Wednesday, May 25
Dark Matter
If only we could see what it’s like to be blind. Well, not see, as such, but…you know! The city has so many delightful visual stimuli-ooh, what a lovely dress! Wowee, the Chrysler Building! Aha, two pigeons fighting over an old hot dog!-that we can’t imagine the lights going out. Read More
Wednesday, May 18
Arty Party
Most creative types have ambivalent memories of recess. While a respite from the strictures of the classroom were nice, the humiliations of dodgeball and other childrens’ “games” were for many the anvil on which a future of creative genius was hammered. But, hey, we’re past that now! Recess Activities Read More
Wednesday, May 11
Fifteen Minutes, Extended
Warhol! The pop artist is the auteur of modern celebrity–but will people shell out for, you know, his art, when they can witness his legacy by flipping on E!? Of course, they will. That famous Self-Portrait in vivid red, the centerpiece of today’s Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction, Read More
Wednesday. April 20
Stroke of Genius
New York’s “foodies” are ravenous–not for food (they eat often, and they eat well), but for a new joint to obsess over. They’re in luck! David Bouley has finally emerged from community board headaches and other location mishegoss to open Brushstroke, the Japanese restaurant of our drool-inducing fever dreams. Read More
Wednesday, April 6
Youth and Beauty
Ah, Karen Russell. Or, as the Swamplandia! author might render it, Karen Russell! Never has a young author provoked such envy since that little minx Freudenberger. (Is it a girl thing?) But back to Ms. Russell: The 29-year-old phenom was pegged as an under-40 author to watch on that Read More
Wednesday, March 30
Coffee Talk
We’re betting Tina Brown likes her coffee the same way she likes her copy: “V. v. hot!” Guests will find out tonight as the High Beastess herself throws a private book party at her Upper East Side townhouse for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s memoir, Onward (we hear it’s full of Read More
Wednesday, March 23
Protect and Serve
Personally, we think New York’s Finest are plenty brave, and its Bravest tend to be extremely fine. (Maybe it’s all that sliding down poles?) But if the city’s cops and firefighters want to have a little healthy competition to see who’s best, far be it from us to intervene. Read More
