Gentrification- A Daring dash for Real Estate…
It all began with a Hasidic.
This isn’t to say that I mind those of the Jewish faith or culture, no matter how fundamentalist. In fact, I find them rather charming. Walking through Williamsburg often feels like a random...
Welcome to Jaycee’s Filthy Dungeon.
The eleven year old who was brain washed for 18 years?
By now the story has broken on how Jaycee Lee Dugard was first kidnapped and made to live in squalor against her will with Phillip Craig Garrido who coincidentally...
The Death of Murray Hill.
Once the refuge for the terminally uncurious and those who wished to create a suburb within a city, Murray Hill was the best 10 city block and 3 avenue long bar, gym and sushi restaurant east of the Upper...
TY KU Sake and some Art Battles.
Sake is nothing new for the bartenders at Matsuri. In fact, the restaurant boasts of the largest selection of sake in New York, which is overseen of by the city’s sole sake sommelier. The restaurant’s reputation among sake...
DJ AM Dead. When the Torment Becomes Too Much.
When a gifted man can’t bring himself from the edge.
It’s been making the rounds that DJ AM aka – Adam Michael Goldstein, was found deceased yesterday at his apartment, the probable result of a lethal dose of prescription drugs...
Crazy Sex Man Kidnaper blogs about the ‘fun’ times.
Redemption is around the corner for Phillip Craig Garrido.
Welcome to the dark world of Phillip Craig Garrido who would like you to believe that although he’s done some crazy things (and we’re not talking about jumping the subway turnstiles)...
Javier Gomez- ‘Sensual Nature.’
As the cabs honked their horns and screeched impatiently across the gravel down at Wall street, all important men suited up in smart business suits speed-walked home -- probably to nurse a martini with their housewives. Standing under the...
Gilles and Louda Larrain- A Feasting of Art.
People in this city talk persistently of art’s coming death. You’ve met them. You might have even thought it yourself, feared that all artists genuinely nourished by the taste of beauty rather than billion dollar champagne have lapsed into...
Ian Shive: Violent Beauty.
Meeting Ian Shive at his book release party at Su Casa in the West Village was as inspiring as viewing his photos. He is an urban myth come to life. After working for eight years in marketing for Columbia...
Were Wolves at BOMB…
BOMB Magazine with Gigantic and Opium magazines hosted an end-of-summer bash at Bowery Electric featuring a musical performance by a drag queen, two short plays, and another musical act that consisted largely of a guy speaking (rhythmically) to the...
UK Reality Star – Kerry Katano punches her accountant and throws tea on him.
When an accountant suddenly becomes the reason why you are now poor.
There seems to be this pervasive trend amongst reality stars to be living not what one would call reality but hyper reality or even surreal lives. That said...
Figaro’s Imaginary Interview with Anna Wintour.
'Some things one shouldn’t be allowed to imagine, that said we let our cloaked writer Figaro have his way. Proceed with caution all you die hards.' – Scallywag, Editor in Chief.
If one could accord the idea that fashion is...
Point Suite Pre Party at The Gates a Sell Out!
Turning around suddenly to the whimsical young lady in a shock of blonde and wrapped red dress is Annika Connor. She’s standing there greeting her combustible phone, her hundreds of guests and even managing to wiggle to the beat...
At the Rivington- Jamie Gordon Makes us Smile- a lot.
Summers in NY are about escape, sweating, dreaming and swimming. That said that is exactly what we got when we turned up at Jamie Gordon and Simon Ford’s of Pernod Ricard (the liquor beverage family’s) tete a tete at...
Mark Watson has his appendix ‘taken out’ only to have it rupture 4 weeks later.
The things that happen in hospital rooms…
Welcome to the unfortunate year of Englishman Mark Watson’s life who as a consequence of inept and mysterious medical work has come to find himself out of work, in constant pain and wondering...
