Two cocktails with the socialite who’s getting ‘dirty looks’ in the Hamptons for supporting a pied-à-terre tax. The greatness of Glen Hansard. When girlbosses become moms. And more!
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Why does the Sunday FP remind me of People magazine? Am I the only one?
Pied-a’-terre tax: You get what you paid for & pay for what you did!
Never again, River? Some circumstance might force engagement with the Sentinelese of North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Islands or with some obscure and isolated tribe in the deep Amazon.
And let's not discount the possibility we might meet ET & friends some day.
Sophie Cunningham is pro, not college
How do we ban future use of the term pied a Terre? Just as we call pomme frites French fries. S'il vous plait mon amie. Pardon my lack of European sophistication and a proper French typewriter
The filthy little communist is joining NYC residents "to another object, by an incline plane, wrapped helically around an axis".
In other words - screwed.
*I co-opted the phrase in quotations from the Big Bang Theory
That's a keeper
Great point! Thank you!
It is supposed to make the tax sound more sophisticated and palatable, I guess. Why journalists go along with that phrasing, even though most readers won’t know what it means initially, is beyond me.
I don't think this is quite right: "a boomer in Wisconsin with a hoarding problem . . . who now wants to sell." It would be the person who bought the deceased hoarder's hoard at the estate sale who wants to sell.
Exactly right, but because brevity is the soul of wit, accuracy can sometimes be its nemesis.