By Kim Velsey 1/25 7:09pm

wealth management

Back in the money!

Park City, Utah: Another Place You Can Spend $21 M. On a House

New Yorkers can be so solipsistic. We tend to forget that New York is not the only place where you can get a decent meal, where talented young people congregate, where the mega-wealthy dump huge quantities of cash into real estate they hardly ever use.

You know where rich people also spend wads of money on ridiculous mansions? Park City, Utah.

The New York Times has a story about the ski resort and home of the Sundance Film Festival in this week’s real estate section. It’s no surprise that money falls like snow in the resort town—as The Times aptly points out, Aspen may be nice, but most of it is surrounded by public land. Which you can’t buy and resell for a lot more money. Ugh. Read More

By Mario Naves 4/09/07 12:00am

Ralston Crawford Sees the Light

Certain exhibitions cast doubt upon the received wisdom. They force us to reconsider an artist’s achievement and standing—often deserved, sometimes not. Ralston Crawford (1906-1978): Photographs, at Zabriskie Gallery, is such an exhibition.

Re-evaluations aren’t always happy. But the Zabriskie show doesn’t exact any damage whatsoever on Crawford’s underrated contribution to 20th-century American art. Instead, it Read More

By Staff 2/14/07 5:00pm

Elsewhere: Ethics, Snow

Brendan Scott captures the moment when the Chairman of the Assembly’s Ethics Committee decided to vote for the controversial ethics reform bill.

Eliot Spitzer’s appointments so far have not been confirmed by the Republican-controlled state Senate.

The Jewish Press thinks Spitzer is too hard on Sheldon Silver.

The snow storm has Read More

By Richard Brookhiser 4/03/06 12:00am

Were Smith’s Mormons Ahead of Their Times?

This column is not about the HBO series Big Love. Only flatterers or irritables ascribe culture-changing force to cultural artifacts like TV shows. Fiction, as Stendhal said, is a mirror carried along a road; it shows us what we are, it doesn’t make us what we are. If a new age of poly-relationships is upon Read More

By Richard Brookhiser 4/03/06 12:00am

Were Smith’s Mormons Ahead of Their Times?

This column is not about the HBO series Big Love. Only flatterers or irritables ascribe culture-changing force to cultural artifacts like TV shows. Fiction, as Stendhal said, is a mirror carried along a road; it shows us what we are, it doesn’t make us what we are. If a new age of poly-relationships is upon Read More

By Marshall Heyman 1/30/06 12:00am

Sundance Schwag: Party Promoters Blast Into Town

On the crowded streets of Park City, Utah, it’s difficult to leave the screening of a small movie like Friends With Money, directed by indie cult figure Nicole Holofcener, in a big limousine.

The movie’s star, Jennifer Aniston, spent the weekend in the company of her favorite accessory, her gay hairdresser, Chris McMillan; for Read More

By Staff 12:12pm

New York Post Takes Stand Against Shallowness

The New York Post greets plastic-surgery magazine Skin Deep today with a collection of quotes from the new title, assembled into a damning portrait of superficiality: * “It’s a month before your wedding and you want everything to be just perfect! … The good news is that you can get that Hollywood smile you’ve Read More

By Molly Haskell 7/23/01 12:00am

Bigamy: A Modest Proposal

Granted, it’s been a slow summer for hard news, but with the

alarums and excursions over the computer-created film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within , you’d think the Martians had

landed and a digitized babe with a permanent good-hair day and her space-hunk

cohorts were out to get everybody in Actors’ Equity. “The synthespians are Read More