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Team checks 331-year-old house for ghosts

NEW LONDON, Conn. - As she sat in the Joshua Hempsted House's modernized kitchen on a recent night, stooped casually over a quadrant-screen surveillance monitor, Christine Kaczynski could have been mistaken for a security guard ensuring nobody entered ...

From KIRA GOLDENBERG, Boston Globe,  10 May 2009

Team checks Hemsted House for ghosts

NEW LONDON, Conn.—As she sat in the Joshua Hempsted House's modernized kitchen Saturday night, stooped casually over a quadrant-screen surveillance monitor, Christine Kaczynski could have been mistaken for a security guard ensuring nobody entered the ...

From KIRA GOLDENBERG, Boston Globe,  9 May 2009

Spitzer and Polish! Magnanimous Martin Sheen, Dad to Naughty Charlie, Forgives the Love Gov

The end of the Writers Guild of America strike was the beginning for the newest Saturday Night Live cast member, Casey Wilson. “I have to say, it’s been amazing,” Ms. Wilson, 27, said of her new gig. “I feel like only second to maybe like Matt Damon ...

From KIRA GOLDENBERG, New York Observer,  18 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Martin Sheen,  Writers Guild of America,  Eliot Spitzer,  Matt Damon,  Stella Adler

Morning Memo: Real Housewives Aren't So Much Housewives! And Lindsay Lohan Gets All Kylie Minogue On Us

"In an international city of more than eight million souls, the series" – The Real Housewives of New York City – "documents the lives of five white socialites who juggle Hamptons estates and charity balls." [NYT] Ubiquitous cover ...

From KIRA GOLDENBERG, New York Observer,  5 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Lindsay Lohan,  Kylie Minogue,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Mark Penn

If She Only Had a Heart! Stewart Chooses Black for Crimson-Themed Cardiovascular Coffee Klatch

Before Martha Stewart spoke as the honoree of the ninth annual New York Go Red for Women luncheon on Friday, Feb. 29, two other women—comedienne Judy Gold and a stroke survivor named Yvette Fields—offered passionate accounts of life with unhealthy ...

From KIRA GOLDENBERG, New York Observer,  4 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Martha Stewart,  New York University,  David Sedaris,  American Heart Association,  Anna Quindlen

Morning Memo: The Name On Everybody's Lips Is Gonna Be ... Nicole Richie?

Nicole Richie has been offered the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway. [Us] Us Weekly's excerpted interview in which Barack Obama declined to discuss his underwear preference received the second highest number of page views for one story ever, ...

From KIRA GOLDENBERG, New York Observer,  29 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Nicole Richie,  Barack Obama,  Heath Ledger,  Angelina Jolie,  Philip Seymour Hoffman

Morning Memo: Josh Hartnett In Coach; Will Ferrell Yanks Tom Brokaw On Stage

A paparazzo that sued an Australian paper for defamation after it accused him of harassing Nicole Kidman lost his case. Among other things, he tried to bug Kidman's house. [NYT] Will Ferrell pulled Tom Brokaw onstage at Radio City during the final night ...

From KIRA GOLDENBERG, New York Observer,  28 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Will Ferrell,  Tom Brokaw,  Josh Hartnett,  Nicole Kidman,  Barack Obama

Morning Memo: Neverland Ranch Needs Pixie Dust; Lindsay Lohan's Biggest Fan

Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch and all its furnishings will be put up for public auction March 19 unless the pop star pays the tens of millions he owes on the property. [NYT] Marc Anthony's former wife, Daynara Torres, is writing a book on their ...

From KIRA GOLDENBERG, New York Observer,  27 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Lindsay Lohan,  Marc Anthony,  Anne Frank,  Michael Jackson,  Jennifer Lopez

Computers See Diseases Written All Over Your Face

The symptoms of some genetic diseases are so nonspecific that it can take years for a child to be diagnosed. Even when a doctor suspects a specific disorder, such as Noonan syndrome, a developmental disorder that can affect the skeletal system, heart, ...

From KIRA GOLDENBERG, Discover,  26 Feb 2008

Enlightenment in Chelsea

The main attraction of "The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito," currently on display at Milk Gallery in Chelsea, is a sixteen-foot long golden Buddha. The figure, Great Parinirvana, reclines on his side, moments before dying and entering nirvana. The ...

From KIRA GOLDENBERG, New York Observer,  22 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Padma Lakshmi,  Nanette Lepore,  Robert Thurman,  Abraham Lincoln

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