Alix Smith: “The Dislocation of Self.”
According to Alix Smith celebrated photographer/artist the moment of self arrives not with the construct of self but the deconstruction of self. In a society intimately concerned with appearances, the look of things, what often goes on is that...
Open City Literary Award Benefit; The Zeitgeist’s tongue.
It can be intimidating at first: the highbrow, polysyllabic witticisms; the silent, lidded, critical assessments; the nonchalant stances (always the nonchalant stances…) as the dimensions of one’s success is overviewed—the Open City Literary Awards, tucked into a little pocket...
The Etiquette of Flying.
This Memorial Day weekend, it was estimated some 2.1 million Americans took to the skies for their holiday travel. Though that number is down, (and who can blame people, this economy does not make traveling easy,) it still means...
Amanda Lepore turns up for DEPESHA, kind of…
Chic and sleek characterized the upper-level, upscale Depesha mag designer charity auction at the Helen Yarmak Showroom on May 21st. From the beautiful faces to the immaculate attire, everything was aimed to please, but none more so than the...
Akut and Hera- if only you were as beautiful as us…
If you Google “Redflagg Herakut opening”, you will undoubtedly be directed to a number of art forums, each with multiple frantic posts from Herakut fans stunned that they hadn’t heard about the opening party Thursday night that kicked off...
Wonder at El Museo del Barrio Gala.
Wednesday evening's gala in celebration of El Museo del Barrio, the city's most prominent venue for Latin American art, was somewhat more splendid than I had expected from an event associated with something else with the word "barrio" in...
What happened to Busta Rhymes? At YRB’S Mag fete.
9pm Wednesday night found us at the M2 Ultra Lounge for the party hosted by YRB Magazine featuring Hip-Hop legend, Busta Rhymes. The VIP was spacious, accommodating, and graciously offered an open bar with well-endowed bartenders. On my second...
Making Passes at the Make-a-Wish Benefit…
This Wednesday night I headed over by the Bowery to check out the Make-a-Wish Foundation benefit at Antik, which also served as the venue for one of the GEN ART film festival's after-parties a couple of months back (apparently,...
352 Bowery Luxury Living and Gallery 151 Dance Co go Green.
A wall of glass encases the face of 352 Bowery and peering in from the sidewalk, scantily clad twenty some things of downtown Manhattan wonder at the frenzy of the well manicured crowd within. The clan of chattering New...
High Cheekbones only at the National Arts Council.
Whether by design or scheming dogma the wonderful Andrea Tese brought a certain panache to Monday night’s young innovative awards (which she coincidentally won) at the National Arts Council. Standing in front of her daring pictures and equally daring...
The Theory and Etiquette of Infidelity.
You know should not do it, but let’s not kid ourselves. People are tempted and whether out of boredom, spite, curiosity or burning loins of passion, cheating happening even if it is not the mainstream choice. Getting a taste...
How you know if he’s a Player or not…
Let us initially dispense with the obvious. How you know he’s a player? Who even talks like that anymore? This article might as well be a sequel to my imaginary best-selling novel: How to get a PHAT boyfriend that...
The Etiquette of Claiming Poverty and Getting Away With It.
Some of us were made for the strobe of celebrity appearances and platter-served cognac that stings our tongues hips upon first sip. There is a certain appeal to being amidst a ubiquity of immaculate representation, complete with intellectual indifference...
Dakota Jackson: Builder of wonders.
To hear Dakota Jackson tell it there is that moment between indecision and acceptance, the very imprecise notion that one can never entirely wrap their mind around, but which ultimately is the corner stone where disbelief finally becomes belief...
The Pink Agenda, a will to triumph.
There are some things a woman wants to never hear, “I don’t love you,” “I don’t have any money,” and “Not good news,” in response to a routine biopsy check in relation to as mammography done pursuant to a...
