, on exhibit this month at Sonnabend after an eight-year absence. Koons, returned after a forced, publicity-fraught hiatus from which many thought he would never recover, has arrayed the gallery walls with more blindingly dumb products from his candy-colored fakery factory–kiddie mirrors in the shape
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Cambodian Foodâeuro;”Ha Ha Ha!

Written by None - Do not Delete on December 15, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

What the phone line’s all about is that you dial it up and solicit restaurant information–ratings, addresses, phone numbers–from a disembodied computer voice named Chef Bob, and that you don’t have to use touchtone commands, which are an enormous inconvenience, as anyone who’s ever suffered extortion at the hands of the government and has thus
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