Before Gary Coleman arrived for autographs, before Wonder Woman waylaid Stephen Colbert, before a troupe of Jedi Knights performed what can only be described as an interpretive light-saber dance—before all this and the million other oddities of the second New York Comic Convention, there were the fanboys, the culture industry’s most valued consumer.
“We’re in!” Read More
On the evening of Thursday, Sept. 21, the Champagne and rosé were flowing yet again at Da Silvano on Sixth Avenue, this time in celebration of owner Silvano Marchetto’s wife, Marisa Acocella Marchetto, and her graphic memoir, Cancer Vixen: A True Story, published by Knopf—the suspenseful tale of what happened to the author after she Read More
“ He’s thought out,” Robert Verdi said. “He’s not. He’s not. He’s not.”
It was a gray Monday afternoon, and Mr. Verdi–the shiny-domed stylist, yappy Metro Channel fashion commentator and kill-’em-with-kindness host of the Discovery Channel’s abode-improvement show Surprise by Design–sat on the concrete steps outside the G.M. building at 59th and Fifth. He Read More
” He’s thought out,” Robert Verdi said. “He’s not. He’s not. He’s not.”
It was a gray Monday afternoon, and Mr. Verdi-the shiny-domed stylist, yappy Metro Channel fashion commentator and kill-’em-with-kindness host of the Discovery Channel’s abode-improvement show Surprise By Design -sat on the concrete steps outside the G.M. building at 59th and Fifth. He Read More
