Zach Helfand

When a bullet wounded Donald Trump’s ear at a recent rally, the former President joined a long list of historical and literary precedents, from Evander Holyfield to Hamlet’s father, Zach Helfand writes.

A Profile of the L.A. surgeon who has operated on Charlize Theron, Laura Ingraham, Aaron Rodgers, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and other celebrities. Zach Helfand reports.

Fashion experts weigh in on Major League Baseball’s new inadvertently see-through uniforms, which leave nothing to the imagination, Zach Helfand writes.

Zach Helfand writes about the history and changing etiquette of tipping employees in restaurants, coffee shops, bars, hotels, and other businesses.

One of the late, great barman’s best customers, Liam Neeson, presided from a “fecking” sickbed upstairs as drinkers toasted the guy who’d served Jodie Foster, Ralph Fiennes, Bono, Joe Torre, and Bette Davis, Zach Helfand writes.

A succession battle involving a fight for the patronage of Sarah Jessica Parker threatens to stop the presses at a Greenwich Village newspaper, Zach Helfand writes.

The city bid farewell to its “last pay phone” with much hoopla, Zach Helfand writes. Days later, one sleuth reported on several remaining phone booths—by making calls from said phone booths.

Zach Helfand writes about the minor leagues testing the Automated Ball-Strike System. But isn’t yelling and screaming about bad calls half the fun of baseball?