It's official. Sting, David Bowie and club owner Ivan Kane have finally gone to contract to bring Kane's burlesque show Forty Deuce to New York. Late yesterday, the trio signed on with New York Commercial Realty's James Famularo to open Kane's Las Vegas-based show at 19 Kenmare Street in the space that currently Read More
At 3 p.m. on Dec. 15, Ricky Gervais stood opposite a picture of his own round face, blown up to three times its size and resting on an easel in the lobby of the HBO building in midtown.
“Look what they’ve done to my teeth,” he said, jabbing a finger at his jaw, his voice Read More
There are performers you can’t enjoy unless you learn to ignore or tolerate some aspect of their music. If the challenge is worth it, what seemed at first annoying or bewildering later seems essential. In the case of Destroyer, the obstacle is the voice of singer and songwriter Dan Bejar. A native of Vancouver, Mr. Read More
There are performers you can’t enjoy unless you learn to ignore or tolerate some aspect of their music. If the challenge is worth it, what seemed at first annoying or bewildering later seems essential. In the case of Destroyer, the obstacle is the voice of singer and songwriter Dan Bejar. A native of Vancouver, Mr. Read More
New York’s cool kids have been keeping busy: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Fiery Furnaces, the Walkmen (who are saying goodbye to their Harlem studio) and Liars (who relocated to Berlin to work on their latest) are all getting ready to grace us with new records throughout the spring, while TV on the Radio’s sophomore Read More
Kay LeRoy is spreading her wings. Again.
Ms. LeRoy, ex-wife of the late restaurateur Warner LeRoy, has bought a third unit in her Greenwich Village apartment building, increasing her holdings there to a total of 7,200 square feet.
In late July, Ms. LeRoy paid $1.33 million for a 1,600-square-foot one-bedroom apartment at a loft Read More
“What was that all about?” a man in a black button-down shirt hollered over the obligatory bass of Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” at the Chelsea nightspot Suite 16 on a recent summer evening. His friend looked down at the glass of red liquor he’d just been handed and shrugged. They both gazed back at Read More
David Bowie, the grandfather of glam-rock, and his wife, the supermodel Iman, have bought a 64-acre mountain in a secluded area outside the onetime rock mecca of Woodstock, N.Y. Iman and Mr. Bowie fell in love with the property, known as Little Tonche Mountain, when he laid down the tracks for his latest album, Heathen Read More
The boy bands, the Britney clones and even the original navel-barer-all started their slow parade to the digital bone yard this year. And that wasn’t the only reason to celebrate. There was a lot of good music released this year, much of it from a bunch of old warhorses who were big when analog was Read More
David Pullman is going through his press clips. He is
multi-tasking at the close of another busy day in his capacious Fifth Avenue
office overlooking Central Park. He has an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles
on the speaker phone, a downtown art broker on hold and an executive assistant
(one of five that work for Read More
