Smell Her Misery! And Be Nice to Those Perfume Sample Girls

In the Soho Bloomingdale’s the other day, a young woman teetering on heels stopped me. “Marc Jacobs, Blush,” she said, proffering a perfume bottle, her finger poised on the nozzle, her face desperate and woebegone. You poor thing, I thought to myself. She earnestly, gratefully, spritzed my pulse points, and I nodded at her sympathetically, Read More

Crime Blotter

Bloomberg Visits 19th Precinct;

Cops Hop to Attention, Swoon

Most of the people who visit the 19th Precinct at 10 p.m. on a holiday weekend are either guys in handcuffs or their victims. So it came as something of a surprise to the cops behind the front desk on the evening of Sunday, May Read More

My New Year’s Resolutions:Be Vapid, Exfoliate, Flirt

My New Year’s Resolutions: Be Vapid, Exfoliate, Flirt

You’re nothing but a self-flagellant and a Puritan. Just look at your New Year’s Resolutions: a mind-numbing litany of self-denial, invariably revolving around unriveting issues like gym attendance, punctuality and fat intake. This annual attempt at asceticism is a hangover from another period in your life. Don’t Read More