There hasn’t been much to cheer about on Saturday Night Live this season, but a musical short by Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg bought me to tears the other night. “Lazy Sunday” is a must-watch, particularly if your girlfriend insists on sneaking food into movie theaters regarless of whether anyone is actually hungry. (Props to [...]

Today is the first day of the New York transit strike. En route to meet a friend in lower Manhattan, I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge with about 2000 good-natured, heavily bundled New Yorkers. Most of them were headed east to Brooklyn, where they were greeted by Borough President Marty Markowitz (and his bullhorn) and [...]