TAB the band: A Band Worth Rooting For .
One recent morning, I found myself in Midtown with a bowl of tomato basil, surrounded by TAB the band, whose drink of choice was a Mimosa. Fancy are we? One member even had the audacity to return a glass...
The downtown set hit Collective Hardware.
In the depths of the Bowery, between the shuttered down shops and chipped doorways to walk-ups, lies Collective Hardware, otherwise known as 169 Bowery.
Anticipation and fervor started to pump into the art space on Thursday evening as the gallery prepped...
ICP dresses up for ‘Dress Codes.’
Entering the midtown Manhattan-based International Centre of Photography (ICP) on Thursday was an immediate sensory overload. Music pounded from all four corners of the museum, sweeps of shadows where slinky couples hide and chat clashed with the bright lights...
‘Ladylike,’ Swedish babes sing as sweet as they look.
Louise Tomassino, Miranda Hortlund, Isabelle Filling and Valerie Wigardt are the four Swedish “Euro-Class” babes who make up Swedish pop band “Ladylike”. Based in Stockholm (soon relocating to New York City – of course) these sultry & sexy Scandinavians...
Underground world of lawless fighting.
You probably don't know about this, but deep in the city there is an underground bastion that has been gaining ground and with ferocious tenacity. It's called 'lawless fighting.' What is it? Part savagery, part bravery, part malice, part...
200 000 people likely dead in Haiti. Tears for sale.
Putting the world into perspective.
The first thing we thought when the news broke about the massive earthquake measuring 7.0 on the richter scale was why is it always the most unfortunate people of the world who always keep having...
Mephedrone- Your new legal high has finally arrived.
Making sure you are perpetually off your face in America.
Out of Britain today comes the intriguing tale of a 'fun' new drug that we already know you are going to be running into back alleys and ritzy disco ball...
Tonie Swain: Teenage Pop Star you’re finally going to adore.
To be up front we here at Scallywag and Vagabond usually have an aversion to two things - teenagers and teenage pop stars. Yet upon meeting Tonie Swain who happens to be both a teenager and a rising teenage...
Cody Ross- Kitschy Freaky Surprises.
If you haven’t heard of Cody Ross yet, bookmark this page and wait, because you certainly will. Ross is already an important figure on the fashion scene, and his rise has been meteoric. Like any good journalist (stalker?) I...
Sarah Palin debuts as a pariah on Fox.
When the horror show shows no sign of abating.
Only in America can an individual with a predilection to overt numbness and the bastion of most critical thinking journalists end up beating the odds and end up hosting her own...
Google is getting ready to veto China.
When you fuck with Google, Google fucks with you.
Out of the NY Times comes the fascinating revelation that hackers have sought to penetrate the email accounts of Chinese human right activists. As a result Google is now considering working...
The Man I wish I was. An interview with Kharis Kennedy.
Invited to come along last Thursday to Kharis Kennedy's curated show - 'The man I wish I was,' at the A.I.R gallery in Brooklyn I went curious as to what the evening would possibly hold. All I knew was...
Court room drama may suddenly now make abortion violence okay?
When politics can't keep its head out of a court room.
Things are slowly getting out of control in Wichita, Kansas. Why? Because in the current case of Scott Roeder a confessed abortion killer (in other words one who goes...
Anarchy in Berlin.
When the yuppies are destroying a good thing.
Out of the Guardian comes a very interesting story of a society at war with itself or rather with a certain contingent that has slowly overtaken the landscape. In many other parts...
‘Cleverly Clothed’ packs them in at the Paramount Hotel.
Friday night at Paramount Hotel’s Mezz Bar in the heart of Broadway saw a chic cocktail reception sans tailored suits and evening gowns. Instead, New York’s hippest, sipping more beer than champagne at the fashionable shindig thrown by Cleverly...
