Patrick Sauer

In August of 2017, I was swimming with my 6-year-old daughter in Brooklyn’s sparkling redo of the McCarren Park Pool, when I had a major flashback. I turned to her and attempted to explain the impossible.

“Daddy used to go to concerts here.”

Get to know the personalized celebrity greeting company whose top earner is the legend Gilbert Gottfried. For the lover of Aladdin and The Aristocrats alike...

Mary Bacon lived a life nobody could imagine, nor would they want to. Truly tragically one-of-a-kind.

Birbiglia mastered the stage, screen, and now the page, but had no faith in his Dad abilities. He and poetess wife J. Hope Stein tell their parental tale in The New One.

"Red Summer" was the nickname for the dog days of 1919 when American streets filled with African-American blood.

Shaq and Kobe; Kobe and Shaq, forever linked. In "Three-Ring Circus," author Jeff Pearlman takes readers back to the days when they could barely stand to be on the same court together, yet won back-to-back-to-back titles.

As the extremest of viruses ravages the country, pummeling African-Americans the hardest, comedian and ESSENCE Festival host alum Roy Wood Jr. has come up with the perhaps the most extreme method for curing all of the long-...

The 1970s were an amazing time for kid's TV. Raise your hand if you can still sing the theme song from "Electric Company," "Zoom," or "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids." Hey, hey hey...

In the 1970s, Peanuts went full-court into the tennis boom. Remember Molly Volley? Her former partner Snoopy does...

More than 58,000 United States soldiers died in the Vietnam War, but in the world of letters, the death of a single American civilian came to represent the entire jungle quagmire.

Michael Strahan is the busiest man in show business as I found out in the October cover story for Men's Journal.

Alamo Drafthouse wasn't the first in the brew-and-view game, but they've changed the playing field for movie-watching all across America, even in the age of streaming.

After the shelter-inside order went down in New York City, a bat signal went up in Brooklyn. It was a simple call to feed the workers at Brooklyn Hospital—a major hotspot in the Covid-19 battle—by calling up Graziella’s, a Fort Greene/Clinton Hill Italian- staple restaurant...

As the lights flashed and the music pulsated, I took a swig of Irish whiskey from my plastic balloon-animal dog tumbler and said to my wife, “There is nooooooooo way Doogie Howser is going to take a run at the Wheel of Death..."

The Nobel-winning economist and New York Times opinion columnist talks to Marker about tax cuts, trade wars, the zombie apocalypse, his new book, and more...