Today is the street date of the most anticipated Vanity Fair cover since Jennifer Aniston announced that, yes, she did want kids. Judd Apatow has guest-edited the glossy rag (it’s sort of like when Roseanne guest-edited The New Yorker, but five times as long and far more self-serious), presumably commissioning photo spreads of his coterie Read More
Australia’s given us some of our best stars: Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, Paul “Crocodile Dundee” Hogan, Cate Blanchett… So we’re eager to attend the New 42nd Street Gala, which is honoring the Australia Council for the Arts for creating theatrical works for young kids. (You don’t need to be in Perth to see them: the Read More
Just like the rest of us, Wall Streeters have to blow off steam somehow, and those not interested in Glenlivet or high-end gentlemen’s clubs may choose to rock out (for charity). Two amateur bands composed of bank types, Stone Hedge and The Subscribers, are to take the stage at the charitable Wall Street Rocks Battle Read More
Wealth managers Alexandra Lebenthal and Michelle Smith know when to hold ’em and know when to fold ’em, and they host a quarterly women’s poker club to show off exactly how good they are at high-stakes betting. Among their fellow poker players, who find Maserati of Manhattan a more relaxing and pleasant staging ground than Read More
One of New York’s most welcome and low-key holiday traditions arrives today with the 68th annual lighting of Park Avenue’s fir trees, a tradition that began just after World War II. Not for Upper East Siders the hullaballoo of the Rockefeller Center tree-lighting, with its celebrities and vertiginous height; the manageably petite Park Avenue firs Read More
For those whose favorite holiday movie is Eyes Wide Shut (hey, it all goes down right around Christmastime), the Bootstrap Project, a nonprofit promoting the sustainable trade of artisanal crafts, has just the event for you; tonight’s its Holiday Masquerade, a cocktail party where masks (the more elaborate the better) are de rigueur … Meanwhile, Read More
They just don’t make them like George Lois anymore. As we’re perpetually reminded when looking at the dreariness of the contemporary newsstand, the Esquire art director who gave us some of the most instantly recognizable covers of the modern magazine era is simply not replaceable. But he didn’t arrive on the scene fully formed, as Read More
Host a screening of an ’80s Scandinavian tearjerker in Brooklyn? Sure, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences isn’t doing anything else right now. As the Oscar-awarding body waits for ballots to be sent in, it’s drumming up enthusiasm with a screening of 1988’s winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Pelle the Conqueror, at Read More
If there’s one cultural experience that people enjoy far more during the holidays than they do the rest of the year, it’s the ballet—any number of kiddos citywide think that ballerinas play no roles other than little Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy. Though its timing is perfectly in sync with our sentimental yearning for Read More
It’s time for one of the season’s most glittering charitable celebrations. UNICEF is throwing its snow-ball—the annual Snowflake Ball at Cipriani 42nd Street. Tonight’s honorees include Harry Belafonte, the calypso singer-turned-humanitarian, and U.S. Fund for UNICEF board member Dolores Rice Gahan; they’ll be serenaded by Tony Bennett and the Wynton Marsalis Quartet. The star power Read More
