In school, the good girls always made first place, but it’s what happened after school that I always found intriguing… Just recalling the neatly primped hair, fruity lip balm and freshly pressed blouses is enough to extract a cringe from any girl who wasn’t as noticeably neat. After all, the good girls received special recognition [...]
None of the patrons are dressed in pastel colors. The room is teamed with black and white, thick and thin multi-directional stripes, silk screened patterns of dark burgundy and dense blues. The audience filing in fills the stark white space as a bruise against creamy flesh, a beautifully layered, long-legged bruise. Perhaps its coincidence that [...]
The first thought that crosses my mind is: This cannot be her. She stands in the reception area of Downtown Manhattan’s dimly lit, designer-decadent BOND ST restaurant, flawless blonde hair flipped to a Charlie’s Angels-esque wave, electric pink blouse, glittering pendant about her neck. This can’t be the same woman whose mind conjures visual majesty, [...]
It must be expected that complex machines require at least a minimal amount of time to enable human comprehension; and for computers, we assume great patience. We assume patience for computers for one primary reason: to add instant convenience to the demands of our daily lives. Writing in longhand has long since disappeared as [...]
People in this city talk persistently of art’s coming death. You’ve met them. You might have even thought it yourself, feared that all artists genuinely nourished by the taste of beauty rather than billion dollar champagne have lapsed into shallow commercialism or fled to Europe. Passing the American Eagle Outfitters clans cluttering Broadway and Grand [...]
From the outside it looks so glamorous. The conservatory training, infinite passion, creative collaboration – not to mention the beautiful bone structures and svelte bodies – the life of a young actor seems an artistically idyllic little world on the verge of triumph. But all this is what one might see with brutally selective eyes [...]
Whether you were once the type of child who grooved and sang atop their family fireplace for anyone who might watch or the type who privately held a water bottle to their lips as a microphone in performance for the mirror, you, at one point, played up your inner rock star. Of course, not all [...]
We have models to turn to for beauty. There they walk, long legged, ravishing, adored. Here we sit, gawking, envious, infatuated. For years, media trends have informed us that whomever stands in the limelight serves as the plastic mold of perfection currently worthy of obsession from all women and men, that we must arrange our [...]
One would never assume, in a time of heavy recession with humanitarianism at a full blown high, that the New York Times’ most popular article of the much revered Arts section details Paula Abdul’s decision to quit American Idol. But, that’s only because such an assumption requires closer, might we say ‘more scandalous,’ prodding into the [...]
On the stage, enshrouded in a fold of dark blue lights, the elegant bodies of two dancers extend expertly as the onlookers stare breathlessly. The olive-skinned, thin-bodied woman twisting her leg into a turn wears a stunningly simple, violently red dress as she glides across the empty space. Her male partner, a pale-haired, slender man [...]
