Buying the New Yorker - Page 80

The Paul Taylor Dance Company is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. We learn this because Time Warner is sponsoring the inclusion of their premiere as a listing in "on the town." "on the town" is a special service from New Yorker advertisers to sponsor event listings in the way back pages of The New Yorker so that you, the New Yorker reader, can be "the first to hear" about them. I presume that the actual event listings in the front of the magazine is where hoi polloi would go to find out about something like this. It's A-list folks like me who pay attention to the clever exclusive listings hidden back here amongst the book reviews.

One ticket to the Paul Taylor Dance Company's Opening-Night Gala (City Center, February 28, 2006) - $650.00

To raise interest in Monk, a detective with OCD, you can go take a quiz to see if you have OCD as well. --- Do you see what they're up to? They are repeating the ad over and over, to get your attention. Of course, I'm the one who is totaling up all of the ads in a magazine, so who am I to crack wise?

Internet quiz - free

When this issue was coming out, Valentine's day was still a few weeks in the future. Pick up some monogrammed bling for your schmoopy at John Christian Designers & Craftsman

Valentine's Sculpted Heart - $450.00

Looking to rent a castle for a week? As You Like It Rentals claims to have them. I find lots of converted farmhouses in the countryside, apartments in London and Paris, and a spiffy looking manor house in Scotland.

Scottish manor house, one week's rental - $3,400 (approximate - "The cost of any individual property may vary based on time of year and currency exchange rates.")

Running total - $64,662.48