Brooke Geahan, the 20-something founder of the Accompanied Literary Society, has made a career of throwing scruffy readers and writers together with scenesters and socialites, and using the dim light of glamorous venues to make them look significantly more attractive than they might elsewhere. She was up to her old tricks on Wednesday, Sept. 25, Read More
Last night, in in a townhouse near the Flatiron building, the very young editors of Lapham’s Quarterly were embarrassed. They were aged 23, 24 and 28, and, by coincidence, they all wore the same H&M suit: dark, pinstriped and under $200. Each wore a red tie.
"We did it and didn’t realize it," said Elias Read More
Lately, there’s been plenty of activity over at Soho’s New Museum Building, located at 158 Mercer Street.
Fashion scion and Saturday Night Live producer Marci Klein is reportedly moving into an 11th-floor unit, purchased through a trust that included entertainment tycoon David Geffen.
One floor below, ritzy hotelier André Balazs is selling his Read More
Lately, there’s been plenty of activity over at Soho’s New Museum Building, located at 158 Mercer Street.
Fashion scion and Saturday Night Live producer Marci Klein is reportedly moving into an 11th-floor unit, purchased through a trust that included entertainment tycoon David Geffen.
One floor below, ritzy hotelier André Balazs is selling his 3,800-square-foot place Read More
The New York Times is considering pulling up stakes in its great venture into television.
Though the award-winning but ratings-deficient Discovery Times channel is a 50-50 partnership with Discovery Communications, Discovery currently controls four of the seven seats on its board. According to sources at The Times and the Discovery Channel familiar with the negotiations, Read More
The New York Times is considering pulling up stakes in its great venture into television.
Though the award-winning but ratings-deficient Discovery Times channel is a 50-50 partnership with Discovery Communications, Discovery currently controls four of the seven seats on its board. According to sources at The Times and the Discovery Channel familiar with the Read More
After wasting lazy days on a porch in the Berkshires, drinking gin and reading the
The Daily News offers a bit of comparison shopping between the Duke Semans mansion ($50 million) and a single-family home in Staten Island ($164,900). One has a sweeping staircase, while the other lets you live near Read More
“Being old-fashioned, I remember when a museum cost nothing,” the artist Will Bennet said as guests filled the Museum of Modern Art’s cavernous new second-floor atrium on the evening of Nov. 16, early in the night of the opening preview party. Invited guests included Spike Lee, Jasper Johns, John Waters, Isabella Rosellini, Larry Gagosian and Read More
Despite war, terror and economic anxiety, the late-summer stretch of the Presidential campaign has kept turning to more esoteric questions: Where is the border between Vietnam and Cambodia? Who does the Iraqi soccer team support?
And now: What’s the difference between Madison Square Garden and the inside of Lewis Lapham’s skull?
Mr. Lapham, the Read More
Ten years ago, the assertion that Peter Jennings, Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters and their ilk were the well-groomed stepchildren of tabloid journalism godfather William Randolph Hearst would have been regarded as blasphemy on Network Row. But a new documentary, written and narrated by Harper’s magazine editor Lewis Lapham, makes just that point.
The documentary, Legacy Read More
