1. Rachel Levin, Happy Hour Without the Booze, N.Y. Times (Jan 20, 2016).
Choice quote:
“It’s O.K., we have a really great water, from Australia,” said Andrea Praet, 34, a trend strategist from Greenpoint, who also runs an urban retreat series, with Ms. Tallarico, called the Uplift Project."Prognosis: well-hydrated mass suicide cult.
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| Regularly give each other enemas |
2. Jane Margolies, Pet Amenities for New York's Lucky Dogs, N.Y. Times, (Jan. 22, 2016).
Manhattan beat: The United Nations has determined that some Midtown buildings have higher Human Development Index scores than for pets than certain middle-income countries do for humans.
Killer amenity: bone-shaped pool on terrace.
Average one-bedroom at MiMa: $4500 a month.
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| These dogs just surpassed Slovenia's GDP per capita |
3. Lois Smith Brady, She Went to a College for a Job, and Found a Husband, Too, N.Y. Times (Jan. 8, 2016).
Spoiler alert: Dr. Andrews found a free nurse sixteen years his junior!
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| Do you solemnly swear to change my diapers and protect my assets? |
4. Bee Shapiro, Off-Season Weddings Can Be Quirky Good Fun, or a Disaster, N.Y. Times (Jan. 14, 2016).
The horror:
Amy Glickman, a communications consultant in Los Angeles, married her husband in New York in February 2009 at the IAC building. “It was 20 degrees out, and I had sorority sisters flying in from Scottsdale and L.A.,” she said. “They were absolutely completely grumpy about it. I got a stream of emails on ‘What do I wear? What do I do?’ It was like hysteria.”
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| New York in February can be such a drag |
