So, we have our winner on American Idol: Kris Allen. At a certain point, midway through the incredibly-long-seeming two-plus-hour finale last night, I began to get a feeling this was the way it was going to go down, and then it went. Sigh. Ever since that terrible Gokey mess got voted off, I told myself Read More
Monday: House
Fox has gone bonkers promoting the heck out of this very special House episode … and we are totally on board! In the creepily titled episode “Locked In” (about the even more creepy Locked-In Syndrome), Mos Def guest stars as a man who is trapped inside his body but can’t move or Read More
Listen, I realize I’m about seven years too late when it comes to being obsessed with American Idol. Like, way behind the rest of the country (just like I was with cell phones, microwaves and the Internet!). Also, I know I might be the only Idol-obsessive that started watching the show because of a certain Read More
The auction of Yves Saint Laurent‘s art collection in Paris last night brought in an astounding $262 million, according to Bloomberg. In fact, the sale set records for works of seven of the major artists, including Henri Matisse’s 1911 still life of cowslips in a vase titled Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose, Read More
At this afternoon’s Isaac Mizrahi show at the New York Public Library, the Daily Transom’s seat several rows behind Anna Wintour allowed us to observe a now-familiar pattern: Ms. Wintour arrived within minutes of the designated start time—as she always does, despite the fact that the show would’ve held for her indefinitely—and made her way Read More
The people that filed into Erin Wasson‘s presentation of her line, Erin Wasson x RVCA, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at Milk Studios in the meatpacking district, were mostly model-y girls that looked like boys and boys that looked like girls. That’s because 27-year-old Ms. Wasson, for whom styling and designing are secondary occupations, is first Read More
Anna Winour may have only come to Justin Timberlake‘s William Rast show to wrangle the singer and his girlfriend, Jessica Biel, into posing for Vogue. [Page Six]
The Council of Fashion Designers of America are putting together a cookbook with recipes from some 100 designers including, Zac Posen’s butterscotch cookies, Carolina Herrera‘s pommes Read More
7:30 p.m. Bang On! N.Y.C. throws a (really early) Mardi Gras party featuring “burlesque, stilt walkers, a marching band, sexy chair dancers, and D.J. Curly’s mix of electro, rock and disco.” At 205 Chrystie Street and Stanton.
7:30 p.m. The “Chirpy Chirpy Cheap Cheap” concert series welcomes former Blue’s Clues host–turned–indie-pop front man Steve Burns Read More
The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-De-Siècle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror
By John Merriman
Houghton Mifflin, 272 pages, $26
Long before suicide bombers were blowing people to bits in London, Sri Lanka, Israel and Iraq, extremists in Western Europe and North America displayed the same sort of callous disregard for the Read More
At yesterday’s Phillip Lim show at the Tents, a new runway trend was in evidence: live concerts! (Perhaps the instigator of this was, as is the case with many trends, Marc Jacobs, who famously enlisted Sonic Youth to play his fall 2008 show). Mr. Lim had hired rocker Lissie Trullie, a shaggy-haired redhead who looks Read More
