What Would Phoebe Do?

Every city has that quintessential experience: strudel and newspaper-perusing at a Viennese cafe, getting insulted by a Parisian waiter in t...

Presented with the choice between two items of clothing, one $30 down from $80,* another one $30 full-priced, which would you choose? First ...

... the commenters on Bitten, 10 out of 44 of whom, at current count, respond to Mark Bittman's post about what he keeps in his cupboar...

There will soon, as promised , be a post on why 'neutral' and 'moderate' are not necessarily praiseworthy qualities when it ...

It can seem as though every new article is a humorless guide to how to waste the least money, consume the fewest calories, and have the smal...

Here, in simple terms, is why we can't have a reasonable discussion about anti-Semitism in this country: 1) Country X or Writer Y acts/w...

Writing stuff in exchange for payment seems a hopeless way to make (or contribute to) a living, so while I have a few pieces sitting around ...

Ariel Levy's New Yorker article about the Van Dykes, a group of separatist lesbians who, yes, traveled around North America in a van, ...

Great news for women who interact socially with other humans, and who did not have the good sense to be born Muslim or Mormon: Any alcohol ...

Every so often, I return to the Barneys Warehouse Sale like a bird into a window, or whatever the expression is to denote that I never learn...

Rita's post about "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" as experienced in 2009 via Hulu brings up some Major Questions of Our Age, amon...

Must. Promote. Self. Now, must finish lesson plan.

Roger Cohen's column boils down to this: 2009 Iran is not 1938 Germany, Iranians were super friendly to a Jew (who happens to write a c...

By some unfortunate coincidence, the part of the Oscars where Natalie Portman came out to present nominees occurred just as I was cleaning t...

So there are galleries on and off 10th Avenue in Chelsea. I'd heard this was the case, but was always in too much of a post-Thai-food st...

The goings-on at Kimmel have turned me into even more of a staid reactionary, aesthetically at least, than I already was. This has had an im...

The Youth are still at it. Ironically, given that part of their platform is to open the library to the public, it is now increasingly diffic...

when obviously the real story of the day is that Kimmel is now occupied by The Youth. Their demands include solidarity with the Palestinian...

Today's one of those maybe-I-should-sign-up-for-a-job-advertised-on-the-subway days. (Once I get my license, $12/hr car-parking, here I ...

Sadie at Jezebel comes down hard on Caitlin Kelly's NYT piece about working in retail on the side while trying to make it as a freelan...

There's still a Ladyblog, and because the loud, allegedly headphoned music of the guy near me at the library made sending an email to a ...

A close cousin of the Americans who praise the eating habits of all countries other than our own are their countrymen who fancy themselves ...

Holidays that revolve around desserts are always the best, which is why, although I'm a Jew who stubbornly refuses to go in for Christm...

My friend Lauren Shockey has a very cool article in Slate about attempts at recreating restaurant food at home. Restaurant cookbooks, it se...

Forces literally * beyond my control cause me to find the "Well" blog endlessly fascinating. What is it about health columns that ...

Upon leaving the subway this morning, I nearly collided with yet another model, this time because I stubbornly refused to obey the unspoken ...

Tara Parker-Pope's post (say that three times fast) about twins and wrinkles says one thing but shows another. The science says all sor...

Relax, everyone. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is currently being solved by none other than the Gawker commentariat. Pareene at Gawker re...

This engagement announcement at Jezebel reads like either an apology for being conventional (the writer specifies that she and her fiancé w...

Jo and I just got back from seeing " Moscow, Belgium ," playing at a tiny theater on 12th Street with seats so crammed together no...

New York Magazine readers are not so pleased with the students living in Stuyvesant Town. I knew, from visiting grad-school friends in tho...

It comes as no great surprise that participants in "The Biggest Loser" gain the weight back after the weight-loss reality show en...

Does the market value of frivolity make life easier for female than male journalists or, more broadly (sorry) women than men? Is lady-journ...