12:08 pm Jul. 18, 2010
Zachary Woolfe, a proud son of Long Beach, went on a Long Island adventure with Robert Davi, a movie villain and real-life musician who really likes Frank Sinatra and the Tea Party.
Mark Hay looked at Lady Gaga's recent performances, and at some write-ups of her New York City high-school theatrical career, and found a perfectly logical evolution.
Jimmy Vielkind (on loan from the smart and highly gracious people at the Times Union), told us all about David Paterson's defiant, reckless last stand. The result, among other things, is that the governor now pretty much has nothing of substance left to do for the rest of his time in office. Which, in turn, means we will probably not see much of Paterson anymore on the front pages, except on the odd occasion when the story is actually not so much about governing.
Eliza Shapiro heard some of the foremost creators of what you should please not call chick-lit (Candace Bushnell, Cecily von Ziegesar) talking about coming of age, which just happens to be the topic their fictional lady-characters are focused on at the moment, too.
Shapiro also spent some time with New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, who told us a bit about how she shed 40 pounds after the birth of her second child. Al Franken played a part.
Katharine Jose documented the quiet death of an expensive, odd museum about Alaska in Soho.
Woolfe also wrote about the Westbeth-like artists' housing project a Minneapolis-based group is trying to create in East Harlem.
