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Elisabeth Franck

Pepe Fanjul’s Dog Is Missing!

It was the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 13 when retired NYPD

lieutenant Tom Tierney got the call. “I got a missing dog,” said a voice on the

other end of the line.

It was Rich Hogan, Mr. Tierney’s sometime employer from IPSA

International, a firm that does high-end corporate investigations and security.

A five-year-old Read More

Bel Canto Beauty Flórez Called ‘Little Luciano’

On a gray afternoon on Feb. 4, Juan Diego Flórez, the 29-year-old

Peruvian tenor who’s just debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Almaviva in

Gioacchino Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia ,

arrived at Il Violino running and panting, 15 minutes late. He pushed the

restaurant’s doors with both hands and a shake of the head and Read More

Why Did MoMA Send Norman Bates To Cold Storage in Hamlin, Pa.?

Since mid-January, phone

calls to the Museum of Modern Art’s Film Stills Archive, one of the world’s

foremost pictorial records of filmmaking dating back to the 1890′s, have

been silently transferred to a voice-mail box

with this recorded greeting: ” Due to the

Museum of Modern Art’s ongoing expansion project, the Film Stills Archive has Read More

Hauling Off Dozens of Cartons, D.A. Rifles National Arts Club

Friday, Jan. 4, was “artist pick-up day” at the National Arts Club’s Gothic Revival building at 15 Gramercy Park South, the day that some 70 artists-all members of the 104-year-old New York institution-arrived to reclaim their works after the club’s popular annual show of exhibiting members.

When the artists began arriving that morning, however, Read More

Gen X Embraces the Recession By Going to Plan B: Layoff Lust

For months, John McCarron dreamed about losing his job. A post-production coordinator at a film production and distribution company, the 26-year-old Mr. McCarron had made no secret of his dissatisfaction at work. His interest in his job had suffered a “serious decline,” he said. He resented the company’s “analmanagement” and complained about the increased workload Read More

Cigarette Aficionados Go to War

The evening of Saturday, March 31, found a beautiful pack of

gallery crawlers huddled outside Mary Boone’s Chelsea gallery, puffing on their

Marlboros and bouncing from Blahnik to Blahnik to keep warm. They sucked on

their cigarettes, ashed on the sidewalk and flicked their butts in the gutter

before going back into artist- célèbre

Damian Read More

Levy Faces a Battle As His Edison Plan Meets Hostile Board

On the afternoon of March 16, at a hurriedly called meeting of the City Council’s Education Committee at City Hall, it soon became obvious that the Board of Education had done a miserable job of launching the first-ever privatization of city schools.

No one was happy. City Council members were angry that Edison Schools, a Read More