NBA Shoots for The Crumpets

Today’s Observer package on Little Europe (a.k.a. New York City) has a corollary: Europe is becoming a lot like New York, too. Witness this morning’s announcement by London Mayor Ken Livingstone and NBA Commissioner David Stern that the basketball association will open an office in the British capital in order, according to Read More

Countdown to Bliss

Amanda Danuser and Vince Parenti

Met: Nov. 7, 2000

Engaged: Nov. 1, 2005

Projected Wedding Date: Dec. 2, 2006

Amanda Danuser, 29, the co-founder of the Green Room, a fashion showroom, intends to marry Vince Parenti, 41, president of Reverie Pictures and a filmmaker whose latest feature, The Longest Yard Sale, is in the early Read More

Waving to the 20th Century En Route to the 19th

The painter Katy Schneider, who’s having her New York debut at Tatistcheff & Company Inc., is the kind of artist whose work will inevitably be affixed with scary adjectives like “academic,” “traditional” and “conservative.” Just how scary these adjectives are depends on whether one considers, say, a grounding in figure drawing essential or irrelevant to Read More