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 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 …
From New York Magazine
By HEATHER ROBINSON
Americans tend to have lukewarm feelings about tea. Ever since the Boston Tea Party, the drink simply hasn’t gotten the respect it deserves. It’s not unusual to walk into a midtown deli looking for a cup of coffee and be faced with an exhaustive selection …
By HEATHER ROBINSON
It’s that time of the year again, when the wail of the shofar is about to rise, signaling the start of the Jewish New Year and putting you, if you’re a good but fair-weather Jew who doesn’t belong to a synagogue, into a panic …
So, Are New Yorkers Jerks?
From Time Out New York Student Guide,
Fall 2000
Our completely unscientific survey of random pedestrians says: Fuhgeddaboutit!
by HEATHER ROBINSON
Whenever I go home to Pittsburgh I cross paths with my Aunt Tess, who never fails to recount the story of her trip through Grand Central Terminal in 1952. “The way those people …