Charles Barkely made his third appearance hosting Saturday Night Live, and in various skits made fun of Shaquille O’Neal and White People Problems—and even wore a dress. [ more › ]
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Videos: Sir Charles Mocks Shaq, Goes In Drag, And Translates Sports On Saturday Night LIve
We normally restrict our White Castle visits to a Valentine’s Day-only minimum because, well, our stomachs only have so much lining. But yes, there have been other times we’ve been known to visit the slider fortress—including aborted attempts to walk through the drive-in in Williamsburg —and there may soon be many more. The chain is testing out selling booze with its burgers! According to the AP: [ more › ]
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White Castle Selling Beer And Wine, But Not In NYC Yet
During the performance of Faust at the Metropolitan Opera last night, mezzo soprano Wendy White fell eight feet off the stage. The NY Times reports , “Members of the audience said that during Act III, as Ms. White, in the role of Marthe, was walking onto a platform from a staircase behind René Pape, who was playing Méphistophélès, a clattering sound was heard and she disappeared from view.” [ more › ]
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Opera Singer Stable After Falling Off Stage At Metropolitan Opera
Yesterday, a Brooklyn woman was burned alive in the elevator of her Prospect Heights apartment building in a horrific crime that was captured on surveillance video. Police say that they now have a suspect in custody for the murder of 64-year-old Doris Gillespie. The man came into a transit police station close to the apartment building where the attack took place early Sunday morning—he was “reeking of gasoline,” according to cops. [ more › ]
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Suspect In Custody For Death Of Brooklyn Woman Set On Fire In Elevator
Yesterday, we were quite happy when word came that the city Buildings Department had given approval for Grimaldi’s to install a coal-fired oven in their new Front Street DUMBO location, ending a month-long work standoff. And they wasted no time reopening , with lines around the block Saturday afternoon: “The Earth tilted back on its axis today. Long lines return at new Grimaldi’s, all the way to the future Juliana’s,” tweeted FultonFerry. [ more › ]
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New Grimaldi’s Opens With Lines Around The Block
Few muggers posses the sophisticated refinement to appreciate the finer things in life: a nice bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, a Whole Body Robotic Massage Chair from Sharper Image, and the latest version of whatever iPhone has been bestowned upon the unworthy masses (preferably the white one). So it’s nice to know there’s at least one discerning thief out there showing a little class. Police tell DNAinfo there’s a cell phone robber targeting people in the neighborhood around Columbia University, and if he tries to rob you, don’t even think about handing over your vulgar BlackBerry. [ more › ]
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Finicky iPhone Mugger Won’t Settle For Anything But Apple
The top post on Reddit this morning isn’t a Rick Perry meme or a story about telepathic conjoined twins : it’s a video of Keanu Reeves on the Q train, giving up his seat for another straphanger last summer. Why is this video suddenly popping today? Who are we to question the internet! [ more › ]
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Video: Whoa, Keanu Reeves Gives Up His Seat On The Q Train
Today in mindblowing news of worlds colliding, famed British architect Norman Foster (recently of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and a troubled Vegas tower ) has bought Blue Heron Farm, President Obama’s de facto “summer White House” on Martha’s Vineyard. The Obamas have been renting the 28.5-acre estate for the past three summers from its timber mogul owner William Van Devender, who listed the property for $24.5M in September. According to the Vineyard Gazette, Blue Heron boasts two houses, a boathouse, a 150-year-old barn, tennis and basketball courts, an apple orchard, and a farmhouse inspired by the movie Field of Dreams. It’s all very bucolic and not quite the kind of setting one would imagine for Foster, who’s known mostly for his glassy creations, including the modernist, teched-out summer house he designed for his family in France. That said, a little New England R&R never hurt anyone. Foster paid $21.9M, making it one of the highest-priced single family houses in Vineyard history. · RENOWNED BRITISH ARCHITECT, ARTS PUBLISHER ACQUIRE BLUE HERON FARM FOR $21.9 MILLION [Vineyard Gazette] · President Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard Getaway Still on the Market [Curbed National] · The Stunning Designs of Starchitects’ Personal Residences [Curbed National]
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Politico Pads: Norman Foster Buys President Obama’s Vineyard Getaway
This morning, huddled at the top of the steps at City Hall in an effort to stay dry, City Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn) and Kirsten John Foy (Public Advocate Bill de Blasio’s Community Affairs Director), held a press conference to discuss their arrests after yesterday’s West Indian-American Day Parade. After being allowed to pass through two check points near the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Heights, Williams and Foy were halted and—even after they had properly identified themselves as an elected official and a high ranking government aide—an altercation ensued. “I was actually handcuffed while talking to the chief of police telling him what was going on,” recalled Williams, who went on to blast the arresting officers as racially-profiling liars. [ more › ]
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Arrested City Councilman: This Never Would Have Happened If I Was White
Today the Sacramento Bee runs a profile of Marsha Emanuel, mother of newly seated Chicago Mayor Rahm. On Emanuel’s childhood home in Chicago: “The rest of the living room decor is a mixture of colorful paintings and snapshots of their 11 grandchildren, plus a framed copy of a 2009 New York Times crossword puzzle that sits on the fireplace mantel. The only clue answered is 25 Across, which asks the name of President Obama’s White House chief of staff.” [SacBee]
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