The Transom

A Comeback Kid

A few Fridays ago, Danny the Wonder Pony co-hosted a birthday party for Ivy Nicholson at CroBar.

Ms. Nicholson has recently returned to New York from Montana. She has new digs at Chelsea’s no-frills Hotel Allerton. She has a good friend in Vincent Potter, a stylist at the Robert Kree Salon, whose Read More

Barbara Cook

Barbara Cook, Broadway’s favorite Golden Age ingénue turned cabaret queen, perched on a couch in her cheery Riverside Drive apartment on a recent afternoon, mulling the paradoxes of good fortune. On Jan. 20, she will become the first Broadway-bred chanteuse to be presented by the Metropolitan Opera in its 123-year history, but her whirligig schedule Read More

Crime Blotter

Lady Larcenists Take

Women’s Lib to the Bank

As if cabbies didn’t have enough on their minds these days, what with the threatened strike over stagnant fares, lousy tippers who want to be taken to Montauk and intoxicated passengers who can’t hold their liquor, you can now add bank robbers (of which we’ve had Read More