A born and raised New Yorker, award-winning columnist Andrea Peyser started her career at the Albany Associated Press bureau, did one lost year in Charleston, W.Va., before working for CNN and the Tampa Tribune. She landed at the Post in 1989 and was named columnist in 1993. Her columns have won awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Newswomen's Club of New York and the New York Associated Press, which named her columnist of the year for 2005. A graduate of the State University of New York, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
It's showtime for Blago. With his Beatle haircut, salesman's blue suit and devilish grin, Rod Blagoje vich worked the courtroom, the lunchroom, the men's room like a middle-aged rock star hepped up on a caffeine drip....
July 26, 2010 12:00 AMThis is how a great city is destroyed -- one degen erate criminal at a time. Those of us who wit nessed New York's de- cline in the '80s and early '90s can feel it coming. And predators, plus the lawyers who love...
July 19, 2010 12:00 AM
Shh! Hollywood is having a teaching moment -- this time in the bedroom, where, if you're straight, chances are you've been doing it wrong. In the first frames of the new flick "The Kids Are All Right," two boys...
July 15, 2010 12:00 AMBarbara Makuch was a real- life Mrs. Smith -- hot house wife spy in heels. For two decades, Barbara (pictured) spent days enduring the PTA. And nights cavorting as a double agent, working as a spy against hated...
July 12, 2010 12:00 AMAsk any vampire. It pays to drink the finest blood. Bedbugs -- nocturnal, bloodsucking monsters that are itching up beds all over the city -- have hopped the Jitney and landed in the Hamptons, where the little...
July 09, 2010 12:00 AM
Enough! Blubbering, bawling mega boob Lindsay Lohan doesn't deserve a speck of your sympathy or support, nor a dollop of respect. What Linz desperately needs is a swift kick in the teeth, a foot in the backside and a...
July 08, 2010 12:00 AMThey get no respect. From England to India, this game sells out stadiums, commands must-see TV time and drives sports nuts batty. But in this city, cricket -- which resembles baseball played on antidepressants -- is...
June 28, 2010 12:00 AMGod is dead? At a top Brooklyn middle school, He is. Just when you thought the separation of church and state was more than an option, like paper or plastic, the matter has been settled at MS 51 in Park Slope. And...
June 24, 2010 12:00 AMPut on your black burqa and hide the kids. The madness has begun. The world this week is in the grips of mass psychosis. From California to New York and all the way to Bahrain, folks are engaged in publicly mourning...
June 21, 2010 12:00 AM
A manhattan dad nearly choked on his Wheaties when his 14-year-old son ti midly asked: "Dad, do I have to wear a dress to school?" No joke. These conversations went on in kitchens and living rooms around the...
June 17, 2010 12:00 AMWhat's that aroma wafting in from Queens? That's the sweaty stench of a lady's desperation as she watches her biological clock wind down, along with her fame. Debrahlee Lorenzana, the man-hungry, plastic-surgery...
June 14, 2010 12:00 AM
When did New York's most elite public high school turn into a pickup bar for pimple cases? Stuyvesant HS has long been an oasis amid educational drought, producing Nobel laureates and the US attorney general. Nerdy...
June 10, 2010 12:00 AMThe epiphany hit Lance Somerfeld in the nose like a toxic diaper. The Upper East Sider walked into his "Mommy and Me" class with son Jake. Everyone tried not to stare. "There was a lot of talk about milestones. And...
June 07, 2010 12:00 AM
If a city councilman, or lady, falls in the woods, can anyone hear? Does anyone care? With apologies to folks who lack mental acuity, it's stupid season at the City Council -- the 51 elected geeks and slackers...
June 03, 2010 12:00 AMWoof. This epic drama plays out in a tony, apartment building on Fifth Avenue, where pied-à-terres, some made from two (or three or four) combined spaces, are bordered by Central Park on the west, and to the north by...
May 31, 2010 12:00 AM
Bloody cheek. It's not every day a com moner is graced with the personage of a card-carry ing, blue-blooded, bone headed duchess. But Sarah Ferguson irritably dragged her hips into the Javits Center yesterday at...
May 27, 2010 12:00 AMCall Jordan Romero "Balloon Boy II." At an age when most lads steal first kisses or perform in humiliating bar mitzvahs, Jordan exists to fulfill the dreams of his dear, old dad. Jordan is 13, barely pubescent....
May 24, 2010 12:00 AM
The mosque at Ground Zero has company. As far from Manhattan as one can get before hitting ocean, the people who live in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, have long prided themselves on peace, quiet and exceptional pizza....
May 20, 2010 12:00 AMAll that was missing was an elephant. The clowns were present and accounted for. President Obama's education secretary, Arne Duncan, paid a visit yesterday to Brooklyn schools. Even before he arrived, the teachers...
May 19, 2010 12:00 AMTo girls in the 'hood, Elena Kagan rocks. Softball-playing sisters and lipstick lesbians who gather in Brooklyn's Park Slope have suffered years of intolerance, leading to a grudging acceptance. But now, life and...
May 17, 2010 12:00 AM
A mosque rises over Ground Zero. And fed-up New Yorkers are crying, "No!" A chorus of critics -- from neighbors to those who lost loved ones on 9/11 to me -- feel as if they've received a swift kick in the teeth....
May 13, 2010 12:00 AMIt's time for mature, accomplished women to climb into bed, alone, and shut the light. It's not safe out there. Like a recurring nightmare of meno pause, cellulite and tragic muffin tops, the "Sex and the City"...
May 10, 2010 12:00 AM
Bring it on. In political, union and chattering circles, the idea of allowing retail behemoth Wal-Mart into the borders of New York City is viewed as destructive. Akin to blending polyester into silken La Perla...
May 06, 2010 12:00 AMNo one walks into the motherhood minefield intending to become an outlaw. But with no pre meditation and very little thought, I did. I had in my employ a nanny who lived in this country illegally. Or rather, the...
May 03, 2010 12:00 AM
It really sucks to be a banker. The throng descended on City Hall yesterday by the thousands to point fingers, bitch, moan and grumble about the common bogeyman. Some were union workers. Others were unemployed....
April 30, 2010 12:00 AMWho will cry for Hugo? Hugo Alfredo Tale- Yax lived on the streets of Jamaica, Queens. Broke, un employed, estranged from his family, he was too proud to ask for help. And he got none. Hugo's final act on this...
April 29, 2010 12:00 AMAnd you thought the Internet was a kiddie mine field. This child is cute as a mangy puppy, in tangled pigtails and tight, plaid miniskirt of a style made iconic by Catholic schoolgirls. That is, when she's not...
April 26, 2010 12:00 AM
Like professional wrestling, the fix was in. The event was billed as a sober meeting of adults. Instead, the tiny downtown hearing room yesterday was stacked to the rafters with more than 100 members and...
April 23, 2010 12:00 AM
This is not a dress rehearsal. It's 10 a.m. in Harlem, an hour when lazy clock- punchers polish off second coffees. But the kids jam ming Democracy Prep Charter School's halls in crisply pressed uniforms have already...
April 22, 2010 12:00 AM
The rich-kid drug pusher with the mullet haircut, superstar daddy and way-cool stepmom stood, twitching and stuttering, before the judge. "I miss being involved as an entertainer and putting a smile on people's...
April 21, 2010 12:00 AM
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