Next week, Christie’s is auctioning off 250 personal items from Bobby Short’s Upper East Side home.
The famed singer and pianist, who performed at the Cafe Carlyle for more than 35 years, died last March. Lot highlights from the auction include the talent’s black lacquer Bechstein grand piano, his Cartier wristwatch and Read More
What has happened to the great American auto industry? Are General Motors, Ford and Chrysler headed for oblivion? And, more immediately, is there any way for General Motors to stop its dizzying free fall? Last week, the world’s largest automaker announced that it expects to post a devastating loss of almost $1 billion for the Read More
What has happened to the great American auto industry? Are General Motors, Ford and Chrysler headed for oblivion? And, more immediately, is there any way for General Motors to stop its dizzying free fall? Last week, the world’s largest automaker announced that it expects to post a devastating loss of almost $1 billion for the Read More
Some people are good at what they do. Other people are better. Bobby Short was the best. Preserving the art of the Great American Songbook was his life’s work, and nobody did more for the cause. When cabaret queen Mabel Mercer, his friend and sometime musical partner, died in 1984, he remarked sadly, “Half of Read More
The End Is Nigh … in Technicolor!
If summer comes, can a plethora of new disaster flicks be far behind? First out of the chute for 2004 comes The Day After Tomorrow , a cautionary tale from doomsday chronicler Roland ( Independence Day ) Emmerich about what will happen to civilization if we don’t learn Read More
Dumonet’s New French Chef
Keeps It Classicn
The newly refurbished restaurant at the Carlyle is like the set of a George Kaufman play. At lunchtime recently, it seemed that the entire cast had been assembled in the chocolate-brown dining room, which has a marble fireplace, a swirling Art Deco carpet and hunting prints on Read More
Wednesday 18th
From Miracle on 34th Street to Miramax on 54th Street -yes, that’s how the New York City holiday season mythos has “evolved” over the past half-century …. We hear Harvey Weinstein thundering by in a Santa suit ( ” Ho! Ho! Ho! ” … rumble … rumble … thonk … with Ken Read More
Hold on to your No-Doz: Another Star Wars is here. Episode II-Attack of the Clones is as exciting as a rancid Yoo-Hoo. These horrors don’t go away; they just keep coming back, like penicillin-resistant viruses. This $120 million installment (cheap by series standards) looks and sounds like the four that came before, except that it’s Read More
Of all the great writers of American popular song, no one suits our sexually promiscuous but emotionally challenged age more than Cole Porter. Porter was the master of what Alec Wilder called “theatrical elegance.” His songs are witty, sometimes even passionate, but not romantic–sexually frank without a hint of sensuality. No one ever lost it Read More
