Luxury Lap: Cartier Love with Sarah Jessica Parker and Spike Lee

Our luxury correspondent Trevor Butterworth continues his demented trip down the international lane of luxury. The other day, he rode-along with the Cartier crew for the launch of their Love charity bracelet.


The new Cartier Love bracelets.

There was dash, there was swoon, there was confusion and there was envy. But how could there Read More

Countdown to Bliss

Doğan Perese and Sarah Mascareñas

Met: Sept. 6, 2005

Engaged: March 10, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: Oct. 22, 2006

When Sarah Mascareñas, a blond, blue-eyed bombshell Yalie (yes, they do exist), first walked into the law offices of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, where she was starting as an associate attorney, she was prepared for a Read More

Short on Sale

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

Crime Blotter

Checks and Balances:

Bank Manager Nets Crook

The cops have put the blame for a recent rash of bank robberies not just on the crooks themselves, but also on the banks they plundered for their lackadaisical attitude toward security. Perhaps taking that criticism to heart, the bank manager at the Commerce Bank’s Second Avenue Read More

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 19th

Caps and frowns: Yesterday, playwright Tony Kushner delivered the keynote address to Columbia’s Class of 2004 , while its underachieving, sexually confused sister Barnard had to settle for author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich . Today, they all throw their hats in the air and find out just what that pricey Ivy Read More

Crime Blotter

Perp Pulls Off Crime,

But Then Pushes Luck

The first rule to a successful life in crime is resisting the temptation to press your luck, as one overreaching perp did on April 27. On that date, the suspect visited Champagne Video, at 81st Street and First Avenue, at around 8 p.m. and absconded with Read More

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 19th

Blonde leading the blonde: Hey, are we still at war , or what exactly is the deal here? Nobody’s tying a yellow ribbon ’round the old oak tree, but at 8:30 a.m. this morning- about the time when last night’s tequila shots leave our system with a shock -HBO’s frizzy-haired little princess, Read More

Crime Blotter

Petty Perps Work Toward

Equality of the Sexes

If we won’t have fully achieved equality of the sexes until there are as many female as male perps, then, if a couple of recent incidents are any indication, we finally seem to be headed in the right direction.

On Oct. 24, at 6:40 p.m., Read More