Book Review: February 18, 2007: THE HONEYMOON’S OVER: True Stories of Love, Marriage, and Divorce
February 19th, 2007
Love is hard. This collection’s just hard to put down. Read Everybody’s Been Burned in the New York Post.

Love is hard. This collection’s just hard to put down. Read Everybody’s Been Burned in the New York Post.

The long-awaited announcement of Felipe Calderon’s victory over AMLO — as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is known here — comes at the end of this traveler’s three weeks in Mexico. “Why don’t you cancel your trip?” my husband had asked when the news reported the election protests that shut down the main avenue Reforma and closed off streets to traffic around the Zocalo were growing violent. Read the rest of this entry »

I headed to Mexico, D.F. in July and wrote a travel piece for CITY’s Insider column.

I covered The Rockaways, Alley Pond and the NYC Aquarium for the Village Voice summer special issue.

My first real job out of college was as an assistant on the set of the movie Adaptation. I served Meryl Streep lunch in her trailer on the Warner Brothers lot. I lived in Los Angeles, and my life was a virtual “The Stars: They’re Just Like Us!” So why did I feel so blasé? The thing is, I wanted to get excited about constant celebrity sightings. I wanted to feel thrilled spotting Robert Downey, Jr. at the Washington Mutual ATM in West Hollywood, Coldplay in the mall, Nicole Kidman at the gym. Instead I felt nothing. Read the rest of this entry »