Katelyn Duran: No cookie cutter girl.

It's late fall and to my left is a young woman by the name of Katelyn Duran who has been spending the greater part of the day belting out her new album here in NYC. To say...

With Help, Henry Buhl Puts Soho on The Map.

New York is a bustling goddamn community. It lives, it thrives, it prospers because of three things: Its natives, its commuters, and its tourists.  (Someone brilliant once compared New York to a working body on those...

Boundless Enthusiasm: An Evening with Jimmy Fallon and Brian Williams

Within minutes of arriving on stage at the Paley Center for Media, Jimmy Fallon lead the audience in a sing-a-long of “The Giraffe Song” written about Tiger Woods (originally performed on “Late Night”).  Minutes before...

Grand society arrives for El Museo del Barrio.

Last night welcomed the spectacular visage of El Museo's annual Gala at midtown Cipriani's where society and media gathered to pay tribute to some of the greats (nay legends one supposes...) in the arts- principally...

Greta Van Susteren voted dumb on the internet.

Trying to see who's smarter- Greta or the internet. This morning Greta is probably walking around town with a large brown paper bag over her head after a public stunt back fired on her. How did she take...

Using star appeal and exclusivity to bilk your customers.

Another Ponzi scheme makes its way to high society. Here we go again, or is it just the way to do business these days? Yesterday morning financial adviser and new found Ponzi schemer Kenneth Starr to the stars...

AOL and Chuck Close’s launch of the Project on Creativity.

Chuck Close partnered with AOL this year to celebrate their 25th Anniversary at the New Museum on Bowery Street. Known for his large-scale portraits, Close was commissioned by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to depict the ten...

In defense of Sex and the City.

The original article appeared in My Dog ate my Blog. With the release of Sex and the City 2 this Friday, those who love it are bursting withexcitement, and those who don’t are getting one last chance to...

Can a Straight Man Love Sex and the City?

As you may be aware—and if you live in New York, you’ve been inundated with posters—Sex and the City 2 arrives in theaters this Friday.  Hooray. It’s not something I’ve given any amount of thought to. Not...

Model Charlotte Lindstrom finally leaves drugs, hit men and jail behind.

The end of a nightmare. Charlotte Lindstrom has spent the last 3 years of her life locked away in prison in Sydney because of a crime she committed out of passion. And today newly freed she is finally...

What will you get up to this memorial day weekend?

Trying to figure how to stay sober until the next swig... With the upcoming memorial day weekend rush just upon us we've started to wonder how the majority of you will actually spend that Monday off ...

The new Williamsburg is now a quaint suburb in upstate NY.

Trying to find cool and relocate it. I don't know about you lot, but I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and to be frank I'm quite afraid these days to venture out the door- between cowboy hipsters riding their...

The Sex and the City mayhem officially arrives in NYC.

Yesterday at Radio City Music Hall marked the auspices entreat to society of the latest 'mythological' effort by producer John Melfi- 'Sex in the City 2.' If you thought the first effort was overdone and redundant,...

Wisconsin has no sense of humor.

Note to self: if I move to middle-America, leave sense of humor in New York City. It seems a 21-year veteran Police and Fire Department dispatcher has been fired from her job after posting a funny...

Why I’m a sore loser- the ‘Next Gineration Cocktail Challenge starring New Amsterdam.’

By the time I arrived at the undisclosed location (I had a car service take me to a secret location for crying out loud) at Norfolk st's 'The Back Room,' I was already beginning to wonder...