... today on Susan Arbetter's new statewide public radio show, The Capitol Press Room. We talked about Upstate vs. Downstate, celebrity, the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and weltanschauung. The segment starts at the 43:00 mark. It was great to see Susan in her radio "hut" in the press room (we'd call it cozy.) And, yes, it's been a while since the ...

With cable television filled with images of conservative activists protesting Democratic health care reform legislation, President Obama made a surprise appearance at Thursday’s press briefing to herald two completely expected endorsements for the House Democrats’ bill. “I am extraordinarily pleased...

... to choose only three videos of the best ones. Kristen and Taylor would decide which of them was the best video and the winning couple would get a chance to met the actors. In the next room was the three teams responsible for the best videos. Kristen and Taylor watched their videos and decided that they had very different styles to be compared, and their decision was to bring everyone back there ...

... after Allen told her that it was “the second worst story I have seen in Style in 43 years.” Ok, you got me, what was the worst story? The question apparently was left unanswered in a room of reporters after Allen went postal. Roig-Franzia was working on the story with Hesse and told Allen not to be such a “c—sucker.” Roig-Franzi reportedly called Allen a “dick&# ...

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Always an uneasy turn of events. The day of the gallery opening and Me without my note pad. I had to play it cool, play it to the bone on this one. What I would have given for a tape-recorder just then. No man, I had to fly it alone. Never mind that the sick bastards I was with didn't know a thing about art. Neither did I for that matter. The lead artist was a friend of my sister's as ...