Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Recent Stories
Listening to Music With... Dr. Ruth
Musical Arousal
World-reknowned sex therapist Ruth Westheimer gets jiggy with Zack O’Malley Greenburg and dishes about French ballads, Zionist songs and her love of short singers.
A Goo show: Dolls play nearby arena
The Sex Maggots are coming to Connecticut. Or at least, they would have been — had the Goo Goo Dolls not changed their name 20 years ago. As legend has it, the band was forced to find a new moniker when a club owner refused to put the old name on his marquee. So the boys flipped through a copy of True Detective magazine and settled on a change after finding an advertisement for a “Goo Goo Doll.”
On the Rail
One writer takes a train across the country in search of the last vestiges of railway romance. Long after the heyday of the Pullman car, is there any beauty left on the tracks?
The YPMB: Cooler than you thought?
"I don't want to be a dick, but I don't think that Yalies can relate to other Americans," says Ian Hamilton, a junior at the University of Illinois. "Most of you guys don't even watch sports. And you listen to country music for the sake of being...
Popstar pouts for scene
Fueled by the popularity of the hit single "Ding Dong Song (Touch My Tralala)," Euro-pop sensation Gunther and his Sunshine Girls will make their U.S. debut tonight at Commons. With his trademark mullet and moustache, Gunther boasts a cult following...
The Game: Yale's Own Triwizard Extravaganza
New Haven's eyes will be on The Game this coming weekend, but the rest of the country will be focused on The Movie. Nope, not 50-Cent's quasi-bio "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'," creatively named after his last album, but rather "Harry Potter and the Goblet...
The '04 Prank gave Yale the ultimate win
As The Game draws near, many Yalies may still be ashamed of last year's loss to Harvard. The defeat marked the fourth in a row for the Bulldogs -- the first time they had lost four straight Games since 1922. But, fellow Elis, you have no reason to...
Free agents in '05 bring little to MLB table
If this winter's free agents were on the open market five years ago, George Steinbrenner would have soiled himself with glee. Sammy Sosa, Mike Piazza, Frank Thomas, Roger Clemens, Bernie Williams. Five years ago, all of these guys would have commanded...
Ozieball heads to Houston
With two games already in the bag, the Chicago White Sox are winning the 2005 World Series on the strength of two guys who have combined for 50 home runs in 2449 career games -- left fielder Scott Podsednik and manager Ozzie Guillen. Podsednik's...
Chicago may be the next Sox to break the curse
Less than three weeks ago, the Chicago White Sox were on the verge of losing their playoff berth to the upstart Cleveland Indians. Today, the South Siders are four wins away from their first World Championship since 1919. White Sox chairman Jerry...