The guaranteed etiquette to misery and social climbing for young girls.

So you’ve arrived in the big city from 'who-knows where,' Idaho and you want to meet the people that will plug you into that...

Fixx hangs out with John Varvatos.

There she is, just a few steps away from me, standing behind a wooden table with snifter glasses, various bottles of scotch, and a...

Red Hook or be dammed. After party for BKFW.

The first instance of Fashion Week to be held in the rising borough of Brooklyn was capped off with a similarly-incongruous after-party sponsored in...

Brooklyn Fashion Weekend 2009.

Photography by Seana Cavanagh In these uncertain times it takes a brave soul to organize a collective showcasing burgeoning fashion designers, that or folly. Enter...

The new breed at the National Arts Council.

The National Arts Club is a hell of an institution. Founded in 1898 by a veteran New York Times literary critic and housed in...

Catharine Malandrino gives you cameo.

“Could you please check with the store manager?” I asked as the door to Catherine Malandrino’s Soho boutique was firmly shut in my face....

Dossier Journal arrives at Tribeca Grand. And how…

Thursday night, and where dreams could be wagered and snow fell white, pure and delirious. All the tall and languid had retired to the...

Gen Art Finale at the BLVD, that and a celebrity cluster.

It’s Tuesday evening, closing night of the Gen Art 7 Premiers/7 Parties Festival and I am attempting to survive the final screening and after...

Miss Subway Girl: Then and Now.

Beauty. It is the thing that our society craves and rewards. In Fiona Gardner’s upcoming photo exhibit ‘Meet Miss Subway,’ at Rush Gallery we...

The Curious Affairs of Psychotherapy.

I fired my last therapist because of a poorly-photo shopped advertisement in the back of one of those tawdry, overly glossy gay magazines. By...

Faux celebrities. A make believe experiment at GEN ART.

There is nothing more irritating to those of us who love to drink than an open bar at a well-attended event. On a normal...

‘La Didone.’ – A Sci-fi Masterpiece.

There are many things in life that come with diabolical manifestations, repercussions and metaphors, Elizabeth LeCompte’s Wooster Group’s production of ‘Le Didone’ happens to...

Cinema: Reliving Berlin Nights.

Rene can see dead people.  Really, he’s told me so.  He’s always been able to, even in his youth, it’s just that now, well...

The Impossible Collection comes to Assouline.

 “when editors are bored, they drink” said Moran Bar-Kochva, recalling his old days as a journalist, “and then they decide to do some sort of ranking...

Chuck Bass in Colored Lipstick. XOXO. Gossip Girl.

It seems that Chuck’s rainbow is missing a color. Gossip Girl is part of a vast right-wing conspiracy promoting a uniquely Christian agenda. In this...
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