What’s NYP’s problem?
By Marc Perton
I can only assume that someone at New York Press thinks that the only way to truly be punk is by bringing down punk idols. How else to explain the paper’s Hilly Kristal obituary, headlined “Club Killer Dies.” The gist of the short item is that Kristal—who ran CB’s for over 30 years— ”screwed up and let the club go under,” and that his death was therefore fitting in an O. Henry sort of way. This, you may recall, is the same paper that ran a “How should Tommy Ramone die?” contest a few years back. Such puerile attempts at humor might be funny to a handful of sixth graders, but for those of us who can remember both Hilly and the Ramones when they were in their gabba gabba heyday, it’s hard to find anything to laugh about.
