Sashaying down the Met.
If you’ve ever wanted to know how to make a dramatic entrance to an exclusive party, just ask fashion and fabric designer Louda. She managed to cause quite the stir when she entered the Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan...
Avoiding the paparazzi and triumph at the Designing Women’s Gala.
The Designing Women’s Gala, a New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT) event, held its 10th annual awards ceremony at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas last night. Though the title may initially suggest a subversive feminist group would be discovered...
Think I’m turning Japanese, I really think so…
Entering Japonais is crossing from the heart of a metropolis irreverently bustling around the clock in Manhattan’s GRAMMERCY Park district into a serendipity of subtle au courant—the restaurant is all mirrors and mood lighting. Downstairs, such lighting gave the...
Hustler get’s cheeky on us…5th year anniversary.
To celebrate five years in New York City, the Hustler Club opened its doors and its taps for three hours on Monday to a crowd where men outnumbered women five-to-one, even when you count the strippers. Not surprising, I...
Old Soul Surfboards and how to ride them…
At the release party for Joe Freeman’s Old Soul Surfboards, Freeman served as a living demonstration of the truth behind the old maxim that if you work hard at what you’re passionate about, success will follow. Seeing how enthusiastic...
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....
