Wild Turkey!” My friend Nate-Dog shouts, brandishing a bottle of whiskey and flapping imaginary wings with glee.
It was Nov. 18, and we’d taken the Friday-night train to New Haven—a booze-soaked isthmus carrying us from Manhattan to Yale, where our alma mater would battle Harvard in the next day’s football game. Nate-Dog, William, Cooper Read More
Wild Turkey!” My friend Nate-Dog shouts, brandishing a bottle of whiskey and flapping imaginary wings with glee.
It was Nov. 18, and we’d taken the Friday-night train to New Haven—a booze-soaked isthmus carrying us from Manhattan to Yale, where our alma mater would battle Harvard in the next day’s football game. Nate-Dog, William, Cooper and Read More
When the Armory Show officially opens on Thursday, March 10, with a benefit for the Museum of Modern Art, hundreds of art collectors who have lined up in the cold clutching $1,000 tickets will find that a lot of work by the hottest artists has already been sold. How? Other collectors got there earlier-in some Read More
It’s Clint’s world. And everyone else who showed up at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards dinner on Sunday night was just visiting.
Among those queuing up to get a hearty handshake from the star, and to dine on a soggy spring salad and some pesto chicken at the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown, were Read More
The start of January, with New Year’s resolutions not yet fading into memory and hangovers from the long, sad tedium of 2004 still lingering, seems like an appropriate time to take stock of a few things.
The credit-card debt towering over our heads. The friend we refused to bail out of a small-town lockup. The Read More
On Sept. 22, husband-and-wife gossip duo George Rush and Joanna Molloy hit gold when they confirmed a long-standing rumor that Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon was having a relationship with another woman.
All that was left was to call Ms. Nixon’s publicist, Carrie Ross, to get a reaction. But Ms. Ross was doing Read More
Long before Billy Bob donned the big red suit, a legion of bad Santas have rampaged annually through the city. Drunk on holiday cheer (read: liquor), hundreds of Santas, Mrs. Clauses, elves and reindeer set out on Sunday, Dec. 11, from 10 a.m. until the eggnog ran out.
SantaCon-which began in New York in 1998-started Read More
“It’s really weird, because I do have a lot of friends who are famous, but I always knew them way before,” said Jonathan Cheban on a recent evening at Nobu. “I mean, back in the day when Ozzy would play Madison Square Garden, I was sneaking Kelly and Jack into Suite 16. And I’ve been Read More
Does New York need another library? The kids behind the Accompanied Library seem to think so. The Morgan, Society and Mercantile-not to mention the multiple branches of the NYPL-notwithstanding, Accompanied claims it is the city’s first library “dedicated purely to literature.” And some bigwigs in the book world, like The New Yorker’s longtime poetry editor Read More
When world-renowned makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin died in May 2002 of a pituitary tumor, many assumed it was curtains for his eponymous new cosmetics line. But Kevyn Aucoin Beauty has been flourishing nicely, thanks to the deft ministrations of one Craig Jessup, 22, a theater major at Marymount Manhattan College with a cherubic face and Read More
