Pat, Jesse & Other Inconsequentials

Written by Russ Smith on September 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

While Jesse Ventura Melts Down It was a curious week. Last Sunday, for example, the boys and I were talking early in the morning about various brands of cereal. “Dad,” Junior asked, “was peanut butter Cap’n Crunch your favorite breakfast when you were a kid?” This gave me license to reminisce about the “olden days,”
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Radioman, Professional Kook

Written by C.J. Sullivan on September 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Craig " Radioman" Schwartz is one of the city’s most eminent professional kooks. Radioman’s a celebrity hawker: He bikes around New York looking for who is who, and what is what, in the film and tv worlds; he follows celebrities; shows up on the scene at whatever hotel happens to be housing a movie star.
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Free-Form Re-From

Written by Christopher Caldwell on September 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Em, well, no, Bob. It’s that the mainstream media and the nonmainstream media and the semi-mainstream media and everyone who reads any of them cannot abide that she’s totally unqualified to be president. On top of that, she leaves the impression of being a nut-cutting Machiavellian jerk. On which subject, the best line of last
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Bill the Cad Strikes Again

Written by Taki on September 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Bill the Cad Strikes Again Good old Bill Clinton. He is said to be "deeply concerned" about the jailing of a Canadian journalist in Malaysia. Murray Hiebert, a reporter for a Hong Kong-based magazine published by Dow Jones, got six weeks in the pokey for contempt of court. Now I don’t know Murray Hiebert, and
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Amy & Bruce In Sweden

Written by None - Do not Delete on September 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The trouble with Amy Sohn is that she’s no Candace Bushnell. Compared to the struggling nobodies and poor slobs Amy knows and writes about, Bushnell’s rich and famous are interesting, even if their names aren’t revealed. Bushnell also wrote with style and class. Sohn doesn’t deserve to be working for the same paper as Cindy
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Pat’s New Clan

Written by David Corn on September 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Just as the Warren Beatty for President candle began to flicker, here was a political comet. Picture a three-way race with Buchanan: the debates might even be interesting. And the emergence of a Buchanan factor would give politicos much gabbing material. Will he hurt the GOP? My guess is that most of us in Washington
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For Sale: Siberia

Written by John Ellis on September 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Thievery enablement is now no longer a sustainable Russia policy. So what do we do? In two words: buy it, or, more precisely, buy Siberia and neighboring territory from Russia. Almost eight years ago, Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations proposed in a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece that the United States
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The Upper West Side’s Left Bank

Written by Andrey Slivka on September 21, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Water World What if one of the most stylish restaurants in Paris were an elaborate simulacrum of a generically American eatery? Maybe a Left Bank approximation of a Memphis barbecue place, complete with pulled pork sandwiches and Dixie beer on tap. Also plywood-paneled walls cluttered with phony VFW banners, George Wallace posters, Vols pennants, scuffed-up
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Mr. Dana of The Sun

Written by William Bryk on September 21, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The Sun was founded in 1833 by Benjamin Day, a 23-year-old printer. He produced a racy, sensational paper, focusing on "fires, theatrical performances, elephants escaping from the circus, women trampled by hogs." In August 1835 (as recounted in a recent issue of McSweeney’s), Day began a series of bogus articles recounting life on the moon
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Brooklyn’s Chino-Latino Moho

Written by Jonathan Bines on September 21, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Back in The Pack The Ian Schrager crowd has Asia de Cuba, the schlubs on the Upper West Side have La Caridad and now the new money of Cobble Hill have their own Chino-Latino restaurant, Moho. The new eatery exhibits the same casually chic esthetic that has proven such a successful formula up and down
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