Murder and Mayhem

Hey look a shot of The Wingdale Community Singers The Four Muskateers at the Dram Shop Doing my Betty Grable impersonation Me blowing ki...

God it was hot this weekend! After days of cool weather, the heat came back with a vengeance Saturday and Sunday. And the humidity was not d...

There's been a heated debate in the blogosphere on whether or not DeAnna Pappas made a mistake sending Graham Bunn packing on The Bache...

This is the Dakota in New York, unfortunately more famous for John Lennon's murder (he and Yoko Ono lived at the Dakota, he was hot outs...

Last night I finally got to see the movie of Sex and the City with of my really good girlfriends, and I have to say that I am kind of disapp...

I love anything to do with cherries. I don't know what it is, perhaps it comes from my love of the fruit itself (hmm, rainier cherries ...

New York magazine has an excellent article here about Alex McCord and her husband Simon van Kampen. The couple that we love to hate are goi...

French, literally, flea, from Old French pulce, from Latin pulic-, pulex — more at psylla Date: 1833 : a dark red From Wikipedia: Puce is a ...

I can't believe that I'm writing about Naomi Campbell twice in one week! According to news reports, she pled guilty to the equivale...

Interesting article in the Style section of today's New York Times. Italian Vogue has decided to feature only black models in the pic...

It's Wednesday, and frankly I got nothing! I'm tired since it is that time of the moon which means no caffeine for me. The Bachelore...

Last night I went back to The Philoctetes Center to see a new documentary about Harlan Ellison called Dreams with Sharp Teeth . Ellison is ...

So yesterday was Father's Day and since my dad passed away 8 years ago, instead of being sad, I decided to cheer myself up by going to ...

Dear Beyonce, I just want to say how much I like your music, and I admire that you and Jay-Z went to all that trouble to keep your wedding ...

So I'm perusing the Real Estate section of the New York Times to look at overprice apartments that I can never afford when I stumbled ac...

Congratulations Stephanie Izard! You just won Top Chef . It was a little touch and go there for awhile. The way the judges were talking, I ...

The Daily Mail in London reports that a tiny portrait of Tom LeFroy, a young Jane Austen knew, and who is thought to have inspired Mr. Dar...

Forgive me if this blog post isn't too coherent. I came home late last night after watching a documentary on a contemporary sculptor Lou...

The weekend went by so fast and I don't feel like I accomplished a damn thing but I know I did stuff. Maybe the heat just fried my brain...

So Evander Holyfield needs to keep boxing at the relatively advanced age of 45 because he's basically broke. Yep, somehow he's manag...