A web TV and radio show, MichaelaTV.com hosts events around New York City to benefit charity. Created by a stunning Michaela Davies, whose fashion, music and dance sensibilities, much like her co-host makeup designer, Ashlee K’s match those of a Vogue editor, renowned choreographer or supermodel, MichaelaTV.com “is spun in a way so to help [...]
Eli Klein Fine Art’s fundraiser for the Jack Brewer Foundation was an eclectic mix of what seemed to be Isreali businessmen and professional football players, observing photographs of malnourished Malawi children and paintings from Chinese artists. It all came together to raise money to combat extreme poverty, focusing particularly on the almost two million orphaned [...]
The Yale MFA Photography Thesis Show opened this Wednesday at the Jason McCoy Chelsea gallery. Curated by Sabrina Wirth, founder and director of Wirth Art Advisory, the show included selections from the previous Yale exhibit ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ held at 25CPW in early June which was moved to the new location so as art connoisseurs [...]
Spend enough time in New York and you will either fall into the pretension and mindless partying that plagues much of our generation or you’ll simply begin to hate people. For a while I’d been getting that creeping cynicism, trying my best to temper it with my own self-amusement. While the location of the Soapstone [...]
Ah the festivity! Last night a gamely lot came to pay homage to Society Choice’s initiative at Covet lounge to raise awareness and some much needed funds for National Wildlife in lieu of the recent man made disaster courtesy of British Petroleum. With a line up that included Anna Bergman, Giada Valentie, Dalal Bruchmann, Zach [...]
It’s no secret that we here at Scallywag and Vagabond are great fans of the monthly art salons that take place at the accomplished Gilles and Louda Larrain‘s Soho enclave (in fact so are the NY Times, but that was after we first discovered them first- blah!) For the last year we have been sending [...]
REDLIGHT is an independent documentary about human trafficking in Cambodia. Its world premiere in New York City this week convinced two packed audiences to pay attention, ask questions, and even whip out their checkbooks to support the distribution of the film. While most movies leave theater-goers grumbling about their $12.50 ticket prices, the REDLIGHT audience [...]
Last night I found myself what I momentarily thought to be a rendition of Alice in Wonderland’s mad tea (hat) party starring all the pretty dantie celebrities and reality stars (courtesy of Bravo of course) of NYC doing hoola hoop tricks and strut the boardwalk repartee. Of course if you were there you’ll know what [...]
This past Friday I had the good fortune of attending Wallpaper magazine and Brazilian retailer and supporter of the arts IGUATEMI‘s joint celebration of said magazine’s latest foray into Brazil. Hosted at Carlos Junquiera‘s new showroom- Espasso, high society, the design community and some of the most beautiful people this author has ever had the [...]
It’s been said that to understand a man, you have to walk a mile in his shoes. But what if he wears the boots of a marine, and that mile is into the heart of Iraq? As what may register as one of the most powerful entries in this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Zachary Iscol [...]
