The Prettiest Girl in the Room: Frank Benson’s Human Statue (Jessie) at Taxer & Spengermann
With Fashion Week, Fashion’s Night Out and the first openings of the September Chelsea gallery shows, it seemed near impossible that an exhibition of a singular sculpture could hold its own in the visual overload happening on the streets. ...
NY Fashion week faux pas and gossip- Day 2/3.
Yes fellow Vagabonds, it’s that time again, the time for us Scallywags here to spill all the delicious dirt heard and seen at the tents. You asked and here we have it… read on if you dare.
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Deceased mentally retarded teenager lived with over 200 animals in squalid conditions.
Have you ever visited someone and wondered to yourself how they manage to accommodate a treasure trove of pets? Yet if a pet is man's way of seeking and attaining unconditional love then we are wanton to accept an...
A Lowlife’s Night Out, Rubbing Shoulders With Upper East Side Dames and Designers
Spending Fashion Night Out in the Upper East Side is a far cry from the days when Andy Warhol worked and lived in the area. The block of Madison Avenue between 58th and 59thStreet hosted three gala parties, red velvet...
Miss Colombia reprimanded for appearing without her panties.
Why bother with a g string when you can just flaunt it outright?
It seems Columbia's entrant to the Miss Universe pageant, 22 year old Catalina Robayo has a thing for dressing sparse. How sparse? Apparently she's been seen attending...
Lindsay Lohan has paparazzo thrown out of fashion tents.
America's favorite media whore scored a big win over a paparazzo at yesterday's Cynthia Rowley fashion show.
Reports the NY Post, Lohan was set to take her seat just before Rowley's show was set to commence when a paparazzo leapt...
Journalist in Nigeria accused of stealing manhood of banker, narrowly escapes lynching.
In Nigeria, locals take penis theft very very seriously....
AllAfrica.com reports that Saminu Ibahim, a journalist working for The National Life newspaper in Zamfara State, went to the Skye Bank to withdraw his salary for the month of August. That’s when...
Candela Spring/Summer 2012: The delicate struggle between structure and self-expression
The Caribbean-inspired notes echo from the room. The guests, an eclectic mix of fashionistas adorned in dark colors and oversized vintage jewelry, nod their heads to the enticing drum beat, anxiously awaiting the guarded doors to open for the...
Supima Spring/Summer 2012 bringing it on home.
The Supima design competition held yearly by Supima cotton brings new talent from prominent design schools to Mercedes Benz fashion week. Not only do all designers in the show receive a large amount of recognition, the winner gets $25,000...
Surface to Air: Parisian boutique opens in NYC, good girl gone bad, sort of…
Wednesday night saw a heady display of downtown cool as Euro's, hipsters, trust funders, fashionistas and a token few from the media world descended onto the opening night launch party for uber chic Parisian label: Surface to Air. If...
Gossip from the tents: NY Fashion Week arrives.
The woman sitting next to me is driving me nuts and as much as I want to back my jackhammer into her skull I pleasantly smile as she regales another insider fashion story. This if you must know is...
Woman stuffs dead roommate in a suitcase, leaves him in an abandoned building
For three months, nobody noticed a suitcase behind an abandoning in the Bronx with a note on it reading, “Rest In Peace.” When someone finally did, finding the badly decomposed body of 73-year-old Johnny Davis—“like a bad Samsonite commericial,” law-enforcement...
Crooks stick up an car shop, assault employees, end up getting a flat tire in police chase
Now comes a gripping story of robbery gone awry with its fair share of sordid assault, car chase, pistol whipping, and an ironic twist at the end, all culminating in a dramatic climax only a Hollywood screenwriter could come...
Local meteorologist found in bathtub with a dead man
Scandal still packs a punch in central Arkansas, especially, I imagine, when the transgression involves a) outing the sexuality of a local news personality, b) connecting said local news personality with a death or possible murder, c) drug use,...
Surprise! DC’s been wiretapping the Israeli Embassy
News to me: everyone spies on everyone in government. Or is it news?
When Shamai Leibowitz, an FBI transcriber, was brought to trial in 2009 for leaking sensitive material to a blogger, even the judge didn't know what information he...
