Though the strength of the Euro has been largely credited with staving off a housing market nosedive in Manhattan, it is hitting expatriate American businessmen (and the multi-national companies they work for) stationed in cities like London, Hong Kong and Moscow hard, pushing already expensive rents into the stratosphere, according to Forbes’ survey of Read More
A very glam downtown project now has a very glam team to sell it.
The mad marketing genius Michael Shvo is partnering with developer Joseph Moinian to market a planned W Hotel at 123 Washington Street, a source said. Mr. Shvo is expected to market the condominium portion of Mr. Moinian’s condo-hotel.
The brash Mr. Read More
Jonathan Napack, 39, an Asian art expert and former New York Observer columnist, died of pneumonia on Jan. 20 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong. He died in the country where he worked for over a decade to build connections between Asian art and the Western world.
A fixture in galleries, studios and collections, Read More
Hollywood has been trying to get a handle on Hong Kong moviemaking for more than a decade now, ever since Americans figured out our action heroes were holding their guns wrong. Instead of the old straight-up-and-down—in one hand, like a cowboy, or in the two-fisted isosceles tactical grip of Miami Vice—there was someone like Chow Read More
Emmanuel Carrère’s La Moustache, based on a screenplay by Jérôme Beaujour and Mr. Carrère (in French with English subtitles), opens a Pandora’s box of paranoid suspicions after a man, acting on a whim, changes his appearance by shaving off his mustache. When no one notices the change—not even his wife of many years—the shorn narcissist Read More
Emmanuel Carrère’s La Moustache, based on a screenplay by Jérôme Beaujour and Mr. Carrère (in French with English subtitles), opens a Pandora’s box of paranoid suspicions after a man, acting on a whim, changes his appearance by shaving off his mustache. When no one notices the change—not even his wife of many years—the shorn narcissist Read More
The Foster design.
Plans for a cultural center in Hong Kong that would have included space for MoMA and Guggenheim museums have been scratched.
The decision is a setback for several major museums. The Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Museum of Read MoreStephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle, from a screenplay by Mr. Chow, Tsang Kan Cheong, Xin Huo and Chan Man Keung, is difficult for me to evaluate. I know next to nothing about Mr. Chow, even though he’s been appearing in Hong Kong films since 1988, with more than 50 action-comedy performances to his credit that Read More
Peyton Amberg , by Tama Janowitz. St. Martin’s Press, 335 pages, $24.95.
Trashy books fall into two basic categories: first, those bodice-rippers with puffed fuschia-lamé lettering and “sizzling!” blurbs by daytime-soap stars. This group includes Jackie Collins, Sidney Sheldon and Judith Krantz-authors who know exactly what they do and love it, and drive red Read More
The McSweeney’s tribe thinks that the book-reviewing trade has become a little too toxic. They worry that snarky reviewers might steer people away from interesting, earnest books. (See Heidi Julavits’ piece in The Believer magazine.)
Well, Believer it or not, we couldn’t agree more. So we’re turning the book reviews over to plants. (We actually Read More
