The murmur you hear wafting down from Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street is the sound of genteel gloating. The Metropolitan Museum of Art just released its attendance figures for the fiscal year and, at 5.24 million, the total is their highest since 2001, when terrorism dented tourism to New York City. Better yet, the number Read More
A cool $35 million piece of property drops to $20.95 million awfully quickly these days.
A six-story, seven-bedroom, ten-bathroom, walnut-paneled, chandeliered townhouse at 11 East 74th Street was put on the market for $35 million in August 2007, even though it had sold for $11,230,700 only a year and a half earlier. According to Read More
The Associated Press is reporting that Britney Spears will not be at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, despite the fact that she’s been appearing in ads for the event alongside host Russell Brand.
According to Larry Rudolph, whom AP described as Spears’ "manager at Jive Records," "She’s in the middle of recording Read More
July 26, 2006
12:32 p.m.
7 pounds, 9 ounces
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Send over the velour sweat suits, size super-small! Sara Greisberg, sales manager at Juicy Couture, has welcomed a fair-skinned little fashionista who enjoys listening to Frank Sinatra and Elvis and staring at the world with her big blue eyes. Read More
Expanding his popularity as a steamy (albeit miniature) screen sex symbol, pint-sized Mexican hunk Gael García Bernal, speaking flawless American English without a trace of an accent, arrives to wreak murderous havoc on born-again Christians in Corpus Christi, Tex., like the snake in Eden. He calls himself Elvis, which explains why the film—dark, murky, poisonous Read More
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were successful in the movies, but not really great—one of the authentic crazy acts was reduced on celluloid to processed cheese, just like Elvis Presley. Martin and Lewis lived and died by spontaneity, and that’s tough to translate to film, what with plots, rewrites and retakes.
No, to understand what Read More
What a horrid, torrid week!
It started off with the arrival, on Sunday, July 31, of The New York Times. Lurking in the Book Review was a less than complimentary appraisal of Nasty, my latest book (Simon & Schuster). Let me rephrase that: Lurking in the Book Review was a less than complimentary appraisal of Read More
What a horrid, torrid week!
It started off with the arrival, on Sunday, July 31, of The New York Times. Lurking in the Book Review was a less than complimentary appraisal of Nasty, my latest book (Simon & Schuster). Let me rephrase that: Lurking in the Book Review was a less than complimentary appraisal of Read More
5 Ninth’s Intense Global Cuisine,
Courtesy of Trusty Mortar and Pestle
“Going to Pastis?” asked the cabdriver when I gave him directions to an address in the meatpacking district. Not quite: Instead, we pulled up on the opposite side of the cobblestone intersection at Gansevoort and Little West 12th, in front of a stand-alone Read More
I came late to Elvis Costello. In college, when the dorm emptied out on the night of the Attractions concert, I stayed in my room, listening to Eric Dolphy. My friends all had Elvis Costello records, and though there were songs on them I loved, I didn’t love the voice singing them. Once you’ve acquired Read More
