The Preppy Set Is Getting Ready To Crash Fashion Week
Privelege is worth its weight in gold.
From Gawker comes the disturbing but atypical ploy of rich kids with rich parents and plenty of connections trying to break into the upcoming NY fashion shows. Call it the new sense of...
Broadway Actress’s Boyfriend Beats Up Her Dog
The horrible things that go on off Broadway.
Welcome to douchebag boyfriend of the week: Joseph Graves, who couldn't help give his big time actress girlfriend's (Ashley Yeater) little fluffy dog (Emmet) a nice little savage beating over the weekend...
Eco Chic: Stylish and Sustainable
The Paris Haute Couture shows may well have provided plenty of column inches with the oh-so-stylish of late, but just over the border at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, a groundbreaking event ushered in the International Year of Biodiversity.
Tackling...
The bad news is finally in- Your college degree is worth jack.
Why the earnings discrepancy between high school and college graduates is shrinking.
The one thing that you are promised if you end up getting a college degree is that your earnings power will far surpass that of mere high school...
Gilles and Louda Larrain’s Lucky 13th
Finally, I found an artist who would paint a nude model on the back of another nude model. Another check off the wish list for this young fellow. This was just a tease of what Gilles and Louda Larrain...
First Impressions: A Night At HEIST Gallery.
Tonight was my first encounter with emerging artist Sadie Weis and gallery entrepreneur Talia Eisenberg. I hope it won’t be my last. Something about the art world has always eluded me. I just haven’t gotten it. Tonight at Heist,...
Gender/bender…
Art. Social commentary. Personal discovery. How should these concepts interact? All three can comment on the others, so does one deserve precedence over the rest? As the web allows everyone (and their mother) publish self-probing diaries and social/political critiques...
Terese Pagh Teglgaard, Heating up Europe and Still in Her Teens.
At first glance, Terese Pagh Teglgaard, a tall, dark blonde, all around beautiful girl, portrayed to most individuals as a super sultry and almost unapproachable debutante. But beneath the refined and elegant surface rests a young lady trying to...
Dilemma of a tabloid writer.
For those of you in the business of being inspired, getting relevant news and being sufficiently titillated- I have some bad news. No one cares anymore.
Why? Because suddenly google equals truth. Which in a roundabout way means that the...
Sundance. The parties and movies keep coming…
The parties: The Sundance Channel had a party, and it was everything an industry party should be: exclusive, relaxed, and prepped with finger food. Seriously, they had mini s’mores, who can beat that? It was low on celebrity, but...
War and Peace and Archives.
The Israel-Palestine conflict is almost certainly the most controversial issue of modern times, yet rational discussion of the topic often seems impossible. Participants and pundits alike tend to base their opinions of the dispute not on empirical evidence, but...
To Predicate on Etiquette.
Now, we here at Scallywag & Vagabond have a self-proclaimed duty to ‘report’ on matters of etiquette and manners, and other things we deem fit. Still, it seems apropos to take an actual look at what that means, and...
Musings from Sundance: Day 1. Where did the Artists and shiny black cars go?
As soon as we found out Sarah was going to be at the Sundance Film Festival I began making phone calls like a madman to try and accommodate Sarah to some of the interesting events that I knew would...
Splendor at the 2010 American Antiques Show.
What makes a good collection? What is it that an antiques collector is trying to get his hands on and where does an antique dealer begin to look for the things that they deem valuable. These where the questions...
Was Michael Mineo sodomized by police?
A cop's word vs a career criminal.
Here are the facts. Michael Mineo a career criminal is suing the city for $440 million for what he claims to be a brutal sodomy assault at the behest of the police. The...
