Cindy Adams woke up on Election Day knowing exactly where to spend her evening. There were parties all over town. Lefty celebrities would be out in force. But the longtime gossip columnist for the New York Post wanted to be at the place she felt would be “the heartbeat of the world”—namely, th...

It all started when Eliphalet Remington designed his now-famous rifle back in the early 1800s. This somehow led through typewriter manufacture and into personal grooming products, though we’re not totally clear on how that happened. It seems like somewhere along the way they were making cowboy scu...

DMc writes: Today's guest post comes from an old acquaintance. While not exactly friends, per se, Boris was a important influence on my life from a very young age. Until I ran into him at a Starbucks in Orlando last February, I hadn't seen him in years. But from 1971 to 1978, Boris served two terms ...

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of new articles Barry will be writing on Mets second basemen for this site. - M.S. It's hard to believe how in the past 15 years the Mets have had so many disappointments at second base, especially when they've made several trades for former stars at that...

While you should have had plenty of opportunities to guess the winner of the Presidential election, or forecast the state of the senate, November 5th marks the beginning of the Lame Duck Pardon Season. Between November 5th and January 19th we can expect to see President Bush get busy with the pardon...

AstrologyOctober 13, 2008 - Newsletter Spark Some Action!But remember to stay focused ...What an energetic week! The full Moon in feisty Aries on October 14 heats up your emotions and you may want to think twice before you speak up. Mercury turns direct (finally) on October 15 and finally your plans...

The Devil Ray. It's good that the Devil Ray made it to the playoffs. It's even better that they made it to the Series. It's good because we don't have to hear these foo-foo Boston tearjerk sob-stories. It's good because George Steinbrenner and Brian Cashman and their vagillion-dollar payroll and the...

The first news is emerging out of the Yankees off-season organizational meeting where they formulate secretive strategies to conquer the world, only to have Hank Steinbrenner spew the entire contents of his brain out to reporters seconds later (shouldn’t they have a fake meeting with Hank and ...

One of every seven people in the United States can trace their family back to Brooklyn, New York—all seventy-one square miles of it; home to millions of people from every corner of the globe over the last 150 years. Now, through In the Country of Brooklyn, Peter Golenbock, the author of the acclai...

     Is it possible for someone to live too long? At the ripe old age of two, in 1923, the year Babe Ruth built his house, I became a dyed in the pin stripes Yankee baseball fan. Last week, at the end of September, 2008, the wrecking ball leveled the famous stadium.   &...