What sort of dining experience is the right sort of dining experience for the diner who's seen it all, done it all, eaten it all, and is just so weary over simply sitting in a nice restaurant and eating? Dinner while hanging from a rope, for $500 each, for the pleasure of dining really, really alfresco.
Before there was The Hunger Games trilogy, there was Suzanne Collins' middle-grade series, Gregor the Overlander. We pay some attention to the best B-sides from a few of our favorite Y.A. and children's authors.
Nathan Adrian, 23, the U.S. swimmer who won the 100-meter freestyle Wednesday and set a world record, is the team's breakout star. We think he should get more attention.
With a certain article in the New York Times Wednesday, it appears that the age-old debate about kids in bars has reared its ugly head out of a keg we thought we'd kicked back in 2008. Has anyone asked the kids what they think?
When the crimes of journalism are caught so quickly and punishments dealt soon after, are those transgressions forgiven more easily, too?
Yes, it feels like it's all downhill from here, but there's still time to make it the best summer ever, or a halfway decent one, if you really try.
Two things that might not go together like peas and carrots: Marriage and the Olympics.
The Fifty Shades-ing of publishing continues. What began as Twilight fan fiction is making a lot of people a lot of money — again — as someone who goes by Sylvain Reynard just made a seven-figure deal with Penguin for Gabriel's Inferno.
Everyone is complaining about Olympics spoilers. But are they really that bad? We discuss.
It's rare that politics offers so much excitement for the grammatical folks among us, but this season is shaping up quite nicely, what with "Amercia"-gate, and now some great word nerd backlash about Obama's campaign slogan.
This week, Time's Susanna Schrobsdorff took on an issue that you may not have known existed: Were you aware that all over America, and perhaps globally, people are being tyrannized by "sexy" moms?
Aren't we supposed to be honest with ourselves, and with others? Maybe we're "supposed" to be, but a lot of new research indicates that most of us are lying to ourselves "at least some of the time." And maybe that's great!
Jonah Lehrer saw his career as a New Yorker writer end today for fabricating Bob Dylan quotes, but there is an interesting side note for this Internet age: the lifespan of a plagiarist appears to be getting shorter.
Whenever there is anything good in this world, there are those who disagree vehemently that it is good. Never is this more true than on the Internet, and never is this more true than with the Olympics.
The New York Post is staying on the story of Mindy Meyer, the 22-year-old Brooklyn who's running for New York state senate, as inspired by Kim Kardashian, Rudy Guiliani, and Legally Blonde's Elle Woods.
Celebrities have taken our wine. They've taken not only our wine, but that most average yet reliable of blends: Our pinot grigio.
In this Friday's Sweatiquette, there is a theme. Air conditioning questions, they abound! There's a little bit of anger, too. I guess it's that time of year.
One of the many things that people purport to have learned from Fifty Shades of Grey is that women want to read sexy things.
The office of Merriam-Webster may have existed in essentially the same spot, in Springfield, Massachusetts, since 1831, but in that time, the dictionary business has changed drastically.
What do we do when Gchat is down? We freak. And then something from the furthest regions of our brain comes forth, something we remember vaguely, what were those 3 little letters? Remember ... AIM?
Since shopping is hard for men, and men only buy a certain array of manly things, an Upper West Side grocery store has launched what the New York Post is calling "the city's first 'man aisle.'"
When was the last time you finished a book you hated, really, truly hated, despising it with a passion deep in your soul all the way through, to the end of the very last page?
What happens to Manhattan when Brooklyn starts getting all the attention? Gather close, children, and listen to a story.
What's the title of the greatest teen novel of all time? NPR Books hopes to reach a conclusion on a topic that's fodder for no shortage of passionate opinion.
It's not really summer if you're not complaining about ice cream. How could something so reminiscent of our innocent childhoods, so cold and so sweet, turn so foul?
Have you used a zombie noun today? Hang your head in shame, because you're part of the problem.
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer. She was also, you may have heard by now, gay.
Today in the New York Times Luisita Lopez Torregrosa writes that while the top corporate roles like Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, and Hewlett-Packard's Meg Whitman stand as a win for women, the women of Wall Street are enjoying no such enlightenment.
Michael Chabon fans are about to get another little teaser about the writer's much anticipated next novel, Telegraph Avenue, which will be released on September 11.
How do you gauge each of the physical variations on saying hello that you might participate in with your variety of friend groups, and do the proper thing in return?
In the wake of last week's mass killing in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, along with discussions of what went wrong, there's a growing debate as to how the media should handle these sorts of news stories.
Allegedly, the latest "technique" demonstrated by women seeking men to date is to hop onto commuter trains and head for more fertile ground in the land of the cul-de-sac.
When something like this happens, what happened in Colorado, the meaningless shooting of a theater full of people there to do the simplest of things—watch a movie—it's hard to know how to react, on the Internet or off of it.
A recent feature in People magazine with Anthony Weiner, his wife Huma Abedin, and their baby Jordan had a lot of people wondering if this meant that Weiner was spurring up public goodwill for a comeback. Maybe it wasn't about him at all.
If you're an adult of a certain age in America, of course you know the name R.L. Stine, you know it like a delicious shiver down your spine. His Goosebumps series, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, has crossed generations.
New research is always popping up to enlighten (or terrify, or depress) us about what all of this time spent on the Internet is doing to our brains. What does it do, though, to not only our brains but also to our emotions and characters and personalities?
In an especially Emperor's New Clothes sort of twist, a new store in Manhattan's East Village is selling New York City tap water that they filter via a special technique back to discriminating water consumers.
The New York Post follows Anthony Weiner's pro-family People photo shoot and interview with a front page today warning of "Operation Comeback!" Should we be so warned?
It has come to our attention that it is hot. How does one make him or herself otherwise?
You know a story is a perfect tabloid story when you get not only an "exclusive" New York Post news story about it but also a dedicated rant from Andrea Peyser on the topic. Today, we get both, about a woman and her shoes.
Stereotypes are powerful because they're easy, which is why we see them standing in again and again for "real" human qualities and characters. But they are also insidious, demonstrating so many ways to go wrong, and so few to go right.
Beyond the trend of New York City residents renting out their apartments or spare rooms or even just their couches via the website Airbnb.com, there is a new trend: New Yorkers really, really enjoy doing this. Oh how they love it.
Kurt Loder, columnist, TV personality, and author of the recent film-review collection The Good, the Bad, and the Godawful starts the day with O.J. (or a Coke) and Drudge Report and ends it with wine, Twitter, and maybe a book or a movie.
Over the weekend The New York Times discussed a matter of contemporary lifestyle that pretty much anyone can relate to: Friendship. Specifically, how hard is it to make friends as an adult?
Caitlin Moran's How to Be a Woman has already sold 400,000 copies in 16 countries, and tomorrow the American edition will be released. Talking to her is nearly as much fun as reading her book.
Is there anything that could make the rather embarrassing American controversy over Olympics uniforms worse? Well, maybe.
Inspired by the sight of actors getting facials in a new Morgan Spurlock documentary and male strippers with waxed chests in Magic Mike, The New York Times' "Room for Debate" feature asks "Are Modern Men Manly Enough?"
Today in questions of summer etiquette, we take on guests who expect lodging; the ethics of outdoor boozing; hot, wet hugs; and how to tell a friend you're interested in some summer lovin'.
It's been a while since we've gotten any good Coop gossip, but as luck would have it, the Coop newspaper, The Linewaiters Gazette, is out with some new news and ancient folklore about the place for groceries that has us all in its thrall.
The biggest small story this week has been the news of New York City Mayor Bloomberg's competition to developers to create "micro-apartments" to be built in what's currently a parking lot in Kip's Bay. But however do you furnish such a place?
Y.A. author Nina LaCour is making a small-budget movie out of her novel, and the Y.A. community is helping her pay for it.
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