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“Jumping off the gw bridge sorry.”  One of the many horrific aspects of the suicide of the Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi was the fact th...

Considering how few channels there were when I was a kid, I watched an unhealthy amount of television. When Batman switched from black-and-...

"I was inside that place when it was for sale," a woman announced about my parents' former house as we drove past today, not k...

Until I brought my daughter to see the stripped-down, genius production of Our Town that just ended a marathon run at the Barrow Street Th...

One day this spring, the New York sky was so shockingly blue and cloud-free, I commented to some friends, "It's a 9/11 sky." ...

Maine, despite recent troubling encroachments by McDonald's and Dunkin Donuts, still looks and feels pretty much the way it did when I f...

I took the above photo during a bike ride around the Central Park loop last September, because I felt some kinship with the trees. During ...