Victoria’s Secret’s “Very Sexy” bra collection is flying off the shelves. Unfortunately, not everybody is paying for the push-up, padded, embroidered and bejeweled bodices. And by the way, “Very Sexy” is a registered trademark; it’s not simply a description of the garments given to police after a thief visited the store on Nov. 19 and Read More
Wednesday 28th
Sake to me! We called Benihana’s founder, Rocky Aoki, and asked him if he’s ever gone sake-bombing. ” Heh, heh, heh! That’s some type of a trend for the younger generation , isn’t it? Where they mix the beer and sake together?” Tonight, Rocky and his wife Keiko host a sake-tasting with Read More
A couple years ago, Bob Dylan was playing a concert at Boston University. Backstage, the one man who could truly claim, if he so chose, to be Bob Dylan’s biggest fan was waiting: the British literary critic and Boston University professor Christopher Ricks. Mr. Ricks, the acclaimed author of a shelfful of books on Milton, Read More
Wednesday 11th
Fashion Week traipses on, leaving every female in its wake feeling bad about her body , except us (honey, an awkward silence would be comfortable in our body). It’s been two days since Oscar de la Renta’s show, and a week since we ruffled his ruffles by implying that he’d tacked Read More
Wednesday 29th
It’s boots season, ladies, but the city is also burstin’ with balls , so keep your glass slippers by the front door. Tonight the Central Park Conservancy -the folks who keep Central Park beautiful and save the taxpayers a bundle-unveils a “Mystery and Masquerade” ball (costumes encouraged; black tie accepted), where you’ll Read More
So that nice Russian guy you’ve been dating is turning out to be a bit rough around the edges. First he handed you wads of cash and pressured you to dye your hair blond and splurge on tarty clothes. As a result, your closet is now groaning with high-priced Versace and Cavalli, and you look Read More
Wednesday, Mar. 27
Hel- lo , Oscar! Like everyone outside of Russell Crowe, who’s droning on like the love child of James Lipton and Charles Grodin these days- crikey, that’s one acceptance wheeze we were grateful to miss-we couldn’t help but be swept up in the wee-hour history-making of the movie biz’s biggest big Read More
It’s a little hard for this preflood lady to understand the kick. Why did this herd of hackers jam up Yahoo exactly? Because it was there? Because they could? Because they were protesting, expressing ire against things running loose in cyberspace, against people ordering socks from J. Crew or making e-trades between folding the laundry Read More
A beauty book is a rite of passage for today’s supermodel, but Stephanie Seymour’s friends were horrified when she told them about hers. It’s called Beauty Secrets for Dummies –Weight Watchers spokesman Sarah Ferguson, a.k.a. the Duchess of York, wrote the foreword–and it only costs $19.99.
Ms. Seymour, on the other hand, has a sense Read More
