- Can Rachel Maddow see the future? Note her interesting comments about the First Amendment and broadcasters from October 24th.
- Ha. Ha. Over the weekend, Bloomberg said that congressmen can’t read.
- Things you need: a Barbie foosball table. Come on, it’s only $25k, Read More
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
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
"Excuse me! Excuse me!” Shove! Shove!
The tall PR chick with the headset and the plangent voice was clearly intent on publicly buggering me with her clipboard if I did not get the hell out of her way and allow her to escort some celeb or other to its front-row seat.
The Read More
“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.
“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.
We weren’t Read More
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
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
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
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
