Barbie Brawl Breaks Out at Jonathan Adler’s Soho Store

Bright pink was the color scheme at a “Barbie Loves Jonathan Adler” fete at Mr. Adler’s Soho boutique Wednesday night. The 43-year-old interior designer and former judge of Bravo’s short-lived Top Design was recently chosen to create a new Malibu Dream House in honor of the doll’s 50th anniversary. “The funnest part for me was Read More

In The City: Events 3.14.09-3.16.09

SATURDAY

4 p.m. The Artists & Fleas: Independent Artist Indoor Market is held at 303 Grand Street in Brooklyn.

6 p.m. A dance improvisation workshop called “The Buzz” will take place at the N.Y. Chinese Cultural Center on 390 Broadway. Admission is $10.

8 p.m. “TIMES 365:24:7” is a “multi-media exploration of today’s hyper-caffeinated media Read More

Caitlin Flanagan to Housewives: Please Eat the Damn Daisies

“That’s Caitlin Flanagan,” a female journalist hissed to me at a party in Los Angeles, indicating the famously self-proclaimed anti-feminist—then not yet a staff writer for The New Yorker—perched in the general vicinity of a glinting swimming pool. One got the feeling she wouldn’t have minded flinging Ms. Flanagan into the deep end.

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Caitlin Flanagan to Housewives: Please Eat the Damn Daisies

“That’s Caitlin Flanagan,” a female journalist hissed to me at a party in Los Angeles, indicating the famously self-proclaimed anti-feminist—then not yet a staff writer for The New Yorker—perched in the general vicinity of a glinting swimming pool. One got the feeling she wouldn’t have minded flinging Ms. Flanagan into the deep end.

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Pica, Vestigial Tails: Fave Icky Obsessions Bad for Finding Love

Having excused myself from getting involved in all things humanly romantic for the last few years, I have woken up recently missing even its worst aspects. Without the benefit of a ready-made pool of possibilities, however (we aren’t in graduate school anymore, I tell myself, and those art-colony romances seem to fall to pieces once Read More

Diamond Daze: Time Warner Center Gets Gems

Even as a tiny child, Hillary L. Beckman was mesmerized by diamonds. Barbie dolls never even came close. “I really loved the idea that these stones were millions of years old and that they came from the mantle of the earth,” said Ms. Beckman, now 30 and chief operating officer of Lockes Diamantaires, which opened Read More

200 Catalogues? It Must Be December

Either because we’re cranks and spoilsports by nature, or because we’ve never had children to give Christmas its raison d’être , my husband and I have always considered the Yuletide something to get through rather than enjoy. While friends and neighbors yearn for sleigh bells in the snow, I’m dreaming of a brown-paper Christmas–a sprig Read More