The music club graveyard grows more crowded. In addition to CBGB, whose days are numbered, The Village Voice tells us that The Continental, ...

It looks like CBGB, the punk rock shrine on the Bowery, which has been fighting for it life in the press for more than a year now, will not ...

I was trolling Lexington Avenue the other day and noticed that the old Skyline diner had bitten the dust, replaced by a branch of the weird ...

I dropped my son off at P.S. 29 in Brooklyn for his first day at Kindergarten. Approaching the monolithic buidling, I was reminded of my chi...

The city is not only diminished when it loses a great buidling or a classic restaurant. It also slips a notch when a great byline is snuffed...

The wind blowing down Chicago's State Street is apparently blowing tumbleweeds, not shoppers. For Chicagoans, the latest newspaper headl...

I was watching the Doris Day-Rock Hudson film "Pillow Talk" last night (no jokes, please). Whatever else it is, it's a fine ci...

Just want to take a moment here to praise the miracle that is August 2006 in New York City. Since a heat wave broke on Aug. 3, August has be...

I like the Palm restaurant on Third Avenue. It has history and charm and the feel of a former speakeasy. Food's good, too. Recently I ha...

The New York Post, in an Aug. 23 article, claims bartenders at many of Manhattan's high end bars don't know their cocktail ABCs. Tru...