Pomp and Circumstance at Cipriani’s – The legends come out.
This Tuesday I took in the goings-on at the annual Friars Foundation Awards Ceremony at Ciprianis 42nd Street. The Friars Foundation is the charitable leg of the famous Friars Club, which was founded in 1904.
The three recipients receiving awards...
Brooklyn International Film Festival Awards Night:How they triumphed.
Rarely considered accordingly, film can be easily considered the crux of artistic expression. Integrating all manner of emotion-piquing writing, music, performance, and visual arts into a fusion of brilliant cinematography, filmmakers are at the cutting edge of artisan enlightenment...
The Hamptons… Almost There, Champagne in the Rain.
This past weekend Georgica was packed with the hottest ‘almost famous models’ thus far in this Hamptons season. They pranced around in the highest heels imaginable holding on to precious magic dust in their designer clutch purses. Oh how...
A Bohemian’s Guide to Surviving the Recession.
The big bad Recession is everywhere you look these days and those who least expected it, are feeling the pinch. While normal middle class families are struggling to make ends meet with everyone in the family needing to...
The Unconventional Lifestyle of a Cocaine Dealer. Part 2.
The Unconventional Lifestyle of a Cocaine Dealer. Part 1.
For anyone who has ever wondered where all the kids get the energy, the chutzpah to misbehave and the vitriol to cross the line one only ever need to sit in...
Sea Legs- Coney Island as a metaphor of the decay of the American Dream.
Sea Legs, a film by Craig Butta, fittingly premiered at the low-key Brooklyn International Film Festival. A quietly emotional film, Sea Legs seemed at home in the Brooklyn Heights Theater. Butta performed nearly all aspects of production of the...
The Intrigue of Brunch.
You will know it by the smell of brown sugared bacon, eggs Benedict, blueberry pancakes and lavish juice laden cocktails all had at 2 p.m, who you know if you live in New York City, visit quaint hotels or...
Back to the UN: Challenging Critical Thinking, a Gala.
The Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization (IREO) held its 2nd annual Energy Awards Gala at the UN last night, in recognition of upstanding individuals’ commitment to “challenge conventional wisdom and encourage critical thinking to create positive reform.” The mission...
Bud Blacks Aka Euro; Bitches, and all that shit…
In the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant, things are changing. The Marcy projects look like a work in progress, with concrete and asphalt piled like a catastrophe’s aftermath in the playground and park area. Pharmacies, fresh and new, are springing up...
The Unconventional lifestyle of a Cocaine dealer. Part 1.
The Unconventional Lifestyle of a Cocaine Dealer. Part 2
No one despite what they may think decides to grow up to become an axe murderer, a porn star, an overpaid wall street trader or for that matter a cocaine dealer....
A new kind of Rockstar at the World Science Festival.
It was Wednesday night at the Opening Gala of the World Science Festival, and everyone in the press line was waiting for Alan Alda. We waited, we chatted, we fidgeted in lieu of smoke breaks. People crowded and shoved....
At the Gates: If only I could find a way to take the Chandeliers Home…
There’s an adage in show business that goes something like this “everyone wants to be a star but the truth is how badly do they want to be a star?” Well if anyone turned up to last night’s inaugural...
Green Gala: “Burning Down the House.”
Everyone knows that green is the new black, and it showed at this year’s Celebrate Brooklyn Green Gala at Prospect Park. With organizers aiming to throw a zero-waste event, guests could feel good about themselves as they ate locally...
The Etiquette of Food Shopping
As I was looking over the mesculin selection at Dean and Deluca, this very morning, I could not help but notice the girl picking grapes off the selection and eating them as she stood there. Also on her...
DJ Cat: Hot new PinK.
Meet Catherine Wentworth at a party or hanging out with friends and you’ll come away from the encounter thinking, “What a nice, sweet, intelligent girl.” But catch one of DJ Cat’s Pussy Parties or watch one of her videos...
