The great conductor Bruno Walter once said that conductors should not be allowed to conduct Mozart until they were 50—they simply didn’t, in his view, have the depth of experience or understanding to appreciate the complexities of the music before then. Walter didn’t say this direc...

-Don't you love the story in The Washington Post on J. Edgar "Mary" Hoover attempting to prove that former President Johnson staffer Jack Valenti was gay. Seems that in the 1960's, Valenti had the nerve to invite a closeted gay photographer to one of his parties in Texas. First of ...

Fashion Week isn't just low-tier celebrities and odd-ball fashion designers. It's also backstage people and ugly old people and stuff. Let's take a moment to honor them, in a photo gallery after the jump. OK, here are some not-so-little people: Caroline Kennedy at an Armani store opening. And, of co...

Given the dire economic times that face our nation's states, sitting governors, Democrat and Republican, have become sitting targets. The list of states in serious economic trouble - including such mega-states as California, Michigan and New York - grows daily. Across the country, governors are ...

ALBANY-A week before the process to appoint New York's junior U.S. senator reached its messy end, Governor David Paterson stood onstage at an event with Hillary Clinton and compared his experience in the state's highest office to a dirty movie. "I've been governor for nine and a hal...

  Ellen Barkin may do an HBO series that will serve as her revenge plot against her asshole ex-husband. A boy opened a large birthday present and discovered his Dad, home from Iraq, inside. Morrissey, Amy Winehouse, My Bloody Valentine, Leonard Cohen, the Cure, and Paul McCartney are the headli...

ChaimAmalek:  You need to turn the tables on the Jews. ChaimAmalek:  Make it clear that unless some good things start coming your way as a result of your deep investment of time in the faith, you will be leaving it for yoga ChaimAmalek:  Start a bidding war for your soul ChaimAmalek:&...

In this week's New York Magazine, Chris Smith tackles the implosion of Caroline Kennedy's effort for the Senate and while picking apart what went wrong, he points to the disastrous interview that she did with the Times back in December. That interview, and the weeks of tough coverage in The Times, w...

Oh boy, now that Caroline Kennedy will officially not be New York's senator, the real fun begins: time for Gov. David Paterson's people to trash her anonymously! He never liked that bitch anyhow, sources say: The new line from the Gov's office is, hey, he never would have picked her, because she was...

I don't know what's worse: the arrogance and sense of entitlement of the bumbling Caroline Kennedy or the failure of the MSM to cover the story. Whatever Kennedy's reason for giving up her feeble attempt at becoming the new Senator to the once great State of New York, it's obviously something serio...