The Red Sox Drive Me Nuts

Written by Russ Smith on October 19, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

It was a foggy week for me, a homebound shut-in laid low by the worst case of bronchitis I’ve endured since the wild days of 1975. That was quite an autumn down in Baltimore: My coughing was so severe I had to leave classes for the ruckus it caused. John Barth was sympathetic about my
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Brooklyn’s Burning Sensation

Written by Christian Viveros-Faune on October 12, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Now, just in time for Hizzoner’s fundraising campaign across several conservative Western states including California, the Mayor and his power-drunk yes-men have dragged up yet another politically defenseless non-contender from the ranks of the pugilistic bush league: the bookish, bravely principled, probably foolhardy Brooklyn Museum. If the breakneck pace of recent events is any indication,
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The Ghost Shadows of Chinatown

Written by C.J. Sullivan on October 12, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Lately the Ghost Shadows have kept a low profile. Back in the mid 90s, the authorities used RICO to rip the gang apart. But that doesn’t mean they’re not around. It could be they’re just working a different side of the street. When Manhattan’s Chinatown gets too hot you can go out to Flushing, Queens,
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The Shy Shylock

Written by Jonathan Ames on October 12, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The legend is that you don’t see the punches you get hit with. This, I am finding, is quite true. And it is a good metaphor for life. We don’t see anything coming. We just stumble and muddle forward, like going down an unlit hallway to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Though
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Lunatics Take the Spotlight While Bush Cruises Along

Written by Russ Smith on October 12, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The New York Post ran a Buchanan-like editorial on Oct. 4 slamming Bush’s rebuke of Congress and questioning whether he has the conservative credentials to earn the GOP nomination. One more reason new Post publisher Ken Chandler should immediately fire associate editor John Podhoretz. Claiming that Bush’s remarks made him a de facto Democrat, the
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My Breakdown

Written by Shane Schleger on October 12, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

A Bad Trip to Amsterdam In the fall of 1997, at the age of 20, I was making a healthy living under the table, enjoying an unheard-of deal on a midtown studio, getting plenty of sleep. That September I got a present in the mail from a longtime friend who had come into some money.
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Run to the Hollywood Hills

Written by Andrey Slivka on October 12, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

To digress: As if that would stop me from loving the place anyway. Quite the contrary, actually. One of my dreams is to find a place as white and sun-bleached and absent of "culture" as California is reputed to be in New York middlebrow mythology, and move there for good, especially since "culture," in these
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Hartford: Land of the Dead

Written by Jim Knipfel on October 12, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

"I can handle this," I thought, as I reached street level. So I left my cane folded up in the bag. The thing I didn’t account for was the fact that, while there was still light in the distant sky, none of it was reaching down to the sidewalk. "Yeah, I can make this," I
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Flying the Crowded Skies

Written by Lionel Tiger on October 12, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The jetlock is very serious, especially because the airlines’ affection for hub airports, through which they run hundreds of connecting flights, creates jumbo pressures that can easily reverberate in delays and cancellations half a continent away. Meanwhile, the system that sustains aviation is so intricate, pervasive and impressive in its own right that it is
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Karen Finley Shows Her Ass Again

Written by John Strausbaugh on October 12, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

But Helms had to go and make a martyr of Finley right as victim chic was at its peak, and, oh, how she adored her martyrdom, suffering for her fans as only a supreme egotist can, hamming up the pain and grim defiance like a silent film diva defending her life and honor from a
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