We’re supposed to do this with yarrow stalks, but “coins,” he says, “are more indicative of global currency flow.” I stand to leave. Scraping my chair back. He shakes his head and swirls his coffee: “more modern,” he says. I sit down again. Take a sip of mine. Given the swirling streams of capital – [...]

Snarfing pizza bones, nursing my sick Maine Coon who is less wooly and of more pleasant disposition than the above specimen. Even when he has a thermometer crammed inside one of his most sensitive spots. And he had to have his nailed trimmed which means he can’t hold his own against the other two. I’ll [...]

As an X-certificate actress, Sasha Grey perfected a thrashing sensuality far more cathartic and psychologically fraught than her moaning, grunting contemporaries. Her smouldering looks and unapologetic public appearances snared millions of mostly male fans and turned the teen porn performer into a cult figure.

BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT – Myrtle Ave. Not every nexus needs glamour but where Myrtle and Wycoff Avenues meet there is – of a seedy sort. Where the M- and L-lines cross, where Ridgewood, Queens slopes down to meet Bushwick, Brooklyn, lies the densest concentration of beauty supply stores in New York City. Here, for the [...]