LA Fashion Week. Strutting the planks…a recap.
LA Fashion week closed October 31st 2009. Even though that date gave license to some scantily clad holiday behavior it also gave pause to how far the scene had finally had come and had yet to go. Then again...
Starbucks wants you to think it’s Christmas already.
Getting you to believe in myths that generate revenue. Making lots of money in America.
Starbucks is in the business of making money and it has figured out a swell idea to get you to spend more money- by making...
The etiquette of sharing drugs. A ten step plan on how to snort.
Staying high in America.
In case you didn’t know, doing drugs is an important aspect of contemporary life in America. This includes all the blunts you smoke, the crystal you blast, and all the valium you kick back. Of course,...
Lilo and papa. How to save the family that can’t save itself.
Tweeting that daddy is a loser.
It’s a rare instance when families take their dirty laundry out and air it publicly. Things of course don’t work that way when you are a public figure whose very existence and pay check...
Violence in Florida. Watching the country engage in mass madness.
Trying to understand our love affair with mass shootings.
It’s been a horrific back to back last couple of days with the country erupting in mass shooting sprees that are leaving people dead and injured in the most random absurd...
Three days a year that you won’t get back – how facebook is eating up your time
I have been wondering lately exactly what it was that I did with the spare minutes of my day before facebook sprang into my consciousness.
I am more than a little concerned to find that I quite simply don't remember....
NYPD Felon. No longer an oxymoron.
Bernard Kerik becomes the first NYPD commissioner in over 100 years to admit to committing a felony.
We here at Scallywag are less dedicated to breaking the news to you than we are to showing our utter disgust for it....
Education with an Indian Spin: ASHA Hosts Its 15th Annual Fundraiser.
Heaving with laughter, Michael Dobrovolsky – Muscovite by birth, New Yorker by choice – knocks over his glass of merlot. He apologizes for the spill.
“You Brighton Beach only like because it’s exotic,” he says. True. Compared to the...
The Dirty business of a Hollywood writer.
The screenwriter is the lowest primordial goo of the Hollywood food chain. It's actually a hell realm reserved for karmically challenged individuals who clearly did terrible things in their past lives. Anyone attempting to become a "screen writer" in...
Retina Overload— the Photography of Scott Alger.
"One-one thousand, two-one thousand," Scott Alger counts time as he shines a bright yellow light in the face of a frozen Juliet. He is in the middle of composing his first of twelve photographs in a set depicting the...
Valentino still the last Emperor.
I found myself in the Standard Grill at 12am last night, drinking the standard ketel one rocks two slices of lime. As I stood outside to smoke a cigarette, I looked upwards, to the penthouse floor...
Poison and Boobs: Jeremy Piven’s path to Jewish Buddhist Enlightenment gets too wierd.
Will Jeremy Piven ever survive himself?
Okay we get it, Adrian Grenier’s longhaired effeminacy was a success, but why change so drastically? From Journey of a Lifetime’s captivating portrayal of Jeremy Piven treading the Himalayan foothills, we’re convinced that the “Entourage”...
Michelle Vale— Handbags That Are Oh, So Necessary
As a girl who recently gave up handbags for shoving my Metrocard and lip-gloss into my pocket, I figured that the Michelle Vale showing was going to be a tough sell. Don’t get me wrong, I...
Legends of the Village Annual Benefit Gets Down.
The Village is one of the most celebrated neighborhoods in the city, enjoying many distinctions not least of which include its nonconformist attitude to the grid street layout and its importance in the bohemian movement. It is also widely...
Bloomberg’s a Billionaire but what about NY?
Special feature by Clayton Patterson.
This is a question I ask in my movie "Captured." NYC used to be the cultural capital of the western world. This town used to be a breeding ground for hundreds of geniuses. One of the...
