By Joe Pompeo 12/09/08 5:17pm

The New Phone Phobics Use Gizmos For Everything But Talking

Sarah Morrison, a Williamsburg resident in her late 20s who writes for Missbehave magazine, had no problem copping to the fact that she often ignores friends’ phone calls.

“I’ll sit there and watch the phone ring and be like, ‘UGH! Why are they calling?’” said Ms. Morrison, “99 percent” of whose Read More

By Simon Doonan 4/02/07 12:00am

Notes on Campbell: To Naomi Is To Love Me!

Naomi struck me … as such a nice young lady. I am always taken aback by that phone-throwing, anger-management-requiring reputation of hers. I have been acquainted with La Campbell since the late 1980’s. She used to model for my old pal, the Turkish fashion designer Rifat Ozbek. When I first came to New York, I Read More

By Moira Hodgson 3/26/07 12:00am

Cucina de Balthazar

As he did with Balthazar, Keith McNally has once again set a stage where the play is about eating and the actors are the diners. This time it’s not a Paris bistro, but a rustic trattoria somewhere in the hills of Italy. Morandi’s low, beamed ceiling is hung with wooden chandeliers topped with small brown Read More

By Rebecca Dana 7/31/06 12:00am

Bridgehampton Bob Balaban Does Special Thing With Hoe

On the sunny afternoon of July 24, Bob Balaban held a meeting with a drainage specialist at his Bridgehampton home to discuss, among other issues, the death of his hydrangeas.

“I tried sprinkling them with aluminum-chloride flakes,” he said woefully to the man from Hampton Irrigation. Mr. Balaban addressed him as “Steve.” Steve wore work Read More

By Staff, Staff 7/17/06 12:00am

The Transom

Vibe

Ari Horowitz spent his weekend at the beach. He has a house in Waterville, and on Saturday he rented a boat for a while, called The Queen Bee, and went out with a bunch of pals.

Over on Shelter Island, Mr. Horowitz, who is the new president of Vibe magazine, bared Read More

By Staff 7/12/06 10:14am

The Peach Parade: Vibe, Joe Francis, Adultery in Manhattan, The Agent of Brooklyn, Rosario Dawson, and Phil Collins’ Heart

“That’s what I’m the most psyched about,” shirtless new Vibe president Ari Horowitz told The Transom on Shelter Island on Saturday. “The people there are really, really solid. They’ve been incredibly receptive….” Within the next three days, Mr. Horowitz’s new Vibe team would raise their lay-off total to nearly 25 staffers.

Where do Manhattan’s Read More

By Simon Doonan 12:00am

Fashion Week Freaks! Here Is Handy Primer

We’re getting fatter and fatter, or so the endless flow of statistical surveys would have us believe. But is this the whole picture? I think not. Based on my observations at last week’s New York Fashion Week frenzy, I am forced to the conclusion that there’s a hell of a lot more going on. The Read More