Raffi Yessayan knows a thing or two about crime. He spent 11 years as a prosecutor in Boston, becoming chief prosecutor in the district attorney's gang unit. Apparently, he knows a thing or two about writing fiction as well, given...

A few weeks ago, I posted about the idea that people might get comfortable voting for Hillary because they assumed Bill would effectively be running things. My impression is that some commenters thought I (or the people who suggested the idea, I couldn't quite tell) was being sexist. (I don't think ...

Pinkberry , a relatively new frozen yogurt chain, is the newest darling of that class of people obsessed with things that come from Los Angeles. Having been to their upper east side outpost here in New York (I was buying a used tuxedo from Gentleman's Resale) what puzzles me is that I can't identif ...

When I was in France last summer, a baker friend told me that very high end all-butter frozen croissants were entering the market, and displacing hand-made croissants even in boulangeries (traditional bakeries). As a legal matter, the genesis of this is obvious - to be named a boulangerie artisanal ...

I notice Geoff Stone's rather odd claim on the University of Chicago Faculty law blog that the result in the new partial birth abortion case, Gonzales v. Carhart, is at least partially explained by the majority justices' catholicism. Put aside the fact that we ought to be past trying to categorize ...

For various reasons, I've been doing a lot of my restaurant eating in Astoria recently (great food area, by the way - the number of honey soaked semolina cakes I've eaten recently borders on the grotesque), but I also recently dined with a friend of mine at Yakitori Totto, a restaurant on West 55th ...

I'm sure people are aware of the video that emerged a few weeks ago showing rats cavorting in a taco bell here in Manhattan. Since then, the New York restaurant hygiene people have been increasingly aggressive in shutting down restaurants for suspected infestation. The Starbucks on the first floor ...

So, I see that people think my friends' idea of Clinton as real President is goofy. Maybe, in the end, it's one idealistic democrat trying to rationalize to another why the fresher Obama isn't the right idea. Still, I think there's more merit to the hypo than people are allowing. What, exactly ...

I was at a party recently with a number of my strongly Democratic friends. Many of them are still clerking, or started at firms and then left to clerk, and they will have time next year to do other than work at firms. They've started, accordingly, thinking about which campaigns to volunteer full t ...

I'm casting about for a Republican to support in the coming election - there's no reason to let our democratic friends have all the fun of looking for a candidate. Fred Thompson is emerging as someone to look at, at least - and while reading about him, I note that James Dobson doesn't think Thompso ...