Gothic Punk Lolita and Forest Girl might sound like characters out of a Twilight novel by Nabokov, but they’re actually stars of a museum exhibition. The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s next elaborate show salutes groundbreaking Japanese fashion, from the 1980s to the present. About 100 outfits will go on view in the Read More
This Sunday, The Times pays a visit to Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert’s store-it’s located in New Jersey and sells Southeast Asian imports. In between showing off her teak boxes and giant Buddhas, Gilbert has a lot to say! For example:
Jonathan Franzen is the first living American novelist to appear on the cover of Time in ten years, according to ArtsBeat. Stephen King was on the cover in 2000.
The magazine’s profile of Mr. Franzen dwells on the topic of otters:
Otters are congenitally happy beasts. Read More
Mayor Michael Bloomberg was by far the least fashionable person at the City Hall press conference for Fashion’s Night Out on Wednesday, Aug. 11.
“No doubt all of you out there feel incredibly excited and privileged to be in the presence of fashion greatness and it’s nice to have some of the other stylish Read More
By the time 2011 rolls around, Nolita’s McNally Jackson Books will have an Espresso Book Machine, the Xerox-like on-demand device that prints a fully bound book in mere minutes.
Of the schedule, store owner Sarah McNally said in an e-mail that “there have been technical issues, but I believe we are on track.”
Currently McNally Read More
A Central Park West address conjures images of glamorous apartments that seem as if they were made solely for the purpose of watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. This weekend The Observer decided to check out what Central Park West had to offer, but we forwent the parade route and looked upward of 96th Street. Read More
The Journal has alerted us to an inexplicable product: A note pad where you can write out (yes, with a pen or pencil) a tweet.
Stationery makers have had a consumer insight: People who email a lot, tweet a lot, and update Facebook a lot, like to write a lot. The paper-peddlers are Read More
Elle scored Julia Roberts for the September cover.
The Eat Pray Love star appeared on The Late Show last night. David Letterman held up the magazine (his had this image of Roberts and her son) and remarked how it was “just beautiful… because having you on the cover would be a lovely thing, Read More
Twitter employees made a video that plays like a sequence from Rushmore. Aw. The Los Angeles Times wrote:
Twitter originally set out to make a recruiting video that would show off the personality of Twitter and the people who work there.
“In typical Twitter fashion, along the way it became something way more Read More
On Saturday, Aug. 7, Santiago El Grande, a 13-foot-high portrait of Saint James, will commandeer a gallery in Atlanta’s High Museum of Art. Salvador Dalí’s painting of the patron saint of Spain riding an enormous white horse against a blue-latticed background will take many visitors to the museum’s blockbuster “Dalí: The Late Work,” Read More
