Reheated Rat Pack

Big is not always good, but with Ocean’s Eleven , big is all there is: big budget, big noise, big confusion, big special effects, big marketing budget and a big cast the size of an armoire. In the big clamor for escapism amid the serious year-end films of higher aspirations, better quality and depressing subject Read More

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 5th

More proof that in spite of everything terrible that’s happened, downtown is still the new uptown: This year, the House of Hermès-home of the $50,000 handbag-is sponsoring the New York Academy of Art’s Tribeca Ball. The night promises to have a strange vibe: Decorous “uptown” ladies such as Anne Hearst, Jennifer Creel and Read More