By Emily Atkin 9/27/11 7:32pm

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A Blow-Out Made Me Blotto! The Illegal Scourge of Salon Drinking

We weren’t three minutes into our pedicure—or two toes—and already The Observer was getting wasted.

The place was Dashing Diva in Greenwich Village, a chain nail salon with 12 locations in the city and two in California. The place’s decor resembles a little like what might happen if Elle Woods met Malibu Barbie. The only part that isn’t either bright pink or white are the racks of multicolored nail polish on the walls. The pedicure station is a banquette of pink pillows, cut off from the rest of the salon by a wall of mini pearly-pink tiles. It’s a nice place to get plastered. Read More

By D.W. Gibson 7/21/09 11:17pm

All We Are Saying Is Give Pee a Chance: Hair Herd Sings for Civil Liberties

The cast of Hair is used to getting naked in front of a packed house on a regular basis, but performing at Broadway Stands Up for Freedom, a concert benefiting the youth programs of the New York Civil Liberties Union, at N.Y.U.’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, like, totally freaked them out. “We were Read More

By Em Whitney 3/14/09 7:52pm

In The City: Events 3.14.09-3.16.09

SATURDAY

4 p.m. The Artists & Fleas: Independent Artist Indoor Market is held at 303 Grand Street in Brooklyn.

6 p.m. A dance improvisation workshop called “The Buzz” will take place at the N.Y. Chinese Cultural Center on 390 Broadway. Admission is $10.

8 p.m. “TIMES 365:24:7” is a “multi-media exploration of today’s hyper-caffeinated media Read More

By John Heilpern 8/05/08 4:53pm

Let the Fogies Fawn Over South Pacific—Hair Revival Rocks

The Public Theater’s smashing new revival of Hair (1967) in Central Park is a joy from beginning to end. It’s just the best, though fans of South Pacific (1947) might not agree with me.

I felt about Lincoln Center’s loving revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific that while the audience seemed to be Read More

By Gillian Reagan 8/05/08 3:51pm

Hippie, Hippie Shake

Bryce Ryness, 27, was born nearly two decades after hippies danced in the mud, but the lanky actor looks like he just stepped out of Woodstock. With sun-streaked, dirty blond hair to his shoulders, earthy sandals and blue and purple polish on his nails, Mr. Ryness said his role as a member of the Age Read More