The world sparkles a bit less brightly this week with the passing of a true individual. Last Thursday August 4, Walter Monheit, bon vivant and man for all seasons, died. He was 85. Michael Musto of the Village Voice eulogized him this week with this tongue-in-cheek tribute here.
That homage …
As any reporter knows, there exists between the press and government at best uneasy peace, at worst open conflict. This tension is natural, healthy even, because without the press, government is free of scrutiny (and corruption is not far off), and without government, well…let’s just say, to paraphrase the statement about athiests in foxholes, there …
For every woman who’s been fixed up once too many with a man who needed fixing, for every man who’s ever been fixed up with a woman in need of a psychiatric evaluation, for everyone who needs a laugh: have I got a treat for you! This Sunday July 20, I …
From The New York Daily News
By HEATHER ROBINSON
March 5, 2008
“When you look at the news, they don’t talk about different African communities in the U.S. unless something bad happens.”
On the third floor of the Harlem State Office Building, groups of young Africans and African-Americans sit at …
From The New York Sun
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
July 23-25, 2004
On the New York City nightclub scene, Walter Monheit is a fixture, an icon even.
Since the days of ballroom dancing clubs in the 1950’s, this now-78-year-old man has been clubbing two to three nights per week from …
Why do I doubt that this story in which a Muslim risked his safety for Jews could have taken place in Paris?
Of course, it is a remarkable story and is therefore unlikely to have taken place anywhere. But what I mean is, it is extremely difficult to imagine it taking place in Paris, or …
BY HEATHER ROBINSON
October 3rd 2007
It’s Wednesday afternoon, and Shadin Hossain is surrounded by people. A friend named Joe runs in to ask if anyone wants coffee.
Alam, Hossain’s brother and his co-manager of Galleria - an art and framing store in Murray …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Tuesday, June 12th 2007
One night in 1995, the Rev. Paul …
From The New York Sun
By HEATHER ROBINSON
June 1, 2007
In 2004, 24-year-old Brooke Goldstein spent her summer in the West Bank filming more than five hours of in-person interviews with terrorists — all of which she conducted without a bodyguard and without a weapon. A Cardozo Law student with a …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Thursday, May 3rd 2007, 8:54 PM
An ordinary mortal can’t help but wonder how Dr. Philip Ozuah does …