Bloomberg offers to fly you out of NYC if you are homeless.

The advantages of being homeless…   We read with intrigue in the NY Times today about a policy that Bloomberg has been using to deal with homelessness in New York City. Faced with the increasing costs of taking in families that...

Paper(back) Shopper.

A recent venture down to Grammercy’s  Housing Works Thrift Shop for the launch of the summer edition of the “Editors Picks,” this month featuring Paper Magazine had me up against the cognoscenti (or so I was told). Held once a...

Ellis Gallagher: Urban Legend?

New York nightlife abounded at Ellis Gallagher’s New York City-reflective art exhibit on Bowery and Delancey at the Collective Hardware Gallery Thursday night. A couple of skips and a shimmy past the Williamsburg Bridge, it was easily accessible enough...

Rachael Sage- Lightness preceded by darkness.

On the face of securing a new recording label, MPress records we sat down and talked about the journey as singer, song writer, fatalist, romantic and diva. If there’s one thing one could conjure up with Ms.Sage is that...

Working it at the Tribeca Fashion Soiree.

The second fashion designer soiree held by Tribeca Retail Club in collaboration with Chacala NY and Laura Little Productions this weekend featured established and independent designers proudly displaying their menswear, women’s wear, accessories and art in fashion. A...

Polo? What Polo…

After witnessing a rare yet glorious ‘star-burst’ lightening storm Friday night, hard-core event goers flocked to the infamous horse fields of Bridgehampton. They forwent a picturesque afternoon on the beach, choosing to instead transform themselves into the ‘preppiest of...

A TALE OF TWO DIFFERENT WOMEN: LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK CITY .

  We’ve heard whispers of their legacies all our lives: The two, most powerful metropolitan centers in America, perched magnificently on each coast. The cities who have bred businesses, artist’s communities, fashion trends, culinary revolutions, nightclubs, luxury cinemas, corner cafes,...

Two dimensional dating in Japan keeps lonely men in love.

The pros and cons of dating stuffed pillow cases…   Out of Japan comes epic romances that will leave you spellbound and in disbelief, and even wondering if there’s a chance for you. We’d like to say – yes indeed there...

Adrien Field- Let’s find out what he keeps in his ‘man bag.’

We read with intrigue this morning as we found out what our dear friend Adrien Field likes to keep in his as ‘Guest of a Guest’ like to term it- he’s ‘man bag.’ That said here is a recap...

Public Service Announcement for all you dingbats that ride the subway.

The things we never want to see you ever ever do again on the subway… 1/ Next time we come across one more kid selling chocolate for his basketball team so he can stay clean and out of jail we...

Slaughter in Williamsburg.

Saturday Night in Williamsburg- the hipster's are starting to look more like Taliban with their 12 inch beards and track bikes (bikes without brakes.)  There is no stopping the influx of these pirates blindly plowing down Bedford, just hoping...

A laughing matter…

  Ladies who Laugh, the sold out comedy-slash-networking night put on by New York Women in Communications, Inc., managed to make a four (!) hour estrogen-heavy standup show into a highly enjoyable evening. Well played, ladies. Perhaps I’ve already betrayed my...

‘Human Intonation,’- Fashion’s siren for change.

  Minutes after his mom handed me his business card, J-Harris was on the microphone somewhere between selling me a car and recording an interlude for his upcoming album of contemplative, easy listening, pop and b hits for a mature,...

Paige Gamble: handbag designer and her own ‘hidden gem.’

  "Intrigued by the legacy of the handbag as fashion accessory de rigeur and one of the current stars in this embittered turf – Paige Gamble, we sent out Natalie Fasano recently to meet up with Paige. What follows is...

Fashionistas in a Bind: “Shall we go green? ”

  This past Monday found this chap invited to a symposium held at the Soho House in part to reconstitute fashion’s ‘loveable’ status as a must have, but more importantly as a rejuvenated icon desirous in solving the current...