Craig Bromberg

Jenny Craig Goes On A Real Estate Diet

Jenny Craig, queen of diet plans and weight management systems, seems to have put herself on a real estate diet, listing her Rancho Sante Fe, Calif., ranch house for $8.9 million. The new listing comes shortly after Craig, 78, put her next-door…

The Fake 'Exclusive' on Steve Jobs' House

Billionaire mansions come and go, but those of America's technology kings have a unique hold on the imagination -- so much so that hungry tech blogs can easily speculate on the real estate follies of the tech gods, regardless of the reality. Take,…

Fannie Mae Wants You to KnowYourOptions.com

Cary Jacobs (not his real name) was out of work a year when his bank's collections agency started calling to tell him that the home his family had lived in for six years was about to be foreclosed on unless he could come up with another payment. Cary…

Mortgage Products Beyond the Empty Nest

Just one look at Dan and Barbara Nostros' Ridgewood, N.J. home tells you that the last thing this couple ever thought they'd do is downsize to a smaller house. Nearly 3,500 square feet with four bedrooms, the Nostros' home has the feeling of a warm…

Real Estate Obsession: Meghan Daum's House Fever

The classic truism of real estate is that buying a house is the biggest investment you'll ever make. But as Meghan Daum's pitch-perfect memoir of real estate obsession, "Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House," makes clear, the financial…

Li'l Wayne's Smokin SoBe Rental

Give it up for Li'l Wayne. The man sure seems to know a good real estate deal when he sees one. But pity the poor real estate agents so desperate for benjamins they have to leak word they're showing Li'l Wayne's li'l rap star rental. According to the…

Girls Next Door get new arrangement

If anyone knows the pains and passions of renting, it's the Girls Next Door, Hugh Hefner's party-hearty girlfriends and roommates in the Playboy Mansion and the stars of the E! channel reality show Girls Next Door airing Sundays at at 10:30pm ET. The…

K-Fed's Secondhand smoke problem

Our favorite fameball celeb-by-marriage, Kevin Federline, has been sent a threatening letter demanding $110,661 in unpaid rent and damages for a home he recently rented in Tarzana, California. According to a TMZ exclusive, K-Fed's filthy homewrecking…

Film: I’ll Be Your Mirror

“Timothy is just a very warm and generous person,” says Lou Reed. “Plus, he has no hair. He’s not threatening. You know you won’t get savaged by him. He’s no Nazi.” It makes perverse sense that when Reed, that least media-friendly of rock stars,…

The Double Life of a Ludlow Street Landlord

They came for Mark Glass at 9 a.m. on Erev Rosh Hashanah, the eve of one of the holiest days of the Jewish year. It was October 1, a warm, windy autumn day – rent day – and a stream of tenants was already buzzing at the door of Glass’s tiny…

The Highwayman

RAY SMITH’S UNPRETENTIOUS OFFICE AT Bell Atlantic’s Arlington, Va., headquarters is not the typical CEO’s lair. Tucked in one corner is an unframed photograph of Martin Luther King Jr., one of Smith’s leadership role models. And on his desk is a…

Life as a Dog

NEARLY FROM THE MOMENT ELIZABETH Marshall Thomas met Misha, a 2-year-old Siberian husky left in her care by a vacationing friend back in 1969, she knew that this dog was special. Each night, Misha would jump Thomas’s fence to explore the streets of…

Native Danger

THE YEAR WAS 1942. AGNES DE MILLE, already in her late 30s and desperate for a dance hit, was engaged in a crucial lest of wills, trying to teach a corps of classically trained European male dancers how to move as if they were riding broncos. De…

In Defense of Hackers

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the…

The Brave New World of Bebe Miller : With an emphasis on context, the Bessie Award-winning choreographer takes an unusual departure from form in her latest work

NEW YORK — No one has ever accused Bebe Miller of making dances that are too clear. A two-time Bessie Award-winner, Miller is drawn to the colorful ambiguities of psychology, and her dances have typically sketched the clarity (or confusion) of her…

No Yams in Karen Finley’s ‘Long Day’s Journey’ for the ‘90s : Theater: ‘The Theory of Total Blame,’ opening tonight at LACE, is her first attempt to set her ideas in a form other than performance art.

NEW YORK — As a solo performance artist, Karen Finley had the gross-out honed to a fine degree. Other performance artists may have played with their food onstage, screeching ad nauseam about this and that. But Finley’s sobbing spoken arias about…

Constructing a More Perfect Union : Choreographer David Gordon combines words, movement in ‘United States’

To David Gordon, choreography has always been the C-word, something that others--perhaps better equipped and more captivated by mere dancing--do for a living. Not Gordon. Others may grandly say that they create dances, but ever since he began his…

LOS ANGELES FESTIVAL : POP AND DANCE AND THE ABILITY TO DISORIENT

Many are the choreographers who have tried to merge the harsh rhythms of rock ‘n’ roll with postmodern dance, but few have been able to have serious careers while convincing the rock world of their ability to work in the commercial arena. Montreal…

Los Angeles Festival : MERGING SONG, DANCE, THEATER, SOUL

Their name suggests a faction of high-powered feminist guerrillas fighting in some languishing Third World capital, but the Urban Bush Women aren’t quite as radical as all that. If anything, it is the perfect moniker for this five member, New…

LOS ANGELES FESTIVAL : MOVEMENT BUT LESS METAPHOR

For some choreographers, the essence of dance is metaphor. Take metaphor away from dance, they say, and you take away its poetry. Other choreographers disagree. In this crowd, metaphor is the culprit that has led to dance being taken hostage by…