In the beginning, Donald Trump and Elon Musk got along great. “He is a truly incredible guy,” Trump said at a campaign rally last October, “and I don’t say that that often.” Musk spent $288 million to elect Trump and his allies. The president invited Musk into the Oval Office …
Read More »Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin condemns threats to default on U.S. gov’t debt
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, author of the new book “The Yellow Pad,” and, perhaps most important, veteran of the debt ceiling wars, offers a commentary about this past week’s debt ceiling showdown in Washington: In 1995, I was the Secretary of the Treasury when members of Congress threatened not …
Read More »The Chelsea Hotel: Inside an urban utopia
There’s a building in Manhattan like no other in the world, where Mark Twain slept, Madonna posed, and Jimi Hendrix roamed. It’s the Hotel Chelsea, otherwise known as the Chelsea Hotel. For more than a century it’s been a wonderland destination for celebrities and visionaries “Walking through the halls, you …
Read More »“Peter Pan” star Sandy Duncan still has a lot to “crow” about
In the 1970s Sandy Duncan was everywhere, a capital “E” entertainer starring in family comedies like “$1,000,000 Duck,” earning an Emmy nomination for her performance in “Roots,” teaming up with those meddling kids of “Scooby-Doo,” and high-kicking with a gaggle of Muppets. “I mean this as high praise: you were …
Read More »Mining lessons from the blockbuster game Minecraft
One of the bestselling video games of all time has no guns and no blood. It doesn’t keep score. And the graphics make no attempt to look lifelike. It’s called Minecraft, and since its debut in 2009, it has sold more than 176 million copies. More than 91 million people …
Read More »Gossip columnist Cindy Adams’ bold
Since 1981, Cindy Adams’ gossip column has been a fixture of the New York Post, for which she’s written about the private lives and public foibles of celebrities, movie stars, mobsters and politicians. Pages ripped from the tabloid double as wallpaper in her home office. “I don’t even know what this …
Read More »Passage: Arthur Mitchell and Robert Venturi
It happened this past week … the loss of two very different artistic giants. Arthur Mitchell was a trailblazing dancer. Born the son of a building superintendent, he rose to become a star performer with the New York City Ballet under George Balanchine. To watch Allegra Kent and Arthur Mitchell …
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