They say it’s a dog’s life but apparently not if your name is Oscar and you happen to live on East 68th Street. This is a story I have to wag about because it just isn’t fair. My name is Snickers and I am the official Canine Correspondent at AskaNewyorker.com Oscar’s Co-op board wants to… Read more »
Okay, it’s now March and New Yorkers are no doubt done with that “winter thing.” But that doesn’t mean you’re going to experience equatorial ecstasy when you walk out your door today – unless of course, you head to the tropical paradise on display at the 11th annual New York Botanical Garden Orchid Show. The… Read more »
While many people only dream of being an award winning TV Producer, Dennis O’Brien accomplished that but still wasn’t satisfied. Instead, the New York photographer picked up his still camera to embark on a new frontier. O’Brien tells us:“After working with moving images for many years in television, I wanted to slow things down to… Read more »
Bells rang, people cheered and many cried, as they shouted “Viva il papa!” and Benedict XVI left the Vatican to take up temporary residence at Castel Gandolfo. The question now is who will fill the red shoes? Meanwhile, the Papal apartments at the Vatican as well as the elevator to reach them have been sealed… Read more »
Film’s can be remade but surely not vessels which ended in disaster. Which begs the question : why Australian billionaire, Clive Palmer, has nothing better to do with his money than build a Titanic II. What is he thinking? What’s next for his wallet an updated version of the Hindenberg? Can you imagine setting sail… Read more »
It’s been a busy week in New York for movie and TV shoots and I have been there with the camera ready. So many streets were closed over the weekend in anticipation of various movies. Midweek it was Blue Bloods turn to create some gridlock on the West Side. Meanwhile, Quartet star Billy Connolly was… Read more »
While a woman for New York City Mayor should not seem so bizarre: New York is after all the hippest City on earth. The fact that a female candidate for office requires a poll is concerning. 64 per cent of New Yorker’s would be comfortable with a woman contender for mayor but do not want… Read more »
I understand a Harmonica being stolen, even a Tambourine, I could also accept a violin, but how does someone steal a Grand Piano from a New York City apartment? If nothing else, it’s certainly a scenario that puts the “I did’t see anything” defense on it’ s face. Yet, if you ask South Korean music… Read more »
Many of the millennial stereotypes are there, and they never fail to make a twenty-four-year-old college graduate chuckle even if the content may occasionally be simplistic and reductive. Much like Lena Dunham’s debut feature film Tiny Furniture, the television show seeks to comment on the current generation of sometimes underemployed but always self-consciously individualistic recent… Read more »
As the world continues to watch the other Oscar in South Africa, one has to wonder why there was deliberation to the possibility of the double amputee being a flight risk. The poor man doesn’t even have legs. While his being granted bail on the grounds he shot his girlfriend dead, either accidentally or deliberately… Read more »
