Results tagged “breakups”

For some levity: By now, everyone who reads US Weekly or TMZ knows that Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer broke up (either he dumped her, or her dog hated him so she chose the dog, or he cheated). But when stopped on the streets of Soho yesterday--and in spite of being annoyed by gossip rags making stuff up--Mayer decided to talk because "I just don't want to be followed around New York City like an animal." And while trying to explain why he broke up with the "sophisticated" and "lovely" Aniston, he said he didn't want to waste her time and it's not unusual to break up with somebody "if something's not right...I guarantee 20% of the people on this street right are in a relationship they wish they could get out of but they don't know how." (This street would be Prince Street, between Crosby and Broadway.)

Today in the Fringe Festival 89 of the 200+ shows for 2006 are on view. There is most assuredly something for everyone – just have a look at the listings. And here are five more reviews (see also seven from last weekend and four from yesterday), of Suicide, the Musical, Fatboy Romeo, The Yellow Wallpaper, Their Wings Were Blue, and Armageddon Dance Party, the last of which is going straight to the top tier of our recommendation list. Search for and buy tickets online, or go to Fringe HQ at 27 Mercer St., or call 212.279.4488. A week in the festival remains, but it will go fast!

Breakups are hard, but when animals are involved, fuhgeddaboutit. The Post reports that two good friends and roommates are now in the middle of a $4 million squabble that involves "$1 million in monetary damages and $3 million in punitive damages" - and the ownership of a West Highland terrier named Ollie Pablo. After two years of sharing a Tribeca apartment, Alexis Carroll and Michelle Clarity, both 26, went from being BFF to BEFN (Best Enemies For Now), with Carroll had her lawyer filed a "notice in court" against Clarity, charging "extortion, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, and breach of contract" and that the dog be returned to her. Ack! Clarity tells the Post the "funny" thing is that Ollie isn't even a purebreed, but won't say where the dog is while Carroll's lawyer says the dog "certainly doesn't belong to" Clarity. The funny thing to Gothamist is how the Post tries to describe the ex-roomies:

Clarity, who graduated from Pace University in 2002 with a degree in communications, is known in the neighborhood as a quiet, hardworking person. Her Myspace.com profile lists her hero as Rush Limbaugh.

Continue reading "Friendship Goes to the Dogs"

The New Yorker has a Talk of the Town piece about the new street furniture the city hopes to roll out over the next few years. Last fall, the city signed a billion dollar deal with Cemusa for new newsstands, bus shelters and public toilets, and the designs are definitely sleek and futuristic. Which raises the New Yorker's question.

But what of the newsstands? Like a man’s beloved—and ripped, and stained—football-watching chair, the corner newsstand as we know it, stuffed to the point of bursting, and jerry-rigged with duct tape, milk crates, Igloo coolers, bungee cords, and dangling light bulbs, has never failed to provide homey comfort, whether on Sunday afternoon (you got your Post and your Doritos) or Monday morning (your Journal, Diet Coke, and some eyedrops). By comparison, the new, standardized fleet, built of modular stainless steel and aluminum—“so you won’t see the institutional browns and dark greens that you tend to see now,” [new street furniture designer Duncan] Jackson said—are straight from Ikea.

Ikea - ouch! Sleek and stainless steel could be awesome in the kitchen, but Gothamist thinks we prefer the overloaded newsstand. One newsstand vender lamented the new designs because there's less room for candy and no ability to hang magazines from binder clips. Hear that magazine publishers - there's limited space for your magazines to be displayed. No more rogues' gallery of celebrity breakups news, no more excessive Maxim/FHM pinups...wait, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how the newsstands are maintained or modified given the market demand (cardboard box extension, anyone?).

Judy McGuire, Advice Columnist

Gothamist loves Breakup Girl, but who knew we'd see our high school valedictorian listed as the winner of the Breakup Haiku contest from 2000? Gothamist can only wonder what it would be like to get a haiku when breaking up. On Sex and the City, the breakup was via Post-It (Gothamist has only sunk to e-mail dumping, never yellow stickies).