Columnists: Andrea Peyser

Latest Columns

• Old-fashioned dating advice still holds: play hard to get to land a guy

  We’re all Manti Te’o now. It’s Valentine’s Day. If you’re a straight, single female, chances are excellent that you’ll be sitting home alone tonight with your cats, devouring an entire jumbo Whitman’s Sampler washed...   February 14, 2013

  From National

• No justice in giving mercy to the merciless

  There are no words. A blind, deaf and stupid Brooklyn jury yesterday gave a vicious break to Lamont Pride, the remorseless piece of human pond scum who murdered fine Police Officer and Daddy Peter Figoski. Just because...   February 12, 2013

  From Brooklyn

• Bloomy the pill pusher

  They’ve gone too far. City schools routinely provide mandatory lessons in deviant sex to 11-year-olds. But kids can forget about wrapping their little fingers on a fattening, contraband brownie.  Now schools are...   February 11, 2013

  From Local

• She’s a disgrace to women

  Young women, I beg you — don’t be like Rihanna! The ravishing songstress and Bad Example for Girls waltzed into an LA court yesterday with her past and present and, I guess, forever boyfriend, Chris Brown, who isn’t...   February 07, 2013

  From National

• A shame Ed had to miss this farewell blowout!

  Were it not for a previous engagement with the Almighty, there’s not an icicle’s chance in hell or heaven that Ed Koch would have missed this party. Movers, shakers, machers and ordinary schmoes from the dreaded outer...   February 05, 2013

  From Local

• Campus hate fest

  Jew-bashing grows in Brooklyn. Brooklyn College, a once-esteemed campus in the City University system, this week joins a long list of enemies — from lefty denizens of the Park Slope Food Co-op to Iranian madman Mahmoud...   February 04, 2013

  From Local

• Bearing witness & baring sorrow

  He cried for us all. Tall, proud and not the type of man who wears his emotions on his sleeve, NYPD Detective Glenn Estrada could hold it back no longer. Suddenly, he broke down in great, pained sobs on the witness...   January 29, 2013

  From Local

• Killed by gov’t incompetence

  It broke the heart of the hardest New Yorker. Even mine. Just one living soul in this city was slain during the nine days ending Friday, during a bone-chilling cold snap that kept the guns still. The Gowanus Canal...   January 28, 2013

  From Local

• Lifetime of anguish for hero’s four daughters

  The pain never goes away. Never. One of slain Police Officer Peter Figoski’s daughters grew so overcome with grief and pain on Day One of his alleged killer’s murder trial, she felt faint and fled the courtroom. His...   January 25, 2013

  From Brooklyn

• O, are you here, too, Mr. Prez?

  Beyoncé’S Star Mangled Banner is a hoax on America. The bigger-than-her-britches singer cast shame on her good friend, the president of the United States, and on all proud citizens of this country. She even managed to...   January 24, 2013

  From National

• Hero teen faced down evil for the rest of us

  Some things are worse even than dying. The shy, pretty victim, now all of 18, summoned enough courage into her 100-pound body to stand up and face her tormentor yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court. For unrepentant...   January 23, 2013

  From Local

• Death and the made-up

  Why am I not convinced?  Ex-Notre Dame football linebacker Manti Te’o claims he’s a gigantic rube. He fell in love with a girl he met nearly four years ago on Facebook — whom he never laid eyes upon and never touched,...   January 21, 2013

  From National

• Lance is axle of evil

  This goes beyond cheating, lying or riding a bike. Lance Armstrong, the disgraced, banned cyclist who prostrates his toned and worthless body tonight and tomorrow on the altar of Oprah Winfrey, is worse than shameless....   January 17, 2013

  From National

• Whole new nightmare for teen molest ‘victim’

  He JUST wants justice for his son.  It may never come. In the 2 1/2 years since Mordechai Jungreis’ boy revealed the awful truth — the mentally disabled teen was allegedly molested in a Jewish ritual bathhouse —...   January 14, 2013

  From Local

• The land of ick & Honey

  Step away from the rednecks. It isn’t safe. While you were napping, the apocalypse has come — in the form of a 4-foot, blond, foul-mouthed and hyperactive 7-year-old girl child.  I’m talking about Honey Boo Boo.  In the...   January 10, 2013

  From National

• Judge’s break saves this piggy’s bacon

  This little piggy caught a big, fat break.  Smiling and looking mighty pleased with himself, ex-City Councilman Larry Seabrook yesterday appeared ready to play a round of croquet, not to be sentenced for nine counts of...   January 09, 2013

  From Local

• Kim, don’t milk the baby!

  And baby makes . . . 300,000 big ones! Kim Kardashian, as famous for her absence of talent as her clear and present backside, is preggers. Hallelujah! You’ve seen it before. A bouncing baby is the newly manufactured,...   January 07, 2013

  From Local

• Mourning is tough in house of preyer

  To some in this devastated town, even their church has been desecrated. I wish these good people could grieve in peace. For the large crowd of mourners who gathered at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church yesterday to say...   December 19, 2012

  From National

• ‘His smile was larger than life’

  He looked as if he was asleep. I thank God for that. Jack Armistead Pinto, a little boy with a big and important name, lay in a pure white casket, eyes shut as if in slumber. He wore a small, white-and-red Jersey...   December 18, 2012

  From National

• Crushed by guilt because they survived

  Some things are worse even than death. Living.  Surviving when so many others had to die. An avalanche of soul-crushing guilt has seized those who were inside Sandy Hook Elementary School during Friday’s massacre. The...   December 17, 2012

  From Local

• Beloved daughter, taken by a monster

  Her eyes. I’ll remember those beautiful eyes as long as I breathe. Like practically every little girl, Emilie Parker loved pink. She adored rainbows and ribbons and fishing with her daddy in the river running behind...   December 16, 2012

  From Local

• Another quiet town living a nightmare

  Unspeakable. There are no words. Just after 9:30 yesterday morning, as tiny kids settled in from breakfast to learn their ABCs and 123s in a precious elementary school in this town straight out of Mayberry, childhood...   December 15, 2012

  From Local

• Absurd ‘out’rage

  This could have been the nonstory of the season:  Public Advocate and mayoral probable Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be an out and proud lesbian. Then she married stud muffin Bill in 1994 and — presto!...   December 13, 2012

  From Local

• ‘Now he’ll learn how it feels to be helpless’: victim

  The shy, pretty victim cried tears of joy and hope. It’s over now.  “I can’t wait until he’s in prison,” said the young lady, who, starting at age 12, saw her purity, her innocence, her very life stolen by a brutish...   December 11, 2012

  From Local

• Homeless need a kick, not a boot

  This is cruelty gone viral. The Army of the Damned roams city streets. Barefoot, freezing, talking to themselves.  We see them coming, as fast as a speeding Q train. Sometimes, they’re violent. Always, they suffer. And...   December 10, 2012

  From Local

• Arrogant Satmar abused his vast power

  This is not kosher. Nechemya Weberman lumbered into a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday as big as a rabid bear in an oversized black coat and matching yarmulke, side curls tucked behind his ears. The slimy bastard, 54, is...   December 06, 2012

  From Local

• TV’s ‘air’ pollution

  Admit it. Angus T. Jones was right. From “Glee” to “Girls” to “Two and a Half Men,” television has devolved into a vacuous wasteland where ordinary notions of morality, fidelity and decency are not just censored. They...   December 03, 2012

  From Local

• Officer’s inspiring kindness is NYC at its Finest

  Police Officer Larry DePrimo makes me proud to be a New Yorker. And a human being. At 25, his small, bashful voice still cracks. But after 2 1/2 years on the job, he was pounding a beat amid the winos and thugs and...   November 30, 2012

  From Manhattan

• Drop it, Alec!

  Let Genevieve go free! Crack whores, wife beaters and bloviating psychos who seduce small women and bash puny photographers get treated with more dignity than Genevieve Sabourin, Alec Baldwin’s alleged stalker....   November 29, 2012

  From National

• Alec's ‘one & done’ gal tells all! The sex! The kiss-off!

  Was it as good for you as it was for her, Alec? Crazypants Alec Baldwin “stalker’’ Genevieve Sabourin whirled into the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel and breathlessly revealed the sweaty details of her one-night...   November 28, 2012

  From Local