Events for Friday, March 13, 2009

6 p.m.  The Bowery Poetry Club hosts East Village Trivia Night where tour guides from the East Village History Project face off against “some formidable opponents.” At 308 Bowery  between Bleecker and Houston Streets, suggested donation is $6.

7:30 p.m. Miss World U.S.A. Lynda Carter will perform: “An Evening with Lynda Carter” in the Read More

'Bama Can You Hear Me? Babs Goes Funny For Hillary After All

Barbra Streisand just put a rain cloud over Barack Obama’s parade, offering her endorsement, for what it’s worth, to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Having donated to Mr. Obama as well as to his fellow Democratic hopeful, John Edwards, in the recent past, Ms. Streisand settled any lingering speculation today. The 65-year-old entertainer—as was Read More

Kimono-Clad Cruise Quite a Swordsman

“Everything old is new again,” sings Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz , stopping the show nightly on Broadway. But 200 years old may just be a little too old for anybody to care. Is the 19th century all the rage again? All four of this year’s big holiday movies-Ron Howard’s The Missing , Read More

Barbra Takes a Bath

With greatest-hits collections and antiques, Barbra Streisand usually comes out on the winning end of a deal. But not in real estate. In April, Ms. Streisand signed a contract to sell her 8,000-square-foot duplex penthouse at the Ardsley, 320 Central Park West. Sources say a contract for around $4 million was signed in early March, Read More

Barbra’s Farewell–A City Verklempt

It is High Holy Days weather in New York. And if you were to stand on the Upper West Side this evening, you might hear on the chilly breeze a great collective moan of sorrow. This is not the mass lamentation of a care-worn and inquiring people begging for forgiveness and inscription into the Book Read More

Babs Is Stuck on Stickley

When Christie’s auctions off Barbra Streisand’s collection of Arts & Crafts furniture, lamps and ceramics on Nov. 29, one of the more significant lots of Stickley furniture to be offered comes with a controversial history.

The pieces in question are a pair of oak Stickley corner cabinets with copper hardware that were custom-made for Read More