Case closed

Perhaps in an effort to win over the Unsolicited Character Witness To Glamorous Person award from a certain Ivy League prof , Garance Doré h...

Gifts that keep on giving

The latest in the NYT do-gooder-gifts series is from Mark Bittman . While it's closer to reasonable than the last installment , it has i...

Potatoes big and small

The academia story of the moment is about the professor who may or may not have been fired for giving an actor and known academic Renaissanc...

Rhoda scholarship: a staycation post

Hulu provides only the first three seasons of the "Mary Tyler Moore Show," and the volume on my computer doesn't get very loud...

Teacup violins

I think the NYT heard me claim that I wasn't going to read any more of its lifestyle articles beginning Jan. 1, and decided to do whate...

Early New Year's Resolutions*

-Write The Small Dog Workout Book . Inspired by this NYT reader comment; socialite, reality TV star, and incredibly tall woman Kelly Bensim...

Some ID

This was, all told, a crummy day in non-tragic but still-frustrating respects. But one particular highlight was that at Wegman's - remem...