Nicole Miller thinks about mortality as she gets her hair did by Heidi Klum’s ex Rick Pipino, just before her show begins.
The creepy-yet-hot Canadian designing duo of Dean and Dan Caten sandwich Katie Holmes-dumpee Chris Klein at the party for the reopening of Saks mens’ floor.
Off the Read More
The first in a series of what will surely become a regular feature. Ladies and gentlemen, a peek inside office life with Mr. Tom Scocca, the New York Observer‘s Off The Record columnist. At right: Mr. Scocca’s desk, in a photograph taken just now, while he was in a meeting.
MediaTom: Did you read Read More
When faced, at the movies, with obnoxious fellow audience members who are talking or kicking the back of your chair, you have two basic options (unless, of course, their banter is better than the dialogue onscreen): You can confront them and risk physical injury, or you can move to another seat.
A June 29 Read More
When faced, at the movies, with obnoxious fellow audience members who are talking or kicking the back of your chair, you have two basic options (unless, of course, their banter is better than the dialogue onscreen): You can confront them and risk physical injury, or you can move to another seat.
A June 29 Read More
Wednesday 1st
Farewell, summer, iced skim lattes and R.N.C. delegates ; hello, hot drinks , NBC sitcoms destined to fail and the new round-toed shoe with a heel so high that fall’s hottest sport is watching Condé Nast editors wobble their way around the cobblestone streets of the meat packing district (a neighborhood soon Read More
Lunch was flawless. It was the sort of meal you dream of finding in Italy, where ingredients always seem to taste so much better than they do back home. Two of us shared four small plates: beef carpaccio with pears and black-pepper pecorino, pizzette topped with truffled Robiola cheese and prosciutto, salmon cured in limoncello Read More
Confront your holiday bloat! Do it now! Spring merch is already starting to hit the stores; meanwhile, you need to hit the treadmill … and try not to break it-or eat it!
It all started last September, when-egged on by well-intentioned Katie Couric–type people-you went on a post–9/11 comfort-food ingest-athon. Who can blame you? Macaroni Read More
All joking aside, I have to say I’m mad about stocking-stuffers!
If I had my way, there would be no real gifts-only stocking-stuffers. You have
to admit that chic little hors d’oeuvres are always more fun to eat than gloppy
entrees. Stocking-stuffers (S.S.’s) may lack the luxe and gravitas of larger
gifts, but they’re always Read More
Hanukkah was once a minor holiday, a playful reminder of miracles that cast a warming light against the winter darkness. The game of dreidel was an innocent sort of gambling pleasure: an easy way to teach children that chance is beyond cajoling, that you win or lose, double or nothing, depending on the breath in Read More
On Thursday, Sept. 27, lines were forming in New York stores, but
they were on the other side of the cash register. At the cavernous Hermès store
on Madison Avenue and 62nd Street, a saleswoman was propping herself up on a
cash register, bored. At Prada on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, an employee was Read More
