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The 38 year-old Theo Bleckmann, born in Dortmund and now a longtime New Yorker, … People who like Theo Bleckmann. Skirting vocalist and composer, Theo Bleckmann has been a steady … Theo Bleckmann - Las Vegas Rhapsody — New York Magazine Music ReviewThe genre-busting cult musician Theo Bleckmann tries his hand at the great American [...]

Personal Health - any of you who have watched the movie “Super Size Me,” know that the average New Yorker walks A LOT more than most other Americans. Well I was no different. The normal commute involved a good deal of walking. You had to walk from your bus to the 7 train, and then [...]

If I’m going to the Hudson Hotel, I need fair warning so I can up my hot factor. Some rooms shout Manhattan and some rooms shout Miami and I can picture it in either city. My first exposure to its coolness was back in 2001 when The New Yorker had its Special Music Issue party [...]

Well, do you? That’s if they said nothing to explain who Darger was, I mean. Maybe he is a household name in that America. Andrew Farrell
said… That’s what reading your blog’s like all the time! I didn’t know who he is, but then, coincidentally my great rock mate MJ Hibbett sent me a link to [...]

The author is John O’Hara, whose Appointment in Samarra resided unread (by me at least) in my stepfather’s bookcase for decades. Turns out that Pal Joey is a collection of fictional letters by the self-proclaimed “poor man’s Bing Crosby,” most of which ran in The New Yorker in 1939 and 1940. I don’t think I [...]

“At this point, Barack is the presumptive nominee,” said Rep. Rahm Emanuel during the New Yorker’s magazine conference. Emanuel wouldn’t go so far as to say that Clinton should drop out. But his voice does carry political sway. And his ties to the Clinton administration and connections to fellow Chicago pol Obama make him one [...]

This is not the first and wont be last East Coast Vs. The problem I have with all of them is that theyre answering the wrong question. They remind me of the Boston-New York arguments that inevitably happen when a New Yorker comes to Boston. New York has much better nightlife, is much bigger, and [...]

15, 1999, ordeal in an elevator in New York’s McGraw-Hill building was posted online to accompany an article in the April 21 edition of The New Yorker. Edited to a soundtrack of classical piano music, the video shows him pacing, trying to climb the walls, lying down, curled up in a fetal position, prying apart [...]

Still playing Feliz Navidad, 3 months after Christmas. Gamely manned by aspiring actors - no doubt not from these parts - it assumes you can get a rush hour New Yorker to break pace, put the Blackberry down, and listen to a spiel. Do they switch trains every day? I swear Ive seen the doo-wop, [...]

There, in a charming neighborhood called College Hill, she opens a ballroom dance studio, rents a bungalow a few blocks away, and attempts to start over. Such was one chapter in the life of Louise Brooksdancer, film siren, iconand by all accounts, including her own, it was an unhappy one. So I fled to Wichita, [...]