Yak (female, nik; bos grunniens) is a species of bovid native to the high Tibetan Plateau. Though vanishing in the wild, where it usually does not descend below 4,300 meters, it is much domesticated and so is widely used as a beast of burden in Tibet,...

The yak (Bos grunniens, but also Poephagus grunniens, though this new name is not universally accepted) is a long-haired bovine found throughout the Himalayan region of south Central Asia, the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia. In...

YAKETY-YAK COUNTER CULTURE Roosevelt Avenue Tibetan adds Nepali and Indian to its menu HIMALAYAN YAK 72-20 Roosevelt Avenue Jackson Heights, Queens 718-779-1119 Among our handful of restaurants from the ceiling of the world, Tibetan Yak was considered...

Yak, Yak, Yak Talk Shows Proliferate At this year's NATPE, the main trend seems to be talk shows. Bowing at the convention are The Maury Povich Show from Paramount, The Chuck Woolery Show from Orion and Jenny Jones from Warner Bros. Add...

We depart from our usually tight focus to bring this dispatch from Tom Scocca, our media guy, who got his hands on a memo that probably wasn't sent to him: This afternoon, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller announced that any story over 1,800...

On Thursday, Oct. 4, celebrity shutterbug Todd Eberle hosted a birthday party for himself at the new apartment he and his partner, creative director Richard Pandiscio, recently bought in the new 40 Mercer building designed by Jean Nouvel. Although invitations had been issued but two...