InternetCitizen

Recently I read a posting about Shopsin’s on the internet that said something like, ‘The food isn’t that great and the service sucks!,’ he recalled in his book. 'I wanted to write back, ‘And it’s expensive, too!’ But I didn’t,' he added, 'because then they would have had my email address.

SoulCycle feels gross, is gross and I’m grateful to have found it. If you’ve ever suspected you’d be into it, get over yourself and go.

The restaurant isn’t just brilliantly lit; it’s a veritable cure for seasonal affective disorder.

One night, at around 4 in the morning, as another recording session cascaded to an end, Spector stumbled out of his booth and into the studio. In one hand, he held a .45 revolver; in the other, a half-empty bottle of Manischewitz sweet kosher wine. He put his arm around Cohen’s shoulder and shoved the revolver into the singer’s neck. “Leonard,” he said, “I love you.” Not missing a beat, Cohen replied, “I hope you do, Phil.” The rest is commentary.

When Luis Herrera Campins was running for president of Venezuela against the ruling party in 1978, his American consultant David Garth devised a two word slogan that hit home: “Ya Basta!” (or, as a real New Yorker would put it, “Enough Already!”). This was never going to be her year, and Hillary Clinton should have had the special kind of political courage and personal self-awareness to know it: Her time had passed.