Cruising the Tribeca Riviera for Purely Shellfish Reasons

On a recent warm evening, I stopped for dinner at L’Oursin, a new seafood bistro in Tribeca. Its French doors were opened onto the sidewalk, where a blackboard had been set up, advertising happy hour and chalked with specials. The restaurant, next to Popeyes on Chambers Street, could almost have been in some tacky beach Read More

A Former Model Finds Beauty on the Other Side of the Camera

Maybe it’s because she worked as a circus girl when she was a teenager in Germany–in fishnet stockings, she circled the ring after each act. Or because she had to survive a childhood of certain hard knocks–she was orphaned by age 2. Whatever the inspiration, photographer Ellen von Unwerth’s pictures, which appear mostly in Vogue Read More