Target Enchante

The stars come out at night, but in Brooklyn?! Apparently so. Tonight, the opening of the brand spankin’ crisp New York flagship Target store was where local celebutantes of all stripes collected, like moths to a flame, or like grease to a dollar bill. Hard-charging velvet-rope wrecker Lizzie Grubman was there and Sandra Bernhard wasted [...]

Broken Angel

It is not often that you come across an authentic castle in Brooklyn. Broken Angel, the building to the right, is just that… a castle. Architects are drawn to the place for obvious reasons, which is how I found out about it. The picture is a little blown out, but I think you get the [...]

I feel sick.

What a fourth of July! Here I am at the Annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest with Sonya “the Black Widow” Thomas, the women’s champ, after she broke her previous record with 32 hot dogs consumed in 12 minutes. Takeru “Tsunami” Kobayashi, of course, won again with a grand total of 53 dogs (click here [...]

Brooklyn Celeb-Alert!

Can you spot the celeb in this photograph? You’d be half right if you chose the corpulent chap on the bench. That’s Louie G. He owns, what else… the ice cream window in Park Slope where the photo was snapped. Actually, I was more interested in the beautiful, the lovely, academy-award winning actress in the [...]