Recently P.J. Clarke’s, that very Mad Men-like eatery, shut the doors to its second floor—but just to the common folk. The special people, or rather its loyal customers, received a membership card that grants access to the rarefied sanctum of floor two, known as the Sidecar. The upstairs space is more elegant and thus quiet, Read More
Sure, last weekend’s Voice-tacular went fine. Fine! It got much-better-than-decent ratings. But for true Super Bowl-evening sensationalism, we feel a certain nostalgia for Friends‘s 1996 blowout, which featured guests ranging from Julia Roberts and Brooke Shields to, uh, the voice of Homer Simpson and Jean-Claude Van Damme. It’s the moment the show went from preoccupation Read More
After a successful if rather macabre run as the Addam’s family matriarch Morticia, Brooke Shields left Broadway with a grand bow and rousing applause in late December. Little did we know she was plotting another Broadway exit: Ms. Shields and husband Chris Henchy have sold their co-op at 458 Broadway, city records show. Read More
Wednesday, June 22
Foxy Ladies
Opera—it’s not just for opera houses anymore! We had enough to keep up with between the Met and the City Opera (O.K., we mainly kept up with the Met), but more and more, we’re hearing of opera performances put on by orchestras (the skill set’s not too different, one Read More
“I don’t mind doing two girls at a time,” said Christian Siriano, dripping with irony as he gave the once-over to a group of comely models amid racks of clothes in his midtown showroom on a recent morning.
Mr. Siriano, 24, is the openly gay winner of Lifetime’s Project Runway, season four: famous for wearing Read More
During a promotional party for the new BlackBerry Tour smartphone at the Thompson Lower East Side on Wednesday, July 9, famous freebie seekers Brooke Shields, Olivia Palermo, and Erin Lucas, among many others, had the opportunity to get the gadgets personally monogrammed. Et tu, Fern Mallis?
“That’s so sweet,” actor Chace Crawford said to Read More
Daily News: These days, a lot of time is spent trying to figure out how to “save” newspapers; can something that prints at a printer and then is delivered to a newsstand hours after the thing is “closed,” to be purchased for money, really be relevant in the 24-hour instant-news cycle? Or something like that. Read More
Daily News: Here are two sentences about something that happened yesterday in Jamaica, Queens: A cow escaped from a slaughterhouse and ran through a residential neighborhood. Police chased it into a backyard where they stunned the animal and then brought in animal control to take the cow away. Actually, here is a third: The cow Read More
New York Post: It’s happened before: Vanity Fair breaks some news, and the New York Post floods the non-Vanity Fair demographic with all the goods. This morning it’s accused Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff’s secretary sounding off on what the guy was like before he got all lethargic and doughy. That apparently happened when the F.B.I. and Read More
Monday: Confessions of a Teen Idol
So it’s a little more lowbrow than we usually recommend, but we’re feeling like watching Confessions of a Teen Idol might actually count as charity work. The eight-episode reality series focuses on a handful of 80s was-beens-including Christopher Atkins (remember The Blue Lagoon?), Jamie Walters (90210 crooner turned fireman), Read More
