40th anniversary of Woodstock at the Morrison Hotel Art Gallery.

The revolution has been commoditized. Luckily, for those of us who could not have afforded the time to be born into a generation who actually achieved their dreams, it is now on sale. The Morrison Hotel Art Gallery’s 40th Anniversary...

Notes on a Dandy: Grounded on the principles of leisure, performance, and good taste rather than mere lineage

Elegant, fashion-forward, and constantly in the know about the latest designer, Kimball Hastings is averse to the term ‘dandy’. At 28, Hastings is the wunderkind editor of Teen Vogue ; homosexual and effortlessly chic, Hastings is nonetheless utterly against...

Observations of a Wall st Trader.

The stock is already down seventeen percent and the vultures are starting to pounce every which way. Some of them smell blood, but most of them just fear and the rush of money going up in flames. Me- I’m...

Twitter or Narcissism?

Reality shows are the new visual medium. Facebook the ‘tell all’ syndrome and picture perfect version of your supposed ‘real’ life. Twittering on the other hand is the next satellite station roaming freely and amply around your ego- an...

Le Souk – “Wet Hot Moroccan Summer.”

There was a time when Mondays were for recovering from the weekend , and Ave B between E 3rd and 4th were just corners for bums with needles hanging out of their arms. No dancing, no scene, no groups...

Ron wants to give you tips on how to prepare for a beating and how to give one out...

The things (troubled) young men should (never?) know…   In this week’s fun edition of ask Viceland dimwit and inspiring man about town RON, Ron gets a doozy of a question that had even us wondering what psychopath sent him this...

The inconvenient things that happen to world famous actor’s sons who are craving their next fix.

Can I at least keep one of the nineteen bags? Pretty please.   Oh boy, the drama made for life but we imagine somewhere along the line daddy Michael Douglas will have to laugh and turn the horror show into a...

Welcome to CONTINENTAL ‘Express’ Flight 2816 nightmare.

When the only way to get through the night is to stare out the window in disbelief… Here are the facts, let’s try and go over them together and see what we manage to come up with. Article A- see...

Reality Star owns up that they are a failure.

The things we are forced to confess on national television. Welcome to the very public life of John and Kate Gosselin, a typical couple with fun loving kids (8 of them of course hence the name of their reality...

Tim Westergren- ‘Pandora’s,’ bearer of hope and curiosity..?

Tim Westergren has been instrumental in the way we understand and consume music today. Founder of Pandora.com, a portable loading internet radio station three years ago, along with the Music Genome project, he has undertaken one of “the most...
Anorexia amongst young women

Media Obsessed Starvation, and other myths.

Anorexia: Media Obsessed Starvation amongst celebrity and idealized images of contemporary women to the detriment of health. We have models to turn to for beauty. There they walk, long legged, ravishing, adored. Here we sit, gawking, envious, infatuated. For years, media trends...

Rejection Letter From Columbia University’s Handsome Boys Film Academy.

The facts are as follows: Recently one of our most esteemed writers and admittedly untoward writers- Cyrano de Bulgerac applied for admittance to “Columbia University’s Handsome Boys Film School.” What follows is evidenced in 2 parts. Part 1 – above:...

A Midsummer Homage to Warhol.

Although I was but a mere distant dream of my parents in the 1960s, I became so aware of Andy Warhol and his generation by the constant chatter of my art school friends and the movie 'Factory Girl.' Eagerly...

WISHFUL HAMPTON LOVERS – ALL SEEKING THAT PRECIOUS ‘GEM’

When single in the Hamptons, it is best to avoid that repulsive commentary from ‘peanut galleries’ of cute-well dressed guys patiently sitting on perches (wooden benches) throughout the quaint villages of South Hampton, Bridgehampton, East Hampton, Amagansett, and Montauk;...

Confirmed- Women in NY prefer dating investment bankers as opposed to pharmaceutical salesmen.

The myth that money can’t buy love and other necessary must knows in NY.   Out of the 'preeminent' NYT’s Weekend Fashion and Styles section comes an expose of how women should be gearing themselves for a happy and opportunistic relationships...