It was crazy hot for the middle of September, and it would have been nice to just hang on the brick terrace of my apartment in Greenwich Village, chugging a few iced teas. My copy goes through the executive editor, but it's one of the deputy editors who assigns me most of my stories and often suggests leads for me to follow up on. I've always wished I were good at office politics, but fawning and bullshitting just don't come easily to me, particularly if the person at the other end is a...

In addition to the charge facing each clerk, McGee said each of the stores will be cited for selling liquor to a minor and could face fines and/or suspension of their state liquor license. In each of those investigations, a minor working with the division was sent into various businesses to try and purchase alcohol. Commercial product promotions, including advertisements or links to other web sites, e-mail addresses or phone numbers, are subject to rejection. Personal attacks or...

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Hunter's character is told she's just about run out of chances to change her wicked ways by a tobacco-chewing guardian angel named Earl (Leon Rippy) in tonight's (6/18) series premiere. As far as she is concerned, the cynical, hard-livin', butt-kickin', sexually predatory detective Grace Hanadarko, is "ultimately extremely female. She hasn't encumbered her life with the traditional responsibilities, so she can live impetuously and spontaneously. But ultimately she's all woman and her...

Once, Lewis recalled, the restaurant was one of the key places in town where residents, mostly men and on their way to work, regularly gathered to meet, greet, exchange news and gossip on a daily basis. It was a ritual that harkened back to the days when unshaven men wearing red flannel shirts, well-worn faded denim coveralls, green John Deere hats and perhaps smoking corn cob pipes or spitting chewing tobacco into a paper cup, sat around a potbellied stove and traded words of wisdom in a...