Marie CLAIRE- a focus on the seedier side of life…

Human trafficking and child exploitation is one of the many issues placed on the backburner these days, in the most tepid corner of public consciousness. That said, here comes Redlight Children- a non-profit initiative designed to expose and to identify...

EAST HAMPTON…. TENNIS PROS SCORE SOME ‘LOVE’

“ If you want to make a difference, make a change” (Michael Jackson) Over the weekend, Hamptonites traded in Friday night’s party dress for dark shades and preppy white attire in support of 'The Ross School's'  1st Annual Pro-Am Tennis Tournament. ...

The Midtown International Theatre Festival Skims the Sky’s Surface.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival celebrated its tenth anniversary season at the Bleecker Street Theatre, yesterday Sunday, June 28. On the cobblestone corner of Bleecker and Lafayette stands the theatre, with gold spray painted numbers to indicate its presence...

Semi Precious Weapons- ‘Bite Down.’

It’s a Saturday night and I’m looking at the screaming kid with the ‘Suzi Quatro/ Adam Ant’ make up and blonde white mohawk. Looking at him and wondering ‘bloody amazing.’ The problem of course is everyone else is wondering...

At the Inside B’way Beacon Awards- theater worth fighting for.

If there’s no business like show business, then there’s no place like the Player’s Club in Gramercy to celebrate its merits.  A veritable shrine to the arts, with an impressive thespian lineage, the Player’s Club shone Thursday evening as...

A Tribute to Brooklyn (Crooklyn) NY , courtesy of Spike Lee.

This past Thursday night big things were happening in a tiny curved gallery as the art installment of the Spike Lee Tribute opened. Greeted with red velvet cupcakes from Cake Man Raven, the night was going to be Glory...

Nokia N97- and the NASA intern…Getting by at Marquee.

Generous? To consumers, any conglomerate is generous, and Nokia is one of the old-school giants when it comes to cellular hardware. That said, this Thursday night NOKIA dared the fashionable set at Chelsea’s Marquee to drop by and marvel...

The Groove Jet From The Eldridge now give you Glamour Fridays…

It was an assortment that one is not prone to often finding on most weekday afternoons unless they happen to be fulltime paparazzi stars, full time jet setters or the cheek boned set that vacillate most innocent bystanders. That...

Which top 5 stars could reignite their career if they actually died or at least were rumored to have...

Has it become trendy to become a star on their deathbed? It’s certainly been a sordid week in ‘Tinsel’ town, and now that the greats have fallen, have been rumored to fall we decided to wonder who’d make the most...

Tabloids Don’t Talk, They Swear. Gen Art’s Fundraiser SINGS.

Wednesday night - a swelling ring of thin, hip, young things smoke, legs bare, tattoos abound, decadent sandals and all. The marble and glass amalgamation of 7 W 34th street has put on its best face tonight, polished and...

Divas for Opera Lives Up to its Name.

The Divas Shop for Opera drew shopoholics and high society alike with its recent UES benefit shopping experience. With a chance at an exclusive first look at beautiful, gently used vintage, it would take a style lover with a...

Tea and champagne at the French Embassy- hurray to Edith Wharton!

If one was prone to indulging themselves to a healthy serving of pink champagne, floating white fish canapés and the chicest assortment of modern day French designers then one would’ve have obliged themselves to turn up to yesterday morning’s...

BOMB Magazine gives us more Intellectual Ethos…

Outline: Artistic venue. Unusually fascinating performances. Laid back atmosphere. BOMB magazine’s release party for their summer issue perfect fit with their cultured intellectual ethos… again. BOMB did good work making Galapagos Art Space their own. As the eclectic deejay spun, images...

Special Olympics Gala less “special” than desired.

The I-bankers, lawyers, and young political types were out for the Special Olympics Junior Committee Gala at Greenhouse. With $75 to $100 tickets paired with an expansive silent auction, this event surely raised a lot of money for a...

HX Magazine awards- and the ‘Boys,’ came to play…

Just as Gay Pride week begins in New York City, HX Magazine has thrown the celebration to commemorate those they are proud of. If one could recall the anachronistic West Side Story application of the word ‘gay,’ we’d see...