Pomp and Circumstance at Cipriani’s – The legends come out.

This Tuesday I took in the goings-on at the annual Friars Foundation Awards Ceremony at Ciprianis 42nd Street.  The Friars Foundation is the charitable...

Brooklyn International Film Festival Awards Night:How they triumphed.

Rarely considered accordingly, film can be easily considered the crux of artistic expression. Integrating all manner of emotion-piquing writing, music, performance, and visual arts...

The Hamptons… Almost There, Champagne in the Rain.

This past weekend Georgica was packed with the hottest ‘almost famous models’ thus far in this Hamptons season. They pranced around in the highest...

A Bohemian’s Guide to Surviving the Recession.

The big bad Recession is everywhere you look these days and those who least expected it, are feeling the pinch. While normal middle...

The Unconventional Lifestyle of a Cocaine Dealer. Part 2.

The Unconventional Lifestyle of a Cocaine Dealer. Part 1. For anyone who has ever wondered where all the kids get the energy, the chutzpah to...

Sea Legs- Coney Island as a metaphor of the decay of the American Dream.

Sea Legs, a film by Craig Butta, fittingly premiered at the low-key Brooklyn International Film Festival. A quietly emotional film, Sea Legs seemed at...

The Intrigue of Brunch.

You will know it by the smell of brown sugared bacon, eggs Benedict, blueberry pancakes and lavish juice laden cocktails all had at 2...

Back to the UN: Challenging Critical Thinking, a Gala.

The Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization (IREO) held its 2nd annual Energy Awards Gala at the UN last night, in recognition of upstanding individuals’ commitment...

Bud Blacks Aka Euro; Bitches, and all that shit…

In the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant, things are changing. The Marcy projects look like a work in progress, with concrete and asphalt piled like a...

The Unconventional lifestyle of a Cocaine dealer. Part 1.

The Unconventional Lifestyle of a Cocaine Dealer. Part 2 No one despite what they may think decides to grow up to become an axe murderer,...

A new kind of Rockstar at the World Science Festival.

It was Wednesday night at the Opening Gala of the World Science Festival, and everyone in the press line was waiting for Alan Alda....

At the Gates: If only I could find a way to take the Chandeliers...

There’s an adage in show business that goes something like this “everyone wants to be a star but the truth is how badly do...

Green Gala: “Burning Down the House.”

Everyone knows that green is the new black, and it showed at this year’s Celebrate Brooklyn Green Gala at Prospect Park. With organizers aiming...

The Etiquette of Food Shopping

As I was looking over the mesculin selection at Dean and Deluca, this very morning, I could not help but notice the girl...

DJ Cat: Hot new PinK.

Meet Catherine Wentworth at a party or hanging out with friends and you’ll come away from the encounter thinking, “What a nice, sweet, intelligent...