The “Once Upon a Time in Manhattan” benefit at Marquee celebrated the ongoing achievements of the Ronald McDonald House, a not for profit center that provides housing and social programs for children with cancer who are outpatients in one of fourteen hospitals in New York City. Proceeds from ticket sales and a wonderfully eclectic silent [...]
Tuesday night’s benefit, Artwalk Coalition for the Homeless, brought in a sundry of discerning social types to help raise awareness and funds for a wonderful cause that has now been 15 years in the making. Chaired by Alec Baldwin (who we believe spent a mere $35,000 on one of the auction pieces), Carey Lowell, supposedly [...]
The taxi inched towards fifth avenue as the streets became suddenly illuminated by the camera flashes of passersby. As I stepped out onto the sidewalk, I craned my head over the massive horde of people and saw the Batmobile glistening in all its glory. Surrounded by police fencing, the display continuously stopped people in their [...]
Heaving with laughter, Michael Dobrovolsky – Muscovite by birth, New Yorker by choice – knocks over his glass of merlot. He apologizes for the spill. “You Brighton Beach only like because it’s exotic,” he says. True. Compared to the fundraiser we’re at, Brighton Beach might as well be Mars. An hirsute real-estate agent butts in: [...]
When Susan Lucci, Deborah Norville, and Liz Smith step out, people notice. All three attended the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) Annual Gala, which helps to provide mental health, legal, and educational services to New York’s children and families. The event took place at an Upper East Side event [...]
Photos by Ricardo Garcia Duck hot dogs, are they crazy? Obviously not and what an idea! Especially if they are garnished with foie gras (goose, ironically) and balsamic vinegar! These were by far the tastiest plates provided by D’Artagnan (although the jerk chicken was good, but too spicy). Located on the 36th floor of the [...]
In the lobby of 33 56th St, its cream walls of cubic space surrounding, stands two, delicately lean Asian girls in oriental patterned, silk beaded dresses. They are Geishas femininely guarding the ground floor elevators. In the first penthouse, sixteen floors up, stand three more Geisha girls, this time before a backdrop of unraveling cityscape [...]
Wednesday night – a swelling ring of thin, hip, young things smoke, legs bare, tattoos abound, decadent sandals and all. The marble and glass amalgamation of 7 W 34th street has put on its best face tonight, polished and glowing with trails of beautiful bodies in skin tight garb and well pressed suits – the [...]
Saturday night-the damp corners of eleventh avenue hang freshly with rain, shrouded in a veil of gathered industrial buildings and spaciously modern art galleries. Nestled at the baron end of twenty seventh street, crouches Cain Luxe Nightclub, whose sprawling glass doors possess handles in the shapes of exotic elephant faces. The finely dressed doormen admit [...]
