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
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It was nearing 7 p.m. on the evening of Feb. 6 when stately,
plump Viacom chief operating officer Mel Karmazin and his wife, Terry, blew
into the Waldorf-Astoria’s Grand Ballroom for the Museum of Television and
Radio’s black-tie gala.
Because he was only the second celebrity to arrive- Sex and the Read More
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
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
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
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
On the morning of Saturday, Oct.
6, a group of filmmakers, Hollywood
executives and writers left little doubt that the age of irony should not be
laid to rest just yet.
The panelists took part in a discussion
called “Making Movies That Matter: The Role of Cinema in the National Debate”
at Avery Fisher Read More
When the Bryant Park Hotel, its paint barely dry, opened on Feb. 10 at 40 West 40th Street, it did what every boutique hotel from London to Los Angeles is doing to raise its profile and give the guests that it likes to think of as sophisticated the feeling that they are, in fact, devastatingly Read More
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
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
